The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

SEPTEABER.

Doncaster

OCTOBER.

Bedford
Leicester

STUD NEWS. -It is intended to put the famous brood
mare Paradigm to Mr. Blenkiron's recent purchase, Blair
Athol.

LuNDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING,

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Fran-
cisco L. Davis as Consul in London for the United States
of Venezuela.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, OCT. 9.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT—Deputy-Assistant-Com-
missary-General Alfred Ernest Petrie to be Assistant-
Commissary-General, vice M'Kinstry, placed on the
Retired List; Ensign James Alleyno Clarke, from 224
Foot, Acting Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General,
to be Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General. Commis-
sion to bear date 10th February, 1868, but such antedate
not to carry pay prior to Ist August, 1868.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. Micha3l Cuffe,
Chaplain of the Fourth Class, to be Chaplain of the Third
Class.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 6.
Sub-Lieutenant Philip Francis has b3en promoted to be
Lieutenant in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of 3d
instant.

OCTOBER 8.

Commander Walter James Pollard has this day been
promoted to be a Retired Captain, under the provisions of
her Majesty's Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, oat
July, 1861, and 24th March, 1866.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short 11 19 11 19}
Do

Rotterdam
Autwerp
Brussels

... 12 1 ... 12 1
... 25 4U ... 25 45
... 25 40 ... 25 45

Hamburgh l3 10f ... 13 11
Paris

Ditto
Mrasoill©s

Frankfort-on-the-Main
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburg
Copenhagen
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz

... 120/ ... 126 i
... 11 85 ... 11 90
-. 11 85 ... 11 92/
... 32 32/
... 9 20 ... 9 23
... 6 26/ ... 6 27/
46/ .- 47
474.

Leghorn
Milan

27 ISO ... 27 67f
27 GO ... 27 67f

Gouoa
Palermo 27 60 27 671

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

lastralia and New Zealand, via Southampton.....oot. 1,.
Ditto, vla Ylraeillea
Ditto, 0.1 arna ......... ........ ... Ozt 23.
'Sraz,l. BaenJa Ayres, and Monte Video Nov. 4.
Ditto, by French packet .••••-• Wt. V..
Cape Verds. by Brazil packet ...... _ Nor. 4:
gape of Good Live, 3eoelldioll, and St. llelena oat.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Soulhampton—Oct. 10.

Clibraliar, via Southampton . Oct 10

Endia.via Southampton . ..... 10

unto, via 31arsetile3
Malta, Egypt, Jo. Oat. to.
Ditto, Marseilles.. Oct. 12
Mauritius, Capc of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Southampton

3.larseifies U t. 13
Seivfoundland ...... Oct 21
Yortugal .. . . Nov. 4.
United States, Canada, California, &0., by British

packet Oct 10
Ditto, by Canadian paoket . ..... ....Oot 1G
Ditto, by l Lited States packet
Ditto ditto ( Baltimore)
West ladles and Pacific (except Alexia° and Baha-

--
mac) - Oct 13.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tencriffs Oct. 17.
Falkland Islands
Cub t and 11exico
Bshamas, via New York Oct.
. —.
Bermuda, via Halifax.... .

Mr. G. W. Martin announces the commence.
ment of the ninth season of the National Choral Society,
next Wednesday, at Exeter Hall, on which occasion Dr.
Storudalo Bennett's Cantata, " The Woman of Samaria,'
Mendelssohn's Motets for tamale voices (a shining edition.
of which has just been published by Mr. Martin); and
" The Walpurgis Night" will be rehearsed. Ladies and
gentlemen, amateurs, wishing to join the society, should
apply at once at the offices, 14 and 15, Exeter Hall
Strand.

LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—STROMNESS, Orkney Islands,
Oct. 7.—Tho schooner Victor, of Grimsby, bound from
Liverpool to Christiana, with a cargo of salt, was riding
at anchor in Hoy Sound during stormy weather (says Jas.
R. Garrick, Esq.), when she was seen to be in danger.
Tho Saltaire lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution,
stationed at Stromness, was thereupon launched to her
assistance. On arriving alongside seven of the lifeboat
mon went on board, slipped one of the anchors to save the
tide, and brought the vessel safely into Stromness
harbour.
The death was announced yesterday morning
of Sir John Brooms Whalley Smythe ardiner. The de-
ceased, who was the fourth barons was born at Rocha
Court, Hampshire, in 1814, and succeeded his father
1851. He was for some time in the royal navy. Ha
married, in 1861, Mary Harriet, widow of Captain James
A. Forrest. Ile leaves no son, and the baronetcy becomes
extinct. Ono of his sisters is married to Mr. Montagu
Burrows, Chichelo Professor of Modern History at Ox-
ford. The first baronet was John Whalley, who, on suc-
ceeding to the estates of Sir W. Gardiner, Bart. (title ex-
tinct), assumed the name of Gardiner.
Loss OF A DUNDEE WHALER.—The loss of the
Wildfire, a Dundee whaling ship, in the Cumberland
Gulf, has been reported by the mate of the vessel, who
arrived in Dundee yesterday. The Wildfire left Dundee
early this year for Davis Straits. On the lbth of July she
got among some heavy ice and was repeatedly struck,
and was so much injured that Captain Henderson, after
making Levely Island, was forced to abandon the vessel-
After the crew, consisting of about fifty hands, had been.
about six weeks on the island, thirty-five of them, in-
cluding the mate, were brought home by the Danish brig
Constantino; and the remainder, with the captain, will
follow in another Danish ship.
A SERVANT INCITING HER MASTER'S CHILD REA
STBAL.—On Thursday, at Walsall, a girl named Caro-
line Leyland was charged with having stolen a quantity
of ribbons, gloves, collars, cottons, tapes, and other articles
of the value of 305., the property of her master, Samuel
Roberts. The girl was about to leave on Tuesday, after
having boon in the prosecutor's service as domestic ser-
vant about seven weeks, and suspicions of her honesty
being excited her box was examined. It was found to
contain a variety of gogoidvsenbllnotnogieng usttoodlly r
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of
sateecaolrindgingthlyemsh.e lwtascamo out that she had induced her
master's two sons, the one aged 1.0 years and the other
eight, to give her the things out of the shop, by giving
them money and fruit, and promising to take them to the
fair. She was sentenced to two months' imprisonment
with hard labour, for aiding, counselling, and procuring
the boys to steal the articles.
"SILENCE THAT DREADFUL BELL l"—An Ame-
rican has invented an advertising bell to be attached to
bulletin boards, walls, fences, and so forth, to attract at-
tention to the advertisements pasted thereon. It is ope-
rated by a coiled spring with clockwork gearing, and when
wound up and set running it will sound at intervals of a
few seconds continuously fora week if desired,—The
Grocer.