The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

DERBY.

10 to 1 wou7d have been taken freely about Fly by
Night: 50 ti 1 was taken to nearly 3001. about Van-
dermulin. Nothing else occurred worthy of particular
comment.

CLOSING PRICES.
CTIF.LMSFORD HANDICAP.

sto 2 offered on the field
St. Clare, Lily, Rose, and Eva are struck out of their
engagements at Chelmsford.

GOODWOOD STAKES.
15 to 2 agst Quince (offered)
10 to 1 agst Surgeon-General (taken)
14 to 1 a;gst Epaminondas (taken)
20 to 1 agst Fulbeck (taken)
20 to 1 agst Katerfelto (taken)
30 to 1 agst Calamus (taken)
10 to 1 agst Homily and Ireland's Eye, coupled
(taken)
10 to 1 agst Homily and Katerfelto, do. (taken)
15 to 1 agst Robgill awl Mortimer, do. (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP.
2 to 1 agst Baroncino (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst ()Aston (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Rattle
Royal-quand-meme was scratched on the 20th inst.,
at 12 at noon.

ST. LEGER.
sto 2 agst Oulston.
6 to :1 agst Lord of the Isles
--7 to 1 agst-St.-Hubert (taken)
100 even between St. Hubert and Lord of tie
Isles (taken)

DERBY.
9to 1 agst Fly by Night
50 to 1 agst Vandermulin (tak.en)

WENLOCK RACES, Friday.—Whitelock and Lily are
scratched.

GOODWOOD 1U
FIRST
Weights for the Steward's
Age st lb
Early Bird 4 9 5
Virago 4 9 5
Typee.
Orinoco 5 8 10
Dervish 4 8 7
Balro wnie 5 8 4

i_CES.—JULY 31.
DAY.
Cup. T.Y.C. 60 subs.
Age st lb
Clotilde
Lord Albemarle 5 6 8
The Poacher 5 6 7
Doubletbong 5 6 7
Colt by Venison,
out of Vexation 3 6 6

Star of Surrey .., 4 6 6
E lvaston
Little Gerard 4 6 6
Duke of Lancaster 4 6 4
Instructress
Protest
Katerfelto
Alcyone 3 6 0
The Sandboy 3 5 13
The Professor
Filly- by Van
Tr0m,,,.:910f •
Queen Alab
Le FrW. 3 5 10
Daffodil
-Sicily 4,
.3 5 10
Lambswool
Roving-Betty
Crotchet 3 5 10
Laura Selina 3 5 7
Doralice 3 5 4
Fla.cro w 3 5 4
Hartly Buck
Arm Ad
Panmure
Anniversary 2 4 7
LAST DAY.

Micbaelmas Maid 5 8 4
Wild Huntsman 4 8 3
Comfort 4 8 0
Ireland's Eve 4 8 0
Honeysuckle 4 8 0
Pumicestone 4 7 12
Kennyside Hero 4 7 12
Calamus
Cineas
Humboldt 4 7 7
Colt by Surplice—
Clementina 3 7 6
Foxhunter 4 7 6
Monarque 3 7 6
Falcon 4 7 4
Orson 4 7 2
Chalice
Strutaway 4 7 0
Cardigan
Rosaline
Welham 4 7 0
The Cropper 3 6 13
Little Tom ... 4 6 10
Tabols!i
Pharos
Swindler

Weights for the Chesterfield Cup. Certain winners
extra. Craven Course. 36 subs.

Age st lb Age et lb
Virago
Early Bird 4 9 3 Cardigan
Scythian
Orinoco
Scberz
Hungerford -1 8 10 The Cropper
Acrobat 4 8 9 Swindler 3 6 10
Vindex
Dervish
Balrownie
Ivan
Enaminondas ... 4 8 2 Crochet
Wild Huntsman 4 8 2 The Rajah 3 510
Winkfield
Vanderdecken ... 5 7 13 Sicily
Pumicestone 4 7 12 Roving Betsy 3 5 4
Calamus 4 7 7 Supplicant 3 5 4
Colt by Surplice Fulbeck 3 5 0
out of Clementina 3 7 4 Doralice 3 410
Weights for the Nursery Stakes. Certain winners extra.
Last mile. (37 subs.)
et. lb.

st. lb.

Wandering Willie 8 7
Sirocco
Spindle ........
Caledonia
Rogerthorpe 8 2
Lawn 7 12-
Tilly
Thirty to Five
Duet
Knight of Kerry
Merlin ' 7 12
Cannobio
The Gaillard
Termagant 7 9
Puck
17Lunelie.
Gaudy '
Filly by Annandale,
out of Extravaganza 7 9
Announcement 7 9

Anniversary
The Libellist
Lady Florence
Smack
Maid of the Morn 7 7
Sauve qui pent 7 7
Early Morn
Rip Van Winkle
Colt by Pcynton,
out of Ellen 7 0
The Spaniard 7 0
Little Bird 7 0
Diego...
Bishop of Osnaburgh 7 0
Elfrida 6 10
La Victime
Alice Wentworth ... 6 10
Mr. iluffam 6 4
Colt by the Hero,
out of Latitude.... 6 4

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Queen-square, Bristol, July 19, 1355.
Sin.,—We see a gallant display of physical force in
'the course of the present war in the operations before
'ehaqtopol ; but do we see a corresponding degree of
skill ? Is the soil of Sebastopol everywhere so obdurate
as to resist the pickaxe, spade, and powder of our sap-
pers, miners, and navvies, who have surmounted so many
engineering difficulties in their tunnels at home, that
they cannot burrow like moles into the town, and re-
duce it to ashes by means of an eruption, like the
leaving of Vesuvius, Mount Etna, or Chimborazzo ?
We see vast sums of money expended in the construc-
tion of gun-boats without seeing any adequate results
I(except in their cost to the country), and the question
:is whether the few that Lave been built are in force and
numbers equal to the occasion ; but a simple battery, the
expense of which would be a cipher, compared with that
of gun-boats, would, in some cases, prove more equally
or more effective. Taking a ship carpenter's flat as a
model, the ship carpenters of the fleet might construct
:20 or 30 raft batteries of massive hewn timber in the
13trongest manner, each being 300 feet long and 100 feet
wide, or larger, one side having bulwarks, the other side
mot any, but merely a ledge or rim about a foot high, so
that shot falling on the platform of the raft might not
:recoil by striking against bulwarks of greater height.
The ends should have the same kind of rim.
ving Pm.
The bulwarks on the face of the battery
3bser osuhgoht
would, in m y opinion,
liTohleesg for guns) gndas'a con-
ushuoitldbeaLaneasters,
temptible 6-pounders. They ought. to
might
he
heavierbe 5 feett thickha n
m andr SE,
the 20 batteries
or the heaviest in the fleet. Suposing
tuhpe, to be
harbour, the
to lessen the
be brow ht gfehett high.ioto
1 steam - tug,
of
deliver its broadside,
xtoosictiaorary
by
yOO guns,means they could
one by one, each
placed in a north.west position
aes
hinhadl
ne
,c retireeouo ft
casualties.o bf efor
rangee,
ftobfeanothertnk:6efo
commandingnw toegamus
e. tine, at the entrance of the bar-
our attack Fort Constantine,
Sebastopol an
43ur of
effect of the fire
end to end, beyond disputemaking
it it
tfrirzht.
Fort Constantine Lein down,
it
palpable
t the rafts being floated into g what
the
to preven .
taken in reverse, the harbour
the enernY and placed between two
fires • cu taes increased 7 He would then find his diffi 1 • and
his means of resistance weakened.
Our jolly tars would doubtlessly • prefer being actively
imgaged with some prospect of success to being passive
spectators of the operations of the allied. armies on shore,
:kind could not be more usefully
attack-
ing this fort with th • employed than in
their raft batteries, as the destruction
4,f this fort would greatly insure the tapingof the town.
In the meanwhile,
time
presses, delay il dangerous, the
yet made !
rafts are not
Let the recollection of the vast ambition of Russia !
the fate of Finland Poland, the attempts on Turkey,
Pers. • • '
Persia Circassia, Moldavia, Wallachia, the massacre of
,s'
mope and Hango, stimulate us to check the march of
sacred and holy Russian ambition, which is fatal as death
to civil and religious liberty.
Let it stimulate us to make a funeral pile of Sebas.
topol.—Your obedient servant,

T. L. S.

P.S.—An India rubber curtain or fe oder a foot thiek,
bung out over the whole face of the battery, having
openings for the guns, and securely fastened to the bul-
warks, would, I think, be an excellent protection to the
men, and perhaps be impenetrable to shot. Of what use
are the resources of a country, if they :►re not available

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.—The Commissary-General
Le Play has wised cards to be posted throughout the
building, calling on exhibitors to affix tie prices to their
articles, as this information is not only desired by the
public, but will serve as a base for the award of recom-
pEnces by the jurors.