The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-30 00:00:00

Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 5Ol
DJ 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
Do Account —
Do G per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in London:
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f. —
Raba): 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 2sf.

Do. A.Ceount —

TWO 6111,001 E.

Consols, Money' 92 921-
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Do. Account q2 9s d
SPORTING INTBL LIGENOE—This Day.

VICTORIA. CLUB BETTING—THIS DAY.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3 to lon the field (offered)
33 to 1 agst Vale R)3 al (taken freely)
DEI.IIY•

1000 to 73 agst Green Sleeve (taken)
1000 to GO agst The Earl (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Banditto (taken)
66 to 1 agst Chelsea (taken)
The attendance was numerous at the Victoria to-day,
but very little business was transacted. The principal
topic was the Billiard Handicap, which commences on
Thursday next. The above quotations will show the
principal business transacted.

RACING FIXTI
FE BR

RES FOR 18C8.
TARY.

Lincoln lB
Harrow 2O

Nottingham Spring 25
Derby Spring

Liverpool Spring M 3
Chelmsford Spring M 10
West Drayton l2

Epsom. Spring Meeting 21
Northampton

Durham
liendou l3
Newmarket Craven 13

'RIL.
I Lewes Spring
1 Newmarket Ist Spring 27

Chester 5
Wiachester
York Spring
Salisbury l4

Bath
Croydon Ist Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer
NE.

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Summer
Ascot Summer 9
Windsor Summer

IBibury Club 23
1 Stockbridge
Chelmsf,rd Summer
I Alexaudra Park 3O
LY.

Worcester Summer 2
Newmarket July 7
Reading
Liverpool l6

. _
Huntingdon 2l
Nottingham July
Goodwood

Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Windsor
Egham lB
Hastings
SEPT

York
Oxford
Canterbury
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Lichfield
Tunbridge

Warwick
Abingdon 3
Leicester
Doncaster 8
Richmond

MBER.
Kelso l7
fiendon l7
Monmouth
Newmarket let October 22
West Drayto a 29
)BElt.

OCT,

Bedford 1
Newmarket 2d October 5
Cheltenham l3
NOVE.

Newmarket Houghtou ]9
Worcester

MBE li,

Shrevrabury

. lO

'STEEPLECHASES.
JANUARY, 18682
1 Reading
FEBRUARY.
Birmingham
MARCH.

Dia,nchester

Grand Military l6, 17 1 Cheltonham ... , , ...

2G, 27

A New Year's Plea for the Epileptic and
Paralysed.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—At this season of the year your columns
are kindly opened to appeals on behalf of the sick
poor. I trust you will allow me to solicit aid on
behalf of the epileptic and paralysed.
Those unfortunate people, though struck down
by disease, and rendered incapable of mental or
bodily exertion, are ineligible for admission into
general hospitals.
The Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis in
Charles-street, Portman-square, IV., which has
been founded exclusively for the treatment of
patients suffering from these and other nervous
affections, has during the last few years been the
means of relieving large numbers of poor sufferers.
The council of this eh aity are now under the
necessity of delaying the numerous applications for
admission from want of funds.
Timely medical treatment is of the greatest
importance iu such cases, and many patients be-
come incurable or insane from the want of it at the
early part of their disorder. Help is, therefore,
needed for this institution. Contributions will be
thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs. Glyn,
Mills, and Co., Lombard-street ; Messrs. Drum-
mond and Co., Charing-cross ; the President, Lord
Wharncliffe ; or the secretary, at the offices, 46,
Coram-street, Russell-square, W.C.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES H. Alms, Treasurer.
67, Lombard-street, 28th Dec., 1867.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 29.—J. P. 8., from Antwerp; Blanche,
steamer, from Dunkirk; Violet, from Amsterdam.
Arrived, Dec. 30. Diamond, from Nagasaki; Kathleen,
from Kroogepoldo ; Orion. from Antwerp; Fyenoord
steamer, from Rotterdam; Mary Emily, from Gothenburg
Forth, steamer, from Havre.

DEAL, Monday Morning

Passed, Dec. 29.—James Holmes, for Barbadoes ; Crimea,
for Berbice ; Queen of Sheba, for Tobago ; Lizzio Lee, for
East London ; Argali, for Algoa Bay ; Constance, for
Nassau; Mary, for St. Thomas; Wernyss Castle, for Hong-
kong; Cid, screw steamer, for Bilbao; Paul, for Marseilles
all from London.

PARISH REGISTERS.--There are 20,000 parish
registers in England, allof which are exposed to uncertain
guardianship. There is not one, perhaps, without some
peculiar illustration of life and manners in it, besides proof
of birth, marriage, or death. A suggestion has been made,
from which some good may arise, that transcripts of tho
entries, and a general index shall be printed down
to 1837, when the present system of registration came into
force. For purposes of genealogy or heirship this would
be of great use, and Parliament might sanction a worser
work. One sample of the way in which the old registers
were kept is to be seen in the case of a country clergy-
man, who, being applied to with reference to a genea-
logical matter, cut out of his register every entry of the
name mentioned by the applicant, and despatched the
fragments by post to London.
THE HEADMASTERSHIP OF ETON COLLEGE.—TO-
morrow is the day fixed for the election by the Provost
and Fellows of a Headmaster at Eton College, in the room
of the Rev. Dr. E. Balston, who has resigned.
CHRISTMAS ORATORIOS.—The " Creation" will be
given next Wednesday, at Exeter Hall, by the National
Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin.
Band and chorus, 700. Mr. Santley sings on this occasion,
also on the following Wednesday in the "Elijah."

ANTIQUITY OF MAN.—Colonel George Green-
wood writes to the Athenceum :—" I have headed chapter
xiv. of Rain and Rivers,' Man may have existed in
the Silurian Period.' In the last Athenxum, page 858
C. F. F. says, ' in a quarry near Brewood, in Staf-
fordshire,' on a ' large slab (of Red Sandstone) I de-
tected the moulds of what are unmistakably the
imprints of two large human feet. The mould of tho left
foot is very perfect.' These are footprints in the sands
of time with a vengeance. Indeed, if C.F.F. has read the
characters aright, he has undoubtedly lighted on the most
intensely interesting passage which has hitherto been dis-
covered in naiure's hieroglyphics.

UNJUST WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—During the
past year 740 South Loudon shopkeepers have been
fined for using, or having in their possession, unjust
weights, scales, or measures. The black list is made up
as follows :-109 licensed victuallers and beer retailers,
73 bakers, 106 chandlers, 83 butchers, 76 greengrocers
and coal dealers, 65 grocers and cheesemungers, 11
oilmen, 4 confectioners, 10 fishmongers and poulterers,
7 eatinghouse keepers, 5 corn-chandlers, 13 marine-
store dealers, 1 furrier, 2 carriers, 2 glue and size makers,
2 ironmongers, 3 ham and beef dealers, 2 leather mer-
chants, 1 coal merchant, 1 soapmaker, and 8 general dealers.
The total amount in fines was £1,070 15s. 6d. During
the year 1866 there were 808 shopkeepers fined, which
shows a decrease for the past year of 68.—South London
Press.

OUTBREAK OF FEVER IN ESSEX.—An epidemic
of typhoid fever has suddenly broken out in the village of
Terling, in Essex. Whole families are attacked with the
disease, which i 3 of great severity. Dr. R. Thorns
Thorne has been sent down by the Privy Council, and
we understand that the main cause of the outbreak is
contamination of the drinking water. A thorough in-
vestigation of the nature and causes of the disease will
be made by Dr. 'Thorne, who will report the result o;
his labours to the Medical Department of the Privy
Council.