The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-27 00:00:00

TATESLAMF AND screraTsrac.

The peak of Nethdn, the highest point of Maladetta
in the Pyrenees, which has hitherto remained im-
practicable even to the boldest hunters, has been at
laSt ascended by M. de Tchitacheff, formerly an officer
in the Russian service. Barran, the head of the guides
at Luchon, perished in a crevice of the glacier, while
conducting two pupils of the. EcOle des Mines in 1824.

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Rubini's rumoured retirement is the chief talk in
the fashionable circles. lie is yet young, as he was
only born on the 7th of April, 1795. This king of
tenors made his 4eld at Rome in the Gazza Ladra,
in 1819, and he speared at Paria in 1825, where his
sweetness and energy in a duet in the Cenerentola,
procured him an invariable enc Ore. He afterwards
accompanied Lablache and Donzelli 'to Palermo.
Rubini was married to Aldlle. Chomel at Naples, in
1819.

C OURT-F.A.SHIONABLE.
It is expected that the Puke of Saxe Coburg Gotha
will embark this day at Woolwich for Osttnd.
The Earl of Auckland has taken the splendid villa
called Uper Gore House on the Kensington-road.
Lord Fitzgerald, President of the Board of Con-
trol, is quite recovered from his recent indisposition.
Sir Robert Peel, it is understood, will be among
the distinguished guests at Dalkeith Palace, invited
to meet her• Majesty and Prince Albert.
Lord and Lady John Russell reached Chatsworth
on Tuesday, to pass
.some days with the Duke of
Devonshire.
The Earl and Countess of Ripon arrived at Lea-
mington Spa on Tuesday.
The Earl of Aberdeen leaves town on Monday for
Scotland.

TiTISCEIMANEOUS.
Sir Joshua C. Paul, Bart., died at Dublin a few
days since. The deceased Baronet was born in 1773,
and is succeeded in the inheritorship of the estates in
Waterford, Wicklow, and Carlow, by his eldest son
Mr. William Gunn Paul.
Gipps' Land is said to be the most important dis-
trict which has been discovered in New Holland.
The soil is chiefly alluvial, and the country possesses
good and deep rivers.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS I)AY.)
HEREFORD RACES.—THURSDAY.
The City and County Gold Cup of 601., added to a
Handicap of 10 sovs. each. Twice round and a dis.
Mr. Holmes' Vulcan, 5 yrs (Crickmere) 1
Mr. I. Day's Viola, 4 yrs 2
Mr. Wright's Fitzgambol, 4 yrs 3
Handicap of 3 sovs. each, 1 ft., with 30 added. Heats,
once round and a dis.
Mr. Wright's litzgamhol, 4 yrs (Marlow) 3 1 1
Mr. E. Wilkes' 1)r. Allen. 3 yrs 1 3 2
Mr. Gough's-Greenfinch, 5 yrs ,: . .
Mr. Day's Blazer, 3 yrs
The Selling Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 25 added ; the
winner to be sold for sa. Gentlemen riders. heats,

once round.
Mr. Page's firewood, 4 yrs (Saunders) 1 4 1
Mr. Hall's Safety, 5 yrs
Mr. Trotter's Nell, aged
Mr. Jones' Vulco Fitzinarine, 4 yrs
The Hurdle Stakes (handicap) of 5 sovs. each, with 25
added. Heats, one mile and a half ; over 4 hurdles.
Baron Rothschild's Consul, aged ...(Mr. Barker) 1 1'
Mr. Carter's Sister to Ferneley, 6 yrs 3 2
Mr. Holinan's The Page, 6 yrs 2 3
STOCKTON -ON:TEES, THURSDAY.
The Three-y-rs-old Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each.
Two miles.
Lord Eglinton's Melior by Velocipede (Holmes) 1
Mr. ()rde's Beeswax, by Liverpool 2
Mr. Meiklain's Florence 3
The Thirk - Stakes of 20 soya. each, h ft, with 20 added.
Cleveland course.
Mr. Bowes' Baldersale, 2 yrs (Holmes) 1
Mr. I)awson's Isabella. 2 yrs 2
Sir C. Monk's fby Liverpool, out of Twinkle, 2 yrs 3
Mr. Osbaldeston's f by the Saddler, 2 yrs 4
The County Members' Plate • of 501., added to a Handi-
cap of 15 suvs. each. 10 ft, and five only if declared.
The second saves his stake. Twice round, from the
Red Post.
Lord Chesterfield's All Fours, 6 yrs._ - (Francis) 1
Mr. Wormald's Millepede, 4 yrs . 2
Captain Harcourt's Arngall, 4 yrs 3
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
ST. LEGER.-6 to 4 agst Attila (offered), 12 to 1 agst
Seahorse (t), 13 to 1 agst Policy (t), 13 to 1 agst Fire-
away, 18 to 1 agst Eboracum (t), 22 to 1 agst Catto-
nite, 22 to 1 agst Cabrera (t). 30 to 1 agst Golden Rule,
35 to 1 agst Edmund, 25 to 1 agst Rosxlind, and 30 to 1
agst Agreeable colt.
I)ONHASTER CUP.-3 to 1 agst Beeswing (offers to
take). No betting on the Derby. Cattonite has not
joined Scott's lot.

RAILWAY RbTURNS. •
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
td each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and rner-
ch4ndize
Week Miles Total.
Name of Railway.ended Opened. £. a. d.
Aug.2o Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 1,412 6 6
19 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 2,033 7 2
13 Brandling Junction • 25 949 9 6
19 Chester and Birkenhead .. l5 585 16 8
21 Dundee and Arbroath l6l 325 18 3
20 Edinburgh and Glasgow
21 Eastern Counties ........
20 Glasgow and Ayr •..
20 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 22i 1,079 11 3
20 Grand J =et., Chester &Crewe 113 . 8,446 10 2
20 Great North of England 45 1,507 13 4
21 Great Western
Hayle
20 Hull and Selby
20 Lancaster & Preston Junction 201 515 10 5
19 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,056 10 1
20 London and Birmingham ll2l 17,370 2 5
25 London and Blackwall
20 London and Brighten
Ditto Shoreham Branch
23 London and Croydon lofr 416 210
25 Lyndon and Greenwich 3l 796 9 5
21 London and South Western
81 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 465 0 5
.. Manchester & Birmingham
20 Manchester and Leeds
20 Midland Counties 5l
Newcastle and Carlisle 6o*
81 New castle and North Shields 7
21 Northern and Eastern ...
20 North Midland
19 North'Union ..
20 Preston and Wyre l9i
20 Sheffield and Manchester 7
25 South Eastern
20 Taff Vale . .
' 21 Ulster 24
20 York and North Midland 2B

4,222 6 6
2,939 18 a

463 1 5
1,364 6 7
5,208 I'2 5
1,152 0 5
294 17 4
143 8 7
926 17 4
796 1 5
366 11 9
2,211 15 6

FATAL ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. MAUDSLEY'S.—ThiS
morning a frightful and fatal accident occurred at the
manufactory of Messrs. Maudsley and Co., engineers, in
the Westminster-road, to a lad named Roderick M'Leod,
14 years of age. The unfortunate lad was at work at
the planing-machine, and having occasion to stoop down
for the purpose of picking up something from the ground,
he incautiously did so too near the machine, and whilst
the plane .was-in full work, which struck him on the head
%vitt' dreadful violence. The machine was immediately
stopped, and a surgeon sent for, but in vain, his head
being literally smashed to pieces. The father of the de-
ceased is an engineer, employed in the factory, and had
but just returned from Naples, where he had been for a
considerable time, in charge of an engine fitted out by
the firm. The body was conveyed to his father's hoase,
No. 3, Thomas-street, Westminster-road, to await a Co-
roner's inquest.
The Viscount Barbacena, Lady Slade, the Honour-
able Mr. Hervey, and Lady, and many other passengers,
arrived here this morning- by the Antwerp Company's
steam-ship
atiiaris
Princess Victoria, which got up to St.
K
Wharf, Tower, at an early hour.
Yesterday, morning a splendid tiger was landed at
the Custom-house for the' Surrey Zoological Gardens. •