The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-27 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tins DAY.

LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.
10 to 1 agst Daisy (taken and offered)
14 to 1 agst The Lamb (offered)
13 to 1 agst Moose (offered)
13 to 1 agst Chimney Sweep (taken)
100 to 6 agst Alcibiade (taken)
100 to -6 agst Tennyson (taken)
100 to 6 agst Fan (taken and offered)
30 to 1 agst Astrolabe (taken)
23 to 1 agst Despatch ((taken)
25 to 1 agst Clansman (taken)
7 to 1 agst Lord Coventry's lot

CITY AND suntmn.t.N.
25 to 1 agst Abergeldie (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Abergeldie (offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
9 to 4 apt It )sierneian (offered)
6to 1 agst Pace (offered)
25 to 1 agst Greeu Sleeve (offered)
25 to 1 agst Blue Gown (offered)
30 to 1 agst 'tableau (taken)
DERRY.
12 to 1 agst Paco (offered, take 100 to 8)
20 to 1 agst The Earl (offered)
40 to 1 agst 13anditto (offered)
100 to 15 agst Michael de Boseo (offered)
Very few members were present, and little business was
transacted.

LATEST BETTING Al THE ROTUND A
CLUB.
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECIIASE.
12 to 1 agst Daisy
12 to 1 agst The Lamb
14 to 1 agst Chimney Sweep
15 to 1 agst Alcibiade
25 to 1 agst Despatch

ROTUNDA CLUB AND CONIMISSION EXCHANGE
Three Doors from Blackiriars Bridge, Surrey Side,
OPEN" DAIL Y.
Messrs. Fisher and itoynol•ls, W. Atkius, P. Mitchell
and Co., W. Leach, and others, will be in attend-
ance daily. Applications for membership may ba male to
any of the above gentlemen, or to the Secretary, 3, Black-
friars-road.

Annual subscription, Five Shillings.
N.B.—The wires of the Electric and International 'Tele-
graph Company are now laid on, and are open for trani-
mission of messages to all parts of the kingdom.

RACING FIXT I
MA

RES FOR 1868.

L'verpool Spriug 31 3
_elinsford Spriug 31 10
Sarewsbury Spriug 10
%Vest Drayton l2
Warwick Spring

Margate
Epioat Spring Mooting 21
Ocoxtou Park
Northampton

Bromley Spring 6
Durham
Hendon l3
Newmarket Craven
Knighton l4
Aborgavenny ..... 16

Catterick Bridge l6
Lewes Spring
Thirsk
0 urragh April 2l
Newmarket Ist Spring 27

Chester - .015
Winchester
York Spring
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury

Bath
Croydon Ist Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Sumner
Manchester 3
Ascot Summer
Beverley, Hull, and
East Siding lO
Windsor Summer

Newton
Hampton
Newcastle
Bibury Club
Stockbridge
Alexandra. Park

JULY.
Chelmsford
I
Worcester Summer ... 2 Stamford
Carlisle 7 Radcliffe .. .
I
Newmarket July 7 Huntingdon.
Pontefract
I
Reading
Down Royal Corp.
Liverpool July if
AUGUST.
Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3
Eghain lB
Hastings
York August

Dover
Oxford
ScArboro ugh
Canterbury
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Lichfield
Tunbridge
Margate

SEPT

Badon
Warwick September
A.biugdoa 3
Leicester

Kelso
lieudon
31ouinuual
Newmarket tat October
Walsall •••
West Draytou
ltoyal Caledonian Hunt
and Western
13E1t.
Cheltenham
Elting
Newmarket tionghtou
I Worcester Autumn.
LABE It

Doncaster September.— 8

Brecon
Itictunoud
Hampton Autumn l5
:OCT

Badford.
Brumley Autumn.
Nowtuarket 2d October 5
Choltusford Aututua 13
NO V 1
Shrewsbury Autumn
Leaunugtuu and War

9

%viekthire Haut l7

STEEPL

LCIIASES.
MArgato
\Yost Somorsot
Oneltonhain
Southdown Hunt
1 Oanibridgo
RI L.
Grand National Hunt I Knighton
(Bodford)
Roy•Artillocy(Woolwieli) 3 Hatnolodun
Broinloy
Aldershot
liondon
OCTOBER.

• MA
Liverpool Spring
Surowsbary Spring lO
Grand Military
War wick l7
Chertsoy 2O
AP.

Bromloy 1 I Ealing
DECEMBER.
St. Albans 1 Ealing
Kingsbury

THE FIMUDS ON UNDERIVRITERS BY 1t
BRITISH CONSUL.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 22.

Mr. Calvert, late her Majesty's Consul at the
Dardanelles, was yesterday Coll victed at the Supreme
Court, Constantinople, on the charge of conspiracy
and attempting to defraud the underwriters at
Lloyd's of a certain amount of insurances, £12,000,
effected by him on a certain ship named Possiedon,
laden with oil, which had loaded in Turkish waters
for the United Kingdom, and which he falsely al-
leged was destroyed by lire off the Island of Lemnos.
The frauds, it will be remembered, were committed
in the early part of the year 1862, the accused,
Mr. Calvert, then holding the important office of
her Majesty's Consul at the Dardanelles. It was
in consequence of the pressing demands he made on
the underwriters to settle the loss with him that ex-
cited suspicion, and a special agent was at once de
spatched to Constantinople to make inquiries, the
result of which disclosed a most novel and original
fraud, whereupon the Foreign-office issued a warrant
for the apprehension of Mr. Calvert. However,
before it reached Constantinople, Mr. Calvert ab-
sconded, and for five years contrived to elude the
vigilance of the police, till last November, when he
was captured, and fully committed to take his
trial on the charge preferred. The attempted
frauds were shown to have been carried out by
means of official documents bearing her Majesty's
consulate seal, and on which he founded his claim
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nhilaecinheesaddonHb ussein Aga, a Turkish friend of his. One
document professed to be a certificate from the
harbour master at Tenedos, to which port the Poe-
siedon was represented to belong, and certifying
the departure of the vessel. The second document
was a certificate from the consular agent at Tenedos
confirming the departure of the Possiedon. The third
document was the prisoner's certificate as to the cargo
on board the vessel. And the fourth document pro-
fessed to be the statement made to the agent at
Samos by a certain captain who had passed a vessel
at sea on fire, and which was supposed to be the
Possiedon. A chain of evidence, however, showed
that there was no such person as Hussein Aga, and
no such ship as the Possiedon—neither shipper,
agent, nor cargo; but the whole was a fraud to
obtain the amount of insurances. The court found
years' penal servitude. The
the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to two
prosecution in the
first instance was taken by Lloyd's Salvage Asse-
ciation, but the proceedings at the trial were con-
ducted by counsel by order of the Foreign-office.