The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-28 00:00:00

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NEWCASTLE RACES—Trus DAT.
• AXWELL PARK STAKES.

1

Six ran.

RACING FIXTI
JIT
Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reacting
Nottinghain
Down Royal
Knutsford
Stamford l9

TES FOR 1866.

Radeliko 23
Winchester- 24
Spilsby
E 4
Chesterfield
Southampton • 25
I Huntingdon
°ROD 29
I Goodwood 3l.

AUG

Airdrio _2
Deauville
Ripon 6
Brighton 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egli= l4
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6

OCT

Northampton
2
Lothians' Racing Club 3
Ityl. Cal. Hunt and Kelso 3
Bedford 4
SEP
Warwick September.
4
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Brecon l7
Canterbury lB
Richmond

Lincoln NOVFMBER.
1 Shrewsbury ...............
Liverpool
Hunt ......... I'J
IRISH RACING FIXTURES.
JULY.
Carlow
SEPTEMBER.

Curragh
41 5, 6
OCTOBER.

Curragh
FRENCH

Toulouse JU
1
St. Omer
Rouen
Metz B, 9
Amiens

Deauville...... 4, 4,5, 6
lk)chefort 5
13ourge5...
Valenciennes
Moulins
Cherbourg lO

SEPT.
Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7
Chantilly

16, 17 la
:LTG FIXTURES.

rLY.
I Abbeville
Le Pin 22
Chalon-sur-Saone ... 22, 23
Saintos 2B, 29
Caen 29, 30, 31
FUST.
Le Mans
Laon IP, 20
Tarbes l9, 22
Blois 26, 28
Baden-Baden 3l,

MBEP.
Paris (Autumn) 23, 30

TURF AGENCY OFFICE,
100, Jermyn-street, St. James's, LONDON.
MR. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter-
sall's) executes COMMISSIONS (by letter only)
on all the principal races throughout the season, from
upwards, on receipt of cash or Post-office Order (payable
at Piccadilly office). COMMISSIONS as usual at starting
prices on the day of a raee at all the principal meetings.
For further particulars and prices, see the advertisement in
The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY and SATUR-
DAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded
on receipt of stamped directed envelope.
N.13.—1t is particularly requested that ALL LETTERS
containing CASH be registered.
The Sporting Life, Aug.2o, 1864.—" We are satisfied that
all intending backers of horses, who may have been for-
merly in doubt whom to trust, will, without fear or hesita-
tion, send their commissions, to any amount, to 100,
Jerinyn-street."

THE WAR IN GERMANY.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

Brrum.-, June 27. 7
Last night the army of the Elbe had a successful
engagement near Turnau, taking seven Austrian
officers and 500 men.

TEE AUSTRIAN AND ITALIAN ARMES
IN THE TYROL.
BERNE, June 27.
The Austrians have returned to the first station
upon the Stelvio. ,
The Italians have taken up a position near the
Pont du Diable.

Liverpool Cotton Market—(This Day.)

Market opens quiet at unchanged prices. Sales
probably 8 or 10,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. This Day.

LONDON, June 28.—Wind this day at noon—North;
light broczo and sultry weather.
BIUSTOL, June 27.—Wind S.W. - Arrived—Nelson, from
Quebec.

LryzuPoor., June 27.—Wind
for Sierra Leone.
OFF LIVERPOOL, June 27.—Arrived—Imurch, from
St. John's, N.B.

CARDIFF, June 27.—Wind S.W —Sailed—Golden Age,
for Callao.
PORTSEOUTH, Juno 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Percy,
from Auckland, N.Z.
COWES, June 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Baltic, screw
steamer, from New York.

SOUTHAMPTON, June 27. —Wind S.W.—Sailed—Sasonia,
screw steamer, for Now York.

LBT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I

GRAYum; Thursday Morning.
Arrived, June 27.—Centurion, from Sydney ; Star, from
Riga; Wild Duck, from Wellington, New Zealand.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed.—Veritas, of Guernsey, from the north, for the
west ; Sea Belle, from London, for Hongkong.
Passed in tow—Lucibelle, from Melbourne, for London.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
,o this day, aro in round figures as under :

1866. 1865.
Great Western 77,156 74,818
North Western 124,390 121,497
South Western 97,257 80,801
Brighton
29,979 22,`257

Midland
South Eastern 25,833 25,272
Great Northern
Lancaster and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 7,763 7,280
North Eastern 72,051 69,828
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 21,281 19,651
Great Eastern
London and Chatham and Dover
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are generally
of a favourable character. On the Great Western
there is an increase of £2,838 ; on the North-
Western of £2,893 ; on the Brighton of £722 ;
on the Midland of £1,238 ; on the South-Eastern
of £561; on the Great Northern of £338 ; on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire of £4,058 ; on the Bristol
and Exeter of £483 ; North-Eastern of £2,223 ;
on the Manchester, Sheffield, andLinDcoovlnerofofilo,36933:
and on the London, Chatham, and
while the South-Western shows a decrease of
£3,544 • and the Great Eastern of £ll6.
Venezuela six per Cent. Loan , 1864.—The General
Credit and Finance Company of London (Limited)
are
in receipt of adviceadvicefrom their agents, Messrs.
H. L. Bola's° and Co" dated La Guaira, Jan 8,
1866, of duties callected and remitted on account
of the above loan, as follows :—Per statement No.
93, from Porto Cabello, $5,354.86 ; per statement
No. 94, from Porto Cabello, $3,572.52; per state-
ment No. 80, from La Guaira, $3,277 ; per state-
ment No. 81, from La Guaira, $12,101.74 ; total,
$24,309.12.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Now that excursion trains
are daily reaching the metropolis from every part of the
kingdom, we venture to call the special attention of visitors
to Madame Tussaud's popular historical gallery hi Baker-
street, where an intellectual hour may be well spent. Life-
size portrait models of most of the distinguished personages
of Europe are to be seen therein, including those of the
Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, the King of Italy,
Garibaldi, &c. &c.

0 W LSLIGHT.—Prince Teck has, been offend a com-
mand in the Austrian army, and will leave England imme-
diately for Vienna. The Princess will probably accom-
pany him. We learn that the Duke of Argyll is likely to
be appointed chairman of the Royal Commission about to
be issued to inquire into and report upon the extent and
the mode of working of the coal fields of Great Britain.
Colonel Conolly, A.D.C., to the Lieutenant-General com-
manding at Aldershott, has proceeded to Frankfort as mill.
tary attache to the mission of Sir A. Mallet, K.C.B. A.
marriage is arranged between the Evelyn Ashley, second
son of the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Miss Sybella Farqu-
har, second daughter of Sir Walter and Lady Mary Farqu-
har ; also between Viscount Polhngton, eldest son of the
Earl of Mexberough, and Miss Venetia Errington, daughter
of Sir Rowland Errington ; and between Miss Bertha Tal-
bot, daughter of Mr. Mansell Talbot., M.P., and Mr.
Fletcher, son of Mr. and Lady Charlotte Fletcher. We
are informed that Mr. Winter Jones; keeper of the depart-
ment of punted books in the British" Museum, will suc-
ceed Mr. Pauizzi as librarian.--The Owl.