The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-07 00:00:00

CITY PLATE.

Eidolon
Prologue 2
Tousle

Nine ran.
NURSERY HANDICAP.

Silverhair
Crusade

Fourteen ran.
INNKEEPERS' PLATE.

Jeremiah Moderate
Weasel
Tousle

Six ran.
MEMBERS' F LATE.

Malpas
Punch
Desmond

Seven ran.
STAND STAKES.

Doefoot . 1
Crusade
Rapparee

Three ran.
TRAVELLERS' STAKES.

Camphor
o
Saturnella

TVOL VER.HAMP TON RACES.—(This Pay.)

LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
MEMBERS' PLATE.
Earl of Essex
Lava
Miss Julia
Nine ran.
HOLYOAKE STAKES.

Newcastle ..
Athos
Rameses
Five ran.

CHILLINGTON STAKES.
Lady Clifden
Sporting Life
•
Esther a
Five ran.
CLEVELAND CUP.
Athos
a
Defender

Two ran.
NURSERY STAKES.

Sacerdos ...
Astarte
3
Duplicity

Nine ran.
BIENNIAL STAKES.
Horror
North Lancashire
Lupellus •

Five ran,

LATEST BETTING.
EBOR HANDICAP.
Bto 1 agst Defender (offered)
Twenty-three horses have accepted.

EXIBAORDINAR y METEOR.

The New York per pas contain diagrams and
lengthy accounts of a very brilliant meteor which
appeared on the 20th. The Berald alludes to it as
follows :—" At about a quarter before 10 o'clock on
Friday evening, the atmosphere being very sultry'
and no perceptible motion in the air, a light clove"
appeared in the west, from which a blue-tinted 1W
milieus globule shot out, which at the first glance,
suggested to the spectators the idea of an artificial
firework. Instantly it lost its globular form, burst-
ing, like an immense skyrocket, into four portielo•
The first two are represented by one of our corre-
spondent as resembling brilliantly illuminated ch3ll-
- with innumerable jets of purple flame; the
others were globular, and comparatively small,
appearing rather as the tails of the first. They main-
tained their relative distance as they flew athwart
the sky from west to east, occupying in their flight
something like a minute. Whether they vanished
in air or fell on the land or sea we have not yet ne-
certained. About a minute after their passage a
detonation was heard, as from a piece of ordnance;
but whether it proceeded from the bursting of the
meteor is a matter of conjecture. One very curious
optical delusion which it gaie rise to is worthy of
remark. To the spectators it appearedtdo bte no
higher than from a quarter to half a mile, an
be
almost directly over their heads ; and yet, when the
fact is considered that it was witnessed under almost
identical circumstances at Philadelphia, some
90 miles south-west of New York ; at New Haven,
80 miles east ; at Barnegat, 40 miles south ; and at
Newburg, on the Hudson, 60 miles north, it will
be perceived that the idea of its insignificant eleva-
tion was most delusive.
It must have been at an
immense elevation to have been seen at these widely
remote points, and to have presented at all of thew
the same appearance of being so nearly in the
zenith. It is also to be remarked, in connection
with the meteor, that for the previous two or three
nights brilliant flashes of the aurora borealis have
illumined the northern skies—a most unusual dis-
play in the dogdays, and one which we only look
for in the late fall and Winter months. The aurora
is generally supposed to indicate clear cold weather,
but in this case it has been followed by an oppres-
sively sultry state of the atmosphere, thus contra-
dieting our previously conceived notions. It is also
very closely connected in point of time with the
solar eclipse, which took place last Wednesday
morning."

The cholera has already shown itself in the
south of France.
THE CLAN CAMPBELL IN THE HOUSE OF LORD'
—On Monday, when Lord Clyde, the pacificator of Indies
who has served with distinction in every great battle fns
which the British have been engaged since Corunna, wag'
installed as a Peer in the House of Lords, besides the berg
being a Campbell, the Lord Bishop of Bangor, who read
prayers, was a Campbell, the Lord Chancellor, who pre-
sided on the Woolsack, was a Campbell, and the new Peer
was introduced by the Duke of Argyle, now Lord Privi
Seal, and Chief of the Clan.—Scotsman.
• THE LEIGH WOODS MURDER.—On Saturday
morning, as a man named Henry Mackay was gatheririg
herbs in Leigh-woods near Bristol, he found a large brooch,
which has been identified as belonging to the unfortunate
Ch: LI lotto Pngz4ey, ,hose murder by John William B€.
he
tli;:c2 years fine& createdmucb sensation. TI1(4
brooch was lying in a hollow covered with weeds. The hair
was slightly discoloured by water, which had penetrated it:
The pin is missing, and the brooch has the appearance of
having been violently torn from th4*dress of its ill-fated
wearer.