The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-18 00:00:00

WRECK OF A STEAMER.

The steamer Chilian, outward bound from Liverpool
to New Orleans, struck on the Brazil bank at the entrance
to the Mersey on Saturday night. She broke up yester-
day morning, but no lives were lost.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT

OXFORD.

The trial of agricultural implements moved both by
steam and hand power was finished on Saturday. The
judges' awards for the implements will be made known to.
clay. A meeting in the show-yard was held in the afternoon,
and attended by the committee and exhibitors of steam
cultivators, for the consideration of a suggestion, which
seems to be advisable with reference to the prizes to
be offered at Wolverhampton ; and to report to a special
council to be held in the show-yard to-morrow.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR LEAMINGTON.

At half-past three o'clock on Saturday morning the Scotch
auxiliary mail from Carlisle to Euston ran into a luggage
train which had broken down at Weedon. None of the
mail passengers were seriously hurt, but the conductor
jumped from his van, and is considerably injured.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CITY BETTING-SATURDAY.
GOODWOOD STAKES.

6to 1 aget Capitaliste (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst John Davis (offered)
10 to 1 agst Indian Ocean (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Sweet Sound (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Prince Henry (taken and offered)
1000 to 80 agst Rattle ate (offered)
100 to 8 agst Miss Sheppard (offered)
20 to 1 agst Acaster (offered—take 25 to 1)
20 to 1 aget Paganini (offered—take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Revenge (offered)
100 to 3 agst Toby (offered)
50 to 1 agst Newsman (offered)
800 to 200 agst Capitaliste with a start (taken)
250 to 50 agst John Davis with a start (taken)

GOODWOOD CUE
225 to 100 agst Sabinus (offered)
9to 2 agst Musket (offered)
sto I agst Pero Gomez (taken)
6to 1 agst Siderolite (offered—take 7to 1)
100 to 4 agst Morna (offered)
100 to 3 agst Knight of the Garter (wanted)

At the Guildhall Police-court on Friday, John
Duke, a cigar maker, was charged with having attempted
to murder his wife, and to commit suicide, on June 20th.
The evidence of the wife could not be completed, owing
to her weak condition, and the prisoner was remanded.

THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE.—A yacht (supposed
to be the Dauntless), throwing up blue lights, was passed
on the Bth instant, in lat. 49.7 N., long. 17.50 W., by the
J. A. Devereaux, arrived at this port from Charleston.
Liverpool Journal of Commerce.

The bill empowering the Pembroke and Tenby
Railway Company to extend their line to the dockyard at
Pembroke has passed both Houses of Parliament. The
extension will be immediately proceeded with, and when
completed will effect a large saving in the cost of transit
of materials to the dockyard.

A Lynchburg man, arrested as a vagrant, pro-
tested that he had a regular trade, and that was smoking
glass for total eclipses of the sun. He remarked that as
these occur so seldom, it was not to be wondered at that
he seemed out of employment a good deal.
HOLBEIN'S PAINTINGS.—An exhibition of Hof-
bein's works will be held from the 15th of August to the
15th of October next, at Dresden. The committee ap•
pointed to carry on this object are anxious that possessors
of original works by this master should contribute to the
exhibition, in order that it may be rendered as complete as
possible.

A STRAY LORD.--A strange and as yet unre-
ported scene occurred in the House of Commons on
Thursday evening. A gentleman was observed sitting
next to the Secretary of the Admiralty whose• face was
unfamiliar to the Speaker's eye. Mr. Baxter addressed
some observation to him, and he was heard to justify
his position as a " peer of the realm." Such an
extraordinary and probably unprecedented tresspass,
however, could not be permitted, and the noble lord, after
being more than once reminded of his mistake, was gently
removed from the Chamber.—Echo.

The fine scenery from the King's Oak at High
Beach, in Epping Forest, so highly appreciated by the
ancient sovereigns of this realm, has never been witnessed
by any members of the present Royal Family excepting
his Royal Highness the Duke ofCambridge, who used

formeily to visit the late Colonel Conyers Tit' Copt Hall,
in that vicinity. His late Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex used frequently to come down to the Old Hotel at
Epping-place for a few days, for the sake of enjoying the
scenery and fine air in that locality. An old stump still
remains of what is reported to have been an oak planted
by King Harold previous to the Battle of Hastings, on the
summit of the hill overlooking the valley of the Lea and
Hertfordshire.

FATAL GAS EXPLOSION IN GLASGOW.-011 Wed-
nesday evening an escape of gas was discovered in a house
in the occupation of two ladies named Henrietta and
Catherine Thorburn, and situated in Victoria-road,
Glasgow. One of the sisters (Catherine) went to the
meter to turn off the gas, but, being unable to find the
turncock in the dark, she struck a lucifer match, and im-
mediately the accumulated gas exploded with terrific
force. Assistance having been speedily summoned, a
search was made, and the deceased was found, with her
clothes in flames, lying on the floor of the dining-room, to
which place she had been thrown by the violence of the
explosion. Medical aid was immediately summoned, but
he poor girl died in great agony soon after the melancholy
c currence.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE CANNON-STREET
RAILWAY STATION.—On Saturday night, about 10.15, at
Cannon-street Station, a man named Cudworth, foreman
of the porters, and a very steady man, was in the act of
crossing the station to attend to a train that was coming
in. The unfortunate man had crossed safely over several
lines of metals, and whilst in the act of jumping upon
the steps leading to the platform his toe caught the iron
rail, and caused him to fall a few feet in front of the
moving train. The driver at once shut off the steam and
tried to back the train, but before he could do so, and
before the poor fellow could do more than get upon his
feet, the engine knocked him down, and the wheels of the
train passed over his neck and head, scattering his brains
over the line ; death must have been instantaneous. The
poor fellow leaves a large family unprovided for, and his
widow is within a month or so of giving birth to another
child.

DUNV I LLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders
of whisky in the world. Their Old MO Whisky is r ommended
by the medical profession iu preference to French brand . Sup-
plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotation
on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & 4'0., Royal Irish Dis
tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings
Strand, W.O.

NOTICE TO ENGLISH TRAVELLERS.
The following has been issued from the Foreign
Office :

"Foreign Office, July 16.
" War having been announced between France and

Prussia, British subjects proceeding to any part of the

Continent are recommended to provide themselves with
passports before setting out on their journey, and to
have them duly vise for the countries they propose to

visit."

The following are the regulations under which pass-
ports are issued by the Foreign Office :

REGULATIONS RESPECTING PASSPORTS.

1. Applications for Foreign Office passports must be
made in writing, and inclosed in a cover addressed to
" The Chief Clerk, Foreign Office, London," with the
word " Passport" conspicuously written on the cover.
2. The charge on the issue of a passport, whatever num-
ber of persons may be named in it, is 2s. ; and if it is de-
sired that the passport should be sent by post, that sum
must be forwarded with the application for the passport
by a Post Office order, made payable at the Post Officei
Charing Cross, London, tek the chief clerk of the Foreign
Office, Francis B. Adstons Esq. , Postage stamps willl not
be received in payment.
3. Foreign Office passports are granted only to British-
born subjects, or to such foreigners as have become
naturalised either by Act of Parliament or by a certificate
of naturalisation granted by the Secretary of State for
,the Home Department. When the party is a " natura-
lised British subj ect," he will be so designated in his passport ;
and if his certificate of naturalisation be dated subsequently
to the 24th of August, 1850, and previously to the Ist of
August, 1858, his passport will be marked as good for one
year only; or should the certificate be dated subsequently
to the Ist of August, 1858, his passport will in that case
be marked as good for six months only, except in cases
where a license for a longer period of residence abroad
has been granted by the Secretary of State for the Home
Department ; but this regulation will not preclude any
person whom it affects from obtaining at the Foreign
Office, at any future time, on his producing his old pa se-
port, a fresh passport in exchange for it for a further
limited period, without being required to pay a fresh
charge. A Foreign Office passport granted to a British-
born subject or to a " naturalised British subject " who
has been naturalised by Act of Parliament, or whose cer-
tificate of naturalisation is dated previously to the 24th of
August, 1850, is not limited in point of time, but is
available for any time, or for any number of journeys to
the Continent.

4. Passports are granted to all parsons either known to
the Secretary of State or recommended to him by some
person who is known to him; or upon the application of
any banking firm established in London or in any part of
the United Kingdom ; or upon the production of a certifi-
cate of identity signed by any mayor, magistrate, justice
of the peace, minister of religion, physician, surgeon,
solicitor, or notary, resident in the United Kingdom.
5. If the applicant for a passport be a naturalised
British subject, his certificate of naturalisation, with his
signature subscribed to the oath printed on the third page
of it, must be forwarded to the Foreign Office with the
certificate of identity granted on his behalf ; and, his cer-
tificate of naturalisation will be returned with the pass-
port to the person who may have granted the certificate
of identity, in order that he may cause such naturalised
British subject to sign the passport in his presence. The
agents at the outports are not authorised to grant pass-
ports to naturalised British subjects, and such persons, if
resident in London or in the suburbs, should apply per-
sonally for their passports at the Foreign Office.
6. Passports "are issued at the Foreign Office between
the hours of 11 and 4 on the day following that on which
the application for the passport has been received at the
Foreign Office; but the passports will be issued at the
outports immediately on application, accompanied by the
production of a certificate of identity within such hours as
may be fixed with regard to the convenience of persons
desirous of embarking for the Continent.
7. A passport cannot be sent by the Foreign Office, or
by an agent at an outport, to a person already abroad ;
such person, being a British-born subject, should apply
for one to the nearest British mission or Consulate. A
passport cannot be issued abroad to a naturalised British
subject except for a direct joniney to England, or in the
case of a Colonial naturalised Subject for a journey
back to the colony where he has been naturalised.
Neither can a passport granted at the Foreign
Office to a naturalised British subject for a limited period
be renewed by her Majesty's diplomatic or consular
agents in foreign countries; but only at the Foreign
Office.

8. The bearer of every passport granted by the Foreign
Office should sign his passport as soon as he receives it ;
without such signature either the visa may be refused, or
the validity of the passport questioned abroad.