The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-23 00:00:00

DUMFRIES RACES.-THURSDA r.

Fifty Pounds, given by the Southern Meeting. Mile and a hal:
heats.

Sir J. Boswell's ch. m. Sunbeam, by Vanish, 5 yrs,
Bst. 91b
Mr. Ramszy's b. f. Fairy Queen, 3 yrs, Gst. 131 b.....
Mr. Stirling's b. c. Dan, 4 yrs, 7st. 101 b
Mr. J. 0. Fairlie's b. h. Valentine, 5 yrs, 7st. 101 b 0 0 0
Capcain Richardson's br. g. Oswald, 6 yrs, Bst. 131 b

Won easy.
Gold Cup of 100 sovs., by Subscribers of 10 sovs. each. for all ages.
Two miles. 11 Subs.
Lord Eglinton's br. c. St. Martin, 3 yrs, 7st. 31b ... walked over

HUNTING API'OINTMENTS.
The Pembrokeshire hounds meet on Thursday at Johnstone-10.
The Tivyside hounds on Thursday at Alltybwla-10.
The Craven hounds to-morrow at Henswood ; Friday, at Bet-
terton Coppice; Saturday, at Ham Ashley—half-past 10.
Mr. Farquharson's hounds on Friday at Edmondsham House ;
Saturday, at Dead Wood-10.
The N. F. 11. hounds on Thursday at Earldom's Turnpike ; Sa-
turday, at Canterton—half-past 10.
The Hambledon hounds on Thursday at Hill Place ; Friday, at
Fisher's Pond—half-past 10.
Lord Portman's hounds on Saturday at Milton Park.
Mr. G. L. Cobham's hounds on Friday at Malsdon-9.
Mr. Morgan's (of Ruperra) hounds on Friday at Clippa Park-11.
The Swansea harriers on Friday at Gellv Wasted-11.
The East Sussex hounds on Saturday aeDanny.
The York and Ainsty hounds on Thursday at Blue Bridge,
Easingwold-road—half-past 10; Saturday, at Pill Moor-9.
The Earl of Harewood's hounds on Wednesday at Strutton
Moor; Friday, at Arthington—half-past 10.
The Eddlethorpe hounds on Wednesday at the Castle Howard
Inn ; Friday, at Scampston Bridge—half-past 10.
The Sinnington hounds on Friday at Hutton Banktop—hf.-p. 9.
Mr. Muster's hound on Wednesday at Shelford ; Friday, at
Oxton Gate ; Saturday, at Adbolton—half.past 10.
The Wigton hounds on Wednesday at Westnewton; Friday, at
Dial.

The Galewood hounds on Friday at Etal house—half-past JO,

Last week the sums of money bequeathed by Arch-
bishop Laude and Mr. Theodore Randue (the latter of whom
was in the household of Charles II.) to female servants of
good character in Windsor, were given by the Charity Trustees
to the amount of 201. each, to the following successful claim•
ants, ten in number:.—Louisa Eleanor Leggett, Maria Ann
Wheeler, Mary Ann Pilgrim, Ann Wheeler, Susan Mears,
Louisa Heifford, Augusta Sarah Hughes, •Sophia Andrews,
Ann Walker, and Sarah Savager. There were not less than
45 claimants. These rewards are given every three years.
On Saturday morning, at an early hour, the lighter-
men and other persons of Paradise-row, Chelsea, were
alarmed by hearing cries of " Help, help, we are sinking I"
proceeding apparently, from the middle of the river. The
wind was at the time blowing very hard, and the river wa3
exceedingly rough ; nevertheless Henry Gaylrd and Thomas
Cole, two lightermen, put off in a boat, and after having
gone two-thirds of the width of the river, they found four
men in the river, clinging to some loose planks. They were
immediately picked up (two of them apparently in a dying
state) and conveyed with all haste back to the wharf, where
thoy were put to bed, and the utmost attention paid to them.
In the course of a few hours they recovered, and stated that

they were coming up the river in one of the Corporation
barges laden with iron ore, and had arrived oppos►te Chelsea,
when the barge suddenly shipped a quantity of water and
went down, and but for some planks on board they must all
have perished. As it was they were full twenty minutes in
water before assistance was afforded them. The barge still
remains under water.

On Saturday morning, at half-past six o'clock, a
waterman, named Joseph Anthony, discovered in the river,
opposite the Penitentiary, a human body, imbedded in the
mud, which proved to be the remains of Anne Bourke alias
Jacobs, who last week was charged at the Queen-square Po-
lice Office with having obtained, under false pretences, a small
quantity cf tea, sugar, butter, and candles, from Mr. Fisher, a
tradesman, residing in St. Ann street, Westminster. Upon
her examination at the Police Office the case could not be
clearly proved, and Mr. Burrell the Sitting Magistrate, or-
dered her to be discharged. She thanked him, but when
outside the office said that the only relief from her miseries
would be self-destruction. She had been living with a man,
named Bourke, but was then entirely destitute. She was ob-
served two evenings afterwards wandering on the banks of the
river, apparently in a distracted state.
A man named Gucneau and his wife, condemned to
death in August last for arson, by the Court of Assizes at
Dijon, were executed on the 13th inst. in that town. The
woman was first brought to the scaffold, and her head was se-
vered from her body at a single stroke, but the operation upon
the man was so badly performed that it was not completed till
the axe had been let fall several times. This is the second
case in which the guillotine has failed to accomplish its hor-
rible work within the last few weeks ; the other instance hav-
ing occurred, as our readers may remember, at Draguignan.
On Wednesday the Newark and Rugby Railway
coach was driven by a new whip, who, net knowing the road,
drove the coach to Molton, sixteen miles out of the way.
Post.horses were put to the coach at Cheetham Inn, and
all despatch was used to reach Rugby, but it did not arrive
until the train had started, greatly to the annoyance of the
passengers, amongst whom was Lord W. Bentinck.—Lin-
coin Chronicle.
Yesterday afternoon, between one and two o'clock,
a most serious accident occurred in Oxford-square, Bayswa-
ter. The particulars, as far as could be ascertained, are as
follow :—A number of workmen, in the employ of Mr. Pons-
ford, builder, of South Wharf-road,
Paddington, have been
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some time engaged at some buildings in the above square,
and they were rapidly approaching to completion. The
buildings are very high, and each house was to be surmounted
by a very heavy stone cornice. The cornices had been raised,
ar.d placed in their proper positions, and every part of the
work appeared to be of great stability. Yesterday several
men were employed in chipping away a portion of the brick-
work on which the cornices rest, for the purpose of placing a
composition base along the whole front of the building under-
neath. They had proceeded until the above hour, when an un-
usual noise was heard, and before any inquiry could be made
as to the cause, the whole of the cornices of two houses
at the north-cast corner fell on to the scaffold with a tremen-
dous crash, breaking away the only support of the men who
were at work beneath. The poor men were precipitated to
the ground, heavy blocks of stone, planks, and other substances
falling upon them. The confusion for some time was so great
that no assistance could be rendered. At length a great quan-
tity of the fallen materials was removed, and the poor sufferers,
who were dreadfully mutilated, were extricated, and conveyed
to the hospitals. Six of them were sent to St. George's Hos-
pital, where two of them were in such a dangerous state that
they were not expected to survive many hours. One was sent
to Middlesex Hospital, and a report was very general that
he had died there, but this report, we believe, requires
confirmation. Several of them are married men, and have
large families.
At a meeting of Magistrates at the Somerset Quarter
Sessions, on Monday, after the election of a Governor for the
Ilchester Gaol, Mr. Scott, the successful candidate, was called
before the Court, and informed that he must only consider his
appointment as temporary, it being their intention to abolish
Ilchester Gaol.— Taunton Courier.
It has not been in the recollection of the oldest in-
habitant of Yarmouth that so many vessels have been in the
Roads as at the present time ; there can be now counted from
the jetty between two and three thousand vessels kept in the
Yarmouth Roads by stress of weather.—Suffolk Chronicle.