The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

SATURDAY.

The Highgate Plate of 30 sovs (Handicap). Two miles.
The Midland Railway Selling Steeplechase Stakes of 5
sovs each, 2 ft, with 25 added ; llst 71b each. Two
miles and a half.

The Finchley Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sovs
each, 3 ft, with 80 added. About three miles and a
half.

A Steeplechase Free Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30
added ; any winner after Nov. 13 (at ton a.m.) 71b
extra. Two miles.

The Selling Plate of 30 sovs (Handicap); the winner to
be sold for 40 sous ; any winner after the publication of
the weights 71b extra. Two miles.

A Scurry Steeplechase; list 71b each ; any winner of 50
sovs previous to this race, which will be run the last of
the day, 141 b extra.

FIRE.--A great fire broke out at the Peckam-rye
Fire-arms Museum this morning. The destruction of
property is valued at some thousand pounds.
THE NOVEMBER METEORS.—Professor Phillips
telegraphs from Oxford that the star shower was well seen
there this morning from 3.43 to 5.45.
Poultney, Vermont, has gained the $lOO flag
offered to that town, which, having more than 200
voters, cast the largest Republican majority at the State
elections.

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Further reports of the great earthquake state
that at Talcahano, on the coast of Chili, the waves of the
sea were so hot that the fish that were cast on shore were
cooked.

THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN AND THE SUEZ CANALS.
—At the meeting of capitalists favourable to this project,
lately held at New York, at the residence of Mr. Peter
Cooper, Mr. Seward, in the course of his speech, described
the advantages likely to result, and remarked it was the
only enterprise connected with the great works of civil-
ization which remain to be undertaken ; he assured them
the Executive Government of the United States had
adopted the enterprise, and had provided for a full, satis-
factory, and final survey, preparatory to the construction
of the Darien Ship Canal, and was engaged in negotiating
with the Republic of Columbia for its consent to the achieve-
ment of the enterprise. Mr. Seward, in alluding to the Suez
Canal, said—" A Canal across the Isthmus of Suez already
approaches its completion. If that channel is to secure the
patronage of universal commerce, it will be fully enlarged
and completely adapted to the interests of modern cons-
ce. In that case the commerce of even the Atlantic
American coast, from the St. Lawrence to Cape Horn,
will be turned eastward across the Atlantic, and through
the Mediterranean and the Rod Sea, and the Indian Ocean,
to India and China. It would be a reproach to Ame-
rican enterprise and statesmanship to suppose that we
aro thus to become tributaries to ancient and effete
Egypt, when by piercing the Isthmus of Darien we can
bring the trade of even the Mediterranean, and of the
European Atlantic coasts, through a channel of our own,
so palpably indicated by nature, that all the world has ac-
cepted it as feasible and necessary. The Imperial schooner
Layette' to open the Suez Canal, has just left Toulon for
the Red Sea. She is to pass through the Suez Canal, and
her trip is to be considered in some sort as the official
opening of that route. She is to head a procession of
yachts and pleasure boats, to the number, it is said, of a
thousand. The luxury of the decorations—a large num-
ber are already collected at Port Said—and the richness of
the fittings will make it a veritable royal fleet, and to add
to the splendour of the scene the Viceroy is expected to be
present.