The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-07 00:00:00

JOHN STIRK

25, WELLINGTON-STREET, STRA
fkocutes Commissions on all tho racas to
The full market odds laid.
Price list daily.

Mn. GEO. IVEus executes commissions,
at his residence, 125, Queen's-crescent,
and has lists posted daily at the City Arch°
his Ag3nt, Mr. F. Butler, near Moux.'s Bre
nection with any other person using the ss

ST. LEGER PROPHEC.

-a- -
Bell's Life.

There is a difficulty of judging how th
taken by the two Danebury candidates may
their chances, and Julius might play the tL
first and and second of Achievement and H
of these will be the first to greet the judge
that requires solving ; but shall mike bold,
"mare's month," and her experienced trait
in her ability to stay the course, to give the
the 51b-allowed Achievement.
ORANGE BLOSSOM.
One giant start—one moment's hu
As Custance, shooting through tht
Comes with a sudden mighty rush,
Now, Challoner, beware !
A tempest shout of "Hermit" spr,
For in his father's track he treads,
And by the shortest of short heads,
Has done the flying mare !
The Field.

Wo shall plump for Achievement, kyri
and third positions to be filled by Hermit al
Sportsman.
I shall anticfpate the judge's award as un
moat, 1; Hermit, 2 ; Vauban, 3.
Sporting Gazette.

At the last moment Achiecemont is report
ing. Should there be nothing in it I shall at
all corners ; and with the foregoing proviso ]
alternative than to sum up in favour of Her
Sunday Times.

I shall venture to place the first four thu,
Achievement, 2 ; Fervacques, 3; Challenge
Land and Water.

I have all along said that Hermit will win,
meat comes well to the post her and Fery
second and third.

Sporting Times.
I think Achievement will be Brat, Herm
Challenge third.
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The Era.
The verdict of the judge will be--Berm'
meet, 2 ; Vauban, 3.

Weekly Times.
I shall declare in favour of Hermit, 1; 1

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—La

Amsterdam Short. 11 19
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 4o
Brassels — 25 40
Hamburg — 13 10
Paris Short 25 20
Ditto 3 Months. 25 36
Marseilles
Frankfort on tho 11aine —120 t
Tienna — 12 GU
A riesto — 12 GJ
Petersburgil
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan

Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

27 35
27 35
27 85
27 35
511
51i

STATISTICS OF BLINDNESS.—The
statistics of blindness are extremely puzzlin
one person in every 510 is blind; in Swe,
1,419. Prance has one in 9381 Belgium
Across the Atlantic, the United States ha'
2,470, by far the smallest proportion of
record; but this exemption does not extend
Colonies, for Newfoundland has one in 1,42
and Wales the variations are equally co
Cheshire and Lancashire the proportion is
Badfordshire still lea; 0113 in 1,325. Ii
counties it is ono in 902 ; in Wilts, Dors
Cornwall, one in 793 ; in Ilerdoedshire, o.
know of to theory on which thou figures c
though the comparative immunity of the
turing counties and of Bedfordshire, whore
prevails, seems to point to indoJr oconpit
jurious to the sight than outdo.,r —a !:..)1.
would hardly have boon arrived at a prcorg
blind people in England, about 2,700 are E.
twenty years of age .
POPULATION OF TIIE UNITED STAT
the machinery of the Internal Revenue •
population of the United States was take
was taken quietly, but thoroughly, during s
November and December, and is, in most ,
of actual counts in the revenue districts.
from a few of the remote mountain distric
ones not deemed satisfactory. The cm
population of the thirty-seven States to
and of the States and Territories 1
35,505,882. Iu most of the Southern
has been a decrease of population, a slight
Eastern States, and a large increase in t
increase since 1860 has been over 3,000
view of the four years' war, demonstrate;
recuperative powers of the country,