The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-05 00:00:00

handicap, D.M.

Prussic Acid 1
Bridle 2

Handicap. T.Y.C.

Wilderness..
Cocoa Nut ..

Sweepstakes of 50 Sovs. each. R.M.:

War Eagle..

Don Caesar
F. by Assassin—Esmeralda
Vordultz.

Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, for three yrs old.

Halo

Miami

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS'
SCHOOLS FOR NECESSITOUS AND ORPHAN
CHILDREN.- (THIS I)AY.)

This morning a quarterly general court of the
governors of this institution was held at the London
Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the quarterly re-
port, and for the purpose of transacting other business
relating to the institution ; Mr. Grocock in the chair.
The minutes of the last meeting having been read,
The SECRETARY proceeded to read the report, from
which it appeared that the board of management had
been directing their attention to canvassing the city of
London, and to the appointment of district committees
in other parts of the kingdom, but, owing to the unpre-
cedented distress which had of late. existed, they bad
not met with any great degree of success. Since the
last court new donations to the amount of 262/. is. had
been received, and new annual subscriptions to the
amount of 1501. Bs. The amount of unpaid donations
and subscriptions had been considerably reduced, and,
the old subscriptions and donations which had been re-
ceived amounted to 4451., altogether making an addition
to the funds of the institution since Christmas of
8591. 9s. The further sum of 1,0001. had been in-
vested in stock, making 5,000/. now standing in
the names of the trustees of the institution. The
board had considered with great care and attention tho
contemplated election of twenty children in June next,
and earnestly called upon the governors and members to
give them all the assistance in their power. The annual
income of the institution was 5821. ss. The sums sub-
scribed by 531 donors was 6,221/. 18s., and the amount
from annual subscribers was 4321. ss. Of this sum
5,000/ had been invested in the Three per Cent. Consols.
The report was unanimously received, as was also the
auditors' report.
The board then entered into a long discussion with
reference to some pro forma alterations of the rules of
the institution, proposed by Mr. Lawrence, the honorary
secretary. Some of them were agreed to, and others
were reserved for future consideration.
' The Court then adjourned.

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his Grace the
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of
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plus game atChats
,orth and neighbourhood to be killed,
and that that is now being done. Mr. Arkwright is
Devonshire
taking the same laudable course upon his Derbyshire
estates. Let others who possess excess of game pursue
the same judicious and desirable plan. Excessive game-
preserving has been the very nursery for poaching, or,
in other words, a premium for poaching.
GAMBLING PARIS.—The Constitutionnel relates
the following instance of the viccissitudes of the game of
Lansquenet. A few evenings ago two young men sat
down to play, and commenced with the moderate stakes
of 5f., which being won, was at the next deal doubled,
and fell to the same party. In this way the game went
on, doubling the stakes till it amounted to 168,840 which again fell to the uniform fortunate player, who
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wished his opponent to stop, and take tale hirehvies favour.
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ether night, when the luck might turnand
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The loser, however, was desperate, d insisted upon.
going on.
The winner, after much hesitation, consented,
he winner should give 10,000 f. out of 327,680 f., the
but on condition that it should be the last deal, and that
tstakes then amounted to, for the benefit of the poor.
The cards were then dealt, and this time fortune favoured.
the desperate player, and he saved all his former losses,
except the stipulated 10,000 f.
We have to record the demise of his Excellency
Frances') Carboni, the Senior Diplomatist at the Court
of Sweden, who died at Stockhelm at the close of last
month, in his 87th year. The deceased was Chargi
d'Affaires of the Duke of Lucca, and fulfilled that office
thirty years at Stockholm. He was also Consul-General
for Naples, Sicily, Rome, and Sardinia. His Excellency
the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Baron Von
Ihre, and the entire corps diplomatique, attended the
funeral of the deceased.

SYMPTOMS Or AGE.—The Old Bridge of Dumfries,
after standing GOO :,, ears, has begun to give way. Last
week a lad tumbled through a hole in it into the river.
The Dumfries Ccuricr gives the following particulars
respecting this venerable fabric :—" The Old Bridge of
Dumfries, erected at an early period of the 13th century,
consisted originally of 13 arches, with a guard-gate in
the centre ; and, in our opinion, is the oldest structures
of its size in Scotland, if not Great Britain—keepine;
out of view Roman single arches, specimens of which
are still extant. The kindred antiquity at Stirling, wts
suppose, comes nearest to it ; an old Forth fabric of un-4
known date, but which figures in 1571 as the scene 4::'
the public execution of Hamilton, Bishop of St. Andrew's
In its youth it had only four arches, with flat-dial!'
towers, and a gate in the middle. Two silisor keys be
longing, each seven inches in length, are preserved in
the Town-house, and were last presented to the Duke o
\
Cumberland in 1746. The year before ,the south arch
was destroyed by General Biackeney, to prevent rein-
forcements joining the standard of Pence Charlie. But
a few months thereafter, when Cuniberland ?based the
Jacobites, the fallen arch had to be supplied with wo9deis
legs and boards, to enable him to pass over— it
CUTIOUS,
sometimes, is the fortune of war." _