The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-19 00:00:00

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,LONI)ON, TRURSDAY EYENINCi, SEPTEW3 E 19. 1861.

DONC2I STE R RA CRS.--(This Day.)

EXECUTION OF NASTERSON.

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(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SCRATCHINGS.

(THIS DAY.)

PORTLAND PLA'al.—Oxford, Phantom, Robin Hood,
Baron Munchausen, Rariee f, Lopcatcher, Queen of Spain,
Donner and Blitz, Petra, Joey Jones, Squire Percy, The
Knave, Brassey, Antwerp, Babette f, Express, Vest colt,
and Goldseeker.

SWEEPSTAKES Or 10 SOVS.—Wimbledon, Breast Knot,
Fanfare, Bolero, N)rth Star, Wingrave, and Hippodamia.
EGLINTON STAK.IIS.—Robin Hood, Coulon, Neighbour,
Vaga, f by Fazzoletto, Vancouver, and Ensign.
CLEVELAND HANDICAP.—Cramond, Hetman, Wombat,
Drone, Babette f, Donner and Blitz, Vancouver, and
Betts.

LATEST BETTING.

DONCASTER CUt.
7to 4on Tie 'Wizard

CESAREWITCH.
1000 to 70 agst Umpire (taken)
1000 to 60 agst Makeless filly (taken)
20 to 1 agst Paste (taken)
22 to 1 agst t.aire (taken)
40 to 1 agst Ivanhoff

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 6 agst Donner and Blitz (taken)
25 to 1 agst Gabriel d'Estrees (taken)
25 to 1 agst The Roe (taken)
100 to 3 agst Sporting Life (taken)
100 to 3 agst Artless (taken)
100 to 3 agst Claire (taken)
50 to 1 agst Ivanhoff (taken)
5000 to 100 agst tom Bowline (taken)

DONCASTER, WEDNESDAY.

FATAL OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday two workmen
nail:led Cave and Farrell were killed in consequence of the
falling of a bridge in process of removal near the goods sta-
tion of the North Western Railway at Manchester.
FIRE AND , LOSS OF LIFE.-A fire broke out
yesterday in Crown-court, taascoyne-place, Bethnall-green.
The entrance to the place was too narrow to admit the fire-
escape, and the result was that two children were burned
to death, and a man named Raworth and his wife greatly
injured.

I hope the readers of The Sun followed my advice in
backing Brown Stout to be last instead of first. He never
took any part in the race, and had not Charlton stopped
him he would have fallen with him, as this celebrated son
of Sir John Barleycorn was seized with an attack of the
" staggers," and he secured the exact place I assigned him
—absolutely last. He walked in some time after the race,
and had great difficulty in making his way through the
crowd.

A FRESH MAN.

VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A CON-
TRACTOR.—On Sunday evening the dead body of a man
named Edwards was found in a culvert on the banks of the
Avon. An inquest was held, and the jury returned a ver-
dict of manslaughter against Mr. Adams, the contractor
for the works, on the ground that the entrance to the cul-
vert was not properly protected.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTINGUISHING STREET LAMPS.—Two respectable-
looking lads, named George Thompson and Thos. Saunders,
were charged by Sergeant Wlitts, E division, with extin-
guishing street lamps in' Cleveland-street.
In answer to the charge, one lad said that he shook the
pipe against the wall and the light went out, and believing
that he had not done it he tried a second one, and that also
went out.
Mr. Mansfield fined them 10s. each.

RELEASE OF MR. A. DE VlDlL.—Yesterday, Mr.
Alfred De Vidil was released from Newgate. Beyond the
confinement he has been subjected to no personal indignity,
bat he appeared to be in ill-health. Several of the young
gentleman's relations were in attendance to receive him on
his discharge. The baron, his father, is still at Cold-bath-
fields, and is employed picking oakum, his age exempting
him from the labour of the treadwheel. He conducts himself
with apparent calmness and resignation, but he is subjected
to precisely the same discipline, food and clothing as the
other. criminals.
VISIT TO ENGLAND OF THE SIAMESE AMBAS-
SADORS.—Phra nai Wai, the Second Siamese Ambassador,
who in his social grade ranks higher than the first, and
Naronwigit, the third, with five of their suite, lave paid a
two days' visit to England. The visit was quite private,
and, we beliefre, has not been noticed by the press. The
ambassadors stayed at Morley's Hotel, and managed, during
their brief excursion, to see several objects of interest.
Their attention appears to have been especially attracted
by the Arsenal at Woolwich.—London and China Tele-
graph. _ _ _

MAKING AWAY WITH WORK MATERIALS.—WiIIiam
Davis, a shoemaker, was brought up and remanded,
charged with making away with some materials entrusted
to him to make up by Mr. Garner, bootmaker, of 368,
Oxford-street.

Mr. Garner said he had no doubt that if the prisoner was
remanded other manufacturers would have charges against
the prisoner, as he had found some materials at the pri-
soner's lodgings with different names on them.
STEALING A REVOLVER.---W Norcott, 41, Grove-
street, Camden-town, was charged with stealing a revolver
of the value of £3, the property of Mr. James Woodward,
of 64, St. James's-street.

Some evidence being given, Brown, 304 A, said he wished
for a remand, as he believed there would be several other
cases against the prisoner—one where he had stolen a rifle.

The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday:

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unfortunate, was charged with stealing a purse 0g A
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the sum of £6105., the property of Mr. John Webber,
Chegwidden, West Drayton, station-master.
Mullord, the officer, said the prosecutor was in court but
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The exe6ution'of Peter Masterson, who was convicted at
the last session of the Central Criminal Court, before Mi..
Justice Blackburn. of murder, took place this morning at
Maidstone. The convict, it will be recollected, was a pri-
vate in the Royal Artillery, stationed at Woolwich. He
was taken into custody by the picket for being drunk and
disorderly in• the town, and brought to the guardroom,
where the deceased, who was a sergeant in the same
regiment, was engaged in the performance of his duty
of entering the charges that were made against the
different soldiers who had been misconducting themselves,
and upon his asking the prisoner his name he made
use of very bad language, and refused to tell him, and
he was ordered to another part of the guardroom, appro-
priated to military offenders. Here he contrived to get
possession of an iron bar that was used, as a poker, a very
heavy and dangerous instrument, and then made his way
stealthily to the place where the sergeant was sitting, and
while in the act of stooping forward, writing, be struck
him a tremenlous blow on' the back of the head, which
fractured his skull, and caused almost immediate death.
Masterson was only 22 years old, an Irishman and a Ro-
man Catholic, and since he had been in Maidstone Gaol
had been visited constantly by Father Emmanuel, a priest
of that persuasion. The prisoner for a considerable time
appeared very hardened, and not to entertain the least idea
of the awful character of his crime or the dreadful sentence
that awaited him, but upon being informed that the day
was fixed for his execution, and there was no longer any
hope for him in this world, he became slightly affected,
and since then he appeared to be sensible of his awful
position.

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ACCIDENT IN A BELFRY.—On Saturday evening
while four men were employed in placing a new bell in the
belfry of the established church at Pathhead, under the
superintendence of the. Rev. Mr. Haxton, the tackle they
were using gave way, and the bell, which weighs lOcwt.,
fell with a fearful crash, carrying away the floor of the
belfry, on which Mr. Haxton was standing, and bearing
him down to the gallery, eight feet under. The men em-
ployed with the tackle were standing on the gallery floor
at the time, and were all more or less injured, but, fortu-
nately, no one happened to be immediately under the bell,
which dashed through everything until it got to the
ground. The injuries sustained by the parties were as fol-
lows :—Rev. Mr. Haxton, slightly bruised about the ankle ;
William Samson, severely cut about the head by a part of
the flooring ;„Andrew Scott also cut about the head ; John
Hume, left leg broken, and severely shattered at the ankle,
cut on the head, and badly bruised about the chest ; Mr.
John Mitchell, engineer, who was on the top of the belfrey
at the time of the accident, while sliding down a rope,
missed his hold, and falling several feet had one of his legs
severely bruised. Drs. Stoddart and Gray were soon in
attendance, and the injured persons are now progressing
favourably.—.Edinburgh Courant.
FATAL OCCURRENCE AT MANCHESTER.—Yester-
day two men were killed by an accident at a goods station
of the London and North-Western Railway, in Liverpool-
road, Manchester. This little station was originally the
I passenger terminus of the Liverpool and. Manchester Rail-
way, and also the point of departure for travellers by rail
from Manchester to the south, when their only existing
steam route was over the Grand Junction line. Like all
other terminal stations in Manchester, this one was erected
high above the level of the streets, and the lino was ap-
proached from below by a steep inclined carriage-road sup-
ported on arches. The approach road and its arches are
now in process of removal to make way for a new thorough-
fare that is being constructed by the municipal authorities,
leading from Hampson-street, Salford, across the river
Irwell, to• Water-street, Manchester. Tho arches were of
brick and rather decayed. A portion had already been
taken down, and yesterday morning, about half-past six
o'clock, another portion fell in. Five labourers who were at
work on the top fell also. Three of them were so fortunate
as to escape unhurt, while the other two were entirely
buried beneath the ruins. It required a quarter of an
hour's excavation in the one case and half an hour in the
other to disinter them. Both were found quite dead and
much disfigured. The names of the deceased, who were
young men, are John Cave and Lawrence Farrel.

On the 9th inst., Frederick von Raumer, the his.
tolian, celebrated the 50th anniversary of his connection
with university education. The King of Prussia conferred
upon him the Order of the Red Eagle of the Second Class,
and the Queen presented him with a beautiful bronze vase
ornamented with a portrait of Frederic the great.
A WOMAN BURNT •TO DEATH IN A FIT.—On
Tuesday morning, a Mr. Duggins, of 81, Lillington-street,
Pimlico, on passing the house, No. 73, of the same street,
occupied by Mr. Inns, cab proprietor, observed Mrs. Inns
enveloped in flames in the area, and apparently in a semi-
insensible condition. He at once exclaimed, "You are all
on fire ;" tO which she made no reply, but hastened away
into the yard, followed by Mr. Duggins, who had climbed
the iron railings and jumped into the area from a consider-
able height, and, with the assistance of another neighbour,
smothered the smouldering embers of all that by this time
remained of4er clothing. Her body was so frightfully
burnt that she shortly afterwards expired. The deceased
was aged 50, and subject to sudden attacks of epilepsy.
ANOTHER DREADFUL FIRE.—A fire,unfortunately
attended with fatal consequences, broke out yesterday morn-
ing, between 3 and 4 o'clock, in a small house situated at
No. .4, Crown-court, Logerhead-street, Shoreditch. The
discovery was made by an officer of the H division, who
saw smoke issuing from the front room of the ground floor.
He at once gave an alarm. After repeated knocking at the
door he managed to arouse the inmates, consisting of 16
persons, the house being occupied by several poor families.
The fire in the lower part of the house, however, was at this
time so great that they were unable to descend The stairs.
Some jumped out of the windows, and others were rescued
by Eilbeck, the conductor of. he Royal Society's fire escape.
Mr. Roworth, a box maker, his wife, and his daughter
Sarah, were all severely, and, it is feared, fatally burnt
before they could be got out of the building. They were at
once removed to the hospital, where it was reported last
evening they could not live the night out. Barton
quickly attended with the parish engines, and was followed
' by four of the London Brigade under the personal superin-
tendence of Capt. Shaw, the newly appointed chief of the
London Fire Establishment, and Mr. Midges, the foreman
of the district. The firemen and parish engineer at once
set to work, and they soon, with the aid of a good supply
of water, furnished by the East London Company, managed
to get the flames extinguished. The firemen then found a
young girl named Martha burnt to death. She was only
four and a half years of age. They next found her brother
William, only seven months old, burnt to death. Thebodies
were taken out, and given into the charge of Mr. Pouneeby,
the Coroner's officer. The origin of the fire is not known
with certainty ; but it is the prevailing opinion, that as the
parents of the children came home in a state of intoxica-
tion, they must have dropped a light upon some boxes be-
longing to Mr. Roworth. None of the sufferers were :?-a.
sured.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH DURHAM RAIL-
AY.—The adjourned inquest on the body of Robt. Aron,
the engine-driver of the excursion train from Darlington
to Windermere on the 29th ult., which ran off the line,
concluded yesterday. The jury returned a verdict that the
deceased came to his death by the engine going off the rail,
but they could not say what caused it to do so. The Coro-
ner told them that they ought to fix on the cause, but, after
a long altercation, the Foreman said they did not wish to
blame the company, so they could not agree as to the cause
of the accident. The verdict was received and the jury
discharged.
THE WOODLANDS MURDER.—The murder of
Sarah Watts, a confession of which has just been made by
a soldier named Joseph Sear (as stated in The Sun), took
place on the 25th of September, 1851, and not in August of
that year, as stated by the prisoner. The coroner's jury
on the occasion returned an open verdict, but subsequently
three men, named Sparrow, Maggs, and Hurd, were appre-
hended, and the circumstantial evidence against them was
so strong as to warrant their committal on the capital
charge. They were tried at the following spring assizes
for Somersetshire at Taunton, before Mr. Justice Erle, but
were acquitted. The verdict was not received with satis-
faction at the time by the public, but, supposing the con-
fession just made by Sear to be true, it will prove the cor-
rectness of the decision at which the jury armed.