The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

vail in this district. The lode suddenly widens to four
feet, the diameter of the shaft, but how far it may ex-
tend on each side under the earth, it is, of course, im-
posible to say. On Monday a sample of the pro-
duce, weighing about one and-a-half cwt., was
exhibited in Mr. Samuel's office, and excited no
little astonishment amongst a number of the knowing
ones of Bathurst. It consisted principally of a kind of
greyish ore, a portion of which was assayed by Dr.
Machattie and found to be very rich. This, together
with several other specimens, has been forwarded to
Sydney for the inspection of the directory, where it
will, no doubt, create a little sensation. Five distinct
lodes have been discovered upon the company's property,
and so great is the confidence of the proprietary in the
success of the enterprise, that steps have been taken for
the formation of a complete mining establishment. As
the country is easy to work, the developments of the
mine may be expected at no distant date."

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
( From the Olicial List.)

Business done.
92A 31 3
923,/ `IMO
210 5
216

3 per Cent. Consols Annuities-.
Consols for Account
India Stock
Bank Stock for Account
Exchequer Bills, 1(1.
£lOOO ..,
£5OO
Ditto Small

13 dis
13 8 dis
13 8 dis

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
THREE O'CLOCK.
_ _

Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..... .......
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto for the Account.., 6O
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent. 72
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St —
Ditto 43 per Cent 974 8 7
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 9si
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 22 4 g

Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 10 Gu. B5l
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil 624 3
Dutch 4 per Cent. Certificates

Consols
Ditto October Account

THREE O'CLOCK.
93i
93h a

SPORTING NOTES.

NUTS TO CRACK AT NEWMARKET.
Scarcely a single incident of an exciting or important
character marked the sport at Newmarket, on Wednes
day and Thursday. The proceedings were peculiarly
uninteresting ; the weather was cold, and the shivering
spectators regarded each race with listless indifference.
Yet the running, in certain instances, materially regu-
lated 'speculation on coming events ; the success of
Little Harry, on Wednesday, strengthening the confi-
dence of King Pepin's supporters for the Cesarewitch,
and the result of the Triennial, on Thursday, causing
Nabob to be advanced to a prominent position in the
betting on the same race.

The encounters were suggestive of no remarks, and
were too unexciting to require description. Certain
proceedings, however, connected with the race for the
St. Leger, on Wednesday, excited some surprise, and
not a little indignation. This event brought out a field
of three moderate horses, Cobnut and Nutpecker, the
property of Lord Exeter, and Rackapelt, belonging to
Captain Lowther. Rackapelt was the favourite, and 5
to 4 was betted on him. Of Lord Exeter's two the
principal investments were made on Cobnut. On ap-
proaching the Duke Stand, Nutpecker had so strong a
lead that it was evident that he could achieve an easy
victory. He had been hacked for little money in the
"ring," and the delight of the " fielders was uproariously
expressed. As the horses entered the cords, however,
what was the astonishment of the spectators to see the
rider of Nutpecker deliberately " pull" his horse to allow
Cobnut, who Wa4 then second, to get up. This proceed-
ing was so palpable, that the bystanders shouted to him
to go on, but to little purpose, for, to use the words of
the turf reporter, "in the last few strides he afforded
Cob nut an opportunity of finishingtwo lengths in advance."
Seldom was a more impudent case of " roping" seen even
at Edgware races. Had the Marquis of Exeter made a
declaration to win with Cobnut, the conduct of his jockey
would have been fair and excusable ; it is, therefore, to
be regretted, that a nobleman who is so liberal and in-
fluential a patron of the turf, should break those laws of
racing of which he is one of the principal framers. He
has furnished a pernicious precedent, which, if fre-
quently adopted, will bring the " national pastime" into
utter and deserved contempt. How will the Marquis of
Exeter now deal with the " Bedford Case," which is
before him as one of the stewards of the Jockey Club
for investigation 1 His lordship when giving his orders
to his jockey must have forgotten the existence of a
resolution, of which he as a member of the Jockey Club
had doubtless been one of the prime movers. I copy it
from the authorised and official Book Calendar :

" At a meeting of the Jockey Club held on Thursday,
in the Second October Meeting, 1838, which was very
numerously attended, it was unanimously resolved—

" That it is the opinion of this Club that it is neces-
sary to declare their extreme disapprobation of horses
being started for races without the intention, on the part
of their owners of trying to win with them."

But this resolution was framed upwards of twelve
years ago, and verily times have changed !

Sept. 30.

A FRESH MAN.

PENNY RECEIPT STAMPS.

The information contained in the following cor-
respondence regarding the penny receipt stamps,
which are to come into operation next Monday
week, will be useful to persons engaged in trade
who may wish to have their own printed forms
made up into books :

" Plymouth, Sept. 17.
" Sir,—We find by advertisement that we can get any
form of receipt stamped. We wish to have a regular form
made up into books. What wo wish to know is, whether
you can stamp the books, or whether the forms must be
sent you before they are mad into books. We must, of
course, send the money with the parcel. How many days
would occur before we received the stamps after sending
the paper ?
" Any further information you can afford relative to
this matter will much oblige, Sir, your obedient servants,
" WILLIAM E. RENDLE and CO.
"Thomas Keogh, Esq., Inland Revenue,
Somerset-house."

"Inland Revenue, Somerset-house, Sept. 26.
" Gentlemen,—l have submitted to the board your
letter of the 17th inst., and they have directed me to in-
form you that the forms of receipts which you desire to
have impressed with the new duties should be taken to
Mr. Nettleton, the sub-distributor of stamps at Plymouth,
to whom you should pay the duty, and he will thereupon
transmit them through the head distributor for the district
to the office for stamping, and return them to you as early
as practicable before the 10th of October, from which date
the duties in question will come into operation.
" I am to add, it is very desirable that the paper sent
in for stamping should be in loose sheets, and not bound
up into books. "I am &c.
" THOMAS KEOGH.
"To Messrs. William E. Rendle and Co."

THE RE-PAVING THE STRAND AND FLEET-STREET.—
The works which have been going on in these two im-
portant thoroughfares will, it is expected, soon be com-
pleted. Yesterday the laying down of the new granite
roadway through Fleet-street, was completed as far as
Chancery-lane, and the repairing, up to the west side of
Temple-bar is rapidly progressing. In the Strand the
works have been completed as far as Arundel-street,
operations having been commenced eastward of that
place. In consequence of the passage of Temple-bar
being stopped, all vehicles passing westward or east-
ward, are obliged, in the first place, to turn off at Wel-
lington-street, Strand, and via Long-acre, Holborn,
Fetter-lane, &c., reach Fleet-street, and in the second
case the route is, of course, reversed. This has the
effect of taking all such vehicles no less a distance than
one mile and three-quarters out of their way.

CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE BY THE RIVER STEAMERS.—
Taking time by the forelock, several of the river steamers,
above and below bridge, are experimenting on the best
methods to be adopted for the consumption of smoke in
their furnaces, so that by the prohibition time pointed
out in the act of Parliament, both their funnels and the
river thoroughfare may be smokeless.
EVICTION OF IRISH TENANTRY IN MARYLEBONE.—
Yesterday, from an early hour in the morning, the
vicinity of Portman-square presented an unusual scene
through the ejection of the Irish colony, which has so
long inhabited a place running parallel with Edwards-
street, from Orchard-street, known as Orchard-place, but
formerly as Kell Mell-buildings. 18 months ago notices
were served (under the seal of Lord Portman, the ground
landlord), upon all the families who inhabited this sink
of filth and misery, that the leases under which the
houses they inhabited were held by their landlords,
expired on Michaelmas day, 1853, but no notice was
taken by the people of the repeated warnings they have
received on the subject. Everything was left till the
last minute, and yesterday morning the process of sum-
mary ejection was carried out under the orders of Mr.
Hardwicke, the surveyor and agent to Lord Portman.
NAPLES.—lntelligence has been received from Naples
that the period for the admission of wheat, flour, oats,
barley, and maize, duty free, into the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies, has been extended by a decree, dated the
22d inst., from the end of December, the time originally
named, until the end of May next.
AN ANTI-PERCUSSION SKULL —This week, while a
little boy was amusing himself at the window of his
parents' house, he accidentally overbalanced himself and
fell to the ground, from a height of three storeys. Sin-
gular to say, although the back of his bead struck the
paving-stones in the court, yet he sustained compara-
tively but little injury, and has now quite recovered.--
North British Daily Mail.
How TO BREATHE THE " FREE AIR" OF AUSTRIA.—
Keep your mouth shut,—Puna.