The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

RACING FIXT

AUG
Deauville
Leek 3l
Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3
Egham l7
Hastings
York August
Oxford

UST.

MARKETS-7 HIS DAY.

HAY AND STRAW.

The supplies were light, and prices were well supported.
Our quotations of Saturday may be repeated.

POTATOES.

The markets are dull, scantily supplied, and the trade is
quiet without change in prices.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar.—On the spot the market opened quiet, with
only a limited inquiry, but holders asked former rates.
Floating cargoes are still in request. Refined sugars are
unalter in value, with a moderate demand.
Coffee.—The market is steady for good qualities of
colonial, but pale gray and inferior qualities are dull.
Tea— In China tea only a limited business is passing,
and rates are unchanged.

Rice is still easier in price, 1,364 to Bengal sold at
lls 6d and 12s middling, mixed with; broken, and 12slor
good middling.

Saltpetre—Demand is very moderate, but prices steady,
at 18s 6d to 19s Gd for best fine Bengal.
Sheep in steady request at 37s to 38s for St. Peters-
burg clean.

COTTON.
LrrEstrooL, July 28.—Sa1es probably 8,000 balm
Market rather steadier.

BUTLER'S GOODWOOD STAKES MOUNT.—We believe
there is no doubt but that Butler will ride Mr. Bowes's
Spy for the Goodwood Stakes, the pilotage of Fidelia
boing entrusted to Fox.

THE Suirran.—Messrs. Weatherby inform us that The
Skipper was struck out of the Stewards' Cup at CFood-
wood at 5.11 yesterday (Monday) afternoon.
Eysore was struck out of the Goodwood Stakes at
3.0 p.m., on Saturday, and Papillon at 3.36 on the same
day.

PRESENTATION OF COLOURS TO IDINOWALL.--.
An interesting ceremony took place atMingwall on Wed .
nesday afternoon. The 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire
Buffs), at present stationed at Montreal, having been
recently presented there with a new set of colours, in
token of the kindness and welcome given to the regiment
by the inhabitants of Ross-shire on their return from
India in 1859, the old colours were presented to the capital
of the county.

On Saturday a general parade of the troops in
garrison at Chatham was held, on the ozcasion of the pre-
sentation of silver medals and gratuities which had been
awarded by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief- to
the following non-commissioned officers and men for long
service and good conduct, viz. : —Sergeant-Major John
Watts, Ist battalion of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, medal and
gratuity of £l5 ; Colour-Sergt. Charles Grace, 29th Regi-
ment, Colour-Sergt. John Roberts, 31st Regiment, and
Sergt. William Coffee, V.C., 82d Regiment, each a meda
and gratuity of £lO ; Sergt. William M'Evoy, Private
Patrick Donahoe, Private Nathan Keleher, and Private
John Conolly, 29th Regimen; Private John M'Triggan,
31st Regiment, Private James Donovan and Private John
M'Namara, 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment, each a medal
and gratuity of £5 ; Private John Flynn, 29th Regiment,
received a medal without a gratuity. The distribution of
the medals was made by the officers in command of the
respective battalions.

SPECTROStIOPE.—Professor Osborn, of Lafayette
College, has so modified the spectroscopo that he can de-
tect, from a room many hundred yards distant from a
furnace, the sodium in the coal or decomposed fire-brick
proceeding from the efurnaco mouth; also any lime or
potash that may be present.

The Danish Plenipotentiary sent to Washington
to negotiate the treaty for the sale of the Danish West India
islands to the United States returned to Copenhagen last
Wednesday, the ratification of the treaty having been
postponed until the next session of the American Con-
gross.

The enormous sum of £540,000 was remitted by
the Irish in America to their relatives in Ireland dur-
ing the past year. Of this sum £202,000 was transmitted
as prepaid passage orders. Since 1848 the Irish in
America transmitted .£14:500,000 sterling to that country