The Sun. — 1870-09-08 (London, England)

GLADIATEUR.—This celebrated sire was sold, along with the remainder of Count Lagrange's stud, at Tattersall's on Monday last, Mr. Blenkiron being declared his purchaser at 5,800 guineas. He will be located at Middle Park, where he stoodin 1867 and 1868. During his three years on the Turf, he won in England and France,the splendid sum of £30,876, not including the Emperor's gift to the Grand Prize of Paris.—Sportsman.  Sir J. P. Grant, K.C.8., Governor of Jamaica, was on Tuesday night entertained at dinner by the West India Association of Glasgow, in recognition of his many. public services. Mr. H. E. Crum-Ewing, M.P., presided.  The NorthLEastern Railway directors are about to distribute £l,OOO among the clerks in the Northern division as an acknowledgment of their zeal in contributing to the prosperity of the company.  The workmen who seized the plant of the contractor for the Teign Valley Railway after it had been sold by au'tion under a bill of sale, as security for wages, amounting from £2OO to £3OO, due to them, have surrendered the property, after a week's possession, on the advice of their solicitor.  It is now positively understood that the colonelcy of the Scots Fusilier Guards, vacant by the death of Field. Marshal Sir Alexander Woodford, -will be conferred on General Sir John Aitchison, G.C.8., now colonel of the 72nd Highlanders.  Foot and mouth disease is spreading in East Lancashire to an alarming extent. During. last week the disease broke out on no fewer than 27 farms, and affected 211 head of cattle. The fact that the farms are scattered over ten townships shews the threatening nature of the outbreak. At the Liverpool police-court, on Tuesday, Charlotte Elliot, a young woman from Ashford, Kent, was committed for trial on a charge of wilfully murdering her child a few days ago at Liverpool. The unfortunate woman had previously been committed for trial on the same charge by the coroner's jury.  His Royal Highness Prince Arthur was expected yesterday at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Prince and Princess Christian are at present the guests of the duke and duchess. The Prince of Wales will, it is believed., review the Sutherland Volunteers, of whom his Royal Highness is honorary colonel, on the 30th inst. On Sunday morning five females and four males were baptised in the river Avon, near Green Park, Bath, by the Rev. J. Huntley, the Minister of Ebenezer Chapel, Widcombe. There was a vast assembly on both sides of the water, to whom the Rev. J. Davis, of Somerset-street Chapel, delivered an address on the rite of baptism. In the afternoon the baptised persons were admitted into the Baptist church by Mr. Huntley.  Extensive alterations are about to be made at the Grand Depot at Woolwich, with the object of making the reserve stores for artillery available at a few hours' notice. The present system of taking the carriages and waggons to pieces and stacking them is to be abolished, and more space for barrack stores is about to be given to the Control Department by removing the tailors' workshop to the barracks, where there there are plenty of workshops unemployed.  MOSES and.