The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-17 00:00:00

Half a mile.

Mr. Jones's Kapunda, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Carroll) 1
Mr. Gregory's Garotter, 4 yrs, 7st (Cranshaw) 2
Major Stapylton's Sundeelah, 4 yrs, Bst 121b...(Ingham) 3
The following also ran :—Summerside, Wings of the
Wind, Roderick Random, Strong Beer, Jupiter, Arabia,
Risk, and Amoris Avis.

Betting-3 to 1 agst Wings of the Wind, 9to 2 agst
Garotter, 5 to 1 agst Summerside, 7 to 1 each agst Arabia
and Kapunda. Won by two lengths ; half a length between
second and third ; Risk was fourth.

The Stockton Tradesmen's Handicap of 100 sovs, added to
a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 if declared,
winners extra ; second to receive 20 sovs. 43 subs, 31
declared.

Mr. Mackenzie's Brown Bread, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Cameron 1
Lord Stamford's Spring Gun, 3 yrs, Est 51b ...... (Carroll 2
Mr. G. E. Copley na Zenobia, 3 yrs, Est 71b....(Sawerby 3
Lord Zetland's Revival, 3 yrs, 7st (Cranshaw 4
Mr. Barber's Helen, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (car. 7st 111 b)
(Challoner) 5
Mit. S. Hawkes's Armourer, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Telford) 6
Betting—Even agst Spring Gun, 4 to 1 agst Brown
Bread, 5 to 1 agst Helen, 6 to 1 agst Zenobia, 7 to 1 agst
Revival. Won by three-quarters of a length ; four lengths
between, second and third ; a length between third and
fourth.

The Cleveland Stakes of 5 sous each, with 100 added, for
two-yr-olds ;colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b ;

penalties and allowances ; second to receive iO sous.

T.Y.C. 47 subs.
Mr. T. Masterman's Honesty, Bst 101 b (J. Noble
Mr. lfackenzie's Messmate, Bst 101 b (J. Doyle
Mr. Singleton's Fitzroy, Bst 131 b (Carroll
Mr. J. Cathcart's Lord of the Vale, Bst 101 b (J. Osborne
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The following also ran ;—Custaloga, Vulture, Fairthorn
colt, Lavinia, Dagmar, Blackband, and Gelert.
Betting—Even agst Messmate, 6 to 1 agst Dagmar, 13 to
2 agst Custaloga, 7 to 1 agst Honesty, 10 to 1 agst Lord of
thelVale, 16 to 1 agst any other. Won by half a length ;
three lengths between second and third; two lengths be-
tween third and fourth.

The Hany Fowler Stakes (Handicap) of 70 sovs, added
to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for all ages; winners

extra; second to receive 15 soys. T.Y.C. Eighteen
subs.
Mr. C. Peck, jun.'s Exceller, 3 yrs, Est 81b (Carroll) 1
Capt. Gray's Castanet, 2 yrs, sst 71b Cameron) 2
Mr. T. V. Morgan's Contraband, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (El hick) 3
Mr. Yerward's Huntsman's Daughter, 5 yrs, 7st 41b
(Cransbaw) 4
Kilkenny, Light Heart, Fair Melrose, and Poodle also
ran.

Betting—lmen agst Dweller, 4 to 1 agst Castanet, 6 to
1 agst Contraband, 8 to 1 agst Kilkenny. Won by a
length, a bad third.
The South Stockton Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with
30 added ; for all ages ; selling allowances, &c. T.Y.C.
Mr. Jackson's Jupiter, 3 yrs, 7st 10Ib (.630)...(Cameron 1
Mr. Calder's Cronstadt, aged, 9st 21b (£3o)...(Custance
Mr. Masterman's Strong Beer, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b
(Duubar 3

Betting-5 to 4 agst Cronstadt, 6to 4 agst Jupiter, sto
1 agst Strong Beer. Won by a neck, a length between
second and third. The winner was bought by Mr. Waters
for 62 guineas.
Second Year of the Eighth Zetland Biennial Stakes of 10
sovs each, h ft, with 50 added, for 3-yr-olds ; penalties
and allowances ; second to save his stake. One mile
and a half. Forty subs.
Mr. A. do Montgomery's Leila Rookh, Bst 41b

(Challoner 1
Mr. T. S. Dawson's Curtain Lecture, Bst (J. Doyle 2
Mr. 0. Winteringham's Nothing More, Bst 101 b (Dixon 3
Betting-2 to lon Lana Rookb, who won in a canter by
two lengths.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—WEDftsDAY.
EBOR HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Claremont (offered)
7. to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken)
Bto 1 agst Nemo (taken)
100 to 1 agst Lady liylda (taken)
100 to 6 agst Verdant (offered)
ST, LEGER.
sto 4 agst Gladiateur (offered, take 6to 4)
10 to 1 agst The Duke (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (offered)

MISSING THE GROUSE.—What a pity it is that
bbd-el-Kader left England before the 12th instant ! The
gallant Emir, who is doubtless a good shot, would have
found himself very much at home among the Moors.—
Punch.

Fourteenth day of loss of insulation, and no
news. After I dispatched my report, dated Mon-
day, noon, a heavy rain set in, and continued one
incessant downpour till midnight. The glass fell
two-tenths, and stands this morning at 29.54. The
wind is blowing hard from the north-west, and a
tremendous sea is rolling in the Atlantic. Indeed
it seems to be nothing here but rain, rain; rain,
blow, blow, blow, and those who are compelled to
stay upon the island to get the " first intelligence"
are growing heart-sick of their exile. Their long-
cherished hopes that something " must shortly turn
up" grow fainter and fainter each day, and while
they more than once agree in the course of the
twelve hours that the non-receipt of news is very
" mysterious," they cannot agree as to the cause.
Each adopts a theory of his own, which is subject
more or less to a daily modification, according
either to the change of weather or his own personal
feelings.
Mr. Glaisher arrived on the island yesterday from
London. He subsequently proceeded to the head-
quarters of the Atlantic cable at Bray Head. Here
he made a minute investigation of the apparatus,
and obtained information of what had been done
since the 2d, the day on which the insulation was
lost. Whether or not this is an official investiga-
tion lam not able to say, but it is rumoured to be
official, and, what is more, that Mr. Glaisher's
report to the directors will be of a nature requesting
that trial experiments should be made that may
result in something like definite information being
obtained.

VALENTIA, Wednesday.

There is nothing fresh this morning respecting
the cable or the Great Eastern. It is blowing
fresh from the north-west. The barometer stands
at 29.84. Storm signal hoisted.

Col. Waugh has now fairly got out of the hands
•
of his creditors. Ire was discharged on Saturday last by
the Court of Bankruptcy, but he was nevertheless detained
by creditors on three several writs of capias. Yesterday,
at judges' chambers, Baron Martin decided that as the debts
were gone the detainers must go with them, and so the
colonel is again free.

SMITHFIELD IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday Messrs.
Pullen, Horne, and Eversfield sold by auction (by order of
the Market Improvement Committee of the City of London)
500 oak posts, rails, and bars, forming the well-known pens
and cattle rails of the plot of ground known as the Hay-
market, Smithfield, preparatory to the ground being imme-
diately cleared for the contemplated Smithfield improve-
ments.

ARRIVAL OF THE HELVETIA.-QUEENSTOWN, Aug.
17.—The National Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Helvetia, from New York on the sth inst., arrived here at
3 a.m. to-day with 269 passengers. She landed 65 passen-
gers and proceeded at 5.30 a.m. Her news has been anti-
cipated. _ _ _

A RIVAL TO BLONDON.—On the 18th ult. Leslie,
the American Blondin, crossed the Niagara at the
Falls on a rope 961 ft. in length. He started from the
American side, wearing about his waist a broad bond of
thin iron, and from this chains led to his waist and to
bands encircling his legs about the knees. The irons
were bona fide, not of the description provided for a pre-
vious performance of the kind, and weighed about 281b5.,
which, with the balancing pole, made a load of nearly
801bs., Which was carried over the rope. A high wind
was blowing at the time. When he arrived.at the Canadian
shore, his appearance indicated that the feat had been a
trying one. He soon recovered his composure, and in five
minutes started on his return,but now relieved of his shackles,
and performing several ventures on the way, such as hang-
ing from the rope by his feet, the viclent gusts of wind
sometimes rendering his position one of great peril. His
success was greeted with loud cheers.—Hamilton (Canada)
Times.

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting, 3-1.
Dumas read a letter from M. Matteucci, announcing
the death of M. Pivia, the distinguished chemist, at the
age of fifty. M. Dumas briefly stated some of the dis-
coveries of M. Pivia, among others the various metamor-
phoses of salicine. When deprived of its water by cold
nitric acid, it is transformed into helicino ; under the in-
fluence of non-oxidising acids, it yields grape sugar and
salicetine. By synaptasis it again yields grape sugar, but
accompanied with saligenine. Boilingnitric acid trans-
forms it into oxalic and carbozotic acids.
Chromate of
potash will transform it into formic acid and into oil of
Spircen ul ria ; and this, treated with potash, produces
salicylic add. M. Dumas concluded with a warm enco-
nium of the lamented chemist— Dr. Guyon, alluding to
M. Aucapitaine's paper on the origin of the Kabyles, in
which he had said that Bruce, Dureau de la Malle, and
Dr. Guyon considered the Kabyles of the Aoures Moun-
tains to be the descendants of the Vandals, contradicted his
statement, explaining that among those Kabyles there
were some white-skinned and blue-eyed individuals who
were considered to be the descendants of the Vandals.
Hence, it was not the tribe itself, but only certain indivi-
duals mixed up with it that had been alluded to.—A
paper was received from M. Hebert about the num-
mullti▪ c formations of Northern Italy, which he con-
siders, with Marquis Pareto, to belong to the Eocene
series, while many authors, on the contrary, place it in the
inferi▪
or Miocene period, on a level with the sands of Fon-
tainebleau. M. Isaac Pereyre wrote to inform the Aca-
demy that a statue of Francois Arago would be erected on
the 31st of this month, at Estagel, near Perpignan. The
letter concluded with an invitation to the Academy to ap-
point one of its members to represent it at the ceremony.
M. J. Bertrand was accordingly designated to perform the
office. A letter was also received from M. Lartigue on the
storm of the 17th ult. in the departments of the Aisne and
Nord. All the telegraphic apparatus along the Northern
Railway line were affected by this hail storm, which broke
upwards of 3,000 panes of glass at the Cambrai station
alone. Some of the hailstones weighed between 220 to 250
grammes (half a pound). The hailstorm lasted, according
to localities, from five to 20 minutes, and was followed by
a deluge of rain which lasted about two hours.— G alignani

THE CONVICT COCKROFT.—The governor of
Leeds gaol writes to a local journal contradicting the state-
ment that the sentence of death passed upon Thomas
Cockroft at the Leeds assizes had been commuted to penal
servitude for life. A communication had been received at
the gaol respiting the sentence until further signification
of her Majesty's pleasure.
PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE CHARTERHOUSE
ScnooL.—A very strong opinion has been expressed by the
governors, in reply to a circular issued by the head master,
in favour of the removal of the school from its present site
near Smithfield into the country, and a committee of
governors has been appointed to consider the matter. The
committee hawjust visited the property belonging to the
Charterhouse at Hallingbury, near Great Dunmow, Essex,
and it is not improbable that the school will soon be re-
moved there.

The CHAIRMAN said he felt that the 63d half-
yearly report of the directors would be entirely
satisfactory to the meeting; therefore, he did not
think there was any necessity for detaining them
ut any great length, but there were certain parts of
the document to which he thought be might make a short
reference. He need hardly tell them that the directors
were fully alive to the dislike which shareholders enter-
tained to any increase of capital. In the present instance
it had been unavoidably necessary, but he had the satis-
faction of informing them that that capital would not be
required at present, as the directors had spread the expen-
diture over a long time, and at the same time he had to
assure them that the capital required would be quite suffi-
'ent for making all the lines sanctioned in the last session of
Parliament. (Hear, hear.) The directors confidently hoped
that there would be no necessity for any further increase,
because they had the greatest objection to additional out-
lay, either for the making new lines or renting extensions.
in a part of the country through which their system of
lines ran there were many large towns and villages, and
these always held out to the starting of sporting .lines—
lines promoted by certain parties merely for the purpose
of compelling the directors of the parent line to purchase
them, which had the effect of keeping up a warfare on•the
old company. However, it was firmly to be hoped
that that state of things was at an end. (Hear,
hear.) With respect to the increase in the capital ac-
count it had had been caused by making new sidings, en-
larging locomotive department, and widening bridges. The
improving the station at Portsmouth had been at length
determined on, and the Brighton Company had arranged
to bear half the expense. Tho permanent way was in
good working order, and part of the lice had been relaid.
The directors were of course very anxious to cut down
expenditure ; but he need hardly say that anything ap-
proaching parsimony, where the safety of the public was
concerned, was contrary to the feelings of the directors,
who had taken every precaution that human prudence
Could foresee to prevent calamities occurring on the
lines. (Hear, hear.) The doubling the Exeter and Yeovil
was drawing to a close, and the other company had
nearly completed theirs, and in a very short time they
would soon have a double line of railway all the way to
Exeter. To show the traffic in that direction, one excur-
sion train had earned £BOO from its proceeding to the West
of England—(hear, hear)—so that the greatest advantage
might be safely entertained when the matter was com-
pleted. The South Western directors were very anxious
to get to Charing-cross and Cannon-street, and although
the directors of the South Eastern were not favourable to
giving them that facility, yet they would not discontinue
"knocking at their door" until they agreed to that, which
he could not understand how they could refuse, because the
circumstances would most certainly be advantageous.
The late contest in Parliament had been exceedingly ardu-
ous, but by the untiring exertions of Mr. Bircham, their soli-
citor, and their talented traffic manage; who he always
looked upon as the lawyer's first lieutenant, they had
defeated the attempts that had been made to invade the
country through which their lines at present ran. They
had been in many instances "sporting lines," but it was
satisfactory to know the attempts to injure them had not
succeeded. The chairman having referred to some of the
other items in the report, concluded his observations by
formally moving its adoption.
The motion having been seconded, the report was agreed
to, and the resolutions ordering the payment of the dividend
mentioned therein having also been carried, the meeting
terminated.