The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-17 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER—FRIDAY EVENING.
The attendance this morning was tolerably good, but there
were no important changes in the St. Luger bettings. TAO:,
celot was certainly a better favourite than on Tuesday; 5 to ;
in one or two instances was obtained, then 2 to 1 became tha
top offer. 8 and 9to 1 against Crucifix was laid. Galen 9
n' friends. Broadwath would have been backed at 14 two:,
12 to 1 was offered. Viceroy (thought by some of the colid)
centi to be " gone " last night, when 1,000 to 20 was
ere ac-
came again, and 200 to 5, 500 to 15, and other bets, ".05 to
cepted. Maroon is at 100 to 8 offered. Dr. Caius, "1 s
to
off. take 28. Gibraltar's friends declined accepting 8 red a
fraction beyond would have been taken. There aPPeae beat
great desire to back Launcelot, and to take 7 to 4 that t 5
the field. n
pie-
THE DONCASTER Cur.—No bettinr, on either Hem— ots
toff or Lanereost to-day, 7 to 1 would have been taken
Charles XII., and 10 to I on St. Francis.

SUNDAY TRAVELLING. Our revers
os
aware of the unfortunate competition at present Pir."o-
between the Birmingham and Derby and Midland st
ties' Railway Companies, as noticed in our number °'Will
week, and elsewhere in our publication of to-day,„,:rlsi
it be believed that certain of the opponents of
travelling have issued an address in some of the i,""rtbe
papers, in which they hint that Providence will tB°,;nue
side of that party which shall be the first to diseenore
the practice of Sunday travelling 1 Such, we can 355 q 0
our readers, is the case. Can fanaticism and folly
further ?—Railway Times. I 'ES:
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT ON THE ..Iniaco.
—An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon at the 'city
Bull, Upper Thames-street, before Mr. Payne, the occi
Coroner, on view of the body of Michael Donovan,
31, who was drowned in the Thames, under the f°ll°:osed
circumstances :—Henry Godfrey, a Waterman,uer-flos
that between four and five o'clock on Tuesday alters -0o
last, he was on Southwark-bridge Pier, when he saw and
deceased in the water. Witr.ess jumped into his boat' be
pulled towards him, but the deceased sunk befer: en'
reached him. Witness then went into the river, 0%0,
deavoured to save the deceased by every ossible 01e
-ea
but was unsuccessful. By the Coroner—The P &cllo
had come up to the pier in a boat, and lam of oPirih po
that he fell out whilst making the boat fast. Mr• ed
man, builder, of Stangate, deposed that he had enl—tirs
the deceased in doing some work on the pier. Than be
witness heard of the accident was a getlman tei-totea°
bridge calling out that a man was in the water. N'",bel
then offered several of his men a handsome reward if "bat
would use their exertions to save the poor felleohno
owing to his not having been seen when he first fe1.,,,.ar
the river, and the tide running fast at the time, he ". A
peered ; the deceased was a sober industrious Inari,j the
waterman proved finding the body of the deceascd,„°o'faict
previous day, near where the accident happeued.---'—
Accidental Death

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