The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET RACES.--TUESDAY.

SELLING HANDICAP.

• Satinstoe
petty
Fal-lal
Six ran.
MAIDEN PLATE.

Gauntlet
Draco
Trident
Fifteen ran.
CLEARWELL STAKES.

Hannah
Marquis of Steyne
Blenheim...
Nine ran.
ROYAL STAKES.

Roderick Dhu
Goldsborough
Pibroch
Three ran.
CESAREWITC H.

Cardinal York
Not Out
Far Away
Thirty-five ran.
TOWN PLATE.
Gaston
Queen of the Valley
Fervacques
Four rau.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.
Void.

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Moorlands
Belphegor
Amara... ... .. ......... -
Thirteen ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS.

~.... 3

~... 1

*Chimborazo
Tiny filly .............. .................................... ...... 2
Alice Lisle 3
Five ran.

MIDNIGHT BETTING.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
Uto 1 agst Not Out (taken and offered)
1000 to 70 agst Queen of Hearts (taken)
15 to 1 agst Frivolity (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Barford (taken)
50 to 1 agetAdonis (taken)

An exhibition is to be held in the French Gallery
with a view to assist the French peasantry. The great
French master Gerome is at present in London, and has
promised his aid, and doubtless many distinguished French
artists will follow his example. Meanwhile, English artists, ,
and possessors of works of art are also solicited to help.
BISHOP Goss ON THE ITALIAN QUESTION.--
Bishop Goss, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, at
a confirmation service at Buxton, near Chorley, referred
to the entry of the Italian troops into Rome. He said it
mattered little to the Christian Church whether the Pope
was head of a Roman State or not. The Italians were not
winning that which they had lost, for Rome never be-
longed to Italy. Any one would have the same right to
invade the cottage garden of any poor woniau as Italy had
to take Rome. What the Italians had done was quite
contrary to the law of nations. The question of the tem-
poral power of the Pope was quite diflerent from his
jurisdiction over the Church of God. Though the Pope
was deprived of Rome and shut up in the Leonine city, his
spiritual power remained unbroken, and could not be
affected by the legions of the King of Italy.
TH E FIRST FEMALE STUDENT- AT THE ROYAL
ACADEMY. —The following interesting anecdote occurs in
a paper on " Female Art Education," contributed by
Mr. Gordy Jeaffreson to the October number of Art:—
" The one female student, who thus asserted the right of
her sex to instruction at the Academy, was Miss Herford,
and the circumstances under which she gained admission
to a school, from which usage had excluded woman-
kind for more than ninety years, constitute
one of the drollest episodes in the story of
female art in England. With a view no less to the estab-
lishment of one of the social rights of her country-
women than to her own advancement in study, Miss
Herford wrote to the authorities of the Academy, re-
questing: that they would supply her with one of
their printed forms of application for permission to enter
their college as a probationer-student. On .the face of
this written iequest there was nothing remarkable. The
writer's signature did not declare her sex; nor did
her handwriting betray her gender. In the ordinary
way of business the official who received the letter
remitted the usual printed form, which in due course
was returned to him properly filled in by the applicant,
who again took care to sign only the initial letter of
her Christian name. Nothing in the application rousing
suspicion, the authorities formally accepted the a,ppli-
‘ cant as a probationer-student ; whereupon Miss Her-
ford presented herself in Trafalgar-square, and to the
amazement of porters, attendants, teachers, and con-
servative academicians, proclaimed herself a woman.
Like lightninc, the news of this startling achievement
ran the round of the studios. At St. John's Wood and
Kensington consternation or laughter prevailed in every
artistic set. By artifice a woman had carried the strong-
hold of art."
SHOCKING OCCI MIENCE.—A. melancholy occur-
rence took place at Ipswich, by which a young woman
was instantly shot. Eliza Spurgeon, about 20 years of
age, was at the house of Walter Chambers (the two being
engaged), in St. Helen's, Ipswich. The family had just
done dinner, when Chambers, who is a member of the
Ipswich Rifle Corps, took up his rifle to do something to
it. The young woman Spurgeon asked him how he fired
it, and he proceeded to shew her. Unfortunately, the
rifle, which was loaded, went off. The bullet hit the
young woman behind the left ear, carrying away part of
her head. Chambers immediately ran for medical aid,
but the aid of the surd eons was of no avail.