The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ABERGAVENNY STEEPLECHASE
The General
Dearest Mae
Ploughboy

LLOYDS' SHIPPINO-L(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, April 2.—Wind this day at Noon, N. to N.W.,
fresh breeze, and cloudy at times.
DEAL, April I.—Wind, W.S.W., moderate. Arrived
—Arnon, Launceston, Van Diemen's Land ; Forfarshire,
China ; Land o' Cakes, do. ; Locket, Woosung ; Coeur de
Leon, Calcutta ; Akbar, do. ; Venturia, Colombo ; Gipsey
Queen, Mauritius ; Stratford, do. ; Carleton, Callao ;
Laurina, Savanilla. ; London, New York ; Countess of
Seafield, do. Arrived from the River—Hoppet, for Port
Philip ; Perseverance, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Ann Nelson,
Singapore ; Cicely, Aden, &c. ; Sydney, Mauritius ; Jenny
Lind, Algoa Bay ; Nile, Cape of Good Hope. Put back—
Calypso, for Melbourne, with considerable damage from
contact with a brig, and has proceeded, in tow of steam,
to London.
COWES, April I.—Wind, S.W.— Arrived—Agamem-
mon, Santa Martha ; Olveon, Havannah ; Fabian, ditto,
and sailed for Antwerp.
DOVER, April I.—The Celerity, of Colchester, has been
brought in a derelict, and abandoned.
PLYMOUTH, April I.—The Agnesta Juliana, Saville to
London, and the Emma (Belgian barque), drove foul, and
the former received much damage, and must repair.
RAMSGATE, April I.—Wind, W. S. W. A rrived—Ann e_,
Plymouth to Newcastle, with damage from contact with
the Calypso, for Melbourne.
FALMOUTH, April I.—Wind, S.W., fresh gales. Ar-
rived—lda, Buenos Ayres.
PORTSMOUTH, April I.—Wind, S.W. Arrived H.M.S.
Vulcan, Cape of Good Hope ; Charlotta, Coast of Africa ;
Oronoco, for Bremen.
LIVERPOOL, April I.—Wind, S. to W.S.W. Arrived—
Agnes Leeds, New Orleans ; Ellerslie, do. ; Mencius,
China ; Albert Edward, Calcutta ; Charles, Bombay ;
John Dalton, do. ; Tara, do. ; Coquette, Loango ; Gardner,
Tobos Islands ; Cormicopia, Buenos Ayres ; Mahaica, De-
merara ; Josephus, New Orleans ; Blanch, do. • Warbler,
do. ; J. P. Harward, do. ; Carnatie, Charleston ; Isaac
Webb, New York.—The Ebba Bmhe, for Melbourne, has
been got off shore, and is in the Mersey. Off Port—Norval,
Pernambuco.

HOLYHEAD, April I.—Wind, S.W., strong gale. The
Mary Ann, Chepstow, for Greenock, and the Domestic,
Liverpool, for Naples, hove been in contact, and have
come in with damage. The Osprey, of Liverpool, is sup-
posed to have gone down at her anchors outside the new
harbour ; her boat came ashore this morning, having cap-
sized a the rocks, near Pertheven, with three men in it,
who were drowned.

OFF HOLYHEAD, April 2.—At 6 30 a m., the Great
Britain (s), from Australia, with 130,000 oz. of gold.
JERSEY, March 31.—Wind, S. Sailed—Hermatope,
New Brunswick ; P.R.C. Arichal.
t.QUEENSTOWN, March :31.—Wind, S.S.E, heavy gale.
Arrived—Robert Mathew, Valparaiso ; Clara Maria, ditto.
HULL, April I.—Wind, S.W. Arrived— John Erskine,
Pernambuco. Sailed—Wolf's Cave, Quebec.
BELFAST, March 31.—Wind, S.E. Sailed—Willing
Lass, Melbourne ; Lady Sale, Barbadoes. The Minerva
(s), arrived here from Liverpool ; had been in contact,
near the Calf of Man, on the 29th, with a schooner, which
went down immediately with all hands.
SWANSEA, April I.—lt blew a gale last night. The
Bristol, of St. Ives, the Chieftain of Bermuda, and the
Victoria, of Bridgwater, are on shore, but expected off
next spring-tide without much damage.
ZANTE, March 21:7-The Honer, of Yarmouth, is on

shore, and it is feared is bilged and cannot be got otf.
MAURITIUS, Feb. 14.—The Adelaide, Tremaine, from
Adelaide, for London, with a cargo of wool, and 1i tons of
gold, put in here, Feb. 11, with cargo on fire since Feb. 4,
which was extinguished on the evening of the 11th inst. ;
cargo landed, and some wool very much damaged.—
The Old England, Liverpool to Aden, put into Rettimer,
Feb. 3, making 28 inches water per hour, having encoun-
tered a hurricane Jan. 26. Cargo discharging.

A RESIDENCE OF CAESAR. —About twenty years ago
while the workmen were employed in digging the canal,
there were found at Drevant (Cher), some Roman baths
in marble. A few days since there was discovered about
21 miles from the above, at Enay-le-Viel, what appears
to have been the palace inhabited by Caesar while he
besieged Bourges. There have been already opened to
view two very curious rooms, the floor of which is of
marble of different colours arranged as mosaic. Several
statuettes have also been found, as well as the skeletons
of a man and a horse, which are in good preservation,
and appear as it petrified.
DEATH OF H. J. CONYERS, ESQ.—We have this
week, to record the death of this veteran sportsman, the
father of the Essex hunting field, as he might well
be called, since he had been at the head of a pack of fox-
hounds for half a century, and no man had spent more,
or applied a greater portion of his time and energy, for
upholding the fine amusement of the chase in all its
spirit. He died on Thursday morning, at Copt Hall,
his seat, near Epping.
ATTEMPT TO UPSET A RAILWAY TRAIN.—A diabolical,
but happily unsuccessful, attempt to upset one of the
trains on the South Yorkshire Railway, running between
Doncaster and Barnsley, was made on Wednesday even-
ing. The 5.15 p.m. train to Barnsley left the Doncaster 1
station at its usual time, and as it passed the Don Cottage,
and was about entering the Sprotborough cutting, the
engine-driver and passengers were suddenly alarmed
at the jerking of the carriages, and it was generally be-
lieved that some formidable obstruction had been placed
upon the rails. The train, which was at full speed, was
brought to a stand still, and the officials in charge of
it went to the spot where the obstruction took place,
and found a large iron towing chain on the rails, the
whole of the carriages having run over it without
getting of the rails, in consequence of the check
rail, or guarding rail of the points where the chain
had been placed, keeping the wheels of the carriages
from jumping off the line, otherwise both
life and i
pro-
perty must have fallen a sacrifice. Inquiries are being
made to trace out the person or ersons who thus placed
the lives of the passengers in jeopardy, but as yet no
clue has been ascertained. The river Don runs near the
railway, and belongs to the same company, and there
are also a number of men employed in widening the
Sprotborough cutting ; and whether it had been placed
there by some of the excavators, or the watermen from
the river, remains to be seen. What renders the affair
more strange is the fact that it must have been placed
there in broad day-light, and at a period of the day when
there are the west trains paeliag along the line.