The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-24 00:00:00

WILTSHIRE COUNTY STEEPLE CHASES.

Tho winner of the Beaufort Hunt Stakes having been
objected to on the ground that his certificate of qualifica-
tion was not in order, the following is the decision given,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—.This Day,

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tins DAY.

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 on the field (offered)
100 to 3 agst Moulsey (taken and offered)
100 to 3 agst Bracken (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Proserpine (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Life Guardsman (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
4to 1 agst Plaudit (taken and offered)

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

OSBORNE, Jan. 23.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at-
tended by the Dowager Duche'Lss of Athole and
Lady Waterpark, and her Majesty, accompanied by
Princ ss Louise and Prince Arthur, walked in the
grounds this morning.

Prince and Princess Christian and Princess
Beatrice went out also.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.
(Via Queenstown.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, Morning.
The question of adopting the Constitutional
Amendment Bill is to be reconsidered in the Vir-
ginia Legislature.

The Colorado House of representatives has pro-
tested against the admission of that territory as a,
State on account of the insufficient population.
The Michigan Legislature have passed resolutions
concurring in the impeachment of President John-
son, and thanking Congress for passing the District
of Columbia Suffrage Bill over the veto.

Congress has voted $lOO,OOO to rritnove the
wreck of the steamship Scotland from Sandy Hook
bar. The work is to be done by con'cract.
_ _ _

Tho Fenian trials at Toronto were resumed yes-
terday. One prisoner was sentenced to be hanged
and another was acquitted.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, Jan. 12.

Advices from Matamoras to the 7th inst. report
that Cortinas was again in front of that place pre-
paring to attack.
The reported occupation of San Luis Potosi,
Guadalajara, and Aguascalientes by the Liberals is
confirmed.

Juarez was at Durango, where he was met by
Gen. Bazaine's messenger, who is authorised to ob-
tain the recognition of the French war claim.
The Emperor Maximilian was still at Puebla.

Mejia's army is said to be completely demoralised.
Gen. Sedgwick is still at Brownsville. Escobetlo,
with the army of the north, was cn route to Sau
Luis.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DIIE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Soutliamptoa.....Jan. 19.
•

Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet, Feb. 4.
Ditto, by French packet • Jan. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Feb. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles . . Jan. 27
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan, 28.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 28.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan, 28.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27
!Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 23.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan.:27.
Mauritius, via Southampton Feb. 19.
Ditto, via Marsellle3 Feb. ,3.
Newfoundland
Portugal

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
Ilnittd States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet. .. 24.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton...._

Ditto, via Cork .. ••

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Jan. -- -,
West Coact of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .... Feb. 3.
West Indies and Pacific) (except Bahamas and

and ura I) ............. ........... ....Jan. 28
Bahanr...4, via New Y ork. Feb 7.
Cuba and Mexico
Bermuda, via Halifax We. Feb. 13.

THE HORSE AND ITS RIDER.—The skeletons of a
horse and its rider, and a long rust-eaten lance lying close
by, have been discovered in the midst of a tuft of bushes
of extraordinary thickness in the forest of Cinglais, near
Caen. An examination has led to the conclusion that the
remains are those of a Cossack and his steed. The suppo-
sition is that the animal, being wounded, fell with its rider
into the thicket, which lies low, and that they were unable
to extricate themselves.

Two WAYS OP SAYING A THING.—In the train
from Harrisburg was a gentleman Jack Tar in a go-ashore
outfit, jolly, genteel, and happy, with a decidedly pretty
specimen of 18-year-old crinoline, to whom he had been a
week spliced, and was conveying Philadelphiaward. Op-
posite Jack and his wife were a couple that any one could
see were on a honeymoon cruise—the bride all blushes,
beauty, and bashfulness, and the gallant lx:degroom all de-
votion and endearment. At one of the way stations the
cars stopped, and the careful bridegroom thus addressed his
timid bride—" My love, I am about to step out a few mo-
ments for refreshments ; do not be alarmed during my ab-
sence." Gentleman Jack took the cue, and patting his wife
on the shoulder, sung out, as if he were hauling the main-
topgallantyard in a gale of wind—" I say, wifey, I'm going
ashore to wet my whistle ; don't tumble overboard while
I'm gone."—Americm paper.

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REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT SIIEFFIELP. —0 n
Monday a Belem demonstration took place at Sheffield,
under the auspices of the Sheffield Branch of the National
Reform League. Ia the morning a procession marched
through the principal streets, but the whole number of
those who took part in it was less than 1,000. At the open-
air meeting, however, which took place in the after-
noon in the' Haymarket,/ there) was a ve.y large
assembly, numbering, probably, between 5,000 and 6,000.
There were three platforms, the principal spaakers being
Mr. Ernest Jones, Mr. S. Plimsoll (President of the
Sheffield Branch of the Leagae), and Mr. Mantel, of
London, agent of the League. Rasolutions were simul-
taneously passed in favour of residential and registered
manhood suffrage, and thanks we:e tendered to
"Earl Russell, William Ewrrt Gladstone, John Bright
John Stuart Mill, Thos. Hughes, Professor Fawcett, Ed-
mond Beales, and others, for their able and manly defence
of constitutional government." Two meetings were an-
nounced for the evening--one at the Mechanics'-hall, and
the other at the Temperance-hall. The attendance at the
former place was so small, in consequence of ls. being
charged for admission, that an adjournment to the Tempe-
rance-hall was decided upon. The attendance at the latter
place was not at the outcet very large, as none but ticket-
holders, Who had to pay for their tickets, werwtewhasaTeetrlhaeofieteremesounitr,p.Dadeimermod-:
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How not TO Do IT.—The officers of Royal
Engineers and Royal Artillery are commonly con-
sidered to belong to scientfic branches of the service.
Therefore they are not to study strategy. At Chatham
there used to be a course of lectures on strategical subject%
but some ono at the War-office has found the flagrant at-
tempt at improvement, and has docked tho grant off the
estimates, in order that the Engineers and Artillery may
have increased facility to study—architecture ! Perhaps
there is something to be said in defence of the proceeding.
But it surely has not received the sanction, or rather, it has
not been by the desire or with the approval, of Colonel
Simmons. If the officers of the establishment were con-
sulted, we think they would not approve the change: It
would be interesting to ascertain the motives for making
it, and, in the hope that some ono may be able to elucidate
them, wo draw attention to the subject in these few lines.
—Army and Navy Gazede. •
LONGEVITY.—A peasant, named Percy, horn in a
village between Worcester and Malvern, and believed to
be still living at Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, is sup-
posed to _be the oldest man in England, being about 110
years old. In 1860 proofs of his birth and age were for-
warded
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tonham.—Birmineam Daily Gaz,tte.
SLIPPERY 11 EATIIER.--fhe slippery pavements
were very trying to all classes. Acrobats tumbled for
nothing, bankers lost their balance, farmers grazed their
shins, soldiers embraced the flags, tailors measured their
length, travellers tripped in all directions, and young men
found their whiskers turn white in a sine° night.—Punch.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CURLER.—Mr. Collin
Croall, superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway
Station, Perth, died on Monday evening from the effects of
an accident received at the Grand National Curling llateit
at Carsebrock, last week.—Scotsmaii.