The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

IAV.A.L AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

An Admiralty order has arrived at Sheerness for the
Calcutta, 84, Captain James J. Stopford, to take on
board the armaments of the floating batteries Glatton
and Meteor ; and the Powerful, 84, Captain Thomas L.
Massie, is ordered to remain at Sheerness (having landed
a portion of her gun.) to wait for Admiralty orders to
proceed on particular service.
The Tartar, 20, screw steam corvette, Captain H.
Dunlop, has had her mainmast stepped, and is now
riding at harbour moorings at Sheerness, and is being
refitted with all possible despatch. Lieutenant James
E. Bickford, of this ship, has left, having been, on his
own application for service in a floating battery, ap•
pointed to the Meteor; fitting at Woolwich.
The Childers, 12, now lying at Blackstakes, is ordered
to proceed round to Devonport. Her crew were paid
their advance yesterday afternoon, and she is to kayo
Sheerness to-day for Devonport, en route for the west
coast of Africa, her future station.
The Perseverance, screw steam-storeship, Capt. Henry
Harris, is ordered to proceed on a trial trip of her ma-
chinery on Monday next, preparatory to her being de-
livered over to the Oriental Stealipaelcet Company. She
is now receiving her stores at Sheerness, having taken
it: her complement of coals, She is to ha 'put out of the
fitting l•asin this day's tide.

TI mnrtar-vessels Surly, Blnzer, and Manly, and the
gunboat liinde have arrived at Sheerness and are wait-
ing for nrders.
The Geyeer, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Onmn an ler
B. Brow, will be ready to leave Sheerness in a (lay or
two, and will shortly again be ready for sea, her Oefeets
having all been made good.

•
The Centaur, 6, paddle-frigate, Captain Clifford, will
leave Spitbead early this morning for the Baltic,
with
supernumeraries for the flag-ship Duke of Wellington,
packages, and letters for the fleet.
The Rosamond, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Crofton,
will leave Spithead this morning with three new bomb.
vessels for the Black Sea fleet.

Vice• Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., Com-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, entertained naval officers
at the Admiralty House last evening, Among the guetta

ASCOT-HEATH RACES—FRIDAY. •
First Class of the Wokinetarn Stakes (Handicap) of
5 sovs each. for 3 yr-olds 'and upwards. Last three
quarters of the New Mile.
Lord Derby's Acrobat, 4yrs, Bst 71b (Bartholomew) 1
Lord Wilton's Orson, 4 yrs 7st 2lb (Ashman). 2
Mr. F. L. Popham's Lord Albemarle 5 yrs, Est 10Ib
The following also ran— (Quinton) 3
Wilsford, Duke of Lancaster,
Roebuck, Fong also Day, William Rufus; Alcyone,
Flageolet, Punchbox, , . .
Betting-5 to 2 agst William Rufus:, 3to 1 'agst Or-
son, sto 1 agst Acrobat. Won cleverly by a neck; the
second beating the third' a length ; Alcyone' an'd Folly-
03-the•;Day well up, were the next two.
Sweepstakes of 50 says each, b ft, for 3-yr-olds :
Bst 71) ; fillies Bst 31b. Certain Penalties.colt Old mile.'s
(5 subs).
Mr. Bryan's The Poor Player, Bst 71b --(Charlton) 1
Mr. Osbaldeston's Claret, BSt:7lh ...... (Bartholomew) 2
Betting-3. to lon Claret. The non-favourite made
all the running, and won very easily by a length and a
half. •
The Borough Membere,Pipte
of 501„ /Lir/de& to a swofen;._
stAies of • 1.) sous 'canal) ; '3-yr-olds, 7Nt ;` f0tir,..61k446:-;z• -
five, 88t 1 Olb ; six and aged, 9st. Extra weights for
certain winners. The winner to be sold for 150/, if
demanded, &c. Old mile. (9 subs.)
Lord Chesterfield's Ida, by Epirus, 3 yrs, 7st
(Ashman) 1
Mr. Death's Cranbourne, 4 yrs, Bst 41b...(W.Abdale) 2
Mr. Rogers's Guitar, 3 yrs, 7st (J. Rogers) 3
The following also ran :—Lo Juif, Gossip, and Lady
Rachael.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Le Juif, 7to 2 agst Gossip, 4to
1 agst Cranbourne, 5 to 1 agst Ida. A capital race, Ida
winning by a neck, the second beating the third by a
head ; half a length between the third and fourth ; the
fifth was pretty well•up ; Lady Rachel several lengths
behind.
The Second Class of theWokingbam Stakes (Handicap),
of 5 sovs each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. The winner
of the first class, 71b extra. Last three quarters of
• the new mile.
Lord Chesterfield's Palmerston, by Cotherstone, 3 yrs,
6st 4th
(Forclharn) I
Lord Orford's Icarus, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Quinton) 2
Mr. Percival's Namur, 3 yrs, fist 41b (Saer) 3
The following also ran :—John Barleycorn, The Poor
Player, and Kennyside Hero.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Palmerston, sto 2 agst The Poor
Player, 4to 1 agst John Barleycorn. Won by a neck.
Four lengths between the second and third.
The Great Western Stakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with
100 added by the Great Western Railway Company ;
2-yr-olds, 6st 101 b ; three, Bst 121 b. Certain penal-
ties and allowances. The owr.er of the second horse
to receive 25 sows out of the stakes. T.Y.C. 23 subs.
Lord Clifden's Chalice, by Orlando, 3 yrs, Bst 91b
(A. Day) 1
Mr. R. H. Neville's c by Paragone, out of Sneer,
3 yrs, Bst 121 b (Bartholomew) 2
Duke of Bedford's Para, 3 yrs, Bst 91b ....(S. Rogers) 3
The following alto ran :—Garnet, Stork, Goldhill,
Rogerthorpe, Thames Ditton, Katie Stewart.
Betting 5 to 2 each agst Thames Ditton and Garnet,
4 to 1 agst Chalice, 5 to 1 agst Para, 6 to 1 agst Stork,
Bto 1 agst Rogerthorpe. Won easily by half a length ;
a length between the second and third, Rogerthorpe was
a very bad fourth, Stork was fifth, Thames Ditton sixth,
Go!dhill seventh, and Garnet eighth. Katie Stewart a
long way behind.
Handicap Plate, of 50 sovs. for all ages. Swinley
Course.

Mr. Fenning's Humboldt, by Ishmaelite, 4 yrs,
Bst 21b (Charlton) 1
Mr. Corbett's Gossip, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Wells) 2
Mr. Wood's Kennyside Hero, 4 yrs, Sat 21b(Kendall) 3
Mr. E. R. Clark's Punebbox, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Ashman) 4
Betting-2 to lon Humboldt, 4to 1 agst any other.
Won by a length. Bad third.
LATEST DERBY BETTING.
12 to 1 agst Fly by Night (taken)
20 to 1 agst Milton (taken)
20 to 1 affst Dramatist (taken)
20 to 1 agst Peter Wilkins (The Boarding
(School Mies colt) (taken)
25 to 1 agst Bird in Hand (taken)
25 to 1 /Tot Polmoodie (taken)
1000 to 30 agst The Wild Irishman (taken)
1000 to 25 agst Wandering Willie (taken)
1000 to 20 agst ILogerthorpe (taken)

NEVILLE AND THE MANCHESTER CUP.
( From Bell's Life )
Having, in ctnr report of the Manchester Meeting,
designated the scratching of Neville for the Trades' Cap,
after the horse had been backed by the public up to the
last moment, a " disgraceful proceeding," we have re-
ceived a letter from Mr. William Robinson, of Richmond,
Yorkshire, the owner of the horse, in which he affects
to "feel considerably surprised at the remark," and says,
"As I am sure the facts have been unfairly represented
to you, I think it only right that I should give some
explanation." This " explanation," however, Mr. Robi-
nson wishes us to consider as "confidential," owing to his
objection to '•' appearing in print ;" but in this light ive
cannot regard it, and as the affair has been freely com-
mented on in sporting circles, we consider it due to the
public, who were the sufferers on the occasfon, to give
Mr. Robinson's " explanation" in full. Mr. Robinson
says :
"This horse's feet are, and always have been, very tender,
and to this cause I attribute his very easy defeat for the
Derby last year ; and so anxious was I, however, that no
person should lose money on him ae Manchester, I told
every person who asked me at Epsom Maces, and also in
London, on the Saturday and Sunday following, that if
the ground continued so hard he would not run. When I
arrived at Manchester on the Tuesday evening I made
this no secret. I told the whole of my friends what were
my intentions, and took every pains to make the public
aware that I had not backed the horse ; and in the event
of rain not falling before the race, I would not risk the
horse for such a stake, ds the chances were, if he did run
over such ground, he would be ruined for life. If, there-
fore, the public, in the face of this, -would back the horse,
it is their fault, not mine. I beg most distinctly to say,
there is no party connected with any horse of mine run-
ning in my friend Mr. Clarkson's name. My trainer,
Winteringham, has other employers, no doubt, none of
whom have the slightest interest in any of my horses :
nor would I allow them to interfere in the management of
my horses in any way."
Upon the above we need only remark that, notwith-
standing Mr. Robinson, as he states, expressed to his
friends and those who asked him, at.,Epsom and Man-
chester, his intention not to start Neville if the ground
continued hard, the horse was allowed to remain in the
betting and to be backed by the public, as well, if we
mistake not, by certain of Mr. Robinson's own friends,
until almost the last moment, when one of the latter be-
coming suspicious of an under current, put it to the test
by offering to bet a pony or 501. that the hcrse would
not start, though, thoughont the morning, as stated in
nur report, he had been backed at evens against the
field !

In conclusion, whilst giving Mr. Robinson the full
benefit of his "explanation," we have no hesitation in
repeating our opinion that it was a " disgraceful pro-
ceeding."

The Tribunal of Correctional Police of :Metz has just
been occupied two days in trying Fix employds of the
Strasburg railway, for having, by their imprudence and
neglect of the regulations, caused two trains to run into
each other on the 21st of April, between the stations of
Metz and Courcelles, whereby five persons were killed,
and several others were seriously injured.
ended by the condemnation of one of the aceuseTdi:enatmriel
Sand or Dude-
Aolf. mil% Georgelifei S
n La Awn, gives
Collin, to a year's imprisonment, and 300 f• 6 of
Mathieu, to six months' imprisonment, and 3041%;
;b—Ther deceased'
and of the others, from six weeks to a . fi--0
gf.7
lisehtoaenvhee aen:li n aga
fortnight's im-
prisonment.
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bought it, she would
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would b :the
lace—and change the tlrran
take off the ribbons
gement with readiness and
taste. Her bonnet wonll please her all the next day.
totally indi‘Terelie•
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must be another radical reform
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in
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to
Istate of metamorphosis, became
the. utmost disdain, her.
professing that she did. not care
Then she would wear it with
when she Put it
blonde Wig ; yet by doing
bonnet ! Her black hair was still very
buy anmLer
new 0.n—till the fancy sbeuld. seize her to
flue. She gut tired of being a brunette, and put on a
so she could not manage to
disfigure hereelf. She took a fancy for herself as a b!onde
for awhile, then she abused herself for being flaxen, and
chase to be a bright chestnut. Presently she returned
to achy pale locks—then went back to her own mellow
with different hair for every day in the week. This
black hairatid this to such purpose that I saw her
childish frivolity did not exclude laborious occupation
and very minute, domestic cares. She bad her own de-
li,ghts of imagination, and would read the romances of
M. d'Arlinccurt s ith positive frenzy--far into the night
—but that did not hinder her from being astir at six in
the morning, to begin anew her toilettes, her excursions,
her needlework, her naernment, her despair, and her fil
of passion."

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE VILLAGE NIGHTINGALE.
To be followed by THE PET OF THE PUBLIC.
After which, A RAFFLE FOR AN ELEPHANT.
To conduit, with SALLY SMART.

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n ess.

from the chaff—of deciding who was true-heart ed
and who the reverse.
Several of the Derbyite party, too, exhibited a
pro-Russian tendency which had not been sus-
pected. The Marquis of GRANBY, Lord C.
HAMILTON, Lord R. CECIL, Sir STAFFORD NORTH-
COTE, and Mr. WALPOLE all made speeches worthy
of the Peace-at-any-price party; and even Mr.
DISRAELI himself was crippled by the insubordi-
nation .of his party. The most vigorous speeches
were those made by independent members, who
merely spoke for themselves, and not as the or-
gans of any considerable body. Mr. MACGREGOR,
Mr. ROEBUCK, and several others enhanced their
former character, and showed that there are men
who may still be depended on, and who cannot
be induced to betray the confidence reposed in
them. We must also speak in terms of unquali-
fied approbation of the speeches of some of the
Members of the Government. Sir WILLIAM
MOLESWORTH was particularly impressive. The
Right Honourable Baronet, in his brief ex-
planation last night, completely upset the accusa-
tions so pertinaciously and unfairly urged against
him by Mr..COBDEN, who, as we yesterday proved,
was himself a thousand times more liable to the
charge of inconsistency, even if everything he
asserted was as correct as it has been shown to be
inaccurate. The Attorney-General, too, spoke as
he always does, distinctly and unequivocally.
Wherever he may be, in or out of office, Sir
ALEXANDER COCKBURN will maintain the high
position he has so honourably achieved.
Although brought to so " lame and impotent"
a conclusion, the debate has been one of no ordi-
nary importance. It has taught Ministers the
state of public opinion, and induced them to cast
aside the mystery in which their own views
were previously involved. The country
has now greater guarantees against a dishonour-
, able and injudicious peace than it formerly pos-
sessed. It may repose greater confidence in the
Government, since the wide gulf that has been
created between them and their quondam col-
leagues. The Conferences having been finally
closed, we are no longer bound by the Four
Points, but may, considering the important suc-
cesses recently achieved, confidently look forward
to more satisfa,ctoryresults than any suggested dur-
ing the progress of the negotiations—results that
will be consistent with the honour of the Western
Powers, and insure the future safety of the Otto-
man Empire and the tranquillity of Europe.

Much forbearance is always due to Mr. BRIGHT
when speaking on peace or war. We all know
the tenacity with which an inherited creed clings
to us ; and it would be uncharitable to the last
degree to confound wilful with congenital blind-
We will, therefore, attribute Mr. BRIGHT'S
most extravagant, and seemingly sophistical, rea-
sonings to the bias, the unconscious bias, of his
birth. We do not for a moment class the Hon.
Member for Manchester with the shifty or jesui-
tical Peelifes who have turned over to his creed,
since their mismanagement of the War, or their
philo-Russian conduct of it ejected them from
office. They hate the War because it betrayed their
treachery and their incapacity. Mr. BRIGHT hates
it because he was taught from his cradle the doc-
trine of non-resistance. With such a creed, with
an excitable temperament, and with no outlet for the
incandescent matter within but that of his ora-
tory, it is not to be wondered at that he should
every now and then be subject to a rather ardent'
peace eruption. It is not with him a set at the
Treasury benches, neither is it a shabby revenge
upon those who turned him cut.

Whatever we allow to the man, however, no
indulgence is due to his arguments. Indeed,
though we do not want homilies in the Howe of
Commons, we could relish the Quaker oratory
better were it more drawn from the speaker's
creed, and less attempt made to justify a creed
well enough adapted for Paradise, by the kind of
reasonings used among us fallen outsiders. We
always must feel, while listening to non-resistance
oratory, that if the speaker argues with us on our
own grounds he fails to convince us. We are the
wiser in our own line. The Quaker may array a
most portentous list of evil results before us, but
he does not overpower the deep-seated conviction
that a result, worse than all he enumerates put
together, would be the fruit of adopting his
policy. He only makes an impression for the
time by magnifying, what even without his glasses,
appears to us of appalling consequence, but he
wants us also with him, to invert the instrument
when looking at what we most dread. This is, of
course, the common artifice of speCial pleaders,
and the unconscious one of honest but enthusias-
tic men.

Mr. BRIGHT'S reference to America, for in-
stance, is coloured entirely for one purpose—to
frighten the ten-pound householders, and the
manufacturers and merchants, by the appeal ad
crumenam. American freedom from debt, and light
taxation, and the English national debt and war
taxes were certainly a contrast broad enough. But
with the repeated commercial crises which we
had in the long peace since 1814, it was surely
mere clap-trap to set down to the War any dis-
tress among the manufacturing or agricultural
peasantry at the present time. Strikes, the habit
, of spending in animal indulgence all their earn-
ings in prosperous years, and overtrading with
Australia and America, are fully sufficient to ac-
count for want of work and want of funds
amongst manufacturing operatives. In the agri-
cultural districts if the labourers are not well
paid it certainly is not because landlords and
farmers cannot afford it. In either case the War
is not answerable for the overtrading of manu-
facturers, and its reaction ; or for farm labourers
being at the mercy of the lords of the soil. The
proprietors and tenants of broad acres have this
year at least funds to make those ample and re-
munerative improvements which would raise the
price of rustic labour to the living point.

But does Mr. BRIGHT wish England to sink to
the level of United States' political selfishness ?
She never fought any battle for freedom but her
own, and we believe she never will. All her
battles of late, all her conquests, and all her pro-
jected conquests, have been in the interest
of slavery. The Union is, in fact, the Ame-
rican counterpart of Russia. Every man
there is a Czar, at least every member of the
tyrant majority ; and, as a part of that ma-
jority, he dooms all of the other party to an
official Siberia, and all his coloured fellow-
countrymen to worse than Russian serfdom. A
friend of the negro fares worse in half the Union
than a friend of Poland would at St. Petersburg ;
and if there be no official censorship of the press,
it is probably because the mob do not choose to
be deprived of their privileges. Even a village
postmaster, in every part of the States, must
turn out if the party which gave him the appoint-
ment is in a minority. We expect soon to hear
that the qualification for the humblest offices
all over the Union is to be a "know nothing."
The present unfortunates who happen to "know
something"
place to the dominant
by some years of experience, must give
the line of conquest, by ignorance :hoer atneci et i I
no
of
ntyh eo
fd
laiye .r
wI
nu
•
best men, the States have rivalled Russia in

fraud or intimidation (Anglice bullying) as well as
in courage when needed. The annexation of
Texas, indeed, the whole course of American pro-
cedure with Mexico, equals anything ever done by
Russia around the Black Sea or on either bank of
the Danube, England can, however, never con-
sent to learn lessons on freedom from the great
Slave Republic. From a State, the condition of
whose existence is, that a man, a fellow-creature
may be kidnapped all the Union over, that a citi-
zen who shields the fugitive from bondage shall
be ruinously faxed and imprisoned, and that a
judge en as parte evidence, no jury intervening,
shall receive double fee for sending back to slavery
the man who has hazarded all for freedom ! No
wonder such a people sympathise more with the
Cziat and his serfs than with the Allied Monarchs
and their freemen.

But, even in the purely commercial point of view,
does character go for nothing ? How is it that,
with all their enterprise, few American houses en-
joy the reputation possessed by thousands of Eng-
lish firms ?—that English capital is nearly always
so much cheaper than American How is it that
the dread of " repudiation " has grown up among
otherwise willing lenders on this side the water ?
And how is it that the great Free-traders have
been unable, either by their arguments or their
example, to gain the ear of America ? Mr.
BitionT's pattern land for newspapers, commerce,
and we know not what besides, is Protectionist
still to the uttermost of her power. Liberal
feeling in that line of policy she has not a touch of.
As to the weight which the War is to lay on us in
the race with America, Mr. BRIGHT'S policy is the
reverse of ours. We say let Russia be made to
bear all that weight. We believe, moreover, that
every great commercial State has lost her com-
merce when she has lost her military prestige.
From the times of Carthage and Athens to these of
Holland and Venice this has always been the case.
We believe that a Manchester school peace would
be more injurious ultimately to Manchester than
even 100 millions more of debt.

Notwithstanding the increasing din of our war-
like preparations, and the intense interest which
attaches to every movement of our noble army,
it is our pride and boast that we still have time
to attend to matters which affect the progress,
morally and commercially, of our island commu-
nity. The " Honesty," or " Fidelity of Trust,"
of the rising and the risen generation, is of the
first importance to the Public, as a question in-
volving a great commercial as well as a highly
moral principle ; and we have much pleasure,
therefore, in drawing attention to the Report of
" The Times Life and Guarantee Assurance
Company," which appears in another part of this
impression, and by which Report it will be seen
that, although there is considerable room for im-
provement with reference to Fidelity in general,
still, that the first five years' working
of the company has enabled the Directors to pay
a bonus upon the shares and upon policies. We
have regarded the progress of these guarantee
companies with considerable interest, inasmuch as
a principle new in the history of assurance, and
one to which the doctrine of chances had never
been before applied, was involved. " Canst thou
administer to a mind diseased," demands the
despotic "Thane". These companies reply that
they " can supply the antidote ;" and we sincerely
hope that they may all continue to prosper in
their arduous, but useful career. The Times As-
surance Company seems to have been unusually
successful, and we refer our readers to their
Iteport.

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