The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-24 00:00:00

WEXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY BILL.

Mr. GROGAN moved that the order of the day that
the report upon this bill do lie upon the table be read
and discharged, in order that the bill be re-committed
to the former committtee.

Mr. SOTHERON opposed the motion, and, after
some discussion, it was withdrawn.
PETITIONS.

Mr. A. PELLATT presented a petition from mer-
chants and traders in Southwark, praying that landing
waiters and other officers in the customs be appointed
for merit, and not directly by the Treasury.
Sir J.WALMSLEY presented a petition from a place
in Leicestershire in favour of the inspection of nunneries.
Sir G. GREY presented a petition from a place in
Northumberland against the Registration of Assurances
Bill.

Several petitions were presented against the Govern
ment Education Bill.
TAUNTON ELECTION.

On the motion of Mr. F. FRENCH, the evidence
taken before the Taunton Committee, was ordered to be
printed.
LEASING POWERS (IRELAND) BILL.
The house then went into committee upon this bill,
Mr. Bouverie in the chair.

On clause 10, a desultory conversation took place, in
the course of which,
Sir J. YOUNG denied that there had been any vacil-
lation on the part of the Government in regard to the
bill. The Aberdeen Cabinet were united in their desire
to pass it as well as the Landlord and Tenant and the
Tenant Compensation Bills. They thought that
when the three bills became a law, a great step
would be gained in enabling tenants to have full and
fair compensation for improvements.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clauses from 11 to 19, inclusive, were also agreed to
after a short discussion.

(DEFT. SITTING.)

WIN6tHE STE R RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
ORIGINAL HAMPSHIRE STAKES,

Antigone
Black Doctor
Little Say Age
Three ran.
TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES.

Bribery
Austrey

Two ran.

QUEEN'S PLATE.

Torment
Ninnyhammer
Grapeshot

Four ran.

ORDER OF RUNNING.
1. o—Original Hampshire Stakes.
1.30 —Two-yr-old Stakes.
2. o—Queen's Plate.

2.30 —For r-yr-old Triennial Stakes.
3. o—Three-yr-old Triennial Stakes.
3 30—Member's Plate.
4.3o—Selling Stakes.
5. o—Winchester Stakes.

CRICKET.

MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND v. THE
GENTLEMEN OF RUGBY SCHOOL.

7'7 7
This match was commenced at Lord's yesterday.
There was a considerable gathering of spects4ors.• Dur-
ing the play there was some very admirable cricket
shown, and on the part of the Rugby gentlemen the bat-
tinr, was more like that which would be expected from
old stagers than from those who are yet completing their
studies. To-day, when the game will be resumed, it is
expected there will, for many reasons, be a vast acces-
sion of company.
Rugby having won the toss, took the bat in the first
instance, commencing with Mr. Wills and Mr. Banks.
The total of their first innings was 92. The Marylebone
Club then went in and obtained 128. Rugby, who had
now to fetch up a minority of 36, again went to work,
and, as will be seen, with no small effect, for when "time"
was called, they had lost but one wicket, and yet they
had placed a score of 42 upon the paper.
At the close of the day the score presented the follow-
ing appearance :

RUGBY.
First Innings.
W. Wills, Esq., c Reay, b
Grundy 0
_ _

Second Innings,

D. Banks, Esq., b Adams ll c Haygarth,b Grundy 4
J. Parsons, Esq., b Grundy 5
R. A. Clement, Esq., b Adams 17
W. J. Kempson, Esq., b Grundy 13
H. M. Clifford, Esq., run out 2
A. R. Keene, Esq., c Blore, b

Adams
C. W. Fryer, Esq., 1) Adams... 0
B. Helene, Esq., run out
C. Bowen, Esq., hw, b Grundy 8
W. H. Bullock, Esq., not out 1 not out lB
byes 5, 1-b 4, no ball 1......... 10 byes 2, leg-bye 1 3

Total..

92 Total
M. C. C. AND GROUND.

. 42

First Innings.
Captain Buckley, b Fryer .. 14
S. Soamcs, Esq., c Fryer, b Keene 8
H. hicks, Esq., 1 li w, b Wills 0
C. Reay, Esq., b Wills 1
T. Adams, run out 32
A. Haygarth, Esq., not out 3l
E. Blore, Esq., b Keene
J. Grundy, b Keene
C. Law, Esq., c Banks, b Keene 9
C. Boles, Esq., b Wills 8
E. Willoughby, Esq., c and b Wills 3
byes 3; leg-byes 3

Total 128

WAGES MOVEMENT IN SOUTHAMPTON.---A. meeting
took place at the Guildhall of the town of Southampton,
by permission of the Mayor, on Tuesday evening last,
the 21st, of the journeymen painters, plumbers, and
glaziers, to appeal to their masters for an advance of 6d.
per day on their wages. They make this application on
the ground that the price of provisions has so much
risen, that they are worse circumstanced than they were
before. There were upwards of 500 persons at the
meeting. A deputation was ultimately appointed to
wait on their employers with their appeal to-day. In
the present prosperous condition of trade, it is but just
and reasonable that employers should increase the remu-
neration of their men.

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HARBOUR OF REFUGE AT JERSEY.—The Government
works at the harbour of refuge at St. Catherine's, Jersey,
are rapidly progressing. The extent of the breakwater
is 2,500 feet. The head of the breakwater is to be
formed of large blocks of granite, built up from the bot-
tom of the sea. Divers are arriving at the works to
prepare the foundation. The area of the harbour will
be 70 acres ; 30 of which will be 30 feet deep at the
lowest tides. _ _

We regret to announce the recent demise of our
talented contributor who, under the nom de plume of
" The Spirit of the Turf," has furnished sporting articles
for upwards of eight years to The Sun. It may be men-
tioned, as an illustration of "the ruling passion strong
in death," that to a determination to witness the late
Derby, although previously confined to the house from
severe illness, may be ascribed the rapid change which
ended fatally. On not being able to rise from his bed
on the Friday following the Derby, he suggested, as he
said, " a rough sort of comparison" between himself and
the late Mr. Crockford, who went to the Derby and died
on the Oaks day. He was one of the first of that now
rather numerous class, the sporting prophets, having
made his first essay in 1845, and at once took first rank
in his department, a position he maintained indisputably
to the close of his life. Requiescat in pace!
A SHARK IN THE CLYDE.—A few days ago, while
Mr. Day, from Glasgow, was walking along the Gare-
loch shore, near Roseneath Castle he noticed a large
fish floundering in the shoal water near the margin.
Having neither hook, pike, nor leister, Mr. Day at-
tacked it with a stout stick, but the fish showed fight,
snapped at the stick, and broke it in three pieces before
it could be secured and shoved on shore. It proved to
be a male shark, fully four feet in length. The mouth
of the " sea lawyer," which was eleven inches in breadth
and thirteen in depth, was armed with a formidable
array of sharp teeth, and had it not got into shoal
water, the capture, of course, would not have been an
easy or a safe one. This is the second shark, which has
been caught on the Gareloch within a short time.—
N 02114 British, Mail.