The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-12 00:00:00

DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 9.

Tho Queen has been this day pleased to appoint
Henry Fletcher itigg., Esq., of Wood Broughton, to Le
Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster for the year
ensuing

FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 29.

The Queeu hes been graciously pleased to appoint John
Cruickshank, Esq., to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul in the
Island of New Caledenia.

SPORTING INTEL LIGENOg,

CIIY BETTING--Youp.DAY.
WATERLOO CUP.
8 to 1 agst Lord Lurgau's nomination (offered)
100 to 6 agat Mr Brocklebank's (offered)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Carruther's (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr Deighton's nomination (taken)
00 to 1 aget Mr Copeland's coin. (taken)
LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Royal Rake (taken)
10 to 1 agst Queen of Hearts (taken and offered)
10 to 1 eget Benbow (offered)
10 to 1 aget Van Amburgh (offered)
LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.
8 to 1 agst The Colonel (taken atid offered)
100 to 8 aget Dootor (taken)
100 to 8 agst Oristaloffered)
100 to eget Honolulu (offered)
100 to 7 agst Thallassius (offered)
100 to 6 agst Q. C. (taken freely)
20 to I:agst Tathwell (offered)
20 to 1 agst Surney (taken)
100 to 6 agat Lymington (offered)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
13 to 1 agst Walter (offered)
100 to 7 agst Sabinus (taken)
0 HEST ER CUP.
1000 to 20 agat Captivator (taken and offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
500 to 100 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)
DERBY.
2000 to 200 agst Kingcraft (taken)

CARLISLE STEEPLECHASES.
Owing to the continuance of frost the above Steeple-
chases have been postponed till Thursday neat.

RACING FIXTURES-1870.
FEBRUARY.

Lincoln l5, 16 I Derby .. 22, 23
Harrow 17, 18 I Newton ..... 25, 26

MARCH.
Nottingham... 1, 2 I West Somerset l6, 17
Liverpool B, 9, 10 I Warwick 22, 23, 24
Pontefract 14, 15 Epsom 29, 30
Cambridgeshire l4, 15 1 Bromley 31 and April 1

_
APRIL.
Northampton 5, 6 I Newmarket Craven 18 to 22
West Drayton 7, 8 1 Abergavenny 21, 22
Thirsk 7 g i Lewes
Kingsbury lB, 19 1 Croydon. 28, 29
Durham lB, 19 1

MAY.
Newmarket Ist Sp ...2 to 5 I Harpenden 2O, 21
Chester. - 10, to 13 i Bath 34, 25
Winchester lO. 11 I Stamford 26, 27
Salisbury l2, 13 : Croy-do❑ 26, 29
York 17, 18 ' Epsom 31 to Juue 3
Doueaster 19,20 I
JUNE.

Croydon 8,9
Manchester E, 9, 10
Ascot It to 17
Windsor 2l, 22

Newton 22, '23
Hampton 23, 24
Bibury Olub 2l
Stocknridge...3o, and Ji.ly 1.

JI
Newmarket 5 to 8
Nottingham 12, 13
Chelmsford l2, 13
Reading 1), 13
AU
Brighton 2 3
Brighton Club 4
Lewes .5, 6
Egham 'l, 10
Windsor ll, 12

'LY.
I West Drayton 14, 15
I Huntingdon 19, 20
Kingsbury 2l, 22
1 Goodwood • '6, 29
"JUST.
Stoat( l7 to 19
Oxford lB, 19
i York 23 to 25
Plymouth
b Dery
30, 31

Bromley
SEPTEMBER.
Warwick 6 7 I Richmond 20, 21
Abingdon 8, 9 I Western Meet (Ayr) 21 to 23
Doncaster 13 to 16 I Hendon 22, 23
Hampton ... 2O, 21 I Newmarket Ist Oct. 27 to 30
OCTOBER.

Bedford 4, 5 I Newmarket 2n 0et..10 to 14
Leicester 6, 7 I Cheltenham 18, 19
Bromley fj, 7 1 Newmarket H0t'n...21 to 29
/iOVEMBER.
Liverpool 8 to 11 I Bbrewsbury 14 to 18

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1870.
FEBRUARY.
Birmingham 8 9 Harrow
Derby I .10, 11 Newton 25, 26
MARCH.
Liverpool 8,9, 10 I Preni1ey......31 and April 1
West Somerset 16, 17 Cheitenham...3l and April 1
Warwick 22 to 2 !
APRIL.
Aldershot 7, 8 I Kings,iury _ lB, 19

O'D ON °VAN ROSSA.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, FEB. 10.

The following meml•ers formed the minority upon
Mr. Gladstone's motion :—J. Bagwell, J. Dela-
hunty, the Right Hon. Colonel French, the Right
Hon, R. Gurney, W. Johnston, P. M'Mahon, J. F.
Maguire, and W. Stacpoole. Tellers—G. IL Moore
and H. Matthews.

An order has been issued at the head quarters of
the Royal Artillery,Woolwich, directing all recruit-
ing for that regiment to cease, and all promotion
among the non-commissioned officers and men of
the Royal Artillery to be discontinued for the pre-
sent. This regulation is in view of the contem-
plated reductions in the army, which before long
will become known.
The undermentioned parties aro under orders to
proceed from Aldershot to join the School of Mus-
ketry at Hyde :.—Ensign W. C. Howarth, two
sergeants, two corporals, and three privates of the •
2d battalion, 8d Buffs ; Ensign G. M. Hays and
one private of the 33d Regiment ; Lieut. A. W.
Warrand, two sergeants, two corporals, and three
privates of the 42d Highlanders ; Lieut. H. D.
Brown, two sergeants, two corporals, and three
privates of the 4th battalion, 60th Rifles ; Ensign
J. C. Groves, and one private of the 67th Regi-
ment. The sergeants will leave Aldershot this
morning, and the remainder, under the command
of Lieut. Warrand,
.on the Ist proximo.
Parties of men who have volunteered from the
Ist battalion 12th Regiment, at Carlisle, and the
Ist battalion, 24th Regiment, at Preston, for the
59th Regiment, have arrived at Chatham Garrison,
and joined the 59th Depot there; but they will not
long remain, a draught of the 59th leaving for
Bombay shortly, of which these volunteers will
form a part. Each man who volunteers in this
way receives a guinea.
Orders have been issued at Aldershot directing
that Court-martial returns are in future to be ren-
dered in original only. The words "in dupleate"
to be expunged. Also " officers commanding re-
giments are requested to cause their stadiometers
and tapes for judging distances to be tested by
the musketry instructors and to return into the
control expense stores all that Are defective or
unserviceable." Non-commissioned officers and
escorts arriving with prisoners for the Military
Prison, Aldershot, or for the purpose of re:sceiving
those whose sentences have expired, are to report
themselves at the orderly-room of the 2d battalion
Rifle Brigade, G Lines, North Camp. .
Lieut.-Gen. H. K. Bloomfield, aged 73,
died
suddenly yesterday evening in J ermyn-street, St.
James's, where he was lodging. The decetzsed
General was at Waterloo as an ensign iu the 64th
Foot, and, as lieut.-colonel of the 11th Foot, com-
manded that corps at Sydney. He was for some
time colonel commanding the troops at Colchester,
and he subs'quently commanded a division in Dub-
lin. The last appointment he held was Major-
General commanding the Cork district. He was
brother of General Sir John Bloomfield,
R.A., and cousin of Lord Bloomfield, her Majesty's
Ambassador at the Court of Vienna. The late
General was Colonel of the 64th (2d Stafford-
shire) Regiment of Foot, to which regiment he
was appointed colonel in chief in January, 1867.
The subjoined paragraph has been issued at tthe
ho
Admiralty, Whitehall The squadron under
re-
orders of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Sy inst.
turned to Lisbon on the morning of the 6th
t
Three accidents occurred on board the Aginconr
on the sth inst., while the ships were being exer-
cised in evolutions under steam ; a navigating sub-
lieutenant's hand was crushed by a compartment
mends
- • ed and
door, a corporal of Marines had a leg r
neces-
t a seamen's ankle was so severely hurt as to
sitate amputation."