The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-06 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE This Day.

LEICESTER RACES—THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
NURSERY HANDICAP.
The Castle Doningtou Nursery Plate of 100 sovs (Han di-
cap), for two year olds ; three-quarters of a mile.
Cornet 1
Pero 2
Liquidator
Seven ran.
WELTER HANDICAP.
The Welter Plate of 40 sovs (Handicap). Once round.
About one mile and 100 yards.

Elegancy 1
Musketeet
.. 2
Life Guardsman . $
QUEEN'S GUINEAS.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs ; three year olds Bst 41b, four
9st 71b, five lOst, six and aged lOst llb ; three miles.
Assineboine
Goodwood
Rupert colt • .

Five ran.
ALL-AGED SELLING PLATE.

The All-aged Selling Plate of 21$ sovs, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 3 Boas each; three-quarters of a mile.
Alarmist
Timolaus
Skylight

Four ran.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PLATE.
The Licensed Victuallers' Plate of 30 soya, added to a
handicap of 3 sovs each. Throe quarters of a mile.

Gentian
Rosa Nera
BOROUGH HANDICAP.
The Borough Handicap of 5 suvs each, 2 ft, with 50 added.
Half a mile.

Veda
Cornet
Squire . 3
Four ran.

ABINGDON RACES—Tins DAY.
STAND PLATE.
The Stand Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages; entrance 2 sovs
each, to go to the fund ; straight run in (about half a
mile).
Zisca
Catherine Hayes
Dick Turpin
Thirteen ran.
HANDICAP OF 3 SO VS.
A Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 30 ad led, for all ages ;
the winner to be sold for 40 sovs ; about three quarters
of a mile.

Osprey: 1
Laura
Toxana f 3

Sevrn ran.
ABINGDON STAKES.

The Abingdon Stakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added,
for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; un-
trieds allowed 31b ; T.Y.C. ; three quarters of a mile.
Formo a 1
Orion
Prince George 3
NURSERY PLATE.
The Nursery Plate of 70 sovs (Handicap) ; about three
quarters of a mile.

Rediyivus
Triana .. 2
Ilerennianus 3
Fourteen ran.
CULHAM STAKES.

Tho Culham Stakes (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, h ft,with
50 added (if throe start); tho second to save his stake ;
one mile.

Drum

Tina 2
Moonbeam

SCURRY STAKES.
The Scurry Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added; two
year olds 6st 71b, three 8s; four Bst 101 b, five and up-
wards Bst 121 b ; straight run in (about half a mile).
Magna 1
Broad Iloilo
Variation .. • •

LONDON GAZETTE.-THIS EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, Ara. 21.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Patrick J. Hughes, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at
Tang-Chow, to be her Majesty's Consul at Kiu-Kiang.
SEPT. 3.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Edward Thornton, Eeq., C. 8., now her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Em-
peror of Brazil, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipo entiary to the King of Portugal.
The Qw'e❑ has Len pleased to approve of Mr. Orville
Allen as (lonnul at Trinidad for the United States of
America.

DOW ICING-STREET, SErT. 4.
Tile Q,neen has been pleased to appoint Charlas Pitot,
to he a Me_nber of the Council of Government of the
Island of Mauritius.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles
Augustus Berkeley, Esq., to be a Member of the Privy
Council of the Island of Tobago:
Her Majesty has been further pleased to appoint Robert
Saunders, James Meade, John Francis Kirwan, Hugh Riley
Semper, and John Elmund Sturge, Esqrs., to be Mem-
bers of the Legislative Council of the Island of Mout-
serratt.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This Evering.

Amsterdam Short. 11 19 11 194
Ditto 3 Months. 12 04 12 14-
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 40 25 474
Brussels — 25 40 25 474
Hamburg — 13 10 13 104
Paris Short 25 20 25 25
Ditto 3 Months. 25 35 25 40
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201 1204
Tienna — 12 6U 12 65
A riesto — 12 60 12 65
Petersburgh
Berlin — 6 264 6 27}
M
Cadizadrid 494;
—49 f
Leghorn
Milan
. _

Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

27 35 27 40
27 35 27 40
27 35 27 40
27 35 27 40
511 52
51i 52

A LADPS EXCURSION AMONG 711E1
SWISS MOUNTAINS.

Lady readers will be interested in the following
account of au Alpine excursion by a party of ladies.
It has been sent by a correspondent of the Liverpool
Daily Post, extracted from a private letter :
,1 Zurich, Switzerland, August 27, 1867.

"We joined our friends at the station here on
Monday, the 20th, and with them proceeded on a
short tour among the Swiss Alps, indeed into the
very heart of them. We proceeded by steamer to
Rappers-chwyl, at the other end of the lake. We
then took the train to Glares, a place memorable
for the great fire, which, a few years ago, consumed
every house in the town, leaving the inhabitants
without shelter. To-day it presents a far different
aspect to what it ever did before, few wooden houses
are to be seen, all are built of stone, and are hand-
some mansions. We visited the cathedral, also a
new building, in which beauty and simplicity i.re
combined. The. Roman Catholics hold their service
in it in the morning, and the Protestants in the
afternoon. On coming out of the hotel it seemed
as if the face of the sky was obscured by a tremen-
dous black cloud, and so close to us that our very
breath felt oppressed as it were ; but this was
the colossal mountain, with its stony face, bare
of vegetation, it looked the grim monarch of
the spot. We stayed here for an hour or so, and
then ordered a carriage to take us up to Stachel-
berg, where we arrived in two hours. Oh what
beauty; what grandeur! what awful summits
towered away into the clouds ! Numerous were the
waterfalls, some descending the face of the moun-
tains in graceful cascades, others leaping and
plunging from rock to rock, disappearing, and again
forcing a passage through some cavern. As we neared
Stachelberg the great Todti, with its unmelted
snows, came in sight. The mountain breeze was
cold, and we were glad to gather our cloaks around
us. Except the summits, all the mountains around
were covered with trees ; here and there were beau-
tiful verdant slopes, on which goats, pretty piebald
creatures,were browsing, and then the Swiss home-
stead was sure to be near at hand. It seemed to
me that the waters of the river and those of the
foaming cataracts fed by the melting snows never
mixed the former were clear and sparkling, the
latter of a milky colour. We reached the hotel in
time for tea. A large apartment was full of guests,
all eating and drinking and talking—such a Babel !
Only another party besides ourselves had a tea-pot
before them, which sufficiently tells that England
had the fewest representatives. How we all en-
joyed the delicious rolls, butter, and honey. Strange
to say, though having a quiet bedchamber, I could
not sleep ; and indeed the whole time I was there I
slept but very little. Nevertheless, I did such feats
in the way of walking, clambering up the Alpine
passes, with my Alpine stock, and feeling, compara-
tively speaking, no fatigue, that I can only attribute
to the air of the mountains the wonderful strength
and vigour of my body.
" One of our excursions, whilst there, was to the
foot of the Todti ; we drove up as far as the hotel,
and then set out, staff in hand, to theTanton bridge.
Winding our way along the edge of deep ravines,
then through•beech woods, up paths roughly hewn
out of the mountain side, down again into dells,
again with desperate efforts climbing the steep and
rugged path, we reached the goal—a new-built stone
bridge. On a finger-post hard by we were informed
that the former one, having stood the torrent for
400 years, had at last been washed away, and that
the present one was erected by the Canton of Glarus.
Picture to yourself a roaring river rushing madly,
as it were, down its inclined bed, jumping over
huge rocks, tossing up its foam, and then taking
a leap into a chasm of fearful depth.
"Not far from this is a plateau, with a couple of
benches to rest on, and a memorial—inscribed on
the face of a portion of the mountain, or rather let
into it—to a gentleman, a native of Saxony, much
loved and respected here in Zurich, who lost his life
in the spring of the year in which we arrived here,
attempting to ascend the ' Grunhorn'—a part of the
Todti range. He was foolish enough to go up
without a guide. K— and the boys went fur-
ther up, but they had a guide—one of the hotel
people having business t 3 transact, and a franc re-
munerated him for hie kindness. In the meantime,
having rested, we turned to go down the mountain.
This was severer work than any, for the sun by this
time shone down upon us, and the rocks reflected
his rays. But the descent was effected, and glad
were we to get under the roof of the Todti Hotel.
The host brought us a bottle of delicious Spanish
wine, and, with addition of some bread and cheese,
we refreshed the inner man, and started off in our
one-horse shay for Stachelberg, which we reached
in time for dinner at one.

" On Friday we left at six in the evening, reached
Glarus between 7 and 8, had tea, went to bed, and
started at 6 in the morning for Kloenthal—a valley
in the Glaruish mountains. Bare the scenery was
not of that character which fills the mind with awe,
but it was beautiful beyond description. The river,
like successive sheets of liquid silver, flowed down
the rocky gorge. As we ascended the narrow road,
it was evident that great landslips had from time to
time taken# place ; immense rocks had tumbled
down ; and, while some had stuck midway in their
descent, others had pitched over into the bed of the
river, and out of their crevices sprung up the fir
and beech tree. It was a long and steep anent, but
we reached the top at last, and here, stretched out
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It abounds with fish. While the horses were being
fed we had a bottle of wino and some bread. The
host of the inn took us across his meadow, and sang
one of his Swiss mountain songs, which was beau-
tifully echoed from the other side; and now, having
inscribed our names in the Strangers' Book,' we
bade farewell, and started off on our return to
Glarus. Dinner over, we packed up our traps, and
walked to the station on the opposite side of the
way.
" It had occupied us just six hours going and re-
turning from the Kloenthal. A slight shower of
rain before we reached the hotel was the only draw-
back, but all was over before we took our seats in
the train. In a steady downpour of rain we arrived
at the Zurich Station. We soon packed into a
carriage and drove home; so thus ended our tour
among the mountains. ,‘ L. J. T."