The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

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DONCASTER SPRING
MEETING.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The Northers Steeplechase.

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Doncaster Handicap.

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Nine ran. Won by a neck.

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►STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—
There is no particular change in the market since Tuesday.
The low prices now current induce the German buyers es-
pecially to give more orders; the consequence is, we have
rather an increase of business at low rates.

TROOPS AND DISPATCHES FOR THE CAPE or
GOOD HOPE.—SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 13.
We are happy to find that our suggestions relative to the
employment of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Singapore are about to be acted upon by the War-
office and Admiralty authorities. The Singapore is to leave
Southampton for the Cape on Saturday, and will take out
detachments of troops and Government dispatches. The
Singapore will depart hence on the same day as the screw-
steamer Sir Robert Peel starts from Plymouth. The latter
will convey the contract mails; but the superior size and
power of the Singapore render it probable that she will reach
the Cape at least ten days before the Sir Robert Peel, which
is a very small screw-vessel of only 350 tons, and is placed on
the line as a substitute for the Bosphorus. Ship letter bags
will doubtless be taken out by the Singapore, and merchants
preferring the quickest route for their advices should address
their letters specially " per steamer Singapore, yid Southamp-
ton." The Singapore has on board about 600 tons of coals,
with all her stores ready for the voyage, and is being rapidly
fitted for the reception of the troops, which, we are informed,
will arrive at Southampton by railway for embarkation on
Saturday.

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.—Yesterday a
public vestry of the inhabitants of the extensive parish of
St. Mary,•Whitecbapel. was held in the vestry-room adjoin-
ing the church, Mr. H. Freeman, the senior churchwarden,
in the chair, to consider what steps should he adopted with
reference to the window-tax. Resolutions cordemnirig any
longer continuance of the tax, or the substitution of a house-
tax in lieu thereof, and demanding its total, immediate, and
unconditional repeal, were carried unanimously. Last even-
ing a very numerous meeting of the ratepayers of Lambeth
was held in the vestry-hall, S. R. Taylor, Esq., in the chair,
at which a petition to the House of Commons for the un-
conditional repeal of the window-tax was unanimously
adopted, to be presented and supported by the Members for
the borough.

"ALAS, POOR GaosT!"—When Garrick performed
in Goodman's-fields, the stage was what might be called ,a
rapid descent to the pit, and was very difficult to walk on.
As fate would have it, it was the practice of all the ghosts
to appear in real armour. The dress of this most august
personage had, one night, in honour of Garrick's Hamlet,
been borrowed from the Tower, and was somewhat stiff.
The moment the King of Denmark that " used to was" made
his appearance at the stage door, unable to keep his balance,
he rolled down to the lamps, where he lay exposed to fires
somewhat too lasting, until a wag in the pit drew the atten-
tion of the other performers to the pitiable object by crying
out, " The Ghost will be burned !"

ACCIDENT FROM GAS.—An accident of a very
serious nature occurred last evening in the manufactory of
Messrs. O'Neill and Duggan, Dame-lane, Dublin, from the
escape of gas from a fracture in one of the pipes. It appears
that a man was engaged in examining the pipes, and having
approached the damaged part with a candle, the gas, which
had been escaping for some time, immediately exploded,
driving the floors to the ceiling above them, and shattering
nearly every window on the premises, and in other respects
causing serious damage. Dreadful alarm was created
amongt the persrns employed in the workshops, but owing
to the fact that a door in the warehouse was lying open at
the time, by which a large portion of the gas escaped into
the street, no personal injury of any consequence was sus-
tained. Were it not for this fortunate circumstance it is
certain the consequences would have been fearful, as there
were upwards of eighty persons at the time engaged on the
premise Saundei s's News Letter.

THE MARBLE ARCH. The rapidity with which
the marble arch has been erected on the spot where Cum-
berland Gate stood at the top of Oxford-street, is quite as-
tonishing. It is now all but finished, and, being nearly de-
nuded of its scaffolding, the public have a fair opportunity of
forming an opinion of its effect. The site selected for the
final resting-place of this unfortunate arch appears to us not
to have been happily chosen. A work of such beauty, and
constructed of such fine material, ought, we think, to have
a noble approach to it, either by an avenue of trees or by a
line of elegant building; but as at present placed it seems
completely isolated and unconnected with any object which
might harmoniously combine with it. In Oxford-street it
cannot be seen to advantage because the spectator is too close
upon it ; and viewed from Hyde Park its appearance is very
much injured by the houses on the opposite side of the street,
which seem actually to abut upon it. The only tolerable
view is obtained from the further end of Great Cumberland-
street (no important thoroughfare), where the houses, con-
lining the sight on either side, direct it full upon the arch.
It is probable there are but few situations in London where
this beautiful structure could be appropriately placed, and
seen with due effect. Storey's Gate, in St. James's park,
was at one time suggested for its position. We are rather
inclined to think it would have looked better there than_
where it now stands ; fronting, as it would have done, one of
the principal entrances to the metropolis.— Nerald
ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE AT THE CRYSTAL
PALACE. On Wednesday morning, between_in paintingseven the
and eight
o'clock, as a middle aged man was employed
windows in the roof of the Crystal Palace,
equilibrium, ace, the board on
which he was standing shifted ; he lost
falling upon the glass work,
causedhiweightand,
the frame to
give way, when he fell on the top of a table standing on the
floor with such force that the table was dashed to pieces. He
was removed to St. George's Hospital, but he died during
Wednesday night.
An alarming fire broke out in Norwich on Sunday
evening at the printing-office of the Norwich Mercury. For-
tunately, the m engine
and machinery were but little
injured, but a considerablesea- quanitihtye
Supposed
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The proprietors were insured.
2,0001. Ipswich Express.