The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TURF NEWS FROM NEWMARKET.-P. Price has pur-
chased Kato for the foreign market, and she has left for
Germany. Flowery Land, by Promised Land out of Adu-
lation, who had been turned out of training for a few weeks,
is now at work again. At the Brick Kiln Paddocks, Mr.
W. Martin's Lucenia, by Lord of the Isles, slipped a foal
by Ace of Clubs. At Messrs. Barrow's Paddock; on the
10th inst., Olitipa, a colt foal by St. Albans. Several more
of Lord Glasgow's 2-yr-olds are shortly expected to join
Godding's string. A heavy fall of snow on Wednesday
night has put a stop to training operations for the present.

KIDDERMINSTER HUNT S TEEPLECRASES.— This now
popular local meeting is fixed to come off on Monday, the
12th of March, under the stewardship of Walter do S.
Blount, Esq., Captain Foster, Alfred Grant, Esq., M.P.; W.
C. Hemming, Esq. ; the Hon. F. Lygon, M.P. ; the wor-
shipful the Mayor (Alfred Talbot, Esq.); J. Watson, Esq. ;
C. Wikstead, Esq., and Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart., M.P.

EGHAM RACES.—The manufacture of the Prince Alfred
Cup, to be run for at the next meeting, has been entrusted
to the well-known firm of Garrard. As this piece of plate
is to be of the value of 200 gs., they will be able to produce
a work of art worth competing for.
THE LIVERPOOL HUNT CLUB. -The spring meeting of
this exclusive club is fixed for April 20 and 21.
Llangollen has changed hands, and is now the property
of Mr. Blunt. Ho still remains in T. Reade's stable at
Lewes.

Blackheath and Woolwich Races will take place on
Easter Monday and Tuesday, April 2 and 3.

YORK SPRING MEETING.-Mr. M‘George has been ap-
pointed starter for this meeting.
The five-year-old Sister to The Drake has been named
"

No Name, five years, has been renamed " Skiff."

RACING FIXT

'RES FOR 1866.

FEBR
Lincoln

Nottingham Spring
:011.

MA.
Derby Spring 1
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring

Crox ton Park l6
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 2B

- AP:
Newmarket Craven 2
Durham
Blackheath & Woolwich 2
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Lichfield Spring
Chelmsford Spring

:IL.
Thirsk lO
Epsom Spring
New►narket Ist Spring l6
Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O
Chester
Curragh

--- - -
MA.
Ascot Spring
Salisbury
Bath 8 1
Harpenden lO
York Spring
JIM
Windsor Summer
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford

Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge 2l
Manchester
Ascot Summer

Liverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungorford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
.Y.
Stamford l9
Radcliffe 23
Winchester 24
Southampton 25
Huntingdon
Goodwood 3l

JU:
Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
Nottingham
Down Royal Corp lB 1
AUG
Brighton 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egham l4
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Ox ford l6
Hastings 2l
SEP TI
Warwick September 4
Curragh
Leicester 6
Duncaster
Brecon l7
Canterbury
NOVE'
Lincoln
Liverpool

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter . ..... 28
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 29
Weymouth 3O

AMBER.
Richmond
Hendon
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 2l
Newmarket let October 25
Walsall
,MBER.
I Shrewsbury
Leamington Hunt l9

The arrangements for the appointment of Mr.
Giischen were completed on Thursday afternoon, and the
right hon. gentleman joins the Cabinet as the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster.
THE FIRST ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCH
OF 1866.—The first match of this year took place on
Tuesday last at Turner's Hill, near East Grinstead, in
Sussex. Thole were nine competitors in the All England
Class, and the Champion and three other prizes in this
class were won with Ransome and Simes's ploughs. This
firm had six ploughs competing at this match, every one
of which gained a prize.

MIDDLE-SLASS EDUCATION IN THE CITY.—A
meeting was held at the Mansion House yesterday,
in furtherance of the movement for establishing middle-
cM Rs schools in the City. The committee, appointed at
the meeting held for the same purpose some time ago, pre-
sented a report of what they had done. They think that
a school in which 800 or 1,000 children may receive edu-
cation at a rate of payment not exceeding £4 per annum,
should be erected in Finsbury. For this £50,000 would be
required ; but the committee resolved to raisa a fund of
£lOO,OOO, and for that purpose asked the bankers, mer-
chants, and public bodies of London to subscribe sums of
£l,OOO or £5OO each. In answer to their appeal 33 sub-
scriptions of £l,OOO each, and seven of £5OO each have
been promised, besides several smaller sums. The report
of the committee was adopted, and resolutions passed
urging the active prosecution of the work.
THE FUNERAL OF SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE.-011
the 47th of December we were at the beautiful
extramural Campo Santo, beyond Porta S. Gallo, to attend
an occasion when British residents had been invited, by
public notice, to show their respect for the illustrious dead
—the funeral of Sir Charles Eastlako, which took place at
noon, many English visitors being present besides the im-
mediate mourners, among whom Lady Eastlako had the
fortitude to take her honoured place. It was a clear, frosty,
and beautiful day ; the villa-studded heights of Fiesole rose
distinct in view beyond the cypress avenues and marble
tombs; no scene could have worn an aspect of more sooth-
ing and sunny loveliness, yet at the same time harmonious
in its bright repose, with the solemnity of death. On this
day we saw, for the first time, the monument of Mrs.
Browning, reminding us of her funeral, which took place
on a summer evening here.—Builder.
ROBBERY OF £875 FROM A MAIL TRAIN.—A
most extensive robbery has taken place in connection with
the postal delivery in the north of Scotland. The letter-
bags in the mail train, which leaves Aberdeen in the morn-
ing for the south, were on Thursday found to have had
abstracted from them the sum of £875 in mixed notes.
We have been unable to learn at what part of the journey
the robbery took place. The police authorities in Edin-
burgh were apprised of the fact by telegram from Aber-
deen, and measures are being taken for tho detection of the
thief.—Caledonian Mercury.
COURT-MARTIAL ON THE OFFICERS OF H.M.S.
BULLDOG.—The court-martial upon Captain Wake and the
officers late of H.M.S. Bulldog for the loss of that ship
will be opened on board the port admiral's ship, the Royal
Adelaide, at Devonport, on Monday next. The evidence
is to be strictly limited to the nautical circumstances con-
nected with the losing of the ship. An investigation into
the alleged breach of the orders of Admiral Sir James
Hope, G.C.8., that no hostile movement was to be com-
menced without his express sanction, has not been ordered
by the Admiralty.

THE MURDER NEAR ABERDARE.—On Thursday
the coroner's jury proceeded with the inquest on the body
of the young man found dead in a wood near Aberdare a
few days ago. A verdict of wilful murder was returned
against the accused, Robert Coe.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT DERBY.—At the Derby
Borough Police-court yesterday, before Mr. R. Pegg, Wil-
liam Smith, joiner, Stockbrook-street, aged 30, a married
man with a family, was charged with stabbing, with intent
to murder, Mr. Thomas Winfield, corn-factor, Crompton-
street. Smith was removing some goods from a house the
property of Mr. Winfield, who put a bailiff in possession.
At the request of Smith the bailiff called Mr. Winfield
back, when the prisoner ran at him with a large knife, and
said " Take that, you—." The instrument penetrated
two thicknesses of a top-coat, through the trousers, and
entered the lower put of the body.
THE ALLEGED POISONING IT BACUP.—On Wed-
nesday the adjourned inquest on the body of Alice Tew, a
native of Stockport, who, it was supposed, had been
poisoned with white precipitate of mercury by a young
married man called Henry Heap, was held at Bacup before
Mr. Hargreaves. Dr. C. Calvert, of Manchester, analytical
chemist, said he had examined tho stomach, liver, and in-
testines sent to him, but had not been able to find the pre-
sence of any mercurial poison. The coroner having
summed up, a verdict of death from natural causes was re-
turned. Manchester Courier.

STRANGE VISITORS TO ALDERSHOT.—A peculiar
and unpleasant race has lately made its appearance
at Aldershot Camp, and in such force that its existence
and presence has had to be taken official military notice of.
The army there has been daringly invaded by immense
numbers of rate, and the depredations of those obnoxious
foragers have become so great that it has been considered
necessary to adopt stringent measures to ensure their de-
struction. On Monday and Tuesday, in no less than eight
battalions or lines of huts, poison was deposited, and a
cautionary notice to that effect issued by the assistant-ad-
jutant-general, Colonel Newdegate.

DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On the arri-
val of a train at the Paris terminus of the Northern Rail-
way yesterday morning, a passenger was found in a crouch-
ing position in a third class carriage quite doad, apparently
from a fit of apoplexy. lie had taken the train at St.
Quentin, and on his person was found the sum of 6,000 f.,
as well as a letter addressed to M. Boncelina, pig dealer, at
Contesson, but no papers to prove his identity. The body
was removed to the Morgue, and an inquiry has beau com-
menced to discover his family.—Galignani.