The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

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ST. LEGER.
sto 4 agst Lord Lyon (taken)
9 to 2 agst Savernake (off—take sto 1 freely)
7to 1 agst Rustic (offcrA)
11 to 1 agst Strathconan (taken)
20 to 1 agst Westwick (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Knight of the Crescent (taken)

DERBY.
100 to 8 agst.D'Estournel (offered)
109 to 15 agst Marksman (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Julius (taken)
33 to 1 agst Bonibastes (taken)

QT. LEGER.—A. private gentleman, who has
opened a large Book on the GREAT DONCASTER
ST. LEGER, is open to receive COMMISSIONS from XI
to £l,OOO from Noblemen and Gentlemen for the same,
either on receipt of cash or two good references. For
particulars, address Millionaire, Post-office, Great Port-
land-street, London, W.

S HIPPING IN TELLIGE NCE—This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 27.—Ardberg, from Akyab ; Giulia, from
Marsala ; Industry, from Bremen ; Polly Robins, from St.
Lucia ; Leander, from St. Vincent ; Forth, steamer, from
Hamburg; Rosine, steamer, from St. Petersburg.
Arrived, August 28.—Ethels, from Hongkong ; Fora it
Fairy, from St. Vincent ; Novi Pluto, from Oran ; Point,
from Jamaica; West Indian, from Demerara; Giuseppe
Banarvach, from Trieste; Thomas Whitney, from Phila-
delphia ; Percy, from Bathurst : Cologne, screw steamer,
from Boulogne.
Sailed, Aug. 27—Orient, for Adelaide.
Sailed, Aug. 28—Era, steamer, for Petersburg ; Ladoga,
steamer, for Cronstadt ; Banfield, for Colombo ; Dudbrook,
for.Kurrachoe ; Balcombe, for Demerara.

Dz.&x Tuesday Morning.
PAssed (in tow)—lllustrious, from St. Lawrence.
Anchored—Henry Reed, from St. Mary's for Grimsby.

The amount of gold received at the Bank of Eng..
land yesterday afternoon represented £410,000, viz.,
265,000 sovereigns and £145,000 in bar gold.
In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days there has been a moderate
amount of business transacted. Sugar has been in
fair request, but inferior qualities have barely sus-
tained the late advance. Coffee has been in good
demand, at steady prices, while a large business has
been done in rice, for both home consumption and
for exportation, at full prices: Tallow. has been
in fair demand, at steady rates,:lor both present and
future delivery.
At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the share-
holders of the Submarine Telegraph Company the
report presented for adoption stated that, in com-
paring the accounts with those of the correspond-
ing period of 1865, there has been an increase in
the receipts to the amount of £1,610 2s. 2d., while
the ordinary expenses are £7,233 14s. 6d. against
£7,398 4s. 3d. A dividend for the half-year of
6 per cent. is recommended, and £l6O 13s. 3d.
I carried to the next account.

THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY has accepted the
office of President of tie Social Science Association, held
since its formation by Lord Brougham.

CATTLE PLAGUE, CHESHIRE.—The following is
the number of cases reported to the 25th inst. :—Died,
39,543 ; killed, 35,600 ; recovered, 13,216 ; remaining, 20 ;
total, 88,379. During the past week 39 have been attacked
or 5 per diem; and dead and kited 23, or 3 per diem. The
disease has appeared in 464 localities in the county, and
during the past week cases are reported from 13 town-
ships.

" Amelia," Brigham Young's latest wife, says
the Chicago Tribune, "is a model woman for the Saints.'
She is notionable, imperious, and coquettish. Young pets
her like a child. One evening a friend took tea with her
and the Mormon prophet. After tea they remained at the
table eating nuts, and Amelia threw her shells through au
open window on the opposite side of the room. Her hus-
band said, don't do that ; put your shells by your
plate." I shan't do it,' replied the fair one, I'll throw
them where I please, and I'll do as I please, and you may
help yourself.' And pulling her guest by the dross, shy
said, Come, let's go upstairs and let him grunt it out.' "
THE BALLOT.—Mr. F. H. F. Berkeley, in a letter
to the Times, says : —Will you permit me a few words in
answer to your correspondent writing under the signature
" P.," wh6 addresses his remarks to mo particularly ? It is
now conceded that the ballot will prevent intimidation and
drive bribery out of its usual course. lam about to reply
to a gentleman who is pleased in the absence of argument
to speculate on what might, could, should, or would happen
under the auspices of the ballot. Your correspondent as-
sums that the corrupt practices at Yarmouth, and in his
own particular borough, which he does not designate, are
so inveterate that under the ballot associations would be
created, presidents elected, agents appointed, and commit-
tees formed, who would cause these boroughs to become a
safe investment for candidates, who have only to bid against
each other in a friendly way, make the result known to the
president, and, without risk to any one, the largest " tin-
ner," quasi sinner, would be " sent up" to make his bow to
Mr. Speaker. Well, but if this pleasant little arrangement
could take place under the ballot, why does it not take place
under open voting? What facility does the ballot offer for
this bargain which open voting does not equally furnish ?
Surely your correspondent " P." is aware that whether the
election take place by viva voce voting or by secret voting
it would be in either case open to tho petition of aggrieved
electors, and subjected to the ordeal of a Parliamentary
inquiry. Of course your correspondent must know that
by the law which established the ballot as the mode of
taking votes in Australia, and which I recommend to the
mother country, the voting papers aro kept under seal
until the period within which petitions against undue re-
turns must be presented, and those papers may be used as
proving the votes of electors accused of bribery. The proof,
under the ballot
athseunn,
doefrcaorrriuvpatvparcaecstyiclsmis justov otainsge.aYsyour correspondent
recommends to the attention of rogues who buy and rogues
who sell votes this system of organised conspiracy. It
BOOMS to me that if such a system wore organised it could
very easily be put down by a severe penal Act. Disfran-
chise the borough, and visit the candidates and agents with
penal servitude. The example of half-a-dozen candidates
and political attorneys breaking stones in Portland prison,
dressed in a yellow costume, would go far to upset your
correspondent's dream of snug corruption. At all events,
the operation of the ballot shows no such result in Her
Majesty's southern dominions ; on the contrary, it has
caused the cessation of bribery, treating, and intimidation,
put down expense, and kept the peace. With such
results, is it unreasonable to ask for a trial of the measure
in this country, where we have tried all other measures in

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vain ?
FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting M. Pasteur made some remarks on a paper sent in
by M. Bechamp concerning the disease of the silk-worm,
and in which, amongst other things, it w stated that the
cospuscles observed in the seed were terior, and not
contained in the substance, so that, if th seed were care-
fully washed, all the corpuscles would saPPean This,
M. Pasteur said, was a dangerous erro r,because it would.
tend to cause a most useful practice to be discontinued,
volumebeeu
viz., that of examining the seed wth a microscope
while, on the other hand, M. Pasteur could not
imagine bow 8,,,h a mistake caonudldelochkasvise
treats of
of
dials
sthe first,
thetre;
committed, since no washing by any liquid whatever could
rid the seed of its corpuscles. A paper was received from.
M. Rico Sinobas, on the fourth volume published by him,
(okrseofenr atnecdiefnaltfudgia:
of the works of Alphonse X-----, of pastille. Th.
common sundial, provided with a gnomon, of the
mon
another kind, requiring the construction of second of
very narrow windows, through a tower with
thesec°ut contains
exclusively rive
b
which
sun penetrated and marked the h the rays of the
treats of the Alphonsineclepsydra,ours. Another book
consisting
similar to of a syphon
the well-known one of Mariotto,
the water dropped from a flit and into which
there was a float bearing afilter, while at the other end
and the
principal stars were metal plate on which the zodiac
marked. The two last books
treat of clocks provided
with weights and chimes for
I
striking the hour. A . Laussedat sent in an observation
the occultation of Saturn by the moon onthe
of
16th
instant. The moon being only six days old at that
time, the ashy light, or that which readersthe dark part
of our sa • • • •
satellite dimly visible through the reflection of the
earth, was strong enough to enable M. Laussedat to see
the appulsion of Saturn's ring to the lunar difk. 11e also
mentions a singular circumstance consisting in this, that
part of the figure of the planet seemed to bo projected on
the dark portion of the moon, just before the immersion.
When wo consider the immense distance which separates
our satellite from the planet, there seems no plausible
way of accounting for so strange an appearance. The
emersion could not be observed owing to the cloudy state
of the sky.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—It bad been intended that
the ballad concert yesterday should be the last this season,
but it having been attended by upwards of 17,000 persons,
one more will be given in the week following the Worcester
Festival, about the 20th September. Upwards of 120,000
visitors have attended the series given this autumn at the
Crystal Palace. •