The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-05 00:00:00

EXNING STAKXS.-FIRST TIES.

Mentor beat Fair Maid.

1 Rossetta beat Fatima.

THE 130TTISHAM STAKES.
Lord Stradbroke's Mawworm beat Mr. Dobede's Dunkirk.
Mr. Vipan's Verna beat Mr. Arabic's All's Luck.

THE RUTLAND STAKES.
Mr. Buckworth's Backsheesh beat Mr. Arabin's Ajax.
Mr. Dobede's Doubtful beat Mr. Fyson's Flash.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—The 26th annual
meeting of this institution was held on Wednesday, at the
office, in King William-street : Mr. J. Labouchere presided.
The annual report read by Mr. Harley, the secretary, de-
tailed the proceedings during the last year. The number of
patients admitted during the year was 2,312 ; advice, medi-
cine, and medical stores were provided for 1,629 out patients,
making a total of 3,941 seamen relieved during that period,
and since the commencement of the charity 79,585; of these
2,760 belonged to the royal navy, 1,797 to the Indian navy,
and 49,161 to the vessels of various nations. The total re-
ceipts of the year amounted to 8,8931. 14s. 6d., including do-
nations, subscriptions, bequests, &c., and deducting the ex-
penditure, a balance of 3801. remained. The report having
been agreed to, the meeting broke up.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE —Early yesterday morning,
the Lying-in Hospital at Manchester,situated in St. Mary's-
parade, was discovered to be on fire, and in two hours after-
wards all the rooms, with the exception of the board-room,
were reduced to ashes. The servant-girl was awakened at
five o'clock by a sense of suffocation, and saw at once that
the house was likely to be destroyed by fire. She alarmed
the house-surgeon, Mr. Runcorn, who slept in the upper
story, and he started from bed, and found that from the
progress of the flames egress by the street-door was impos-
sible. He immediately tied together two of the sheets of
his bed, and lowered himself down to one of the short lad-
ders which had been placed under his window by Mr. Hurl-
butt, plumber, and by this means escaped without injury.
Mrs. Idorncastle, the matron, with four other women in the
house, behaved with remarkable presence of mind under the
trying circumstances. The smoke in her room was dense,
almost beyond endurance, and throwing up the lower sash of
her bedroom-window, she instructed her companions to hold
their heads out in the open air to breathe. She then tied
together the sheets of her bed, fastened one end to the lower
part of the bottom sash, and thus urged her friendsalarmedede.
to descend in the way that the house-surgeon had
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CONVEYANCE OF: CATTLE ON RAILWAYS --Mr.
Deputy Hicks and a deputation from Smithfield-market had
another interview yesterday with the directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway, when arrangements were finally made
which it is anticipated will give general satisfaction, and by
which the conveyance of live cattle from Norfolk will be
greatly improved, the condition of the cattle much bene-
fited, and their sufferings and consequent injuries frnm long
confinement in the trucks (frequently from twenty to thirty
hours) greatly alleviated, particularly by an improvement
in the trucks to prevent their slipping down and falling
under each other, with the great advantage of having a
day's rest in warm sheds, with plenty of water and fodder;
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the late deliveries on the Monday which has been so fre-
quently the case.
TIIE MURDER AT DEEDY.—DERBT, THURSDAY.—
The inquiry into the circumstances attending the murder of
Ann Cross by her husband, Thomas Cross, was concluded
last evening, and a verdict of "Wilful Murder " returned
against the prisoner.
k 4 The Grand Duke of Tuscany, by a decree of:the
16th ult., has permitted the free importation into his domi •
nions, either by sea or land, of grain and vegetables of every
deacriptioal don to the 80th June, 1847.