The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

OCTOBER.

Northallerton 5 Newmarket Ho. M 23
Newmarket 2d Oct ... 9 Vincennes ... 29
Vincennes

Liverp00l Autumn

STEEPLECHASE F
MARC

IXTURES FOR 1865.
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Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Scarborough 16, 17 Torquay 2B

West Scunerset 5

Abergavenny 20, 21

COURSING.

THE GREAT WATERLOO MEETING.
The draw for the Waterloo Cup, value £1,600 in specie, by
a subscription of 25 sovs. each ; the winner £5OO, the
second £2OO.
Mr. Blundell's Beware agst Hon. G. B. Bruce ns Fiery

Cross.
Mr. J. Johnstone ns Johnnie Cope agst Mr. Deighton's
Deodora.

Lord Bective's Reveller the Second agst Mr. William's
Blackstrap.
Colonel Bathurst's Rapid Rhone agst Lord Eglinton's
Rainbow.
Mr. Randall ns Sultana agst Mr. Gregson's Carouser.
Mr. Massy ns Don Felix agst Mr. Reed's Wide-a-Wake.
Mr. T. T. C. Lister ns Chloe agst Mr. Dunlop ns Marshal
Forward.

Knowles's King Tom agst Mr. Croft ns Roaring Lion.
Bateman's Blue Bell agst Mr. Bland's Beatrice Princess.
Cunningham•ns Barnard Castle agst Mr. Hyslop ns
Duppel.
Steel's Scotch Grey agst Mr. Mallaby's Merevale.
Campbell's Coodareena agst Mr. Spinks's Sea Chief.
Clarke ns Henchman agst Dr. Richardson's King
Death.
Jones's Jem Mace agst Mr. Long ns Samuel.
Barden's Oliver Goldsmith agst Colonel Goodlake ns
Meg.

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Lord Grey do Wilton's Glendower agst Mr. Blanshard's
Budwith.
Mr. Stocker ns Merry Heart agst Mr. Thompson's Tulloch-
gorum.
Mr. Brundritt's Burgomaster agst Mr. Green's Gaiety.
Mr. Armistead ns Bessow agst Mr. Gibson's Clasper.
Mr. Graham ns Schweppe agst Mr. Jardine ns Bonus.
Lord Binning's Donald agst Lord Lurgan's Master Burleigh.
Mr. Brocklehurst's Baron Lyndhurst agst Mr. Calendar us
Snowflake.

Mr. Cloudsdalo ns Cheer Boys agst Mr. Garnett ns Win-

.
some Lassie.
Mr. Chesshyre ns Dreamer agst Mr. Matther ns Accident.
Mr. Russell's Ruth agst Mr. Lloyd ns Crabcatcher.
Major Boothby ns Good Idea agst Captain Molyneux ns
Simple Susan.
Mr. Bartholomew's Mock Modesty agst Mr. Hodson's Heira
Mr. Haywood's Rebe agst Mr. Bake ns Grecian Girl.
Lord Stairs ns Antonelli agst Mr. Savage ns Billy.
Mr. Strachan's St. George agst Mr. Borron ns Sea Ranger.
Lord Uffington's Calabaroona agst Mr. Hornby ns Bonnie
Venture. •
Mr. Blackstock's Beckford against Lord Sefton's Shandigaff.

,
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday, 11.30 p.m.---A sharp frost has
caused the members to decide that there be no coursing
to-morrow (this day).

THE LONDON COAL TRADE.—For the first month
of the present year the various railways having
access to London entered, at the Coal Exchange, 254,295
tons 1 cwt., which tonnage is largely In excess of that for
the corresponding month of 1864. Of this large quantity
104,468 tons 4 cwt. is entered as brought from various
coalfields by the London and North Western, 98,233 tons
per the Great Northern, 21,290 tons per the Great Western,
13,745 tons 12 cwt. per the Midland—viz., 11,607 tons , 7
cwt. St. Pancras depot, and 2,138 tons 5 cwt. to King s-
cross station, 13,648 tons 19 cwt. per the Great Eastern,
1,594 tons per the South Western,
1,279 tons 5 cwt. per
the Chatham and Dover, and 36 tons per the London,
Tilbury, and Southend.
FOSSIL FLOUR.—bus is the name given by geo-
logists to a curious kind of pure white powder,
which is much used by goldsmiths and others to clean sil-
ver with. In a small pamphlet, Professor Campani of
Siena announces that the trachytic mountain called Monte
thought
oe
g sr whe t
oet
fi
that
,ta preparing havethe i
sa
cceded
Amiata, on the confines of Tuscany, contains large deposits
of this substance, which, viewed through a microscope,.s
found to consist of millions of minute shells of infuseria. l
As
tt alkalis
silicates d ai Lunalin
M. Kuhlmann, and after
forftearmhim
the
paniMpt.
S
us ing
such
; P r depositsofes
so r Campani
of Mount Amiata might be turned to the
same account. His
announces that if a experiment succeeded, and he now an
solu-
tion of caustic potash or soda marking 20 deg. of Beaumo's
areometer be heated to a boiling-point
quantity of " fossil flour," and thus
it will dissolve a large
potash or soda, and of a somewhatus yield a silicate either of
alkaline nature,