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

SHREWSBURY RAOBS -YESTERDAY.

A Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 50
added; winners of a hurdle race after November 5
(at ten a.m.) 101 b, a second 51b extra; starters with-
out being placed in the Handicap Hurdle Race
allowed 41b. One mile and three quarters, over six
hurdles.
Ada
Tavistock 2
Colonel
The Hawkstone Welter Cup, value 200 sovs (Handicap),
by subscription of 15 sovs each, 10 ft ; winners of any
handicap after October 30 (at eleven a.m.) 71b, if of 200
SOTS 101 b, or a second iu such latter race 51b extra
starters in the Wynustay Welter or Column Handicap
without having been placed allowed 41b. Ge❑tleman
riders; professionals G.b extra. About one mile.
Pirate Chief

Rodivivus
LA Belle Jeanne

Seven ran.
The Wliteliall Steoplohnia lla idicap of 10 sovs ea ii,
3 ft, with 100 added ; winners of a handicap ste•pleclatie
aft3r Nov. 5 (at tan a.w.) 10113, a s3eond Sib extra ;
starters in the Autumn Steeplechase without bolus
placed allowed 41b ; about three miles.
Guide..

W.O.

The Longner Steeplechaie Handicap of 5 says mat, 2 ft,
with 50 added; winners of auy handicap ste:-plechaie
after Nov. (at ten a.m.) 10lb, or a second slb extra;
about two miles and a quarter.

S©a King
Wild Ilcutsmal
Brighton 3

Nine ran.

A Nursery Eate of 100 sovs (handicap) for two yr olds;
winners after the declaration of the weights 71b extra ;
about ono mile.
Juanita
Robespiere
Storm King
Eleven ran.
MATen—King of the Rovers beat Paris.
A. Nursery Plata of 4') sevs (htudicap), for all ages ;
winners after the declaration of the weights, 71b extra ;'
the winner to be sold for 100 sovs. About half a mile,
straight.
ilippedamia f
1
Juanita

Spider 3
A Plate of 40 awe (handicap) for all ages ; winners aft,r
the declaration of the weight.; 71b extra. About half a
mile straight.
Probleau
Macduff 2
3

Twelve ran.
A Sweepstakes of 5 bo vs each, with 25 ,added ; two yoar
'''olds 7st 61b, three 3st 12.1 b, four and upwards 9st 4ib ;
the winner to be sold for 80 sovs ; if for 5',-) allowed 71b,
20 141 b. About five fur., straight.
Out and Outer
Ettrick
Di Vernon 3

Four ran.

Welter Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added; winners,
atter the declaration of the weights 71b extra; gentle-
men riders, professionals 511,111-extra ; the winner to be
sold for 100 sovs. About three-quarters of a mile.
Last Rose cf Summer
Seringapatam
Chapel Royal
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SeTen ran.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1869.
FEBRUARY.

Nottingham Spring 23 Derby Spring -
J

MARCH.

Liverpool Spring 2 Northampton
Shrewsbury Spring

APRIL.
Newmarket Craven l2 I Newmarket First Spring 25

MAY.

Chester
4 , Epsom Summer 25
Bath

JuNE.
Ascot
Liverp00l Summer
Windsor 1 b Stockbridge

An Imperial ukase has been issued at St. Peters 4
burg, Nov. 12, ordering that, with a view to complete the
strength of the army and the fleet, a levy should be made
of four persons in every thousand inhabitants throughout
the empire, the conscription to commence on the 16th of
January and terminate on the 15th of February next.
Mr. Simonton, the agent of the New York As-
sociated Press, has sued the New York Tribune for libel in
publishing a letter from George H. Butler, nephew of
General Butler, substantiating a charge that General
Butler had made to the effect that he (Butler the nephew)
had thrashed Simonton which the latter had denied. The
Tribune printed both sides to the correspondence, which
left off, however, rather severely for' Simonton. Butler
calls him "the first liar in America," and says he thrashed
him into a dead run down Pennsylvania avenuefor a quar-
ter of a mile in 1866.
The overseers of Harvard College have appointed
the following university lecturers for the ensuing year:—
On geology, Professor Josiah D. Whitney ; on opthalmo-
logy, Dt Henry W. Williams and Dr Haskett Derby ; on
hygiene, Dr George Derby ; on tumours, Dr Algernon
Coolidge ; on Palmontology, Nathaniel S. Shaler ; on the
geology of the basin of Lake Champlain, Rev. I. B. Perry;
on psychological medicine and medical jurisprudence, Dr
John E. Tyler. _ _

Last Monday evening Mr. Elihu Burritt, the
American Consul at Birmingham, attended the dinner to
the retiring mayor at the Great Western Hotel. A short
time after he lett he discovered that his pocket-book, con-
taining £3O in notes together with some papers, had been
stolen from him, and almost at the same moment Mr. Al-
derman Briggs, before quitting the hotel promises, found
that his gold watch was missing ; it had been wrenched
from the chain, a small portion of which the chief of police
picked up off the floor. It is thought that the thief got
among the company when crowding together in search of
hats and coats before leaving the hotel.
Ex-Alderman Corwin committed suicide Oct. 25
by cutting his throat with a carving-knife. He resided at
224, East Twenty-fifth .street, New York. Deceased had
been suffering from consumption for a long while, and it
is supposed he committed the rash act to put an end to his
sufferings.
Captain M. F. Maury was on the 28th October
at Staunton, Virginia, where ho spoke at an agricultural
fair in defence of the agriculturists of the South, against
the reproaches that they were wanting in energy, attend-
ing to other business than that which so greatly con-
cerned them.
The Springfield Republican says :—" Mr. Dun-
bar, the invalid editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, will
soon be in Egypt, and pass the winter with his predeces-
sor and friend, Mr. Charles Hale, now consul at Alexan-
dria. Egypt's winter climate is soft, dry, dreamy, lazy,
and luxurious, just right for a nervous dyspeptic, which is
the prevailing typo of American invalidism.
A Convention has been called by the Governors
of lowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin, which was to
meet at Pi airie du Chien, on November 10th, in order to
mature measures to impress upon Congress the necessity
of making immediate and sufficient appropriations to sa-
cure the improvement of the navigation of Fox and Wis-
consin rivers, and connect the Mississippi river with Lake
Michigan.
_

The overseers of Harvard college held a meeting
on Tuesday, Oct. 27, when the resignation of Dr. Hill WM
announced, but no nomination of a successor was received
from die fellows, so no action was taken further than to
appoint a committee to confer with the corporation as to
the duties of the president, and Dr. Walker, George F.
Hoar, and William Gray were chosen for the purpose. IL
W. Emerson, Samuel Eliot, James Freeman Clarke, Ed-
ward E. Hale, azd others presented very interesting re-
ports on the state of the college.