The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-02 00:00:00

Mr. J. B. Starky's Fairy Land, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b 71b ex

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Mr. Woolcott's May Queen, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (in. 71b ex.
(F. Adams 1
2
Sir F. Johnstone's Scarborough, 3 yrs, Bst lib (S. Adams 3
The following also ran :--Shrapnell, The Jewish
Maiden, and Miss Lavinia colt.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Fairy Land, 3to 1 agst Jewish
Maiden, 4 to 1 agst Shrapnel]. Won by a length ; two
lengths between second and third.

The Selling Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added ; weight
for age ; selling allowances. Half a mile.
Mr. E. Edwyn's Princess Dagmar, 3 yrs, 7st lib

S. Ad 1
Prince D. Soltykoff's Fern Leaf 2 yrs, sst 91b (G. Sopp) ams)
2
Mr. H. Goatees Retribution, 2 yrs, sst 91b (Scorey) 3
The following also ran :—Nun of Avon, Frisky Matron,
and Kern filly.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Frisky Matron, 2to 1 agst Retri-
bution, sto 1 agst Princess Dagmar. Won easily by two
lengths; the same between second and third. The winner
was bought in by Mr. Bennett for 31 guineas.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 sovs ; weight for age. Two
miles.

Mr. T. Parr's Moose, 5 yrs, 9st 121 b (W. Boyce) 1
Sir E. Baker's Hersey filly, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (S. Adams) 2
Mr. Williams's Defy, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (Hartley) 3
The following also ran :—Pearl Diver, Jacqueline, and
Fairy Land.

Betting-7 to 4 (on Pearl Diver, sto 2 agst Moose
Won, after a good race, by a head ; a bad third. Pearl
Diver bolted.

BETT,ING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

ST. LEGER.
2 to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken)
7to 1 agst The Duke (taken freely)
Bto 1 agst Regalia (taken)
9to 1 agst Iparinska (taken)
100 to 8 agst Archimedes (taken)
20 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (taken)

" CHANSONS des Rues et des Bois" is the title of
Victor Hugo's forthcoming volume of poems.—The Reader.
A HITHERTO unknown pianoforte composition of
Beethoven is reported to have been discovered by Profes-
sor Nohl, of Munich— a piece in A minor, written in the
composer's gwn hand, and. inscribed " Pour Elise, April
27."

ALPINE ASCENT.--The first ascent of the Pigne
d'Arolla, a mountain 12,500 feet in height, near
Evolena, in the Val d'Hereas, was made on Wednesday,
the 16th inst. The Rev. Dr. Millard, vicar of Basing-
stoke, his brother, the Rev. F. M. Millard, and the Rev. F.
C. Fitton, left the Chalets at Arolla at 3.10 a.m., reached
the summit st 10 a in., and returned to Arolla at 2.30
p.m. In two previous attempts they were defeated by bad
weather.

THE EMPEROR'S "LIFE OF JULIUS C./ESAR.”—The
Gazette des Etrangers announces that the Emperor
is preparing the second volume of "L'Histoire de Jules
Cesar." The manuscript is being put in typo at the Im-
perial Printing-office, and nearly ten sheets are now ready.
That amount scarcely makes up one-half of the volume,
which will not come out, it is said, before the beginning of
next year.
THE CHOLERA.—The Odessa Gazette announces
that there have been five cases of cholera at Galatz,
of which two terminated fatally ; five cases of cholera had
also occurred on board three vessels which had arrived
at Odessa from Constantinople. General Kotzebue
has issued an order that all vessels coming from
the Principalities, Constantinople, and the Turkish
ports of the Black Sea shall undergo ten days'
quarantine. Moreover, the Governor-General, after con-
sulting with the authorities and physicians of the city, has
ordered that all vessels coming from foreign ports shall be
stopped near Langeron (five versts from the city), where a.
guard shall be placed to watch them. The quarantine of
the town is quite closed, and there is no communication
with it. A committee has been formed at Odessa to deli-
berate upon the measures to be taken to stop the cholera,
and diminish its effects in case it should appear in the town.
THE ACCIDENT TO THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—When
the first piece of wire was found in the cable no one
had any idea but that it was there by accident ; and as the
cable was perfect up to the moment of sending the last tests
from the ship to the shore, it at once occurred to us that
the wire had been driven into the cable whilst it was pas-
sing through the machinery astern. But when the fault
Several
of July 29th was examined, a strong suspicion was at once
aroused that the injury was caused by some villain on
throughboa
rfotrhtehecawbirlee fromwas
drisideetno in an
artisticn manner
attempts rightto
pierce the cable by pressing similar pieces of wire
against it with the heetutterly failed. The men declared
it was the work of an assassin. Had he been caught,
the world might have heard something of an attempt
to administer Lynch law. One man was suspected, but
there was no evidence against him. When the last fault took
place, M. D
espescher, on guard in the tank, saw one of
the cablemen stoop down to tie his shoe-string. That was
nothing, if men were not suspicious. Besides that man
did not belong to the gang then at work, but came down
before his time. Then Mr. Field, who followed M. Des-
pescher, heard a scraping of wire, and the men heard it too,
and called out to the man on deck. Some people seem
to think that the mischief could have been avoided if the
man on deck had heard the alarm, but that is not so, as
the cable could not then have been arrested on its course
Overboard. The only advantage gained would have
been a warning to the electricians, that a wire had gone
over sticking out of the cable. As it is, the nature of the
third fault must be a mystery for the present. It is only
surmise that it was caused by another end of wire. An
examination of the cable shook all faith in its alleged per-
fection, for it was found that several pieces of wire
were broken in the coils, and some of the wire proved to
be brittle and ill-tempered. This discovery allayed the
excitement caused by the suspicion of malice, but it
damnified the character of the cable, as it revealed a
strong suicidal tendency on its part. As yet that grave
question of accident or design is undecided, Our subse-
quent exploit, however, tends to diminish the chances of
malicious injury materially. For who will run the risk
of detection, especially under the close inspection to be
established in future, in order to inflict an injury which
can
be at once found out, and which can be hooked
up from the deepest part of the Atlantic ? A few
words as to the grappling which has excited so much at-
tention. The final breakage of the cable took us all by
surprise. Nothing was ready. No buoy could be slipped
over. But Staff Commander Moriarty and Captain
Anderson determined the exact position of the
extreme part of the cable actually laid to be in lat. 51 deg.
24 min. 40 sec. N., long. 39 deg. 4 min. 30 sec. W.—to the
actual seconds—and then they marked down the ground or
sea gone over in the picking up till the cable
broke, and traced the end to lat. 51 deg. 25 min., long. 39,
deg. 1 min. 'On noon of the 3d, the Great Eastern having
steamed and drifted in a fog 46 miles E. of the end of the
cable, began to grapple, caught cable in 2,000 fathoms,
and slipped buoy No. 1 close to the line of cable and 10
miles W. of the first lift of it on August 4. Then she
drifted seven or eight miles S.W. of the buoy in a fog
till noon of sth August, and at noon on Gth August
she was sixteen miles further to the eastward, enveloped
in fog again, and had to steam to the westward, grop-
ing her way and looking for the buoy till she got
within three miles of the broken end, and grappled the
cable again. Then, when the second swivel broke
on Aug. Bth she slipped buoy No. 2 to mark the spot, soma -
10 miles West of buoy No. 1, and left these two marks on
the ocean when she was obliged to abandon the attempt.
Sailors alone can appreciate the extraordinary skill dis-
played in the proceedings thus simply stated.—Cornliiq
Magazine for September.