The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-15 00:00:00

SPORTING INTEL LIGENOE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—TUIS DAT.
LINCOLN lIANDICAr.
100 to 15 agst King Charmiug (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Czar (taken and offered)
9 to 1 agst Purveyor (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Ligurian (taken)
100 to 6 agst Grey Stocking (taken)
100 to 6 agst Indigestion (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Rhine Wine (taken)
20 to 1 agst Ainsley (taken ani offered)
20 to 1 agst Artesian (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Ulphus (taken)
25 to 1 agst Midwife (taken freely)
25 to 1 agst Cauthleeu (taken)
25.0 1 ngst Leases (taken and offered)
80 t) 1 agst Skirmish (taken)
i 0 to 1 agst Beanstalk Oaken)
LIVERPOOL O1C9N1) NATIONAL.
20 to 1 agst Chimney S ,veop (taken)
25 to 1 agst 'rho L.nnh (taktlt and off .ro(.1)
40 to 1 agst Jack of Tra:nps (taken)
50 to 1 asst Benazet (offcr:.l)
1000 to 30 agst Moose (taken)
CIIESTEI: CUP.
20 to 1 agst Viridis (tak3ll awl offered)

T7i) TiIOI.73AND.
20 to 1 agst Bloc G,r.vo (tlken)

DE

20 to 1 ngst BILL) GONV 1 (taken)

ROTUNDA CLUB AND COMMISSION EXCHANGE

Three Doors from Blackfriars Bridge, Surrey Side,
Open Daily.

Messrs. Fisher a,nd Reynold; W. Atkins, F. Mitchell
and Co., W. Leach, W. Ellis, and others, will be in attend-
ance on and after Monday next. Applications for mem-
bership may bo made to any of the above gentlemen, or
to the Secretary, 3, Blackfriars-road.
N.B.—The wires of the Electric and International Tele-
graph Company are now laid on, and will bo open for
transmission of messages to all parts on Monday next,
Feb. 15th, 1668.

STEEPLECHASING IN NOIVOLK.—It is doubtful whether
there will be any steeplechase meeting at New Bucken-
ham this year. There will, however, be a two days' meet-
ing near Norwich on March 23 and 2a, and one at North
Walsham on April 3.

Mr. Lincoln's Leda, two years, has arrived at P.
Doucie's stables, the Curragh, to be trained for her Irish
engagements, in order to qualify her to run for the Pa—
triotic Stakes at Baldoyle, according to the provisions of
the race.

MALTON STEEPLECHASES.—It should be borne in mind
that on Wednesday next will close the Malton Grand
and Norton Steeplechases. Both aro handicaps open to
all comers, and name to Mr. Johnson, or the clerk of tha
Course.

DEATH OF MR. EDWARD HIBBtiRD.-Mr. E. lEibburd,
who formerly filled the post of clerk of the course at
Ascot, as well as starter to the Jockey Club, died a few
days since.

Prost, 4 yrs, has left Fobert's and joined Mr. IV. Forbes's
large string of steeplechasers, who are preparing for
Punchestown, at Palmerstown.

Cabin Boy was struck out of the Midland Steeple Chase
at Derby and the Open Steeple Chase at Moreton-in-
Marsh immediately the weights appeared.
The Market Rasen Steeplechases will take place on Mon•
day, April 6.

DERBY STEEPLECHASES.—The Hunt Chase, weight for
age, three miles, closes on Friday next.
Irswlcu RACES.— This meeting is fixed for Thursday
and Friday, Aug. 27 and 28.

Mr. 11. Chaplin will entertain a large party of fashion-
ables during the ensuing Lincoln Meeting.

Mr. R. Ten Broeck is expected to return to this country
in the spring.

EAST ACTON PADDOCKS.—Upwards of 250 yearlings aro
already booked to be sold at this establishment during the
season.

Pembroke Steeplechases will take place on March 11.
. . .

It is rumoured that the question between two noble
lords as to the policy of hedging some heavy bets on,
the Derby will be "referred" for consideration.
Lord A. Paget's colours aro brown, scarlet and whito
hoops, with white cap; Mr. W. Tilsly's, tawney and bl ue
and his second colour maroon and white.
WEST SOMERSET STEEPLECHASES. The Crew kerne
Stakes and the Yeovil Plate closes on Feb. 20.

Aberystwith Spring Meeting will take place on Mon.
day, April 13.

The Cardiff Race and Steeplechase Meeting is fixed to
take placo on April 30 and May 1.
Ariel left Middle Park on Wednesday last for his stud
quarters in Ireland.

RACING FIXT

RES FOR 1868.
ARY.

FEBR

Lincoln Spring
11 I nstield —
11:trro VT 2O
MA

Nottingham Spring 25
Derby spring

L'verpool Spring M. 3
0 .elmsford 3piiug M lO
S trewsbury Spring 10
IVcst Dray ton
W(r wink Spring.

OH.

Bromley Spring 6
Durham
Hendon l3
Newmarket, Craven
ICuightua ll
Abergaveuny

Niargate
Epsom Spring Alevting 21
Croxton Yark
NorLhanipton

Chester 5
Wiachester
York Spring . l2
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury

AIL.

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Summer
Manchester
Ascot Summer 9
Beverley, Hull, and
_

Catterick Bridge l6
Lewes Spring
Tliirsk .... 2l
G'urragli April
Newmarket tat Spring 27

East .kidiug lO
Wiudsor Summer

Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Carlisle 77 I
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Reading
Down Royal Corp. " I
Liverpool July m

/lath
Croydon Ist Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer

Newton
Hampton
Newcastle 23
B;bury Club .... 23
Stockbridge
Alex.audra Park 3O

Odiham, l6
Stamford
Radcliffe ..... 2O
Huntingdon. 2l.
Nottingham July
Southampton
Goodwood

LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING.

11.-

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 14.

4th Dragoon Guards -John Dalton, Gent., to be Cornet.
6th Dragoon Guards—Cornet Murdoch Gillian Maclaine
to be Lieutenant; Cornet T. Gordon Grieve to be

Lieutenant; F. Dancombe Shafto, Gant., to be Cornet;
H. Evans Gordon, Gent., to be Cornet.
7th Dragoon Guards - Lieutenant George Watson to bo
Lieutenant.
Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant T. Joseph Walker to be Cap-
tain : Cornet G. Brown Russell to be Lieutenant ; John
Alfred Maurice, Gent., to be Cornet.
3d Hussars—John Denne Hilton, Gent., to be
Cornet.
10th Hussars—Lieutenant Thomas Bulkeley to be Cap-
tain; Cornet Uvedale Edward P. Okeden to be Lieute-
nant; the Honourable Roger Gordon Molyneux to be
Cornet.
14th Hussars—Lieutenant William Henry France Palmer
to be Lieutenant ; Cornet Gerald Edmund M'Cartby to
Cornet.
15th Hussars—Cornet George Wetherell
be
r,all tobe Lieutenant;
James Cunliffe Lister Kay, Gent.,
Cornet.._
18ttoh
beHussars—LieutenantLieutenant;
Ensign
mhootantaasgeHm.•Mauoina Slade to beteith Brown,
Cornet.
Colonel-Commandant,
C.Lieutonant-Co onßoyal Artillery—Major-General Burke, Cour
andpag eto be
ot be Colonel, Captain and
Brevet-
Colonel Hugh Campbell,C.ll.,
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Gaspard Le Marchaut Tup-
per to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Second Captain John
Theophilus Daubuz to be Captain, Lieutenant Herbert
Leonard Mitchell to be Second Captain, Lieut. Robert
Le Messurier to be Second Captain, Second Captain
Donald Roderick Cameron to be Adjutant, S taff-S ur-
goon Wm. Ramsay Steuart to be Surgeon.
Scots Fusilier Guards —Thomas William, Viscount Coke,
to be Ensign.
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Robert Foulis to ba Ensign.
Willoughby
CaptainaLt,
or'ide nblvet alnkarenertd-t oC
Lieutenantleeomntea; t
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Gen-
tleman flns
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Cadet John Spurgin to be Ensign.
24th Foot—Ensign Charles Popo, to be Ensign.
28th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Brett to be Instructor of
Musketry.
35th Foot —Lieutenant Byron Cary to be Lieutenant ;
AALTY. 12.
Commander WilliDamMlß Jardine, has been this day pro-
moted to he a retired Captain, under her Majesty's orders
in Council of 3d August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th
March, 1866.
Henry Davenport Sarratt, Esq., has been this day
promoted to the rank of Staff Commander in her Ma-
jesty's Fleet.
John Cushea Sabben, Esq., has been this day promoted
to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and
Fleets on the Retired List.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE AND THE ROYAL
ITALIAN OPERA.—We have reason to believe that the
operatic undertakings hitherto carried on at her Majesty's
Theatre and the Iloyal Italian Opera aro to be united
under one management—that of Mr. Mapleson. The wish
of many influential supporters of the Opera, the destruc-
tion of her Majesty's Theatre, the desire of Mr. Gye to bo
relieved of the arduous duties of management which he
has borne for 20 years at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-
garden—all these causes have led to this determination.
It is to be hoped this arraugo:neut may be carried out in
the interests of the art of music: and of artistes, and be-.
cause it affords a promise of one really complete grand
Opera. It would be premature to enter upon chltails at
present, but it is stated that Mr. Mapleson will be sup-
ported by powerful influence, and that he proposes that
Opera, under the new arrangements, shall be presented, it
porgible, QA a graader kale than