The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-20 00:00:00

The Belgian Reception.

Yesterday his Grace the Duke of Devonshire
waited personally on the executive of the Belgian
Committee, and gave a special invitation to the BA-
gians to an entertainment with the Derbyshire
Volunteers at his scat at Chatsworth. His grace
was cordially thanked, but the utter impossibility
was explained to him of the Belgian visitors being
able to accept any country visits, or indeed any not
organised by the reception committee, in conse-
quence of the brief period of their stay in this coun-
try. This same circumstance will, it is understood,
also prevent their at one time contemplated visit to
the naval review at Portsmouth, it being found
necessary, in consequence of the variety of local
entertainments offered, to adhere in the main to the
originally proposed programme, the only changes in
it being that the Belgians will arrive a day earlier
—Thursday, the 11th, instead of Friday, the 12th
July—and that the visit to Miss Burdett Coutts's
will take place, not on Tuesday, the 16th, but on
Friday, the 19th, for which evening the grand
concert at the Agricultural Hall is announced.
These alterations will enable the committee to ac-
cept on behalf of the visitors the conversazione
which has been tendered at the South Kensington
Museum by the Lords of the Council of Educa-
tion. With regard to the ball at the Agricultural
Hall ou the night of Wednesday, the 17th, an
invitation has been forwarded to the Sultan in the
name of the committee by Colonel Loyd Lindsay.
Subscriptions are still coming in, and amongst them
is a first instalment of £5O from the Victoria Rifles
and other corps ; but there are several which assume
a very high position from whom no response has
been heard. Amongst these are the South and
West Middlesex, the 2d Administrative Battalion
of Middlesex (Highgate and Hampstead), the 20th
Middlesex, &c. Amongst prominent individual
cases of exertion in behalf of the fund, it may be
mentioned that Lieutenant and Hon. Quartermaster
Walker has collected personally over 100 guineas
for the fund.

The Malignant Fever in Ireland.

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An epidemic disease of a novel character appeared
in the person of a healthy medical student, 18 years
of age, on the 18th of March, 1866. The only
notable features of the case were rapid prostration,
and the appearance of purple or almost black spots
on and under the skin. Death resulted in about 26
hours from the first symptom. He resided
in a most healthy situation in Dublin,
and there was nothing whatever to account
for the origin of the attack. Three cases
quite similar occurred iri the following May ; and
during August a fourth, in Cook-street, where the
cholera committed the greatest ravages, and while
that epidemic was at its height. Since January,
however, 57 fatal cases have occurred in the city of
Dublin ; but, the patients surviving longer than at
the outset of the epidemic, there is time for the de-
velopment of the nervous symptoms, such as head-
ache, stiffness of the neck, and increased sensitive-
ness of the surface, which indicate the identity of
the malady with the epidemic of cerebro-spinal
arachnitis which prevailed in the South Dublin and
Bray Workhouses in 1846. The disease described
by American authorities, and that which Dr. San-
derson investigated in West Prussia by order of the
Privy Council in 1856, were similar to the former
now prevailing is
ction of the blood,
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which is the result of a nervous lesion, at once extin-
guishing life. One child succumbed in five hours, but
the average duration of fatal cases is 24 hours. Persons
under 20 years of age have been, with three or four
exceptions, the victims ; but those living under good
sanitary conditions do not seem to be exempt, for a
young nobleman, three students, and several child-
ren in respectable families, have been attacked.
That the disease is due to promoting causes similar
to those which induce cholera would appear from
the fact that while seven of the districts which suf-
fered from that pestilence last year have produced
cases of this black fever, it has
appeared in no dis-
trict which was exempt from the cholera epidemic.
Three persons from one house in a characteristic
cholera-haunt near Dublin have suffered ; and two
cases of great virulence lately occurred one after the
other in a cabin near Clondalkin, which could not
be equalled for unwholesomeness. Investigations
intoihe circumstances of the other cases have in-
duced Dr. Mapother, the medical officer of health
for Dublin, to regard the disease as non-communi-
cable—a point which was determined for the Prus-
sian outbreak by our Government commisAoner.—
:Lancet,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE-This- Xity-.

STOCKBRIDGE RACES—Tins DAY
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
UXBRIDGE PLATE.
The Uxbridge Plate :(Handicap) of 50 sovs, added to a
Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft ; winners of any ban aim')
value 100 sovs after Juno 11 (at ten a.m.) 71b c Ora.;
Bush in ; 22 subs.
Alruna
Pantaloon
Lady Hester

• 1
.- 2

Nr 6

Four ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 200 SOVS.

Athena

Corinue

TROY STAKES.
The Troy Stakes of 50 goys each, h ft, for two-year .olds ;
colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; unt►neds allowed 31b;; Bush
in ; 42 subs.

Lady Elizabeth
St. Ronan
Rubican

Four ran.
STOCKBRIDGE CUP.

The Stockbridge Cup, value 300 sovs, by subscription of
10 sovs each, the surplus to be divided between the
second and third.

• Lord Lyon .d. 1
Ostreger ,... 2
Mameluke

Seven ran.
GENTLEMEN'S DERBY.

The Gentlemen's Derby (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, 2 ft
(to the fund), with 100 added ; winners of any handicap
after June 14 (at 10 a.m.) blb, of two or more 71b ex-
tra ; gentlemen riders only ; two miles.

Lucifer
Black Prince 2
Harpenden . 3

Four ran.
M 0 TTISFONT STAKES.

The Mottisfont Stakes of 15 soya each, 10ft, with 100
added, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ;
winners 51b, twice or more 71b extra ; T.Y.C. ; 34

subs.

Leonia 1

Faun 2
Birdseeker

Eight ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS.

A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; for two-
year-olds 7st 71b, three Bst 111 b, four 9st 21b, five and
upwards 9st 51b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the
winner to be sold for 200 sovs; if entered for 100 sovs
allowed 71b, 60 141 b ; half a mile.
Paris
Lillie
Spitfire

Six ran.
HASTINGS PLATE.

The Hastings Plate of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap of 5
sovs each, 2 ft (to the fund); winners of a handicap after

. . . .
Juno 11 (at ten a.m.) 51b, of two 71b extra; half a mile.
Historian
Wild Moor 2

Pericles

Six ran.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
3 to 1 agst Fervacques (taken)
sto 1 agst Lady Vane (taken)
6to 1 agst Vixen c (taken)
11 to 1 agst War (taken)
15 to 1 agst Mirella (taken)
DERBY.
16 to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (taken)
20 to 1 agst Athena (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mameluke (taken)
30 to 1 agst St. Ronan (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Rubican (taken)

THE CUMBERLAND
LTE.
sous, fur horses, &c., of
[cap Sweepstakes of 10 sous
save his stake, and the win-
I expenses.

Age st lb
Lord Hastings ... 3 6 7
Annie Laurie c01t... 3 6 5
Shamrock ... 4 6 4
Helen ... ... 5 6 4
Master Butterfly ... 3 6 2
Fair Wind... ... 3 6 0
Prince of Darkness 4 6 0
Violet ... ... 3 6 0
lona ... 3 5 12
The Black Knight 3 5 10
Fan... ... 3 5 9
Rel-t.ub ... 3 5 9
Rabbit Trap ... 3 5 9
Vau Brunt... ... 3 5 7