The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-13 00:00:00

Five ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 500 SOVS.

Asterope

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Echo ••••• •
Tho Wren

Eight ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.

Panopticon
Cocoa Nut.....
Belphegor
Twelve ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Blonde *•• ••• ••
Satinstoe
Le Tracone

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS.
Phosphorous
Mr. Feeder
Conspirator
Thirteen ran.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
10 bo 1 agst Not Out (taken)
15 to 1 agst Pax (taken)
25 to 1 agst Rafale (taken freely)

1
2

The objection against Panopticon, the winner of the
Handicap Sweepstakes yesterday, is overruled.

PERTH RACES-THIS DAY.

TRIAL STAKES.

The Nigger w.o.
CALEDONIAN HANDICAP.

Luisette -
llawthorndale..
Whimsical.

Six ran.
£5O PLATE,

Kelvin Grove
....
Mary

Six ran.
COUNTY PLATE.

La Favorita • • ••••
Lincoln Lass ****
The Bobby

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The settlement still forms the principal object of atten-
tion in the Stock Exchange. Consols are flat, and the
price is now lower, at 921 to 921 ; the account remains
at 921 to 921. Peruvians have declined 1, from the
advanced price obtained at the close yesterday, being now
891 to 90. Turkish Stocks are firmer, the Five per Cents.
being 1 higher, at 521 to 531; and the 1869 Loan, 50i
to 51; Italian are better, at 54 to 541 ; but there is no
change in Egyptian, at 761 to 76f ; Spanish of 1867, 28
to 281; ditto of 1869, 271 to 27/ ; and Lombardo-Vene-
tian, 131 to 141.
Mr. W. T. Henley, of North Woolwich, has just laid a
submarine telegraph cable from Bona to Malta, thus com-
pleting the lines of the Marseilles, Algiers, and Malta
Telegraph Company. The total length of both sections
laid is about 900 miles,

The cable of the Indo-European Telegraph Company
has been repaired, and messagei. by it are again in course
of regular delivery.
Communications have been addressed during the past
few months to the Post-office by mercantile firms, point-
ing out the great inconvenience occasionally experienced
from the refusal of the telegraph stations to give receipts
for messages, but thus far apparently without effect. At
present any servant entrusted with a telegram may ab-
stain from taking it to the Post-office, and purloin the
money, the sender remaining in ignorance of the de-
fault, while the most serious consequences may arise,
since telegrams usually relate to matters in which
delay is fatal. Such instances are believed already
to have been numerous. A Liverpool firm, Messrs.
Bell, Nott, and Co., have, moreover, urged upon
the authorities the vital importance in transactions by
telegraph with foreign countries for senders to have a
receipt specifying the exact time at which they are handed
in for transmission, since many questions of damages
from non-execution of orders and variations of market
rates are always liable to be raised ; but although they
suggested the remedy of extending to telegrams the
system of registration at present in force for letters, by
which the Post-Office revenue might be materially in-
creased, no movement of the kind appears to be contemt
plated. The general public will probably consider that
even the adoption of the system of registration would
not meet the requirements of the case, since,receipts are
necessary in all instances without any extra charge, and
the old telegraph companies found no difficulty in sup-
plying them.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that there was
a first meeting of creditors at the County Court yesterday
under the bankruptcy of William Walter Thompson,
broker, trading in co-partnership with Patrick Hunter
Dirom, under the firm of Brown, Hunter, and Co. Debts
amounting to £7,922 were proved. The statement of
accounts filed shewed in the joint affairs of the bankrupt's
liabilities £50,379, assets £1,384 ; in the separate affairs
there appeared to be liabilities £398, assets £425. Mr.
Banner was chosen trustee. Au allowance of £3 a week
was allowed to the bankrupt till his public examination,
which was fixed for the sth of November.