The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-17 00:00:00

SHREWSBURY RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

ABBEY STAKES.

Oltenitza
Laverna
Florence
Seven ran.

Bellman, Br.smpton, Phantom,
Border Chief, Ratb, and Bobby.

TATTERSALL'S, MONDAY.

The settling of the Liverpool accounts principally
occupied the attention of the few subscribers who
dropped into the room in the course of the afternoon.
The betting wag far from brisk, and the subjoined list of
prices was compiled from very email outlays.

SHREWSBURY HANDICAP.
7to 1 aget Hobgoblin (taken and offered)
7to 1 arst St. Giles (taken)
100 te 8 agst Shirah (taken)
DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Clydesdale (taken)
25 to 1 agst Vandyke (taken)
25 te 1 agst Ditto (taken)
30 to 1 agst Happy Land (taken)
50 to 1 agst Prince of Denmark (taken/
1600 to 20 aget Dumfries and Excelsior coupled (t)

The suspension has been announced of Messrs. Bard-
gett and Picard, an old house, largely engaged in the
corn trade. Their liabilities are stated to amount to
about 120,0001.
TENDERS FOR THE TASMANIAN DEBENTURES.—The
Hobart Town, Advertiser states that on the previous day
which was the period fixed for receiving the tenc:ers,
for the different sums in Government debentures which
have been advertised for, tenders for more than the
amount were sent in. More than half the amount was
tendered for at par, and at a premium. Indeed so high
a sum was tendered for at par as to render it unnecessary
to accept any tender below par.
RECASTING OF THE WESTMINSTER BELL.—Sir Benja-
min Hall and the commissioners, Professors Faraday and
Wheatstone and Mr. Denison, having visited the bell,
have deternaired that it shall be recast as soon as possi-
ble, by Messrs. Warner, the contractors. Fur this
purpose it will have to be broken up on the spot. The
debris of metal will then be removed to the foundry,
where the recasting process, it is calculated, will occupy
about two months. The process of cooling down the
metal will occupy a fortnight, and its cleaning about the
same period. It is understood that the same shape and
dimensions wil. be adhered to, and that early next year
the bell may be in its place.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. During the week
ending November 14 the visitors have been os fellows:—
On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday. free days, 2,403 ;
on Monday and Tuesday, free eveninv, 8.852 ; on the
three students' days (admission to the public GO, 500 ;
one students' evening, Wednesday, 134 ; total, 6,889.
FINE IN BISHOPSGATH.—Yesterday (Monday) morn-
ing, about a quarter to 3 o'clock, a fire, which was at-
tended with a serious loss of property, broke out in the
extensive range of pretnieee in the tenure of Messrs.
Beck and Cu., dealers in China, glass, and earthenware,
the buildings being in Sun-3ireet, and extending into
Dunning's-alley. The Royal Society's fire-escape arrived
is oin the Bishopsgate•street station, when Warren ,the con-
ductor, pitched it in front of the house and boldly ascended
to the third floor, and, having entered through the win-
dow, he found three persons almost suffocated. He
placed an o'd man in the escape, and, having lowered
him safely to the ground, he managed to bring the other
two out of the window and get them also safely to the
ground. The engines of the London Brigade from' various
stations, and that of the West of England, were soon
in attendance, and, owing to the exertions of the fire-
, men, the flames were eventually extinguished, but not
till the warehouses were burnt out, and the stores in
the front house much damaged. The loss, which is
considerable, will fail upon the Sun Fire-office. The
origin of the disaster is unknown.

TRADE IN DIIBLIN.—In Dublin matters continue as
they have for some time past ; trade very dull, but no
want of confidence or scarcity of money. Transactions
have been brought into a very narrow compass, and
there is ne reason to expect any commercial misfortune,
unless it may be some concern essentially rotten, and
even this we think exceedingly unlikely. Produce of all
kinds and corn have been very depressed, and transac
tions, even at the current low rates, very limited. As,
however, every one confines himielf to hand-to-mouth
purchases, an enormous reaction must take place as soon
as improvement fairly sets in. The customs duties are
15,5691., against 21,836/. the corresponding week last
year ; decrease, 6,2671. Payments on tea amount to
6,1331. ; refined sugars, 5331. ; Muscovite ditto, 1,6061.;
coffee, 42/. ; wine, 2,0141. ; spirits, 8621. ; tobacco,
3,4381.; timber, 214. ; and miscellaneous, 719/,
STATE OF TRADE IN COVENTRY.—The great commer-
cial crisis has, says the Coventry herald, by this time
seriously all% cted Coventry. Messrs. Bennoch, Twenty-
man, and Rigg, are, it is said, indebted to one house
alone, in this city, to the amount of 20,0001. ; and we
understand that several other Coventry firms will suffer
by their failure. A factory, not long since °poled,
and which manufactures elm st exc'usively for Ame-
rica, has, of necessity, been closed, and the whole
of the bands, of course, thrown out of work. An-
other symptom of depression is the turnout of
Messrs. Hammerton's bands, who refuse to accept a
proposal made by their employers that they shall work
piecework and take two-thirds of their earnings, subject
to certain deductions. Many of the turnouts have re-
turned to work, and the place of the rest has been
supplied by operatives quite recently in the employ of
other firms, but discharged in consequence of the gene-
ral depression in the trade. Weavers who work at
their own homes are also suffering severely from the
crisis, those having two looms being very often compelled
to keep one standing idle, and those having but
one losing a great deal of time when their warps are
down. The watch trade is almost crippled by the
present st' te of things, and many good hands are already
out of employ. The small masters are in great difficulty,
and the number of appi entices they have lately main-
tained are now naturally the cause of considerable em-
barrassment, the profit eble work that could be found for
them in a time of prosperity not being now ♦ery easily
obtained.

FIDELITY IN OIIDE.—The following is an extract of a
letter from Major-Gen. Sir J. Outran], G.C.B. , dared
Camp, lsftbank of the Ganges, opposite Cawopord, Sept.
20, 1857 : —" I have the pleasure to forward extracts
from a letter I have to-day received from Capt. Patrick
Orr, dated the 13t,i inst., from Mitaulee, the residence
of a Rajah in Oude, under whose protection Captain
Orr, three other gentlemen, two ladies, and two chil-
dren have been preserved since the outbreak ; and,
of a note from Lieut. Burnes, writing from the same
place, who mentions that there are nine men and three
ladies under protection of another chief at a place called
Mutteara, in Conde. There are ten chieftains of Oude
who have proved their fidelity to government by pro-
tecting our subjects.
ADVE E,TiSEMENT. I— SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES
POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE
GLASSES. —S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W.
By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex-
traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant
Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess
such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons,
Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope
can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles
distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist-
coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing
powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. —A valu-
able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket
glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and
IcDown one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pm,
pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country
scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They
are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera
Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful
P• owers Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the
greatest transparent power. The groat advantage derived
from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre-
gerved and strangtkcned and very aged persons aro enabled
to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see
with those lenses of a much less magnifying power—and
they do not require the frequent changes to the dan-
gerotuf effects of further powerful assistance. Persons
can be suited at the most remote part of the world by send.
ing ono of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and
stating the dist:nee from the eye they can read small print
with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by
stating their me. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Or genie
Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented
instrument for deafnes ys, entirel different from all ot hers,
surpassing anythi.ng of the kind that has been, or prot ably
can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the sk in, is
not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinetlyai
churchand at public assemblies ; the unpleasant seusatic n of
singing noises in the oars is entirely removed, and it aflurds
all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, AA*
marle.street, Piccadilly.—Opposito the York Hotel, W.