The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1866.

pass, unimproved, of showing how natural and
hearty the amity between the two nations ought
to be.—Anglo-American limes.

although four-fifths of the Senate have been trying
to get a vote for over a week. Such gentlemen as
Mr. Anstey and Mr. Davis are of great use in pre-
venting hasty legislation, and Americans might feel
some additional satisfaction in the fact that their

members earn the stipend the nation allows them.
Anton Probst, who murdered the Dearing family
of eight persons, near Philadelphia, some two months since,
was hanged on the Bth of June, at the gaol, Philadelphia.
Very few spectators were admitted, though there was a
general desire to witness the execution.
President Johnson and family have engaged
rooms, for a portion of the season, at the Continental
Hotel, Long Branch.

MARRIED.—In Trinity Church, West Troy, on
ho 28th ultimo, by the Right Reverend Horatio Potter,

D.D., LL.D., Bishop of New York, assisted by the Rev.

J. S. Saunders, rector of the parish, Albert Henry Sweny,

Esq., Captain in her Majesty's Second Grenadiers, to Anna,
eldest daughter of James Roy, Esq., of West Troy.
DIED.—In the United States Naval Hospital, on
Wednesday evening, May 30, Charles H. Foy, late Quar-
termaster United Statei Navy.

Mr. Andrew H. Green, Comptroller of the
Central Park, has issued, in pamphlet form, his eommuni-

cation to the Commissioners of the Central Park, relative

to the improvement of the Sixth and Seventh Avenues,
from the Central Park to the Harlem River ; tho laying
out of the island above One Hundred and Fifty-fifth
street ; the drive from Fifty-ninth-street to One Hundred
and Fifty-fifth-street, and other subjects. It is a well-

penned document.
Mr. Kennedy, a Scotch vocalist, is on his way to
New York, to make a tour of America and give concerts.
He took his farewell at the Hanover-square Rooms, last
month.

General M'Clellan has given it as his opinion
that, in a war between Prussia and Austria, Prussia must
go to the wall, and, adds a London writer, "Ho knows
what fighting is, and who look like fighters."

Robert D. Holmes, of New York, has been again
elected to the honourable office of Grand Master of the
Freemasons of the State of New York. He has well earned
the position, and does credit to the office.

Miss Sallie H. Polk, daughter of the Right Rev.
Leonadis Polk (General C. S. A.), was married, on the Ist
instant, to Captain F. D. Blake, of Charleston, South
Carolina.

Dr. G. R. Sweeting, of Berlin, Wisconsin, died
on the 30th ultimo from the effects of a slight puncture in
the finger with a needle, received while sewing up a body
after a post mortem examination.
James B. Hosmer, of Hartford, Connecticut, has
made a donation of fifty thousand dollars to the Theolo-
gical Institute of that city.
Judge Story's son, William W. Story, now in
Rome, is one of the most promising of the American sculp-
tors. An English nobleman lately offered him three
thousand pounds for one of his works.
One of the Levantin Brothers—a young man
from Boston—while performing on the trapeze in Brook-
lyn, fell from a height of thirty-five feet, and was seriously,
if not fatally, injured.
Mr. Henry R. Stiles has retired from the edi-
torial management of the "Historical Magazine." His
successor is Mr. Henry B. Dawson.
A popular life of Abraham Lincoln in Italian has
been published at Florence, and is being sold for the bene-
fit of the freedmen.
The firm of Leonard Scott and Co., well-known
in connection with the American reprints of foreign re-
views, has been dissolved ; and the three partners, Messrs.
Leonard Scott, Edward Walker, and. Robert Craighead,
have formed a joint-stock corporation under the name of
the Leonard Scott Publishing Company.
A HANDSOME RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—A new rail-
road carriage has just been placed on a line running out el
Boston, which is said to be the most costly vehicle ever
manufactured in America. The Transcript (from which
we get very many spicy items, by the way) thus describes
it:—" This sumptuous vehicle cost $15,000, and was built
by the Salem Car Company. It has six compartments, and
can take forty-eight parsons. Parties of six to eight indi-
viduals can secure one of these sections of the car, and
thus be as much secluded from general observation as
though at their own homes, and, at the same time, be
carried on their way to New York, in the easiest and most
pleasant method of railway travelling. No expense seems
to have been spared in furnishing the inside of the car,
the sides and ends of which are covered with luxuriant
blue broadcloth, and trimmed with lace and silk hangings.
The cost of the broadcloth alone was $2,700. The doors
are chiefly of plate glass. It is claimed for this carriage
that it possesses an advantage over all others in having a
turret root, which gives excellent ventilation. It is also
admirably lighted. Its weight is twelve tens; length, fifty
feet, and width, eight feet."
The latest style of bonnet has turned up at Rich-
mond, Indiana. It is described as consisting of two straws,
tied together with a blue ribbon on the top of the head,
and red tassels suspended at each of the four ends of the
straws. Price nineteen dollars."
Our lady contributor says the reason why tall
men best succeed in matrimony is because all sensible
women favour Hymen.---Boston Post.
THE AMERICAIsT FREE-TRADE LEAGUE.—The fol-
lowing resolutions acknowledging the receipt of the
Free-trade address recently sent from this country to the
United States have been received by the Secretary of the
Free-trade Association : —" 145, William-street, New Ye: k,
June 7, 1866. On motion of the chairman, seconded by
Mr. Alfred Pell, jun., Resolved, that the officers and mem-
bers of the American Free-trade League have read with
much pleasure the address of the London Free-trade Asso-
ciation. Resolved, that the League feels greatly encou-
raged by the proofs of sympathy and the deductions of ex-
perience embodied in the address.—C. A. BRASTED,
Chairman, pro tern."
The Americans have established an American
Derby in connection with the annual races at Patterson,
New Jersey. The first race was won by Merril—time, 2
min. 55 sec.
Sixteen hundred dollars of "conscience money"
were recently sent to the United States Treasury by some
one.

though he held on a very bad course all the way, he won
by 20 yards. The others finished in the order named.

AQUATICS.

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THE WINGFIELD SOULLS.

The race for the Wingfield or Silver Sculls is appointed
to be started at a little before five this afternoon, from
Putney-bridge. A steamer will accompany it as usual, and
will leave London-bridge at 20 minutes to four, but will
only call in at Hungerford and Cadogan (Chelsea). The
race, as usual, creates considerable interest, and will, it is
expected, prove a severe one between Messrs. Michell
and Woodgate. There is a third candidate for aquatic
honours in the race, Mr. J. Chambers, but he does not
appear to hold any place in the betting, which is pretty
fairly divided kietween the other two, Mr. Michell, however,
having the call. They are both fine scullers, and the re-
sult is very doubtful after what we have seen of their per-
formances during the last few days.

PIGEON SHOOTING.

DEATH .111011 LIGHTNING AT THE GUN CLUB,
WORMHOLT SCRUBB.
The anticipated meeting of the Gun Club at
Shepherd's-bush, on Saturday last was brought to
a termination on account of the awfully sudden
death by lightning of Young Offer. It is usual to
have bye-shooting previous to the regular match,
and such was the practice on Saturday. Offer is
engaged by the club to supply the birds, and in
carrying out his duties, as usual, he was assisted by
his three sons, while several others were standing
round the tables or near the baskets, where the
pigeons were being selected from. All was nearly
in readiness, when a little after two o'clock a ter-
rible flash of lightning, accompanied with but slight
rain, burst over the ground, hurling Offer and his
sons, and a man named Frederick Darsey (who
assists in trapping) to the ground ; Thomas Offer
was killed instantly ; the father soon recovered ;
Darsey was uninjured, but one of the other sons,
Alfred, was so long insensible, that it was feared he,
too, was past all earthly aid, but we are glad to say
that after more than an hour became sensible, and
it is hoped that he will ultimately recover. Several
other persons were likewise prostrated, including J.
H. Upton, who keeps the score, but no other vital
injury was inflicted, with the exception that the
electric fluid also killed the well-known black re-
triever, Jack, whose sagacity in fetching back the
pigeons shot, made him a great favourite with the
visitors. Offer was not much hurt, but his grief at
the loss of his son may be well imagined. Thomas
Offer's hat was cut into ribbons, and his clothing
twisted into fantastic shapes, the left leg and ankle
were ripped up and his left boot was torn off com-
pletely. The body presented a ghastly appearance,
being completely black.
More than 30 noblemen and gentlemen had en-
tered to contend in the second summer handicap,
but, of course, any further progress was out of the
question. The body awaits the inquest, which will
be held by Mr. Bird, the coroner this (Monday)
morning, at the Inn opposite the ground.

" Certainties"—Advice Gratis.

The facetious correspondent of the Racing Times

writes on the above subject as follows :
Of the multitude of miscellaneous philanthropists
your betting advertiser, or inventor of certainties,
is one of the most amusing. Only fancy the junior

members of my family reading with delight an ad-
vertisement headed " Something Extraordinary,"
and continuing, "Northumberland Plate and Liver-
pool Cup is quite at the mercy of the cleverest divi-
sion on the turf—sent on the receipt of 18 stamps."
The common mercantile leaven spoils it, but the
economy of the thing (only eighteenpence) is quite
charming. The announcement goes on—" Any

person sending cash to back this double event, we
guarantee £lOO for £l, £5O for 10s., £25 for 55.,
£l2 for 2s. 6d." Not by any means bad invest-
ments for small capitalists in these days, when cash
is generally considered tight in the City, but the
advertiser continues, by wishing " it to be under-
stood that he does not put money on in the com-
mon every-day system, as other commission men do
(whereby you would ruin the Bank of England),

but on an entirely new and honourable system ori-
ginated by him. No other person knows the secret;
it is on the same principle as practised by the lead-
ing racing men of the day." All this including, I

suppose, the grand secret was to be got for—the
aforesaid small sum of eighteenpence, but the ad-
rer tisement continues in an argumentative strain thus

—" How could the ever rich men on the turf arise

out of nothing but by following this safe and ever-
winning system ? Send at once, and remember that
a fortune is now to be made." Another announce-

ment is that somebody else does business on a far
more liberal scale, for as the above shop can only
afford to give £lOO for a sovereign, the establish-
ment now referred to would guarantee in a double
event for Liverpool and Goodwood £BOO for £l, and
so on in proportion down to half-a• crown, and send
the Northumberland Plate winner gratis ! All the
confiding who sent their cash to the first place will
best be able to inform us whether the " certainty"
came off as guaranteed, the pound having been in-
vested on Vespasian for Liverpool, and Lady
Durham for Newcastle.
I find from a similar advertisement on Saturday
last that the Cumberland Plate and Newmarket

Handicap is also at the mercy of the cleverest divi-
sion on the turf, and so I conclude that all future ,
events will be. Make your fortunes you lively
members of the greenhorn family, and don't scruple
to send a few stamps to find out the glorious suc-
cess, and ascertain the doings of the " clever divi-
sion" referred to. Whatever horse you are advised
to back rest assured he has no more chance of win-
ning than your own selection, assuming you are
given to calculations on public running, or other-
wise. Numbers of the prophets appear on paper to
have sent Rococo at 40 to 1, but I have not been
fortunate enough to see the portrait of anybody
who has been so favoured. A countryman adver-
tises that his " honourable subscribers shall win a
fortune this fteason," for which he requires the
modest fee of 55., and, as an inducement to invest
boldly, says that the winner of the Leger is now at
50 to 1; a good thing, if true, but probably
this gentleman means the Leger of 1867. 4; The
Goodwood Stakes and Cup winners free," such is
the heading of another advertisement, and the in-

ventor will send them to gentlemen who promise to
pay liberally from winnings, and after stating there
is only to be one horse for each race at good odds,
asks for six stamps for correspondence. This
appears to be a very moderate establishment, and if
you give sixpence for the winners of two good races
at long prices, you may be able to send the five
shillings wanted for the Leger winner at 50 to 1
without much difficulty. Supposing you can manage
to pull off the double event of Cumberland Plate
and Newmarket Handicap by getting the £lOO for
a sovereign, or even a quarter of it for 55., I recom-
mend you to invest it with a general merchant at
Guernsey, who advertises in some of the sporting
papers that £106,800 may be had for £l9. It is
not very clear how this is to be accomplished, but
you should apply for prospectuses and particulars
without delay to the general merchant in question,
who contradicts any statement which could be in-
sinuated that he is not engaged in bona fide specu-
lation. In this instance you will deal with a person
of evident business habits, for he gives a name, and
states himself to be " agent for first-class refiners,
distillers, millers, and growers in France, Holland,
Spain, &c., and will take orders for crushed and
loaf sugar, coiza oil, flour, wine, spirits, gin, Schie-
dam, Dutch cheese," &c. Perhaps the gin and
Schiedam are not spirits, or it would seem needless
to mention them separate!), in addition to that
word.
Thus any aspiring young friend who shall take
my advice and lay out his five shillings will secure
£25 from the double event; and then, keeping £6
in his pocket, remit £l9 to Guernsey, when he will
bring off £106,800. The odd money he can amuse
himself with by attending races during the remain-
der of his existence, and the hundred thousand he
will doubtless find a suitable mode of laying out
in some future limited liability concerns which are
sure to show on paper very attractive things in per-
centage.
In backing horses at long shots always get out as
soon as possible, if the animal comes with or with-
out a rush. During the fatal progress of the rin-
derpest milking was checked to some extent both in
the bovine and racing worlds, but it has begun again
iu severalquarters, where horses have been strongly
and continuously backed by the public merely
for the benefit of the vultures. The most recent
instance was Honesty (a capital name for a horse),
and the doings of an owner. He was expected to