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

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 ➢loreen—The Exiling Stakes by Faith.
ful—and The Bottisham Stakes by Bard.
ASHDOWN PARK. 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's
Vray Foy; Mr. Stone's Slow Boy ran up.
The Weyland Stakes were won by Mr. Biggs 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 slag hds. Mon., Wheatsheaf, Virginia
Water; Wed., Richings; Fri., Maidenhead Station, 11.
Worcestershire hds., Mon., Ombersley; Wed., Ken-
nels; Fri., Bransford Bridge-10i.
Mr. Giles'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;
Upton House-101.
Wheatland hds., Tues., Cound; Fri., Lodge Coppice.
Brighton harrs., Mon., Pateham; Wed., Race Course;
Fri., Dyke-104.
Fri.,
Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs.,
Telscombe Tye-10i.
Crawly and Horsham hds., Mon., Hasfod, Three
Bridge; Wed., Deune Park; Fri., Handoross-102.
B. V. 11., Sat., Marsh Common—lo'.
Mr. Dean's harrs., Tues., Hunter's Lodge—l°.
Devon hds., Mon. Lindbridge-11,
Mr. Marshall's hds., Mon., Ashwater Village-10i.
Mr. Roe's hds., Wed., Filham ; Wed. Rabland Gate.
Lord Elcho's hds., Mon., Bewick ; Wed., Crookham;
Fri., Kyloe Cottage; Sat., Etal ; 10i.

The Society for Promoting Christian
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. Knowledge

- THE LATE CONFESSICWOI, MURDER AT POTS•
MOUTH.—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 atter 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-
spectable sphere, whose testimony is above taint. We
have been waiting all the week to see what steps the
county magistracy would take in the matter, but none
have been taken as yet. Yesterday, however, we heard
that some investigation was about to be instituted.
Pending that we withhold further particulars for a day
or two.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—AII engineman and
a fireman have both lost their lives by an accident on
the Clarence railway. Their names were Richard and
John Holmes. The former was twenty five, and the
latter twenty-two years of age. They left Stockton-
past seven o'clock. As the
iunig)otot-fit'heces2,
dwiintlsitathnet,fiartsht
aplar.ssenger train, on the morn-
train approached Stillington, seven or eight miles from
Stockton, an accident happened to the engine ; a bolt
gave way, by which the machinery was deranged.
Richard Holmes, the engineman, was instantaneously
killed, being completely crushed between the engine
and the tender ; his brother, at the same time being
most dreadfully scalded by the boiling water, and ho
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 lame nature. The merchandize 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" were recorded.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.--Traffic for
the week ended Feb. 4, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 8551.
10s. Id. ; parcels 401. 17s. 6d ; goods and cattle, 1961.
130. stoma-I:4th Isl 4 181,8 d. Wotal, 1,2251, 01. 2d. I

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS IJAY.)
THE MURDER AT ST. GILES'S.
J. Manley, a plasterer, residing in Phoenix-street, St.
Giles's, was again brought before Mr.,Hardwick, charged
with murdering his wife.
The first examination took place on Wednesday, the
principal witness against the prisoner being a widow
woman of the name of Gurden, whose evidence
went to show that early on the morning of that
day the deceased knocked for admission at
witness's door, affirming that her husband (the pri-
soner) had turned her out of his house ; upon which she
was requested by witness to enter, and reposed for some
time upon witness's bed. About seven o'clock the pri-
soner entered the room by forcing open the door, and
after drag,ging deceased from the bed by her heels,
he dashed her on the floor, and whilst she
was lying there, kicked her about the head.
Saying, "I will be the death of you." He then rifled
her pockets, and left her lying upon the ground, a corpse.
Since that day a post mortem examination of the body
has taken place, and, in accordance therewith, the fed-
lowing deposition was made by Mr. W. Simpson, sur-
geon, High-street, Bloomsbury :—" I have, since the last
inquiry, made a post mortem examination of the body
of the deceased, and found no external marks of vio-
lence; the cause of her death was owing to a rupture of
ono of the blood-vessels of the brain, which might have
been produced by a fall."
In addition to what has already been reported, Jane
Daly, of 3, Phoenix-street, stated that the prisoner and
his wife occupied a room in the same house with herself
Between twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing she was in bed, and heard the deceased on the
stairs; she appeared intoxicated, and was abusing the
prisoner, who seemed to be trying to cause her to come
into the room. After that there was a silence until about
two o'clock, when she again heard her on the stairs. She
did not hear the prisoner at that time. Deceased cried
for a few minutes, and she heard no more. Deceased
was very much in the habit of drinking, particularly so
the last three weeks.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial upon the
charge of wilful murder.