The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-17 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1854.
APRIL.

Newmarket Craven 17
Catterick Bridge 19
Abergavenny . . 2O

York Spring 25
Malton 2B

Newmarket F S
Chester Spring 9
Lothians & Edinburgh 11
Newmarket S S 16
Shrewsbury l6

Lothians and EdinburghlB
Lewes
Bath 23
Liverpool Hunt Spring ..24
Epsom 30
Bibury 2B
Stockbridge 29
Ludlow 30
Winchester 3O

JII.
Manchester
Ascot Heath...
Newcastle-on-Tyne 2O
'Hampton 2l
Carlisle 26
JII
Newmarket
Worcester 4
Lancaster 6
Mansfield ll
Liverpool l2
Ipswich 13

Stourbridge l7
Stamford 18
Nottingham 2O
Goodwood 25
Ripon 51

AU(
Brighton
Brighton Club 4
Wolverhampton
Yarmouth 8
Reading
Odiham 9
North Staffordshire 9
Wolverhampton l4

SEPT]
Warwick
Lichfield
Western Meeting 7
Rochesterand Chatham 7
Doncaster .. 12
Pontefract 18

Chester Autumn 3 '
Yorkshire Union Hunt 5
Wreakam
Newmarket S 0 9
NOVE
Epsom Autumn

Egham 22
York 23
Hereford 24
Eccles 2B
Chelmsford 29
Derby 29
Plymouth 30
Lincoln 3l
AMBER.
Bedford l9
Leicester 2O
Manchester Autumn 2l
Lanark 25
Newmarket F 0...26
Northallerton 2B
)BER.
Warwick Autumn 17
Caledonian Hunt 17
Newmarket H 23
Worcester Autumn 31
MBER.

Cow bridge Hunt 9

THE ARCHES OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY A
RECEPTACLE FOR THE DEAD.—On Saturday a deputation
from the parish of Lambeth waited upon the directors
of the South-Western Railway Company, to ascertain if
it was true that they had let 9 of the arches of the rail-
way, in the most crowded part of the parish—namely,
between the Waterloo-station and the Westminster-
road, as depositories for the dead of as many parishes
and unions as the Necropolis Cemetery Company have
entered into contracts with to convey their dead to
Woking. The directors admitte.l the fact, and expressed
regret that the Necropolis Cemetery Company had a
power in their act to convey bodies from the Waterloo-
road station. In order to relieve themselves from the
annoyance of bodies being conveyed from the ter
minus, they had made arrangements to let a siding
of their line, from York-street to the Westminster-
road—viz., 9 arches. It was urged by the deputation
that the directors, by such a proceeding, would not only
destroy the property adjacent to the railway, but that their
own transit of passengers would be materially affected, if
it were known that they would have to pass over dead
bodies, infected with all sorts of diseases, and emitting
an effluvium Which must, of necessity, reach the line.
The deputation added that, seeing that the directors
had made their arrangements with the Necropolis Com-
pany with no other view than that of profit, they should
feel it their duty to forthwith apply to Lord Palmerston,
who had done so much to remove all dangerous nuis-
ances, to destroy this intended charnel-house. They
thought it monstrous to suppose for a moment that his
lordship, as an advocate for evramural interment, would,
if sincere in his expressed desire for sanitary improve-
ment, permit such charnel-houses as those proposed to be
brought into the centre of one of the most poor and
densely-populated neighbourhoods in the metropolis.
Colonel Henderson, the chairman, said lie could have
wished the station for the receptacle of the dead had
been at Battersea rather than where it was ; and Mr.
Crornbie, the secretary, remarked that he believed he
was stating the views of the directors of the railway by
saying that, if the Necropolis Company could obtain a
piece of land at Battersea for this purpose, they would
prefer it. The deputation then retired, determined at
once to lay the subject before the Secretary of State for
the Home Department. The proposed entrance to this
depository of the dead is to be opposite to Mr. Harvey's
premises in the Westminster-road.
According to the latest advices, the weather in Ca-
lifornia had been specially favourable for digging, and
probably silica the first discoveries so great a quantity
of gold had not been dug as in the month of February.
The Cherokee Flat Diggings were supposed to be the
richest in the State ; $3,000 worth was taken out in a
few hours, but when the shaft was sunk 28ft., the
water came in so rapidly that a steam pump was required
ta fork it.