The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-23 00:00:00

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
IPSWICH.

The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock.
The cross-examination of the witness Beaumont was conti-
nued by Air. Austin. No new fact arose out of the cross-exa-
mination.

Robert Pack was next examined, and stated that Mr. Bristoe
called upon him on the day of nomination, and asked witness
to vote for Lord Desart and Mr. Gladstone. While Mr.
Bristoe was there, witness's wife asked him to give witness's
son a situation at the election as messenger. Mr. Bristoe said
he would, anti put witness's son's name down in a book. On
the day of election witness saw Mr. Bristoe in the street, but
Mr. Gladstone and Lord Desart were not with him. He told
witness that if he would go over to the rooms his son's pay
was going on. Witness went to the rooms its the Little Carl-
ton. Witness asked Bristoe if he could advance his son some
money for !his pocket-money eut of his pay. He told witness
to follow hire into the King's Arms. He did so, and then Mr.
Bristoe wrote a note, and gave it to witness's son. They gave
it to Mr. Stewart at the Little Carlton. Mr. Stewart read it,
and gave witness's son three half-crowns. There was no sti-
pulation as to the amount witness's son was to receive as mes-
senger. _

It was here announced that the Speaker Ras at prayers, and
the Committee adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRIDGNORTH RACES—THURSDAY.
The Cold Cup Stakes of 10 soya. each, twice round and a dis.
Mr. Kellick's Henley, 5 yrs (Marlow) 1
Mr. Flintoff's Wings, 6 yrs
Mr. Raworth's Cattonian, 4 yrs
The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 10 added. Heats,
twice round and a dis.
Mr. Ongley's Humility, 4 yra
Mr. Carter's Linnzea, 3 yrs
Mr. Wheeldon's b c by Giovanni Cracksman's d 2 0 3
Mr. Robinson's Finality, aged
The Members' Plate of 501. Heats, twice round and a dis.
Mr. Hewitt's Rebecca, 4 yrs
Mr. Walter's Miss Winney, 4 yrs
Mr. Charlton's Nix-my-Dolly, 3 yrs • 2 0 3
Mr. Thompson's c by Shrigley, Fenella, 3 yrs 3 4 4
Mr. Bates' Country Lass, 4 yrs 4 2 dr
Mr. Tallentire's Sprite, 3 yrs
IPSWICH RACES—TUESDAY.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Bignold's cby Emilius, out of illemina, 3y rs (Pegg) 1 1
Combe's The Nob, 4 yrs 2 dr
The County Members' Plate of 501. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Rogers' Sir Hans, 4 yrs (Rogers) 1 1
Mr. Pettit's Espartero, 3 yrs
Mr. Boyce's cby Hymen, :lam by Perchance, 3 yrs 2 3
WEDNESDAY.
The Town Members' Plate cf 501. Heats, &c.
Mr. Rogers' Prosody, 3 yrs
Mr. Pettit's Espartero, 3 yrs
The Town Purse of 501. Heats, &c., as above
Mr. Rogers' Prosody, 3 yrs
Mr. Bradford's Sister to Confusionee, 3 yrs ............. 2 2
The Free Handicap was won by Mr. Skingsley's Fama.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
GOODWOOD STAKES.-4 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle
(taken freely)-10 to 1 agst Helpmate-10 to 1 agst St. Law-
rence-11 to 1 agst Rhodanthe-13 to 1 agst Tupsley-15 to 1
agst The Corsair-15 to 1 agst Daddy Long-legs-15 to 1
agst Arnagill-15 to 1 agst Studley Royal (t)-20 to 1 agst
Arcanus, and 20 to I agst Retriever.
GOODWOOD Cur.-4 to 1 agst The Squire (0-10 to I agst
Monceda-10 to 1 agst St. Lawrence-10 to 1 agst Charles the
Twelfth-12 to 1 agst Middleham-12 to 1 agst Marshal Soult
—l2 to 1 agst Priam-12 to 1 agst Sleight-ot-Hand-15 to 1
agst Belcceur, and 16 to 1 agst Fireaway.
DRAWING-ROOM STAKES.-8 to 4on Attila and Meteor,
and 5 to 1 agst Envoy.
DERBY, 1843.-25 to I agat Philip-27 to 1 agst Napier-
-30 to 1 agst Cotherstone-30 to 1 agst Progress colt-40 to 1
agat Aristides-40 to 1 agst What, and 1,000 to 20 agst Everton.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re-
ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandize

Week
Name of Railwa Mil" Total.
ended y ' Opened. £. s. d.
July 16 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 1,386 12 11
15 Birmingham and Gloucester... 55 2,148 10 8
9 Brandling Junction ............. 25 935 17 3
15 Chester and Birkenhead .. l5 015 11 9
17 Dundee and Arbroath ..,
16 Edinburgh and Glasgow
17 Eastern Counties .. 17/ 1,163 0 7
16 Glasgow and Ayr .. •••• .....
16 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greeno,k Y 2 e} 1,300 11 1
GrandJunct., Chester &Crewe 113
16 Great North of England
17 Great Western
Hayle ls
16 Hull and Selby
16 Lancaster & Preston Junction 20i 517 9 3
15 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 5,266 10 11
16 London and Birmingham ll2/ 17,762 15 7
21 London and Blackwall ........
16 London and Brighton
Ditto Shoreham Branch
19 London and Croydon
21 L' ndun and Greenwich 3l Bt6 17 5
17 London and South Western
15 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 560 5 9/
18 Manchester & Birmingham
16 Manchester and Leeds
16 11',idland Counties ... 57/ 2,849 3 1/
16 Newcastle and Carlisle ......
14 Newcastle and North Shields 7 464 5 7
17 Northern and Eastern ... ...... 30* 1,700 19 11
16 North Midland
15 North Union
16 Preston and Wyre
18 Sheffield and Manchester 7 291 5 3
21 South Eastern
17 Ulster
16 York and North Midland 24. 1,746 2 7

WOOLWICH, JULY 22.—ROYAL ARSENAL.—At 12
o'clock (noun) the large 450 pounder gun for 'Mehemet Ali
was proved at the butt, and found pertect. The charge of
powder with which it was first fired was nslb., and the shell
3301 b. weight. The second charge of powder was 451 b. for the
solid ball of 4551 b. weight. The report from this immense gun
was not so loud as might have been anticipated from its magni-
tude, but the effect of the shell and ball was tremendous, scat-
tering a great body of the earth of the butt to a considei able
height, and showing on examination that the propell, d forces
had entered the butt to the extent of about 40 feet, a rent of
about two inches on the top, where the earth had fallen in after
the concussion, distinctly marking that it had been perforated
to that extent. Experiments were carried on at the butt on
Thursday, with a 32-pounder gun of the usual dimensions for
ships of war, but loaded at the breech, on a principle submitted
by a Swedish officer. The invention appears to possess some
merit, but one or two experienced• officers expressed a doubt as
to its being an advantage, as loading from the breech during
the heaving of a vessel, or the inclination of the gun at certain
times from the same cause, might allow the shot to get too far
forward, leaving too great a space betwixt the powder and ball,
which cannot occur when the charge is rammed home from the
mouth of the gun. It is intended to make further experiments
with this gun to give it a fair trial under every circumstance in
which its services might be required. Colonel Cockburn,
Colonel Lacy, Lieut.-Colonel Dansey, C.B. ; Lieut.-Colonel
Dundas, C.B. ; Lieut.-Colonel Chalmer, Captain Grant, and
Captain Palliser, of the Royal Artillery ; and Brigadier-Major
Sandham, of the Royal Engineers, and a number of officers of
the service were present to witness the proof of Mehemet Ali's
enormous gun.
The receipts upon the Great Western Railway
during last week amounted to the enormous sum of 20,62;7.,
caused of course by the agricultural meeting at Bristol. This
is the largest amount ever taken upon a railway in one week.
Last summer the receipts on the Birmingham line just touched
20,001., a larger return per mile than this on the Great
Western—the Birmingham, with its branch to Aylesbury,
being 120 miles in length, and the Great Western, with its
tributaries, 181.— Railway Times.
CRlTiorsm.—A rustic being asked his opinion of a
picture of three pigs feeding, painted by :Worland, said, " Well
they be pure.loike, surely," scratching his head ; " but there he
one fault still." When asked what the fault might be, lie re-
plied, " Why, who ever seed three pigs a Seeding, without one
on 'em having his foot in the trough ?"
INTERESTING RELIC.—On Thursday morning, a
piece of wood, addressed to the Lord Steward of her Majesty's
Heusehold, was landed at the Woolwich Dockyard from the
Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, and forwarded yesterday as a pre-
sent to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. It is said to have
formed part of the identical tree on which Alexander Selkirk
made his notches to calculate time, and on which his parrot
perched during his long solitary res'clence in the island of Juan
Fernandez. He was, as is well-known, the hero of De Foe's j
interesting tale of Robinson Crusoe.
A Berlin letter gives an account of an accident
which happened to the Prince Royal of Prussia on his journey
to St. Petersburgh. At one of the first stages withinithe Russian
territory, the horses ran away. His servant stopped them, but
in doing so fell and broke his leg, and was carried to a house in
a neighbouring village.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
THE POLITE MAN.—An odd looking personage, who cer-
tainly had not the appearance of a Beau Nash, a Beau Brummel,
or a Simpson, was placed at the bar charged with being drunk
and incapable, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The
policeman added, that he took off his hat, bowed to every one
he met, and was otherwise too polite to ba agreeable.
The prisoner, placing his right hand on his heart, and
chassez•ing frcrn one end of the bar to the other, bowed to the
very ground. " Sir," said he, "though I'm a vulgar looking
person, I believe I'm the politest man in the universe, I am, in
fact, the essence of politeness. When I meet a person in the
street I give him the wall. This is what I do." In illustration
of " what he does," the prisoner having placed his hat on his
head, re-chassez-ed to the other end of the bar, with his body
in a sideling attitude, raised his hat, and again bowed to the
ground, uttering in an insinuating tone, " the wall, sir ; the
wall, Sir."

Mr. TWYFORD .ordered him to be discharged, adding, that
no doubt he was not in his right senses.
As Tyrrel was assisting the poor fellow from the bar, with
rather less ceurksy than a polite person would have shown,
" Stop, stop," said he, " you've been very kind, I'll make you
a bow, Sir," and again was the hat replayed, again was the
chassez repeated, once more was the body in a one-sided atti-
tude, again vi as the hat delicately raised between finger and
thumb, and down ducked the little round, bald head far below
the bar; presently it re-appeared, and away chassez-ed the
polite little personage out of Court. Down Bow-street we
saw him chassez away, and turn the corner into the Strand;
where he chassez-ed towe do not know, but we should surmise
that the crowded thoroughfare soon put a stop to his singular
and rapid progress.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.-Charlotte Bald-
win, a young &male of prepossessing appearance, was charged
with attempting to destroy herself.
A policeman stated that at four o'clock that morning, being
on duty at Battersea, he saw something floating on the surface
of the river; he got on some barges and saw the defendant in
the water. Being no swimmer him self, he procured a
piece of plank and threw it towards the defendant,
who seized it as she was about to sink, and he
contrived to rescue her. She was in a state of insensibi-
lity, and was conveyed to the hospital, where the usual means
of resuscitation being resorted to, she recovered.
In reply to 111 r. COTTINCISAM, she assigned, as the cause of
her having attempted suicide, her mother having made a false
accusation against her; that she (defendant) at first purchased
three-pennyworth of laudanum, and swallowed it, but that
quantity not having the designed effect, she then proceeded to
the river and threw herself in.
She was discharged.