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

ST.- LEGER;

8 to I. to 501.; and 7. to 1 to 300/.; were booked about
St. Hubert, and 100 even betted between him and Lord
of the Isles.

• DERBY.
10 to 1 would have been taken freely about Fly by
Night. 50 to 1 was taken to nearly 200/. about Van-
dermulin. Nothing else occurred worthy of particular
comment.

CL' OSMG PRICES.
CHELMSFORD 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 agst Epaminondas (taken)
20 to 1 agst Fulbeck (taken)
20 to 1 agst Katerfelto (taken)
30 to 1 net 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 and Mortimer, do. (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP.
2to 1 agst Baroncino (taken and offered)•
3to 1 agst Oalston (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Rattle
Royal-quand-creme was scratched on the 20th inst.,
at 12 at noon.

Sr. LEGER.
sto 2 agst Oulston.
6to 1 arzat Lord of the Isles
7to 1 agst St. Hilbert (taken)
100 even between St. Hubert and Lord of th•
Isles (taken)

DERBY.
9 to 1 agst Fly by Night
50 to 1 agst Vandermnlin (taken)

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

GOODWOOD IL
FIRST
Weights for the Steward's
Age st lb
Early Bird 4 9 5
Virago 4 9 5
Ty pee 5 8 12
Orinoco 5 8 10
Dervish 4 8 7
Bair° wnie 5 8 4
Michaelmas Maid 5 8 4
Wild Huntsman., 4 8 3
Comfort 4 8 0
Ireland's Eye 4 8 0
Honeysuckle 4 8 0
Puinicectone 4 7 12
Kennyside Hero 4 7 12
Calamus
Cineas
Humboldt 4 7 7
Colt by Surplice—
Clementina 3 7 6
Foxhun ter 4 7 6
Monarque 3 7 6
Falcon 4 7 4
Orson 4 7 2
Chalice
Strutaway 4 7 0
Cardigan
Roaline
Welham 4 7 0
The Cropper 3 6 13
Little Tom ....
Tabolski
Pharos
Swindler

kCES.—juLY 31.
DAY.
Cup. T.Y.C. 60 subs.
Age st lb
Clotilde • 3 6 9
Lord Albemarle 5 6 3
The Poacher ... 5 6 7
Doublethong 5 6 7
Colt by Venison,
out of Vexation 3 6 6
Star of Surrey .. 4 6 6
Elvaston
Little Gerard 4 6 6
Duke of Lancaster 4 6 4
In,tructress
Protest
Katerfelto
Alcyone 3 6 0
The Sandboy 3 5 13
The Professor
Filly by Van
Tromp, out of
Queen Mab
Le Fripon 3 5 10
Daffodil..... 3 5 10
Sicily
Lambs wool
Roving Betsy
Crotchet 3 5 10
Laura Selina 3 5 7
Doralice 3 5 4
Flacrow 3 5 4
Hartly Buck
Arnsh4
Panmure
Anniversary 2 4 7

LAST
Weights for the Cheaterfiel

DAY.
Id Cup. Certain winners

extra. Craven Course. 36 subs.

Age et lb Age it lb
Virago
Early Bird 4 9 3 Cardigan
Scythian
Orinoco
Scherz
Hungerford
Acrobat ... 4 8 9 Swindler 3 6 10
Vindex
Dervish
Balrownie
Ivan
Ena,minondas ... 4 8 2 Crochet
Wild Huntsman 4 8 2 The Rajah 3 510
Winkfield
Vanderdecken ... 5 7 13 Sicily
Purnicestone 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 4 10
Weights for the Nursery Stakes. Certain winners extra.
Last mile. (37 subs.)
1 st. lb.

at. lb.

Wandering Willie 8 7
Sirocco
Spindle
Caledonia
Rogerthorpe 8 2
Lawn 7 12
Tilly
Thirty to Five
Duet
Knight of Kerry
Merlin
Cannobie
The Galliard
Termagant 7 9
Puck
Lunelle...
Gaudy
Filly by Annandale,
out of Extravaganza 7 9
Announcement 7 9

Anniversary
7 9
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
Mice Wentworth
Mr. Huffam 6 4
Colt by the Hero,
out of Latitude.— 6 4

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Queen-square, Bristol, July 19, 1855.
Sip,—We see a gallant display of physical force in
the course of the present war in the operations before
Sebastopol ; 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
heaving of Vesuvius, Mount Etna, or Chimborazzo ?
We see vast sums of money expended in the construe.
tion .of gun-boats without seeing any adequate results
(except in their coat to the country), and the question
is whether the few that have 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
strongest manner, each being 300 feet long and 100 feet
wide, or larger, one side having bulwarks, the other side
not any, but merely a ledge or rim about a foot higl3,
1208?
that shot falling on the platform of the raft might _
..t
recoil by striking against bulwarks of greater heighs
The ends should have the same kind of rim,
__rt.
The bulwarks on the face of the battery
~.(havingC4.
holes for guns) might be 5 feet thick and
_r b. . , _ °ci feet
a :,[l.
The guns should be heavier thanMtn- van
be Lancasters,
temptible 6-pounders. They ought
brought into
to carry 600 guns,could a
they ul man steam -tug,
position by means
of
deliver its broadside,
one by one, each
to
brought up, to be, if pos-
or the heaviest in the fleet. Sup.p?sinbge the 20 batteries
and retire before another was shot, and to lessen the
sible, out of range of the
beyond dispute making it
at the entrance of the enemy's
har-
annitfinpel,aced in a north-west position
d commanding the harbour, the
,f6OO guns would,
and placed
in my opinion
tcbie
sohff:teuaoncrt tetpoaeorfcefokytf heFneot casualties.r
fire
tu
d Sebastopol•tiaet then
find
increased and
, Fort Constantine being down, what
Palpable to siihe rafts being floated into
the enemy between two
tars would doubtlessly prefer being actively
taken in reverse,
s of resistance weakened.
his mean 0 end,
engaged with some prospect of success to being passive
, Our jolly
spectators of the operations of the allied armies on shore,
and could not be more usefully employed than in attack-
ing this fort with their raft batteries, as the destruction
fint:eas'?ll illtefrworao he:n.d
of this fort would greatly insure the taking of the town.
In the meanwhile, time presses, delay is dangerous, the
rafts are not yet made I
Let the recollection of the vast ambition of Russia !
the fate of Finland, Poland, the attempts on Turkey,
Persia, Circassia, Moldavia, Wallachia, the massacre of
Sinope 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 stimula.te us to make a funeral pile of Sebass
topol.---Your obedient servant,

T. L. S.

P.S.—An India rubber curtain or fender a foot thick,
himg out over the whole face of the battery, having
openings far 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 r esources of a country, if they are not available

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.—The Commissary-General
Le Play in A caused cards to be posted throughout the
building, c; ailing on exhibitors to affix the prices to their
articles, a s this information is not only desired by the
public, buy t will serve as a bbse for the award of reowa•
peaces by. the jurors.