The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-02 00:00:00

RACING FIXT.

Newmarket
Carlisle
Worcester
Liverpool July
Abingdon .. 9
Pontefract 11

AUG
Lewes
Brighton
Brighton Club 9
Wolverhampton l2
Reading 14

SEPT'

Devon and Exeter
Stockton
Derby
Warwick lO
Lichfield

Doncaster l7

OCT,

16

Radcliff© l9
Egham 20
Oxford 22
York
Plymouth 29
;MBER.

Richmond 24
Leicester 25
Walsall 25
Monmouth 26
Manchester Autumn 27

iBER.

Londonderry:!
Curragh
IRELAND.

Down Royal Corporation.. 24

JULY.
13ellewstown 18 1 Down Royal Corporation.. 24

ALIGITST.

oath of Maryborough .. 8 I Roscommon 22

SEPTEMBER.

Curragh..
Tramore

OCTOBER:
New F 0
Newmarket S 0 l4

THE NEW ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Sir William
Atherton, who has been appointed Attorney-General, is the
son of the late Rev. William Atherton, a distinguished
minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, who was
sometime president of the conference. Sir William became
Solicitor-General, and received knighthood on the elevation
of Sir Henry Keating to a puisne judgeship in the Court
of Common. Pleas. Ho has for some years past represented
the City of Durham.

The armoured steamship Solferino, of 1,000-horse
power and to carry 52 rifled cannon, was successfully
launched at L'Orieut on the 24th June. The lines were de-
signed by M. Dupuy de Lome, and the ship built under
the superintendence of M. Duchalard. This completes the
six armoured steam men-of-war which are actually afloat.
The armoured frigate Heroine is to be laid down on the slip
from which the Couronne was launched some time back.
The Magenta, which was launched on the 22d June, is 282
feet long, 52± feet beam, and 451 feet in depth. The weight
of the hull when it left the slip was 2,700 tons; when fitted
with armour, engines, and armament, the weight will be
5,600 tons. M. Dupuy de Lome, Director of Naval Con-
struction at the Ministry of Marine, has received orders
from the Emperor to proceed on a tour of inspection of the
naval ports of France. The cadres of the personnel of the
navy are to be largely augmented, with a view to meet all
future requirements. The screw liner Massena left Toulon
for the Hyeres station to try her engines for four days.
MAN AND THE GORILLA.—On Saturday an in-
teresting and instructive lecture (being the first of a series3i
of five proposed) was given at the Crystal Palace, by r.
B. Waterhouse Hawkins, F.L.S., F.G.S. The course com-
prises, " The vertebrate animals from the lowest formuadru. to
the gorilla ; considering the special relation of the
mana to man." Thu syllabus a the introductorya;
unity of
was, " The architype and plan of the vertebrate glecture
design, with variety of adaptation to the conditionsh
earth,
' air, and water ; fish, reptiles, birds, ,
qan of the several
and mammals.
lecturer pointed out the peculiar organisation
respective elements torgisation o
f'
The
species of animals inhabiting the
which they belong; and, before concluding,
the gorilla,features,in many of its anatomical bore a strong
resemblance to a human being. The appearance of
the
brain was, however, very different. Whilst that of man was
convoluted, the brain of the gorilla was of a very opposite
character. The eyes of the human being proceeded directly
from the brain, whilst those of the gorilla appeared some-
what independent of it. It was a mistake to suppose that
1
the monkey was an upright animal. It was a climbing and
a jumping animal. We were perfectly safe, then, in reject..
ing the notion that there was any relationship between it
and ourselves. It was so far like man that it was biped,
nevertheless it was incapable of walking erect upon its hind
legs. The lecturer illustrated his remarks by frequent re-
ferences to a human skeleton, and to various skulls and
models with which he was furnished. His next lecture is
flied for Saturday, July 6,

The above returns show an increase of the last Mid-
summer quarter over the first one of the present financial
year of £2,613 7s. id., and over the Lady-Day quarter of
£3,092 Os. Bd., and, compared with the corresponding quar-
ter of 1860, of £5,778 17s. 3d.

£ s. d.
Total sale of land to Christmas, 1860.... 258,931 13 11

Total sale of land to Lady-day, 1861 262,619 14 5

Total sale of land to Midsummer, 1861.... 266,986 0 0

Total withdrawals from Sept., 1852, to 24th
of June, 1861 138,181 16 11

The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights are as
follow :
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
4091 3140 1651 8885
Doduct rights exercised on estates, &e... 6311

Unexercised rights 2574

The last Share Number on the Register by Seniority is No.
13,128, and the last share taken up to 24th Jams, 1861,
inclusive, was No. 16,811.
The second allotment of this year was on the 16th of
May last, when the Putney Common Estate, forming a
portion of the Roehampton Park Estate was offerecl at prices
ranging from £39 14s. Gd. up to £214 2s. Gd. per plot, thus
presenting to purchasers the selection of sites either for
high class villas or close built houses. On this occasion the
unsold portions of the h entish Town Estate were also sub-
mitted for choice, a new plan having been published, as the
Kentish Town Drainage had been completed tinder the
sanction of the Metropolitan and St. Pancras; Board of
Works at a very large outlay. Putney Common and Kentish
Town Estates, respectively situated the first in Surrey, the
second in Middlesex, are both valuable suburban proper-
ties,o possessing every advantage of easy communication
with London.
The next allotment will be on Wednesday, July
Estate,l7lh
w
when the third portion of the Woodbury Park.„be
Tunbridge Wells, and the new estate at Hertford, 11,
offered.
Tren:t, in Not-
effected at the thriving town of Nowark-on-
The forty-fourth land purchase of the society has been
tinghamshire. eort Board.that
The executive committee have the pl
The Rev. Dr. Worthington has retta'ar
on, Esq., have been
elected members of the Bourdt.he
Society's estates have the
11. W. Currie Esq., and C. E. Newcomers,
The purchasers of plots olnaims
for the freehold franchise
esdurferotmo ret:
mp rue
sptaarlesdo
advantage of having their cot.
expense at the r egistration.
in counties sustained fief)
that ho should be sup
rotei
csuoil solicitor r
The
ey be full:allottees
plied with
it is absolutely necessary
the requisite deeds and p
ciurts, but in order tharty'at
the most convenient 11. •
be careful to specifypo 111P,' districts
• which their property has been'
in the county in acquired.
Any alterations in qualifications, or changes of residence,
should be at once communicated.
The last day for send-
ing in the claims for the county franchise is Saturday, the
20th of July, and on or before that day the solicitor should
be put in possession of the necessary information, in order
that the allottees may be duly registered. Qualifications
for eighteen counties may be purchased through the Con-
servative Land Society, securing at the same
time safe in-
vestments in land. At the resent annual meeting of the
Conservative Registration Association, attention was em-
phatically called to the fact, that had the Conservative
Land Society received the yropcT amount of political pa-
tronage since its foundation, in addition to the extensive
commercial support it has met with, several co unties might
have been saved, besides those in which the good faith of
the Society's allottees was so successfully proved.
In order to appreciate the value of the Society's pur-
chases in various counties, it is only necessary to refer to
the tables of population and houses, compiled from the
census of the Bth of April last. In comparing the re-
markable increase of inhabitants from 1851 to :1861, with
the numbers of inhabited houses for the same p eriod, and
also those of houses building, the disproportii in of the
latter to the marked increase in the former, pr oyes that
land for building purposes will be in much greats r demand
to meet the additional accommodation that ma ist be re-
quired in course of time.
The executive committee have the great satia faction of
terminating their Thirty-fifth Quarterly Report with the
announcement that the Roehampton Park mansion, with a
considerable portion of land, has been advm:itageously
sold, leaving but a small portion of this valuabl )0 property
undisposed of.
The report was adopted unanimously, a vote of thanks
to the Chairman terminating the proceedings.