The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-09 00:00:00

TATTERSALL' S.-SATURDAY.

Few people were aware that the room was open for busi-
ness to-day, and they who bad a knowledge of the fact dis-
played the utmost indifference to it. The muster was very
small, and comprised only those who were in expectation
of a little chance settling on the Newmarket Meeting. The
following were the only bets laid :

LIVERPOOL CUP.
7 to 2 agst Viatka (taken and offered)
4to 1 agst Moorcock (taken)
Bto 1 agst Adam Bede (taken)
GoonwooD STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Satellite (taken)
12 to 1 agst Torther (taken)
DERIgY.
50 to 1 agst Matador (taken)

THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. —The screw steam-
ship Himalaya, Captain Seccombe, left Plymouth Sound
on Saturday morning with the Astronomer Royal and party.
Professor Airey's staff consists of about 60 persons. On
arriving at Bilboa he will take the chief portion a distance
of 160 miles, to secure a clear atmosphere and a cloudless
sky. The rest will proceed to Santander. The eclipse will
take place on Wednesday, the 17th.
SAILING OF THE AMERICAN MAIL STEAMER
AFRICA.—The British and North American Royal Mail
steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, sailed on Saturday
from Liverpool for New York. Besides the usual mails
and a valuable cargo the Africa also took out about 100
passengers. In consequence of a contract with the Atlantic
Steamship Company, for conveying the mails between.
Galway to Newfoundland and New York having been trans-
ferred to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, their
screw steamer North Briton, which sails from Liverpool on
Wednesday, will call at Galway for the Newfoundland and
United States' mails.
FEMALE EMIGRATION TO TASMANIA.—On Satur-
day the Isles of the South, a very fine ship, 821 tons regis-
ter, under the command of Captain George Gray, sailed
from Gravesend, bound to Hobart Town. Among the pas-
sengers were 106 respectable young women who had re-
ceived free passages from the Tasmanian Emigration
Agency. The secretary, Mr. T. B. Parker, states that
they were all used to domestic work and of good character.
The medical superintendent in charge was Dr. James
Heene ; the matron, Mrs. Campbell. Another vessel will
sail in August.
A ZEALOUS VOLUNTEER.—Captain Harrison, of
the Brownhills and District Rifle Volunteer Company
(Staffordshire), has offered a prize of £lOO to any member
of his company who shall gain the first prize at any future
meeting of the National Rifle Associatior.

ELECTION EXPENSES.—The election auditor has
just made his return of the expenses incurred by Sir W.
Russell and Mr. Warner, the Liberal sitting members for
Norwich, at their election in March last. It appears that
the hon. gentlemen expended £l3B in stationery, £l7 in ad-
vertisements, £97 in the hire of cabs, &c., £6O for commit-
tee-rooms, £8 for refreshrents at the polling-booths,*XsB
for the conveyance of distant voters, £146 for clerks at com-
mittee-rooms, £ll7 for check clerks, card writers, card col-
lectors, and markers off, £l7 for cab conductors and super-
intendents, £6l for special messengers on canvass, £l2l for
messengers, bill posters, &c., £BB for sundry small bills,
postages, telegrams, and petty disbursements; £25 to
" Mr. Stevens for adjusting. accounts, attending auditor for
elipeks to pay, and paying the several bills and employes
prior to and since election ;" £133 as a moiety of the
sheriff's bill, and £36 for the auditor's fee. The total out-
lay, including shillings and pence, approached £1,198, and
it will probably be admitted that the art of making an elec-
tion an intricate and expensive affair is pretty well under-
stood at Norwich. It should be stated, however, that Mr.
Warner and Sir W. Russell had to encounter a sharp oppo-
sition from two Conservative candidates, of whose expenses
no official return has yet been made public..

INCREASE Or STEAM.—Lough Erne, described
by Inglis, in his " Tour of Ireland,' as the Irish Winder-
mere, has a navigation of 45 miles from Belturbet to
Belltih, being connected by the Ulster Canal with Lough
Neagh, and by a canal, lately opened, with the Shannon,
the largest river in the United Kingdom, navigable for
steamers 160 miles above Limerick and 70 below. The
Midland Company have withdrawn their steamers from
plying between Killaloo and Athlone, but there is no doubt
but the Limerick people will put on a new line. There is
steam also on. Lough Gill and Corrib. The introduction of
boats on the models of those on the St. Lawrence and
The Americans'
Hudson would induce hosts of tourists.
from their vast rivers and ocean-like lakes,
for
from
stand inland navigation and its requirem
entbut from this
gers and goods better than any other v P ;
-e° •etippi and Ohio,
we must except the boats on the Mi
where they are reckless of life and property
app to under-
() Isl. Georges
THE SKIN OF THE
Itof.Rouen, who has
Pouchet, son of Professor Pouchet,
lately published. an,,alre.atdsytwell-known work on " A
ademy of Sciences on
Spon-
taneous Generation, writ
of 1' Hotel Dieu, of Rouen.
the hand of a negro, an inmateinstead of being of a light colour, as
The palm of his hand,
the palm of the hand was eatenY
black. The epidermis of.
is usual with the negro race, is, on the contrary, nearly
a cess, and M. G.
away by blisters,
with attention
to cure an b M
first of a light tint, but in a few days,
Pouchct observed with attention the growth of the new
skin. It appeared
when it had acquired a certain thickness, turned rapidly
black. No one has studied the black races more than
Blumenbach. This savant, happening to be one day in
London, the well-known actor, Kean.was introduced to him;
Blumoubach had seen Kean in Shakespeare's tragedy of
" Othello," and Kean wished to know if he had succeeded
in imitating the natural type of the African. "You have
not only perfectly imitated Nature," answered Blumen-
bach, " you have actually surpassed her ; to imitate the
hands of Othello,. I saw you put on black gloves, doubtless
because yan were not aware that in the negro race the,
palms of the hands are almost white.—The Photographic
Nev.