The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-15 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGRNO.—This Day.

CITY BETTING—(Tms DAY).
EBOR HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Glendale (taken)
10 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken)
12 to I agst Zenobia (taken)
DERBY.
100 to 8 agst D'Estournel (taken)
15 to 1 agst Marksman (taken)
20 to 1 agst Rake (taken)
22 to 1 agst Hermit (taken)
33 to 1 agst Cerfvolant (taken)
50 to 1 agst Pedagogue (taken)
50 to 1 agst Bombastes (taken)

AMATEUR E(ANDICAP F
(From a Correspondeni

'OR THE CES A RE WITCH
t of the Sporting Life.)

Age at lb
The Duke ... 4 9 5
Soapstone ... 6 9 2
0 st regor ... 4 9 0
Elland 4 8 12
John Davis ... 5 8 10
Moulsey .. 5 8 9
Broomielaw ... 4 8.9
Cambuscan 5 8 8
Brown Bread 4 8 7
Regalia ... ... 4 8 7
Lord Lyon ..• 3 8 7
Klarinska,
... 4 8 6
Scamander
... 6 8
Rustic •.• ... 3 8 5
Longdown...
... 4 8 4
Sundeelah,.., 5 8 3
Breeze 5 8 3
Gontran 4 8
Mathilde 4 8
King Charming 4 8 2
Kangaroo ••. 4 8 2
Tourmalet ... 4 8 0
Scarborough ... 4 8 0
Archimedes ... 4 7 13
Ackworth ••• 5 7 13
Bradamante 5 7 12
Bea Earl 4 7 10
Fidelite 5 7 10
Tormentor ... 3 7 9
Dr. Syntax ... 6 7 9
Pearl Diver ... 6 7 9
Gibraltar • ... a 7 8
Lord Ronald. 4 7 8
Salpinctes ... 4 7 8
Sandal ... 5 7 7
Wild Agnes ... 4 7 .7
1 Hartshorn 3 7 7
Matamore 4 7 7
Mail Train ... 5 7 7
Nu 4 7 7
Godmersham 4. 7 6
Planet ... 5 7 6
La Fortune ... 4 7 6
Arkenside ... 4 7 5
Mr. Pitt ... 3 7 5
Ethelred ... 5 7 5
Redan ... 3 7 4
Pintail ... 5 7 4
Nightvatch ... 4 7 4
Gomera ... 4 7 3
Peon ... ... 5 7 3
Watchbox... ... 4 7 3
Harry Brailsford.., 4 7 3
Tourmalin 3 7 3
Brahma ...4 7 3
Friday ... 4 7 2
Philosopher ... 6 7 4
Flare-up ... 4 7 2
Pepper's Ghost ... 4 7 2
II Re Galantuomo 4 7 2
Lightning ... 4 7 2
Rama ... ... 3 7 1
Verdant ... ...4 7 1
Abergeldie ... 3 7 0
Musketeer... 4 7 0
Blue Riband ... 3 7 0
Lightheart ... 4 7 0
Wild Parsley ... 4 6 13
Comus 6 6 13
Dayrell ... 4 6 13
Flatcatcher 3 6 12
Wild Poppy ... 4 6 12
Harefield ... 3 6 12
Czar ... ... 3 6 12
Endsleigh ... 4 6 12
Love Apple ....4 6 11
Dean Swift ... 5 6 11
Valiant ... ... 5 6 11
Lady Tredegar ... 4 6 10
Lothario ... 3 6 10
Guido ...4 6 10
Ceylon ... ...3 6 10
Ischia ... 3 610
Holstein ... 6 9
Elfeta ...3 6 9
Miss Haworth ... 3 6 9
Lively ... 4 6 9

Age st lb
I Treasure Trove 8 6 9
Podargus ... 3 6 9
Lucifer 3 6 S
Dulcimer ... 4 6 7
Rococo ... ... 3 6 7
Siberia ... ... 4 6 7
Lady Bohun ... 5 6 7
Lecturer ... ... 3 6 7
Miss Stephenson
gelding ... 6 6 7
llawkswell 3 6 6
Duke of York 3 6 6
Surney 4 6 6
Camellia, 4 6 6
Dalesman ... 3 6 6
Scheldt 4 6 6
Dubiety ... 4 6 6
Advance ... 4 6 6
Carouge 4 6 6
War „. 3 6 6
Queen Mary ... 3 6 5
Miss Harriette 3 6 5
Sealskin 3 6 5
Terror 3 6 5
Lochiel ... 3 6 5
Belmont ... 3 6 5
Freedom ... 3 6 5
Emigrant ... ... 3 6 5
Helen _ 5 6 4
Othello 1.. 3 6 4
Cranford
... 3 6 4
Eakring
... 3 6 4
Belzoni 3 6 4
Roland 3 6 3
Zenobia ... 4 6 3
West wick ... 3 6 3
Retrousse ... 3 6 3
Farce ... 6 6 3
Gong ... 3 6 3
The Special ... 3 6 2
Princess of Wales 4 6 2
Violent ...3 6 2
Proserpine 3 6 2
Vigorous ... 3 6 2
Ameer 4 6 2
Aldcroft 3 6 2
Brimstone... ... 3 6 2
Fan ••• ..• 4 6 2
Plutus ... 3 6 1
Dagmar !... ... 3 6 1
O by Promised Land
—Rather High ... 3 6 1
Jollity 3 6 1
Stabber ...3 6 0
Primate ... 3 6 0
Hopvine ... 3 6 0
Loaf Sugar 3 6 0
Quick March ... 3 5 13
La Favorite ... 3 5 13
Messmate ... 3 513
Acta3a ... 3 5 13
Prince of Wales ... 3 5 12
Ninco Nanco ... 3 5 12
Glendale ... 3 5 12
Black Prince 3 5 12
Splitvote 3 5 11
Squire ...3 5 11
Lady Vane 3 5 10
Chronometer ... 3 5 10
Chepstow :.. ... 3 5 10
Caithness ... 3 5 10
Mrs. Allen ... 3 5 9
Slender 3 5 9
Slieve Carne ... 3 5 9
Monk of Avon ... 3 5 8
Gentile Dame ... 3 5 8
Fleur des Bois ... 3 5 8
Potomac ... 3 5 8
Verite 3 5 7
Sportsman ... 3 5 7
Miss Williams ... 3 5 7
Fire-eater ... ... 3 5 7
Duet ... ...3 5 7
Medina ... ... 3 5 7
Jetty Treffz c 3 5 7
Outcast ... 3 5 7
Thalia ...3 5 7

RACING FIXTL
AUG

JRES FOR 1866.
UST.

Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings " 21
York August 2l
Dover 2?
Plymouth

Lichfield
Tuubridge 26
Yarmouth
Derby Summer 29
Weymouth 29
Baden Baden
IMBER.
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 25
Newmarket Ist October 25
Walsall . 27
Lanark 2B

SEPT

Warwick September 4
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Breon l7
Canterbury lB
Richmond
OCT,

Northampton 2
Lothians' Racing Club 3
Ryl. Cal. Hunt and Kelso 8
Bedford 4
NOV]

Lincoln

Newmarket 2d October... 8
Hereford ..... 18
Newmarket Houghton ... 22

iMBE R.

Shrewsbury _ ll

Liverpool
IRISH RACING FIXTURES.
SEPTEMBER.

Curragh 4, 5, 6
OCTOBER.

Curragh - 16,-17 18
FRENCH RACING FIXTURES.
AUGUST.

Cherbourg l9 1 Tarbes l9, 22
Le Mans l9 Blois 26, 28
Laon l9 20 e-
_ , Badnßaden 3l

SEPT

:AIBER.

Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7
Chantilly

Paris (Autumn) 23, 30

S HIPPING INTELLIGE NCE---This Day.

LONDON, Aug. 15.—Wind this day at noon —North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 14.—Wind s.w._ Sailed—Caro-
line Harris, for Quebec.

QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Royal
William, from Demerara ; Boreaß, from New York ; Eme-
rald, from Sulina.
BRISTOL, Aug. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Evernas,
from Trinidad.

CLYDE, Aug. 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—E. M. Fer-
moy, from Havanna.
FALMOUTH, Aug.
Holland, from Akyab.

13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Zaid

—CARDIFF, Aug. 12.-.-Wind N.W.—Sailed—Star Queen,
for Quebec.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 14.—Richard, from St. John's ; Beatrice,
from Demerara; Ann Moore, from Barbados ; Anniversary,
from Jamaica; Orange Girl, from Kingston; Plynlymon,
steamer, from Nantes ; Victor, steamer, from Brussels.
Sailed, Aug. 15.—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne ; Bel-
gium, steamer, for Ostend ; Lord John Russell, steamer,
for Dunkirk ; Vigilant, steamer, for Calais ; Eider, steamer,
for Brussels.

Arrived, Aug. 15. Olivia, steamer, from Dantsic; Orion,
steamer, from Rotterdam ; Edessa, from Guernsey ; Eve-
rard Delius, from New York; Jno. Wray, from Dunkirk;
Come On, from Constadt; Batavier, steamer, from Rot-
terdam; Sara, steamer, from Trquville,:-Ofty of Hamburg,
steamer, from Havre.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Passed, Aug. 14.--Golden Sea, from London, for Port
Phillip ; Helena Donner, from Hamburg, for Cardiff ; Pris-
cilla, from the Cape of Good Hope, for London.
Passed (in tow).—Warwick Castle, from Calcutta, for
London.

Passed.—Margaret (of Shields), and Philemon (of Dart-
mouth), from the north, for the west.
Anchored—Lily, from Porto Rico.

HAS THE MOON AN ATMOSPHERE ?—This is per-
haps the question of deepest interest connected with our
satellite, involving as it does the conditions on which, so
far as we can conceive, the possibility of life in any sense
of the word must inevitably rest. Without the presence
of air, and of its correlative, water, our minds can picture
nothing but the solitude and the silence of death. That
N:
such, in tact, is the present condition of the mooltasie th
all but unanimous verdict of scientific °briers are dis-
moveable spots suggestive of clouds or vs:of,:
the belts p
Jupitor
cernible on the moon's face,
or the mobile spots of Mars. Nsuocthraaacs
esseen at the point
of the usual pheno-
mena of atmospheric ref:action area
disc, either on the
of occultation of stars by the
Thena moment of immersion
dark or the luminous limbc.alculation is exactly that at
previously determined b
is
ooybserved to take place, or at least
which the immersion
of. exactitude, allowing for the
agrees with it to involve a density of
ordinary limits
thousandth part of the density of
fae(ll-Z,ewhic would
atmosphere only ono thousandth
such vacuum as this can, in fact, be
our own.
There pro-
duced oven by our most powerful air-pumps.
re-
mains the phenomenon of Baily's Beads. But it is gene-
rally agreed amongst astronomers that these appearances
are to be referred to a totally different kind of solution
Schrceter, indeed, was induced to think he had detected a
lunar twilight, through observing a faint glimmer at the
extreme cusps of the crescent soon after new moon. From
this he could infer the existence of an atmosphere to a cal-
culated height of 450 metres above the mean level of the
plains. But his observation has not been borne out by
later experimentalists. On the contrary the extreme sharp-
ness of the lunar shadows, and their intense darkness, ex-
tending equally from the top to the bottom of the moun-
tains, together with the absence of gradations or differences
of tint, forbid the idea of gaseous or atmospheric strata of
varying intensity.—Saturday Review.