The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-10 00:00:00

WAKEFIELD HANDICAP STEEPLE CHASE.

The following aro the acceptances for this race, of 25 sous.
each, which is to come off on Wednesday, the 21st. inst. :
st lb st lb
Mr. Salt's The Doctor 11 %Mr. R. Clifton's ns

Little Fanny lO 7
Capt. W. Peel's Mer-
riman
Mr. Cartwright's
Thurgarton
Mr. Haworth's ns
Young Hamlet lO 4
Mr. Braithwaite's Du-
bious
Mr. Atkinson nsAriel 10 0
Mr. Stebbing's ns The
Quaker's Wile 9 7
The Sweepstakes of 2 soy's. each, with 25 added, will close
on the 14th inst. ; and the Post Entry, of 2 sovs. each, with
10 added, will close in a quarter of an hour after the second
race.

Mr. Allcott's St. Leger 11 7
Mr. J. G. Murphy's
La Sylphide ll 0
Lord C hesterfield's The
Victim
Mr. Mason's, jun ,
Peter Simple... ... .
Mr. Bedford's Lincoln 10 10
Lt. Buchanan'd Alfred 10 7
Mr. J. F. Rowland's
Flycatcher lO 7

NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.—FRIDAY.
The Port Stakes—Third Ties.
Fancy Boy beat Brush—Diamond beat Blucher.
Deciding Course.
Fancy Boy beat Diamond and won the Stakes.
The Derby was won by Locomotive—The Cup by Brides-
maid—The Oaks by Moreen—The Exuing Stakes by Faith-
ful—and The Bottisham Stakes by Bard.
ASIIDOWN PARE COURSING MEETING.
The Cup was won by Mr. Le Brewer's Babylon ; Sir St.
George Gore's Olympus ran up.
The Ashdown Park Stakes were won by Mr. Lawrance'e
Vray Foy ; Mr. Stone's Slow Boy ran up.
The Weyland Stakes were won by Mr. Biggs's Blazing
Billy; Sir St. George Gore's Snowdrop ran up.
The Craven Stakes were won by Lord Sefton's Syntax ;
Mr. Le Brewer's Grief ran up.
The Claret Stakes were won by Mr. Etwall's Elf.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag hds. Mon., Wheatsheaf, Virginia
Water; Wed.,-, Richings; Fri., Maidenhead Station, 11.
Worcestershire hds., Mon., Ombersley; Wed., Ken-
nels; Fri., Bransf3rd Bridge-10i.
Mr. G iles's hds., Mon., Wall Hills; Fri., Brooms-
berron Heath.

Herefordshire hds Tues., Wall Court.
Warwickshire hds. Mon., Whimpon Bridge; Tues.,
Whatcote; Thurs., Lower Shuckburgh House; Fri.,
Upton House-10i.
Wheatland hds., Tues., Cound ; Fri., Lodge Coppice.
Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Race Course;
Fri., Dyke-10:1.
Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs.,
Telscombe Tye-101.
Crawly and Horsham hds., Mon., Hasfod, Three
Bridge; Wed., Deune Park; Fri., Handcross-104.
B. V. H., Sat., Marsh Common-10;.
Mr. Dean's harrs., Tues., Hunter's Lodge-10.
Devon hds., Mon., Lindbridge-11.
Mr. Marshall's hds., Mon., Ashwater Village-10i.
Mr. Roe's hds., Wed., Filhnm; Wed. Babland Gate.
Lord Elcho's hds., Mon., Bewick; Wed., Crookham ;
Fri., Kyloe Cottage; Sat., Etal; 101.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
will complete its 150th year on the Bth of March next,
on which occasion the Archbishop of Canterbury will
preach in St. Paul's Cathedral.
THE LATE CONFESSION OF MURDER AT PORTS.
MOUTlL—Before giving any further particulars of the
horrible disclosures made by the miserable inmate:of
Portsea Island Union. house, on Thursday week last, re-
lative to the murders perpetrated by her and her accom-
plice, we will correct one or two errors in that state-
ment, which we are enabled to do on the best living evi-
dence. Horrible as were the details we published in
The Sun of Monday last, what we are now in posses-
sion of tends to prove that we understated by one-half
the amount of crime. Instead of two murders, there
have been. four. And the events, instead of having
taken place ten, occurred twenty years ago. The clerk
of the person named in the confession disposed of the
body of the first child by throwing it down a privy
in Gosport (where its remains were since found). The
deceased after that became enceinte with twins, which
were destroyed by abortion ; and she subsequently was
delivered of a male child in the open air at night,
which was destroyed by the father and taken away by
him in his silk pocket-handkerchief. The witnesses to
these details are not, as may have been erroneously
imagined, persons of discreditable or loose character
and life, but persons moving in an industrious and re-
spectablee sphere, whose testimony is above taint.
have been waiting all the week to see what steps the
none
county magistracy would take in the matteerr, but
we heard
have been taken as yet. Yesterday, however,
articular.;
that some investigation was about to
Pending that we withhold further p
or two.
An engineman and
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDBNTS.—
anond
fornat dead;
the Clarence railway. Tbeirvvna:
twenty five,
and the
a fireman have both lost their lives by
John Holmes. The formefraire.
They left Stockton-
bywearne Richardaccident
latter twenty-two yearstirst passengern train, on the morn-
ing seven o'clock. As the
ton, seven or eight miles from
happened to the engine ; a bolt
accident
Stockton, an
the machinery was deranged,
by which
trainitnipgo no
Stockton-
upon-Tees,
the 2d
approached he with
d instant,t
SI te 1 lai nt
crushed between the engine
Igtnicvhearwilliolmes, the engineman, was instantaneously
,at the
and the tender ; his same time being
most dreadfully scalded by the boiling water, and he
killed, being completely
died on Sunday last. To increase the melancholy event
we are detailing, the father of these two young men,
two and half years since was killed by an engine on the
Clarence railway, and the mother has thus been be-
reaved of a husband and two dutiful sons by an accident
of the same nature. The merchandise was attached to
the passenger train, and was thus the means of keeping
the carriages on the line, otherwise more lives might
have been lost. Inquests were held on the two bodies,
and verdicts of " Accidental death" ware recorded.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ended Feb. 4, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 8551.
10s. ld. ; parcels, 401. 17s. 6d ; goods and cattle, 1961.
135. 111 i atom-1940,1314 188.8 d. Total, 1,2251,04 21