The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-06 00:00:00

Arbroath and Forfar • •• •• •• •,

Chester and 'Birkenhead . ...... •
Dublin and Drogheda• • •• • • • • .....
Dublin and Kingstown .• • • • • • • • • ••

Dundee and Arbroath . •• • • •• • • ••

Durham and Sunderland . • . • • • • • .....
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • ••-• • - • -
Eastern Counties and North Eastern. •
East Lancasihre . • • • .....• . • ...... • •
Eastern Uni0n......................

Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .. • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock.. • . • • ...

Gravesend and Rochester • • • • • • • • • • • •
Great Southern and Western . • ......
Great Western, &e • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Ipswich and Bury • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and North Western, &e.. •• •
London and Blackwall. • . • • ...... • • •
London and Brighton . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and Croydon .......... .....

:8 London and South Western .•••• • • • •
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ••• • • •
!7 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
a Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
11 Maryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • •
!7 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
:7 Newcastle and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • •
Newcastle and North Shields .••• . • • •
!7 Newcastle and Berwick
!7 North British ............ ..

Paris and Rouen . .....• ••••

Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • •

Shrewsbury and Chester • • • • • • • • • . ••
South Eastern and Branches •• • • • • ••
South Devon• • • ..... . •• • • •• • • • • • • ••

Taff Vale .

Ulster . ........

York and Newcastle . ........

York and North Midland ..... •• • • ..

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE'
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAT
CHESTER Cur.-300 to 15 agst Mendicant (take re)
to 10 agst Punch (taken)-500 to C agst Silvanus (1
X\
THE DERBY.-6 to 1 agst Van Tromp (taken to 51. ?ir
Offers to back three agst the Field for the Coventry 1
dicap. Nothing else mentioned.
HOOTON PARK STEEPLE CHASES. \
The Hooton Stakes of 10 soy& each, 5 ft. and 100 added: f
Mr. Abbott's Proceed (Owner/ 5

Hon. R. Lawley's Roarer ... .............. .06
Forrester, Sir Abstrupus, Railroad, Othello, and Bally i
also ran. Won easy by seven or eight lengths. whtsl
The Storeton Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 50 added.
' ,
miles. 1
Mr. Lockwood's Barmaid, lOst 41b (Ovrosrl $
Mr. F,,wlet's Beggarman, lOst 41b . ...-- .. OA
' .. .. ,
Basquine, Maid of the Castle, Robin Adair, Blsic"..„o
Yellow Dwarf, and Sir William, also started. Won in 1;
The Hooton Hunt Stakes of Y 3 soya. each. Three..' 1 1 '
Mr. Hind nd Jupiter, list 71b . (Mr. Thntosai 0
... 4
Mr. Willoughby nd Five-pound-note ... ........ .•••••%-., 7
Mr. Lennard's Coal Black Rose ................................. •
Roland and Laudican also ran. Won by two lengt7

PARLIAMENTARY BIISINE,„S`).
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of 0"1""-
FRIDAY, MARCH 5,

The following Railway Bills were presented, reads
time, and ordered to be read a second time : .640'
Manchester, Birmingham, and North Staffordshire , ;
Enfield and Edmonton Extension.
Axholme (from the Leeds and Selby Railway to Gallir,-
borough, with Branches). Ptiir
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No.

sions and Amendment).
Parkgate and Chester and Birkenhead Junction. • cor
The following Railway Bills were read a second
witted, and referred to the Committee of Selection t--• 04.'1
East Lancashire (Clitheroe, Mitton, and Padiham DOD
Cambridge, St. Neot's, and Bedford Junction. ;
1
'
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Newcastle and Berwick (Cramlington and Percy' '
Killingworth, and other Branched). - ,„;11;
Edinburgh and Northern (St. Andrew's rand L'revialcuPß
Harbour, Branches, and Road Crossings, Newport • .'1
Extension).
York and Newcastle (Hartlepool Dock and Sailsrafjoir
Great North of England, Clarence and Hartloool ;:t
tion Railway, Lease and Purchase). \ 400
London and North-Western (Lime-street, Liverpoac
Extension, &c.) London and North-Western (Portobello and WolverMO.
Branch, &c.)

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-Ofttill.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be
second time
• %

TUESDAY, MARCH 9.
Great Indian Peninsula.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10.
Edinburgh and Perth.
FRIDAY, MARCH 12.
Edinburgh and Northern (Improvement of the rerbla
tweet' Ferry Port on Craig and the Northern Shin
►
the River Tay).
RAILWAYS.
The Committee of Selection have postponed 1411.5firstilh
meeting of the Select Committees on the Groupe """
9, 13, 16, and 18, till after the Easter Recess. Sele4
The Committee of Selection have discharged the 9 04
Committee to which they had referred the Group No.
~:$OO.
also the Panel from which the Committees on Grour
13, 16, and 18 would have been selected.

VACHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION. --- 511:
February edition of this excellent little manual furnisbess'ths
addition to its usual valuable contents, the resolutions of the
House of Commons with respect to Private Bills, ofludiag
alterations made, in the course of last month, in the Stan
Orders. The lithographed plans of the Committee.roo'S,
Westminster Hall, with the position of the different 1,4
Courts; and the House of Commons, with the various ro_o _
abutting to it, cannot fail to be of iafinite value to t
whom business or pleasure may lead towards St. Steph_
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE IMPERIAL GAS co;
PANT'S WORKS.—Yesterday Mr. Mills held an inquesSs "68,
University College Hospital, on William Morris, Igetc:atts.
late an engine driver at the Imperial Gas and CA'
o'clock
pany's Works, Battle-bridge, King's-cross. At forks, At
last Sunday morning deceased went into the gas- his gicler
six o'clock W. King, stoker, found him lying °TI sal ing
close to the boiler, insensible. There were no alter 00
juries on his body, and he was removed to his lodgings'sved-
Monday he was admitted to the hospital, and died on ilire
nesday. When the body was opened, two frightful frac' re •
of the skull, which were the immediate cause of des to
detected, but how they were inflicted it was impossible
conjecture. An open verdict was accordingly returne
weett
HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Thursday evening, bet,,,e
tso
seven and nine o'clock, some thieves broke into htle
Paradise-terrace, Lambeth-walk, the residence of a "
arel, ,
lady named Howard, and stole a quantity of wearing 21)400
silver spoons, &c. In one of the drawers which Was
bich
open there were eight sovereigns and other moneys, s
the
fortunately escaped their notice. They entered bialth
street door, and having ransacked the place got clear()
their booty.
sr
oOf
Head ETON MONTEM.—The Provost and Dias4.,, cl
Eton feel it incumbent upon them to apprise Etonians' a '
those interested in the welfare of Eton, that the abolitioo,lo
Montem has been erroneously represented to be still ens liss
question. That custom was abolished in January last liar
ovost of Eton, in entire concurrence with the Head tbeit
ter, when her Majesty the Queen had graciously left to
sole responsibility the decision of a question upon whic-seir
had fully made up their minds, after the strongest cestay
tion that the evils attendant upon Montem were lfres
of
diable, and much too serious to admit of a contintolleo-ir
that custom.—Francis Hodgson, Provost. Edward C.
trey, Master. The Lodge, Eton College, March 5, 1847. or
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECT° 00
CITY DUES.—Yesterday, information was forwarded t,°,11101
police stations, that Robert Albion Fellowes, who bee'
the responsible situation at the Custom-house of receiver
wine duties, had absconded. He is charged with hasqeets-
various times embezzled moneys to a large amount. 't of
ward of HU is otfered for his apprehension. The moaned
his defalcations is said to be nearly 7,0001. The diseefsso
took place under the following circumstances:—ln the se; is
of the year 1846, the gauger of the city of London, who
appointed by the Corporation to gauge all the wines la of
arrive within the port of London, and who is paid the eti, the
4d. per tun, made a large demand, which far exceedeu.d
amount that ought to have been paid on the duties Pest als
by the collector to the Chamberlain. This led to an ing-oo
and a committee was appointed by the Court of Coin to
Council to inquire into the matter, on which an as/licit'. tss
was made to the alleged defaulter to render an account of
moneys which had been paid to him. The collector Ors to
to do so, on which he was suspended, and a gentleman °f
name of Scott was appointed pro tern. to the office. The so'
quiry, during the period up to the 11th of last montblears
ceeding, on which Messrs. Burn and Selson, who bed soar
appointed, brought up a report, and in which they 'toted
mended that proper legal proceedings might be au ;Sid
against Robert Albion Fellowes for embezzlement, es t 4d.
found that the gauger's charge for gauging for 1841, ss.
per tun, amounted to 439/., and as the City dues sfer
per tun, it showed 5,2681. ought to have been paid bit° re-
office of the Chamberlain, whereas only 3,3581. had been the • ,
ceived, thus showing a deficiency of 1,9101. for 1841 A; fat
deficiency for 1842 was 1,7351.; for 1843, 1,7491.; ell`"„e stf
tuns
1841, 1,818/. ; and they also found that the yearly aas
wine imported into the port of London was 9,000 tunsos
17,000 pipes, and that the defalcations, in round number' k to
upwards of 1,8001. a year. The report was referred !lc to
the committee to amend, which being done, has led to
present proceedings.
Tro Or/
THE REPRESENTATION OF I,IIWBS.—Sfr
Elphinstone, Bart., is about to resign his seat for Lewes'East
R. Perfect, Esq., a gentleman whose estates lie in
Somerset, but who has spent a great portion of the last
tabie
years in Brighton, and belongs to most of our local cherlr.
institutions, will take the field on the Liberal interests
Perfect is a gentleman in the prime of life, of great 11240
gents and experience in public affairs, and has alwaYsrecce
a decided part in politics on the Liberal side. Mr. Pe,, to
address to the electors of Lewes will appear to•dayS
election will, it is supposed, take place within a for
The town has been canvassed, and there is no doubt of
Perfect's return.—Brighten Herald.

IRTHS.
On the 25th ult., at the Royaßl
Hospital, Greenwich, the wife of
tbe
Rev. James Hill, M.A., of a son.
On the let inst., at Holland-road, Brixton, Mrs. Frederick Hortla"
man, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., in Hans-place, Mrs. Philip Rose, °fa

AfAXED.
On the 6th inst., at All Souls' ChaICI
pel, Langham-place, bynthe4evio.:
S. C. Lord, , Robert Gibson, Esq„ of Sandhurst Lodge, er
Eleanor Harriet, only daughter of Sir Benjamin Smith, of itegent
street, Portland-place. rdward
On the vd inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,
Edmonds, Cl Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, to Emma
Brag
widow of 0. Bray, of Holborn.

DIED.
On the Ist Inst., at Woolston, near Southampton,
surviving daughter of the late Arthur Jones, Esq., of Bath. _ of
lecturer
On the let inst., the Rev. George John Haggitt, M.A.,
St. James's, Bury St. Edmund's, aged 57. Lleatena
On the Ist inst., at Hexworthy House, Cornwall,
Colonel William Webber, h.p., Royal Artillery. Margaret, last

In Piccadilly,
On the 4th inst., Salllllfil Mills, Est;., of ItU2SCIi-.3g7trc, bow„

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