The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-05 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES.

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Ahglo-Austriah Bnd- 30 London Fin Assoc (L) 19 17dia 1
holders' Certificate 11 2/ 111, 1
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30 Bolckow-Vaughan (L) 30 40pm 2 Lon & Prov Marine (L)par spm
100 Boston City (U.S.) 5 100 Madras Irrig &Canal,
P c Sterling Loan 89 91 gsp c by Ind Gov. 100 103
4 Brit & Fgn Marine (L) 11 2}pm Mauritius Land (L)..1 dis, par
27 Canada Company.
_,. 72 76 . NatnlDisct Comp (L) 11 111
10 Ceylon Company (L) 6 5 dis 25 N Zealand Loan and
35 City Offices (L) 27 26 dis Mere Agency IL) .. 11 pm
20 Colonial (L)
5 Corn Union Assumce 2 21pm Trust (L)
10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 2/ 21 '6l NBritsh awl Mere (L) 26 28
100 Crystal Palace
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111 50 Rhymney Iron
271 Ebbw Vale Steel (4.. 10 8 dis 15 Do New 9l 101
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guar by Egyp OW
.. 96 98 20 Tel Co}nd Main (L) 24} '241
961 241,
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Fgn and Colonial Gov Marine Insur (L)
Trust 6p c Bonds.. 94 98 St Tobacco 6p c Loan,
7i Gen Credt &Disct (L) it} dis guar by Italian Gov. 'SO 83
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Gen Stm Navigation 29 30 Upper Canada
7 Hooper's Tel Works 3} 21dis Cr Marine, Lvpool (L 4151 pin
20 Hudson's Bay B4 84 20 Union Steamship (L) 21 23
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THE RACE FOR THE LIVERPOOL CUP,

The race for the Liverpool Cup did not absorb much
interest on Friday. The first race, the Stanley Nursery,
was void, and the Sefton Biennial proved such a good
thing for Hopbine,:despite her penalty, that the field
behind her must have been moderate. Lord Sefton's
Piste makes out Filou to be a good horse, for he was left
fully 50 yards behind at the post, and yet he came through
his horses—the speedy Flash and La Mousse among them
—and won in a common canter by half a dozen lengths.
The Liverpool Cup has rarely had a warmer favourite
than Free Trade became within twenty-four hours of the
race. There has been more than the usual number of
market:horses this time; Indian Ocean Choral, News-
man, Torreador, and others have figured in the quota-
tions and brought money to the bookmakers, Indian
Ocean kept the lead in the quotations fer some time, but re-
ceived hisldismissal when Free Trade came with such a rush.
Free Trade did not go so well in the market, and Myosotia
took his place ; but before the flag fell they were about
equal favourites. Fidelia made all the running, and
won easily. The pace was wretched for the
first three-quarters of a mile, and evidently did
not suit Free Trade, who, with waiting orders, waited
so long that he was out of it after he had passed the
canal turn. In the Sefton Stakes, Hopbine followed up her
success of the previous-day, and in the Earl Sefton Plate
the favourite, in Filou, mainly through the running out of
Lord John, won easily. At the remunerative odds of 10 to 1
Little Princess beat her five opponents, 5 to 4 being laid
on the Corfu colt ; and in the Welter Cup Mr. Hodgman's
colours were again seen to the fore, on Leases, the
favourite being only able to get home third.

THE OPENING OF THE PARTRIDGE

SEASON.

(FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.)
While on the Continent a fierce and cruel war is raging,
while waves of victorious Germans are breaking over the

fair provinces of France, as resistless as the long rolling
billows of the South, finding before them well cultivated
farms, abundant harvests; happy villages and thriving

towns ; leaving behind them desolation, famine, and
disease, burning homesteads, ruined cities ; while here
and there, like rocks jutting far out into the seething
ocean, fortresses are seen stemming the human tide which

is daily getting more powerful ; while the " dogs of war "
are glutted with their prey, and the fierce god of war i s
wearied with human hecatombs ; the great festival of the
British isles has commenced, and thousands are bowing
down with mute reverence before the shrine of Saint
Partridge. Over the fairest parts of England a tide as
resistless is pouring. Members of all creeds, of all pro-
fessions, of all politics, are equally_ devoted in
performing their duties to our English saint.
Over hill and dale their breech-loaders are echoing
and their dogs are seen ranging far and wide
from sunny. Devon to the Grampians. And is not our
national saint worthy of the worship he receives ? What
saint ever required of his votaries more healthy, more
invigorating obedience? and what saint ever had more
compassion upon the bard worked merchant, the exhausted
member of Parliament, the peer and country squire,
wearied with forced idleness • the farmer, rejoicing that
his harvest is safely in his rick-yard • the army, navy, and
civil service, glad of a little relaxation from their
monotonous life ; and many others who are now
breathing the fine fresh air of these beautiful
September mornings with their guns upontheir shoulders,
and many broad acres stretched out before them well
stocked with game ; our saint is truly worthy of the
homage he receives, for his services are very pleasant.
Do we not all veil well know them, the early morning
when the dew is on the grass, and the mists of the Low-
lands have not been driven away by ale sun ; with our
guns well cleaned and in perfoet order, one pair of
pointers. in hard working Gondition, ranging so beautifully
before us, the diet Ant calls of the male birds which sounds
so sweetly, or the reports of some neighbouring sports-
man afar off, which fills us with a spirit of anxious
rivalry—the exciting " point " and well trained
" back"—the whirling covey and the falling brace—
these are the services which render the saint
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so dear to sportsmen. But these are not all, for
there are others which include the softer sex, the
shady wood, where we know our fair friends are pre-
paring lunch, and cooking the game we shot before they
were down in the morning. Our evening shdoting, when
the fields seem larger, and the birds more wild, the walk
home, when our guns seem so heavy, our dogs so tired,
and the welcome dinner where our saint appears again
in all forms, each one better than the last, endowing us
with a spirit of contentment, and making us remember
the hampers we promised to our less fortunate friends shut
up in some dusty town unable to take part in the rites
of the festival. This year has been most fortunate to
sportsmen. The weather during the spring, when the
birds were breeding, was warm and genial ; there were
no heavy rains to ruin the eggs, or to destroy the young
birds. The summer has been unattended with any severe
weather, but has been such as to enable them to srrive at
maturity before the season commenced. Yet the old
grumbler is to be heard as usual, complaining of the badness
of the times, and praising as highly the days of his
youth, when, from his accounts, the birds must have
Leen as thick as sparrows in a farm yard, and as
tam© as barndoor fowls. We are gravely told that
the railways have destroyed the country by facilitat-
ing the rapid movement of those. restless beings
who on every available opportunity are to be found
wandering over the country in groups, with firearms of
various descriptions, shooting whatever they can, in
season and out of season, and not content with confining
their rambles to their own towns and cities, find their way
into the most secret retreats of our Saint ; but in the old
coaching days this army of marauders was kept in its own
quarters, somewhere in the manufacturing districts.
This may certainly be true, but only in the vicinity of the
great towns, or in parts of the country where the game is
not preserved. The most serious complaint is the want
of cover. The stubble fields we so well remember, where
the finest coveys were to be found, are now cut
as bare almost as the palm of one's hand by the
improved machinery of the present day. We cannot help
it, so we must console ourselves with the reflection that
science has not yet been able to rob us of our green crops.
Those among us who are veterans in the field may
feel a little out of temper, when they find them-
selves obliged to take to their shooting ponies, unable
to keep up with their more active companions and their
fast loading weapons ; when their memories fly back to
the years that are gone, to the years of long stubble,
strong coveys and muzzle loaders, they miss many who
shot by their side, and joined with them in proper devo-
tion to the saint ; a feeling of sadness will arise unbidden
sufficient to darken the brightest day, and to turn
the national feast into a fast. But how can we murmur
over the few dark shades of age which have passed over
us since we first felt pride in walking by our father's
side, armed with our first gun, receiving instruc-
tion in the duties of the festival ? When we consider that
again do we commence the season under the olive branch
of peace, while the deafening roar of war is rolling over
Europe, and cries of bereavement and despair are sounding
in our ears ; when, as we sit under the hedge, taking our
hasty breakfast, we read in the morning's paper
column after column of bloodshed, desolation and destruc-
tion, the most callous will not be able to stifle a feeling of
thankfulness, and a prayer that when next Saint Partridge
is worshipped, a film and durable peace may have shed
its benign influence over the world.

The carpenters' strike at Dundee has been brought
to a close by a mutual concession, but in future all com-
binations, whether of men or masters, will be prevented
in that town.

En alluding to the death of the Earl of Aberdeen,
the London Scotsman points out that a remarkable fatality
has attended the Aberdeen family. Lord Haddo, the
great grandfather of the nobleman who has just met his
death by drowning, was killed by a fall from his horse, his
father was an invalid nearly all his life, and died prema-
turely, and his brother, a young man of twenty-three, lost
his life by the accidental discharge of a gun about two
years ago.

ACTION FOR DAMAGES ON A RAILWAY.—At the Liver-
pool Assizes the case of Hughes v. The London and North
NVestern Railway Company has been tried. The
plaintiff was the daughter of a coal merchant at Llanrwst,
and this action was brought for the injuries she received
in an accident which occurred to a train in which she
was travelling upon the defendants' line in January,
1869. The accident was caused, it was alleged, from the
defendants' negligence in the construction and mainte-
nance of a railway embankment. It appeared that the
Bettws-y-Coed branch of the defendants' line, running
from Llandudno to Bettws, is carried along the side of the
river Conway, and is much exposed to the winds and
tides. At the place where the accident happened,
near the Tal-y-Cefu station, the railway runs within
one hundred yards of the river, from which
it is protected by a river bank in one direc-
tion, but it remains unprotected in another. The spring
tides were accustomed to overflow the fields there on the
unprotected side, and the water stands to a depth of
four feet or more against the railway embankment. Upon
the day in question there was an unusually high tide—
higher than had been known for 56 years, some of the
witnesses said—with a strong wind, and the water flowed
further than usual along the railway embankment. It
reached an angle formed by the railway and riverbanks, and
being checked there, formed an eddy, which undermined
the railway embankment and let down the rails. The
consequence was that the train in which the plaintiff was
travelling left the line, and the plaintiff was bruised in
her legs in a way which led to abscesses, and resulted,
as was alleged, in serious injury. It appeared
that the damage to the railway bank upon
this occasion was done very rapidly, for the driver
had passed the spot safely with his train an hour and
a half before. As elements of negligence, it was averred
that the defendants had neither taken any precautions to
prevent the inroad of the tides nor to protect their em-
bankment from the action of the water by sodding or other
means. There was a contest of evidence upon these points,
and a great number of witnesses, including engineers,wer•
called, but in the end the jury returned a verdict for tie
plaintiff, with damages £l5O.

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