The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-18 00:00:00

SCRATCHINGS.

August 12, at 9 a.m. Nuneaton out of Radcliffe engage-
ments ; after 6 p.m. Godmersham and King of Utopia out
of Oxford engagements.
August 14, at 9 a.m. The Lizard, Viola, Retrousse, Zisca,
and Prescription out of Oxford engagements ; Elenora out
of Yorkshire Oaks ; Terror out of Wilton Cup at Radcliffe
Sprite out of Great Ebor Handicap at York ; Danaus out
of Heaton Park and Bolton plates at Radcliffe, and Stew-
ards' Cup at Stockton ; Queen of Trumps out of Post Mea-
dow Plate, Princess of Wales's Stakes, and Innkeepers'
and Stand plates at Oxford; Gipsy Girl out of Port Meadow
and Innkeepers' plates at Oxford; Moulsey out of Princess
of Wales's Stakes at Oxford ; Molly Carow and Miss
Hobble out of Egham and Oxford engagements ; Bay Leaf
out of Nursery Handicap at Oxford ; all Mr. Naylor's horses
out of Great Yarmouth engagements ; Dean Swift out of
Freemen's and City Members' plates at Oxford, and Great
Ebor Handicap at York ; at 11. 40 a.m. Vandervelde out
of Egham and Oxford engagements ; Tusculanum out of
all handicaps for which weights are published ; at 130
p.m. Breadalbane, Broomielaw, and Bertie out of Stock-
ton engagements ; Tennyson out of Princess of Wales's
Stakes at Oxford ; at 225 p.m. Arkansas out of all
races at Derby ; Life Guardsman out of Barons' Stakes at
Egham ; at 3.20 p.m. Moss Rose out of King John Stakes at
Egham ; at 3.25 p.m Twilight and all Mr. Samuel's horses
out of Stockton engagements ; at 3.26 p.m. all Mr. Ten
Broeck's out of Oxford handicaps ; at 3.51 p.m. Golden
Cross out of Princess of Wales's Stakes and Port Meadow
Plate at Oxford ; Land of the West, Vision, Nutrition, and
Medicis out of all engagements at Oxford ; Affection out of
all engagements in Mr. J. Nightingall's name ; at 6 p.m;
Gazza Ladra out of Oxford handicaps ; Wildair out of
Oxford Nursery.

August 15, at 9 a.m., Elpha out of all engagements to
date ; Olivia, British Queen, Lovelace, all Sir F. John-
stone's, Mr. S. Thellusson's, and Mr. J. B. Starky's horses
out of all Oxford engagements; Foreign Stamp out of
Nursery, Oxford: Norma out of Egham and Oxford
engagements; at 8 15, Little Gentleman and Hopbine
filly out of Oxford engagements ; Regalia out of Stockton
engagements.

August 16, at 9 a.m. Wild Rake out of all engagements
Queen of Trumps out of Stockton Stewards' Cup; Man-
chester out of Oxford engagements ; Trust and Isca out
of Oxford handicaps ; at 1 45 p.m. Accident out of the
Surrey and Middlesex Stakes, Egham ; at 2 p.m. Robin
Hood out of Plymouih Biennial.

Aug. 17, at 9 a.m., Dalby and Buckfoot out of Ebor Han-
dicap; Tennyson out of Chesterfield Handicap, York.

LONDON GAZET rELThis Evening.

• FOREIGN-OFFICE, AuG. 17.
Earl Russell has received the following despatch from
her Majesty's Minister in Persia :

Gulahek, July 1,1865.
My Lord,—Captain Smith, director of the Persian tele-
graph, has addressed to me the enclosed report on the large
number of telegraphic messages which are sent from Eng-
land to India, via the Hague and Russia. They are re-
ceived here in a hopeless state of mutilation, averaging
three weeks or a month old.
The effect of this will be to discredit the Indo-European
line by Constantinople, Baghdad, Persia, or Bussorah,
and the Persian Gulf, and the publication of Capt. Smith's
report, or of a notice to the same purport, might have the
result of putting a stop to the evil.—l have, &c.,
C. Auxsox.
The Right Hon. the Earl Russell, K.G.., &c.,
Galahea, near Teheran, July 1, 1865.
Sir,—l have the honour to inform your Excellency, that
phic
during the last fortnight a large number of telegra
messages from England have reached the Teheran
tlyesterday
office
via Russia, for transmission to India.
they accumulated at the Russian-Persian frontier,
by po and
st.
were sent thence, from time to time, Teheran
w
They were always very old (averaginlgvittroeuet
exception,
sor a
month) by the time they reached us.
they were full of errors and the large majority were quite
unintelligible.
f
altiolr'asbereez,
instru-
Yesterday the Persian authoritiese
from
placed
ro nt
worked
et to
ments on the, line to Russia, both h
that messages are now sent
.c.by.a telegraph w
p
by the Persians
le
Tabreez, and thence to
themselves.
Ti result is what was to
be expected. The messages arrive a little more quickly
perhaps than before but m even in a worse state, as the
Persians add their own share to the previous errors of the
Russians.
1 have already telegraphed on the subject both to Bom-
bay and England, but as messages still continue to pour in
from Russia in the most hopeless state of mutilation, I
have thought it necessary to draw your Excellency's at-
tention to the subject. If matters are allowed to go on as
at present, all confidence in the telegraphic communication
between England and India will not, unnaturally, be lost.
The English public should, I think, be distinctly in-
formed that, for the present at least, the only line upon
which any reliance can be placed is the Indo-European
one, by Constantinople, Baghdad, Persia, or Bussorah, and
the Persian Gulf.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) R. M. SMITH, Captain, R.E.,
Acting Director, Persian Telegraph.
His Excellency Charles Alison Esq., 0.8., &c.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Auo. 17.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her
Majesty Consul at Lisbon, containing the following quar-
antine notices:—

The Board of Health of the Kingdom makes known that
the Island of Malta is considered infected with the cholera
morbus.

Lisbon, 3d August, 1865.

For tbe Fiscal,
JOAO JOSE DE SOUSA E SILVA.

The Board of Health of the Kingdom makes known
that the ports of Smyrna and Constantinople are consi-
dered infected with the cholera morbus, and all ports of
Turkey suspected of infection with the same disorder.
Lisbon, ad August, 1865.
For the Fiscal,
JOA JOSE DE SOUSA E. SIUVA.
The Board of Health of the Kingdom makes known
that all arrivals from Demerara are considered infected
with the yellow fever,
Lisbon, 4th• of August, 1865.
For the Fiscal,
JOAO JOSE DE SOUSA E. SILVA.

BANKRUPTS.
That portion of the " Gazetto" containing the Bank-
rupts had not arrived when we went to press.

livEEß•—On the
NEW ,SpIP.ITUdL • re-assembling
of Parliament the Right Rev. Francis Jenne, D.C.L., Lord
Bishop of Peterborough, will take his seat in the House of
Lords as junior bishop. His lordship will have to read
prayers daily to the peers, that office having been hitherto
performed by Dr. Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucesteo and
Bristol.