The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-26 00:00:00

SPOR EING INTELLIGENCE.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1867.
;JANUARY.
Manchesterl
FEBRUARY.
Linarcolnro Spring
H w
MARCH.
Liverpool Spring
Chelmsford Spring l2 I Lewes Spring ............
West Drayton l9 Croxtou Park ............ 29 Bromley

APRIL.
Northampton
lt
Windsor Spring 4 Durham .. ............... 22
Edinburgh Sp. Meeting G Newmarket Ist Spring.. 22
Newmarket Craven 8 Outten&
Curragh

MAY. _
Chester (continued) ... 1 I Harpenden
York Spring 7 1 Epsom Summer
Salisbury 9 Newton 29
Doncaster Spring
Bath
JUNE.
,
Ascot Summer 4 I Stockbridge l9
Windsor Summer
Manchester Summer ... 12 1 Newcastle .... 25
Hampton l3 1 Curragh
Odihain l7l Worcester Summer 27
Bibury Club lB lpswich . 27
----

JULY.
Carlisle 2 Down Royal Corporatn, 17
Newmarket July 2 I Stamford .................. 18
Pontefract
Reading ..... 9 1 Winchester
Liverpool July Meeting 10 I Southampton ...........
Hungerford
Nottingham July
AUGUST.
Goodwood (continued). 1 1 York August
Ripon
Brighton •• 6 West Drayton 22
Brighton Club 8 Plymouth..... 23
Lowes
Egham ... . l3 Lichfield
Wolverhampton l3 1 Derby Summer
Stockton
Oxford ..... 15 Tunbridge
Hastings _ 20
___. .._____

SEPTEMBER.

Warwick
Margate
Curragh

Leicester
Abingdon
Doncaster

Richmond l7
Hendon l9
Monmouth

Manchester Autumn 25
Newmarket Ist October 24
25

•
OCTOBER.
Northampton Autumn. 1 Curragh
I
Edinburgh Autumn
... 2 Newmarket Houghton . 21
Newmarket 2d October 7 I Worcester Autumn 22
Cheltenham l5

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867.

TANUARY.

Manchester 1
FEBRUARY.
Carmarthen 5 Harrow Spring . 21
Birmingham l2 Derby
Windsor

MARCH.
Liverpool Spring
Grand Military
Chertaey
Malton ..... 13 I

APRIL.
York
Se venoaks

Aston, Cheshiro Mr. Warwick

COURSING.

COURSING MEETINGS TO COME.
DECEMBER.

Name. Judge. Days of Running
Coale, Lockerbie

JANUARY, 1867.
Huntingdon Club Mr. Warwick
Lincolnshire, Holbeach Mr. Spafford
Coole, co. Cork (Open)
Third S. Lancashire, (South-
port (Open) Mr. Westropp 9, 10, 11
Spelthorne Club Mr. Warwick 9, 10, 11.
Border Union (Longtown)
Cumberland Mr. Warwick l5, 16
Barton-on-Humber, Lincoln. Mr. Spafford
Altcar Club, Lancashire...... -
Wigtonsh. Club (Stranraer) Mr. Boulton
Little Crosby Mr. Welding
County Louth Club, Ireland Mr. Spafford
Ridgway Club, Lytham - 80 (tc.
FEBRUARY.

Raiford, Lancashire
Cardiff Club • Mr. Warwick l4, 15
Waterloo, Lancashire...
-
Taniworth, Staffordshire ... Mr. Warwick 26, Ac.

MARCII.

Irish Grand National (Open),

6, 7

7, &c.

county Loutn
Ardrossan, Sharphill
South Laueashiro (South-
port) Champion Mr. Westropp l4, 15, &c
Leiuster (Open) Courtowa... Mr. IL Springsll l9, 20
Scottish o,,en, Lanarkshire -

BLONDIN IN DUBLIN. —Suanders's News-Letter
i says :--46 Among the attractions provided for the
public during the present week, the foremost position must
be assigned to the engagement of the truly celebrated
Blondin by the directors of the Exhibition Palace. During
the past 18 months Blondin has made a tour through
Europe, earning golden opinions in the principal cities of
France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. The most eloquent
pens have been employed to record his achievements, but
jao amount of praise has been beyond his extraordinary de-
serts. Iris courage, skill, agility, grace, and ingenuity have
elicited the warmest encomiums, and he merits them all.
" The hero of Niagara," a title awarded Blondin by the
enthusiastic Americans, was fairly won, and every subse-
quent enterprise has only served to confirm the adven-
turous gymnast in his elevation. Blondin's performance
does not constitute the only entertainment offered to the
visitors of the Exhibition Palace. A. theatre has been
fitted up for the exhibition of a series of tableaux, and a
variety of dances by Madame Jarlini's automata, peculiarly
suited to the holiday folk. An elaborate programme, now
in circulation, gives the details of the uniqne representa-
tion; and we have little doubt that the comtinations of
music, song, and Terpsichorean grouping will afford great
delight to all class of visitors.

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting M.
Elie de Beaumont presented the academy with a copy
of the work he hadconamunicated to that bodylast year, as
our readers may recollect, on the numerical data fixing, on
the surface of France and the adjacent countries, the inter-
sections of 29 great circles of the pentagonal network. This
book was also accompanied with the six sheets of the geo-
logical map of France, another of the great works under-
taken many years ago by the distinguished perpetual secre-
tary of the academy, in conjunction with the late M.
Dufeenoy. M. Elie de Beaumont on this occasion stated
the remarkable fact that the two maps, the geological one
and that containing the pentagonal network, being both
executed on the same scale, coincided perfectly if one of
them was applied on the other. A communication was re-
ceived from M. Dumour on the composition of the stone
implements found in the Celtic monuments and among
savage tribes. The substances ho considers aro amphibo-
lite, aphanite, diorite, saussurite, and sturotide, all minerals
containing large proportions of snide, alumuia, and oxides
of iron, besides other loss important ingredients. M. Paul
Gervais wrote a paper on the fresh water fish of Algeria,
stating that two genera more may be added to the list of
seven which had hitherto been considered the only ones
existing in that country. These genera are the Cobius and
Coptodus, the latter of which alone is unknown to the rivers
of Europe, and bears some resemblance to the Bola of the
Nile. A series of 21 cryptogimic preparations, stated to
represent different states of the Meralius lachryu:;lwteasd
sent in by M. Leube, a German physiologist,
who
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ECLIPSES IN 1807.—There will be four eclipses in
the course of tho next year. 1. An annular eclipse of the
sun, March 6, visible at Greenwich 8.17 a.m. 2. A putial
eclipse of the moon, March 20, invisible at Greenwich. 8
A total eclipse of the sun, Aug. 29, invisible at Greenwich
4. A partial eclipse of the moon, Sept. 13, visible at Green
wich, begins at 10.57 p.m.

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