The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1852.

TERMINUS OF THE GREAT NORTHERN Notices have been served for some time past on the
RAIL WAY AT RING'S-CROSS. inhabitants of Weston-place and Tunbridge-place,
The rna,Tnificent terminus of the Great Northern New-road, and it is expected that in the course of a
I Railway at King'.-cross, having been appointed to be few days the railway will take possession of the pra-
t opened on Monday, the 20th September, is rapidly perty they have purchased, and pull them down at
approaching towards completion. once, so as to throw open the site of the southera
The extent of land situate in the parish of St. façlde and clock-tower to the New-road, which will
Pancras, occupied by the terminus, on the southern then be seen for a considerable distance from many
side of the Regent-Canal, Maiden-lane, and between points, and it will then form one of the most promi-
that point and King,s_oross, is about 30 acres. The nent features in London. We understand also that
offices of the company, together with the temporary it is the intention of the Great Northern Company,
station, wharves, warehouses the granary, engine- with the permission of the local authorities, to erect
house, &c., on the northern side of the canal, also oc-
splendid rests and well-lighted lamp-stands, as already
copying from 45 to 50 acres, making the total amount King's-cross, from the immense number of roads con-
of land occupied by the station and works of the verging at that point, is considered one of the most
London terminus of the Great Northern line about 70 dangerous places for crossing in London, and, without
acres. the proposed rests and lamps, the loss of life fror-

The grand entrance to the newly-erected terminus
of the Great Northern Railway at King's•crosz has a
north-western frontage, and is a large and elegent
building, composed of brick and faced with stone,
abutting on the Old St. Pancras-road, and
with much the same aspect as the rears of the old
Stuall-nox and London nver Hospitals, which it has
superseded. The building, including the parcels'
office at the extreme northern end, is 805 feet in

- . le from cabs
rushing out of the Great Northern Terminus at the
time the trains arrive would be very great.

SPORTth G
No. CULXXXV.
THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING
To.NioußAysl,"3 RACES AT YOKIi.

TO THE ED.I l'Oli OF THE ,t'UN.
FIE,—To-morrow's list exhibits sewn stakes, and is
headed, as usual, with that 'yclept the nuncios. This is
run over the mile-and-a-quarter c3urse, and, out of 's
subscription of fifteen, will probably hove half a dozen
Et the post, including RADuLPHUs and tho Sophistry
Lilly, who will, I have very little doubt, occupy the first
and second places.
The Ebor St. Leger, it i 3 saii, will attract but a small
field, which will be selected from the following:—Daniel
O'Rourke, Bst 131 b; Scekbut, Bst 71b (d); Lucio, Bst
71b (d); Caracara, Sit 71b; Frantic, Bst 71b; the Golden
Age, Bst 7lb (d); and Alfred the Greatt, Bst 71b (d).
It will be seen by the foregoing list that Daniel,
Caracara, and Frantic are the only certain runners.
Scott's horse and FRANTic will, I fancy, finish first and
second; and in giving
the third place to Caracara I have
a notion that the result is foreshadowed.
The field for the Yorkshire Oaks (mile and a quarter)
will comprise the following:—Bird on the Wing, Am-
monia, Evadne, Merry Bird, Hirsute, Kate, Snowdrop,
and perhaps another or two. The result will probably
show BIRD oN THE WING and AMMONIA in the first anti
second places, with Evadne close up.
The Convivial Stakes, I understand, will have a large
field, consisting, amongst others, of Defiance, Bst 51b,
Sittingbourne, Bst 31b, Auld Acquaintance, Bst 21b, filly
by Melbourne, Bst 21b, filly by Assault, sat 11h, Nicotine,
7st 131 b, filly by Touchstone, out of Cuckoo; 7st 131 b,
and Comfit, 7st 131 b. This stake seems destined to fall
to the lot of either the owner of Defiance or else of Sit-

length, and upwards of 70 feet in height. Its centre
compartment contains the pay-offices and the avenues
leading to the departure ph.tform of the railway, and
which is really a beautiful structure. The length of
the room designed as the pay-office is 99 feet in
length, 41 feet in width, and its height about 40 feet.
It has a rich panelled ceiling somewhat in the style
(although
airier) of the ceiling of the large waiting
ball of the terminus of the London and North-
Western Railway, at Euston-square, with large coves.
Adjoining the Pay-offices are the various waiting-
rooms for the passengers, offices, &c., connected with
the departmentcarryicge of the railway. On the
eastern side of th
supported upon 34 P
large and exceedingly elegant iron
design. The lightpurpose of
unique railing of a Gothic
various business offices of this gallery is to connect the
the company together, and
also leads to the board TO01:112 which is 50 feet in
length and 30 in width, and situate at the extreme
southern end of the mainbuilding, the basements of
which also afford ample accommodation for ware-
housing goods and the performances of other offices
requisite to the management of the terminus of a
railway.
Leaving the main building
atby the eastern side of
the pay-office, the passengeronce finds himself on
the departure platform, and undert the enormous glass
roof of the more western of th • wo buildings, which
look look so much like the greatly-admiredeerk transept
late Crystal Palace in UT. Each of the ar-
rival and departure sheds are, IFisetheamdain building,
already described, 805 feet in length 110 feet in
width, and will each, when completed, and 110
seven
lines of rail, some of which are already
down. The roof of each of these arrival and deeagar:aid
e
sheds is what is technically termed a " semi-laminateudr"
roof, 105 feet span, and the largest of the kind ever
before attempted. The lower part of the roof of each
building on either side is panelled, and is supported
upon 80 laminated ribs with hips, their bases resting
on large cast iron stancheons, firmly embedded in the
brickwork and walls of the main building. The de-
parture platform is 25 feet wide, and 800 feet long, and
consists of 6-inch Yorkshirelandings, erected onbrick-
work. The upper portion of the semicircular and
laminated roof is composed of glass of patent manu-
facture, and the effect from the interior, without dis-
tracting the eye, is exceedingly light and airy. The
extreme height of the roof of the arrival and departure
sheds from the level of the rails to the centre is 80
feet. At the extreme northern end of the arrival and
departure sheds the roofs and building will be, when
finished, terminated by two immense " trusses," or
supporters, at the end of each roof, the largest ever
manufactured, and they will form a footway as well
as be the means -of supporting the hips and ends of the
roof. The arrival and departure sheds, although
mainly separated by a wall aliout four feet in thick-
ness, are connected at intervals by large open arch-
ways, at which points the turn-tables of the line
will be fixed, so that carriages can be passed from
the arrival to the departure compartments with the
greatest facility. On the eastern side of the ter-
minus, running parallel with the arrival depart-
ment, is the arrival-platform, and on the extreme east,
abutting on Maiden-lane, is the roadway for the cab-
stand, all within the walls of the building ; an ex-
ample which would be well to be followed by other
railways (more particularly the North-Western), in-
stead of destroying respectable neighbourhoods by the
nuisance arising from their cab-stands. On the
western side of this road and cab-stand the eastern
side of the arrival-shed is supported upon 40 pillars of
large dimensions. This roadway is the same length
as the platform, extending nearly from the extreme
southern paint at King's-cross to the bridge which
crosses the line at the Imperial Gasworks in Maiden-
lane. The cabs can only enter at this upper end,
and make their egress by the southern front; so that
complete regularity will be preserved, and anything
like confusion avoided. The concrete of the roadway
is already laid, and, in a few days, the substratum
will be covered with blocks of wood paving, in order
to free the station from noise as much as possible.
The south facade of the terminus, which, being
surmounted in the centre by the clock tower, is looked
upon by the general public as the principal front, pos-
sesses a frontage of 253 feet, and including the width
of the grand entrance on the north-western side,
which is 58 feet, a gross frontage, abutting on the
St. Pancras-road, of 311 feet. This building, like
the general entrance, is constructed of brickwork,
with stone facings. At the basement of the stupen-
dous arches forming the southern facade of the ar-
rival and departure sheds or terminus of the railway,
are six openings for the introduction of six pairs_ of
gates, through which it is intended the mails and all
carriages alone, which are to travel by the line, are to
enter, and there is an avenue or road running towards
the eastern end, to enable the vehicles to ma e egress
by the arrival platform roadway. The south facadof
the terminus consists of the most stupendous receding
brickwork arches ever "turned.'' They are all
turned" in brick, each receding arch is composed of
eight rings of bricks, the width of the first arch
turned being 71 feet, the second 74 feet,
the thethird 77
feet, and the last or outward arch towardsfront
being 80 feet. The height of this building is upwards
of 80 feet from the metals to the summt. In the
centre of the southern faeide stands the clocik tower,
the height of which is 112 feet from the level of the
rails. It is 22 feet across at its base, and 16 feet
across above the level of the roof, from which it
springs. It is a square constructed tower, and is sur-
mounted by a slanting leaded roof, ornamented with
rolls of lead tapering from the edge upward, and sur-
mounted by a large and handsome gilded vane. The
clock tower is fitted internally with rooms and stair-
cases leading to the clock-room and other compart-
ments. The grand feature, however, of the clock
tower will be the clock itself, which is having four
faces, which are composed of slate, fitted, and rapidly
progressing. The clock itself is Dent's clock, which
stood in the centre of the British avenue of the late
Great Exhibition, and excited so much attention.
There will be three bells attached to the clock ; the
large deep-toned bell, the sonorous tones of which
were so frequently heard at the Crystal Palace, being
intended to strike the hour; whilst two other bells of
lesser calibre and compass willstrike
The faces of the clock at night will be h lei h the
quarters.
wcomplete,n t lighted u p hy
electric lights, and will no doubt,
have a very beautiful effect.
After passing out of the arrival and departure
sheds on the extreme northern side, the first object
which strikes attention is the rather handsome and
wide bridge, still within the boundaries of the actual
terminus, crossing over the line at the entrance to the
Imperial Gas-wo_rks, and through which the mouth
of the tunnel under the Reent's Canal is fully b
of
de-
veloped, although it can bethe Arc f
seen through
the bridge, even while standing on the
the terminus. The entrance to the tunnels
-de of the
but a very few yards on the southern
irsog
with the
platform o
canal, a Ilea stone structure,
bridge and surrounding objects- . aqueduct, the
To
in %Gael port:oh:ol of it
which passes under the canal
top of which is about five feet b
tweslow the bed of the
from the roof to
e
canal, and the depth of the t
19
or uOn 20 feet. This tunnel,
the level of the rails, about and completely under
after passing under the aTon
t of the Great Northern
the present tewperiFiZiliately close to, and on the
Railway, emerges Tenane viaduct or bridge, which
eastern side of, i
sa; near Bellisle, and in close proxie
crosses the r.o.yge which fell so many times, crossing
mity to the Orl
Northern line in continuation of the Bir-
od Blaokwall Junction Railway. The
the Great
tnighho7.tbis tunnel is stated to be about 1,500 yards,
consideredand
a safe and sound structure, although
and IS en were killed on account of the claa-
one or •
rooter of the soil during its construction.
At the extreme south-western corner of the main
building, abutting on the St. Pancras-road and
passenger entrance to the station, the foundations
have been dug out for the erection of a comfortable
hotel, and the workmen are proceeding with it in a
most rapid manner. Some idea may be formed of
what this hotel will be when finished, when it i:
stated that the design is that the hotel shall be five
stories high, 190 feet long and 54 feet wide, exclusive
of vaults and other outbuildings.
The entire arrangement of this enormous and
elaborate work of art hays been conducted' under the
superintendence of Mr. Louis Cubitt, the architect,
his and the pratical development of. plans carried out
by Mr. John Jay, the contractor, and Mr. William
Jay, his brother. There are at the present time up-
wards of 1,000 men employed on the works in order
to complete them by the time specified ; and it !'s
computed by judges, although no actual sum is
named, that the London terminus of the Great
Northern Railway, King's -cross will cost something
like 300,0001.

tingbourne.
The Chesterfield Handicap, one mile, will have The
Saxon, 4 yrs, Est 131 b, Lady Agnes, 3 yrs, Est 71b, Paddy
Bird, 3 yrs, 6st, and, perhaps, two or three others at the
post; the winner's name, however, is included in one of
those given above, THE SAXON being the animal. If he,
by any chance, should fail, Lady Agues will act as
prima donna.
The Selling Stakes and her Majesty's Plate have not
a tE bgr
closed as yet.
for' ehe re afisamdef,esaitr,yeascte..rday has settled his chance
Aug. 17. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.
The betting yesterday, flat beyond precedent for the
season, and noticeable only for a considerable outlay on
Odessus for the Ebor Handicap, and a further decline in
Songstress for the Great St. Leger, admits of but a brief
q notation :

EBOR HANDICAP,
agstMr. J. M.Stanley's n
t Mr. Grev ille's Adie
Storyteller
152 ttoo
12 to 1 agst Mr. R. E. Oliver's Sir
Trenchant
12 to 1 agst Mr. Cooper's Montagu,
12 to 1 agst Mr. Parkinson's Odessus
15 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Sackbut
100 to 6 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur
20 to 1 agst Mr. W. Hale's Bilberry
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Brown's Nancy
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Merry Bird
EBOR ST. LEGER.
6 to 5 agst Daniel O'Rourke
GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.
6 to 4 agst Lord Exeter's Stockwell
8 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Hex
ST. LEGER.
7 to 1 agst Mr. John Scott's Songstress—taken and
afterwards offered
7 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's Stockwell
7to 2 agst Mr. Bowes's Daniel O'Rourke—t 4to 1
DERBY, 1853.
1,000 to 30 agst Lord Caledon's Brother to Shylock—t
LICHFIELD RACES, MONDAY.
The Produce Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 20 added, for
two years old. One mile. (7 Subs.)

Mr. Flintoft'sf by Heron

Mr. Copeland's Director
Won easy.
The Staffordshire Stakes of 15 Sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5
only if declared, with 50 added. The winner pays 10
sovs. towards expenses, and the second eaves his
stakes. Two miles. (17 Subs.)
Mr. Copeland's Candlewick, 7st 81b ... (W. Sharp) 1
Mr. J. Parr's Weatbergage, 3 yrs, 6lt 121 b ... 2
Mr. Yardley na Liberty, 5 yrs, 7st 2lb
Lord Ribblosdale's Herbert, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b
Won by a head.
The Two yrs old Stakes of 10 soys. each, with 40 added.
Last half. mile. (6 Subs.)
Sir C. Rushout's Sextus, Bst 71b (Whitehouse) 1
Lord Caledon's c by Simoon, Bst 121 b
Mr. Shelmerditn's Evening Star, Bst 101 b 3
Mr. Merry's Valour, Bst 71b
Mr. Phillip's La Juive ••• 0
Mr. Taylor's Game Chicken
Won easy.
The Anson Stakes of 5 soya. each, 3 ft, for three yrs old
and upwards. _ One mile. Heats. (5 Subs.)

-
Mr. Merry''s Sally, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (A lad) 1 1
Mr. Oakey's Theorem. 4 yrs, Bst 71b
Mr. Taylor's Gentle Kitty, 3 yrs. 7st 71b
YORK AUGUST MEETING.
YORK, MONDAY EVENING, SIX O'CLOCK.
AnatvALs.—Lady Amyott, c by Melbourne,,out of La
Femme Sage, Frantic, Sackbut, Maidstone, Odessus,
The Queen, Eleanor, Pitfall, Tittle Tattle, 801 l Tinker,
Conrad, MerryiPeal, Barcelona, Adine, Hesse-Homburg,
Defiance, Haricot, The Saxon, Vivandiere, Cat's-paw,
Vindex, Nancy, Killarney, Bilberry, The Puritan, f by
Picaroon, out of Coimbra, 2 yrs, Sittingbourne, Kate,
Malice, Helen Faucit, Auchinleck, Dame Tattle, Lord-
Lieutenant, Eliza Middleton, Wings of a Dove.

GREAT EXHIBITaION OF 1853 IN DUBLIN
In order to render the Irish Exhibition of next
year as extensively useful to the commercial and
industrial interests of Ireland as possible, the com-
mittee, since the munificent subscription of 20,0001.
to the funds by Mr. Dargan, have placed themselves
in communication with the most influential persono,
who were connected with the Great Exhibition .of
all Nations, in the Crystal Palace, and they
have
to receive all possible encouragement. Thearye
also invited the most remarkable and import:et
bare their
exhibitors of all nations, of last
contributions to Dublin, and we believe they
promised the co-operation
well known that many branches
either not at all, or inadequatelnr
park, for many were restrain,e,c,liv
interrogative suggestion,
~a_, _s year, t° been
of the
v f aose. It is
of many °f were
resented in Hyde-
the
-ftimetPegxohoibditincgoublyd it
i that the advan-
do you ?" But the
.titoncl to the public at
tages of the Exhibel„i interests of commerce,
large, and to the g
eonportion, than they were to the
were not greater in
no
rthemselves. For instance, al
of manufacture, and by
individual exhibitors
though in one pant one, that of organ tube and
means an unit's
tls certain that the English surpass
pipe-makiNt -and whatever may be the excellence
all the word German organ builders, in the in e-
French I_l
unity elegance of build, or in loudness of clang,
aaind d brilliancy of tone, they make no approach
or se-e !refection of the English organ in depth, mel-
._ ~,,e p__ d .
hness of tone. The English make of
Le .-e8;, an richness
1"12 the P•r- ;nes leaves them far behind. This was never
fully until it came to be proved at the Ex-
hibition last year, and it would have remained to this
hour
unacknowledged
if it had not been for the spirit
of one maker, a Mr. Roome, of John-street, Fitzroy-
square, who, alone, of the whole trade, sent in contri-
butions to the Exhibition. These, we remember,
did not consist of any perfect set of stops, but con-
tained specimens of every kind of pipe and reed. The
result was that the German exhibitors themselves
acknowledged the superiority of the English work,
and actually procured pipes from Mr. Roome for their
great prize organ ; and numerous orders were after•
wards transferred from the foreign to the English
exhibitor. The consequences have been so advan-
tageous to the latter, that it is to be hoped no trader
or ingenious maker will neglect such oppertunities
as those exhibitions afford
of showing to the world,
what really is done in this country in the way of
perfect manufacture.

.WRECK OP THE CH
verbal
m TIAN. —By the o
ail we have received intelligencenoflBof the wreck of the ship
Christian. On the 23d June she was observed about
three P.M. ashore, within a mile and a half of Angria's Co.
labs. She went to pieces on the rocks in half an hour after
she struck. The tide was at the full, and seventeen of the
crew, including the muter and the Scats, trk to the
water in the long boat and on spars, tic., bute, owing to the
tide being on the turn, they could not make the shore, but
were carried out to sea. No assistance could be rendered
them from the land, though hundreds were witnesses of
, when the l
their danger. The wind and rain now for some time ob-
scured the spot where
the shore thought thea Ch ' t.
she had struck
ceased the people onris ianatter
had
got off the reef, tor they beheld a vessel tacking and making
out again. This was thes tspeip
entirely disappeared. v Pilgrim ; the Christian had
hh
they having managed to land
four miles down the coast—the other six were drowned.
Every attention was shown the unfortunate men by Mr.
Karr and Mr. Hearn, and all their wants supplied. The
master (Mr. Brown) and the
ten seamen left Alibaugh for
Bombay on the morning of
the 25th, and have reached in
safety.
Three of the six drowned sailors had been found
I and buried at Alibaugh ; the other three were still missing.
The Christian was laden with coal.
The cause of Vice-Chancellor Parker's sudden
death was angina pectorLs. It is remarkable that the de•
ceased judge was first seized with it the first day he assumed
his official duties. From the period of that attack the disease
had been a source of great uneasiness to his family; and at
no time did he suffer more from it than duriug the discussion
of the Wagner we,