The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-25 00:00:00

quad the coiuitiy devoted itself to the development of their
natural resources. He further explained his proposition, be=.
lieving that it would be the opinion of the American people
in six months. He did not talk to politicians, as they are.
joined to' their idols. 'Let them-alone.
Mr, Farnsworth (rep.) of Ill.„ asked his colleague whe•
ther he favoured slavery south of the litre ?
Mr, Kellogg, replied .that he Would adhere to the line_
with all ifs, legal and logical consequences:. In further re-
.4ponSe to .a question from Mr. Farnsworth he reminded,
that gentleman that' he (Mr.T.) voted for the Crittenden-
Montgomery •amendment,i which' embraced a provision to •
admit Kansas with slavery in..the constitution, if the peo-
ple should so dstermin;, • •
Mr. Farnsworth said he, knew the people would not go'
determinq.
Mr Kellogg resumed, saying •that he vote•d for that aniend-
unlit inAlle full recognition of the -principles it embodied;
He was for ,his country in all_ its parts. ,He did.not cam
whether his proposition was found in the Breckinridge,
Douglas, otrepublican platfOrni. It was enough for him
it it suits the country. (Loud applause.)
Mr. Smith (opp.) of N.C, in the course of his remarks:.
said that his State mould n6t be a party to the destruction
of the government, so long as her rights and honour Were,
safe within the Union. He concluded by advocating the
Crittenden compromise.
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ts,po/4 71,VG. INT EL LIG ENCE.

BETTING AT MANCH ESTR-SATtiltDiY.

There was little in the business done to-day to call for
particultir notice, neither can we .speak as to any large
investment. For the Grand National anything over 7to 1
would have been taken about Franc Picard, and • Bride-
groom had a coming appearauce, although we saw nothing
less igen 25 to 1 taken. For the Darby, .20 to 1 bar one
was offered, and 7 to 1 was freelroffered on the field for
the Tw&Thousand Guinea Stakes. There was a commis-
sion for Itussley at 10 to 1, but we heard no higher offer
than 9to L 100 to 8 was,offered against Diophantus and,
takenabout Overto4. Knight of. the Thistle was talked.
about, but nothing beyond the talking came under our,
notice. 10 to 1 was offered on the field for the Chester
CUp,'lttid ioolo 3 was taken against Killigrew. Closing,
.• .
prices:— , '

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHAS.
7to kagst,Franc Picard (offered)
9to 1 agst Jealousy (taken) •
10 to 1 agst Emperor (1E4614
10 to 1 agst Anatis (offered, lake 12 to 1)
14 to 1 agst The Fresinnan (taken)
14 to 1 agst Old Ben Roe (taken)
20 to 1 agst Xanthus (offered)
20 to 1 agst Redwing (offered)
25 to 1 agst Bridegroom (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STARES.
7to lon the field (offered)
9to 1 agst Russley (offered) take 10
12 to 1 agst•Overton (taken)
100 to 8 agst Diophantus (offered)
• . THE DERBY.
20 to 1 bar one (offered)
THE CHESTER CUP.
10 to lon the field (offered)
100 to 3 agst Xilligrew (taken)

.We (, Athenceutiz) hear that the Queen, having
recently:ordered a design for a lace flounce from the Stu;
dents of the Female School, .was so well',pleaied with it,
hat her Majesty has commissioned. Mies Qrann, the Super=
ittendent, to obtain a second. This, if successful, is-to bo
publiclirjeXhibiteif on the occasion of the exhibition and
bazaar to be held in aid of the'bnitling fund&f.the school,
in4le--roonth of Juno. -
DEATH OF-FRANCIS DANi3T,-iTHE PAINTER.--
In who died, at gime-a the' bil;
intit„ in VjLe sixty-niAth year* his -Age, we, have lost the
blft and 94E of the greatest reprßsentatives.of the-historic
and poetic school of landscape la .pan was by
fiittlt' an IriSh&an; born at Weifok on the 16th of
IsTh*einber, 1791 His first artigtie etucationiFai acquired
at/the Dublin Academy of F'me'Aits ; to the.ethiiiiiiiin"Ot
thatrbeLly .hoi sent his first picture ire 1812. ' In .Ifi2o' he
settled at Bristol, and in the following year contributed ti
picture to, thell,oyal Academy's hibi tionr," Disappointed
Love." .In 1823 his poetie a Snnsetat Sea after a Storm"!
established 'repUtation. It was, purchased by Sir Thom-,
Lawrence, aid secured that painter's friendsiP and patro7
nage: In 1825 las "Delivery bf Isidel out of Egypt" made
him an Asoetate‘ef tho ACAdeny. - He continued to cons
tribute poetic landscape compositions-to the,Aeaderuy's-exl
hibitiong until 1828. In .1829 he yisited Switzerland, and
continued a wanderer until 1841, when he settled in-Ex•;•
titOtith. During this interval he had only exhibited ono
picture of importance' the Age of Gold (in 1831). From
I . • • _ •

1841 until the exhibition of last year he contributed to the
Royal Academy's exhibitions mere or less regularly, pic-
tures in his peculiar domain of sentiment. Among theie
the "Painter's Holiday" (1844), is one of those which
made t,he greatest, sensation at the time of its appearancet
The iaOn-advtineement of Danby to the degree of R.A. wag
not dud-to ?allure on the part of academicians to apr
preciatehis high artistic' and, above all;Poestic genius. 'We
are amoog those who think the shelving of Denby on pureli
private grounds was one of the mistakes of the Academy.
—Critic.

-OPENING OF TIIE NORTH-WEST AFPROACH TO
CO VENT-GARDEN. —On Saturday morning the new street,

retiding.frOm ling-street, coveni-prden, to the corner of
Sf /%lartin's-litne and Long acre; eras opened for public

traffic. The thoroughfare has 'been finished nearly a month,
but it was considered prudent to defer the opening until the
brickwork of the arched duct beneath the carriage-way had
time to set, before heavy loads were allowed to pass.over it.
The new street being the only direct communication• be-
tween the western roads and Covent-garden, the growers
and salesmen took inimediate advantage of the facilities
afforded for the transit of garden produce.
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION.—SHIELDS, Saturday.
—A fearful explosion occurred upon the Blyth and Tyne
Railway on Saturday morning, which occasioned a good
deal of mischief, and caused great alarm in the seaport of
Blyth, A light passengers' engine, called the Wasp, was
standing at the railway station in that town, in readiness to
take away the first train to Percy Main for Shields and New-
castle, when the boiler suddenly exploded. It lifted the
engineman, Richard Charlton, from his feet, and hurled
him a distance of 15 feet from the engine. The fireman,
Jeremiah Hall, was badly scalded, and the boiler appears
to have divided into three parts. One portion was hurled
against the end of a house-occupied by a joiner, named
Dixon, which it greatly damaged; another portion 'was
pitched into a building belonging to Mr. Robinson, of Blyth,
which it injured ; and a third part was thrown into a slake,
covered by the tide at high water. The engine is described
as a wreck, and a carriage in the train next the engine was
smashed up. Fortunately it was too early in the morning
for persons to be assembled at the station, and some of the
passengers who would have travelled by the train were hurt.
One of Charlton's thighs is broken, awl he is otherwise in-
jured.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-
EAST.—On Saturday morning, between the hours of 1 and
2 o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive range of premises
belonging to Mr. West's stevedore, No. 10, Betts-street, St.
George's-in-the-East. Engines from Watling-street, School
House-lane, Jeffrey-square, and Wellclose-square, promptly
arrived, but there seemed not the slightest chance of saving
any portion of the premises. A plentiful supply of water
having been procured the engines were got to work, but the
flames rapidly progressed, and shortly after the engines wet e
called into action the roof fell in with a tremendous Crash.
The firemen kept to their work, but the fire was not ex-
tinguished until a building, about 100 feet long by 50 feet
wide, was destroyed, and six valuable horses burnt to death.
No. 9, Betts-street, in the joint occupation of several fami-
lies, was severely damaged by fire. The extensive premisk
of Messrs.- Brickback, sugar refiners, Denmark-street, and
others, severely damaged by fire and water. As to the origin
of the fire nothing is known.
THE MURDER, NEAR ItTDE.—The further pro-
ceedings in, this 'ease (the murder of Jane Lacy, by her
husband, a fanner living at Old House Farm, near Ryde)
have been again adjourned, owing to the, prisoner, Henry
Lacy, still being under the influence of delirium tremens.
The woman Jane Wilder, niece of the murderer, who
t'ist
charged With being an accessory after the fact, was hrodugh
rps
befere the magistrates at Newport on Saturday,
he brou..
an
h
mended until Lacy is sufficiently recovered to
into genii,.
ENGLAND.":— On Tuesday,
the l!tHouse of Lords aAWFUL MORTALITY AMONG:FTellbEruaWryo, 1%118E6N1,
the
Fe
Bishop of Oxford presented to the'
with a deceased ife'a
peti-
tion against legalizingw.reonirrien
of England "—not a ma-
sister, signed by " The
whivuetsbayntdhewiwvheso,lesiotaftetrhsef2l
I hall
d
jtohrie twy,omnoetnaelpantogfitethhneedro
obnoxious Bill! The matter ap.
immediateapplication made
to that
petitionedpeare d se important
of the House of Lords for a sight of this un-
to theed
officers
ted monster petition, when it was found to have
beenprec signed by just 42 persons. Here was an overwhelm-
log phenomenon. All the women of England dead or gone
out of the country except 421 and these 42 all collected .in
Great Yarmouth, • Chatteris, and Hampstead, and all 'so
illiterate and feeble as to be obliged td get men to sign for
them ; the greater part of the signatures being evidently
written by one or two men.
A FEROCIOUS 1:0X.--The Brechin Advertiser
reports a desperate wounter with, a fox. On Tuesday
morning, as Archibald. Thow, servant to,Mr. Scott, Milton
of Balhall, Menmuir, was going away to his work, he heard
some disturbance aboiit the henroost. On entering he was
instantly seized by some feroCious animal, but, it being
quite dark, he was tinable to see whatit was. In the scuffle
the animallgot a firm hold of one of his hands. Archie,,
nothing.daunted—having now but one hand to fight with—
got him-down, and put his knee on the animal's neck to
make him relinquish his hold, but all of no avail. Mr. Fox
still kept his hold (for it was now evident that it was a
huge monster of a fox by the whisking of the brush in his
face). Archie having no other weapon of defence, com-
menced kicking him on the head with his feet, and suc-
ceeded in kicking out both his eyes and in wrenching his
hand from the iron grasp, striking the teeth through the
flesh.' There being no tithe to lose, he instantly cauffut
the fox by the hind legs, and dashed his head againit a
stone several times. The struggle being now over, Archie
naught him y the back, swung him over hid shoulder, an
carried him home as a trophy of victory.