The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER. TUESDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-100 to 5 agst Cavendish
(taken), 100 to 5 agst Pioneer (taken), and 100 to 5
agst Wolverhampton (taken).
DERBY.-11 to 1 agst Surplice, 12 to 1 agst Glen-
dower, 20 to 1 agst Assault, 25 to 1 agst Stinger, 25 to
1 agst Springy Jack (offer to take), 30 to 1 agst Beverlac,
and 35 to 1 agst Rosslyn.

EXTENSITE FIRE AT A BUILDER'S THIS DAY).—
About three o'clock this morning the discovery of a fire
took place raging at the premises of Messrs. Baker,
builders, near Astley's Theatre. The firemen and en-
gines from the Waterloo-road and West of England
stations were, after a time, sent for, and the fire was
confined to the part were it originated. The damage
done is considerable, and is believed to have been occa-
sioned by overheating the furnaces. Mr. Baker is in-
sured in the Kent Fire-office.
The funds of the New Cut Ragged School being
now nearly exhausted, if public sympathy be not
promptly excited on their behalf, the numerous desti-
tute children of that demoralised locality must be left
a prey to ignorance, to crime, and to ruin.
THE LATE MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY. The directors of the Great
Western Railway have directed a searching inquiry to
be instituted into the circumstances connected with the
extensive and mysterious robbery of cash which took
place on Monday last. It is said that a clue has been
obtained which may not only lead to the apprehension
of the guilty parties, but will likewise exculpate the prin-
cipal guard, in whose charge the box was, from any par-
ticipation in the transaction. It may be as well to give a
description of the lockers in second-class carriages on this
railway, which may explain how such a robbery might
be effected without the cognizance of the guard. In
each compartment of second-class carriages there are
two lockers for passengers' small parcels, the seats form-
ing the top; but these are so badly constructed that the
locker formed by the front seat in one compartment, and
the back seat in the adjoining one having no division, or
teelmically speaking, bulkhead, is common to both, so
that it is quite practicable for a person in one compart-
ment to abstract a parcel belonging to a passenger in the
adjoining compartment without the knowledge of any
per: on unless those riding in the same place with him.
SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION.—A skeleton clothed
in sheep-skin was recently exhumed in a distant part of
Ireland, and the intelligence having reached the ears of
an editor in that country, ho forthwith manufactured it
into a neat paragraph, headed " Fossil remains of an
Irish Gentleman.'

THE LATE ACCIDENT AT RUGBY.—A correspon-
dent, who wag an eye-witness of the accident which oc-
curred
at the Rugby station on Thursday, the 6th inst.,
by which a man was killed when in the act of crossing
the line when a train was coming up, suggests the pro-
priety of a bridge being thrown over the line for the
safety of passengers, who are now obliged to cross the
rails, as also that a man should be appointed whose ex-
clusive duty it would be to warn people that a train was
coming up, es, had this been the case, the unfortunate
men who lost his life in the present instance might have
escaped his untimely fate.
Mr. Maxton, the chief mechanical engineer at
Cairo, has made a design for a steam carriage capable of
conveying a whole cargo of passengers, luggage, and
goods of one steamer across the Desert in a few hours,
and which, with 01 the necessaries, will only cost
3,4001. He has presented the plans and specifications
to the Pacha, who has approved thereof, and given him
permission to order one out immediately from England.
These carriages, with two new steamers expected shortly
out for the Nile service, will greatly improve the transit
through Egypt.
A PROFITABLE DREAAL—A curious story has
been afloat for the last day or two in this city, says the
Bath Herald, and which, as it has reached us, has•taken
the following shape :—A professional gentleman, residing
in Bath, having been suddenly called upon to administer
to the effects of an elderly lady recently deceased, his
wife told him that she had sone indistinct recollection
of a communication once made to her by the now de-
ceased lady, respecting some money which she kept
secreted about her person. The conversation was re-
presented to have taken place in that portion of the
Assembly-rooms where, on Wednesday evenings,
married and elderly ladies much do congregate, to
study the points involved in short whist ; but the
husband treated it as some idle gossip, and took
no further notice. In the middle of the night,
however, be was suddenly awakened by his wife,
who told him she could not sleep for dreaming of their
departed friend, who had told her that she constantly
kept a large sum of money sewn up in her stays. The
husband pish•ed and pooh-ed about the dreams, and the
stays, and the money, but all to no purpose ; no more
tranquil sleep could the lady get, and, consequently,
small was the portion enjoyed by her unhappy spouse.
To pacify her, he at length promised "to see about it"
in the morning, and in fulfilment of his promise went
early to the house of the deceased, and, with a blush
and a stammer, requested thefemme•de dambre to bring
him her late mistress's stays. The wondering abigail
complied—they were not new ones—the professional
inquirer daintily and awkwardly handled the mysterious
piece of machinery, held it up to the light, fancied he
saw a little extra wadding in some particular corner,
gently dislodged the lurking contents, and found in his
hand, in good bank notes, the sum of 1601.
A convict named Florentin, sentenced to hard
labour at the hulks for twenty years, and sent in one of
the prison vans to Brest, having on his arrival a few
days ago all
.his members swollen from the long and
close confinement, a common result, we understand, of
these journeys, wes, as is usual such cases, put into
a warm bath,
he almost immediately expired.
in
which
—Paris paper.

PORTION 0 THE INDIAN
HE• ~SOUTHAMPTON
steam-packetout
MAIL—The Oriental Steam Company's
Sultdu, Capt. Geo. Brookes, arrived at
R.N., Admiralty agent. The loniao
yesterday, and landed her mails, under the chargeamSouthampton
Lieut. Langton,
packet had not arrived, to give any further news a then
insurrection at Patras.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S ENTRANCE TO HIDE-
PARK.--Yesterday a new entrance from the Kensington-
road into llyde-park, called the Prince of Wales's Gate,
was opened to the public. There are two entrances for
carriages and equestrians, and two for foot passengers,
having a lodge.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford return to Wo-
burn Abbey early in the ensuing week from Endsleigh-
house, Devon. Lord Alexander Russell has obtained a
lengthened leave from his regiment, the Rifle Brigade,
stationed in North America. Lord Cosmo Russell has
left town to rejoin the staff of Lieut.-General Sir Edward
Blakeney, at Dublin.
THE LATE ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF POWISo--
The Earl of Powis, who was accidentally shot by his
son, the Hon. Robert Herbert, while shooting in the pre-
serves at Powis Castle, on Friday last, according to
letters received yesterday at the Noble Earl's mansion,
in Berkeley-square, was going on well.