The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TIIVIISDAY EVENING, MAY 24 1855,

9th has prevented any material part of the force being
lauded ; and it has been found necessary to send the
vessels that brought it, and which could not be got into
the harbour, to Kazatch Bay, until it should mo-
derate.
Five troops of the 121 h Lancers landed on the 9th
from the Himalaya, which performed the voyage from
Alexandria to Balaklava in ninety-four hours.
The enemy made two serious assaults upon our moat
advanced parallel of the right attack on the night of the
9th, but were on each occasion most nobly met and re-
pulsed with considerable loss.
The arrangements of Colonel Trollope, who had charge
of the right attack, and Lieut.-Col. Mundy, the Field
Officer of the trenches, were most judicious ; and Capt.
Turner, of the Royal Fusiliers, and Capt. Jordan, of the
34th Regiment, are reported to have done their duty in
the most gallant manner.
They opened a powerful fire on our trenches on the
following night, and exposed their columns to a heavy
musketry fire from the troops on duty. They did not,
however, reach the parapets, nor indeed come very near
them.

Last night a very determined sortie was made
upon the advance of our left attack. The enemy
moved forward in two columns from the Woron-
zow-road. Our advanced sentries having slowly
retired, the guard of the trenches was prepared to
receive them, and consequently drove them back
in the most determined manner. A few Russians only
got into the parallel, and five were left dead close out-
side.

The conduct of both officers and men was admirable,
and it is with deep concern that I have to report the
delth of Capt. Edwards, of the 68th Foot, and that of
five men. _ _

I tiave also the pain of saying, that the wounded
amounted to thirty.
Owing to the great quantity of rain which has fallen
during the last few days, the service in the trenches has
again been most arduous and severe upon our men, who
deserve all praise for their energy and untiring perse-
verance.

I enclose the returns of casualties to the 10th inst.
I have, &c.,
RAGLAN.

The Lord Panmure, &c. &c.

Enclosure 1.
RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM THE 7TH
TO THE 10TH MAY, 1835, INCLUSIVE.
Ist Battalion, Ist Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file,
wounded. _

2d Battalion, Ist Foot-1 officer, 3 rank and file,
wounded.
4th Foot-1 rank and file, killed.
7th Foot-6 rank and file, wounded.
9th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
18th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
19th Foot-4 rank and file, wounded.
20th Foot-1 rank and file, killed ; 1 rank and file,
wounded.
23c1 Foot-2 rank and file, wounded.
30th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
31th Foot-2 rank and file, killed ; 1 officer, 4 rank and
file, wounded.
39th Foot-2 rank and file, wounded.
91st Foot-1 rank and file, killed ; 7 rank and file,
wounded.
47th Foot-3 rank and file, wounded.
48th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
50th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
57th Foot-1 sergeant killed, 1 sergeant wounded.
62d Foot-1 rank and file,- wounded.
77th Foot-2 rank and file,_ wounded.
88th Foot— 3 rank and file killed, 7 rank and file
wounded.
89th Foot-1 rank and file killed, 4 rank and file
wounded.
90th Foot-2 rank and file, wounded.
Royal Artillery-2 rank and file, wounded.
Total-1 sergeant, 9 rank and file killed ; 2 officers,
1 sergeant, 56 rank and file. wounded.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adj utant-General.

Enclosure 2.

NOMINAL RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE
BEEN WOUNDED FROM THE 7Ta TO THE 10TH
MAY, 1835, INCLUSIVE.

WOUNDED.
MAY 8.
31th Regiment of Foot.
Lieutenant H. M. Lawrence, slightly
MAY 10.
2d Battalion, let Regiment of Foot.
Major T. M. Byrne, contusion in left breast
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adj utant-General.
Enclosure 3.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED, FROM
7TH TO 10TH MAY, 1855, INCLUSIVE.

KILLED.
MAY 7.
Slth ReginD.ut of Foot.
Private Francis Murray.
MAY 8.
34th Regiment of Foot.
Private Thomas Kennedy.
57th Regiment of Foot.
Serjeant John Magee.
88th Regiment of Foot.
Private John William Kennedy.
89th Regiment of Foot.
Private Michael Kennedy ;
MAY 9.
20th Regiment of Foot.
Private Thomas Perney
41st Regiment of Foot.
Private James Fitzgibbons.
MAY 10.
4th Regiment of Foot.
Private Thomas Binson
88th Regiment of Foot.
Corporal John Downie
Private Thomas Dowd
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant-General.
Enclosure 4.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED FROM
THE 7Tii TO 10TH MAY, 1855, INCLUSIVE.

WOUNDED.
MAY 7.
19th Regiment of Foot.
Private Michael Hinnagan, severely
John Sheehan, slightly
34th Regiment of Foot.
Private Patrick Lynch, slightly
[4lst Regiment of Foot.
Private John gunderland, severely.
50th Regiment of Foot.
Private James Grogan, severely.
77th Regiment of Foot.
Private John Pierry, dangerously.
Private John Patten, dangerously.
89th Regiment of Foot.
Private William Burke, slightly.
Royal Artillery.
Gunner James Walsh, severely.
Gunner William Cooke, dangerously.
MAY 8.
2d Battalion, Ist Foot.
Private Richard Cannon, slightly.
Edward Faithful, slightly.
19th Regiment of Foot.
Private Joseph Murgatroyd, severely
Private John Bridgeman, slightly
41st Regiment of Foot.
Private Richard Colgan, slightly
47th Regiment of Foot.
Private James Shaughnessy, severely
57th Regiment of Foot.
Serjeant William Griffith, slightly
89th Regiment of Foot.
Private Bernard Gaffney, severely
Private James Brine, slightly
Private Charles Cummings, severely
MAY 9.
Ist Battalion, let Regiment of Foot.
Private Joseph Adlam, slightly.
7th Regiment of Foot.
Private John Moroney, severely.
Private John Barry, severely.
Private Wm. Pilkington, severely.
Private Anthony Mansfield, severely.
Private George Copley, slightly.
20th Regiment of Foot.
Private Patrick Bray, severely.
30th Regiment of Foot.
Private Henry Richardson, slightly.
34th Regiment of Foot.
Private Isaac Chandler, severely.
Private John Dwyer, severely.
Private James Murphy, severely.
41st Regiment of Foot.
Private John Davis, severely
47th Regiment of Foot.
Priva e Philip Woodhouse, severely
48th Regiment of Foot.
Privat David Redpath, severely
88th :Regiment of Foot.
Private John Griffin, severely
Private Patrick Claherty, slightly•
Private James Smith, dangerously
90th Regiment of Ft ot.
Private James Jordon, severely
MAY 10.
21 Battalion let Regiment of Foot.
Private Patrick Daffy, severely
7th Regiment of Foot.
Private Robert Clements, severely
9th Regiment of Foot.
Private Martin Thomson, dangerously
lath Regiment of Foot.
Private James Hopkins, severely
231 Regiment of Foot.
Corporal William Rickey, slightly
Private Richard Lowery, severely
39th Regiment of Foot.
Private John Behan, slightly
Private Jchn Emery, slightly
41st Regiment of Foot.
Private Timothy Driscoll, slightly
Private Peter Greatly, slightly
Private Martin Power, severely
Private Patrick Lowry, severely
47th Regiment of Foot.
Private Bernard Connors, severely
G2d Regiment of Foet.
Private John Kelly, severely
88th Regiment of Foot.
Pi irate Jas. Connors, dangerously, since dead
Private John Donohue, slightly
Private Win. Connors, dangerously
Private Michael Cummins, slightly
90th Regiment of Foot.
Private John Carruthers, severely
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adj utaut-General.

Enclosure 5.
RETURN OF CASUALTIES IN THE ROYAL NAVAL
BRIGADE BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, ON THE 10TH
MAY, 1855.
• KILLED.
Henry Hill, A. 8., Queen.
WOUNDED.
Aaron Gisby, Ord., Queen, severely
Robert Hart, Ord., Queen, severely
James Reynolds, Ord., Queen, slightly
John Mason, Ord., Queen, slightly
Total--1 killed, 4 wounded, 5 casualties.
(Signed) STEPHEN LUSHINGTON,
Captain Commanding Naval Brigade.
The Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan, ,
Commander-in-Chief.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

MR. DISRAELI'S MOTION.
(Rpoin the Times of this day. )
What has happened to the House of Commons? To
what purpose were all its faculties given to it ? It has
power which it uses to do nothing, speech which it em-
ploys to perplex, counsel and influence which it seems
determined to throw into no scale and to devote to no
practical purpose. We are living in no ordinary times,
we are pressed by great emergencies, we are terrified by
impending dangers, we have nobody to trust, nobody to
look up to, nothing but the palladium of our liberties,
the glory of our land, the cynosure of our institutions
this very same incomprehensible House of Commons.
Out of the immediate sphere of government and legisla-
tion people seem to understand themselves and each
other, and to be tolerably unanimous on the questions of
the day. Once within those walls nobody seems to be
able to make up his mind to do anything, or to say any-
thing distinctly and to the purpose.
Nothing can exceed the degree in which the Legisla-
ture and the people are at cross-purposes, or the amount
of contradiction between us and our representatives.
Everybody out of doors seems to have made up his mind
that the pcssibility of peace with Russia is, for the pre-
sent, and until the fortune of war has decided more
olearly on one side or the other, absolutely impossible ;
that Russia merely appeared at the Conferences of Vienna
for the purpose of ostentatiously agreeing to conditions
which might secure to her the neutrality of Germany ;
and that, having done so, she was careless as to the pre-
cise form or method in which she put an end to a Con-
ference which had sufficiently answered the purpose for
which she entered into it. This being the opinion of
people in ge ieral, Mr. Milner Gibson considers it to af-
ford a suitable opportunity for moving an address to the
Crown, stating that there was a reasonable expectation
that the negotiations would have had a successful issue,
characterisingthe cause of their ill-success as nothing but a
difference between the Allied Powers and Russia as to the
precise mode of practically applying the principles agreed
upon, and expressing an opinion that an honourable and
satisfactory peace can be made out of the propositions
put forward by Russia at the Congress of Vienna. In
no other assembly but a meeting of the Peace Society
should such a proposition have been put forward ; but
Mr. Gibson thought the House of Commons suitable for
such a purpose, and so he made his proposal there. The
proposal being made, everybody felt glad that the long
silence of the Legislature on the proper conditions of
peace was at length about to be broken, and that Go-
vernment and the country would have in the ensuing
debate something which might serve for a guide to their
future conduct. Never was a debate more looked for
by the public ; never, we suppose, was one more eagerly
desired by the House of Commons. But the same in-
scrutable perversity prevailed. The house met, and,
after a discussion of a highly histrionic character, in
:which'. almost every speaker, though apparently from
motives the most diverse, urged that the motion should
not come on, the motion was dropt, and the house and
the audience went away like Newman, the Syrian, in a

rage.
Thonsext act is similar to the two which preceded it.
Mr. .israeli, seeing the disgust with which the house
vie weciVthe withdrawal of Mr. Gibson's motion, promised
to give its feelings free expression, and to let loose the
pent-up floodgates of its displeasure. The house received
the proposal with manifest favour, for the house w ished
for the opportunity, of which the withdrawal of Mr.
Gibson's motion had deprived it, to express its opinion
on the negotiations of Vienna and the terms on which
alone peace should be granted. But Mr. Disraeli's ob-
ject was evidently not to express the feelings of the
house;' but rather to frame- something` calculated to da-
mage his political antagonists, and, if possible, to bring
him and his party into office totally unpledged, and at
full liberty to imitate the conduct he condemns. So Mr.
Disraeli proposes to censure the Government for its am-
biguous and uncertain conduct, and to assure her
Majesty that, under these circumstances—that is, the
ambiguous and uncertain conduct, we suppose—Parlia-
ment is ready to give her Majesty every assistance to-
wards the vigorous prosecution of the war. Never was
an important opportunity marked by a more inadequate
and unfortunate conclusion. One might suppose, to
borrow Mr. Disraeli's own allusion the other day, that
these halting and ill-connected sentences had been con-
structed by him purposely to show that he was acting
under the dictation of a party, and not under the
promptings of his own judgment.
If ,the declarations of the Ministry with regard to the
war are ambiguous or uncertain, that is a reason fsr de-
manding from them plain and unambiguous declarations.
The House has a right to know the opinions and inten-
tions of our Ministers ; and whoever substitutes empty
professions of our intention vigorously to prosecute the
war—declarations which cost nothing and mean nothing
—is merely misleading the House, and turning it aside
from the true merits of the question. So we suppose the
House of Commons will be engaged to-day in considering
whether the language of Ministers has or has not been
uncertain or ambiguous, in weighing the penods of Lord
Palmerston, and ascertaining whether they are suscep-
tible of more meanings than one, instead of looking to
the real and only question at issue—whether the House
of Commons is satisfied to trust the conduct of the war,
without further explanation, in the hands in which it is
at present reposed. It would almost seem as if Mr.
Disraeli shrank from the possibility of his own success,
and was afraid to put his motion, as we thick ho
easily might, in a form which would have conciliated
the support of the House of Commons. It was easy
for him to frame it in a shape which would have
secured to him the support of a large majority of Liberal
members, but then he could have only clone this by
marking out a definite line of policy for himself on the
subject of peace and war, and thus hampering his acces-
sion to office by pledges materially fettering his freedom
of action. Pother than do this Mr. Disraeli has pre-
ferred to leave Parliament to decide on a comparison of
his personal merits and those of his party with the
merits of the present Government, and thus to narrow
down the question of national policy to the dimensions
of a struggle between two rival factions. Never
was a purely personal and partisan movement
more ill-timed ; never was the conflict between the
Legislature and the people more manifest and more
injudicious. The nation is iritent on the choice between
Peace and War, and Parliament, it seems, can think of
nothing but the division between Whigs and Tories. Tho
nation believes that it has a Cabinet in which the advo-
cates of national disgrace outnumber the champions of
national honour. Parliament is not called upon to put
an end to this dangerous state of things, but only to
censure proceedings not more than usually uncertain,
and language not more than ordinarily ambiguous.
Nothing would become the House of Commons better
than to lay down fixed and certain principles fur its
own guidance and that of the Government ; but, at
the present time, nothing would become it less than to
turn out one set of men with whose opinions it is not
satisfied, in order to admit another as little disposed to
give information about theirs. It became the Hou-,e of
Commons, in this emergency, to vindicate for itself a
higher part than that of serving as an instrument of con-
tending factions. In the present state of men's minds,
it matters comparatively little under what name the go-
vernment of the nation is carried on, but it.is of un-
speakable importance to avoid an ignominious pearls, or
negotiations founded on derogatory conditions, which
serve only to give confidence to our enemies, and to
shake the spirits of our friends and allies.

Anglo-Saxon mind as though such things as trenches
and Lancaster guns, and saps, and ravelins, and fascines,
and gabions existed not. If the Russians had come in
upon us in our happy little island yesterday we should
have presented a grander spectacle than those old
Romans we used to read about in our schoolboys who
received the Gauls in full state, sitting upon curule
chairs, and holding sceptres in their hands. They would
have found universal England upon Epsom-do w ns, cheering
and shouting, and filling up beakers of champagne for
beauty's lips, thimble-rigging slightly, and betting ex-
tensively --was it not the Derby day ? Yesterday we
really could not be bothered with the Four Points. We
were taking our ease and disporting ourselves—it was a
time of decided truce. The Derby day turned out a
memorable one in the Fasti of Epsom. We do not
shrink from recording the fact in columns usually dedi-
cated to more important sabjects, for one might be per-
mitted to accept the event as an omen. A horse—Wild
Dayrell is the excellent creature's name—the property
of a gentleman not upon the turf, trained by his own
groom, not by a professional trainer, and ridden by a
jockey not a professional jockey, has actually been de-
clared senior wrangler in the great horse tripos. No
one who has not been initiated in the foul mysteries of
the turf, or who has not been indoctrinated by an adept,
can have any idea of the difficulties with which an un-
fortunate quadruped has to contend which is galloping
for high honours. It is actually necessary to surround
him with detective officers and policemen for weeks,
almost for months, before the day of the struggle, to
see that some atrocious trick is not played by your own
familial' grooms—by the very men on whom you chiefly
relied. Now he meets with a stable accident—now he
springs a sinew while taking his breathing gallops—now
he falls sick of some mysterious internal disease which
baffles the skill of the horse faculty. The commonest,
perhaps, of these acts of rascality is to mix up ground
glass in the favourite's oats, which modification in his
diet is anything but calculated to promote equine
digestion. Wild Dayrell had run the gauntlet of all these
little playful projects, and by intense vigilance had been
brought safely through. Grievous was the dismay of the
practical diplomatists of Epsom-downs when they saw
him yesterday emerge from his stable in the finest pos-
sible condition, and canter up to the starting-post. The
history of the race will be found elsewhere in our
columns to-day ; suffice it here to say that Wild Dayrell
made very fair weather of it indeed, and easily beat his
antagonist-,. Let us recommend the point to the meditation
of our First Minister and his Austrian friends, and more
especially to the careful consideration of the Chancery at
St. Petersburg. There are Wild Dayrells elsewhere
than on the racecourse of Epsons. Chicane and trickery
do not in the long run prevail, whatever may be the
opinion of professional jockeys cr of professional states-
men. We take it that the English people just now may
be fairly represented by the winner of the Derby yester-
day. Many a trick has been tried upon 'us, many an
overweight has been placed upon our backs, many a
pinch of ground glass has been slyly introduced into our
comfortable feeds, at which we so confidingly champed
in the unsuspicioustse'ss of our hearts. We lay down in
our owl; loose box, 'amid our own grooms, and fondly
supposed, that our, attendants, who were so highly paid
for rubbing us down,‘promoting our little comforts, and
attending to our interests, would stand between us and
all harm. The reverse of all this has turned out to be
the fact. Wild Dayrell, however, is sick of professional
jockeys, and " calculates" that if any one will fairly sit
him, and give him his head, ho is ahle to give a good
account.of himself as against his competitors. We have
no doubt that in the long run Wild Dayrell will kick
himself free, and juOify:the .expectations of his original.
backers.

THE CIVIL SERVICE.
(Front the Times of this day.)
So' a beginning has been made, and the Civil Service,
that great preserve of patronage, is to be invaded by ex-
amination ! That principle which in this country la-
bours under so many stigmas, which some call doctri-
naire, others Chinese, others French, others only an ad-
ditional cloak for jobbery, is to have a trial. The ordi-
nance has gone forth, and the names of the three incor-
ruptible judges are before the land. Before the awful
forms of Ryan, Lefevre, and Romilly corruption, ignor-
ance, and incompetency are to quail and hide themselves.
The gates of office are not, indeed, to be thrown open to
the ambitious commonalty, to the students of the London
University and its hundred affiliated colleges, or to any
class at all ; the chiefs of office are still to nominate, still
to prescribe the qualifications to be required, and even to
appoint absolutely in some cases. But, at all events,
this tremendous triumvirate; which has been so long
impending over tbs realms of close patronage, is
actually installed. With their secretary, and their as-
sistant-examiners, they constitute the nucleus of an
official University. So there is an end of that firm belief
lying at the foundation of British society, deeper than
loyalty itself, that the British gentleman is fit for every-
thing, far any office, for all duties, for all kinds of emer-
gencies. It is an old, an honourable, and au ennobling
sentiment. Sancho Panza himself did not repose a
stronger confidence in his master than the British com-
monalty in the gentry. That honest, drudging,
weatherbeaten, toilworn slave, the working class—ay,
the middle class too of this country—of what does it
think a real gentleman not capable ? Barring that a
gentleman now and then makes a few mistakes in pe-
cuniary or in mechanical affairs—excepting, too, that a
groom. may know more of horses, a builder of piece-
work, or a gardener of broccoli, the gentleman can at
least fight a battle, govern a province, or help to
make laws for an empire. It is true he may have to
ask the name and locality of his province ; he may re-
quire much assistance from lawyers in making his laws,
or from clerks in administering a public department, or
from commissariat officers and such people in conducting
a campaign ; but thenhs he not a gentlemen, and has he
not within him 'that master faculty whereby he can
speedily overcome all the difficulties of every position
and every branch of knowledge
Yet one trembles to think of the pressure to be
thrown on three men, even aided as they will be by their
staff of examiners. The only parallel that occurs to us
is that of the Grenadier who seven years ago singly
faced a rabble of some twenty thousand men pouring
down Parliament-street, and roughly declined their
offers of fraternisation. Perhaps the checktakers
at the Opera or the Queen's servants at a Drawing-
room have occasionally to stand 'an equal current.
How will the three commissioners deal with a mob
in which Peers and M.P.'s constitute the least
importunate part I Will they be trodden under
foot, or be carried off their legs, or actually stein the
torrent ? Somebody the other day, in order to try the
force of the stream at the falls of Niagara, dropped a
40ib. plummet from a height of about 200 feet, and it
'would not sink a yard, but danced, lepior cortice, on the
surface, at the distance of the line. Remember how Sir
Robert Peel extinguished by ten timely words all the
labours of the Railway Board, and restored the reign of
chaos and Parliamentary committees ! How much
easier for a saucy Premier to consign three examiners
to hopeless insignificance ! The faintest curl of the
lips, one word of cold praise, would do it effectually.
The difficulty, indeed, will only arise on the supposition
that the three men will be the men of savage virtue which
the rigour of their office will require. It is far more pro-
bable that they will be too convenient to be discredited.
Ail our chiefs have long ago declared thatthey want some-
body to sift applications, merely to thin them; they exceed
the physical powers at command for their consideration ;
they can only be treated as Mr. Roberts treated the
offers of foreign legionaries—thrown a score .at a time
into the basket. Here, then, is the first use of an ex-
amination board—simply as a sieve. The second we
can only whisper, and we do so on the supposition that
the three examiners aro the immortal abstractions—
Brown, Jones, and. Robinson. Only suppose that
Brown has a note, or a hint conveyed in five words, a
wink, and • a smile, signifying that Young Such a-Oche,
who is coming up to-morrow, is a very clever fellow in
his way, worth a dozen bookworms, only his attention
has been turned to other things ; that he has no taste for
Euclid or Prepria quce lifaribus ; that he can learn any-
thing he pleases with proper inducemet ; that he is
-rather shy sand awkward at first ; and that, in a word, if
be should prove incompetent, somebody is prepared to
take the responsibility. Already, in the order as it
comes out, anybody with the recommendation of a ina-
ture age may beappointed without examination on special
grounds. How long will promising young men ,be ex-
cluded from the benefit of specialities ?
One important question we beg to ask, not of her
Majesty's ministers, but of the three commissioners, and
of course we must wait some time for a reply,—ls the
examination to he public ? It is rather strange that
those two much abused "close" institutions of Oxford
and Cambridge should be the only places in this country
that can afford the bold and manly practice of public
examinations. There is nothing like absolute publicity
for securing that an examination shall be no sham. Any
London merchant, any Manchester reformer' any young
lady, any ploughboy, may walk into the gallery of the
examination schools at Oxford, and hear an earl exa-
mined, not only in Greek and Latin, in history, in philo-
sophy, in mathematics, but in the Bible, and on other
subjects within the common apprehension. He etands
up face to face with three or four men, who with their
books before them, ask him the toughest questions they
can, genefally with a prevailing wish to prove they know
a great deal more than he does. There is no collusion,
no favour, not even mercy there—often not even a gen-
tiemanly consideration for nervot!sness. This is a true
ordeal, and there is no escaping it. Be the matter of the
examination ever so ill selected, and the teaching ever so
indifferent, a man must learn a good deal to pass, and
he must have it actually in his head, and in a producible
form. So long as the universities retain public exami-
nations they will turn out public men who can stand be-
fore a-table, and hold their ground against all the world.
We are not insisting on so hard a measure for the tender
young candidates for tho Civil Service, but feel some
curiosity about' the matter. At all events, it will afford
almost the only possible protection against the delicate
but irresistable interference of power. Public examiners
cannot pass Young Noodle, even if they are inclined.
They are too closely watched by the friends of Young
Doodle, who will insist on equal measure. So much for
this hint. Valcat quantum.

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SPORTING NOTES.

AN OPINION ON THE OAKS.

I shall not no w attempt to enter into any particulars
of the great race yesterday. All that is important and
all that the reader will require to know has been faith-
fully set forth by the recognised turf reporter. - Wild
Dayrell's achievement is gratifying to all persons in-
terested in the popularity of the turf, for it shows how
sinister were the lying reports circulated with reference
to the horse and jockey, and that the race was honestly
run and honestly won. As to the scratching system
which was adopted, I shall reserve my remarks.
The guesses at truth published in The Sun of Monday
last were strikingly Correct. They were as under :
" With whatever Teeming accuracy calculations may
be framed, it is impossible to reduce the result of the
race to a certainty. On an impartial consideration,
hawever, of the comparative chances, I am induced to
believe that the winner will be either
KINGSTOWN or WILD DAYRELL.

Should this selection prove: unfortunate, then,
OF THE ISLES, I TRUST IN THEE."

" LORD

Time presses me so sorely that I can only say, I fancy
the first three for the Oaks will bo Nettle, Blooming
Heather, and atpucine, my preference being indicated
by the order in which I have written the horses' names.
Should Fortune favour me as on Wednesday, my
readers will doubtless be satisfied with the advice and
guidance of A FRESH MAN.
Tuesday Morning.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.