The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This; Day

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.—Tnis DAY:
About a usual Saturday muster, the business
' transacted being comparatively unimportant. The
Great Eastern Handicap was just touched upon
the appended list of horses being each backed
for however mere nominal prices. Both the favourites
for the Oesarewitch are in healthy request, at their quoted
prices, while the Maid of Masham filly found good support
at 1C to 1. The most noteworthy feature was a renewed
disposition to back Artnourer, twenty fifties not being
for booming, though to a smaller amount the price was
obtainable. A mystery seemed still to surround the Fin-
don division, more particularly as frequent offers were made
to back Proserpine. The transactions which came under
uotica will be found below :

GREAT EASTERN lIANDICAP.
20 to 1 ng:it llowit Palatine (taken)
20 to 1 agst Bisinark (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mistletoe (tak,3li)
20 to 1 agst Longbow c (taken)
20 to 1 agst Little Rover (taken)
20 to 1 agst Sir Oliver (taken)

CESAREIVITCII.
100 to 12 agst Honesty (taken)
11 to 1 agst Blinkhoolio (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Maid of Masham filly (taken)
100 to 6 agst Lothario (offered, take 20 to 1)
16 to 1 agst Etoile Filento (offered, take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Armourer (taken and wanted)
25 to 1 agst Thalia (offered, take 1,000 to 30)
25 to 1 agst Potomac (taken)
33 to 1 agst Proserpine (offered, take 40 to 1)
33 to 1 agst King's Cross (offered)
33 to 1 agst Tormentor (offered)
40 to 1 agst Priority (offered)
40 to 1 agst Romping Girl (offered, tako Nto 1)
50 to 1 agst Minster (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Sportsman (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Lizard (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Grand Cross (offered)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 6 agst Gardevisnre (offered, take 20 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Julius (offered, take 33 to 1)i
40 to 1 agst uippia (wanted)

JOHN STIRK
23, WELLINGTON-STREET, STRAND,
Fpc,:‘',•utes Oommissions on all the races to any amount.

The full market odds laid.
Price list daily.

TUE ABYSSINIAN CAP LIVES.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
ADEN, Sept. 12.

Intelligence received here from Abyssinia an-
nounces that tho captives were at Magdalla on the
27th July.

The camp of the Emperor Theodore was at
Debra Tabor on the 11th July. The surrounding
-country was in a disturbed condition.
The rainy season had commenced.

SUPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LONDOX, Sept. 21.--Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
NEWPORT, Sept. 20.—Wind N.—Arrived—White Eagle,
from London for Shanghai. Sailed—ltionkchoster, for
Hong Kong.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 19. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—Nil
Desperandum, from Rio Grande; City of Boston, screw
steamer, from New York. Sailed—City of Antwerp, screw
steamer, for Now York; Avalanche, for Jamaica. Sept.
20.—Arrived—Belle, from St. John's, Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived —Hello,
from Rangoon for Hamburg; John Robinson, from Odessa
for Granton.
CLYDE, Sept. 21.—Wind N. W.—Arrired—Zotland, from
Liverpool for Quebec.

(By Telegraph.)
GRATESEND, Saturday Morning.

Arrived, Sept- 20—Taurus, steamer, from Tonning.
Arrived, Sept. 21—Eider, steamer, from Tunning ; Re-
becca, for Cronstadt; Anna Gesina, from St. Petersburg;
Belgium, steamer, from Ostend ; Moselle, steamer, from
Antwerp; Victor, steamer, from Brussels; Swan, steamer,
from Cronstadt ; Opattier, from Bjornoborg.
Sailed—Normandie, steamer, for Daukirk ; Panther,
steamer, far Thulogne ; Holland, steamer, for Ostend.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
No arrivals.

LONDON GAZE r rE.—LAs r EVE:TING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 19.
The Queen has boon graciously pleased to appoint
George Buckley Mathew, Esq., C. 8., now her Majesty's
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, to be
her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo.
tentiary to the Emperor of Brazil.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 19.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
George Macdonald to the church and parish of Eddrachills,
in the presbytery of Tongue, and county of Sutherland,
vacant by the death of the Reverend James Stewart, late
Minister thereof.
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 16.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Sergeant-Major John
Noon to be Quartermaster, vice Scott, to retired half-Pay;,
Sergeant Richard Halting to be Quartermaster, vice
Pritchett, whose period of Staff Service has expired ;
Lieutenant and Adjutant sVilliain Henry Poyutz to be
Second Captain, vice Connor, resigned.
_ .

_ .
SEPT. 14.
The following promotions have this day taken place in
her Majesty's Fleet :—Commanders —W. IL Blake, A. J.
Lines, T. B. M. Sullivan, T. A. de Wahl, M. S. L. Peile,
J. 0. Hopkins, to be Captains. Lieutenants—E. IL Wil-
kinson,l'. P. Luxmoore, A. R. Tinklar, A. Eaton, E. St.
J. Garforth, B. W. Bax, F. 11. Hastings, and the Ron. V.
A. Montagu, to be Commanders.
SEPT. 19. _

The undermentioned Officers have this day been pro-
moted to the rank of Staff Commander in her Majesty's
Fleet, with seniority of 20th August, 1867 : —John Parsons,
Esq., John Patrick Dillon, Esq., William Barnard Calver,
Eiq., Phillip Going, E3q.,James Hooper Kerr, Es., Wil-
liam Land Scarnell, Esq.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Last EveAng.

Amsterdam Short. 11 191-,
Ditto 3 Alunths.l2 Of
Rotterdam
_9l.

32 0
12 11
12 1i
25 45
25 45
13 101
25 25
25 40
25 421
1201
12 6-4 f
12 62k
62i
6 27f
401-

Antwerp — 25 42}
Brussels — 25 42f
Hamburg-
Paris Short 25 17*
Ditto 3 Mouths. 25 35
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201
Tienna — 12 Sif

12 57i
32
6 27
48k
4VI
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
- 511
-51 i

riesto
Petersburgn.
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

44
27 bU
27 bU
27 50
27 5U
27 50
27 50

SHORT-SIGHTED CHILDREN.—A curious work has
been published at Breslau lately by Dr. Hermann Cohn,
giving the result of an examination of the eyes of 10,0 ;0
school children. The proportion of short-sighted children
was 17.1 per cent., or 1,730 among 10,000. No village chil-
dren were found so defective until they had been some titre
at school—at least half a year. There were in proportion four
times as many short-sighted children in the town (Breslau)
as in the country, and shortsightedness increased generally
with the demands made upon the children. Dr. Cohn at-
tributes the evil in a great measure to the bad construction
of school benches, which forces the children to read with
their books close before their eyes, and with their heads
held downwards. The obstinate adherence to the ancient
Gothic character in printing and writing, to which Eng-
lishmen aro generally inclined to attribute the prevailing
near-sightedness of Germans, is not alluded to by Dr. Cohn.
Medical Times and Gmette.

PARTRIDGE SIIGOTING.—WC boar from Scotland
that partridge shooting has generally been exceedingly
good. The birds, though very numerous, are unusually
small in size, but in a short time most of the grain fields
will be completely cleared, and if the present favourable
state of the weather continues, wo may anticipate still
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are pretty sure to be knocked over; but there appears to
be a larger proportion of old birds killed than this supposi-
tion will satisfactorily account for. Land and Water.
TILE SCOTTISH Moons.—The accounts we con-
tinue to receive from several of the Perthshire moors are of
the most variable description in regard to the prevalence
of disease among grouse. It must be remembered that on
a largo portion of the most important and best moors of the
county there has been no shooting this season, and in con-
sequence of the grounds not being tested the real state of
the birds in regard to the distemper is not known. It
seems, however, that on the extensive tract of moorland
on the north side of Loch Tay the distemper has been
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