The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-09 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WARWICK SPRING MEETING.—(CoscumED
Match ; 50 sovs, half a mile ; lOst each.—Mr. G. hub-
son's Villebecque (owner), beat Cul. White's Glaneig.
The Farmer's ?late of 50 sovs,,and 10 for the second.

Heats. Two'Miles.
Mr. H. Robins's Mantrap, 5 yrs, Ilst 91b... ... 0 1 1
Mr. S. Lucas's fby Mundig, 3 yrs. lOst 21b... 1 0 0
Mr. W. Cowper's gr cby Bran, 4 yrs, llst ...... 2 2 2
Three others started.
HAMPTON SPRING RACES.—TUESDAY.
Much cret'it is due to the Managers for the improved bill
of fare provided for the Spring Meeting; we cannot say that
it was altogether " legitimate.," it was abundant, and had
the weather been a.§ favourable in the morning as it proved
later in the day, would no doubt have attracted a large at-
tendance. 7he character of the sport renders it unnecessary
that we should enter into details; it is enough to state that
it, ommenced shortly after one o'clock, and was not brought
to a conclusion till after six. We subjoin a brief return of
the sport :
Swevpstakes of 5 sovs. each. with 15 added; three yrs. 6st
101 b ; four, Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 61b ; six, and aged, 9st 101 b.
Once round and a dis. (Four Subs.)
Mr. Thumwood's Forlorn Hope (late George), aged,
walked over.

A Free Handicap Hurdle Stake of 10 SON'S each, h ft, with
20 added. Three miles. (Eibht Subs.)
Mr. Hornsby's Whalebone, 105 t.......... (Mr. Simmonds) 1
Mr. Scott's Sir Edward, 10st 51b 2
The following also started Mr. Bray's The Knight,
list 91b; Mr. Bell's Cheeroot, lOst 121 b; Mr. Carter's Sis to
Fernely, lOst 51b; and Mr. Coombe's Flying Fish (late
Spitfire), 9st. Won cleverly by three parts of a length ;
the K ight a bad third.
The Barrack Stake of 3 sovs. each with a Purse added. Once
round and a dis., over four leaps. (Six Subs.)
Lord Glamis's Belshazzar (Owner) I

Mr. Barlow's Queen of Diamonds
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Mr. Haworth'sMarengo! aged

Mr. Langley's The Deitist;aged 4
Mr. D. Carleton's Pick ... ... 5
Mr. J. W. Hay's Salt Fish •..••• bolted
Won by three parts of a length. The winner was claimed
for 1001.
The Tallyho Stakes of sous. each, with 15 added. for four
yrs, Ilst 12Th; five, list 121 b; six, and aged, 12st 51b.
Heats, one mile and a half. Winner to be sold for 1501.

(Six Subs.) 7
Mr. Hornby's Donald Caird, aged ...(Mr. Simmonds) 1 1
Mr. Neal's Viscount, aged (alld. 71bs) 3 2
Mr. llrettle's Nora Creina
Mr. llaworth's Flirt, 6 yrs (add. 7tO)
The race was claiinedfor Visconti:. on the ground that
Mr. Simmonds is not the Member of any Club or Hunt, and
the Stakes are withheld.
A Scurry Stake of 3 sous. each, was won by Mr. J. hay's
Salt Visit (ridden by Lord Glammis) beating Captain Buu.
cherett's The Baron, and Mr. Brettle's Woodbine. (Mr.
Clarke's Langolisn, ridden by Captain Merritt, in plain
clothes, was an extempore un-Lntcred starter, and beat the
winner in Itcanter.)
The Considation Stakes of one soy. were .won by Flying
Fish (Mr. Goldstone), beating Marengo, Ostrich, and
Shadow. Captain Boucherett's The Baron also started, but
fell half a mile from home, broke both his fore legs, and
was killed; the rider was very much bruised.
In t4e morning, previous to the race, a steeple chase
Clsto4 So; 501. ev4h,. commeuciug lud444iNal c't the

course, was won by Mr. Brettle's Gipsey (owner), beating
Mr. E. HiIP,. Bucephalus in a canter.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
CHESTER Cur.-9 to I agst Obscurity (take 10 to 1), 9
to 1 agst Cataract (take 10 to 1), 10 to 1 agst Semiseria. 14
to 1 agst The Era, 20 to agst Portrait, 25 to .1 agst Wine-
sour, 25 to 1 agat Strathspey, 40 to 1 agst Pride of Kildare
(t), 66 to 1 agst Fitzallen, 4 to 1 agat Cataract and Ob.
setuity (t).
Two THOUSAND GUINEAS' STARES.-5 to 2 agst. Ledger
(t), 3 to 1 agst Idas, 6to 1 agat Cobweb colt (t), 6 to 1
agst Weatherbit.
DERBY.--Offers to take 16 to 1 about Clear-the-way, but
not a bet made.

Ihe following horses arrived in town yesterday en route
for Newmarket :—Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger, Colonel
Anson's Kedger, Mr. Jaques's Semiseria, Mr. Jaques Anti-
Repealer, Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo, Mr. Bowes's As-
you-Like-it, and Sir R. Bulkeley's Chertsey.

THIRD RE t ORT FROM T
CL COMMITTEE OF RAIL-
WAY BILLS.
MARTIS, 40 DIE MARTII, 1845.
Res(lved, That a Committee of five Members be appointed,
to be called " The Classification Committee of Railway Bills,"
and that three be the quorum of such Committee.
MART'S, 11° DIE MARTII, 1845.
Committee appointed :—Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Fox
Maule, Viscount Mahon, Sir William Somerville, Mr. Wilson
Patten.
Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for per-
sons, papers, and records.
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MARTIS, 180 DIE MARTII, 1845.
Ordered, That the Committee have power to report their
opinion from time to time to the House.
REPORT.
The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of
Railway Bills, according to the Resolutions adopted by the
House, and who are empowered to report from time to
time, report as follows :
Your Committee having further considered the several
matters referred to them, are of opinion that it is expedient
that there be referred to one and the same Committee the
following Bills and projects :
DD. •

L Caledonian Railway.
2. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Catlisle Railway.
3. Clydesdale Junction Railway.
4. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
5. Scottish Central Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following
Bills and projects be referred to one and the same Committee

E E.

1. Dundee and Ptrth (South Line).
2. Dundee and Perth (North Line).
3. Scottish Mid Nod Jut.ction.
4. Aberdeen Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the follow ing Bills
and projects be referred to one and the same Committee :
FF.
1. Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
2. Edinburgh and Hawick Railway.
3. North British ( Edinburgh and Dalkeith) Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following Bills
and projects be referred to ore and the same Committee :

UG.
1. Glasgow Junction Railway.
2. Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Railway.
3. Greenock. Branch Railway.
4. Ayrshire Branches (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr).
5. Glasgow Harbour Union Railway.
6. Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Lochlomond Railway.
7. Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Rail ay.
8. Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.
Your Committee Milner recommend that the following Bills
and prijeets be referred to one and the same Committee :
Mi.
.1. Blackburn and Preston Railway.
2. North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch Railway.
3 Preston and Wyre (Lytham Branch) Railway.
4. Preston ann Wyre (Bliwkirool Branch) Railway.
Your Committee further recoalmend that tilt2l.llowing Bills
and pritjects be referred to one
11 and the same Committee :

1 Lancaster and Carlisle (Carlisle Extension) Railway.
2. Lancaster and Carlisle (Lancaster Deviation) Railway.
3 Lancaster and Carlisle (Birklands Deviation) Railway.
4. Cockermouth and•Workington .
5. Whitehaven.and Furness Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following BilLs
and prrjects be referred to one and ;he same Committee
liK.
1. Liverpool, Ormskirk. and Preston Railway.
2. Liverpool and Bury Railway. •
3. Liverpool and Manchester Extension (North Tunnel)
Railway.
4. Liverpool and Manchester (Extensions) Railway.
5. Liverpool and Manchester ( Parksirle Branch) Railway.
6. Liverpool and Manchester (St. Helen's and Rutford)
Railway.
7. Liverpool and Manchester (Patricroft and Clifton
Branch) Railway.
8. Liverpool and Manchester (Rainford and Liverpool
Branches).

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SOUTHAMPTON,' v., EDNESDAY MORNING, EIGHT
O'CLOCK.—The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Teviot,
Captain Allan. arrived this morning at seven o'clock, from
the West Indies and Mexico, bringing the usual mails
and 28 passengers. Her dates of departure are—
From Tampico, February 24 • Vera Cruz, March 3 ;
Havannah, 12th ; Nassau, 14th ; and Bermuda, 23d.
The Teviot brings home the following freight :-
1,557.017 dollars, only 15,u00 of which are on account of
the Mexican dividends ; a very large shipmvnt may how-
ever, be expected by the next packet ; 78q oz. specie ; 78
doubloons; 214 oz. gold dust ; 40 seroos cochineal; 16 bales
jalapa; and about 30 fine turtle on. consignment. Th Ja-
tnaica papers brought by this vessel contain no news of any
particular interest.
RIVER STEAM-BOATS —Another of those ripid
steam-boats, for which the Thames is so noted, has been
added to the list of those already afloat and plying for the
accommodation of the public. She is one of the vessels be-
longing to the Woolwich Waterinen's Company (N.). 13).
and is in every way equal, if not superior, to the fastest of
their boats, from go. 1 to No. 12. She was tried yesterday
and found to answer remarkably well, passing every boat with
which she entered into competition. She is one of Messrs
Ditcliburn and Mare's constiuction, and, like the others built
by this firm for the Watermen's Company, is of iron, but :s
of greater length than any previously constructed. Her
engines are by Messrs. Penn, and are upon the same principle
as those constructed for the Fairy, the tender to her Ma-
jesty's Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, but are by no means
so powerful, as thirse of the Fairy are 120, while these are but
of 32 horse- power.

Loan liossE's l'ELEscopE.—Marvell.ws 'tumour,
are afloat respecting the astronomical discoveries made
Lord Rosse's monster telescope. It is said. that Regulm.,
stead orbeing a sphere, is ascertained to b 7 a di=e,; and
stranger still, that the nebula in the belt of Orion is a uni

versal system—a sun, with planets moving round it, as ti e
earth and her fellow-orbs move round our glorious luminary.
—Literary Gazette.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDE PARR.—During the l;st
fortnight, upwards of one hundred and fifty lalerurers have
been daily employed by the Commissioners of Woods and.
Forests, levelling the various parts of the grass, new gravelling
the numerous foot-paths, and malcirg very etii,ideraLl.:• .e.L-
provements throughout the whole ,•t"
OF SPEED oN 70:_71.1.1.MPT0N
RimwAr.—lt is the intention ~f tiic
Southampton Railway that the speed of the mail trains on
their line shall be increased, and a plan has been projected
by which the distance between London and Southampton
will be accomplished in two hours, instead of two hours and
tarty minutes, the time now occupied in the lame y, It is
expected that. the alteration will take place in about three
weeks.
OPENING OF THE V•OMMIJNICATION BETWELN
BRIouToN AND DiErrE.—The General Steam Navigarim,
Company's packet Menai, 'Capt.: in Goodburn, „ikd from
Brighton on Saturday, and returned yesterday miming with
fifty-two passengers. among whom were the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Lieut.-Col. Tomline, Mr. Blackburn and family,
&c.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The fourth
monthly dinner of the members of the Institute was given
at their rooms, on Thursday last. The Earl of Devon, the
President, filled the chair, and was supported by Lord
Brougham, Sir George Staunton, Bart., St. P Sir George
Larpent,. Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Mr, Vizard; air. Teed,
Mr. Waymouth, Mr. Cochrane; and ethos of
.the Vice-
Presidents and Committee. There were about eighty
members and visitors at the table, which was admirably
served, and the dinner and wines Cully sustained the reputa-
tion of Mr. Neal, the proprietor and conductor of the hotel
attached to, the Institute. Several excellent speeches were
delivered by the Pre-ident and others, and the pleasure of
the evening was much increased by some delightful vocal
and instrumental music, including glees, duets, rounds, &c.,
in which Mr. T. Cooke, Mr. Francis; Mr. Machin, Mr. G•-at-
tan Cooke, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Miihlenfelt, and Mr. Kreutzer took
parts.
The Marquis of Hertford has given directions to
have the bares and rabbits on his Ragley estate, Warwick-
shire, destroyed ; and has also liberally permitted his tenantry
to kill the same in their several occupations,— Worcestershire
Chronicle.
It was originally determined that the christening
of the infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buc-
clench should have been performed on Thursday last, when.
in accornance with the express wish of the Queen, the bap-
tismal ceremony was to have aeen performed in the Royal
Chapel at Buckingham Palace, and her Majesty was to have
stood sponsor in person. There was to have been a grand
dinner at Montagu House in the evening, at which the
Queen and Prince Consort were to have been present. Owing,
however, to the lamented family afflictions sustained by the
Earl and Countess of Harewood, by the death of the Hop.
Algernon ant the lion. Alfred Lascelles, from typhus fever
the nephews of the Duchess tit Buccleuch, the interesting cere-
mony has been postponed.--Iferald.
Th, death ot the D.wager Viscountess Chet wynd
took place on Monday morning, at the family residence in
Upper Brook-street. The deceased Viscountess, who was
youngest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Cartwright, was
married on the 30th July, 1791, to Richard Viscount t. het-
wynd. Her Ladyship was in her 73d year.
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT RUINS. Yesterday, wiiie
some workmen where employed in excavating the street
near the corner of Drury-lane and Long- acre, for the pur-
pose of making a sewer, they discovered, at the depth of
nearly fourteen feet, a portion attic foundation of an ancient
building, of great thickness, which required the use of powder
to break it up. It ran in the direction from north to south,
and is supposed to be some part the foundation ot the old
convent which formerly stood near the present Drury lane
and Covent. garden Theatres. The foundation is composed
of red brick, c..ncrete, and flint stones.
FooT RAcn.—Yesterday morning, between six and
seven o'clock, this long-pending race for 51. a-side came off in
the Kemsington-road. between George Brady, a baker, of
' London, and James Lees, of Knightsbridge, a smith. The
distance was one mile. After two or three false starts, they
at last went to work in earne,t, Lees g,,t t they lead at the
commencement, which lie kept tiir ;:ane: time ; but ?it lcat;;t ii
Brady- made a desperate eff)rt to get ahei.,t, and by the
greatest exertion succeeded in pa-ring his antagenist, main-
taining his advantage, and ultimately coming m a winner.
At the commencement of the race 10 to 1 were offered upon
Lees. It is said another race will take place in a fortnight
between the parties.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—TtiS mernirig, at an early
hour, the family of Mr. Wood, the extensive coal-inerch,nr
; of Hungerford Wharf, Strand, were deiTieed (f one of their
family under the followieg circumstances appeared that
Mr. Wotat, jun., who was a lighterman, was in the act of
removing a barge of coals in shore, while, when on the gun-
whale, his fiat, slipped and he fell overboard; when, unfor-
tunately, before assistance could be rendered him, he was
drowned. Several persous were in search the:deceased,
who, by all who knew him, was much respected. At tip,
o'olooo4e IN 3y wan (=AD= where the aoczcleut twiniiect.