The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-09 00:00:00

WOOL.

The hope of approaching peace on the continent has pro-
duced more firmness in the market for wool. The
amount of kitsinegti doing in the market, however, is very

moderate at about the late decline in prices. Last week's
import was about 10,000 bales.
Current prices of English wool per lb.
d s d
Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 4 1 5}
Half-bred do . 1 6 1 7
Kent fleeces
South Down ewes and wethers 1 4 1 5
Leicester do
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

SPORTING IN lELLIGENCE.

THE MANCHESTER MARKET.
The Goodwood Stakes is the only future event which
appears to attract any speculation, and for that event The
Special has a host of friends at half a point over his quoted
price. A commission is evidently in the market to back
Black Prince, 100 to 8 being freely taken. La Fortune
continues firm at about the same odds. Lucifer has been
supported for a good deal of money during the last few
days, whilst Nu appears to have a very unhealthy appear-
ance. Below is a list of the latest betting :

GOODWOOD STAKES.
7to 2 agst The Special (taken)
7to 1 agst Midia colt (off.)
100 to 8 agst Black Prince (taken freely)
100 to 8 agst Potomac (taken)
100 to 8 agst La Fortune (taken freely)
100 to 7 agst Lucifer (taken)
100 to 7 agst Nu (off.)
100 to 6 agst Surney (taken)
100 to 6 agst °pinball (taken)
20 to 1 agst Bradamante (off.)

DONCASTER RACES.—We understand that the race com-
mittee, acting upon the suggestion of the Jockey Club, have
intimated to the stewards of the Doncaster Races that it is
their desire that nothing should in future be deducted from
the St. Leger and other stakes to which public money is
not added.—Doncaster Gazette.

The Duke of Beaufort's appointment as Master of the
Horse has given the greatest satisfaction, and it was
generally supposed that the superior qualifications of the
Earl of Coventry for the Mastership of the Buckhounds
would not be overlooked ; no little surprise, therefore, has
been caused by the selection of Lord Colville for the post.
THE CUP.—Mr. R. Sutton has challenged for the Cup
with Elland, 4 yrs. It has to be run at the forthcoming
Newmarket Houghton Meeting. The Marquis of Hastings
is the present holder.

TILE QUEEN.—This filly, who was backed for the Oaks,
was sold at Newmarket on Wednesday for 30 guineas.
The following brood mares, with their foals, the property
of Mr. Jackson, of Fairfield,,if not previously disposed of,
will be sold by auction at the York August Meeting—viz.
Wish, Summerside, Abbess of Jerveaus, Witchcraft, Clap,
net, and My Partner.
ACHIEVEMENT.—This filly has won seven races in succes-
sion, the aggregate value being £6,052. Lord Lyon won
as a two year old £4,385; Liddington, £4,375; Fille de
I'Air, £2,935; Saccharometer, £3,210; and Old Calabar,
£2,720. The above-mentioned were the highest winners
at two years old in their respective years, so that the per-
formances of Achievement as a two year old, both as re-
gards the number of races and the amount won, are unpre-
cedented in the annals of the turf.

The Duke of Hamilton has purchased Cortolvin for
£BOO.

Begum was claimed by Mr. Wakeley, after winning the
£5O Plate at at Newmarket on Tuesday.
All Mr. Padwick's horses, in training by Drewitt, are
said to ho under offer to the Duke of Hamilton.

Mr. Merry has engaged J. Grimshaw as his first jockey.
H. Covey, the well-known light weight, has entered into
an engagement as first jockey to Count Batthyany, Mr.
Savile having second claim ; and he will in future reside
at Newmarket.

M. Andre has sold the French three year old Czar, by
West Australian out of Cossachia, to Major Fridolin,
for £1,600, and he has gone into C. Pratt's stable, at
Chantilly.
Baron Rothschild's two year old filly by North Lincoln
out of Molly was claimed by Mr. W. Morris at Newmarket
on Wednesday. Hatty, who ran in the same race, was
claimed by Mr. Bevill.
Dark Agnes and Poetess are struck out of their Ponte-
fract engagements.

Mr. W. G. Craven has named his yearling colt by Young
Melbourne out of Urania, Southern Cross.
The Earl of Coventry, Lord Henry Bentinck, and Vis-
count Combermere are to be selected as judges of the hun-
ters at the great Birmingham Horse Show next week.
Mat Dawson has made arrangements with a noble Duke
to train for him, and will occupy Heath House, Newmar-
ket, in a few days.
Mr. Cotton claimed the two year old filly by Vedette
out of Present after winning on Tuesday, at Newmarket.
H. Gray having served his apprenticeship to Mr. Goater
is open to an engagement as jockey either in France or
England. Lowest riding weight 7st 61b.
Captain Coventry's colours are altered to red, blue
sleeves, red cap ; Mr. F. Mitchell's are green, amber cap
and Mr. Gilbert Stirling's,;straw,►green sleeves, black cap.
The Stewards' Cup, Nursery, and Chesterfield Cup, at
Goodwood, close and name on Tuesday next.
Lieutenant-Colonel Marshall and the officers of
the 2d Life Guards had the honour of entertaining their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of
Edinburgh, attended by Major Grey and the Hon. Eliot
Yorke, at Hyde-park Barracks, on Saturday last. The
following had the honour of being invited to meet their
royal highnesses : —Count Gleichen, the Duke of Beaufort,
the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord
Methuen', Hon. C. Carrington, M.P., Sir Edmund Filmer,
Sir Hedworth Williamson, M.P., Lieut-. Col. Fraser, 11th
Hussars, Hon. 0. Montague, Mr. W. H. Dyke, M.P., and Mr.
Andrew Cockerill. The whole of the officers were present
to meet theirroyal highnesses. The regimental band, under
Mr. Froehnert, performed during dinner, and the regimen-
tal " nigger" band, under Corporal-Major Woodhouse, per-
formed selections from the negro melodies afterwards.
The Marquis of Hastings's horses were struck out of the
Nottingham handicaps immediately after his lordship saw
the weights.
No little sensation was created at Newmarket this week
by the making of an after-dinner match for ten thousand
pounds a side, five thousand forfeit—a younger son's fortune
—between the highest priced yearling of the Middle Park
sale one of the Stockwell's recently purchased in the
Hooton lot, to run as two year olds. But still greater sur-
prise was expressed when it became known that one of the
contracting parties to the engagement was merely an "act-
ing manager," whose assumption of so gigantic a responsi-
bility in the absence of, and without consulting, his noble
employer, has afforded ample scope for serious comment
amongst the higher circles of the Turf. We have since
heard that the match has been altered to £l,OOO a side,
500 forfeit.—Sporting Gazette.

WRIGH2'SITELEGRAMS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sgt,—According to promise, I beg to enclose you the
letter I have received from the Secretary of the United
Kingdom Telegraph Company. The racing public will
thus see that Windham being third (instead of Red Earl)
for the Northumberland Plate was no fault of either my
servants or myself.—l remain, sir, yours, &c.,

WILLIAM WRlcarr.

16, York-street, London, July 6,

Copy of a letter from the United Kingdom Telegraph
Company.
" 237, Gresham House, July 6.
" Sir,—l have made strict inquiry into the matter of
your complaint as to an error in your message of the 27th
ult., from the Newmarket race-course, giving the result
of the Northumberland Plate, and I find that in the
hurry of business our clerk transcribed from the Morse
band the wrong name for the third horse. I very much
regret the occurrence and the annoyance you have been
caused. The clerk in fault has been punished, and I hope
that it will be tho means of preventing a recurrence. I
would call your attention to the fact that, notwithstanding
the very large amount of telegrams which we have trans-
mitted on your account, an error has not been brought
home ;to our employes for a very long time.—Yours re-
spectfully, (Signed)
" W. ANDREWS, Secretary and Manager.
" W. Wright, Esq."'

THE ROAD MIIRDER.—The action for damages
brought by Mr. and Mrs. Kent against the Edinburgh Daily
Review has been withdrawn, the proprietors of the news-
paper having consented to pay the sum of £350 in name of
damages, in addition to the publication of a retraction and
apology. The article containing the remarks complained
of was published on the 27th of July, 1865, and contained
statements regarding Mrs. Kent's position in life before her
marriage, and her treatment of Constance Kent, and also
made reflections on Mr. Kent's proceedings during the in-
vestigations preceding the confession and trial of his
daughter. The action was set down for trial before a jury
at Edinburgh on the 22d of May, but when the court met
that day the trial was postponed, pending negotiations for
a settlement. The Daily Review of Friday contains the fol-
lowing statement :—" In consequence of this article an
action was raised in the Court of Session in Scotland by
Mr. and Mrs. Kent against the proprietors of the Daily
Review for libel, which led the proprietors of the Review to
institute minute inquiries into the truth of the statements
contained in that article The result of these inquiries was
to show that these statements were not true, and that the
conductors of the Daily Review had been misled by false
information. Defences were immediately lodged to the
summons, in which the statements were retracted and a
full apology made to Mr. and Mrs. gent; and tho pro-
prietors of the Review now take the opportnnity of giving
the same publicity to the apology as was given to the
article in question, and at the same time express their re-
gret that much pain must have been caused to Mr. and
Mrs. Kent by the publication of these statements."

THE GATESHEAD MURDER.— On Friday Cuth-
bert Carr, a person to appearance of weak intellect,
was brought before the Gateshead borough magistrates, on
remand, charged do his own confession with the wilful
murder of Sarah Melvin, a child of seven years of ago,
at
Carr's-hill, oh tho 13th April. The depositions of tho wit-
nesses who found the body of the child, and of the paronts,
and medical gentlemen were read over and signed, the
facts spoken to being precisely those already reported in
The Sun. Tho prisoner said he did not deny anything.
that he had confessed to Chief-constable Elliott, and he
was committed to take his trial at the Durham Assizes
upon a charge of wilful murder.
A lump of gold, taken from the North Carolina
gold mines, weighing five pounds, is on exhibition at
Statesville, North Carolina. it is the larges,t lump found
in the ptate since 1828.

THE WAR IN GERMANY.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

PRUSSIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, PARDUBITZ,2
July 9.

The army of the Crown Prince, which forms the
tete d'armee of the Prussian force, is already far
beyond Pardubitz.
The proportion of the wounded is eight Austrians
to one Prussian. •

THE ITALIAN LOSS AT CUSTOZZA.

FLORENCE, July 9.

A supplement to the official Gazette, published to-
day, contains the following report of the Italian
losses in the battle of Custozza on the 24th ult.
The loss among the officers was 69 killed, 203
wounded, 63 prisoners, and 20 missing.
The First Army Corps had 369 men killed, 1,719
wounded, and 2,853 prisoners and missing. The
Second Corps, 2 wounded and 9 prisoners. In the
Third Corps there were 281 killed, 1,135 wounded,
and 1,362 prisoners and men missing. The Reserve
Cavalry Division had 1 killed, 13 wounded, and 38
prisoners.

Total loss in men, 651 killed, 2,909 wounded,
and 4,252 prisoners and men missing.

OVERLAND MAILS.
OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS.

MALTA, July 7.
The Nyanza, from Southampton, June 27,
arrived on the 6th instant, at 4 a.m., and left at 4
p.m. for Alexandria.
The Ripon, from Marseilles, on the sth instant,
arrived at 9 p.m. to-day, and will leave at 2 p.m.
to-morrow for Alexandria.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
VALENTIA, July 9.

The Albany arrived here yesterday afternoon
She landed stores for this station, and sailed to-day
at noon to join the cable fleet at Berehaven.
Her Majesty's frigate Racoon, Capt. Armitage,
is in this harbour, and will proceed to sea to assist
in the operation of splicing on Wednesday next.