The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-08 00:00:00

BETTING AT 31.:INCHESTER, Feb. 7.

There was very little business transacted to-day, and
nothing was done on the Chester Cup that warrants a
quotation, but 100 to 7 was offered on the field.—Closing

prices

LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP STARES.
7to 1 agst Little Gerard (taken)
10 to 1 agst Spicebox (taken)
10 to 1 agst Walkington (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
7to lon the field (offered)
18 to 1 agst Diophantus (taken)
Bto 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
10 to 1 agst Russley (taken)

CHESTER CUP.

100 to 7on the field (offered)

DERBY.
bto 1 agst Dundee (wanted)
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE.
,00 to 7 agst Cockatoo (taken)
15 to 1 agst Jealousy (offered, take 100 to 6)
20 to 1 agst Franc Picard (offered)
20 to 1 agst The Tattler (offered)
30 to 1 agst Comet (taken)

RACING FIXTU
FEBRU

RES FOR 1861.
TARY.

Lincoln l3

Derby Spring
CH.

Nottingham Spring 5
Liverpool Spring 12
Shrewsbury l4

Warwick Spring
Coventry

Northampton
Croxton Park
Epsom Spring 11
Newmarket Craven 15

Thirsk lB
Doncaster Spring 23
Newmarket F 3 29

Chester 7
York l4
Malton l6
Salisbury l6

Bath
Manchester
Harpenden
Epsom
f E.
Odiham 25
Newcastle 25
Bibury Club 26
Stockbridge
Winchester 2B

Chelmsford 5
Beverley
Hungerford
Ascot 11
Hampton l9
Newton 19

Newmarket

Pontefract

Carlisle

Worcester ...
Liverpool July
Abingdon • •

Nottingham 16
Stamford
Goodwood 3O

AUG

Lewes
Brighton
Brighton Club 9
Wolverhampton l2
11
Reading

20

22
28
29

....24

SEPTEMBER.
Warwick
Stockton
Devon and Exeter
Derby
Doncaster l7 1 Manchester Autumn.
OCTOBER:

Newmarket F 0 .
Newmarket S 0 14 I

The Countess Apponyi has issued cards for
assemblies on Tuesdays, the 12th, 19th, and 26th inst., at
Chandos House.
SCOTTISH COMMERCE.—The shipments of pig
iron last week amounted to 7,748 tons. In the corresponding
week of last year the total was 6,171 tons. In the month
just closed the shipments were 39,836 tons as compared with
41,147 tons in January, 1860. A proposition is afloat to re-
duce the number of furnaces in blast. The Customs re-
venue received at the Clyde ports during January exhibits a
satisfactory increase at all points. The receipts at Glasgow
were L 70,46- last month, as compared with £61,930 in Janu
ary, 1860, and £58,532 in January, 1859. At Greenock
the totals were £59,738, £55,584, and £62,257, respectively ;
and at Port Glasgow, £9,809, £1,095, and £7,462, respec-
tively. With regard to the Dundee linen trade, it is stated
that a fair amount of orders are in course of execution for
the home, West Indian, and other markets, but only a
comparatively small quantity of goods is being sent to the
United States. Production at Dundee is being curtailed,
both in spinning and weaving. Mr. M'Leod reports of the
I wool trade that consumers are only buying what they ab-
solutely require. Prices remain firm, and stocks are gra-
dually becoming lighter.
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.— A
meeting of this institution was held yesterday at its hou s
John-street, Adelphi ; Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R. ~
v.v., in the chair. The following rewards were voted tor
valuable lifeboat services :--124 to the crew of the lifeboat
at Caister, Norfolk; £5 to the crew of the Cardigan life-
boat. A reward was also voted to the crew of the lifeboat
at Penmen. The Lytham lifeboat, belonging to the institu-
tion, had also saved the smack Princess Royal, of Bangor,
from destruction on the 6th ult. £l2 was also voted to the
crew of the Cahore lifeboat ; £25 to the crews of the life-
boats at Dungeness, Cahore, and Arklow. The silver medal
of the institution and £1 were also voted respectively to
Joseph White and William Flann ; and £6 to six other
men. Independent of rescuing during the past year two
hundred and ten shipwrecked persons from an inevitable
death, the lifeboats of the institution had been the means
of saving many valuable ships and their cargoes from
destruction. Payments on different lifeboat stations,
amounting to £1,640, were ordered to be made.
the t was
stated that the institution had receivedhase of lifeboats,
duringpat
year, £2,721, as special gifts for the purc
whose stations had been named by the benevolent donors.
' COLLIERY EXPLOSION AND Loss
LIVES.—On Wednesday morning a fearful etxopOtlFoh'seio;atrolookf
place at the Copy Pit Colliery, belongingh
I
of Rugeley, by
' I Shrewsbury, and situated in the paris
explosion sof
which five men and two beenbo
s loec-tauthseedir lbiyveasn.
tropb e is believed to have
fire-damp.
r,,G.—The salmon fishing in the
SALMON
_Fu ni spirtitu
wholeee .
day,O n Saturday snow showers
Earn is stilland very few fish in the
continued to dryt
upper waters of the Earn were caught ; but near Kinkell
better sport. On Sunday night and Monday a
there was
ale nt continued to blow from the south-west, accent-
strong pith showers' of sleet and rain, and m any of the
rglers were unable to cast a line the whole day. The river,
however, appears to be well stocked with salmon, and as
~eon as the weather becomes propitious good sport may be
anticipated.
11.IELANCIT0LT ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—An
inquest was held at the Anti-Galican and Star public-
house on Monday last, on the body of John Bull, who met
l'iis death under the following circumstances :—While
engie.ged, with five others, in lifting an anchor from the bed of
\
the ri ‘'er, in an anchor-boat, a screw-steareer, the Hamburg,
of Durance, ran foul of the cable,
nd t capsized the boat, im-
mersing ihe whole of the crew,
ahe de-
ceased coming
the anchor-cable,
in contact withh. he screw of the vessel and
fractured is skull, and suffered other
bodily mutilations was
an
.equally:
.frightful character.
of the crew was seriously injured, and is net ex-
Another
p ,cted to survive. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
de'ntal th." The deceased has left a family, including
a wife aid seven children, to deplore his loss.