The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

licap. Half a mile.

St lb
Minnie Warren ... 7 2
Proctor ... 7 2
Macduff 7 0
Ada ... 7 0
Traviata 7 0
Paleface ... 0
Sunbeam colt ... 7 0
Citron ... 6 13
Triphthong 6 13
Patrician ... 6 13
Vortigern ... 6 11
Lady Flora 6 11
Rob Roy ... 6 10
Pero ... ... 6 9
Paganini 6 8
Ashtead ... 6 7
Pocket Hercules ... 6 4
Stafford 6 4
William ... ... 6 3
Zingara ... 6 0
Pcp Gun ... 5 10
Sister to Mrs. Stowe... 5 10
to mile and three-quarters.
Age st lb
Fortunatus ... 4 10 10
Eltham ... 5 10 7
The Avenger ... 610 7
Prince of Darkness 4 10 7
Minster Bell .. 3 10 5
Haphazard 4 10 5
Foxholes ... ... 5 10 3
Vanguard ... ... 5 10 3
Bedford ... 3 10 1
King of the Fairies 3 9 12
Clodhopper ... 3 9 10
Lapidist's dam filly 3 9 10

Mr. Seely and the Northumberland,

The return called for by Mr. Seely in June has
just been printed, and is only a small document to
occupy nearly three months in passing through the
press. It is entitled, " A return giving the date of
the original contract and the price to be paid
Messrs. Mare and Co., under the terms of such
contract, for her Majesty's ship Northumberland.
Copy of correspondence showing the circumstances
under which the contract was transferred from
Messrs. Mare and Co., and subsequently taken by
the Mill wall Company, and the additional price
agreed to be paid to the Millwall Company before
proceeding with the construction of the ship ; and
return of all moneys paid for, or on account of
the Northumberland up to the present date, and
the further sum (if any) ordered to be paid, or
still owing, on account of such vessel." It appears
that Mare and Co. applied in December, 1862, to
have the contract transferred to the Millwall Com-
pany, and, at the request of the company, the Ad-
miralty, in April, 1863, agreed to a modification of
the terms. They consented to raise the price from
£44 12s. to £4B 10s. per ton, the rate at which the
Minotaur was being constructed, which would in-
crease the cost of the Northumberland to £321,117
instead of £295,295. In the return of moneys paid
and owing it is stated that £436,151 has been paid
on account of the ship, including her engines,
leaving £5OO still owing. The return gives the in-
denture and the schedule as agreed between the
Admiralty and the Millwall Company, and the same
documents as between my lords and the liquidators,
and altogether represents a condition of great
vicissitude with regard to this ship. In this last
agreement the terms were again altered with respect
to the 13th, to the 17th, and final payment. In 1861,
when the contract was made with Mare and Co.,
the ship was to have been completed within seven-
teen months; in the second contract, with the Mill
wall Company, it was agreed " that the period
should be extended to 16 calendar months from the
date of these presents, and the period of 21 months
from the said 2nd day of September, 1861, within
which the said vessel was to be built and delivered
to the said commissioners, shall be extended to 20
calendar months from the date of these presents."
The sum of £5,000 agreed to be paid by the said
Charles John Mare over and above the amount of
any other sums which he might have made himself li-
able to pay in case of the failure on his part in the
due execution of the said contract, shall not be
demanded by the said commissioners, their suc-
cessors in office, or assigns ; but in lieu thereof,
and in order to insure the due comple-
tion of the said contract and of this agreement,
the following provisions shall be substituted ; that
is to say, the payments were to be made in seven-
teen instalments at the stages of progress defined
in the schedule ; but when the affair passed into the
hands of the liquidators the schedules were altered,
for it states that " the said liquidators and the com-
missioners have agreed to vary, in manner herein-
after appearing, the conditions of payment for the
thirteenth and following instalments of the
moneys payable under the said indenture. Now
this indenture witnesseth, that it is hereby con-
tracted, agreed, and declared between, and by
the company, by the liquidators aforesaid, and
the commissioners, as follows, that is to say,
that the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, six-
teenth, and final conditions of payment mentioned
in the schedule to the within written indenture
shall be cancelled, and that the conditions of pay-
ment mentioned in the schedule hereto shall be sub-
stituted for the conditions hereby agreed to be
cancelled as aforesaid ; that the within written
indenture and every matter and thing therein con-
tained, except so far as the same is varied by these
presents, shall be as binding on the parties thereto
as the came would have been if these presents had
not been made and executed." It is rather amusing
to find this last reference to the binding oroperties
of the previous agreement, for in each case of stop-
page the Admiralty agreed to increase the money
payment, and to lessen the quantity of completed
works which was to be the basis of charge.—The
Engineer.

LOCK-OUT OF EDINBURGII TAILORS.—A partial
lock-out of the operative tailors of Edinburgh took
place yesterday. Fifty of the masters, employing nearly
600 men, have agreed to pay according to the present time
statement. Eighteen master; however, locked out 180
operatives because they would not agree to work under the
proposed new and reduced tariff. Each man will receive
upwards of 12s. a week from the amalgamated fund during
the continuance of the lock-out. The operatives have
already commenced working on the co-operative principle,
both money and material being supplied by the Nationhl
Executive.—,Scotsman.

THIRD EffiTiON.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTiNG INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

DONCASTER RACES—Tars DAT.
(AT ELECTRIC TELEGRAEII.)
MUNICIPAL STAKES.
The Municipal Stakes of 200 sous each, h ft, for two year
olds; cults Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the second to save
his stake ; lied House in ; 9 subs.
Cotyt to
The Parson
Proctor

A 3

BRADGATE PARK STAKES.
The Bra,dgati Park Stakes of 10 sows each, h ft, with 50
added; two Sr olds 7st, throe Bst 101 b; fillies and geld-
ings allowed 31b; the second to save his stake. Red
House in.

Examiner

CORPORATION PLATE.
Tho Corporation Plato of 80 SON'S, added to a Handicap of
10 soya each, h ft; winners of any handicap amounting
to 100 soya after Sept. 4 (at noon) 51b, of two of that
valuo or-one of 200 sous 81b extra ; the second to receive
15 sous out of the stakes. T.Y.C. 33 subs.
Xi

Freemason
Minster Bell• 3
Nino ran.
THE ST. LEGER.

The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, for three year olds ;
colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 51b; the second to receive 100
sovs out of the stakes ; St. Leger Course; 222 subs.
ACHIEVEMENT 1
HERMIT 9
JULIUS
VAUBAN

Twelve ran.
Won by a length ; a head between second and:third.
6to 4 agst Achievement (taken)
65 to 40 agst Hermit (taken)
100 to 7 agst Vauban (offered)
100 to 6 agst Julius (taken)
25 to 1 agst Challenge (taken)
40 to 1 agst Longcbamps (taken)
40 to 1 agst Fervacques (taken)
66 to 1 agst Palmer (offered)
HANDICAP OF 10 SOPS.

A Handicap of 10 soya each, h ft, with 85 added, for two-
pear-olds; winners after Sept. 4, at noon, 71b tra ; the
second to save his stake. Red House in. 47 subs.
Minnie Warren :1
Belphegor
Oharnwood .. a
(Sixteen ran.
HER MAJESTY'S PLATE.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas; throo year olds Bst 31b,
four 9st 71b, five 9st 131 b, six and aged lOst. Cup Course.
A bout two miles five fur.
Miss Sarah
Goodwood ..... • . 2
Lecturer 3
Four ran.
CONSOLATION STAKES.

The Consolation Stakes of 5 sous each, with 50 added, for
two yr olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies nt 61b; the winner
to bo sold for 300 sous. Half a mile.
Vex 1
Lily 2
Balsa.mo 3

Eight ran.
STAND PLATE.

The Stand Plate of 50 sous, added to a handicap of 5 soya
each, for three yr olds and upwards ; the second to save
his stake. Red House in.
Bounceaway
Leases 2
Midwife

Nino ran.

JOHN STIRS
25, WELLINGTON-STREET, STRAND,
13secutes Commissions on all the races to any amount.

The full market odds laid.
Price list daily.

AMERICA,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
ARRIVAL OF TILE SAXONIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 11.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Saxonia, from New York, has arrived here with
65 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg,
and $2,000 for France.

During her passage she spoke the following
English ships :—On the 4th inst., the Margaret
Pollock ; 6th, the Helena; 7th the John Bull ; o.
the 10th the Shaftesbury, and the Prussian bark
Juno.

THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.

MARSEILLES, Sept. 11.

Intelligence received here from Athens to the sth
inst. states that according to the Greek papers a
Turkish man-of-war, off Candia, had hoisted the
French flag in order to deceive the inhabitants.
Upon women and children assembling on the shore
to embark, the Turkish vessel is said to have fired
upon them, killing four women, three girls, and a
boy, and wounding several other persons. The
Insurgent Government sent in a protest to the
Consuls.
The Greek blockade runner Union had made
another successful voyage to Candia with munitions
and supplies.

Russian vessels continuerl to take off families
from the island.

The Egyptian troops in Candia were returning
home.

JUSTICE AT THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—The
following remarkable specimens of British justice presented
themselves at the Sessions last week : —For stealing a
quarter of a ton of coals, three months' imprisonment.
For kicking a man's eye out, ditto.

THE TEA TRADE, Sept. 9.—The deliveries in
London made up for the week are 1,318,8651 b., being an
increase of 28,9861 b. compared with the previous one.
Tiiii LONDON SHIPBUILDING TRADE.—The abso-
lute &mirth of work in the shipbuilding yards on the banks
of the Thames still continues. There are not at the pre-
sent time four vessels on the slips between the steamboat
pier at Millwall and the Victoria Docks.

EXTENSIVE DISCOVERY OF FLOATING GUN-
POWDER.—The smacksmen plying off Mersea Island on
the coast of Essex have discovered about 1,200 casks of
fine gunpowder floating about in that locality. The value
of the whole is estimated at about £l,OOO. It is supposed
that the powder has been thrown overboard by some
foreign vessel which had got amongst the shallows. The
casks have been duly landed and placed in the magazine
belonging to the tower at Brightlingsea.
CRYSTAL PALACE.--ONE SHILLING DAY.—MON-
DAY, SEPT. 9.—Admission on payment, 4,399; ditto by
season tickets, 1,382 ; total visitors, 5,881.

TIIE AMERICAN TUBE WELL.—On Friday week a
number of gentlemen assembled upon the cricket-ground
of the Manchester Club, Old Trafford, to witness the sink-
ing of a well upon a system just introduced into this coun-
try, of which Mr. Norton, of Blackfriars-street, is local
agent. Water was reached in five minutes from th 3 com-
mencement of operations, and in 22 minutes a depth of
10ft. had been reached ; the pump had been fitted to the
top of the well, and a flow of water was obtained. The
well consists of au iron pipe liin. in diameter, about 12ft.
long, pointed at one end, tad perforated with holes
about 16in. up the pipe from the pointed extremity.
A movable iron clamp is fitted round the pipe, and,
upoa the principle of pile driving, a 561 b. hollow
weight is raised and allowed to drop upon the clamp ;
thus the pipe is driven into the ground. Earth,
sand, &c., first enter the pipe through the holes, and, when
these are pumped out, the theory is that pebbles rest against
the pipe and form a natural filter. Such a well is free from
the liability common to others of receiving surface drainage,
and the water obtained from it is always cold and fresh. No
dirt is made in sinking the well, no accident is possible from
foul air or from the falling in of the sides ; and, besides the
rapidity with which the well is made, its cheapness, about
£5 fur the completion of a well loft. deep, is another
great recommendation. A farmer might have such a
well in almost every field. When rock is reached in well-
sinking of this description the operation is more costly
than we have named if it becomes necessary to bore the
rock. One of these wells, to the depth of loft., has been
suck in the Botanical-gardens. The work
was done Inan
hour, and an excellent supply of water obtained. The in-
ventor accompanied the Northern army in the late Ameri-
can
procuring for the soldiers
He has sunk many wells in
anea unfailing ar,
water was t
supply
pmeansply . of
the United States, and ono at Ithaca, New York, is said to
be 120 ft. deep.— Manchester Guardian.
The chaplaincy of the Duke of Manchester'
Light Horse Volunteers has been conferred upon the Rev.
Charles H nry Crosse, M.A., of tionville and Caine Col-
lege, CambridgA, curate of Winstanton.
Sir Herbert Edwardes and Mr. Corry, it is said,
will contest Shrewsbury at the next election. The one is
-the well-known "Hero of Meehan," and the other is
private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
eldest son of the First Lord of the Admiralty.