The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

TATTE.RSALLS'-(TillS EVENING).

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
sto 1 agst Old Calabar (taken)
6to 1 agst The Marquis (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Caterer (taken)
12 to 1 agst Alvediston (taken)
15 to 1 agat Cellarius (taken)

THE DERBY.
9to 1 agst Buckstone (taken)
100 to 8 agst Old Calabar (taken)
20 to 1 agst Caterer (offered)
25 to 1 agst Ace of Clubs (taken)
33 to 1 agst Typee colt (taken)
40 to 1 agst Hubert (taken)
40 to 1 agst Gemse (taken)
50 to 1 agst Malek (taken)
2000 to 35 agst Vanguard (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Lady Alice Hawthorn (taken)

GRANGES IN TIT!? LORDS AND COM-
MAS DURING THE YEAR.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—The following changes have occurred
in the peerage during the year 1861, viz., Deaths—Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, March 10 ; the Duke
of Bedford, May 14; the Duke of Sutherland, Feb. 28; the
Dui; e of Buckingham, July 29 ; the Earl of Fortescue,
Sept. 14 ; the Earl ofpuildford, Jan. 29 ; the Earl of Mount-
Edgcumbe, Sept. 3; the Earl of Traquair (title now ex-
tinct), Aug. 2; Lord Abinger, Lord Berwick, April 12;
Lord Braybrooke, Feb. 21; Lord Lilford, March 15 ; Lord
Herbert, Aug. 2; Lord Eglinton, Oct. 4; Lord Campbell,
June 23, and the Bishop of Durham. Creations : Admiral
Berkley, created Lord Fitzhardinge, Aug. 5; Sir R. Bethell,
created Lord Westbury, June 21; the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, created Lord Herbert, June 15 ; Lord John Rua •
sell, created Earl Russell, July 30. The Earl of Dunmore
will come of age in the ensuing year, and take his seat as
Baron Dunmore. In addition to the list of 15 peers who
are minors are added the Earl of Guildford, aged 11 years,
and Lord Herbert, aged 10 years.

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HOUSE or Commons.--The following changes have oc-
curred in the House of Commons during the year, viz. :
Lieutenant R. W. D. Abercrombie has been elected for
Banffshire, in the room of Major Lachlan Duff Gordon,
who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds ; Thomas Barnes, for
Bolton, in the place of Joseph Crook, who accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds; Lieutenant-Colonel Bathurst, for
South Wilts, in the room of the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, created a peer ; Henry Beaumont Coles, for An-
dover, Alderman Cubitt having resigned ; the Right Hon.
Sir David Dundas, for Sutherlandshire, the Marquis of
Stafford having become Duke of Sutherland ; William
Edward Forster, for Bradford, Titus Salt having accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds ; Lord Richard Grosvenor, for
Flintshire, vacant by the death of the Hon. Thomas
Edward Lloyd Mostyn ; William Unwin Heygate, for
Leicester, vacant by the death of Dr. Noble ; Richard Hodg-
son, for Tynemouth, vacant by the resignation of Hugh
Taylor; Captain J. Taylor, for Montgomeryshire, vacant by
the death of David Pugh ; Nicholas Philpott Leader, for
Cork city, Richard Deasy having been promoted to the
Irish bench ; W. Leslie, for Aberdeenshire, vacant at the
commencement of the year ; John H. Lewis, for Maryle-
bone, Edwin James having resigned ; W. Morrison, for
Plymouth, Viscount Valletort having become Earl of
Mount-Edgcumbe ; Charles William O'Hara, for Sligo, in
the room of Charles 'William Cooper; Sir Hugh Owen, for
Pembroke District, vacant by the death of Sir John Owen ;
Sir Roundell Palmer, for Richmond, Yorkshire, vacant by
the resignation of Henry Rich; George Lort Phillips, for
Pembrokeshire, vacant at the commencement of the year ;
Edmund Potter, for Carlisle, vacant by the death of Sir
James Graham, Bart. ; Lord Henry Scott, for Selkirk-
shire, vacant by the retirement of Allen Elliott Lockhart ;
Charles Turner, the third member for South Lancashire,
under the act passed last session ; Thomas Matthew
Weguelin, for 'Wolverhampton, Sir Richard Bethel' having
been created a peer ; and Western Wood for the City of
London, Lord John Russell having been created a peer.
By the death of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, one of the
seats for Finsbury is vacant ; and by the death of J. H. H.
Foley, one of the seats for East Worcestershire. The first
election of a member for Birkenhead, under the Appropria-
Um of Seats Act, will take place after the Ist of December.

In a case recently brought before the Chief Jus-
tice of Newfoundland, he decided that telegraph operators,
when compelled to attend a judicial proceeding, are bound
to disclose the contents of messages, and that in so doing
they do not at all violate the oath they have taken
that they will not "wilfully divulge" the contents of
messages.