The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-28 00:00:00

T E SUN,

Mr. F. Swindell na The Mask, 4 yrs, 7At 34) (Wells) 0
Won by a length nod a calf.
The Chesterfield Siak b of 10 .ove. each, and 50 added;
for two yrs old; the Ltecond to save his stlikv. About
half a mile. (14 Soto.)
Mr. Halforn's Veppermint (Marlow) 1
Mr. Pedley's Conrad (S. T(lnpleman) 2
Mr. Drinkald's Grey 'rummy
Lord Che,,terfield's fby Lanercust ...... (Flatman) 0
Hon. H. Vernon na Big Wig (Denman) 0
Mr. Stewart's BAnshee (W. Sharpe) 0
Mr. E Buckley's Royal George (Whitehouse) 0
Mr. J. Scott's Mountain Flower --(Holmes) 0
Mr. T. Worthington's fby Lanercost (Osborne) 0
Won by a head.
The Innkeepers' Plate ul 60/. Two miles.
Mr. T. Patr's Clothworker, 5 yrs, 9st 101 b (Owner) 1
Mr. Sharratt's Egret, 6 yrs, 9Jt 91b... (Whitehouse) 2
Mr. Forster'. Musician,' 4 yrs, 9At 41b (Simpson) 3
Mr. Taft's fbyl) in John, 3 yrs, ist slb (Chariton) 4
Won by three-parts of a leng,h.
The Selling Siakes of 5 sous. each, end 30 added; the
winner to be sold by auction for 2001. or under, &e.
Heats. One mile. (5 Subs.)
Mr. T. Parr's Snuwdtttt, (20/) (Charlton) 0 1 0
Mr. P. Walli.'s Buzz 1, (301) (Freeborn) • 1 0 0
Mr. Ward's Show-the-way, (301) (Sharpe) 2 2 2
Mr. W. Tay!or's Old Claret (30/) (Osborne) 0 0 0
Won by a lengtb.Jhe winner sold for 451.

MANCHESTER, 1851.
Acceptances fur the Manchester Great Autumn
Havdteap.
Yrs st lb
Maid of Masbam 6 9 0
Woolwich
Alp
Herbert
Lady Hylda
Oxford Blue
Egret
Uuektail
Melody 5 6 10
Abbess of Jerveaux 4 6 8
Little George 4 6 8
I.a-+y Eden
Haricot 4 6 6
Vnucuuver
Taly 4 6 6
Ringleader
The Ebor 4 6 2
Duxbury 4 6 2

Yrs st lb

.
min 3 6 0
Lou,;h Bawn
'olgerrlale ...... 3 5 12
Cho Wren ...... 4 5 10
Prince Caradoc c 3 5 10
Pierre de Touche 3 5 10
tiholab Singh 3 5 10
Irrlykstress ... 3 5 8
Unity 3 5 8
Paquette
Heart of Oak 3 5 5
Cheap John 3 5 0
Follow-me-Laci
Rose 3 5 0
Atafford
Little Fawn
Once-more
True Blue ...... 3 4 7

METROPOLITAN COM MISSION of SEWERS.
On Tuesday morning the first General Court of
Commissioners, held under the recent Act of Par-
liament, took place at the chief office, Greek-street,
Soho.

Mr. E. LAWES, the recently-appointed chairman of
the Commission, said, that being the first Court of
Sewers held since he had the honour of being
appointed chairman, it was proper that he should
formally announce that appointment to them. He
would take that opportunity of stating that he should
give his personal attendance at that office every day,
in order that persons desirous of seeing a member of
the board might communicate with bim on the sub-
j.ct of their applications, whatever they might be.
He would also state that the Commissioners had
under their anxious consideration measures which it
might be expedient to adopt for the transaction of the
business of the Commission with the utmost dispatch,
and they hoped to adopt such a course as would
attain that object with the utmost economy and
efficiency. He should also notice the facilities
afforded by the new Act of Parliament by the
reduction of the quorum necessary to form a court.
That reduction would enable the Commissioners to
hold courts in the various districts to which the busi-
ness referred, as the Commissioners were most
anxious to adopt every course in their power with a
view to the convenience of the public. It would be
impossible to say more than this on the present
occasion, the Act of Parliament having so recently
come into operation, but the Commissioners wished
to give the public every assurance that they could of
their desire to do all in their power for the dispatch
of business.

Tne business paper before the Court was unusually
heavy, the aggregate amount of works recommended
being 6,763/. 2i. 9J., including the contributions
ordpred to be paid by various individuals and public
bodies.

The following are the principal works ordered :-
3001 c. of 12-inch pipe sewer in Holloway-road, at a
cost of 481. 154. ; 1,280 ft. of brick eewer, 4ft. by
2ft. 6in., in Holloway-road, 665/. ; 150 ft. of brick
sewer, 3ft. 9in. by 2ft. 3in.. in Grove-lane, Holloway-
road, 561.5 e. ; 1,254tt of 18 .inch pipe in open ditch
in the Merton-road, 2611.; 1,3561 t. of 15 inch pipe
sewer in continuation of the above, 225/. ; reservoir
and overflow drain at M,..rton, 241 10s. ; 1,650 ft. of
15-inch pipe sewer in Church-street, Lower Tooting ;
240 fr. of 12-inch pipe sewer, ditto ; 430 ft. of 12-
inch pipe sewer in the Mitcham-road, 8301 t. of 12
Inch pipe sewer in the Merton-road, and 580 ft. of 9-
inch pipe sewer in Salvadore-place, Lower 'rooting,
at an aggregate cost of 500/. Works amounting in
cost to 1.312/, and consisting chiefly of pipes and
sewers at Greenwich and the district, were agreed to.
There were also ordered to be constructed 7001 t. of
9ft. circular sewer along Victoria-road, Pimlico, at
an estimated cost of 2,600/., to be defrayed by the
Comini-sioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests ;
500 ft. of 12-inch pipe sewer between Wandsworth
and South Lambeth-road, 60/. ; 220 ft. of 12-inch
pipe sewer in the rear of Q n«-en's-row, and Grove-
place, Kennington-green, 301. ; 320 ft. of 12-inch
pipe, wiih 40Ir. of 16-inch branches at back of Vaux-
hall-road, 451 ; 285 ft. of 18-inch pipe sewer in
'tVandsworth-road, 70/ ; 320 tt. of 12-inch, and 100 ft.
of 9 inch pipe sewer in Soapsuds-square, Norwood,
50/. ; 150 ft. of half-brick sewer, 3ft 9in. by 2ft. 3in ,
in Britannia-street, Gray's inn-lane, 751. ; work-
near Bedford-lane, Clapham, 851. ; 142 ft. of
hulf• brick sewer, 2ft. 9in. by 2ft. 3in., in Patriot-
street, St. George's in. the East, 591.;412f. of 12 inch
pipe in Mount Pleasant, Upper Clapton, 571.; 165 ft.
ot 9-inch pipe sewer in Rhodeswell-road, Litnehouse,
141. 103. ; 208 ft, of camp-shedding to Earl sewer, on
emergency, 70/. ; 450 ft. ot, sewer, Vt. 9in. by 21t.
3in. in Radnor-street, St. Luke's, 1961. 16s. ; 300 ft.
of 12-inch pipe sewer in Drury court ; 110 f. of 9-
inch pipe in Denham-court, and 160tt. of pipe in
Pettv ford-yard, 154/. 200 ft. of sewer, 3ft. 91n. by
2ft. 31n., and 120tt. of" 12-inch pipe sewer in Good-
inan's-yard, 1001.; 110tt. of 9 inch pipe in Essex-
' streat, Bethnal-green, 151.; 20Gft. of 12-inch, and
160 ft. of 9-inch pipe sewer, in Devonshire-street
West, 39/.; 230 ft. of 12-inch pipe sewer in the rear of
Camberwell Collegiate school, 24/. District rates
were then ordered to be prepared at threepence in
the pound on the Holborn division and the Surrey
and Kent districts.
After hearing some objections to works ordered,
the Court adjourned.

,FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT •—On the evening of Fri-
day last a party of four left Dell-Quay in an open boat, and
rowed down the harbour to Itchenor. The party consisted of
Mr. Henry Farnden, of Appledram, Mr. Apedaile, and Mr.
W. Stitch, jun., of Chichester, and a pilot named James
Farrow. On their return, after rowing about a mile, it was
suggested by Farrow (a breeze having sprung up) that they
should hoist sail; and as he was adjusting the mast for that
purpose, standin, on the thwart, his foot slipped as he still
held by the mast, and being a stout man, his weight cap-
s.zed the boat, precipitating the whole party into the water.
Mr. Stitch and Mr. Farndell soon swam to shallow water;
but their great difficulty was the mud, which they-had to
wade through for about one hundred yards. By almost un-
paralleled exertion they at length succeeded in reaching the
Bonham store. Mr. Apedaile clun: to the boat for nearly
an hour. Messrs. Stitch and Farndell having, in the mean
time, hailed Silvester, of Itchenor, who most providentially
was dropping down the harbour with the tide; the assistance
came just in time to save him, as, to use his own words, " he
could not have held on two minutes longer." Poor Farrow
had sunk to rise no more, and we regret to add that he has
left a widow and three small children. Had it not been for
the extraordinary exertion of Mr. Stitch, the others must
have all perished. An inquest was held on Farrow the fol-
lowing day, at Itchenor, and a verdict of" Accidental Death"
was returned.. Farrow, at the risk of his life, has often been
the means of rescuing some of our owu citizens from the
treacherous element when bathing at that dangerous place,
Dell-quay,. and we trust that the poor widow and helpless
on.hans will not now be forgotten by a generous rublic.—
Brighton Guardian.

DEATH BY FALLING OVER A PRECIPICE.—A man
named James Nicholl, a cooper, betwixt 40 and 50 years of
ag , lost his life in a very sudden and awful manner on
Thursday last in the parish of Cannonby. The unfortunate
man lived at Limycleuch, and Was in the habit of working
occasionally in the garden attached to the Croeskeys Inn, in
the same parish. lie had been there on Thursday, and Mr.
Glendinning, the landlord, spake to him about five in the
afternoon, when it was supposed he went away home. Next
morning a brother of the deceased called at the inn, and
stated that James had net returned on the preceding even-
ing. An alarm was then given, and almost immediately one
of the servants descried his body lying in the river Esk, at a
place called Priorspool, whence it was removed in a cart to
Lirnycleuch. It appears that the garden is situated near
the top of a precipitous bank, about 60 feet high, below
which the Esk flows, and that the unfortunate man had
after finishing his work gone beyond the garden to a dan-
gerous spot over-hanging the river in search of eggs, which
were occasionally found there. In making his search he had
slipped and fallen over, as was evident from the footmarks
and torn shrubs which he had vainly grasped in his descent.
The body was scarcely covered by the water, which was
only a foot deep at the spot where it fell. The head was
severely contused, and in o-e band a branch of
.broom was
convulsively grasped. Nicholl was an unmarried man.—
Dumfries Courier.

THE INTERNATIONAL JURORS AND AWARDS-"
BRHACH or FAITH —The first incident that occurred to us
when we reached Paris the other day caused us some an-
noyance. Every juror for the Great Exhibition, when be
accepted his office, signed a solemn declaration to the effect
that he would keep secret all the awards made by the juries
until these were Officially announced by the Commissioners.
Our astonishment, then, may be guessed when we found men
on all the boulevards of Paris selling, f.r a sous, a list of
the French exhibitors to whom great medals bad been
awarded I According to this paper, fifty-five great medals
have been obtained for France • and in it the appropriation
of thirty-eight of these, with the names of thirty-one reci-
pients, is given. The publication of this information, it will
be seen, implies a t reach of faith, not on the pare of one juror
alone, but of many, and shows the little importance they
attached to their deliberate pledge. Their apologists will
sav, secresy is constitutionally impossible with Frenchmen:
th-y must talk:—primed with intelligence, they must either
burst or " blow." For our own parts we 1 Kok upon the matter
as a breach of faith which deserves the severest reprehension.