The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JAN. 10.
The discussion on the address will commence in

the Senate to-morrow.

The report current that a new Ministerial modi
fication was about to take place has been denied.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TAT TERS ALL'S-MONDAY.

For a limited attendance, the amount of speculation on
the Two Thousand and Derby in a very short space of time
this afternoon was a most agreeable surprise, considering
the dead level to which wagering on the July had come
since the close of the racing season. The spurt had a most
cheering effect upon backers as well as layers, but the
bookmakers, it must be admitted, sported especially happy
faces, and their declaration that there was " some good
betting to-day" was uttered with remarkable gusto and
satisfaction. Thus the first day at the old " corner" (soon
to be evacuated) after the publication of the entries
for the spring handicaps, Liverpool Steeplechase, and
other important stakes which always close in the
first week in January, augurs well for the interest which
will attach to speculation on the great events of the year
1865. The main features of the betting this afternoon were
in connection with Mr. I'Anson's pair and Chattanooga for
the Two Thousand and Derby. For the former event
Broomielaw was in great force, the first bet booked being
1,600 to 200 about Breadalbane's half brother. Mr. Naylor's
horse, as already stated, also came in for a large share o
patronage, 1,200 to 100 being the first bet laid, and in a
few minutes afterwards two separate " fifties" were
entrusted to him at the same price. Judging from ap-
pearances, stable influences were at work in favour of the
winner of the Criterion for both events, Zambesi, about
whom 1,000 to 100 was accepted at the Victoria Club
earlier in the day, was again in request at the same
figure, and the like investment was repeated at Hyde-park-
corner. For the Derby 5 to 1 was incessantly offered on '
the field without a response, until one bold speculator,
famous for his utter disregard for hair-splitting, made an
advance of half a point more, which was instantly snatched
up to 2001. All the available 9's to 1 about Breadalbane
were secured in detail as members entered the room, and
such was the anxiety to got on the reputed Malton flyer
that layers speedily reduced their price a point, 8 to 1 being
the highest offer to the close of business. 11 to 1 was taken
about The Duke to 1501., and Chattanooga, after some 2501.
had beenquietly got on at 15 to 1, left off at 14 to 1 (offered).
Broomielaw was in brisk demand at 25 to 1, at which price
he was backed to win upwards of 7,0001., but long before
the room was cleared 20 to 1 was the highest offer. Lord
Glasgow's newly-named Rifle (we sincerely wish his lord-
ship would take kindly to nomenclature) did not shoot so
well by five points as when last on public trial, as he re-
tired to 30 to 1, taken to a small amount only. Of the
outside division Congress was most heavily backed, one
' gentleman having taken 5,0001. to 751. in one bet. Closing
prices :

TWO THOUSAND.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Liddington (off)
8 to 1 agst Mr. W. I'Anson's Broomielaw (t)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Zambesi (t)
12 to 1 agst Mr. Naylor's Chattanooga (t)

THE DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Mr. Merry's Lidding-ton (t)
8 to 1 agst Mr. W. I'Anson's Breadalbane (off, t 9 to 1)
11 to 1 agst Marquis of Hastings's Duke (t)
15 to 1 agst Mr. Naylor's Chattanooga (t freely)
20 to 1 agst Mr. W. I'Anson's Broomielaw (off, t 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Sir Joseph Hawley's Bedminster (t)
30 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Rifle (lateßrother to Minie)(t,
40 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Brahma (t) •
40 to 1 agst Lord Durham's Ariel (t)
40 to 1 agst Mr. R Kelso's Buck (t and off)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Williamson's Longdown (off, t 45 to 1)
50 to 1 agst Captain J. White's Joker (t)
66 to 1 agst Mr. Naylor's Congress (t freely)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—MONDAY.
WATERLOO COURSECG CUP.
100 to 7 agst Lord Uffington's nomination (offered)
18 to 1 agst Mr. Jardine's nomination (t)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Haywood's nomination (t)
33 to 1 agst Mr. J. Bland's nomination (off)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Lister's nomination (t)
40 to ,1 agst Mr. Bake's nomination (t)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Stocker's nomination (t)

TWO THOUSAND.
1000 to 30 agst Tilt and Benanoar (coupled (t)

DERBY.
9to 1 agst Breadalbane ( I
t) 25 to 1 agst Bromielaw (t)
[5 to 1 agst Chattanooga(t)

Now ready,' G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide,. ls. G. it.
Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ;
Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street ; and all agents.

FOSSILS AND METEORITES IN MEXICO.—In a
letter addressed to the French Academy of Sciences,
Dr. Cavaroz of Durango states that at a place called
Los Zapotas; four leagues from Cuquio, Mexico, there is a
considerable deposit of the remains of large mammalia ;
and that at a certain " hacienda," or farm, near Zacitecas
the doctor himself found two enormous teeth of a
herbivorous animal, a bone full of holes (most
probably the vomer), a fragment of a tusk a metre
in length and a quarter of a metre in diameter,
at a depth of four metres in a sandy soil. At this same
place there is also a block of iron found at Zacatecas many
years ago. By dint of immense labour a piece had been cut
from it and taken to England to be examined. The re-
maining block is about 70 centimetres long, and 30 in
breadth by 25 in thickness, and is of an irregular shape.
Its upper surface is broken by small hemispherical cavities,
like those which are observable on meteorites, and as
the region in which it was found is not ferriferous,
and the iron of which the block consists is perfectly mal-
leable, which common iron in its natural state is not, there
is every reason to suppose that this block is a meteorite.
There are several masses of iron mentioned in geological
works, and supposed to be meteoric ; the foremost are—
that of Jenissa, in Siberia, observed by Pallas, who esti-
mates its weight at 700 kilogrammes ; another of
14,000 kilogrammes at Olumpa, near Santiago, in
the Tucuman district ; and lastly, that of Durango,
said to weigh 19,000 kilogrammes, which however
Dr. Cavaroz, who is of the place, calls a mis-
take. The author who first committed this mistake, he re-
marks, did not visit Durango in person, but took for granted
what he was told about it. The supposed block of Durango
is nothing but a hill called Cerro Marcado, exclusively com-
posed of iron ore. It is situated at the distance of one-
fourth of a league from Durango ; its base is 1,900 varas
long by 900 in breadth (the vara is a little more than a metre)
and it rises 686 feet above the level of the surrounding
country. It chiefly consists of specular iron ore, magnetic
oxide of iron, and the carbonate of the same metal. Upon
the whole, the average yield of its ore is from 50 to 68 per
cent. It contains neither cobalt nor nickel, and its total
weight, instead of being only 19,000 kil., turns out by cal-
culation to be at least 460 millions of tons.

ESPIONAGE AT WASHINGTON.—The National
Intelligence—a Washington journal—says: " The public
were informed a few days since by one of the city organs
of the Republican. party, that at a recent meeting of the
Executive National Council of the Union Leagues of the
country, there had been appointed a committee resident
here (in Washington) to hunt out disloyal office-holders,
and that the same council had requested that a similar
committee should be appointed by the Union clubs of
Washington. The names of this' committee (says the
same organ, are not to be made public, and so forth.
Under these circumstances, will it not be advisable on the
part of our citizens, of every political denomination, but
especially of those belonging to the party now in power, to
exercise more than ordinary caution and discretion in
admitting to their dwellings, their society, or their confi-
dence, any persons for whose fidelity and truth they can-
not vouch as unimpeachable ? When an elaborate system
of espionage has been organised for operation, under the
powerful guidance of National Executive Committees
and Union Leagues, and the names of the spies are to be
kept secret, all the cautions 'wherewith God and nature
have supplied us for protection ought to be kept in play,
for who can say to what lengths of falsehood, misrepre-
isentation, and selfishness, the system is not calculated to
cad? The machinations of Pardon Worsely are an illus-
tration of the secret enginery employed to beguile the
unwary. The question need not be asked what sort of
times are:, those through which we are passing when the
community is to be haunted day and night by emissaries.
The Poor-law inquiry at the Holborn Union into
the treatment of Timothy Daly was continued yesterday,
Several witnesses were examined, and the inquiry was
again adjourned.