The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-25 00:00:00

NARROW ESCAPE OF A STEAMER.

I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Yesterday morning the new screw steamer Fenella, of
and from London, for Newcastle, and belonging to
Messrs. Fenwick and Co., got upon the Cross Sand off
Yarmouth. Flares were burnt for assistance, and the
Mark Lane Express lifeboat was launched with the
utmost dispatch, but the Gorleston lifeboat reached the
vessel before her. Anchors were at once laid out, and
eventually the steamer, after some difficulty, was got off
and proceeded, having sustained but slight damage.

A SAUSAGE MAKER FINED FOR BUYING
DISEASED MEAT.

At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, John Taylor, a
butcher, of Bockingham-road, Uxbridge, and James
Peeke, a sausage maker, of Brentford, were charged,
the former with selling, and the latter with buying,
the diseased carcass of a cow, intending. it
for the food of man. It appeared that a
cow belonging to a beer-shop keeper named Jones,
of Pield Heath, died soon after calving, and Taylor was
sent for to take it to the nearest nacker man, and sell it for
dogs' meat. He, however, dressed it as good meat,
and conveyed it to his own premises. The
local inspector of nuisences got scent of the
affair and set a watch upon Taylor's premises. On
Sunday night Peeke was seen to drive up and fetch the
carcass away in his cart, and the inspector then seized the
meat, which was, it was stated, then in a very diseased
state. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Byron on
behalf of the local board, and Mr. Philip and Mr. Rickett
appeared for the defendants. The bench convicted the
defendants, and fined them £5 each.

Mr. J. 0. Griffiths, of the Oxford Circuit, is
appointed Recorder of Reading.
The President, Treasurer, and Secretary of Ameri-
can Social Science Association have all arrived in this
country.
Mr. Edmond Beales, M.A., of Bolton-gardens
South, commenced his circuit as Judge of the Cambridge-
shire County Court last week.

Mr. Baxter Langley has been brought forward by
the Contagious Diseases Act Repeal Association as a
candidate for Colchester, in opposition to Sir Henry
Storks.

Prince Arthur, it is expected, will shortly unveil
the memorial window to the Prince Consort, which has
for some months past b,aen in course of construction at the
western end of the Guildhall.

To-day is the anniversary of the battle of Balak-
lava, and the annual dinner in commemoration of that
event will take place at Willis's Rooms. Major-General
Lord George Paget, K.C.8., will preside.
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Sir Wilfrid Lawson, at a meeting of the United
Kingdom Alliance, held at Carlisle, on Friday, stated
that no licensing bill would be satisfactory unless it gave
the people of the district power to veto the license.
The Prince of Wales will visit Lord and Lady
Walsingham at Merton Hall, near Thetford, on the 21st
November, and will shoot for several days through Lord
Walsingham's well-stocked preserves.

NEWMARKET RACES—Tins DAY.
(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES OF 25 SOVS.

Normanby
Badsworth ....
Tamarind
Three ran.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Curieuse
Fal Lal
La Traconi
Five ran.
SELLING HANDICAP.

Nightjar
Newsman
Belphegor
Seven ran.

The CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES of 25 sovs each,
with 100 added ; certain winners extra. Cambridge-
shire Course. One mile 240 yards.
Count Renard's Adonis, 3 yrs, 6st 31b
Major Stapylton's Syrian, 3 yrs, Est
Captain Machell's Bonny Swell, 3 yrs, 7st 11b...

_
Forty-two ran.
Time as taken by Benson's chronograph :—Two mins.,
five secs.

OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES.

The Wren 1
Patience • 2
Electeur
Ten ran.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Mac Alpine
Lozengedam colt
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Evohe
Tim Weaver
Lady Macbeth
Ten ran.
LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
Bto llagst Podesta (taken)
Bto 1 agst Adonis (taken)
Bto 1 agst Frivolity (taken)
Bto 1 agst Albany (taken)
9to 1 agst Not Out (taken)
11 to 1 agst Barford
500 to 15 agst Forget-me-Not (taken)
40 to 1 agst Fidhu (taken)
40 to 1 agst Vandonhoff
1000 to 15 agPt Lady Masham (taken)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE SCRATCHINGS. —Referee Fusee, Dark
Cloud, Plaudit, Brigantine, Perry Down, L'Oise, Cymbal,
Make Haste, Annie Wood, Threatener, Stockpurse, Spy,
Tolson d'Or, Knight of Athol, Atlantis, Ashfield, Cradle,
Magdala, Daylight, Herbane, Rattlepate, Sornette, Maid
of Athol, Recorder, Van Amburgh, Arlington, Benbow,
Mahonia, Rossignol, Taraban, Biggareau, Oxonian, Cock
of the Walk.

THE MONEY MARKET.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The belief in the City that the proposed armistice is not
making much progress has caused a depression in prices,
and the commencement of the settlemeht to-morrow
furthers this disposition. Spanish Stocks have declined
Ito ; Italian, to ; Peruvian, ; Turkish, I. The
New French Loan is being dealt in at 2i to 3i premium.
A reduction of it per cent. has taken place in Consols, the
prices now being 92j to 92-i for money and account.
Proposals have been issued by Messrs. J. S. Morgan
and Co. for the French loan. The nominal amount is
£1.0,000,000, in bonds bearing 6 per cent, interest from the
Ist inst., and the subscription price is to be 85, payable in
instalments extending to the Ist of February next.
Reckoning the accrued interest and the discount allowed
for prepayment, the actual price will be 84, at which the
return yielded will be 7i per cent., irrespective of any
advantage from the repayment of the bonds at par in 37
years. A very large portion of the amount will be used
in paying for supplies of articles of necessity from this and
other countries of Europe, as well as from America, and
any disturbance of the money market will be proportion•
ably lessened, although some distinct effect must still be
expected to be produced. According to impressions
in the Stock Exchange, the entire sum is likely to be
promptly applied for, owing to the strong faith enter-
tained that whatever may be the severity of her present
trial France will soon regain her natural prosperity.
The report of the Standard Bank of British South
Africa to be presented on the 28th inst., shews an avail-
able total of £8,595 including a previous balance of £378,
and recommends a dividend of 10s. per share, or at the
rate of 4 per cent. per annum, which will absorb £1,167,
and leave £428 to be carried forward.

The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states :—" In the
London Court of Bankruptcy an application was made
for the appointment of a receiver under the execu-
tive failure of George Frederick Coupland and John
Buck Spence, of London and Liverpool, merchants,
trading under the firm of Coupland Brothers. His
Honour (Mr. Roche) appointed Mr. John Young, ac-
countant, receiver of the estate, and granted an injunc-
tion."

Berger, Spence and Co.'s weekly report, says :
" There has been no change of moment in the chemical
market during the past week. The steadiness we have
before noted is well-sustained, and there is a tendency to
keep up rather than to lower prices. The foreign de-
mand on the whole compares favourably with the pre-
vious week's returns, but there appears to have been a
slight falling off in ash and caustic. In minerals 'the
usual amount of business has been transacted. Hematite
ore is in great request at last week's prices. Pyrites un-
changed but very firm. There is a slightly better feeling
in the metal market. Scotch pig iron is selling rather
freely, and Cleveland makers are somewhat firmer in their
quotations. Copper rules steady. There is no alteration
in tin. Lead improves, and spelter is very dull.

Parliament stands prorogued until Thursday next,
and the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury until
Friday next. A notice will probably appear in the
Gazette of this evening directing a further prorogation in
each case.

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