The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-19 00:00:00

CARACTACUS

win the Great Northern Handicap. Cape Flyaway or
Virgilius will prove successful for the Flying Dutchman's
Handicap.

A FRESH MAN.

TATTERSALLS'-SATURDAY.

GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
9to 2 agst Caractacus (taken)
6to 1 agst any other (offered)
THE DNRBT.
to 1 agst Marquis (take 9to 2)
sto 1 agst Buckstone (take 11 to 2)
10 to 1 aget Caterer (offered)
10 to 1 agst Stockwell colt (offered)
13 to 1 agst Zetland (taken)
33 to 1 agst Ensign (offered)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—SATURDAY.
For the Great Northern Handicap Caractacus finished
favourite, sto 1 being taken freely. 11 to 2 was at one timo
taken freely about Rapparee, afterwards as much as 7 to 1
was laid, but at the close 6 to 1 was taken, at which price
The Wizard and Ivanhofi were supported. Si:kitono
ranged from 7 to 1 (offered) to 20 to 1 (taken and offered)
at the finish. 200 to 14 was taken about Beverley. Tho
only business done on the Derby was on Spite, Star of the
West, Ensign, and the Stockwell colt; 1,000 to 10J was,
taken about the latter. Offers were made to take 6to lags:
Buckstone. Closing prices :

GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Caractacus (taken)
6 to 1 agst The "Wizard (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Ivanhoff (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Rapparee (taken and offered)
14 to 1 agst Beverley (taken)
20 to 1 agst Zodiac (offered)
20 to 1 agst Fairwater (offered)
20 to 1 apt Cariabrook (offered)

THE lIEREY,
4to 1 agst The Marquis (offered)
11 to 2 agst Buckstone (offered)
10 to 1 agst Stockwell colt (taken)
10 to 1 agst Caterer (offered)
200 to 15 agst Ensign (taken)
30 to 1 agst Star of the West (taken)
33 to 1 agst Spite (taken)
100 to 1 agst Hubert (offered)

THE DIVISION ON A2,DERNEY.—Mr. Baxter was
supported in bis opposition to the vote of £90,000 for the

harbour of Alderney, on Friday night, by a minority com-

posed almost equally of Liberals and Conservatives. Mr.

Adderley, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Du Cane, Lord
_ _ _ _

R. Montague, Mr. W. Stirling, Col. Taylor, Sir S. North:

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cote, and Mr. Whiteside supported the hon. member; but
the Government, on the other hand, was supported by seve-
ral of the Irish Conservatives, by Mr. Collins, the Hon. W.
Duncornbe, M,,jor Edwards, Mr.Fellowes, Mr.J. 11, Gore,
Mr. W. R. Gore, Mr. Henley, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Mao-
donough, Sir L. Palk, Mr. Peactcke, Colonel Stuart, Mr.
Walpole, &c.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The visitors
on Saturday wera more numerous than they have been on
almost any occasion since the opening. At 5 o'clock, when
the returns were taken, the registers showed that, in all,
15,014 visitors had entered the building, of which 10,212
were season ticket holders, and 4,802 paid at the doors.
There were, however, a great many entries after 5 o'cloa,
so that the totals of admission was probably over 16,000.
The numbers for the week have been 38,517 by tickets ;
23,060 by payments ; 61,577 in all. The attendance during
the same week in 1851 was more than double this—namely,
87,000 by tickets and 53,386 on payment, or 140,386 in all.
Much of the slackness of paying visitors is due to the gene-
ral impression that prevails that even at this date the Exhi-
bition is quite unfinished, though now there is little real
ground for the opinion. As a display of arts and manufac-
tures it is almost as complete as it will be a month hence,
for the minor details connected with the arrangement of
statues, flowers, &c., are comparatively of no great impor-
tance as regards the great object of the Exhibtion itself.

THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.—Said Pasha, the Vice-
roy of Egypt, on arriving at Lyons, was received at the
railway station by Marshal Count de Castellane, the senator
charged with the administration of the department of the
Rhone, and other civil and military functionaries; and de-
tachments of soldiers were present to pay the usual military
honours. The Viceroy entered an open carriage drawn by
four horses, in which were also seated the marshal and the
senator, and, preceded by a detachment of Lancers, went at
a walking pace to the Grand Hotel de Lyon, where apart-
ments had been prepared for him. The suite, 'which is nu-
merous, and among whom is Mustapha Pa
r e sse d
of i n
thea
imself fluently in
French, and is rather quick at repartee. On being asked
sha, the *Vice-
Vice-
roy's nephew, and Zeulfukur Pasha, his Minister of Foreign
Affairs, followed in other carriages. Said Pasha is very
Legion of Honour. He expresses h
black
w,
ear s his
full beard ;
of he
grand wnds
officer d
thedecoration
whether his voyage had been pleasant, he replied, " Not
very good, for we took in coals at
Naples and at Civiti
Vecchia, and the Roman
and
Italian combustibles would
not agree, which delayed our
'h
progress considerably."
HANDEL FESTIVAL.—The e great roof over the
orchestra at the Crystal Palace will be entirely completed,
and the scaffold remoSaturda Saturday next, 24th Mv
e
d
,
by the Great Flower Show,
The followingsc particularsb re-
specting its constructimrdimensions,
interest-
ing. It is supported by five wooden girdecrs"smtraeytchtingacross
the entire width of the orchestra-216 feet. Tho main
weight of these girders 1, sts upon iron casings, fixed round
the columns supporting the transept roof, thus forming an
independent structure from the foundation. The solidity
and firmness of the great transept is, in fact, very consider-
ably strengthened by this addition. The ceiling covers a
space 216 feet wide by 120 in depth, and in the front is
nearly 100 feet high : 5,600 square yards of canvas was used
to line the match-boarding composing the ceiling. The
organ is receiving considerable additions for the Festival ;
one stop, a 32 feet reed, is expected to add enormously to
the full body of tone so much needed in large orchestras.
The organ, however, is to-day hard at considerable disad-
vantage, as, until the scaffold around it is removed, it can-
not be finally tuned ; enough, however, may be heard of its
powers, to show the improvement resulting from the con-
struction of the roof.
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PROSPECTS OF THE FORESTS AND MOORS I-
Toraitth
NORTH,—We learn from the extensive forests in the nThe
that the season has been very favourable for thbeiedeeenr
d be-
reports from the moors are also very favoaraThe
present
speak good prospects for the sportsmaen.r
Ing
of the
weather is of great importance to tahre b
now filled with
grouse, as a large number of the nestvaiii
be general. The
eggs, and in a short time hatchhinagehief
moors are unsually
prospects of the season on allrnt
from all the chief shooting
good. From inquiries,
we
sle
that the birds have been
quarters in the north highlandsare
ia t y
1 in excellent health, and
seen in large numbers!
.iltell
on the wing. In Fortingall
very vigorous and
spin of £3,000 are pa'd 1 annually for
pariah, where upwards
the prospects are reported to be very eucou-
shooting rents,
raging. Oa the well -known moors of Kiuloch, Garth,nloch, Ga
chosnie, and Crosstoount, the hillsides are frequented by
large numbers of fine-conditioned birds, and
a good many
have began to sit closely on their nests. We can learn of
no instance of a diseased bird being found. The splendid
shootings on Loch Rannochside, which bring nearly £BOO
of rent, appear also stocked with very superior birds in con-
siderable numbers, and the hatching period is beginning.
On the moors of Innerwizk, GlenlY on the Barracks, Struan
Lessentulloch, Inneshadden, Dunea; es, &c., therospeet;
were never more cheering. On all the extensive Grampian
ranges, we believe, so far as we have been able to learn,
that the hatching season never commenced under more
auspicious circumstances. The next six weeks will be of
great importance for both deer and grouse. If there is :
excess of rainy weather, it will operate very iniaric'si Y
the prospects.—Scotsman.