The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

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CHESTER RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Handicap Stakes.

Tamo ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1
Equal ..• ... ... ... ... 41611 ... 2
Innkeepera' Plate.

Augean ... ... ... ... 1
Maid of Team Valley ... ... ... 41" ... 2
Free Handicap.

Truth ... ••• ••• ..•
II•• ••• II" 1
Young Altisidora ••• 2
••• ••• ••• •••
Sir Robert ••• ••• •.• ••• ••• 3

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Oct. 4,
1851 ... £19,821 14 9
Ditto, Oct. 6, 1850 ... 15,362 5 2

Increase in 1851 ... ... £4,462 9 7
London Terminus, Oct. 6, 1851.

PIMESTRIANISM.—Yesterday afternoon a foot-race,
between blanks and Searles, two noted pedestrians, took
place at the Oval, Kennington. The distance was ten miles,
or forty times round the ground, and, in addition, 200
hurdles were to be leaped. Manks gave his rival a start
of 200 yards, but before half the distance was accomplished
the runners were side by side. In this relative position
they remained for five rounds, when Manks shot ahead
and speedily gained such a lead that Searle, at the 29th
round, stopped short and confessed himself beaten. Manks
completed the whole distance in ono hour and thirteen
minutes.

SERIOUS ROBDERY DY A FOREIGNER.—A German
named Aronis Morjose has been robised in Manchester of
1,6001. in Bank of England notes by an Hungarian refugee
named,Jacob Alter. They lodged together at a boarding-
house, Morjose being in the town as a buyer of goods ; and
on Saturday afternoon, while they were at dinner, Alter
complained that he was poorly, .and left the room. Soon
after he left the house, and subsequently Morjose discovered
that his box had been opened and his notes gone. Suspi-
cion fell on Alter, with whom he bad been very friendly and
to whom he had shown how to open a secret spring which
locked his box, but he could not be found, and the police
are now endeavouring to trace hint.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday morning an
accident, which terminated fatally, occurred to a man named
William Dobson, while at work at the Lambeth Water
Works, Thames Ditton. The deceased was employed with
others in the erection of a tall chimney upon the works, and
on Saturday morning he was engaged in hoisting a large
stone, weighing upwards of two tons, by means of a wheel
erected upon some The deceased sat upon the stone
while it was being raised, to prevent it striking the scaffold-
ing. When about 50 feet from the ground, one of the poles
suddenly broke, and the ponderous mass fell to the earth.
The deceased was thrown upon the ground with great vio-
lence, and when raised, he was found to be quite insensible,
He was removed to the Fox and hounds, public-house,
Seething-Wells, Kingston, where he lingered until yester-
day, when death put an end to his sufferings.
PRESCOT, ST. HELEN'S, AND WIGAN JUNCTION
RAILWAY.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Prescot has just
been held at the Town-hall, when resolutions were passed,
and a memorial to the directors of the London and North-
Western was agreed to for the formation of a branch railway
from Hutton by Prescot to St. Helen's and Wigan, so as to
accommodate, in addition to the passenger traffic, the con-
veyance ei coal front the Wigan coalfields into Liverpool.