The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-13 00:00:00

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NEWMARKET RACES.
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Tho Riddlesworth Stakes.

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THE NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
Father Thames
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INCLOSURR OF KENNINGTON COMMON.—Lord John
Manners has prepared and brought in a Bill to empower the
Commissioners of Works and
lay out Kennington Common pleasure ground for the re-
thecreation of the public. The Public Buildings to inclose and
right of the Prince of Wales to Kennington Common, as
parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, and goes on to say that it
would greatly tend to the comfort and benefit of the inhabi-
bleof. the B_ill sets forth
tants of the district in the neighbourhood of the said Com-
mon, if the same were inclosed and laid out as pleasure
ground for their recreation and y en* ment. Powers are then
given to the Commissioners to inclose the Common, to plant
it with trees, &c., and to stop p a portion of the Brixton-
road, alter the Camberwell Nev:-road, and to substitutes an-
other piece of road for the use of the public. The present
toll-house may be
purchased by the Commissioners and re-
moved. 'The Common is to revert to the Duchy of Cornwall,
if not maintained as pleasur
grounds for the recreation of
the public.—Sunday Paper—
° gT7ius graceful act on the part
of the Prince of Wales being[the first in which the name of
his Royal Highness has publicly
appeared, it would be cor-
respondingly graceful on the part of the public, we conceive,
to commemorate the circumstance, either by associating hisy
name with the Common, or b
erecting in the centre of it,
when transformed into a
garden, a statue of the Sailor Prince
after the design of Winterhalter.—E"
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GRAY'S INN.
the last which Mr. whew course of lectures (probably
• D. Lewis will deliver) will be com-
suing Easter term
in the hall of thissociety on the first day of the en-
erm
, on thaleudig decisions of Lord Chan-
cellor Eldon, to be continued on every Monday and Thurs-
day, at half-past seven o'clock.
THE LATE SUICIDE AT THE SURREY AND SUSSEX
HoTsL.— Yesterday Mr. William Carter,
the coroner, held
an inquest at the Mitre, Broadwall, on the body of Mr. James
Carroll, aged 30, late a bookseller and printer, of No. 262,
Strand, and Milford-lane St. Clement's-churchyard, who
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committed suicide on themorning of Thursday last at the
Surrey and Sussex Hotel, Blackfriars-road, under circum-
stances previously jury found
a verdict of '4'
BAPTISM 1, I —At the parish church of
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Rochdale, a few ,
ua3's ago, the somewhat unusual circum-
stance occurred of baptisna being performed by immersion.
rempdoertaairlyedinisnantibuis.j,ournal. The
The rite was administered b - the Rev. Dr. Burnet. the re-
cipient being a young lady about sixteen years of age. A
large stone font Weighing several tons, and which is usually
kept beneath the tower, -was made available on the occasion.
—B/ackburn Standard.
,4cryhas
The mackerel fishery never been so productive
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as it has been this year. During the last ten days the value
of that fish brought into the
200,000l.—French Paper. port of Fecarap alone was