The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

LEICESTER RACES.-THURSDAY.

The Scurry Handicap of 50 sous, added to a sweepstakes of
10 sous each. Half a mile.

Lord Coventry's Mousetrap, 3 yrs, Est 81b.... (French 1
Mr. Saxon's Penalty, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b (Midgley 2
Captain Christie's Miss Julia, aged, 9st 101 b (L Snowden 3
Mr. Mellon's Bubbles, 2 yrs, sst 101 b
Mr. Gulliver's Necromancer, 3 yrs, 6st 81b.. (Wheatley) 0
Betting-5 to 2 each agst Mousetrap and Miss Julia, 4to
1 agst Penalty, and 9to 2 agst Necromancer. Won by a
length and a half. There were three quarters of a length
between the second and third horses.

The All-aged Selling Stakes of 30 sovs, added to a sweep.

stakes of 5 sovs each, for all ages. Si± furlongs.
Mr. Mellish's Sweetbread (Edwards) 1.
Mr. Bryan's Peahen
Mr. Nelson's Viscountess (Wheatley) 3
Mr. Bent's Entomologist (French) 0
Mr. Mellon's Seahorse

Betting—Even on Sweetbread, and 2 to 1 agst Peahen.
Won by a head. The same distance separated Peahen and
Viscountess.

The Skeffington Nursery Handicap-of 100 sovs, added to a
sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two-yr-olds. Thre

quarters of a mile. •
Captain Christie's My Partner, Bst (L. Snowden) 1
Mr. Saxon's Miss Livingston, 6st 71b (Midgley) 2
Mr. Snewing's Caractacus, 7st 91b (Parsons) 3
Hartlngton, Rossmore, and Melody also ran.
Betting-2 to lon My Partner, and 100 to 15 each agst
Rossmore and Melody. Won by six lengths. Caractacus
was a bad third.

The Welter Handicap of 10 soya each, with 50 added
One mile and a quarter.

Mr. VAnson nd The Don, 3 yrs, 9st 71b (Mr. Thompson) 1
Mr. Gulliver's Miss Eleanor, 5 yrs, lOst 71b (Mr. Bevil') 2
Mr. Saxon's Little Dick, 4 yrs, lOst 81b .. (L. Snowden) 3

Betting-6 to 4on Miss Eleanor, and 3to 1 each agst
The Don and Little Dick. Won by a neck. Little Dick
was a bad third.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Three miles.

Mr. Parr's Avalanche, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Clements) 1
Mr. PAnscn's Dorking, 3 yrs, Bst 41b (Johnson) 2
Mr. Mellish's Gaylad, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Edwards) 3

Betting-8 to lon Avalanche, who won by four lengths.
The Innkeepers' Plate of 50 sovs added to a sweepstakes of
5 sovs. One mile and a quarter.

Mr. Gulliver's Necromancer - (Wheatley) 1
Mr. Mellish's Foretop (Edwards) 2

Betting-6 to 4on Foretop, who was beaten by four
lengths,

WALSALL RACES.-THURSDAY.

The Scurry Handicap of 25 soya ; winners extra. Half a

mile.

Mr. Rigby's Lord of the Tees, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b (Chapman) 1
Mr. B. Land's Bayard, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (Salt) 2
Mr. Sparrow's Greenwich Fair, 6 yrs, Bst 121b(W.White) 3

The following also run :—Cheesecake, Eheu, Duplicity,
Breechloader, Paroquet.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Duplicity, 3to 1 agst Bayard, sto
1 agst Paroquet.
The favourite jumped round the instant the flag dropped,
and did not get off, Bayard and Lord of the Tees lying in
front throughout, the former winning by a h ead ; a length
between second and third ; Paroquet and Breechloader
were next.

The Bradfield Handicap of 60 sovs., added to a Handicap
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft. ; winners extra. One
mile.

Mr. Wright's Twinkle, 3 yrm, sst. 91b. „ „ (H. Taylor) 1
Mr. Wadlow's Diadem) 4 yrs, 7st. 61b (Whiteley) 2
Mr. Wood's Caliban, 3 yrs, sst. 71b (E. Taylor) 3
Mr. B. Land's Yorkshire Grey, aged, 7st. 71b. (Salt) 4

Ninkle running, and won in a canter-by-it
length and a half; half a length dividing the second and
third and the third and fourth.

The Innkeepers' Plate of 20 soya. ; optional selling weights
Three-quarters of a mile.

Mr. Price's Holdsrsyke, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (.00) (Matthews) 1
Mr. Adkins's Doritta, 2 yrs, sst 71b (X 30).... Whiteley) 2
Mr. Wood's Fairy Knows, 2 yrs, sst 71b (£5O) (E. Taylor) 3
Jetty Bon and Incense also ran.

Betting-6 to 4on Holdersyke.
Holdersyke got off with the lead which he carried on to
the end, winning cleverly by a length; the same between
second and third. The winner was not sold.

The Member's Plate Handicap of 5 sous each, 1 ft, with 25
added. One mile and a quarter.

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Mr. Carr's Eheu, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b. (Whiteley) 1
Mr. Wool's Caliban, 3 yrs, sst 71b (E. Taylor) 2
Mr. B. Land's Bayard, 3 yrs, sst 121 b .. (Beesley) 3
Mr. Lincoln's Duplicity, 3 yrs, sst 91b (H. Taylor) 4
Betting-6 to 4on Duplicity, who did not go off with the
others, Eheu making the play throughout, and winning
easily by a length. Bayard was a bad third.

The Hatherton Nursery Handicap of 3 sous each, with 30
added. Three-quarters of a mile.

Mr. J. Land's Dunoon, 7st 121 b
Mr. Wood's Fairy Knowe, 7st
Mr. Thorpa's Vanilla colt, 7st 61b (Whiteley) 3
The following also ran :—Leonora, Pot Pourri, Bey of
Tunis, Agneta, and Strawberry Leaf.

Betting—Even on Leonora, 5 to 1 each agat Strawberry
Leaf, Vanilla colt, and Pot Pourri.

Won by a length and a half ; two lengths between second
and third. The favourite bolted at the railway turn.

AQUATICS ABROAD.

A party of gentlemen, members of the London and King
ston Rowing Clubs, have lately returned from a rowing
expeditio'n abroad, which, undertaken as it was in the first
" outrigged" four which has been upon foreign waters, will
be interesting to some of our readers.
Mr. Stratten, Mr. Koe, Mr. Pemberton, Mr. Coventry,
Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Steward met at Strasbourg on the 6th
of September, and their boat, which was built by Messenger,
of Teddington, was conveyed by some of the crew on the
Rotterdam and Rhine steamers to Mannheim, and thence
by rail to Strasbourg. At Strasbourg she was safely
launched in the Marne Canal on the morning of the 7th, and
the first day's journey was made in her to Saverne, on the
Vosges mountains, over which the canal is carried by means
of locks, numbering 58 in the ascent. On the following
day, towards the summit of the range, the crew arrived at
the remarkable tunnel, two miles and a half in length,
which is pierced for the passage of the canal waters. Here,
fixing the tow-line and lantern to the bows of their boat,
the crew towed her in darkness at a run which occupied
them 21 minutes, and late in the evening they arrived at
the small village of Homing, where they put up for the
night, and, the provisions in the place proving limited,
some jars of preserved meats which had been brought from
England to provide against such emergencies came into re-
quisition for the first time. Einville was moiled on the
following day, Nancy about noon on the 10th, and Erouard
that night, where, in a small wooden building, the crew
made shift as well as they were able. On the 11th, passing
through the three locks connecting the Marne Canal with
the river Meurthe, they quitted the former, and two miles'
rowing brought them to the juno ion of the Meurthe with
the Moselle, The waters of the Moselle proved lower than
had been expected ; no rain had fallen for some time, and at
first it seemed doubtful whether even an outrigger would
not draw more water than the shallows would permit. For-
tunately, however, and by narrowly watching the course of
the stream from point to point, upon only two occasions did
th© crew run aground, and then without injury, although
the rapids more than once carried them into dangerous
proximity to sunken rocks. Barring, however, these little
desagremens, the course of the Nautilus (for the boat had
been christened with all ceremony) was uncheckered by tidy
disaster, and the "I.g" of ono of the crew proceeds to give
the following further notes of their cruise :—Upon the
evening of the day on which they had passed through Nanny
they rowed to Ars ; passed through the garrison town of
Metz on the following day ; reached Konigsmaker, where
two of the crew had to sleep upon the fluor of their inn
and a long day's rowing on the 13th of4smilefsobrrTourgarh.t
them to Treves. On the following day, devoting a short
hour before breakfast to the town of Treves, the crew of
the Nautilus arrived at Neumagen, and, starting
bath on the morning of the 15th, experienced a day's rough
weather; it rained, indeed, so heavily at intervalosothat
Tesoro,
namr of the crew found it there comfortable to row in " buff'
bthaaenh,t:sbiondeenecdurantbNereeudtrNivaigthenw, ethteflaerr:enwelfosrulionvirdetsng.acsary
modation, and at neither place did it p
"toss up" for beds and preserved meat. Leaving ; rarbactiot
on the 16th, and stopping midway to ascend
etrheeweraestitcl.beiAf
~lari9 on the right bank of tho

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Cochem that evening, and on the 17th arrived at Coblentz,
at the junction of the Moselle with the Rhine, where, hav-
ing ploughed with her little keel some 420 miles of water
since she left Strasbourg, the crew reluctantly furled the
flag of the Nautilus. Time, however, did not, it appears,
permit some of the crew to • prosecute the adventure upon
the Rhine, and it only remains to notice one circumstance
which, although in itself trifling, has at the present moment
some little significance.

Everywhere on French ground the Englishmen met with
the greatest courtesy and kindness from the French offi-
cials. The engineer. in-chiet of the Marne Canal readily
granted permission for the passage of the boat upon the
canal ; the lock-keepers appeared to take a personal interest
in the success of the expedition, would take no remunera-
tion for their services, and no duties were chin ged by the
French authorities either upon the boat or its provisions.
The Prussians viewed the matter in a different light; duties
were charged upon the boat, upon the preserved meats, and
upon a few pounds of tea ; obstacles were unnecessarily
thrown in the way of the crew, and the impressions left
upon *them have consequently been as unfavourable as could
have been wished.

HEAVY GALE AND ILOODS.-LOSS

OF LIFE.

(From the Edinburgh Witness.)
On Monday last we had a gale of great violence,
accompanied by blinding showers of rain. On the
Saturday previous the authorities at Leith and
other places, warned by the meteorological depart-
ment of the Admiralty, had hoisted the storm-
signal. The gale began early in the morning, and
continued with great force until an advanced hour
in the day. The rain was very heavy, and the
gale and flood together, which appear to have been
general over the country, have caused a good deal
of damage to property, and, in one instance at least,
we regret to say, loss of life. In the city no parti-
cular damage was done, beyond the blowing down
of slates and chimney-cans, the flooding of cellars,
&c. The Water of Leith rose to a great height,
and overflowed its banks in several places, carrying
away two small wooden bridges—the one near
Warriston Cemetery, and the other near Stock-
bridge. Several houses on the banks of the stream
were flooded. A cart and horse, while attempting
to ford the river at Stockbridge, were carried off
by the force of the current; and the horse was
drowned. Some parts of the railways were also
flooded. At Winchburgh, on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow line, the water was two or three feet deep,
but no serious damage was done. On a part of the
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee line, near Thorn-
ton, the water was so high that the passengers of
one or two traias had to be conveyed some miles
in carts.

The most serisus occurrence which, as far as we
have heard, happened in this neighbourhood, in
connexion with the flood, took place at Lasswade,
where a man and boy were drowned under the fol-
lowing circumstances. Between three and four
o'clock in the afternoon, a boy named Robert Miller,
12 years of age, was engaged in gathering pieces of
wood which were floating down the Esk. He un-
fortunately slipped his footing and fell in, and, as
the river was much swollen, was instantly carried
off. A man named William Tanner, a carpet weaver,
residing at Lasswade, who was standing by at the
time, sprung into the stream with a view of saving
the boy. Tanner failed in reaching him, and, we
are sorry to say, was also carried away by the force
of the current. There were some people on the bank
at the time, who were unable to render the drown-
ing persons any assistance, and they were seen float-
ing down for 300 yards, when they were lost sight
of. Nothing further was heard of them till about 10
o'clock at night, when the body of the boy was
found on the Musselburgh Sands, near the mouth
of the river. The man's body has not been found.
Tanner was 42 years of age, and leaves, we regret
to say, a wife and eight of a family.
As we have stated above, the Esk was much
flooded, and at Musselburgh several fields and
houses were flooded: In Perthshire, the Tay, the
Earn, and other streams, rose to a great height,
flooding many fields along their banks, doing con-
siderable injury to the crops. At Cupar-Fife, a
pretty large building, lately erected by the Messrs.
M.Nab, skinners, as a shed, was, with all its con-
tents, swept down the stream, and nothing now re-
mains to mark its former site but a portion of one
of the gables.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Fresh up to this morning's market the arrivals of Ettr -
lish wheat were only modorate ; the demand, however, both
for red and white qualities, ruled' inactive at Monday's de-
cline in the quotations.

For foreign wheat—the supply of which was not to say
extensive—the trade was in a sluggish state, yet no quot-
able change took place in prices.
Floating cargoes of grain were in limited request at late
rates.

All kinds of barley were a dull inquiry, and the cur-
rencies had a drooping tendency.
Malt moved off slowly on former terms.
Good and fine oats were in steady demand at full prices,
but low parcels were a dull sale at barely late rates.
Th trade
tr beans and peas ruled firm at fnii ,rriations.
was nomg, and prices were
supported.