The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-04 00:00:00

NOVEL TERMINATION OF A HUNT WITH THE

QUEEN'S HOUNDS.
Yesterday afternoon the chase with her Majesty's stag-
hounds terminated in a very novel and singular manner.
The Royal pack had met at the Warren House, Binfield, at
half-past 11 o'clock in the morning, the field, which was
one of the largest that has assembled at the meets for some
time past, including the Earl of Bessborough, the noble
master of the buck-hounds; a number of ladies, and several
of the officers belonging to the Windsor garrison. The deer
"Doctor," well known for its excellent runs, was uncarted
about a quarter to 12 o'clock, and immediately made way
through the village of Bracknell to New Lodge, the resi-
dence of M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and thence
to Clewer. Although the ground was rather heavy owing
to the late rains, the scent was good, and the pace great,
the run giving some rather sharp travelling to the horse-
men and dogs. Leaving the little village of Clewer, on the
west of the Royal borough, the deer rattled away towards
the town of Windsor, which it speedily entered, and rush-
ing up Peascod-street, one of the principal thoroughfares,
as if making for the Castle, suddenly darted into the shop
of Mr Linnell, butcher to his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, and thence into the kitchen, where several persons
wore at dinner, and of course greatly to their consterna-
tion. A scene of confusion immediately ensued upon the
entrance of the unexpected and unbidden visitor, who was
at length secured by a number of men and removed from
Mr. Linnell's kitchen to one of the cattle-pens at tho roar
of the house.

This occurred about half-past 1 o'clock, and a few minutes
afterwards the dogs, followed by King, several huntsmen
in their scarlet livery, and many of the horsemen, reached
the upper part of Peascocl-stTet, where Mr. Linnell's pre-
mises are situated, while the unwonted occurrence soon
attracted a large crowd of spectators, who thronged eagerly
about the shop and horsemen. The gates leading to Mr.
Linnell's yard were then thrown open, to allow tho hounds
to pass in to where the deer was confined, after which the
pack was withdrawn and taken home to the kennels, the
run having lasted about an hour and forty minutes. It is
some time since a stag has been taken in such a singular posi-
tion in the vicinity, and the deer was accordingly visited by
many ladies and gentlemen while held captive in the town.

THE STARTING NUISANCE.—" The last thing at
night, and the first thing in the morning !"—the
last race at Shrewsbury, and the first at Lincoln—the
" irrepressible bey" is.at it again. Everybody that likes to
see a race run to time, and a horse get a fair chance, had
hoped that something would be done in the winter ; perhaps
the boys would cool down, perhaps the exuberance at
Shrewsbury wag the letting off before the holidays, and, be-
sides, horses get fretful after 10 months' racing. Now the
spring arrives, brings its races with it, and lo ! the starting at
Lincoln for the principal races is recorded to have been
among the very worst ever made. But habits grow apace,
and unless this is rapidly looked to, we shall have the whole
of this year's sport spoilt, as, in a great degree, that of last
season's was. We cannot but see that hitherto it has been
playing at stewards and starters ; and we do hope that both
will soon make their duties stern reality. To the former,
we can only repeat what we said last week, that no ono
who does not mean to do his work should accept the re-
sponsibility ; for the latter, it is not a pleasant thing to
know, that there is but one starter in England—the Jockey
Club official—who has practically the courage to report a
jockey.—Sporting Gazette.
INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPII.—A large number of
messages aro now being received daily from all parts of
India by the newly-opened route via Constantinople and the
Persian Gulf. A message received in London to-day from
Kurraehee only occupied six hours in transmission.
TIIE CONVICT POLIONI.—It is stated that Sir G.
Grey was yesterday morning engaged in investigat-
ing the circumstances connected with the case of Peliz-
zioni, or Polioni, now under-sentence of death for what has
been called the Saffron-hill murder, and a statement has
been presented to Baron Martin, who is now at Warwick,
with a request that he will at once communicate to the
Home Secretary his views upon the altered state of the
case. Polioni is now at Newgate, but up to yesterday even-
ing the Sheriffs had not received any official communica-
tion with regard to a further staying of the execution. It
is expected that the Sheriffs will receive an intimation
that they are not to carry out the sentence of execution,
but that the prisoner must be detained in Newgate until
her Majesty's pleasure with regard to him shall become
known.

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1864. 1863. 1864. 1883.
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 1,827 1.749
Belfast and Couuty Down 49 49 657 608
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,046 1,987
Bristol and Exeter l2l. 121. y 5,170 3,119
Caledonian 2814 ".62,1 17,097 16,879
Cambrian
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 316 2u7
Cork, Blacicrock, & Passage 6l 64 117 112
Cork and Youghal . 324 324 401 379
Cornwall 651 651 1,405 1.331
Deeside l7 17 261 221
Dublin & Deli ast Junction .... 63 63 1,274 1. 6)
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,445 1.398
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexld 914 01 i 2,22 i 1.699
Furness, &c 5O 5 ) 3,272 3,179
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eilastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern lB7 353 34,072 31,069

Great North of Scotland 9.1 99 2,393 2.340
(.1 t Northn. & Westn.(lrel.) 7l/ 71/ 253 4 7
91.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B7} 3734 7,8 5 6,769
Great Western 1225 1;8 6 5"..015 58,137
Inverness & Aberdeen June ll7/ 1171 912 958
Inverness & Perth Junction 119} 1191 1,'03 1,42
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,513 1.607
Kent a Cost
_ _ 27 27 450 270

Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 402 35.314 34.830
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 261 26 96 82
Llanelly 46 46 556 610
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and lllackwall 5, 6 1,597 3,543
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 267 2615 11,309 12,307
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 725 4,451 3.727
Do. Metropolitan Extension 11 10 1,459 790
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Slan.,Sheffield. & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9l 95 1,206 1,162
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (mel. N.-Western) 6635 641 41,170 4:,478
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 2591 3,855 3,646
Monkland 7ll 714 1,457 1,045
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,673 2,817
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Dart 1095 1095 52,571 61,0.4
North London 9 9. 2,893 3,001
North Staffordshire 254 251 7,367 8.426
Rhymney l9l 191 967 917
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,355 4.844
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 7 3 557
South Devon 795 751 3.009 3,121
South-Eastern 3OB 308 16,830 14,7e3
1 Taff Vale 57 b 7 5,891 5,781
Ulster lO5l 1051 2,479 2.429
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 431 431 2,707 2.5 t 0
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 397 327
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,1C4 .1,064
West Cornwall 274 274 t 45 226
Pir.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 525 52.5 3.776 4.696
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 660 670
Whitchaven Junction l3 13 822 1,048
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 761 1.33
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 32,594 18,532
Bahia and San Francisco - -
303 348
Belgian Eastern J unction 260 261
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1855 1855 4,303 3,137
Central Italy lB3 . 167 3,811 3.318
Detroit and Illilwaukie lB9 185 4,146 4,481
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1( 81 5,182 4 778
Eastern of France
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1335 20,958 22,148
Great Central of Belgium 295 272 6,785 ' 4.886
Great Indian Peninsula 5,:.3 553 14,226 10,641
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,284 4.073
Great Southern of India ...
Great Western of Canada 345 3.5 9,406 14,013
Madras. '
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 697 697 51,114 46,5i9
Norwegian Trunk -
Ottoman -
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 178 i 121,953 1 7,688
Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 63,850 60.679
Pernambuco 774 774 1,767 3,035
Scinde lO5 305 2,101 1,692

Do. Punjab, Sze _
32 32 3 6 ~„.
265
South Austrian, (to .... 1847 1527 35,927 35,9J1
6outliern of France e2l 770 25,279 22,.43
Vlotoria
Welland
W. &N- Wes tu of France lOll 931 39,194 36,7(9

The Court of Assizes of Vienne has just tried a
farmer named Violleau, charged with having, on
the 16th November last, murdered his brother-in-law,
Louis Croizard, a landowner, residing at Sossay. It ap-
pears from the evidence that, on the day abovementioned
Croizard went to see his mother, who lived at a hamlet of
the same village along with her daughter and son-in-law,
the prisoner Violleau, and from that day nothing was seen
of him till his body was found, on the Bth December, in a
dry well in a field about midway between his mother's
house and his own. The post-mortem examination showed
that the unfortunate man had been murdered by blows on
the head with some sharp instrument, and that the body
had been thrown into the well some time later, as no blood
had flowed from it there. Croizard, who as a .widower,
possessed land and other property which brought him in
about 500 f. a year, on which he lived, and he had for
some time past expressed his intention of marrying again,
which gave great offence to the prisoner Violleau,
who had expected to inherit his brother-in-law's pro-
perty, and had been heard to express threats of venge-
ance against Croizard. Suspicion accordingly fell on
him, and he was arrested. A strict investigation
followed, and it was ascertained beyond all doubt that
Violleau had sent his mother and wife out of the way on
the occasion of Croizard's visit, and had murdered him in
their absence with a billhook, which was found in his pos-
session bearing marks of blood. Stains were also found
on his clothes, which were proved to have been made with
human blood. The prisoner confined his defence to simple
denials of his guilt, but the evidence against him was
deemed conclusive by the jury, who found him guilty of
murder without premeditation, and the court accordingly
sentenced him to twenty years' hard labour.
Lisa DOGS.—A bill laid before the House of
Commons by Sir F. Heygate, for •the protection of sheep
from the ravages of dogs having no owner or disclaimed,
proposes that every dog when it is six months old shall,
under a penalty, be registered by its owner annually, with
description, at the police-station, and a half-crown fee paid
per dog ; aad any dog, whose owner cannot after due in-
quiry be discovered may bo destroyed by the police. The
bill is to extend to Ireland only.
THE AGINCOURT.—It is expected that the Agin-
court, armourplated frigate, now building for Government
by Messrs. Laird, at Birkenhead, will be launched at the
end of the month ; probably the 28th. As she is built in a
graving-clock she will be rather floated than launched.