The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

RACING FIXT'

OCT,
Bedford
Bromley 1
Newmarket Second Oct 5
Lanark
Chelmsford
Cheltenham
Northallerton

NOVI
Liverpool
Sbrevrbury

FOURTH EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7.30 P.M.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This

(13Y TELEGRAPH)
NEWMARKET RACES—This DAT.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.

CESARE wircu.
8 to 1 agst Blue Gown (taken)
10 to 1 agst 11iu to (takou)
14 to 1 agst Blueskin (taken)
100 to 7 agst Fripounier (taken)
100 to 6 agst Special (taken)
30 to 1 agst Suffolk (taken)
100 to 3 agst Kingsland (taken)
40 to •1 agst Paul Jones (taken)
40 to 1 agst Nelusko (taken)
50 to 1 agst Goodwood (taken)
MK lOOO to 15 agst Romping Girl (taken five times)
1000 to 10 agst Tynedale (taken)
20 to 1 agst Dawson's lot (offered)

LONDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING.

'AR OFFICE, PALL MALL, SEPT. 22.
Commissariat Department—Lieutenant Henry Ferrara
Huntley, from sth Foot, Acting Deputy-Assistant Coin-
missary. General, to b 3 Deputy-Assistant Commissary
General. Commission to bear date 16th January, 1868,
but such antedate not to carry pay prior to Ist August,
1868.

INDIA OFFICE, SEPT. 19.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command
that Surgeon John Lumsdaine, B3inbay Army, and First
Class Veterinary Surgeon William Lamb, Bombay Army,
be promoted to the ranks of Surgeon-Major and Staff
Veterinary-Surgeon respectively from the 15th August,
1868, in consideration of their valuable service with the
Abyssinian expeditionary force.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 21.—Nereid and Adrette, from Arch-
angel ; Lionne, from Gravelines.

Arrived, Sept. 22.—Serica, from Foo-chow-Foo ; Metro-
politan, steamer, from Hamburg; Trelna, steamer, from
Cronstadt ; Victoria, steamer, from Gothenburg; Atalanta,
from Frederickstadt ; Alexander, from Uleaborg ; Manilla,
from Dram ; Lisetto, from Hernosand ; Mercur, from
Christiania; Alpha, from Frederickstad ; Jorgenen, from
Archangel ; Ursus Minor, from Krageroe.
Sailed, Sept. 21.—San Quintin, steamer, for Cadiz.
Sailed, Sept. 22.—Prince of Wales, for Vancouver's.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Passed, Sept. 21.--IVisch, from London, for Bahia;
Haydn, for Rio Janeiro ; David Maciver, for Alexandria ;
Vesta, bark, for Carthagena—all from Shields.
Put back —Mary E. Campbell, from Callao for Antwerp.

THE IRISH CHURCH. —The Scotsman throws some
light on the " flank movement" in regard to the Irish Church
which it is supposed Mr. Disraeli has in contemplation if he
can only push on the necessary education of his party, and
especially of one or two of his chief colleagues. "The solu-
tion of the problem attributed to Mr. Disraeli," says the
London correspondent of that journal, "is a plan of dises-
tablishment by which the Episcopal Church of Ireland shall

cease to be predominant in Ireland as a separate and self-
coutained Establishment, but shall retain its endowments
and also its connection with the State as a branch of tho

Church of England. In other words, the clergy are to sur-
render whatever territorial standing now gives them pre-
oedence over the priests and dissenting ministers, but will
continue to enjoy their emoluments and also a connection
with the State somehow or other through the Archbishop
of Canterbury and the English hierarchy, whose delegates

they will become. How far this scheme will ever be
deveoped is more than I can say." This report will, of
course, bs at once denied, just as the year before last the
statement was denied that the Government were pre-
pariug fur a reduction of the franchise ; but there is
certainly something of Mr. Disraeli's fantastic subtlety in
the project.

The Valiant, 24, screw (armoured iron) frigate,
Capt. John J. Kennedy, C. 8., weighed her anchor from
Spithead yesterday, and wai swung in Stokes Bay to
ascertain the deviation of her compass. She afterwards
anchored again at Spithead, but is expected to sail to-day
or to-morrow for her station on the Shannon.

SALIION FISHING IN DEVON.—II is estimated that

;he salmon caught this year by the twenty licensod nets

in the rivers Taw and Torridge have realised over £1,300.
The fishermen have Lever had such a good year before.

TIIE Cow AND THE BEARS.—A singular accident
occurred three days back at Borne in the bears' pit which
acquired so melancholy a notoriety a few years back by
the death of the English Captain Lock. The cattle market

is close by, and a butcher was leading off a cow which he
had just bought, when the animal broke away, and, leap-
ing the parapet, fell among the bears at the bottom. The e
latter were apparently stupefied at this unexpected visit,
and, as the intruder presented her horns in a rather mst-
nacing attitude, they thought it prudent to beat a retreat
into their dens. As the entrancs3 bolow was not largo
enough to allow the intruder to issue by that way, she
was drawn up by moans of ropes fixed round her body.
REIIOVAL OF ROCKS IN HELL GATE.—COngress
having recently made an appropriation of $85,000 towards

the removal •of obstructions in the Hell Gate channel,
General Newton, of the United States Army, will soon
begin operations to that end. With Pol-rock, Frying-pan,
Way's-reef, Shell-drake, and other reefs broken to pieces
or pulled up, a grand channel of over 300 feet in width
will be secured. The contractor for the work has not yet
been selected, but it is believed that arrangements will
be made to commence the work as soon as it is decided at
what point to begin. It is said that in the blasting ope-
rations nitro-glycerine will be used as a substitute for
gunpowder.

ODD INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.—Under this

title their .n Age has the following :—" It may sound a little
thing when we are told that a method has been invented
by which honey can be separated from the honey comb, so
deftly that the cells are left almost uninjured, and can be
reoccupied by the bees, but when we came to sum up the
immense industry directly affected by this saving the
matter grows vastly in importance. When paper collars
and cuffs were first invented they excited general merri-
ment, but they have become merchandize in which millions
of dollars were invested and realized. Now a still
odder substitute far tidiness is suggested, to be manu-
factured from the wooden strips, exactly similar
to those with which walls are lined instead of the old-
fashioned paper. White candles from bitumen; exquisite
colours and even delicious champagne from petroleum;
India-rubber pavements ; ivory from chemically treated
turnips; absorbent stucco-work from potatoes and melon
rinds ; artificial sponges from prepared bread-crumbs are
no less curious than useful things, and they, and the long
line of endeavour that they represent, indicate a constant
effort to alleviate the expenses and annoyances of all the
little as well as the heavier operations of life whose con-
venience was overlooked in earlier days. And, as we
look around, are we not amazed at the tardiness with
which this line of invention has been taken up. We now see
a positively wonderful array
of applications, 'tis true,
but what are they compared with the wants to
meet them ? Our streets still roar and reek with the bar-
barous noise and filth of horse power ; our homes are
made pestiferous with wretched drains and sewers; our
eyes are destroyed by flickering and inadequate light after
sundown; our systems are disorganized and infected by
ill-prepared food. On all sides cleanliness, quiet diges-
tion, shelter, and locomotion are calling for still fresh de-
vices to relieve us from thronging dangers and discomforts.
Therefore let us have still more queer things in the way
of invention, no matter how " outlandish" they may seem
at the start, if they but discharge the office. The more
the merrier. All the grand hits that have been made in
the world were 'queer things' to the hang-backs of man-
kind, an I, generally, the queerer they seemed, when first
announced, the greater the benefaction provided to strug-
gling mortals."
WOMEN BROKERs.—There are 75 marriage brokera
iu Paris, and two of them pay an income tax of 200 francs
per year. They charge five per cont. on the dower of rich
wives, and two per cent. when the fortune of the husband
and wife are about equally large. An extra charge is
made for procuring husbands with aristocratic titles. —The
Resolution.
TIIE PATENT OFFICE.—HOII. Elisha Foote, the
new Commissioner of Patents, it is reported, is making
many radical changes in this important Bureau. The
entire printing will hereafter be entrusted to the Public
Printer, and will cost $lO,OOO, being one-half of the ex-
pcase under the old contract system during last year.
Commissioner Foote has designated an examiner and an
assistant examiner to prepare all the statements. These
in the past, it is stated, cost $12,003 per annum. Under
this now arrangement they will cost, it is alleged, about
$3,000. The drawing cost about $12,000 per annum. The
Commissioner has reduced this expense to about $6,000.
Many reductions in the way of purchases and in other
itpW of alißeug up Wing daily wade.