The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-08 00:00:00

TATIERSALL'S-I—LAsT EVENING.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
11 to 2 asst Rosicrucian (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Blnndford (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Cardinal York (taken and offered)
9to 1 agst Musket (offered-10 to 1 taken and
wanted)
10 to 1 agst Barford (offered-12 to 1 taken)
11 to 1 agst Syrian (offered—take-100 to 8)
100 to 7 agst Exciseman (taken and offered
100 to 6 agst Flibustier (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Cecil (offered—take 18 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (offered)
25 to 1 agst Alaric (offered)
33 to 1 agst Fleets (aken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Indian Ocean (offered)
500 to 10 agst Miss Hervine (taken and offered)
800 to 100 agst Musket with a start (offered)
DERBY.
9to 1 agst King of the Forest (taken)
10 to 1 agst Albert Victor (taken)
100 to 8 agst General (taken)

;CITY BETTING.—MONDAY.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
6to 1 agst Cardinal York (offered-100 to 15
' taken)
100 to 15 agst Blandford (offered)
7to 1 agst Rosicrucian (taken)
10 to 1 aget Syrian (offered-100 to 8 taken)
10 to 1 agst Musket offered-100 to 8 taken)
100 to 8 agst Barford (taken)
100 to 6 agst Exciseman (taken)
100 to 6 agst Flibustier (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Cecil (offered-20 to 1 taken)
20 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (offered—take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Alarie (offered)
25 to 1 agst Heraut d'Armes (offered)
40 to 1 agst Our Mary Ann (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Taraban (taken)
500 to 10 agst Fleets (taken and offered)
1000,to 20 agst Miss Herviue (offered)
1000 to 20 aget Islam (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Ware Hare (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Ploughboy (wanted)
1000 to 10 agst Starter (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Judge (offered)
1000 to 5 agst Adonis (offered)

SPORTING NOTES.

The Liverpool Autumn Meeting has the week to

itself, commencing to-day, and winding up on Satur-
day with the celebration of the Hoylake Hunt Club.
Plenteous as the sport promises to be, with thirty-three
items, more than half of which are already closed,
on the 'four days' programme, little can be said thereon,
as most of the races are handicaps, in which there
is a continual repetition of the same names. The two
steeplechases on the first and second day are an exception,
the Becher Handicap having a particularly attrative list,
of which Lady Geraldine and Royal Irish Fusilier at once
arrest attention as being favourably weighted.
The Bickerstaffe Cup is a newly-instituted race,
much in the nature of the Eglington Stakes
at Doncaster, and many speedy horses of all ages
are among the twenty-six animals engaged. Anton,
Ptarmigan, Perfume, Tibthorpe, and Croisade are five
dangerous antagonists for any novice to meet over a course
of five furlongs. From the fact of the Liverpool Cup not
being decided until Friday many changes occur, as the
week progresses, in the betting ; rendering it a matter of
unusual difficulty to form a correct estimate as to the ex-
tent of the field or the chances of many of the
candidates. Of the 117 engaged 35 only have remained
in after the declaration of the smaller forfeit, but as they
include nearly every animal which had been supported
for any amount of money, the number of starters
is likely to be greater than last year, particularly
as the betting has been unusually heavy, and has taken a
very extended range. Everything points to the
presence at the post of Rosicrucian (9 st.), Cardinal York
(Bst. 61b.), Flibustier (7 st. 21b.), Bonny Swell (6 st. 111 b.)
Musket (6 st. 10 lb.), Syrian (6 st. 8 lb.), Barford (6st'
7 lb.), and in Blandford 6st. 41b.), in addition to many
others more or less fancied by their respective
stables, none of whom can, however, hope to
defeat the foregoing, unless it be Miss Hervine or
Exciseman. Rosicrucian will probably be found deficient
stamina, though Sir J. Hawley quite believes he has
got a suocessor to The Palmer and Lictor, who took this
prize to Kingsclere on the two last anniversaries.
Cardinal York must, on his Cesarewitch running,
have a great chance, and will beat all such as
Flibustier, Bonny Swell, Barford, and Syrian, as he did
the three former a month ago ; but with Blandford
and Musket the case is different, for, if the Woodyeate
colt has been tried to the satisfaction of his trainer, Car-
dinal York cannot give him the weight which he is called
on to do, while Musket's victory at Lincoln makes it
evident that the Cardinal must be the best four-year-old

in England if he can give him double the weight for
age•

THE ARSENAL OF PARIS.

The Paris correspondent of the Engineer supplies some
information respecting what we may call the "arsenal
work" of the city. The Government has about 3,000 tons
of gunpowder in store, and the manufacture is actively
going on. The Pantheon has been converted into a maga-
zine, " the powder being stored in the immense vaults in
which all the great men of France were to be buried. Steel
for the manufacture of rifles is one of the wants of the
moment, but the Western Railway has in store, or laid,
but out of use at present, 160 tons of rails, and 100 tons
of axles of Bessemer steel, which, with the stock of the
other lines, makes up about 300 tons." It is estimated
that 30 inches of rail is sufficient to make ten excellent
rifle barrels. The great engineering firm of Cail and
Co. are busy working up these rails, and in casting heavy
guns. They have also in hand an immense armour-plated
locomotive, which is designed to carry three guns. The
balloon has of course, assumed a position of much dignity
in Paris. It is no longer a curiosity or plaything ; it has
become the sole means of communication with the out-
ward world. The Messrs. Godard have determined to
construct a gigantic aerostat capable of carrying from
twelve to fifteen persons. The tariff has been fixed
at eighty francs for each passenger—a charge which, com-
bined with all the risks of an aerial voyage, will be more
terrible to most persons than even the prospect of a bom-
bardment.