The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-26 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, FEB. 25.

The Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal,
and the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway
Bills, were read a first time.
Eastern Counties Railway (Hertford and Biggies Trade
Line),—Petition for Bill reported; report referred to the
Select Committee on Standing Orders.
Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington and Colne Extension Rail-
way,—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to brought
in by Mr. Walker and Mr. Wilson Patten.
Chester and Holyhead Railway, Petition for Bill reported,
and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Owen Stanley,
Colonel Paget, and Mr. William Collett.
Eastern Counties Railway, (Ely and Whittlesea Devia-
tion),—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be
brought in by Mr. Eliott Yorke and Mr. Ward.
Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Huntingdon
Line),—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be
brought in by Mr. Eliott Yorke and Mr. Ward.
Caledonian Railway for making a Railway from
Carlisle to Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the North of Scot-
land, to be called The Caledonian Railway,' " presented, and
read a first time.

Monkland and Kirkiutilloch Railway Bill,—" to enable the
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Company to improve
the guage of their rails," presented, and read a first time.
Cockermouth and Workington Railway Bill,—Read a
second time, aull committed, and referred to the Committee
of Selection.

Blackburn and Preston Railway,—Petition for Bill ; re-
ferred to the Select Committee on Petition for Private Bills.

Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway
a Railway from the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, awl
Ayr Railway, near Isalmamoak, by Dumfries and Annan, to
Carlisle, to be called, ' The Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle
Railway,' " presented, and read a first time.
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, with a Branch to
Bells,—Petition for Bill; referred to the Select Committee
on Petitions for Private Bills.
Chester and Birkenhead Railway Extension Bill,—Read a
second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee
of election.

PRIVATE BUSINESS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26.
Clydesdale Junction Railway,
Newcastle and Darlington (Brandling Junction) Railway,
York and North Midland (Bridlington Branch) Railway,
Cambridge and Lincoln Railway,
Cornwall Railway,
York and North Midland (Goole Branch) Railway,
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway.
London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Railway,
Glasgow Junction Railway,
• Glasgow,- Pallloyi Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway. •
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
TUESDAY, FEB. 25.

Surrey Iron Railway Company (Dissolving),—Committee
on petition, Monday, March 10.
Blackburn and Preston Railway,—Committee on petition
Monday, March 10.
Dundalk and Inniskillen Railway.—Committee on petition,
Thursday, March 13.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, ,Second read-
ing, Monday, March 8.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
11 to 1 agst Semiseria (taken'3s to 1 agst Pride of Kildare
and afterwards offered), 35 to 1 aget Fag
12 to 1 agst Cataract 40 to 1 agst Ould Ireland (t
15 to 1 agst The Era 50 to 1 agst Yheoman ac
16 to 1 agst Obscurity Knuck (taken freely)
20 to 1 agst Strathspey 50 to 1 agst Seaport (taken)
20 to 1 agst Winesour (t) 50 to 1 agst Intrepid (taken)
DERBY.
. _

10 to 1 agst Alarm
13 to 1 agst hedger (taken)
15 to 1 agst Cobweb colt
15 to 1 agst Idas
20 to 1 agst Pam (taken)
30 to 1 agst Miss Whip colt (t)
30 to 1 agst Mentor
OA]
10 to 1 agst Maid of Orleans
(taken)

35 to 1 agst Doleful
40 to 1 agst Clear-the-way
(taken freely)
40 to 1 agst Annandale
,40 to 1 agst Ironmaster (ail
in, taken)

Cs.
16 to 1 agst Longitude (t)

CHESTER RACES.
Handicap for the Welter Stakes.
William le Gros, 6 yrs, 12st 71b—Winesour, 5 yrs, 12et 51b
—John-o'-Gaunt, aged, 1 Ist 51b—Naworth, aged, list 51b
—Portrait, aged, list 51b—Hooton, 5 yrs, list 51b—Crcesus,
aged, 1 Ist 31b—Porto Bello, 5 yrs, list 31b—The Bat, 6 yrs,
llst—The Dog Billy, 4 yrs, I lat—Veluti, 6 yrs, lOst 121 b
Agriculture, 5 yrs, lOst 121b—The Dean, aged, lOst 111 b
Portrait, 4 vrs, lOst 1 Ilb—Morpeth, aged, lOst 51b—Advice,
4 yrs, lOst 51b—Babylon, aged, lOst 31b—Clumsy, 3 yrs,
9st 41b—Sis to Devil-among-the-Tailors, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b.
Forfeit to be declared on or before March 15.

Her Majesty's stag hounds will meet on Wednesday (this
day), at Salt Hill, and on Friday at Riching's Park, at 11.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Feb. 25.

(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE and a Bench of Magistrates.)
Miss OSBORN'S Cam—This case, which excited consider-
able interest, has at length fallen to the ground. Throughout
the whole of yesterday the Court and its avenues were
crowded to excess by persons anxious to hear the result. The
Bench also presented a thronged assembly of Magistrates,
amongst whom we observed the Hon. Frederick Byng, the
Hon. C. Lennox Butler, Sir Moses Alontefiore, together with
some other gentlemen of distinction ; however, they were
doomed to disappointment, as the inictment charging the
lady with felony was not presented before the grand jury,
owing to the absence of a material witness.

In the early part of the day the Judge inquired if the pro-
secutor, Mr. Allum, was present? Being answered in the
affirmative, he ordered him to be called into Court. Upon
making his appearance, the Judge asked him if he hid en-
gaged counsel ? He said he had engaged Mr. Ballantine.
Mr. BALLANTIN addressed the Court, and said it was
impossible, as he had been retained for the defence three
days ago.
The JUDGE (to the prosecutor)—You had better get to-
gether your witnesses, as the bill cannot be presented until
all the witnesses are present.
The prosecutor then left the Court, for the purpose of
collecting the witnesses, but so soon as he had left, his police-
man, who is also a witness, went in search of the prosecu-
tor, and so on throughout the entire day, one going in search
of another, until at last there was not one witness to be
found with the exception of the policeman.
At eight o'clock the grand jury entered the Court with the
last bill found.

The JUDGE remarked that it was an extraordinary circum-
stance that the witnesses in Miss Osborn's case were not
forthcoming.
An officer of the Court said there had been one in Court a
short time since, but he was half drunk. He went away
again, and said he was going to look for some other witnesses.
The JUDGE-It is an extraordinary:proceeding. Let the
whole of their recognisances be estreated, with the exception
of the policeman ; and the prosecutor can, if he likee, press
the indictment at the next session.

The Bruges Journal of the 22d says, " Yesterday
an accident happened to the trains which left Bruges for
Brussels at half-past three o'clock. At liloemondale one of
the pistons of the engine broke, and the train could not
proceed. The signal was immediately given to Ghent, and
after some hours' delay another engine came from Ghent to
bring the train to that city. This accident delayed for several
hours the arrival of all the trains on the western and southern
lines."—Brussels paper, Feb. 24.
MUNICH, FEB. 14..--The deputies of the States of
the Zollverein will meet in this city on the Ist of July.
THE NEW ASYLUM FOE INFANT ORPHANB.--Yes-
terday evening a highly-respectable meeting of those friendly
to this Institution took place in the Hanover-square Rooms.
In the absence of Lord Dudley Stuart, the President, the
chair was ably filled by Joseph Tritton, Esq., the Treasurer.
Mr. Tritton explained the objects of the new Asylum, which
had been established by some of the best friends of the old.
Asylum, who had been driven from, rather than had volun-
tarily left, that Institution, in consequence of the Church of
England party having obtained a charter, which made it
compulsory that all the children should be edu-
cated according to the forms and tenets of the Church.
The new Asylum had been set on foot only since May last..
Sixteen orphans were already provided for, and ten more
were about to be added ; 1,600/. had in this short time been
raised by subscriptions and donations. The claims of the
new Asylum were advocated in an eloquent and effective
manner by several other gentlemen—among whom were
David W. Wire, Esq., the Rev. George Clayton, the Rev.
Mr. Cumin, of Hammersmith, the Rev. Dra. Leifchild and
Jenkins, &c., who were listened to with great attention
until a late hour.

The Gazette du Midi, of Marseilles, states that the
mail running between Rome and Florence was lately stopped
by banditti, and robbed of the money and the letters it was
carrying. The conductor was cruelly ill-treated.
PUBLIC PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT. - Yesterday
was issued the third report of the Select Committee on Public
Petitions. There are now lying on the table of the House of
Commons, according to this statement, 16 petitions for a re-
peal of the malt-tax, signed by 1,068 persons • 4 petitions
for a repeal of the paper duties, signed by 602 persons ' • 5
petitions for a repeal of the duty on windows, signed by
2,262 persona ; 31 petitions in favour of an alteration in Sir
J. Graham's Medical Practice Bill, signed by 1,005 persona;
7 petitions against any increase in our naval and military es-
tablishments, signed by 773 persons ; and 13 petitions for
diminishing the number of public-houses, signed by 2,398
persons.

ROWING MATCH.—A scullers' contest k place
veaterday amongst watermea's apprentices, for Ifcoat and
badge, given by subscription, the competitors being selected
from the various plying places between the Custom-house
and Blackfriars-bridge. The race was with six scullers, in
five heats, the distance rowed being from London-bridge up
to Blackfriars, down the Middlesex shore, round London-
bridge pier, and up to Old Swan-stairs. After a great deal
of rowing, and a little fouling, 'Thomas Driscoll (red) won
easily.
RDPRESENTATION OF THETFORD......The HMI. W.
B. Baring has been re-elected Member for Thetford without
opposition. The proceedings were opened by H. A. Bartlett,
aEnsqd.T,hthozas
ei:wayworri.theLrseoGniallr,dESshq.e,lfsoeredonßdie(,
diwetllh,eEnosqm.,
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Mr. Baring.

DEATH OF THE lOWAY INDIAN
Dundee Warder, in noticing the visit of the loway Indiana
to that place, says the party consisted of fourteen indivi-
duals ; but since they left Edinburgh it has been reduced by
the. death of a little child, about six months old. Some
ladies with whom Mr. Catlin had been previously acquainted
visited the sorrowing parents on their arrival here, and kindly
made the necessary arrangements for the burial of the leant.
It was proposed that the body should be interred here, but the
parents would not permit this. They said" there were no rood
people here," and insisted that it should be seat to New-
castle, in which place they had been treated with great kind-
ness by some members of the Society of Friends, of whom
they retained a most grateful recollection. This was ac-
cordingly done. The poor Indians expressed the greatest
gratitude to the ladies who had shown them kindness here,
and upon their leaving presented them with rings, and said
that they would pray to the Great Spirit for them every day
of their lives.

A " VENISON " FEAST.—The landlord of an esta-
minet, at Courtray, undertook to regale his customers with
what he called venison. The company to the number of
eighteen, met at the appointed hour, and were no sooner
seated than the dainty dish, carefully cut up into steaks, was
placed on the table, and the work of destruction began. A
few of the guests remarked that the venison was very good
but not tender, others thougkt it was too old, and one added
that he had never tasted the like before; all these objections
were, however, speedily removed by mine host helping.hun.
self to a considerable quantity of
Thethe neatmeat,
deaxyclatihmemcgo—n.
" Excellent plat! bonne viande !"
sumers were not a little annoyed to find that they had eaten
the flesh of an ass; they were, as may be supposed, enraged
against their host; but the good man appeased the party by
assuring them that the same dish was considered a great de-
licacy in Spain, where he had served in the army._Bruceds
British Gazette, Feb. 23.