The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

SELLING HANDICAP.

SELLING 111.NDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Of 15 sot's each, 10 ft,
for 3-yr-olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for
200 soya. R.M.

Guinevre 1
Greyfoot 2

Slender

....., 3

Won by a length.
OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES•

OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 25 added,
for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 121 b; fillies, Bst 81b; with soil-
ing allowances. T.Y.C.
Mr. T. Clayton's Cromwell (Murray) 1
Mr. Mackenzie's Domestic Bliss (Cameron) 2
Mr. Elliott's Order (lluxtable) 3

Rupert c, Vulcan, and Piano also ran. Betting-5 to 4
agst Vulcan, 3to 1 agst others. Won by three parts of a
length.

AUSTRALIA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 23.

The Trevelyan, from Auckland, with a detach-
ment of the Engineers, under Lieutenant Ferguson,
and a battery of artillery, in charge of Capt. Peels,
arrived here this morning.

LONDON GAZETTE. —This Evening.

DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 22.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint 11:3ar-Admiral
Charles George Edward Matey to be Administrator of the
Government of the Settlement on the Gambia, and Coen-
wander John Hawley Glover, 11,.N., to be Administrator
of the Settlement of Lagos on the Western Coast of
Africa.

The "Gazette" of this evening conbOns the Speaker's
Nva rrant fur the election of a member for the county of
Wexford, in the room of John George, Esq., he having
accepted the office of one of the Judges of tier dinjest)'s
Court of Queen's Beech in Ireland.

OOURSE OF EXCHANGE Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11. 161 11 161

Ditto 3 Months. 11 Et+

Rotterdam

11 19+

11 r:4

11 19

Antwerp

25 454..-:

225 501

Brussels
Hamburg — 13 bi 13 9
Paris
Ditto 3 Months. 25 -40 25 47
Marseilles
.. 25 47*
Frankfort on the Maine —119 k 120
Vienna
Trieste — 13 2u 13 35
13 ' ,20 ••- 13" 33
Petersburgn
Berlin
6 26 6 26}
Madrid .....
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 27 2O '27 30
Naples — 27 20 27 30
Palermo
,Messina, - 27 SO
Lisbon sli 51i
• •
Oporto — 511 511.

GREAT BRITAIN'S L:TTLENESS—occasionally--Is
thus illustrated by the Spectator:—" What is 'it
which every now and then gives out Government so mean
an aspect? The War-office is claiming all kinds of credit
for accepting the Snider scheme of converting rifles. Mr.
Snider spent eight. years of his life over it, and yet when
he requested £2,700 for outlays and work done, he was re-
ferred by Lord Hartington to the solicitor to the depart-
ment, who awarded him £l,OOO. lie took it, and paid it
away to his creditors, and is now lying sick, paralytic, and
hopeless, while the inventor 'of the Prussian gun is an
honoured and wealthy favourite of his Sovereign. It is
said that on one occasion, in 1859, Mr. Snider was ordered
to try a new gun with some Government powder and bul-
lets, and was sued by the department for their value, £1
2s. 9d.! Are we entirely governed by clerks, or is an aris-
tocrat necessarily the meanest of human beings ?"
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR OF to TILE LAMPLIGHTER."
—Miss Maria S. Cummins, daughter of the late Judge
David Cummins, died on Monday morning at her resi-
dence in Dorchester, after a long illness. She is best known
PorhaP's as the author of "The Lamplighter," a novel
which 'MIAS published in 1803, (nd i 1.3 passedl several
rilt,l,;:ou'rkegirnhdois,n,gah
n
dr
editions, both in this country
,thhieurubuoteodk weresnea
:lot] her writings have,
confined"‘MOatbtlnealteTontributionLto the Atlantic
been chiefly
Monthly and Our Young Folks.—Bosto
r ts
THE lIUGE AND NOW EXTINCT GROUND-SLOTIIS
OF SOUTH AMERICA are thus described by Professor
Owen in his " Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of
Vertebrates:—" The principle of viewing structures and
instruments in reference to the work that they may do is
shown to be good in gaining insight into the mode of life
of extinct animals in a striking degree through its applica-
tion to the skeletons of the megatherioids. The teeth of
these conform so closely in all characters with those of the
sloths ttheir olosd.to sluggatioiset lleigahvetssrleanthdeerr tshloatnhrsotohtes,
mtouhititfiv beets
eue
modifications
of structure for climbing, clinging, and living altogether
in trees are carried out to an extreme. In the colossal ex-
itiiigntc
singlendst elafwol ivangethwea
ioubtl
fool,ine would b
d inadiffeu urenptpwlizb Th
e
huge applicable
stes
a pickaxe to clear away the soil from between the ramifi-
cations of the roots, a second claw would have interfered
with•. tree being prostrated, and
its foliage
h twhoursk
brought.
A
su
the skull of the size, strength, reach,
every indication in
power of the tongue har' lity, and prehensile
mouts.%
teleo-
logical conclusions. Thu both the foregoing
tb us pluck off the foliage on megatheriuids, like the giraffe,
which they
needed only evidence of the occasional
might happen to a beastin the fall
u of
a occurrencetret,wh of whit
i th.tad
uprooted to seal the foregoing physiological inforon.ces with'
the stamp of truth, and the skeleton cf the Mjr lodon iu tl
Runterian Museum shows je
„that evidence above the right
orbit and at the beck part of the cranium."
TREASURE TROVE.—An interesting discovery
of silver coins took place at Stamford on Monday. A
labourer, named John Christian, was excavating for sani-
tary purposes at the back of a house occupied by Mrs. Wyles
builder, in St. George's-square, when hisspade struckupon
an earthen jar, which proved to contain 2,800 silver coins,
chiefly glottis of Henry V.. v0.e.,,t
and Euglisu groats of Elward IV. of the Loudon Mint
There were also a few half groats of Elward ILL. The
whole are ina fine state of preservation, many being almost
as bright as on the day they were issued. The jar was found
at a depth of only about a foot from the surface, and not
more than Gin. from the foundation of the house. It iSprc-
bable that the site was formerly included hi St. George's
churchyard, and that the coins were buried when the Lan-
castrians invaded Stamford during the wars of the Ruses.
quOtaillOil of gold at Paris is about at par, aid
ate Alert exchange on Loudon is U. 25 per .tt 5ter1.1.44. tII
comparing these rates with the English Atha price oi
A. loud. per ounce for standard gold, it appe-ls that eohl is
about 3-10.1 is per CO carer fu Loudon than in Paris.

Railway and other Companies.

BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON.

The report of the directors of this company states
that the balance of profit accruing to the company
in the proportion of 14 per cent. of the net receipts
of the joint working with the Grand. Trunk Rail-
way of Canada was $119,183. The bill for confirm-
ing the agreement with the Grand Trunk Railway
Company of Canada passed both Houses of the
Legislature during the recent session, and had since
received the Royal assent. It would be submitted
to the shareholders for approval at the general
meeting. The bill for the capitalisation of the
arrears of interest due to the preference shareholders
had also been passed, and would likewise be sub-
mitted at a special meeting for ratification by the
shareholders. The .revenue account showed that
$119,183 or £24,490 was the Buffalo and Lake
Huron Company's proportion of the net receipts for
the half year ending June i 0 last, to which was
added £15,831, the balance from the preceding half
year, £1,157, the difference in account as amended,
£214 for sundry receipts, and £146 for transfer fees;
total, £41,838. From this was deducted £19,729
for coupon interest and other charges, leaving a
balance of £22,109.