The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-08 00:00:00

OCTOBER,

Bedford 4, 5 I Newmarket 2n 0ct..10 to 14
Leicester
Bromley 6, 7 I Newmarket H0t'u...21 to 29
N 0 VEMBER.

Liverpool 8 to ll I Shrewsbury. 14 to 18

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1870.
FEBRUARY.

Birmingham 8, 9 Harrow
r

M ARCH.
Liverpool 89, 10 Bromley 31 and Aprl
West Somerset 16, 17 Cheltenham...3l and April 1
Warwick 22 to 24

Aldorshot 7, 8

Kingsbury lB, 19

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Must zdam .- Short ... 11 ISI ... 11 19
Do
Rotterdam ....... — ... 12 1i- ... 12 1
Autwerp — ... 25 34 ... 25 42
Brussels
Hamburg b. — ... 13 101 ... 13 11
Paris Short ... 25 15 ... 25 22}
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 120+
Vienna — ... 12 Go ... 12 70
Trieste — ... 12 65 ... 12_70

Petersburg
Copenhagen
Berlin

:.. 281 28f,-
~ 9 18 9 '22
6 271 ... 6
.28

51ac1rid..

48i -

49
26 75 .., 26 77
• 26 75 26 77.
• 26 75 26 77,
26 75 26 77,
- ... 26 75 26 77:
- 26 75 ... 26 77

Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina

PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris h about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25f. 15c. per £1 sterling,
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
£3 i75.104d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris than in
London.

A competitive examination of candidates for ad-
mission into the medical service of the Royal Navy
will be held at Chelsea Hospital on the 7th of Fe-
bruary next.

BREAKFAST.—Errs's COCOA.—CRATEFUL AND COM-
FORTING,—Tho very agreeable character of this preparation has
rendered it a general favourite. The `Civil Service Gazette' re-
marks:—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his
homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by
any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural
laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition,
and by a careful application of the fins properties of well-selected
cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deli-
cately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doe-
tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold
only in tin-lined packets, labelled "JAMES Errs and Co., Ilomcei
pathic Chemists, London.

Mr. Ashbury has at last arranged a yacht race
with Mr. James Gordon Bennett, jun., to sail the Cambria
against the Dauntless from Cowes to New York, on the 4th
July, for a service of plate valued at £250. This inte-
resting match has been arranged through the Cable. We
hope that no misunderstanding may arise, and that the
result will be accepted manfully by the defeated party, and
not furnish a subject for that national recrimination, which
is the curse of these "friendly" contests. Other civilised
nations cannot but feel amused at the ridiculous importance
attached to the boat race of a few young men or a couple o
yachts by 70,000,000 of the Anglo-Saxon race. We believe
in the Dauntless, and would frooly back that yacht if we were
in the habit of betting; but we would sot be very much
surprised if the Dauntless is defeated, nor would we, in
truth, very much care. Of one thing we are certain, that
Vice-Commodore Bennett will drive his yacht along if he
takes the masts out of her, and it will not be his fault if
she does not win.

PRESENTS OF ALL KINDS.—We strongly recom-
mend the Nobility and Gentry to visit Parkins and
Gotto's extensive show-rooms, where may be seen thou-
sands of useful and elegant articles of English, French
and Austrian manufacture, especially adapted for birthday,
wedding, and christening presents —in fact presents
for every conceivable purpose, at very moderate
prices. This is, without exception, the largest and best
selected stock in Europe ; each article is marked in plain
figures, andlin consequence of a rapid sale is perfectly new
and fresh (a great consideration in a present). The stock
consists of portrait-albums, writing-cases, dressing-cases,
dressing bags, despatch boxes, envelope cases, and blotting-
books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, handbags, card-
cases, book-slides, glove and handkerchief boxes, purses,
pocket-books, cigar-cases, reticules, opera-glasses, scent-
cases, smelling bottles, bronzes, eleetro-gilt, oxidised and de,
gantly mounted articles for mantelshelf, dining, drawing-
and library table, chess-boards, bagatelle-boards, card-
trays, scrap-books, Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser-
vices, plain and elegantly mounted, besides an endless
variety of other articles to suit every taste, purpose, and
pocket.--Parkins and Gotto, 24 and 25, Oxford-street, W.

A wholesale murder was recently committed near
Douglas Place, about 25 miles from San Francisco, at the
store of an Italian, named Frank Medina. A disturbance
was observed there, but no notice was taken as it was
supposed to be a drunken row, till late next morning, when
as the store showed no signs of life, and, suspicion being
aroused, the place was examined, and the confusion gave
evidence of a struggle and robbery. The bodies of Medina,
the clerk, two Mexicans, and a coloured man were found
in a gulch a quarter of a mile from the house. This was
the second robbery perpetrated on Medina, and but a fort-
night before tw o men wore robbed and murdered within
12 miles of San Francisco. These are the scenes which
rouse the citizens into the formation of Vigilance Com-
mittees when the myrmidons of the law prove too weak
to deal with their performer. The St. Louis Republican
relates how tlt•-y dealt, in Missouri, with a man named
Moore, who was believed to have murdered John Carney
and his wife in a store. The sheriff concealed the pri-
soner, fearing the violence of the people, but when tl
exeitemeut had subsided he returned him to gaol.
prison was immediately surrounded, Moore take
r.
harged, though professing his innocence to tl
people had, however, the strongest circ"'he-1
deuce of his guilt.