The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

POSTPONEMENT OF LINCOLN RACES.
These races are postponed, on account of the frost, until
to-morrow or Friday. It is fully expected that they will
take place to-morrow.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TaxsoKr.
The present state of the weather quite upsets all calcula-
tions in racing matters. Horses are stopped in their work,
and speculation, under the circumstances, becomes ridicu-
lous and altogether unlooked for. The Lincolnshire Han-
dicap is quite shelved at present as a betting race, and so
general is the opinion that the frost has set in in earnest,
that as touch as 5 to 2 was laid that the Lincoln Handicap
would not be run during the present week.
Owing to a general meeting of the members of the sub-
scription rooms having been fixed for to-day,
the appoint-
ment of a committee of management, and transacting other
important business for the better regulation of the betting-
rooms, took precedence of other business. In other respects
the following quotations will suffice :
CLOSING PRICES.
LIVERPOOL STREPLECRA.SL
12 to 1 agst Anatis (taken)
14 to 1 agst Xanthus (taken)
100 to 6 agst Brunette (taken)
100 to 5 agst Emigrant (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
100 to 6 agst Chore Annie (taken)
20 to 1 agst cby Andover (taken)
20 to 1 agst Nucleus (taken)
40 to 1 agst Hal o'Kirklees (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
6to 1 agst Wizard (offered)
sto 1 agst Lupullus (take 11 to 2)
7to 1 agst Buccaneer (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
22 to 1 agst Satellite (offered)
22 to 1 agst Birmingham (offered)
22 to 1 agst Longrange (offered)
25 to 1 agst Victtka (take 200 to 7)
30 to 1 agst Squire (taken)
100 to 3 agst Tame Deer (take 40 to 4)
100 to 3 agst Promised Land (offered)
SO to 1 agst Sir William (taken)
1000 to 10 agst El Hakim
DERBY.
(offered)

9to 1 agst Umpire (take 10 to 1)
10 to 1 agst Mainstone (offered)
11 to 1 agst Thormanby (offered)
12 to 1 agst Buccaneer (offered)
100 to 8 agst The Wizard (offered)

ARRIVALS AT LINCOLN,
Nucleus, Rattlebone, Zodiac, Madrid, White Rose,
Jenny Longlegs, Tormentor, Stapleton, Fernleaf, Desmond,
Apollyon, Contention, Julio, Minster, The Present, Greta,
Rupert, Cantab, The Gentle, Glautius, Reverie, and Ap
pendiz.

The weather very severe, and the ground covered with
snow.

The following telegraphic message was received from the
clerk of the course last night :
" There is very little chance of running to-morrow
(Wed sesday), but hope to do so on Thursday. The snow
is fast disappearing."

PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.----The Vimiera, Captain
Swanson, belonging to Messrs. Dunbar, 89 days from Syd-
ney, all well, put into the Sound to-day. She has three
cabin and two steerage passengers, and a cargo including
1,100 hales of wool, 50 tons of gum, 100 logs of iron bark
and cedar, 1,000 hides, az d 1,0 )0 horns. Signalled Jan. sth,
in lat. 23 44 S., long. 28 W., the Lord Burleigh, 49 days
London for Auckland ; 1. the the Hamburg ship Etrope,
bound to the Cape ; 25th, passed a large water-logged ship,
some time abandoned. The Vimiera made long. 20 W.,
Jan. 21st, since which strong north-east gales have pre-
vailed. The Lizard was sighted in 86 days.
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.—The number of Bea-
men and marines voted for the service of the Royal Navy
in 1760 was 73,000, and the sum of £3,640,000 was granted
for their maintenance. The navy at this time consisted of
120 ships-of-the-line, besides frigates, fireahips, and smaller
vessels. The French navy had become se weakened by the
war that few ships remained to be employed, and conse-
quently only six were taken during the year. In North
America the appearance of the British squadron compelled
the French to raise the siege of Quebec, and the whole of
Canada came into the possession of this country.