The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-09 00:00:00

CROYDON SPRING STEEPLECHASES.

Steeplechase Cup (3 miles).—" Bell's Life,"
"Sporting Life," and "Sporting Gazette," all plump
for Cortolvin.

Grand National Hurdle Race (2,1 miles).— "Bell's
Life " : Fan or Pirate.

Surrey Open Handicap (31 miles).—" Bell's
Life " : Mr. Studd's selected. " Sporting Life " :
Fan or Globule.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, March 9.—Wind this day at noon, North-
Easterly ; strong breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

FALMOVTII, March B.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Glendower,
for the Cape of Good Hope.

CARDIFF, March B.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—True Briton,
for Callao ; Duchess of Sutherland, for Monte Video ; Ber-
zolius, for Havannah.

QUEENSTOWN, March B.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—City of
Washington, screw steamer, from New York, and left for
Liverpool.
SWANSEA„March B.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—M. Wood,
for Aden ; Admiral Fitzroy, and Chorninghee, for Val-
paraiso.

(By Telegraph.)
GRATESEND, Saturday Morning.

Arrived, March 8. —Napoleon, Providence, Furet, and
Jules Cilina, from Gravelines; Secret, from Boulogne;
Frederick, from Gueinsey ; Lord John Russell, steamer,
from Dunkirk.

Arrived, March 9.—Albion, steamer, from Ostend;
Taurus, and Moselle, steamers, from Antwerp ; Carl XV.
steamer, from Gothenburg ; Lion steamer, from Geesto

munde.
Sailed, March 9.—Blackwall, for Port Phillip ; Sir Robert
Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk ; Rolland, steamer, for Ostend ;
Rhine, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed, March B.—Madge for Bathurst ; Orgali, for Algoa
Bay; Caledonia, for Port Phillip; Nagpore, for Calcutta;
Fanny Howard, for Havre; Ouangondy, for Liverpool—
all from London.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

ADMIRALTY, MARCII 5.

Commander John Whittuarsh. Webb to be Captain in her
Majesty's Fleet.
Acting Sub-Lieutenant Philip Thomas Richards to be
Acting Lieutenant in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority
from 21st January, 1867.
ADMIRALTY, MARcx 6.
Lieutenants Robert Pitman, John Frederick George
Grant, William St. John Sumner Ilornby, to be -Com-
manders in hoc Majesty's Fleet.
MARCH 7.

Sub-Lieutenants Philip Bennet Aitkens, Edward Strat-
ford Dugdale, the Hon. Walter Hylton Jolliffe, and Alfred
Edward Denny, to be Lieutenants in her Majesty's fleet.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16 11 17
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18} ll 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 85 25 40. 4
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 81 13 9
Paris Short 25 12 25 22}
Ditto 3 Months. 25 32 25 87*
Marseilles
Frauk-forl on the Maine —119 i
Vienna — 12 90 13 10
Trieste
Petersburgn
Berlin
Madrid — 48 48/
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 26 87* 26 92
Palermo
26 92f
--26 X7lMessina
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Lisbon
Oporto

A telegraphic despatch, in the /I/dependance of
Brussels, sent by the Belgians on board the Rhone,
at Cherbourg, makes the following announcement :
—" We hope to be at Antwerp on the Bth or 10th ;
we are only waiting for a favourable wind."
The article in the Revue des Deux Mbndes, on the
Battle of Lissa, first attributed to the Prince de
Joinville and then to Vice-Admiral Jurien de la
Graviere, is now known to have been written by
Vice-Admiral Page, lately deceased.
Dr. Veron has just been named President of the
Council of Surveillance of the United Journals the
Constitutionnel and the Pays.
Amongst the travellers who landed at llavre on
Thursday from the Southampton packet WM Mine-
.,
Victor LTITo, on her way to Brussels.