The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-17 00:00:00

SPECIAL EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

THIS EVENING'S NEWS.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

ASCOT HEATH MEETING.—THIS DAY.
(ItY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL)
HER MAJESTY'S PLATE.
Brennus GOO •It w.o.

FIRST CLASS WOBINGHAIL
Allbrook
Departure
stephanotis

Eleven ran.

SECOND CLASS WOKINGHAM.
Adelaide
13earboro,
,
'"rarabridge

) o
f o

Ten ran

ALEXANDRA PLATE.
Trocadero
Biderolite

N SEVENTEENTH TRIENNIAL
-tinshine onnanbY
Claudius

Four ran.

PLATE OF 100 SOVS.
Tit-nit
Jersey

Ten ran.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)

EXPLOSION ON BOARD A SCHOONER.
fast night the schooner Zephyr, of Durham, laden
.th gas coals, and lying in Sunderland Dock, blew up.
The hatches had been battened down ready for sea, and
(541 Y a cabin boy was left on board. The gas had accu-
tclulated in the "cabin, and when the boy went in the ex-
plosion occurred. The cabin was literally blown to
pieces, the decks were blown up, the main-boom broken,
a'ad great damage was done. The boy was blown twenty
Yards from the vessel into the water, and was picked up
With his head partially blown off. He died soon after,

TITII PRISONS' MINISTERS' ACT.
13. e Dublin Freeman. in referring to the report of the
pons' Ministers' Act, says that one advantage of this
A
et will be that the prison authorities will be bound by
'4lv to fix the salary according to a scale from which they
°4llllot depart, or if they do, the Queen's Bench will bring
them back. The Catholics of England have succeeeed in
bf eating the justices, and wresting from them an
.I()xious power, of which they were certain to make
Alberal use, and they did. By perseverance (and we must
d, the cordial support of the Liberal party), the English
`lB4llollcs have succeeded in reversing the policy of 1863.

THE FENIAN RAID.
41111 ding to the American comments on the Fenian
43.
-119.411 an raid, the Freeman says, "By all means let the
°llenders be punished, but supposing an American jury
lvild find them guilty, the punishment would be only
tree months' imprisonment for violating the neutrality
Wa• In the present temper of Americans, and we
et,
our own countrymen, there can be little doubt
eet, that if the General were brought to trial, he would
convicted. The punishment, so slight, would do good,
and4lld for Our part we should not be sorry to see the Bogui
for
enjoying self-meditation for six months."

4:4" dismasted ship was seen off Land's End this morn.
`l4g at five o'clock in tow of three mackerel boats.
The Sweedish brig Ada, Petterson master, from Bristol
to
Sweden' in ballast, struck to the westward of St. Ives
BAY this morning, and went down. Five men were landed
At St. Ives in a boat. The master was found floating in
exhausted state by a mackerel boat. Four men are
"till missing.
The schooner Eclipse, of Bristol, Joshua Baldwin
'Laster, bound from Padstow to Malpas, port of Truro,
:;:inth cargo of oak timber, was towed into Penzance her.
Clllit this morning. About midnight, last night, during a
07 squall from the westward, the ship being on the
starboard tack, heading north-east, longahips bearing
About four miles distant, she carried away mast and all
eel; with mainsail. This morning she was taken in tow
to Penzance.