The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LINCOLN RACES.-THIS DAY.
BY XLECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
Juvenile Stakes. About half a mile. Run 1.30.--
Seringapatam, Fitzroyal, Butterfly, Satyr, Speaker's dam.
Polly Perkins, Pneumatic, Slap Bang, and Rambling Katie
are here.
City Handicap. Six furlongs. Run at 2.—Gemma,
Historian, Pantaloon, Reindeer, Vixen, Skirmish. East
Lynn, La Mechante, Inca, Advance, Benanoar, William
Pitt, Elastic, Alberta, Lady Sophie, Pink, Opposition,
Musician, Caithness, Caustic, Inheritress filly, Treasure
Trove, and Actor are here. Lady Abbess and Shrapnell
paid forfeit.
Innkeepers' Selling Stakes. About half a mile. Run at
2.3o.—Munchausen, Credulity, Madame Cleopatra, Novice,
Bessie, Alberta, Game Pullet colt, and Benanoar are here.
To be sold for £3O each.
Grand Steeplechase. Four miles. Run at B.—Acrobat,
_Patience, The Rogue, Rook the Gardener, West-End,
Tt.'o Beau, and Contralto are here.
Lincolnshire Hunt Steeplechase. About four miles.
Run tv," 3.45.—All the horses are &tares?, in the immediate
neighbourhood.

BLANKNEY HANDICAP.
Tragedy
(Loates) 1
Venturesome
(Heartfield) 2
Actor
((Hustable) 3
La Itechante
(Parry) 0
Knight of the Whistle (Carroll) 0
Elastic
Credulity (Elphick) 0
(Stone) 0
Cleopatra ................................................(Kenyon) 0
Advanceo
Won by half a length; a length between second and
third.
Betting —2 to 1 agst Cleopatra, 2 to 1 agst Venturesome
5 to 1 agst La Mechante, and 8 to 1 agst Tragedy.

HENDON RACES.-THIS DAY.
The Cricklewood Plate. About two miles. Run at 2.
Balleycasey, Strike, Ascot, Done Brown, Polly Hopkins,
Blondin, Sinite, Rapture, Simpleton, Oscar, Snaggs,White
Stocking, Almeric, and Conjuror are horo.
Middlesex Handicap. Two miles. Run at 3.3o.—lron-
sides, Strike, Polly Hopkins, Sinite, Rapture, Oscar, Con-
juror, Bessie, Snaggs, and Almeric aro here.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LINCOLN RACES-YESTERDAY.

The following appeared in a late edition of The San of
last evening :
The TRIAL S TAKES of 5 sous each , with 30 added; three-

yr-olds 7st 31b, four Bst 101 b, five 9st 51b, six and aged
9st 101 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b, and maiden
three-yr-olds 41b, four and upwards 71b; winners of
100 sovs in any ono year to carry 51b, twice, or 200 sovs,
101 b extra ; the second to save his stake, and the winner
to pay 5 sovs towards expenses.
Mr. Fobert's Wise Man (Cameron) 1
Marquis of Hastings's Alberta (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Bayly's Old Warden (Challoner) 3
Mr. Herbert's Opposition
Lord Westmorland's Wild Boy (Morris) 0
Betling-7 to 4 agst Old Warden, 5 to 2 agst Alberta,
6 to 1 agst Wise Man.

Won by a length ; a neck between second and third.
The -BROCKLESBY STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 50
added, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 10Ib, fillies and geldings
Bst 71b; winners, 31b extra; the second to save 12;3
stake, and the winner to pay 5 sous towards expenses.
Straight run in, about half a mile.

Mr. Chaplin's Problem (Custanco) 1
Captain Christie's Sacrifice (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Jackson's Nerina (Morris) 3
The following also ran ;—Festival (Whiteley), Offing-
ton (J. Goater), Dixie's Land (Lynch), Nonchalance
(Scorey), Stapenh:ll(Doolan), Pneumatic (Loates), Blanche
of Middlebie filly (Covey), Vicious (Heartfield), Charles
the Second (S. Adams), Regentess (Carroll), Ariel (H.
Grimshaw), Phantom Sail (Perry), Betsy Carr filly (Chal-
loner), Sister to Knighton (Day), Bounceaway (Mann),
Libertine (Edwards), Miss Bateman (Cannon), Ibis filly
(Gray), Monmouthshire Lass (Payne).
Betting-3 to 1 agst Sacrifice, 7to 1 agst Problem, 12 to
1 agst Nerina.
Won by a short head ; three lengths between second
and third.

ALL-AGED STAKES. No race.

The LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP of 100 sovs, added
to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 3-yr-olds
and upwards ; the winner of any race after Jan. 23, at

noon, 71b, twice, or a handicap amounting to 100 sovs,
101 b extra; the second to receive 20 sovs out of the
sakes, and the winner to pay 20 sovs towards expenses
One mile. 80 subs, 26 of whom declared.

Mr. Kirby's Treasure Trove (Barker) 1
Mr. Godwin's Saccharometer (Custance) 2
Mr. Hill's Copenhagen (Cannon) 3
Valiant (Heartfield) 4
East Lynn (Carroll) 5
Gemma (Edwards) 0
Stockinger (Payne) 0
Twilight (H. Grimshaw) 0
Lucky Star (J. Grirashaw) 0
Historian

Skirmish (J. Anson) 0
Provisor (Kenyon) 0
Filbert (Storey) 0
Grapeshot (Hibbard) 0
Wolbeck (Elphick) 0
Advance (Covey) 0
Elastic (Mordan) 0
Minette
Miss Williams (Cameron) 0
Dulcimer (lluxtable) 0
Caithness (Peace) 0
Miss Haworth (Platt) 0
Wellesley (Goodwin) 0
Heliotrope
inheritress (Clarke) 0
Nizam (A. Foster) 0
Sebum (Stone) 0
Won by a neck.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Copenhagen, 15 to 1 agst Saccha-
rometer, and 20 to 1 egst Treasure Trove.
The HURDLE RACE (handicap) of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with
50 added; free for any horse; the winner to pay 10
sovs towards expenses ; the second to save his stake.
Two miles, over six flights of hurdles. 31 subs.
Clairvoyants (White) 1
Queen of Trumps ......(Kn0tt) 2
Ace of Hearts (Page) 3

Tho following also ran :—Church Militant, Ilawkshaw,
Foxholes, Dermot Asthore, Benanoar, Fly by Night, Lovo
Letter, Patience, and Contralto.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Ace of Hearts, 3to 1 agst Clair-
voyants, 10 to 1 agst Queen of Trumps, and 10 to 1 agst
Ilawkshaw.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.

FEBRUARY.

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

Nottingham Spring
,CII.

Croxton Park l6
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 2B

AP.
Newmarket Craven 2
Durham
Blackheath Woolwich 2
Catterick Bridgo
Abergavenny 5
Lichfield Spring
Chelmsford Spring

TaL.
T hirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O
Chester
Curragh

Ascot Spring 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden lO
York Spring

.Y.
15
Epsom Summer
21
Uxbridge
23
Manchester
Ascot Summer

JU.
Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9

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

Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
Nottingham
Down Royal Corp lB I
AUG I
Brighton
Brighton Club
Lewes
Egha,m
Wolverhampton
Stockton ..................... 15
Oxford ........................ 16
Hastings ..................... 21
SEPTE
Warwick September 44Curragh
Leicester
Doncaster
Brecon l7
Canterbury
18

UST.
York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Dovon and Exeter 2B
Tunbridgo 2B
Derby Summer 29
Weymouth 3O

OCTO
Northampton 2
Newmarket 2d October 8
Curragh
NOVE
Lincoln
Liverpool

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evenin_.,......"....,
g.

WHITEHALL, FEE. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a
Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart.,
G.C.8., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten,
by the name, style, and title of Viscount Halifax, of Monk
Bretton, in the West Riding of the county of York.
INDIA OFFICE, FEB. 12.
Tho Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and. appoint—Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere K.C.8., Gover-
nor of the Presidency of Bombay ; his Highness' the Ma-
harajah of Joudhpore ; Sir Robert Montgomery, K.C.8.,
late Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab; his Highness the
Maharajah of Travancore ; General Sir 'William Rose
Mansfield, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's
Forces in the East Indies ; and his Highness the Mahara-
ah of Kerowlee ; to be Knights of the Most Exalted Order
of the Star of India.

FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 6.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
William Campbell, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at
Memel, to bo Her 3fajesty's Consul at Helsingfors.
FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 17.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Wolde-
mar Nissen as Consul at Hong Kong for the Free Han-
seatic City of Hamburg.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of M. Wol-
deinar Nissen as Consul at Hong Kong for the Free Han-
seatic City of Bremen.

FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Juan.
Arellanosy Hall as Consul at Liverpool for the Oriental
Republic of the Uruguay.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of M.
Johann Otto Lietke as Vice-Consul at Glasgow for his
Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg,
Schwerin.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 17.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Meade,
Es t q., o be a member of the Executive Council of the
Island of Montserrat ; Kruger Fran; Esq., to be a member
of the Executive Council of the Island of Heligoland;
Thomas Turner, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative
Council of the Island of St. Christopher ; the Rev. John
M'Kechnie Collins, and Walter Henry Bucke, to be mem-
bers of the Legislative Council of the Island of Nevis; and
John Shaw, Esq., to be Collector of Customs for the colony
of Sierra Leone.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 20.
Bth Regiment of Foot—Captain John Campbell, from half-
pay, 26th Foot, to bt Captain, vice John Whiteside, pro-
moted, without purchase, to a half-pay majority; Lieu-
tenant William James Watson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice John Campbell, who retires ; Ensig ,a
Thomas Blake Humtrey to be Lieutenant, by pureha"
vice Watson; Gentleman Cadet John Parry Hatner,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Humfrey.
19th Foot—Lieutenant Edward W. Evans to be Captain,
without purchase, vice James Robert Dalton, deceased ;
Ensign Alexander Bredin to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Evans •, Gentleman Cadet James Butler,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Bredin.
28th Foot—Ensign Francis Henry Palmer Duncan to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Samuel Forbes Frederic
Auchmuty, who retires ; Gentleman Cadet James John-
stone, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
olt..ted to re-
41bstyFpouroct—haSsIvgirolaDJuanmeresnieitch, M.D., having completed
45th20 Foot
-pt.ajyasmerevslisice
. .
service, to
ebaehSausrbgeeeonn-p3ieramij

tire from, the by the sale of his commission.
48th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John
Carstairs from the 107th Foot, to be Captain,
vice F. J. Castle, who exchanges; Lieutenant Benjamin
D'Urban Musgrave, from half-pay, late 3rd West India
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Henry Dun-
combo' who retires upon temporary half-pay.
50th Foot—Lieutenan Alfred Lewis to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Vincent Tongue, who retires; Ensign Her-
bert Fitz Roy Eaton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Lewis; Ensign Ernest Ferdinand Ives, from the 63d
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Eaton ; Lieutenant Robert
Fitzwilliam do Barry Barry to be Adjutant, vice Lieu-
tenant Astley Fellowes Terry, who has resigned the ap-
pointment.
3d Foot—Captain Benjamin Hutchins Edwards from
half-pay, late Recruiting District, to be Captain, vice
Walter Samuel Marson, deceased ; Lieutenant Richard
William Barnardiston Crowther to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Benjamin Hutchins Edwards, who
retires upon full-pay; Ensign William Bigg to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Crowther;
Gentleman Cadet Francis Grenville Doyle, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Bigg; Gentleman Cadet Vincent Francis Keppel
Lowe, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Ernest Ferdinand Ives, transferred to
60th Foot.
79th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Walker to be Captain by
purchase, vice George Alexander Harrisson, who re-
tires ; Farquhar M'Crea, Gent., to be Ensign by pur-
chase, vice George Campbell, who retires.
83d Foot—Lieut. Littleton Albert Powys to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Charles Henry S. Jones, who retires; En-
sign Charles Horrocks to be Lieutenant, by purclAase,
vice Powys ; Gentleman Cadet George Edward Sk.eward
Cartwright, from the Royal Military College, to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Horrocks.
107th—Captain Frederick John Castle, from the 48th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel M`Neill,
who exchanges.
HALF-PAY.—Lieutenant Frederick Rance, from the 28th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Staff-Surgeon Robert Lewin;
M.D., having completed 20 years' full-pay service, to be
Staff-Surgeon Major ; and Staff-Surgeon David Stuart
Erskine Bain, having completed 20 years' full-pay ser-
vice, to bo Staff-Surgeon Major.
BREVET.

Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Percy
Robert Basil Fielding, Coldstream Guards, having corn-
pleted the qualifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel, to be Colonel, under the Royal Warrant of 14th
October, 1858.
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Somerset John Gough Calthorpe,
sth Dragoon Guards, having completed the qualifying ser-
vice in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel, un-
der the Royal Warrant of Feb. 3, 1866.
Capt. John Campbell, Bth Foot, to be Major.
Major John Campbell, Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel.

Captain Benjamin Hutchins Edwards, retired full-pay,
63d Foot, to have the honorary rank of 3rnjor.
Payurtstor Walter Rico Olivey, 12th Foot, to have tho
honorary rank of Major.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 13.
Lieutenant Robert O'Brien Fitzroy to bo Commander.
Sub•Lieutenaut James Andrew Thomas Bruce to Lieu.
tenant.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18 11 19
Ditto 3 Months. 12 21. 12 21
Rotterdam
,4e
Antwerp — 25 57* 25 62*
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris
Ditto 3 Months. 25 55 25 60
Marseilles
Frankforl on the Maine 121 1211
Vienna — 10 621 10 70
Trieste — 10 65 10 70
Petersburgh - 291 29
Berlin
Madrid —46 f
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples • 25 721 25 7711

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Mlles Opened. Receipts.

Hallways.

-
___,,,,--__„....,_,
1860. 1805. 1866 1865
Belfast and N. Counties 4 6
911 991 1,790 1.690
Belfast and County Down 441 431 002 529
Blyth and Tyne 3G 30 1,957 1,810
Brecon and Merthyr ..
Bristol and Exeter 121& 12111 5,575 5,103
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4ISD 408 26,101 23,723
Cambrian
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 314 - 351 -
Cockermouth and Workin .. C.o 9 26i 761
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 396 306
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 ei 156 125
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall
Deeside l7 17 253 261
Do Extension
Dublin & Belfast J unction.... 63 63 1,277 1.233
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,550 1.103
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c
£43 9,629 8,527
Glasgow & South-Western
42054_43
465:306;1:
33143,;828346620:629651 331123;22848.4759:993077
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union - 7271
Great Northern
Great North of Scotland.., +:3
41 1,131 850
Do Branches
tw/VeessfAnred.") 1 1
12:8750171 1218177501 6171, :5677660319: 671 !
~ ,3:814:158
Great'6.4tt.Sk‘o °urttl itnll.
Western
13 13 95 8 i
Hull & Hornsea
246 216 2,432 1,815
403 403 49,7;0 35,190
241 211 20 i 112
201 261 106 131
461 461 428 562
20* 20 t 450 456
LLILIHE :roll Limerickialinnnbg: inhdc aheevori North-Western
1 chVok&i rrdaa
natels
NhlnS:dodyWrilEt' :I:insr-YtknWnesiresi 1 i rens. s. tee rn. . . 12741 1273 / 104 ,3 0
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast , 17q 20,797 9188:727000
2931 2674 16,923 15,519
London, Chatham, & Dover ; j 134 127 1 7,999 6,322
all Metropolitan .Extension 112 11& j 1,0 450
Do. Kent Coast
0 430
Lou., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheilield, & Linoolnsh .. 246 216 2 ,217 16,735
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 9& 94 1,3.15 1,238
Slaryport and Carlisle ....... 28 28 1,574 1.186
Metropolitan
41 8/ 3,672 2,4,3
. . .
Midland (incl. N.-Western).. 6774 6511 48,291 43, 160
Midland G t.Westn. of Irind... 2601 2601 4,130 4,772
Monmouthsh. Hail. & Canal.. 44 44 2,429 2,074
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
NN(-)l;_ltahstie.,ornwiaonnd Stock. & Dark 12710027) 1160*651 62:,111.(15 8233:1171
258 258 7,716 5i
North Staffordshire lOl
Pembroke and Tenby ' ll4 114
957 992
191 191 .___ lillymney
-
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 f,'&2 728
66 68 8.1,1 3, ;77
Somerset and Dorset
18
_79 19.227 17.t,50
South Devon
315 .r, 4,7,8
2,4,0
South-Eastern
61 ''' 2,831 . 8 Taff Vale
1054 1661 Jo 155
Ulster
10 10 5;9 371
Vale of Clwyd. 3l
31 1,421 2,129
Waterford and Kilkenny 77
670 115
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Propositions have been made in the New York
Legislature to forcibly close all the "waiter girl " saloons
and dance houses in New York.
Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, has delivered
his message. The State debt is $2,664,550. Wisconsin
furnished 91,373 men for the war.
A large number of vessels have been chartered
to bring bamboo from Jamaica to New York for the
manufacture of paper. Paper is so high that bamboo has
been experimented upon and is found to produce a cheap
and excellent article.