The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DAT CHE T S TEEPEECHASES, —FRIDAY.
A continuance of the fine weather which attended the
Liverpool Spring Meeting promised to favour during the
morning this home gathering, but unfortunately rain set
in soon after noon. Notwithstanding these disagremens a
tolerably strong muster of the usual varied company were
present. The list of sport, which commenced at two o'clock,
comprised four items, which wore run off by half-past four
o'clock. An excellent country had been selected mid way
between Datchet and Windsor, the entry to the course—by
payment of the now usual gate-money levy of one shilling
each—by singular ingenuity being arranged at a bridge
across an arm of the Thames. The sport, which requires
little comment, is fully described below.
The Trial Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, with 30 added,•for
horses which have.never won a steeeplechase or flat race
value 100 sovs ; weight for age, with certain penalties
and allowances. About three miles.
Mr. J. G. G. Shaw's Merrimac, aged, 12st 121 b ...(Page) 1
Mr. Burlington's Old Windsor 5 yrs, list 7th (Mr. Clare) 0
Mr. Harford's Ace of Trumps, '6 yrs, 12st (H. States) 0
Betting-9 to 2on Merrimac.

Merrimac cut out the work, followed by Old Windsor
and Ace of Trumps, who both refused at the first fence,
and allowed the favourite to go on with a commanding
lead ; the pair being got over, went on in pursuit, but Ace
of Trumps again refused at the next fence, and States
being unable to get him over, walked him back to the
Stand. After going about a mile and a quarter, Old Wind-
sor took the lead, and Merrimac, pulling hard, waited until
within a quarter of a mile from home, when he rushed to
the front, and cantered in some 300 yards in front of Old
Windsor, who, dead beat, could not be got over the last
fence.

A Selling Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ;
four-yr-olds, 10st 71b ; five, list 101 b ; six and aged'
12st : selling allowances. About two miles.
Mr. Elphick's Foreteller, 4 yrs (X3O), lOst (Pickett) 1
Mr. Gilko's Moscow, 6 yrs (1-30), list 71b ...(Mr. Barry) 2
Mr. Clark's Mystery, 6 yrs (.£5O) 12st (Owner) 3
The following also ran.:—Lisbon, Advent, and The
Don.
Betting-2 to 1 agst The Don.

Moscow may play, closely attended by Advent and Fore-
teller: the others, well up, were got over the first fence
safely with the exception of The Don, who, despite Ben
Land's most vigorous efforts, could not be got well over.
After going about half a mile Advent took the command,
but soon refusing, gave way to Mystery, who was closely
followed by Moscow, Foreteller, and Lisbon. Half a
mile from home Mystery gavg way to Moscow and Fore-
teller, and the latter deprived Moscow of the lead two
distances from home, and won a good race by three-
quarters of a length ; a length divided the second and
third.

The winner was sold to Mr. Hart for 100 guineas.
The Windsor Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages ; winners
after the publication of the weights 51b extra. About
two miles.
Mr. C. Thumwood's Sinito (ped. unkn.) 6 yrs, lOst 71b

(Mr. , Harford) 1
Mr. Evan's Goldfinder, 6 yrs, lOst 71b (Monahan) 2
Mr. Burlington's Sir Bobby, aged, list 121 b

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(Mr. Barry) 3
The following also ran :—Antelope, Eheu, and Specula-
ion (late Blair Athol).

Betting-2 to 1 agst Antelope, 3to 1 each agst Gold-
finder and Sinite, 10 to 1 (at first 2 to 1), agst Sir Bobby.
Antelope made play with a slight advantage, the others,
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lying well up, being headed by Goldfinder and Sinite,
Eheu bringing up the rear. The lot ran in tolerably close
order for a mile and a half, when Antelope gave way to
Goldfinder, at whose girths lay Sinite. At the last fence
but one the two leaders closed, and running head and head,
topped the last fence into the winning field at the same
moment, from which point an exciting race ensued, which
ended in favour of Sinite by a neck; Si Bobby was a
bad third ; Speculation trotted in fourth, and Eheu was
fifth.

The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 added, for
horses thathave beenregularlyhunted ; 12st ; with ponal-

ties and allowances. About three miles.
Mr. Elphick's Laurie Martin (£100), 12st (B. Land) 1
Mr. Stollery's Concave (X5O), list 21b (Mr. Shirley) 2

The following also ran :—Dispute (late Anchorite), Brick,
and Perfect Cure.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Dispute, 2to 1 agst Laurie Martin,
4 to 1 agst Concave.
Mick cut out the work for the first mile, after which
Concave took up the running, and three-quarters of a
mile from home he was many lengths in advance of
Brick ; next to whom, at a wide interval, followed Laurie
Martin. Three fences from home Brick came down from
sheer distress, and Laurie Martin, overhauling Concave at
every stride, headed him after clearing the last hurdle, and
won easily at the finish by two lengths. Nothing else
passed the post.
The winner was bought by Mr. Hart for 107 guineas.

STAG HUNTING IN YOIIKSHIRE.—For some time a
magnificent red deer (a stranger) has afforded a moved ex-
citement to the sporting gentry of the three ridings. A
fortnight ago the Easing-weld staghounds had a splendid

run after him from Newburgh Park to the Derwent, some
miles below Malton, where the stag took the water and
gave his pursuers the slip. Since then ho has been about
the Castle Howard Woods and neighbourhoods, and at
length seemed to have finally fixed on a sojourn in Bossal
Wood, on the Derwont. Hero the hounds, with a large
field, reappeared on Wednesday, when thoy were soon
in full cry, the stag taking a way for the wolds over a
most difficult country. After a tremendous run, the stag

crossed the Driffield Railway some 15 to 20 minutes ahead
of the field, and with only a single hound up with him. At
Burdall he would have taken a shed, but there chanced to
be two young foxhounds in it, and they caused the chase to
be re-commenced. Away all went again towards the sea,
but eventually the stag turned for the Holdemess country,
and skirting Wartre, was at length pulled down at Nun-
burnholme, near Market Weighton, after a splendid run
of nearly 50 miles ; time, sh. sm. After this tremendous
run, there were few that had not had " quite . enough
of it." Next day the stag was coveyed by train to Easing-
wold, where he is now an occupant of the deer-yard, and

seems little the worse for his exertions, and is secured un

hurt, for a run on a future day. He is a genuine red deer;
and, it is alleged by some, is the veritable erratic stag
hunted by Sir Clifford Constable last season, and which
took the sea on the Holderness coast, and was suppoted to
have been drowned. If this be really so, his life has been
one of extraordinary adventure, he having been fished out
of salt water three or four times.

GREAT FIRE IN lICNTINGDONSHIIRE.—IMMENSE
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.—A fire, originating
with an agricultural steam-engine, broko out on the pre-
mises of Mr. Fortescue, in, the village of Winwick, Hunt-
ingdonshire, on Wednesday night. The wind being high
the flames spread rapidly from one farm to another, the last

farm which caught being nearly half a mile from where the
fire originated. On Mr. Fortescue's farm a large quantity
of corn, 13 beasts, 1 horse, &c., were consumed, besides
outbuildings. On the farm of Mr. Jellis a large quantity
of corn and the buildings were consumed, and 78 ewes
in lamb, were burnt alive. A considerable portion of
the remaining flock also presented a dreadful appearance,
some having been partially roasted. The eyes were burnt
in their sockets, the wool off their backs, and their heads
were fearfnlly swollen, being objects of terrible misery.
On the farm of Miss Ashwell nothing was saved, she hav-
ing but just time to put her clothes on. The damage done
on Mr. Gifford's farm, which was only partially consumed,

is estimated at about £5OO. The total damage dono, in-
cluding two cottages, may be estimated at between £3,000
and £4,000. The loss chiefly falls on the Suffolk, Alliance,
and Norwich, Fire Offices.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
members of the College having been elected Fel-
lows at previous meetings of the Council, were admitted as
such on the 9th inst. :—Messrs. Charles Lindsay Cox, of
her Majesty'sndian army—diploma of membership dated
May 18, 1838 ; Henry Hemstead, Newbury, Berkshire_
October 3, 1828 ; Henry Pitman, the Queen's Indian army
13, 1840 ; and William Yeoman Sheppard, Bristol
—Feb. 18, 1842. At the same meeting of the Council Mr.
Edward J. A. Trimmer, M.A., Cantab, was elected secre-
tary of the College in the vacancy occasioned by the decease
of Mr. E. Belfour, who held the office for upwards of half a
century.

HIBERNATION OF INSECTS.—On this subject M.
Githin-Meneville communicated a very interesting paper
last week to the Academy of Sciences. About the middle of
Oct., 1863, happening to put his hand into a basket where
he kept some cocoons of the silkworms he rears at the
Imperial farm of Vincennes, he felt a painful sting,which he
soon discovered to have been inflicted by a large female wasp
which had got into the basket, it seems, to pass the winter
there. This wasp appeared motionless, and presented an
aspect very different from that which pertains to the per-
fect insect. Examining it with attention, he perceived
that its wings, longitudinally folded, like those of all dip-
loptera, were bent under the body, being kept in that posi-
tion by the legs. Ile touched and turned the insect about in
various ways without succeeding in awakening it, but per-
ceived that when he disturbed it too much it would dart out its
poisonous weapon as if to defend itself, and that it could
oven move its paws sufficiently to cling to the thing which
lay in its way. This wasp awoke from its trance
been
in April, 1864, in consequence of its
kept in a warm room, and it ultimately,di2lie4datvhionfgohfusnegpe_r
in the glass where it was kept. On the
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tember last, M. Guerin-Meneville found another wasp
in the same laboratory, where it
with the intention of seeking
long winter siesta. It was put
following it was into a convenient
box,
clinging to the lid, with
its antenna), legs, and wings folded up under the head and
body, and in a complete stato of immobility. From that
time M. Meneville has kept this box in-a room which is
never heated ; though he sometimes opens the box in a
warm room to show the insect in that state. On the
22d of February last, he took it to the Soci6t6 Entomo-
logique, and on the 27th following ho produced it at the
sitting of the Academy of Sciences, In this entranced
state the insect has quite the appearance of a chrysalis, and
in the case of the wasps it enjoys the partial use of some of
its members. It can defend itself against an enemy with
its sting, but it cannot get out of the way of danger either
by crawling or flying.

The Lock-out in the Iron Trade.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Friday.
The determination come to by the North of England
Ironmasters' Association to lock-out the mills and
forges in the Cleveland districts to-morrow is causing
great animosity among the working classes, as the
National Association of Ironworkers connected with
the Gateshead district has done everything in its
power to put a stop to the strike in North Stafford-
shire, and has refused to give men their aid. Meet-
ings of the men will be held in different places
throughout the district to-morrow to determine upon
measures to meet the lock-out. The meeting of the
Masters' Association, which was strictly private,
was held here yesterday, in the office of Messrs.
Lock, Wilson, and Bell. There are several repre-
sentatives from North and South Staffordshire. The
following circular has been issued :

" Newcastle, March 9.

" At a meeting of the North of England Ironmasters'
Association Field here to-day, at which deputations were
present from North and South Staffordshire, report is
made that tho North Staffordshire men did not resume
work on the 4th inst., and that the lock-out has conse-
quently. taken place in Staffordshire:

" Resolved, —That, in accordance with the notices given,
the mills and forges of this district be closed on Saturday
next, the 11th inst., and that no member of this association
re-open his works till that course be approved by this asso-
ciation as a body.
" It was further resolved that this association, desiring
to facilitate in every way the settlement of the difficulty
which has arisen, appoints Messrs. C. M. Palmer, T. Bell,
George Dyson, and D. Dale, in conjunction with the hon.
secretary, a standing committee to entertain any overtures
tending thereto, preliminary to submitting them to this
association."

The local papers of this morning state that all the
large ironworks in the district will not close, not-
withstanding this meeting. It is said that the ex-
tensive firm of Messrs. Hawks, Crawshay, and Co.,
of Gateshead, is one of those which still continue at
work. If the lock-out should still continue long it
will have a serious effect upon the prosperity of
Middlesborough, Consett, and other districts which
depend upon the iron trade, and a number of pit-
men and others will be knocked off work in the
county of Durham.

In London a meeting of delegates from the whole
of the metropolitan trade societies has been called
for next week, at which a deputation from the Ex-
ecutive Council of the National Association of Iron-
workers will attend for the purpose of affording the
fullest information as to the cause, present posi-
tion, and probable success of the struggle.

LONDON GAZE FTE—Last Evening
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LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 9.

Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Saturday
next, the 11th instant, for her late Majesty the Queen
Dowager of the Netherlands, viz.:—
The ladies to wear black dresses, white gloves, black or
white shoes, feathers, and fans, pearls, diamonds, or plain
gold or silver ornaments.

- The gentlemen to wear black Court dress, with black
swords and buckles.

The Court to change the mourning on Saturday, the 25th
instant, yiz.

The 'ladies to wear black dresses with coloured ribbons,
flowers, feathers, and ornaments, or grey or white dresses,
with black ribbons, flowers, feathers, and ornaments.
The gentlemen to continue the same mourning.
And on Saturday, the Ist of April next, the Court to go
out of mourning.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAncrr 7.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Johann
Heinrich Bandow as Consul at Bassein, and of Mr. Ernst
Pandorf as Consul at Akyab, for the Free Hanseatic City
of Bremen.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr John L.
Near as Consul at Port Sarnia, Canada, for the United
States of America.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 8.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Captain Edwin George
Mainwaring, late 16th Foot, one of her Majesty's Honour-
able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice F. J. Robinson,
Esq., resigned.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAncit 8.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Captain John Walrond
Clarke, late 10th Hussars, one of her Majesty's Honourable
Corps- of Gentlemen at Arms, vice John R. Harris, Esq.,
resigned.

ADMIRALTY, MARCH 7.
The undermentioned officers have been this day pro-
moted to the rank of Chief Engineer in her Majesty's ficet,
with seniority from Jan. 27, 1865 :—Philip Thomas Gruchy,
Esq., and George Fisher Boothe, Esq.