The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

BETTING AT THE VICTORIA CLUB.

CESAREWITCH.
9to 2 agst Salpinctes (taken)
15 to 2 agst Alabama
10 to 1 agst Ostregor (taken)
16 to 1 agst Gomera
18 to 1 agst Morris Dancer
22 to 1 agst Zephyr (taken)
30 to 1 agst Edinburgh
30 to 1 agst John Davis
33 to 1 agst Count Cavour
33 to 1 agst Vertugadin
40 to 1 agst Brown Bread
50 to 1 agst Lansdawn
50 to 1 agst Solon

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 6—lndustry, from Skelleftea ; Ida Pelter,
from Petersburg ; Garibaldi, from Stralsund.
Arrived, Oct. 7—Harriett, from Gergenti.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed, Oct. 6—Sultana, from London, for Mogador ;
Mary, from London, for Dublin ; Ottawa, from London,
for Quebec ; Love Bird, schooner, from Africa, for London;
Swiftsure, from London, for Port Phillip.

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA.—General Sir John
Michel will be the administrator of the government in the
absence of Lord Monck, who will be away all winter.—
_

Toronto Globe.

TORPEDOES IN SWEDEN.—By order of the King
of Sweden, experiments with submarine infernal machines
aro about to be tried on the old ship of the line Charles
XIII.

The New York Tribune, commenting upon the
haste with which books are poured out from Ame-
rican presses, says that a great number of sheets are sent
to the binder before they are dry, and appear in the market
in book form hopelessly disfigured by " off-.setting"—that
is, by the damp impression of one page printing off on an-
' other. Many and many a copy of well-known books have
been turned over in the stores to find one free from this
blemish, and often in vain. The register of the book is so
imperfect that the effect of the off-setting becomes the
more conspicuous—in the head-lines of the page espe-
cially. " There is another sort of disfigured book,"
adds the Tribune, "we would have every buyer reject, •
those, viz , which attack him with an advertisement oppo-
site the title. It has grown to be common of late for pub-
lishers to advertise on the reverse of the fly-title, facing the
title-page proper, so that purchaser or reader cannot possibly
turn to the title of the book he buys or consults without
being affronted by this thrusting of other wares upon his
notice. Worse even than this are some books which bear an
advertisement upon the back of the title-page itself, so that
it is impossible to tear out the advertisement except by
tearing out the title. This latter abomination is not yet,
we are happy to say, very common; but it may grow to
any extent unless buyers refuse to touch those books in
which the publishers' cards are inserted in such a way that
they cannot be removed without injury to the book itself."
FIVE PERSONS BITTEN BY A DOG.—On Wednes-
day evening a bull terrier dog followed another dog
into the shop of Mr. Cochran, grocer, North-street,
Brighton. One of the workmen named Wild attempted to
put the terrier out of the shop, when the animal suddenly
became ferocious and flew at him. Another workman named
Benham went to the assistance of his companion, but be-
fore they got the dog into the street it had bitten both
severely. Outside the shop the animal rushed at an iron-
monger's porter named Street, and also bit him. A.
butcher's assistant who was passing struck at it, and he
also suffered. A borough constable named Clifford ran up
with his staff drawn and hit the animal with the weapon, •
but when it loosed its hold of Street it in turn attacked the
officer, bit him in both hands, and tore his coat. A by-
stander hit it with a large hammer, and it retreated into
the shop of Mr. Joel, fruiterer, who ran a spike into its
head and disabled it. It was then killed. Wild, Benham,
and Street were taken to the hospital. The two former are
so severely injured that they must remain under medical
treatment for some time at the institution ; Street was
discharged after his wound had been dressed. There is
ground for hoping that the dog was not rabid, and only be-
came infuriated at being interfered with in the shop.
STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CDYDE.—A screw
named the Oneglia has been launched by Messrs.
Macnab and Co. The Oneglia, which is 130 ft. in length,
by 18ft. in breadth and 10ft. in depth, will be propelled by
a pair of direct acting engines, of 40 horse-power, con-
structed by the same builders. She has been built for the
San Remo Steam Navigation Company, and is intended,
with the San Remo, a sister vessel, built some time since,
for the coasting trade on the Sardinian coast. The
Zeta, built by Messrs. A. Stephen and Son and Messrs.
H. Bath and Son, of Swansea, and intended to be
employed in the passenger and copper ore trade between
England and Valparaiso, has " run the lights" between
Cloch and Cumbrae on favourable conditions. Thus
the Zeta, which was engined by Messrs. A. and J. Inglis,
attained a speed of 94 knots, the steam being merely
auxiliary. The Limena has made the run out from Liver-
pool to Valparaiso, a distance of 9,000 miles, in 30 days 23
hcetrs, with a coal consumption of 880 tons for the whole
voyage. The Limena was one of four steamers built on
the Clyde last year by Messrs. Randolph, Elder, and
Co., for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. The
Java, recently built by Messrs. G. and J. Thomson, and
the latest addition to the Cunard fleet, has left the Clyde
for Liverpool. In running the lights between Cloch and
Cumbrae she attained a speed of rather more than 16} •
miles per hour.

SHORTNESS OF TIME IN DREAMS.—One of the
most remarkable phenomena connected with dreams
is the shortness of time needed for their consummation.
Lord Brougham says that in dictating a man may frequently
fall asleep after uttering a few word; and be awakened by
the amanuensis repeating the last word to show he has
written the whole ; but, though five or six seconds only
have elapsed between the delivery of the sentence and
its transfer to paper, the sleeper may have passed through a
dream extending through half a lifetime. Lord Holland
and Mr. Babbage both confirm this theory. The ono
was listening to a friend reading aloud, and slept from
gratoofspheina
the beginning of the sentence to the latter part. of
the sentence immediately succeeding; yet during this time
liable to woke
oln
skeletont feelingsmie
he had a dream, the particulars of which would have taken
more than a quarter of an hour to write. Mr. Babbage
the concluding words of a friend's answer to aquestion he
dreamt a succession onfbeeyvmaeanndtres,w.aaannsldhaowfb
ohAam
whent
tel
han
en lyinget
embarking
he
skeleton.
Atlantic,
sanka s.pkeinn
gt d
aot
owf
Anothero
return
tuuißig.
nhu tt;
suf-
focation,had just
posture, and had
though awakened, the moment he began to sink, that time
paucctohinimpa.nied
imas his
uni.
afflAnt attendantc, h,
dreamte,redor ajfcoa
,rwaat whenever
oeda longntwfeehavl
he crossed
struggle urhvhoeei gsmr slept
sgbel todeh ertwhdmmiet
vet his sleep had not lasted more than ten minutes.—The
[;cadet.

A NEGRO POET.---it is proposed to issue a volume
of poems by George Horton, "the negro bard of North
Carolina." George Horton was a slave, too fond of tippling
for his own welfare, but a great favourite with both male
and female members of the community. It is said that
many a fair beauty has now in her possession loving
rhymes which George has written at the instigation of
sighing lovers. The students were pleased with and en-
couraged his manifestations of poetical genius, but his dis-
sipated habits caused him now and then to be very sum-
marily ejected from society.
A HEAVY INSURANCE CLAIM.—By the death of
the Earl of Strathmore the insurance companies have to

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meet a claim amounting to nearly X 200,000. The Scotch
offices are those principally concerned, though severalpolicies were effected with English companies. Insurance
Record.
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A PRUSSIAN PANIC. The Prussians are so
alarmed on account of the cattle plague that they will not
admit within their frontiers foreign animals of any kind,
and even the drovers and all persons suspected of having
comp in contact with beasts susceptible of the plague are
under an interdict. Two pairs of pigeons sent from Bel-
gium were stopped by the Prussian officers ;
and t
a stuffed dog
was also, it is said, seized on the frontier.
Pall Mall Gazette.