The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

RACING FIXT

Pontefract
Down Royal Corp....— l4
Reading
pilsby l4
Odiham l6
Stamford
Liverpool July D.Z.

AUG

Deauville
Leek
Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3
Egham l7
Hastings
York August
Oxford

SEPTI
Baden
Warwick September
Abingdon 3
Leicester
Doncaster September.., 8
Brecon l4
Richmond
Hampton Autumn
Kolso 1,5

OCT(
Bedford 1
Bromley Autumn
Newmarket 2d October 5
Lanark ... 8
Chelmsford Autumn
Cheltenham l3

NOVE

Liverpool
3
Shremibury 9

STEEPLECIIASES.
OCTOBER.
Bromley I Ealing

DECEMBER.
St. Albans
Kingsbury 8 I

Friponnier was struck out of the Grand Prize at Alex-
andra Park at 1 p.m. on Wednesday last. •
The filly by Gunboat out of Flyaway (sister to Flying
Jib) has been named Flying Shot.
Sir W. Booth's filly by Parmesan out of Lady Blanche
has been named Parmesina.

The objection made to Electricity, who came in first for
the Windsor Stakes, has been withdrawn.
Ettrick, after winning the County Members' Plate at
Chelmsford, was claimed by Mr. J. Wood for 105 guineas.
Fleetwing, after winning tho Juvenile Stakes at Alex-
andra Park, was disposed of to Lord Poulett for 500
guineas.

THE GRAND STAND TICKETS AT ASCOT.-At the Reading
Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, Charles Piggott was
charged with having stolen seven tickets of admission to
the Grand Stand at Ascot, value £3 10s., and James Rent-
ley, 42, was indicted for receiving the same; knowing
them to have been stolen. The prisoner Piggott is the
son of a highly respectable auctioneer and houso
agent in a suburb of London, and during Ascot races ho
was employed as ticket-taker at ono of the entrances to
the Grand Stand, Mr. Skinner, the manager of the
Grand Stand, cautioned him that a watch would be kept
on the part of the trustees to check any dishonest prac-
tices, and on the face of this the prisoner gave Hentley
seven tickets of admission. The jury found both prisoners
guilty, and the court sentenced them to four months' im-
prisonment. Immediately after the sentence had been
pronounced, Pigott's father—a man of gentlemanly ap-
pearance—fell senseless to the floor, and caused much
sympathy to be felt for him in court.

HEALTH OF LIVERPOOL.—During the past six
months there were registered in Liverpool 6,952 deaths,
showing a decrease of 1,640 deaths, as compared with the
averages of the last ten years. Of the total deaths 48 per
cent. were of children under five years of age.

MONTROSE, JULY 2.—Two new vessels on the
stocks were totally destroyed by fire in Mr. Petrie's
building yard here last night ; one was a vessel of 450
tons nearly planked, and the other of about 160 tons
nearly framed.
MUSICAL ITEMS. —Another American prima donna
(Miss Minnie Hauck) is in England. His Majesty the ex-
Bing of Hanover is preparing his musical works for pub-
lication. Mr. Mapleson, with nearly the whole of his
Italian Opera company, will shortly proceed to New York
to give a series of performances at the Academy of Music
there.—Musical Standard.
THE CROPS IN THE EAST.—There were light rains
on Friday and Saturday in some parts of the Eastern dis-
trict, but more moisture is still urgently required. On the
good deep soils of Norfolk and in the fens the wheats look
well, but on the light lands the yield will bo moderate.
The reports made with respect to the barley crop in Nor-
folk are generally of a gloomy character.
The Leader concludes an article on the Bishop of
Oxford's speech, by asking the following questions:—
"What sort of faith in religion is this, which refuses to
back it to win without heavy odds in its favour ? Is our
good Lord of Oxford thinking of changing his name? Or
would he hereafter tempt men to call him Bishop Bowil-
derodforcer.