The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-19 00:00:00

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Mr T. V. Morgan's Lord Ronald, by Stockwell - Edith,
6 yrs, Sat 91b (inc. 51b ex)
Lord Coventry's Drum, 5 yrs, Gst 121 b (Wyatt) 2
Betting -4to 1 ou Lord Ronald. Won by half a
length.
The Borough Members' PLO, a handicap of 3 soya each,
with 20 added; certain conditi-ins. One mile one fur-
long.
Mr R. Herbert's Miss Skerratt, 4 yrs, list 21b
(Mr Herbert) 1
Mr P. Merton's Aspirant, 5 yrs, lOst 71b (A. Williams) 2
Bettiug-3 to 1 on Miss Skerratt. Won by two lengths.
The Wye Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added; weight
for age ; the winner to be sold fur £l2O ; certain allow-
ances and penalties.
Mr Evans's Bouquetiere, byVoltigeur - Pauline, 3 yrs,
(£10), Bst Glb (ements) 1
Mr Adam's Maid of Burghley, 3 yrs (£4O), ist 91b
(Penfold) 2
Mr Merton's Brontia, 2 yrs (£80), Est 71b (car Est 121 b)
(Jeffrey) 3
The following also ran :—Dr Blanc and David.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Bouquetiere, sto 2 agst Dr Blanc,
4to 1 agst Maid of Burghley. Won by a length.
The Somerset Plate of 5 sovs each, with 40 added; weight
for age; certain allowances and penalties. Five fur-
longs.
Mr T. V. Morgan's Lord Ronald, 6 yrs, 9st 31b (in 51b
ex.)
Mr P. Merton's Wamba, 2 3 rs, 6st 71b (Jeffrey) 2
Mr Beverley's Abyssinia, 2 yrs, 9st (Fox) 3
Lucina also ran. •
Betting.— to 2on Lord Ronald. Won by a length.
The Farmers' Plate was won in two heats by Mr J. Frost's
Banjo.

SIR RICHARD MAYNE AND THE DOGS.----Up to
yesterday between 11,000 and 12,000 dogs have been ap-
prehended by the police under the orders of Sir Richard
Mayne. Of these between 8,000 and 9,000 have been
destroyed ; the greater portion at a place a few miles from
Berkhampstead. Those that were allowed to live have
either been claimed or sold. At the Marylebone Police-
court, on Saturday, a constable incidentally stated that
since the issue of Sir Richard Mayne's edict against the
canine race he had captured no fewer than 270 dogs.
His hands were covered with black marks, caused by the
bites of vicious animals and the subsequent cauterisation.
The Hartford Live Stock Insurance Company of
Hartford, Connecticut, has been suspended. The com-
pany has sustained losses within the last twenty-two
months of $llO,OOO. The capital of the company is
$150,000, $lOO,OOO of which has been deposited with the
Treasurer of Connecticut. The Second National Bank of
Des Moines, located at Des Moines, lowa, is closing up
its affairs. Tho Banking House of Messrs. E. W. Earl
and Co., Reading., Pensylvannia, has suspended opera-
tions, having met with reverses which it was impossible
for them to withstand. A notice on the door of the bank-
ing house announces that their a,sels aro sufficient to
satisfy all interested.
SHEET IKON CHlMNEYS.—Minneapolis, Minnesota,
has produced a sheet iron chimney which is made of three
sheet iron cylinders, the space between the outer and
second one being filled with ashes, thus securing safety
from fire. It is lighter and safer than brick.
Among the lectures to be delivered before the
American Agricultural College this fall will bo a course of
ten by Dr. Calvin Cutter, author of the well-known school

physiology, o❑ the Laws of Health ; by Mr. Flint, secre-
tary of the Board of Agriculture, ten lectures on Dairy-
farming ; by Dr. Jabez Fisher, of Fitchburg, ten lectures
on Market Gardening; by the Hon. Marshal P. Wilder,
lectures on Modes of Hybridizing and Improviug Orna-
mental and Useful Plants, besides a large number of other
lectures on various important topics.

A newly patented German whaling gun is being
exhibited in New Bedford, Eastern Mass.; it is double,
very heavy, mounted on trunnions, and fires from one
barrel a harpoon, and from the other a bomb lance with
admirable accuracy.

A correspondent of the Naples and Florence Ob-
server thus writes from the Dardanelles :—" The Ameri-
can of the port at Scio—an Hellenic subject—has been
sent up hero under arrest by the Ahmet liaiserli Pasha,
governor of the island, for alleged share in the recent riot
on the occasion of the rejoicings for the birth of the young
Greek prince. The man is said to have protested, on
the double ground of his nationality and his Ameri-
can office, but neither availed him, and he is now a
prisoner in the fortress. It remains to be seen what
steps the American and Greek Ministers will take under
the circumstances." We are able to answer the suggested
query of our correspondent. On receiving the news, Mr.
Morris promptly demanded satisfaction from the Porte,
claiming the man's immediate release, his conveyance
back o Scio in 'a Turkish man of war, and an apology
from the Pasha to the American Consul. We have reason
to believe that the incident has already induced a visit of
Admiral Farrigut in the Franklin to the island. The re-
sult has not reached us up to oUr going to press."

Timber planting is going on ostensibly at lowa,
and a simile? movement begins to be apparent in the
prairie States generally. The woods preferred are ash,
maple, walnut, chestnut, and some evergreens.

A one-horse power paper steamboat is being
built at Ballston, New York.

The British Medical Journal has the following :
—An American physician, Dr. Ayres, of Fort Wayne, In-
diana, addresses a contemperary as follows :—" A ruinous
and fatal idea of beauty prevails to an alarming extent,
among the young ladies of the United States. Any cos-
metic producing a pallor of the face is profusely applied;
any substance which will rob the blood of its vitality
and red globules, and send debility throughout the
organism, is greedily swallowed and sent on its de-
structive mission. A small waist is considered the per-
fection of form, when in truth it is the opposite, and only
a distortion of that development which nature would give.
Where such deformity cannot be induced by a listless,
sedentary life, it is brought about by the sacrifice of hap-
piness and health. This fanaticism, or monomania, is
yearly carrying runny of its votaries to premature graves,
or rendering them sad images of degenerate women."
He relates the case of a young lady, accomplished in
mind, and vigorous and healthy, who, to reduce her
body to paleness and delicacy, took sulphate of mag-
nesia for upwards of a year. The result was an utter
deterioration of health in mind as well as of body, and
ultimately death. Dr. Ayres intimates that this case is
only one of many. We are accustomed to speak of the
Chinese custom of deforming the feet of their ladies, and
of the flattening of children's heads by some savage tribes,
as barbarous practices. But those are small barbarities, in
comparison with those disastrous practices which, if Dr.
Ayres speaks correctly, aro allowed not only to deform,
but to destroy human life, in a country which boasts of
high civilisation.

Sales in Chicago, as shOwn by the books of the
assessor, amount to the enormous sum of over $325,000,000.
The actual figures, however, it is believed, fully come up
to $350,000,000, from the fact that a large number of the
resident merchants have not as yet made returns. From
the list, as published, we find that 78 houses report sales
in excess of $1,000,000, nine exhibit transactions exceed-
ing $2,000,000, and four furnish statements in excess of
$3,000,000. Two other houses report an amount over
$7,000,000 each, and one makes returns exceeding
$9,798,000.

REDUCING EXPENSES.—TheSecretary of the Trea-
sury is engaged in reducing the expenses of collecting the
customs, by discharging the useless force employed in the
different custom-houses. The special agents for the cus-
toms branch have been instructed to examine and report
where retrenchment can be effected, and orders have al-
ready been issued based upon these reports, which will
effect a saving of a quarter million dollars annually. The
Secretary signed an order cutting off $98,000 in yearly
expenses of the New York Custom-house. When the
work is finished the reduction of expenses in the Customs
Department will amount to over a million of dollars per
annum.

The Pall Mall Gazette says :—General Frank
Blair, the Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency,
once distinguished himself by making a speech on
Fenianism. He told his audience, which consisted chiefly
of Irishmen, that he hoped to see the day when Ireland
would be independent. Ho promised to assist the Irish in
every way he could to accomplish the undertaking.
"May you," he is reported to have said, "lift the British
lion out of his boots, and wrest from his grasp the
emerald gem of the sea." These sentiments drew
down rounds of applause, and the General was the
most popular man in the city for the moment, until he
added, "May you each and all remain in Ireland or else-
where, and never again set foot upon those shores. You
are wanted there, and we can got along without you."
Public feeling here changed towards him, and ho was
hooted down. The report is given by a Boston paper, but
among the practices of election leaders is that of forging a
speech in order to injure a man; and as this has been
carried on extensively of late in reference to all the
Southern leaders, it may ba that General Blair never said
the good things attributed to him.

The following are the dates respectively when
the several provinces of the Dominion were established as
colonies of the British empire : —Nova Scotia, 1621 ; Now
Brunswick, 1716 ; Lower Canada, 1750 ; and Upper
Canada, 1760.

The number of immigrants who arrived in New
York from January 1 to September 2, 1868, was 151,041,
as compared with 171,619 arrivals during the same period
last year. The total number of immigrants who arrived
in the United States during the year ending Juno 30,
1868, was 273,C&7, as compared with 311,996 the previous
year.