The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TAT T ERS ALL S'-YESTERDAY.

NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
100 to 30 agst John Davis (taken)
4to 1 agst Tomato (taken)
100 to 15 agst Grace Darling (taken)
Bto 1 agst Accident (offered)
10 to 1 agst Suspicion (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
11 to 2 agst Grinder (off—take 6to 1)
10 to 1 agst Mail Train (offered)
15 to 1 agst Paris (offered)
20 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken)
28 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken)
33 to 1 agst Perfumer (taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken)

TWO THOUSAND.
9to 4 agst Lid.dington (offered)
3to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken freely)
15 to 1 agst Ariel (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Zambezi (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Broomielaw (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Chattanooga (offered)
25 to 1 agst Koenig (taken)
100 to 1 agst Richmond (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
11 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken)
100 to 8 agst Ackworth (taken)
14 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken)
100 to 7 agst Lion (offered)
15 400 1 agst Victorious (taken)
33 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken)
DERBY.
11 to 2on the field (offered)
Bto 1 agst The Duke (taken)
100 to 6 agst Bedminster (taken)
20 to 1 agst Zambesi (taken)
20 to 1 agst Oppressor (taken)
30 to 1 agst Ariel (taken)
33 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken)
40 to 1 agst Wild Charley (taken)
50 to 1 agst Joker (taken)
100 to 1 agst Grappler (taken)

CITY BETTING —YESTERDAY. —...ESTERDAY.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
7to 2 agst John Davis (offered)
4to 1 agst Tomato (taken)
7to 1 agst Grace Darling (take Bto 1)
10 to 1 agst Wandering Minstrel (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
sto 1 agst Grinder (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken)
25 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken)
30 to 1 agst Perfumer (offered)
50 to 1 agst Argonaut (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (offered)
12 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken)
15 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Victorious (offered)
100 to 6 agst Lion (offered)
25 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken)
40 to 1 agst Tartar (taken)
THE TWO THOUSAND.
9 to 4 agst Liddington (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken)
14 to 1 agst Ariel (taken)
100 to 6 agst Chattanooga (taken)
20 to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken)
20 to 1 agst Koenig (taken)
25 to 1 agst Zambezi (taken)
DERBY.
33 to 1 agst Ariel (taken)

RACING FIXT

Newmarket Craven l7
Durham
Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester - 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB
St. Columb l6

Redditch
Chelmsford 7
Manchester Summer
Ascot l3
Beverley l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester
Abingdon
Stamford l3
Winchester lB

AUG
Brighton • 1
Brighton Club
Lewes 4
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham l5
Royal Windsor

SEPTE
Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon lB
Richmond

OCTO.
Northallerton 5
Newmarket 2d Oct 9
Vincennes

NOTE:
Liverpool Autumn

RES FOR 1865.

Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Spring

I Salisbury lB
North Herts Yeomanry 19
Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O
'NB.

Hampton 2l
Newton
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge

Nottingham
Southampton
Chesterfield
Goodwooa
Down Royal Corp

18
19
20
25

I York
Plymouth
1 Lichfield 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summer 3O
Weymouth 3l
Baden 3l
Stockton —
IMBER.

Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 26
Walsall
BER.

Newmarket Ho; M 23
Vincennes

SABER.
I Shrewsbury

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STATE OF TRADE.

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BRADFORD, April 13.—The depression which has
so long continued in the worsted trade was more
marked to-day perhaps than it has been previously.
The prospects since last week have, if anything, be-
come darker. Woolstaplers find the greatest diffi-
culty in effecting sales of wool even at a reduction
in price, and the caution of buyers was more appa-
rent to-day that at any previous period since the
depression began. The tendency is to reduce pro-
duction to the utmost. The prices of wool are
quite nominal, and so irregular that they cannot be
quoted. There was the same absence of demand in
worsted yarns. There were scarcely any inquiries,
and the orders placed were for almost immediate
delivery and in small quantities. Prices were still
in favotir of the buyer. The same inactivity pre-
vailed in the piece-market.

THE WEATHER.—A heavy storm of lightning
and thunder, accompanied by a copious fall of rain,
passed over the greater portion of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, on Wednesday evening last. Yesterday the
temperature was warm and genial, and all kinds of vegeta-
tion wore an improved appearance from the much needed
rain which fell on the previous day. Though the spring
is of a backward character, the season has been a good one
for clearing ,the land and for sowing spring grain, and there
is now a fair prospect for agriculture and horticulture in
general. The thunder-storm also passed over the North
and East Ridings. The four previous days had been very
hot for the season. The storms were accompanied by heavy
rains, which were much wanted, and yesterday was warm
and fine. No damage from lightning has been reported.

SUICIDE OF A CONVICT IN HORSEMONGER-LANE
GAOL.—Yesterday an inquest was held in Horsemonger-
lane Gaol on the body of W. Percival, aged 39, who was
under sentence of twenty years' penal servitude for at-
tempting to murder his wife by stabbing her in various
parts of the body. Deceased had complained of hunger
shortly before his death, and was found in his cell sus-
pended, by means of some plaited jute, to the pipe that
takes off the heat and smoke of the gas. He was quite
dead, but warm. The jury returned a verdict that the
deceased destroyed his life whilst in a state of temporary
insanity.

A NARROW ESCAPE.—Lieutenant-Colonel Baron
Vander-Smissen, commander of the Belgian detach-
ment in Mexico, has narrowly escaped being killed by one
of his officers, Captain Delannoy, son of the general of that
name, in a duel arising out of the following incident. Some
days after the arrival of the detachment in Mexico the com-
manding officer received from the Emperor Maximilian
four letters of invitation to a court ball. Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Vander-Smissen having distributed the cards to four
officers of aristocratic family, Captain Delannoy, when at
table on the following day, made an observation rather
offensive to the commander. " There are not here," said
the captain, "either nobles or commoners ; there are only
officers, and no distinction between them should be made.'
At these words the lieutenant•-colonel raised his arm and
made a disdainful movement towards his subordinate, who
had taken the liberty to give him a lesson. On the follow-
ing day Captain Delannoy sent his seconds to the lieu-
tenant-colonel, and a hostile meeting with pistols was the
result. The captain fired first, and his bullet grazed the
ear of his antagonist. The latter, who was accustomed to
amuse himself at Brussels by killing swallows on the wing,
with pistols loaded with ball, declared that he had done
wrong, and refused to fire in his turn. "I will not kill
you," he said to Captain Delannoy, "for I was to blame."
The Right Hon. Thomas Milner. Gibson, M.P.,
is expected to return to town to-morrow from Cowes, Isle
of Wight.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MARYPORT AND CARLISLE.

A special meeting of this company was held at
Afaryport on Wednesday; Mr. G. W. Hartley in the
chair.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of a resolu-
tion approving a bill to enable the company to con-
struct the Derwent branch, enlarge Bullgill station,
and purchase lands and raise moneys.
Mr. MOUNSEY seconded the motion, which was
carried.

On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the directors
were authorised to borrow on mortgage the sum of
£20,000, under the Act of 1862.

Mr.W. LAWSON, M.P. , drew attention to the desira-
bility of amalgamating the small lines of West Cum-
berland. They had in that district, including the
Solway Junction and Cockermouth and Keswick,
seven miles of railway, seven companies, seven
boards of directors, and seven sets of officials. A
great desire had recently been expressed that some
amalgamation should take place. It was true they
had one line paying 7 per cent., another 10 per
cent., and another 18 per cent., but that was no
reason why they should not amalgamate if by
spending less they might make more for dividend.
Mr. T. AINSWORTH expressed himself strongly in
favour of an amalgamation of the West Cumberland
lines, as likely to lead to a more economical and
better working of the whole.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors
concluded the proceedings.

NORTH BRITISH AND EDINBURGH AND
GLASGOW.
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Mr. Hodgson, M.P., the chairman of the North
British, has intimated to the proprietors that terms
for a complete amalgamation with the Glasgow line
have been finally arranged on a mutually advan-
tageous basis, and the shareholders' sanction to the
arrangements as under is to be sought at a special
meeting on the 10th inst. The conditions of amal-
gamation are as follows :—" The North British and
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Companies are to
be amalgamated and become one company from and
after the Ist August, 1865. All liabilities on capital
account and all property and assets due by, or be-
longing to, either company on said account shall be
assumed by and belong to the amalgamated company
from that date. All liabilities on the revenue ac-
count of either company due on the 31st July, 1865,
shall be discharged by the indebted company out
of its revenue, the free balance on said account
being at the disposal of the company to which
it belongs. The gross revenue from and after the
said Ist of August shall, after the deduction of all
charges and working expenses, be applied as fol-
lows :-1. In payment of the interest of the deben-
ture debt and stocks of both companies. 2. In pay-
ment of rents and preference dividends of both
companies created up to the date of this agreement,
ranking inter se according to the date of their
creation, including also the Monklands, when their
amalgamation is passed. 3. In payment of a pre-
ference dividend to the Edinburgh and Glasgow
ordinary stock at the rate of 4/ per cent. 4. For
payment to the North British ordinary stock of a
dividend until that stock receives the rate of 3 per
cent., the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee and other
stocks to receive their proportions as at present. 5.
In paying the Edinburgh and Glasgow and North
British ordinary stocks an additional dividend until
the Edinburgh and Glasgow reach 5 per cent., and
the North British 3- per cent. 6. In paying the
North British ordinary stock another additional 3-
per cent. till their dividend reaches the amount of 4
per cent. 7. In paying the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow and North British ordinary stocks such divi-
dends as the company may declare, the Edinburgh
and Glasgow continuing always 1 per cent. in ad-
vance of the North British dividend. The Board of
the amalgamated company shall consist of, not ex-
ceeding, 15 members, to be elected at a special
meeting of shareholders, to be called within one
month of the amalgamation becoming law.