The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

METROPOLITAN STEEPLE CHASE.
The entries for this race, which, should the thaw continue, will
be run on Wednesday next, closed last night as follows :

Riders.
Captain Gill's Nigger
Captain Halfacre s Snacks
Mr. Lambden's Performer
Mr. Lambden's Laura
Mr. Jenkin's Midnight
Mr. Ellmore's Lottery
Mr. Russell's Betsy Bounce Unknown.
Mr. Frith's Centorius (late Birthday) Capt. Beecher.

TIIE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH
Wink Stock .1414
per Cent. Red 9231
3 per Cent Cons 91%
3% per Cent.
3% per Cent. Red 100%
New 331 per Cent 99%
I per Cent. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
Jae. 1860 l5 1-16
Oct 1850 ll 15-10
Jan. 1960 l4 11-16,
I,OItEIG/,

FUNDS.
Omnium
India Stock 263
Ditto Ronde
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
Ex. Bil ls. .. 55 pm
Ditto 500/ 55 pm
Ditto sho/ 55 pm
Bank Stock for Opg.

India Stock for Act.
Consols for Feb.
FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
lielgian, 5 per cent — , Ditto, New Ditto 27%
Brazilian Bonds .. 73% Prussian, 5 per cent —
Nuenos Ayres, 6 per cant — I Russian Bonds, 5 per cent L.. 112%
Chilian 6 per cent . Ditto, Metillic
Colombian, 6 per cent. 23% Sp.nish, 5 per cent 18.74
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cen. — k :each, 5 mil cent ... —'
Greek Bonds, 1325.5 per cent. Exchange ...... ... ...... ..... —' —e,
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 .....„ 27N Dutch, :? per cent. ........ 53
Heruvian, 1825, 6 per cent ... 19,i Ditto, 5 per cent 102%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway l7
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Bristol and Exeter Railway
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway.. l%
Eastern Counties Railway
Great Western Railway B2
London and Brighton Railway B%
London and Southampton Railway 39
London and Southampton (New)
• Manchester and Leeds Railway
Manchester and Birmingham Railway
Northern and Eastern Railway . 5
North Midland Railway
South Eastern and Dover Rahway 634
No other ,ariations in the Prices of Shares since our One ii clot
List.

MERSEY AND IRWELL JUNCTION WITH TIIE
ROCHDALE CANAL. —WC understand that this work is pro-
ceeding rapidly ; that the contractor, Mr. Mackenzie, expects
that an opening from one end of the tunnel to the other will
be made in a few weeks ; and that the canal will be com-
pleted by the latter end of September. It is astonishing that
an undertaking such as this can be carried across a town like
Manchester in so short a time (for it was only commenced in
August last), with comparatively so little,public inconvenience.
—Manchester Guardian.

NAVY ISLAND.-Mr. J. Robins, of Bride-court,
Fleet-street, has published a bird's-eye view of the River
Niagara, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, which shows at a
glance the situation and extent of Navy Island and that of all
the towns and villages on the United States and Canadian
banks of the river. The View, which is one of the best we
have met with, is taken from a drawing by the Boston En-
gineer Callisgton, who surveyed the river and the country ad-
jacent, in the course of last year. \Ve unhesitatingly recom-
mend it to such as wish to inform themselves of the exact
position of the Canadian Insurgents.
TERRIBLE FIRE.—FOUR LIVES LOST.—This
morning, about one o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of
a marine store dealer in Old Gravel-lane, Southwark, which
we arc sorry to state terminated in the destruction of four
lives. The flames burst forth from the shop occupied by Mrs.
Sweeney, who, with her eleven children, were all preserved.
The house soon presented one burning mass, and being filled
with lodgers, a frightful scene presented itself to the amazed
spectators, who were unable to afford them any assistance ;
some escaped over the roof, others threw themselves from the
windows into the street, and an aged woman named Parke,
and her three children, perished in the flames. There were
other persons severely burnt and bruised in making their escape.
Such a frightful event has not happened in the metropolis for
many years, and the survivors, who have lost all their little
property, are in a state of great distress. The fire raged for
three hours, and the house was entirely consumed, with all the
property it contained, including a great quantity of articles
called marine stores. Other houses adjoining were greatly
damaged, and several persons are severe losers by the hasty
removal of their goods. This morning, about nine o'clock,
the remains of the unfortunate wotnan Parke, and one of her
children, were found in the ruins. The bodies are reduced to
a shapeless mass. A child, which was thrown out of a window,
has since died in the hospital. A subscription is already
talked of for the relief of the poor families who have been
burnt out.

DIARY OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV.--The
account given of this work in the Quarterly Review (severe as
it is), seems only to have increased the general eagerness for
its perusal. A contemporary, in alluding to the principal sub-
ject of the work, the late Queen Caroline, observes :—" In
the extracts we have given, the readers will naturally be in-
duced, in their perusal, to reflect that the throne is now occu-
pied by one who had no such evil examples before her as the
lamented Princess Charlotte ; and that from all the trials and
vexations to which thu latter had been exposed, the present
Sovereign has been preserved. It may be said that many of
the actors, with all their weaknesses, errors, and vices, who
distracted the times of George IV., have passed off from the
scene ; and that in Queen Victoria there appears to rise up
for England a new dynasty, purified from all the evil that de-
graded the period depicted in these volumes."