The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

SPORTING-THIS D.Y.

. DERRY RACES.—THIS DAYS
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
NURSERY PLATE.
The Cobler
Village belle
Sails
TRADESMAN'S HANDICAP.

Clemanti
Donne Canne .11 2
Attain=

Four ran.
GRAND STAND PLATE.

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......... .... ............ 13
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Garibaldi
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King of the Forest.... .............................. 1
Surbitou Hill .....

Peignoir
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Four ran.
DEVONSHIRE STAKES.

Breechloader
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Vesper
Seven ran.

THE INTERNATIONAL ExHIBITIGN.—The number
of visitors at the Exhibition yesterday was :
By season tickets ..
Ditto for is. days 640
By payment

terday Total
ALLEGED NATAL COMBAT.—The following very
doubtful report appears in the Liverpool Telegraph of yes-
channel pilot, who was in charge of the Mary, Capt. Mar-
shall, bound from Liverpool to Genoa, states that he wit-
nessed a desperate naval engagement between two vessels,
in all probability belonging to the two sections of the late
American Republic, about 25 miles S.S.W. of Holyhead.
Mr. Shipley says the fight was most fierce and obstinate,
the vessels engaging at close quarters, and the horizon, the
night being dark, was all but illuminated with the flashing
of the guns. All the crew of the Mary on deck at the time
witnessed the engagement, and Capt. Marshall, who was in
bed at the time, was awoke by the loud report of the guns
of the combatants, and rushed on deck to ascertain the
cause of the noise. ' After a time,' Mr. Shipley—who only
arrived in Liverpool on Friday night—states, ' one of the
vessels appeared to be retreating, but at the same time keep.
lag up a running fire, in fact fighting as if her case was
most desperate, the flash of the guns being most vivid and
the roar terrific, making the Mary tremble in every tim-
ber.' There is little probability but this engagement be-
tween Federal and Confederate vessels is in all respects true,
for on Wednesday morning Mr. Shipley spoke the Tasma-
nia, Capt. Banks, outward bound from Liverpool to Quebec,
and in answer to the inquiry if they had witnessed any-
thing of the engagement, replied Yes, we saw it as well
as yourselves.' "

CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITS,—The trade and navi-
gation accounts show that the quantity of home-made
spirits retained for consumption in the United Kingdom,
as beverage, was 11,398,711 gallons in the first half of the
year 1860, 9,153,873 gallons in the first half of 1861, and
8,940,857 gallons in 1862. The quantity of foreign spirits
entered for home consumption here in the first half of the
year was 2,656,521 gallons in 186 D, 2,415,653 in 1861, and
2,366,125 in 1862.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Sept. I.—The ex"
citement in the cotton-market continues unabated, and this
day's transactions exceed 12,000 bales-10,000 on specula-
tion and for export. Prices of American and Brazil are
id. per lb., Egyptian id. to ld. per lb., and Surats fully id,
per lb. higher than last Saturday,
SIR ALLAN M`NAB.—Sir Allan was buried ac.
cording to the rites of the Roman Cath°ll° ChUrch, into
which he was received on the his death. It
day before
seems that he had attended at the genie Protestant church
:for 27 years, and was there on the Sunday but one before
stated that he had some months
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expressed his his intention to die in the fold of the
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