The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

NOTICE.

Tho Third Edition of " The Sue of last Evening, con-
' taining the Latest Betting, and Racks at Stockton
and Windsor, w•as ;published in time for delivery a

7.15 p.m.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LATEST WEST END BETTING•

EBOR HANDICAP.
3 to 1 agst Tabouret (taken)
7 to 2 agst The Spy (taken)
7to 1 agst Mandrake (taken)
15 to 2 agst Fervacques (taLe
11 to 1 agst Tarahan (taken)
12 to 1 agst Buttercup (taken)
18 to 1 agst Fairwind (offered)
ST. LEGER.
6 to 4 agst The Earl (taken freely)
9 to 2 agst King Alfred (taken)
6to 1 agst Formosa (taken)
40 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (offered)

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.—Tnis DAY.
EBOR HANDICAP.
sto 2 agst Tabouret (offered, 110 to 40 taken)
4to 1 agst Spy taken and wau:ed)
7to 1 agst Mandrake (taken)
7 to 1 agst Fervacquos (taken)
10 to 1 agst Taraban (taken and (offered)
100 to 8 agst Buttercup (taken)
20 to 1 agst Fairwind (taken)
20 to 1 agst Strathconan (offered-100 to 7 with a
start taken)

100 to 80 agst T. Dawpn's lot (offered)
4to 1 agst Fairwind 1,2, 3 (taken)
ST. LEGER.
sto 4 agst The Earl (offered-6 to 4 wanted)
4to 1 agst King Alfred (offered-9 to 2 wanted)
sto 1 agst Formosa (offered)
500 to 15 agst Green Sleeve (taken and offered)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868.
AUGUST.
York August
I Oxford
Bridgewater and West Weymouth.
Somerset • . 2O lpswich
Dover
Scarborough • 24 Tunbridge
I Canterbury

SEPTEMBER.
Baden
Warwick September ... 1 Monmouth ..
A.biugdon 3 Manchester
Leicester
Doncaster September 8 I Walsall
Brecon ll Edinburgh
Richmond
Hampton Autumn l5 Royal Caledonian Haut
Kelso l,l' and Western al

OCTOBER.
Bedford 1 1 Sudbury and Ealing ...
Bromley Autumn
NewmarkDt 2d October 5 1 Harrow - .
Lanark .., 8 I Worcester Autumn
Chelmsford Autumn ... 13 ' Lincoln Autumn
Cheltenham l3 I
NOVEMBER.

Liverpool
Shrewsbury 9

STEEPLECHASES.
OOTOBER.
Brocaley
DECEMBER.
St. Albans
Kingsbury

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" ENGLISH MASTER WANTED."—In every public
school, grammar school, or institution on a large scale, an
" English department" should be organized, with its staff
of teachers. The heat master should be not merely a
classical scholar, but a thoroughly educated man, imbued
with large views of the philosophy of speech, and not
only acquainted with the leading modern languages, but
well versed in the sources of our own. He should be
deeply read in our literature, especially from the Eliza-
bethan period to recent times. He should write and
speak the best English, and teach his pupils to clothe
their thoughts in clear, simple, and vigorous prose. Were
it not a digression from our presentsubject, we should say
that his written lectures should be so naturally read as to
sound like impromptuspeeches ; while his extemporaneous
addresses should be so accurate in style as to seem ',re-
composed. His accent ought to be simply that of a well-
educated Englishman, without auy trace of local intonation
London or provincial, Seotch or Irish. For such a man
we claim an equal place with the other masters, and for his
work a fair share of every boy's time and attention. Of
course we shall ho told by those who are ever ready to
start difficulties, and who see in every projected improve-
ment a dangerous innovation, tin; such masters could
not be ha .1 ; that, if they could, it would be putting
them out of their place to give them an equal social
status with the teachers of classics and mathematics h,
and that the introduction of English would interfere with
the more important work of the school, and with its chance
of obtaining university distinctions. All these objections
may be answered by an appeal to the "logic of facts.'
Wherever the experiment has boon tried under proper
circumstances it has succeeded. We could name more
than one great school in which English is not neglected,
and which, so far from hindering, it has rather helped the
other studios of the pupils. We feel absolutely certain
that if Eton would lead this reform by founding an "Eng-
lish Department," and offering £l,OOO a year to its
master, the example would be quickly followed by every
school in the kingdom that aimed at keeping pace with the
requirements of the age. —Rev. Alex. D'Orsey.
The will of Evelyn Meadows Gordon, Esq., for-
merly of her Majesty's Bengal Civil Service, late
of Green Ead House, Ware, Little Munden, Hefts,
was proved in London on the sth inst., by Alfred
Charles Bidwell, Esq., of lI.M. Bengal Civil Ser-
vice, residing at St. James-road, Winchester, sole
executor. The personalty in the United Kingdom
was worn under £60,000. The will is dated Nov.
2d, 1867 ; and the testator died on 29th June last.
at Brixton, Derbyshire. He bequeaths the furni-
ture, household effects, carriages, and horses to his
daughter Catherine Maria Gordon. He bequeaths
his library and MSS. to his eldest son, James
Davidson Gordon, of her Majesty's Bengal Civil
Service, secretary to the Governor-General. Ho
leaves to Caroline De Satye, St. Jean, daughter of
Viscountess De Satye St. Jean, £2OO ; and there aro
a few other bequests. To Lieut.-Colonel James
Metcalfe, C. 8., her Majesty's Indian Army, and
A. C. Bidwell £2,000 in trust, to pay the interest
therefrom, one moiety to testator's brother, Richard
Henry Gordon, and the other moiety to testator's
sister, Sophia Ritchie. The residue of his property
he leaves among his four children.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 18 ... 11 19}
Do
Rotterdam — ... 11 19t ... 12
Antwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 40
Brussels — ... 25 35 ... 25 40
liamburgh — ... 13 10 ... 13 101
Paris
Ditto
Mrasoilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 ... 1201
Vienna — ... 11 571 ... 11 621
Trieste --... 11 571 ... 11 62
Petersburg
Copenhagen .........
Berlin
Madrid..

...
Cadiz .
... 49 ... 49i_
Leghorn
Milan — ... 27 80 ... 27 87
Genoa — ... 27 80 ... 27 87k
Palermo — ... 27 80 ... 27 87k
Messina
Lisbon — ... 611 ... 51/
Oporto — ... 511 ~. 511