The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCP.

THE MANCHESTER MEETING.
Steward, Col. Burnaby; Judge and Handicapper, Mr. J.
Swindells, jun. Clerk of the Course, Mr. S. Lambert.
SATURDAY.
Thes.‘ races were, as usual, appointed to take place on
the great Manchester Holiday, New Year's-day. The
severity of tho weather, however, necessitated their post-
ponement until Saturday last, when they were decided be-
fore a large assemblage of spectators. The subjoined re-
turn requires no comment :

The Hurdle Race (Handicap) of 5 sous each, 1 ft, with 25
added; winners 71b extra, the second to save his stake.
About two miles. 24 subs.
Mr. R. Sly, jun.'s Yorkshire Miss' 6 yrs, lOst (Harding) 1
Mr. Coburn's North Lancashire, 5 yrs, 9st 51b (carried
9st 91b)
Mr. Wright's Nosegay, 6 yrs, lOst ........ (W. 'White) 3
Mr. Draper's Gaylad, aged, 9st ......... . (Hawkeswell) 4
Colonel Bumaby's First Flight, aged, 9,st ..... (Knott) 5
Mr. Wayman's The Miller, aged, 10st ........ (R- Sly) 6
Mr. Barber's Physician, aged, 9st 5ib...... (Smethurst) 0
Betting-7 to 2 agst Yorkshire Miss, 4to 1 agst The
Miller, 5 to 1 each agst First Flight and Physician, 6 to 1
agst Nosegay, 7 to 1 agst North Lancashire.
Won by a neck; two lengths between second and third.
The Trial Handicap of 3 sous each, 1 ft., with 20 added;
second to save his stake; winners 51b extra. One mile
_ _

on the flat. 20 subs.
Capt. Rhys's Rhcebus, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (Noble) 1
Mr. J. Newbald's Ladybird, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b (E Taylor) 2
Mr. Barber's Ellen, 5 )rs, Bst 41b (Entwistle) 3
Mr. Bell's Pupil, yrs, Est 21b (Thomas) 4
Mr. Meek's Kate filly, 3 yrs, sst 71b (carried sst 101 b)
(Hobson) 5
Mr. Barber's Foxhead, 4 yrs, 6st (car. Est 31b) (Hanford) 6
Deserter and Keepsake also ran.
Mr. Barber declared to win with Ellen.
Betting-9 to 4 agst Deserter, 4to 1 each agst Rhoebus
and Ellen ; 6 to 1 each agst Ladybird and Pupil.
Won by two lengths; the same between second and
third.

The City Steeplechase (Handicap) of 5 soya each, 1 ft,with
50 added; the second to save his stake; winners 71b
extra.
Mr. Markey nd. Wee Nell, aged list (Knott) 1
Mr. Phillip's Heads or Tails, aged list.... (G. Stevens) 2
Mr. T. Pears's Nigger Lass, aged, 9st 51b (Owner) 3
Mr Baker's Marmion, aged, 9st 81b (W. White) 4
The following also ran :—Antelope, The Spinner, Tom-
boy, and Polly.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Wee Ne 11,4 to 1 agst Heads or Tails,
9 to 1 agst Marmion, 6 to 1 agst Tho Spinner, 7 to 1 agst
the Nigger Lass.

Heads or Tails seemed to have her opponents safe oppo-
site the Stand ; but, greatly to the surprise of the specta-
tors, Wee Nell caught her in the last few strides, and won
by half a length; a bad third. Polly fell.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862.

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln ...

25

Nottingham S
.. 4
Derby Spring 6
Liverpool S
Doncaster

Coventry l7
Warwick Spring
Shrewsbury S

Northampton 1
Croxton Park 4
Epsom Spring
Punteland

'RIL.
Newmarket C 2l
Catterick Cridge
Abergavenuy 24
Thirsk
[AY.

Newmarket F S 5
Chester Spring
York Spring

Salisbury
Bath
27
Harpenden .
30
'NE.

Epsom Summer 3
Chelmsford .. ll
Manchester ll
Ascot

Newcastle
Hampton
Carlisle

Odiham
Bibury Club
Newton
Stockbridge 3
Winchester
Newmarket
Worcester .. lO
Liverp00l

Abingdon
Pontefract
llungerford
Nottingham
Southampton 22
Stamford 24
Marlborough
Goodwood
ArGIIST.

Radcliffe 4
Brighton 5
Brighton Club
Lewes
Wolverhampton
Reading

Wenlock l5
York
Stockton 26
Egham
Lichfield
Ludlow
:3113ER.

SEPT]

Devon and Exeter 2
Derby
Great Yarmouth
Plymouth
Oxford 4
Warwick 9

OCTO
Bedford
Newmarket S 0 .. 13 I

Leicester ll
Doncaster
Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester
Nowmarket F 0
,BER.

Gloucester
Newmarket II

NOVEMBER.

Worcester 4 Liverpool ... l2
I
Hereford

IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1832.
MARCH.
Howth and Baldoyle Srring lB
APRIL.

Athlone
Kildare Huut 8 I Curragh April
Tullamore..

MAY.
Cork 1 I Galway Hunt 2O
Nenagh
Howth and Baldoyle

JUNE.

Westmeath 3 1 Curragh June

JULY.

Bellewstown

AUGUST.

Heath
Wicklow ..

-
SEPTEMBER.
Curragh
Carlow
Londonderry .. lB

OCTOBER.
Limerick
Curragh

NOVEMBER.

Armagh

The Australian gold ships known to be on the
way to this country are :—The Moravian, with £191,000;
Indemnity, £50,000; Monarch, £170,000; Clutha, £91,000;
and the Lightning, £96,000. The total is about £600,000.
DEATH OF SIR CHAPMAN MARSHALL.—We
have to announce the death of Sir Chapman Marshall,
which took place on Thursday at his residence Pembridge-
crescent. The deceased was the only son of the late Mr.
Anthony Marshall, of Peterborcugh, and was born in
1786. In 1831, while serving the office of Sheriff of Lon-
don, he received the honour of knighthood ; in the follow-
ing year he was elected Alderman of the Ward of Bridge-
within, and served the office of Lord Mayor during the
year 1839-40.

DEATH OF THE 'VETERAN SAILOR OF WATER-
LoO-BRIDGE,—This old man, known to all passers over
Waterloo-bridge, exhibiting a ship in full trim for charity,
expired on Friday night at his lodgings in Granby-street,
Waterloo-road, at the great age of 98 years. He was
one of the ringleaders at the mutiny of the Nore, but
through a" slice of luck," as he used to call it, escaped the
yard-arm lift, and after losing all his former meritorious
advantages, and undergoing long imprisonment, ultimately
fell to the position in which he ended his mortal career.
LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—EASTBOURNE, Jan. 12.
The officer of the Coastguard, Mr. W. J. Kikhing, on this
station, reports that during a heavy gale of wind yesterday
(Saturday) afternoon the barque Druid, from Sunderland
to Naples, came to anchor in the roads. She had signals
of distress flying and part of her sails blown away. The
lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was imme-
diately launched (no other boat being able to go through
the heavy surf), and got alongside the vessel about five
p.m. The master detained the lifeboat by his vessel all
night, although his crew were most anxious to jump into
her and to be brought on shore, The vessel has fortunately
held together, and, the weather having moderated, she will
probably be towed into harbour by a steam-tug.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN KING-STREET, HOL-
BORN.—Last evening, about six o'clock, a fire, attended
with a great loss of property, happened in the premises oc•
cupied conjointly by Mr. Hansen, a picture-frame-maker
and carver and gilder, and a gentleman named Neal, at 26,
King-street, Holborn. It appeared that there were four
children sitting at tea on the second-floor, as well as Mr.
Neal, who was very infirm, In the adjoining room were
also taking tea a young lady and a young gentleman. One
of the servants having occasion to go upon the landing to
fetch some boiling water from the kitchen, smelt some-
thing burning, and she immediately shouted out that the
house was on fire, which unfortunately proved to be cor-
rect, and the four children and the young lady and gentle-
man rushed down the stairs, through the heated smoke,
the best way they could, being met at the shop door with
huge sheets of flame, which nearly encircled them. They,
however, managed to reach the street, but not until they
had inhaled the heated smoke. Not so with Mr. Neal. He
being so infirm, was unable to run down stairs, and had it
not been for a gentleman who was taking tea with him, he
must have been burned to death, or suffocated. As it was
his friend pulled him out of his room, got him out on the
parapet of the building, and passed him into the next house.
The brigade engines quickly attended, and a good supply
of water being obtained the firemen went to work in a most
praiseworthy manner, but they were unable to get the fire
extinguished until a serious amount of property was de-
stroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown.
ALARMING FIRE AT ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH,
KINGSLAND-ROAD.—Yesterday morning, at a few minutes
before the time announced for the commencement of Divine
service in St. Philip's Church, Acton-street, Kingsland-
road, upon one of the officials going into the basement
vaults, not fewer than twenty-four sacks of coke were found
in a complete body of fire. The parish and other engines
being quickly brought, the firemen were enabled to confine
the fire to the vault in which it commenced. Owing to the
excitement which prevailed at the time of the fire, the
church was closed in the morning, but it was reopened in
the evening. The fire, it is supposed, was caused from the
coke being delivered too 14ot into the vaults of the churchrt

THE GALE.

SHIELDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.

To-day we have had another storm signal hauled
up at. our liarbo.rr's mouth—north cone hoistej over
drum, indie,tirq.,r 4.haf eangrous winds might be
expected from the north. The register of the
Board of Trade thermometer and baromcky at the
station has been as follows during the past two
days :

Barometer.

Thermometer.

I 9 a.m. I Noon 4pm 9am Noon I prn;
Friday, Jan 10. I 29.43 I 29.45 12947 47 148 48
Saturday Jan 11 I 29.15 j 29.06 12912 I 47 I 48 I 49
Down to nightfall the wind was from the S.W., and
this morning, despite of the storm warning, some
few vessels put to sea at tide time ; and there is
every prospect that they will have a bitter night,
as the wind has chopped round nearly to the north,
and is now blowing a severe gale, which threatens
to increase in violence. •

PORTSMOUTIT, SUNDAY.

A strong gale blew here yesterday from
veering round to N.W. in the evening, and becom-
ing more moderate. The Buffalo, screw storeship,
arrived at Spithead during the height of the gale,
and let go both her anchors off the southern part of
the Spit shoal, from which position she moved. on
the wind moderating, further to windward. The
St. Vincent boys' training-ship in the harbour drag-
ged her moorings and drove on to the shoals off
the north end of the dockyard, where she remained
until this morning, when she was got off by steam
tugs and tempoarily moored alongside the Nelson,
screw liner, lying up the harbour. The barometer
has been vary unsteady for some days. On 'Wed-
nesday there was a strong breeze from the S.W.,
with the mercury at 29.7 inches, having fallen from
30.1 on the previous day. On Thursday it blew
heavy, also from the S.W., during the fore part of the
day, but cleared off in the evening. On Friday the
glass fell and rose again 11tenths, with light winds
and warm atmosphere. Yesterday the mercury
had fallen 3-tenths during the 24 hours, and, as
stated above, was attended by a heavy gale from
S.W., veering in to N.W., and more moderate at
the close of the day, the mercury rising from
29.47 to 29.8 during the night, but falling
to 29.7 by 10 a.m. to-day, the close of the 24 hours
and now-6 P.m.—having fallen a further tenth.
The wind to-day has been light, but is accompa-
nied by a threatened fall of rain. The ,barque
Thomas Fielder, coal laden, struck on the Ower
rocks, off Selsea Bill, yesterday; has part of her
false keel carried away, having the remaining por-
tion athwartships, and has been towed into shoal
water in the harbour channel here by her Majesty's
Revenue screw schooner Argus, where she has taken
the ground and remained. She will be got afloat
and towed into harbour for examination and repair
to-night, if possible, for which purpose steamtugs
are in attendance upon her, A Dutch vessel; dis-
abled from collision, is reported to have put in at
the Motherbank.

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING.
Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Lapwing, 6,
Commander M. P. O'Reilly, from the Mediter-
ranean, arrived in the Sound this morning. We
have had a heavy storm from the south-west all
all night. Oldenburg brig Mouwe has drifted from
her moorings in the Sound. The Government
steamtug Confiance, with another Government tug
and the merchant steamer Wellington, are attend-
ing on her, superintended by Commander Ayler,
the Queen's Harbour-master. The schooner Dapper,
from Jersey, with wine for Bristol, has grounded
in Deadman's Bay, Catwater, but will probably be
got off. A schooner which grounded near the Bar's-
head, Catwater, has been towed into Sutton har-
bour.

CHATHAM, SATURDAY.
A violent gale of wind from the west and south
swept over this port and the neighbourhood to-day,
lasting some three or four hours. During the height
of the storm a considerable portion of the fine
stained-glass window over the communion table at
St. Mary's church was blown down by the violence
of the wind, causing damage to a considerable
amount. In the harbour the gale was felt unusually
strong, but fortunately no casualties occurred among
the shipping, most of which struck their royals anti
topgallant masts. The lowest reading of the baro-
meter was 29.5.