The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFI-CE, 6 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENC,I3—This Day,

MANCHESTER RACES-THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

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Metropolit n Board of Woriz z

The ordinary weekly meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of Works was held yesterday, at their offices,
Spring-gardens ; Mr. John Thwaites in the chair.
The cash statement showed that the balances in the
hands of the treasurer were—on current accounts,
213,4921 Os. 4d. ; on deposit accountß, 110,800/.
and on Government securities, 51,471/..105. 10d.

Mr. POLLARD, the clerk to the board, read a
letter to the Poor-law Board, to the effect that it
will be necessary to raise a larger sum for the relief
of the houseless poor than that provided for in the
estimates for the precepts for the current year, and
requesting the board to pass such orders thereon as
might be requisite.

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amount that would be required up to the Ist of
May next. At first it was thought that 3,500/.
would be sufficient for the requirements of the
homeless poor, but subsequent experience had
shown them that a much larger sum would be re-
quired in consequence of the buildings it would be
necessary to erect in several of the metropolitan
parishas. They would increase the estimate to
about 7,000/. He had therefore directed the ac-
countant to distribute that amount in order that no
time should be lost, and he would now ask their
authority for it and issue the necessary certificates.
That would be necessary to prevent a question of
difficulty arising. The act of Parliament would
expire in May, and it was a question whether if it
did expire the board could supplement the smaller
sum by any further precept. They had, therefore,
but one course to pursue, and that was to increase
the sum from 3,5001. to 7,000/. The act had not
come into operation when the precept was made,
and the experienceof the Poor-law Board led them
to believe that 3,500/. would be sufficient. He now
proposed that the board should give its assent to
the larger sum.
The motion was then put for :the vote of 7,0001.,
and it was agreed to. The other business was then
proceeded with, but was not of sufficient public in-
terest to call for notice.

LONDON GAZE FTE---Last Evening,
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 7.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT—Lieut. William Dinwiddie,
24th Foot, Acting Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Gene-
ral, to be Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. W. F. Hobson,
M.A., Chaplain of the Fourth Class, to be Chaplain of the
Third Class.

ADMIRALTY; JAN. 3. • •
Commander Hugh Maximilian Elliot to be Captain.
Commander Charles Frankland Newland to be Retired
Captain.
Lieutenant Marcus Knox, and Lieutenant William
Baile, to be Retired Commanders.

BAVKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
Hymn Barnett, general dealer, Cannon-street-road
George Barrett, painter, Weymouth
Win. Bubb, builder, Southsea
Thomas Suffolk, butcher, Lichfield
Julius Sterner, wine merchant, Tower-hill
Charles Pearson, hairdresser Banbury
Frederick T. Wilts, Watling-street, City
Charles Mace, draper, Fakenham, Norfolk
John M‘Kinnell, engineer, Brunswick-square
Micah Corder, lightermanl Shad Thames
John Rayner, butcher, Wakefield
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Francis R. Wells, photographer, Brighton
George Jackson, stationer, Liverpool
John Lowe, grocer, Manchester

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Miller and Edwin, theatrical proprietors, Coatbridge
John M‘Leod,- fishcurer, Helmsdale .
John Williamson, oil merchant• Glasgow
Allen Ritchie, baker, Woodside, Aberdeen
Robert Russell, storekeeper, Port-Dundas, Glasgow

DEATH OF MR. C. J. 'COLLINS.—With a deep
regret that will be largely shared by all who enjoyed
the pleasure, of his acquaintance, we have to announce the
death of Mr. Charles James Collins, who expired on the
last day of the old year, at his residence, 9, Manor-terrace,
Brixton. Mr. C. J. Collins, who has been thus pre-
maturely taken from .us at the early age of forty-four, .
hadbeen throughout his life a very industrious and ver-
satile
writer, and was just gaining a higher reputation for a
series of clever novels when his rapidly-advancing career
was so suddenly checked. As a sporting writer he was
well known under the signature of "Priam," and the
gaiety of his style and the excellence of his judgment
found constant expression in the various journals
o which he contributed. To the Era he was for '
many years a valued contributor. To the stage he
furnished many dramatic pieces, chiefly burlesques,
that gained considerable popularity at the time, and
his later novels of " Sackville Chase" and "The
Man in Chains" gave evidence of higher literary powers
than he had previously manifested. It is to be
feared that the ardour with which he laboured in his pro-
fession had the effect of destroying his health, and that his
incessant devotion to his desk so weakened his constitution
that he fell a victim to the exhausting work which was
securing for him a prominent place in the rank of modern
novelists.—Era.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE
—Last evening an inquiry was held by Mr. Bedford,
Westminster Coroner,. at the Strand Union Board-room,
Bow-street, tonching the death of James Chamont, aged 48,
who was killed during an afternoon performance of the
pantomime at Covent-garden Theatre. John Chamont said
that deceased was employed at Covent-garden Theatre as
a painter. Matthew Morgan, employed at the theatre, said
that during performance of the pantomime of "Cinderella"
on Monday afternoon he saw deceased fall through from the
middle floor into the cellar beneath. The witness ran to
the cellar and found him apparently dead. Mr. Id. Cawood,
secretary to the Covent-garden Company, said that de-
ceased was in the act of putting across the trap-door for
an actress to stand upon it, when he accidentally slipped
through. John Garnsey, manager of the machinery,in the
cellar, said that the deceased's left leg slipped
down with great force upon his back. He never spoke after
He fell about 20 feet. Dr. Beale proved that the deceaseds
ruptured the the spinal cord, and that death wasadof carted
the
stantaneous. After the coroner and jury h vis
in. Ho came
scepneßEofsltDhEeNT LINCOLN. occurrence
was returned. " Accidental death"
Xri .n Mr. Chase called
tnient to the bench,
on to the fact '
a Im-IW:it
cof
ho alluded in the course of their. i that
Richmond. The President
ho once had a sweetheart in Ric
on him the day after his appo'
said he had better abandon all thoughts of courting in
rth and attend to his court in
Richmond hencefo ,Washing-
ton. On the same day a gentle
man gained an audience
with the President, and made complaint that the Secre-
tary of War had refused to release a friend of his
from Prison, notwithstanding the release had been
ordered by the President himself. Mr. Lincoln re-
plied that he had an understanding with Mr. Stanton
to the effect that when the latter was in possession
of facts which made it proper in such cases to retain the
parties in custody for a time he should suspend the order
of release. The gentleman, not satisfied with this expla-
nation, attempted to cast the blame of the affair upon
Secretary Stanton, when Mr. Lincoln, with a significant
smile, said, " My friend, you should remember the passage
of Scripture which says ' Accuse not a servant unto his
master. " The visitor remarked that he had been an atten-
tive reader of the Bible, but he could not recollect such a
passage in it. " Oh, " you'll find it in the 30th or 31st
chapter of Proverbs," said Mr. Lincoln. And the gentle-
man went home and found it.--Boston Post.
DEATHS ON RAILWAYS.—Early yesterday morn-
ing the remains of Mr. J. V. Hibbert, of Wilmslow,
Cheshire, were found on the London and North-Western
Railway, between the Alderley and Winslow Stations, 12
miles south of Manchester. Mr. Hibbert carried on business
as a cloth agent in Fountain-street, Manchester. He resided
at Wilmslow, and had left home in the morning between
7 and 8 o'clock, in his slippers, and when found on the line
was dreadfully cut and mutilated. Having been in a low
state of mind it is thought he had put himself designedly'
in front of a train. A gentleman named Hines is said
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have died suddenly the same day in a rfulwa
casing over the Altrincham line from Manchester.