The Sun. — 1870-08-16 (London, England)

CHAMPION PARIS.—Final Heat.—First prize, £4O ; second,  £lO ; third, £5. T. Matfin and R. Carr, Newcastle...  G. Hanamerton and J. Coxen, Surtiton  J. Percy and J. Bright, Newcastle ... ... ..• 3 F. Kilsby and G. Johnson, Wapping ... .. 4 W. Biff n and T. Wise, Hammersmith ... ... 5 Chiswick and Putney.—Betting even on Percy and Bright, and 2 to 1 against others. Matfin and Carr, from the best station, came away and won easily by two lengths. Hammerton and Coxen held their own against the favourites, who were terrribly cut up at the finish.  The next mails for Australia will be despatched from London via Southampton on the 3rd of September, and via Marseilles on the 9th.  Malta is about to be strengthened in its fortifications and garrison on account of the war. Workmen are already working day and night on the new naval dock in the French creek.  The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Lowe left their residence in Lowndes-squre, on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of shburnham, at Ashburnham Place, Sussex. The ancient mansion of the Rhodes family at Great Houghton, Yorkshire, within whose walls the great Earl of Strafford wooed and won his bride, is now a village alehouse. At the Leeds assizes, on Saturday, Thomas Riddlough, a Bradford mason, was sentenced to `penal servitude for life for attempting to murder Henry Whit taker. The Archbishop of Canterbury has formally accepted the resignation of the Right Rev. Dr. T. N. Staley as Bishop of Honolulu. It is doubtful whether another bishop will be appointed. The Western Mail is authorised to state that a committee has been formed in Cardiff, consisting of MM. Guret, Bregeon, Krieger, and Ronnfeldt, in order to raise contributions for the aid of the sufferers in the FrancoGerman war now raging on the Continent. The Marquis of Bute has generously headed the list with a donation of £lOO. Mr. Godfrey Knight, brewer, of Scarborough, who was out shooting- grouse on Friday, on Lockton Low Moor, near Pickering, when taking aim was seen to fall down suddenly. His groom ran to his assistance, and picked the unfortunate gentleman up, and he was found to be quite dead. The body was removed to the Durham Ox Inn, Lockton, and awaits, the coroner's inquest. In all the Roman Catholic churches of London on Sunday, the clergy called attention to the recent proceedings of the (Ecumenical Council, and added that they were requested by authority to make known to their congregations that the definitions of the Council required no other publication than the solemn act by which the Holy Father had already published them to the Universal Church. Archbishop Manning, who endorsed this statewent, preached on Sunday evening at St. John's Church, Duncan-terrace, Islington. The Board of Trade have awarded a telescope to Captain E. Chantard, of the French ship Formose, of Nantes, in acknowledgment of his humane services to four British Indian seamen whom he picked up at sea. It appears that these four seamen, who came from the coast of Aracan, had been overtaken by darkness and driven out to sea by a heavy north-east gale, and when discovered by Captain Chantard, on the .6th January last, were suffering greatlyy from exposure and hunger. After being on board the Formose till the 7th February, they were landed at Reunion.