The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-14 00:00:00

PARIS RACES.

One of the most numerous crowds ever seen at the
Paris races lined the vast arena of the Chump de
Mars on Sunday to witness the fourth and last of
the spring ms.htings. The stands, too, were filled to
excess, and ladies, many of them of high rank, and
all in most elegant toilettes, were in the majority.
'lle gathering within the ropes of dashing equipages,
also chiefly occupied by ladies, and of horsemen, was like-
wise as great as on the most pslmy days of the Paris
turf. The attendance of noblemen and gentlemen who
take an interest in races, and esperidly of those con-
nected with the Jockey and other Clubs, was on the
whole more numerous than usual. Tito weather was
beautifully fins,_ and the day's business spirited.
The Prince President of the Rspublio was not present,
but a great many eminant official personages, and some
ex-rnit isters, were on the ground.
The Stalscs.de Teases, of 1,000 ~ for horses and mares
of three years and upwards; entry 50f. ; weight for
age; the winner to be claimed for 6,000 f., but horses
indicated as to bo claimed for less to carry less
weight; distance once round. 5 entries:—.
Reiset's f Zfrline, 3 yrs, 791 b (Planncur) 1
Aumont'a f Bucolique, 4 yrs, 98Ib
M. Courtois' m Waat, 5 yrs, 1061 b
M. Lupin's f Lutetia, 4 yrs, 981 b
M. Saillard's c Adolphe, 4 yrs, 1071 b
Z .rline went Off a little ahead, and at the bridge cut
out the running and made it to the end, winning easily.
Want was second to the back when she was passed by
Bucolique. The winner was claimed for 2,305 f.; the
was entered as worth 2,000 f.
Special Stakes of 4,000 f, given by the Minister of the
Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce, fur horses and
mares •of 3 yrs and ups ards, foaled in France, and
whose descent is traced in the French Stud-nook.
Entry 100 f. The same weights as for the stakes of
the Ministry of the Interior, with extra on the winners
of certain stakes. Distance 4 kilometres; twice round.

5 entries.
M. Aumont's f Hervine, 4 yrs, 1171 b (Sprouty) 1
Mr. Carter', f Illustration, 4 yrs, 1171 h 0
Pricco M. de Beauvaq's c Electrique; 4 yrs, 112th
Electrique got off first, with the other two jest behind.
In this position they went to the Ecole Mditaire in the
last round, when Electriquo was caught, and soon passed
by Hervine and Illustration. Between these two a good

race Ensued, and the former won by a length.
Trial Stakes of 3,0001., added to 1,0001: entry; forfeit
600 F., and 500 f. only if declared two days before the
race. For colts and fillies foaled in 1849 Weight,
colts 1081 b, fillies 105 lb. The second to save its
entry. Distance about three-fourths round, starting
from the turning after the bridge. 4 entries.
Mr. Carter's f Bounty
M. Mosselman's c Eperon ............ 2
Baron de Pierre's f Juliette
..................(Young Carter) 1
Prince de Beauvau's c Edward the First
At starting Bounty and Juliett® got away and ran
nearly together to the turnin' to the Ecole Militaire,
when Bounty went ahead: Near the distance Eperon,
who bad been lying last. took the'second place. Bounty
won easily. Including the entries and forfeits, the
of0;1, and
,d v
owner of the winner gained about 12,000".
The'th er Princertncerrr6rdei ds
iednent 'at Handicap of 4,000 f. f
l
, for horses and maresse bttha-nreedee
yrs and upwards. Entry. 200 F.; forfeit,
50f. only if declared before the 6th of May. Distance
about 2,200 yards. The weights were published on
the 2d of May, and 51b extra on any horse that has
11°L
ac"ntehdorbaye
Avon since then. If the hns dr
entries,aiceDnp. be
9Tehnetriseesc.c-irdr
102 lbs ...... (Sprouty) 1
14,
.te_oAt
receivelue„s ot attw,s4ooaporrf.oopitoihemot
sot,rhs3e,
yrs,
elizras,ylr6so
1,-)zi __ ............ 3
Mr. Carter's f Annette, 4 Iris, 107 lb
prince do Beauvau'a c James, 4 yrB,3
i5i.b.03.6....i..h... .................................... 200
uM.. Grenade,Lmuopsisne'istafetesfA un
Porthos went away with the lead,isTwith Annette second,
No change took place
beforeentry; forfe•
1,11200 f , added y.
fee.a,naanddn,
adGae Porthosnosrdeoonf.fade ju just t
wboenh ienadsil
declared te
1 25r.
for those
jtHeaumltrhodeoesl
only it
May. The • weig ts published the 6th
time°
Once
and on the 3d M
May. Die.a quarter round,
turning from the Ec 1 M. • starting from
o e ilitaire.
Two horses tostart Six hurcit the
es to leap.
M. de la Motte's or no race. 7 entries.
m Miss Burns,
M•
Loyer's h Min • aged,l32lbs (Jackson) 1
Ilardy'a f Josephine, 4
erbio, aged, 1201 b ..................... 2
yrs, 1221 b
Count de Costaudon's3
in Aare 6
Count Lehon's in D 1 - -• Yrs, 1301 b 0
Mr. Clifton's The Pone
u carasra, 6 yrs, 1421 b
Several y, yrs 1141 b
of the jocke • .
:is 111 t 4 0
same colours, so that it was . s race were exactly the
the race. All that we could next to impossible to follow
made the ruanine to the make out was that Pdinerbio
up by mi„ EuillB, third hurdle, when it was taken
she pleased. ,1,1,0
lewho.soon went far ahead and ran as
rise to nothing arlag
of the different hurdles gave
in future the worthy of note. It is to be hoped that
prevent the inconveniencestewardsof. the
raceswill
take
care
to
which arises from the wear-
ing of the same e
oloura by two or more jockeys.

___er6iack
his
family,
THE POLITICAL. EXILES —The Lim
says Fattier Kenyon, of Templed?rry,
has
iieu letter was
a long letter from his friend John Mitehel. !
;nit Tpicture of the
written in December ;it off:ads a glow Reporter
present position and prospects of,the exile a
who are enjoying the sweets of domestic
happiness
children
Diemen's Land.it, d Dire. Mitchel and .
Ar. an living with them,
are all in the best health ; John Martin.
ed 'IS
John Mitchel has
and his health also is greatly
imp' he is farming himself,
piness in Van
taken a large tract of land, which He writes- in
and which affords him- constantoccupation._
high sphits, by no means in
loVeI
of Ireland are said to
and his aspirations for the liberation, however;
be 45 vigox9g4 wad 10 011iatiwt 0,1
owre-tt, he Whigs,

THh Ea d E btihreo Rh
OOLTIIIir,E TitIIME:O.I33-
common
11ER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM
haTvoe
with
several hundreds of the best of my countr and
the loveliest cf my countrywomen, to s.pn2eyn
humble respects to my Sovereign this day on ihaZ, emu?:
sion of her illejesty's birthday, and long ma this
day be celebrated with equal loyalty and affeyction
But I trust I may bs permitted to call the attention of
those whom it may concern to the unperalleled want of
convenience and due arrengement in the largo recep-
tions cceasienally held at St. James's, which would dis-
grace, I will net say any other Court in Europe, where
such scenes are unknown—l will not say nobleman's
house, for he would instantly discharge his household
—but any decent place of public amusement in this city.
The carriages as they arrive set down their noble
and te9autiful occupants at an open corridor on the
east side of the Palace, where a muddy mat is placed
on the stones, which are otherwise wet and un-
covered. A fea, yards cf red baize and a wooden
floor on the ply, mcnt of this corridor or entrance,
with seats near the 'wall, would at once change its
appearance and render it a useful accommodation.
The servants of all the persons attending the Court
are compelled meanwhile to stand in the yard of the
Palace, whrever the weather may be, and without
shelter, though they may be there for many hours.
On catering the Palace there is no cloak-
room, nor any means of depositing any protection
against the cold, which is the more necessary as the
passages are open, and the draughts of air, to which
ladies in full evening dress are exposed, most
piercing. I say nothing of the apartments, except
that it wculd be difficult to find another palace in
Europe so inconveniently arranged or so shabbily
famished. I bad the honour of waiting for one hour
this morning in a room adorned with blunder-
binises and pikes, which probably figured at the
battle of the Boyne, relieved by painted wainscot-
ing, red flock paper, and dingy stuff curtains. It
is, however, in the great apartment that the " tug of
war" begins. The rush into the sluices reminds one
of a mill-race, and it seldom happens that any one
passes that arybdis without the loss of some por-
tion of his or het apparel, or of a still more valu-
able portion of good humour. This painful con-
test might be avoided by the simple expedient of
prolonging the division, or banister up and
down the whole room in zlgzsg, as is done at the
theatres in Perla I venture to affirm that the
entry of a crowd at the Patois Royal when Made-
moiselle Dejazet is about to appear in one of her
popular characters is far more decorous than what
I witnessed to-day in approaching the Majesty of
Erglacd.
On leaving the presence chamber and descending the
stairs, the scene becomes even more painful. You pass
from apartments of . suffocating heat
to open passages
without escape from the bitterest cold.
The
narrow
corridor is thronged, so that when carriages are an-
nounced it is impossible to reach them
and
women are literally compelled to stand for 111
this
state
with-
out a possibility of relief. I saw
themhours
refuge in the mud cf the outer cored even
taking or to escape the
pressure

I am sure, Sir, these circumstances are utterly
un
known to the illustrious Lady to whom we were
l. al
anxious to pay cur homage, and never more than
on
this day. They are also known in a less degree to
those eminent persona who have the privilege of
the entrée. But a little care and a small amount of
preparation would obviate much of the evil. No-
thing of the kind occurs at her Majesty's State
entertainments in Buckingham Palace, where the
splendid hospitality of the Crown is sometimes extended
to 2 000 persons, and where everything is conducted
with the most perfect attention and order; and I venture
to "nuke these remarks because I am persuaded the
officers of her:Majesty's household must feel painfully af-
fected by the comparisons which are drawn between these
tumultuous and fatiguing scenes and the public receptions
in any other Cuurt in Europe.
May 13.

MILES.

THE SEA-MEW INLAND REVENUE
STEAMER.

The advantages have been found so great and so
economical when employing a steamer compared with
sailing vessels, in the removal of the parties employed
in the suppression of smuggling inland in Ireland, that
an old vessel, the Warrior, was purchased for that ser-
vice. The Warrior is now so old that it has been
deemed advisable to have a new steamer, which has just
been completed, and mode her first trial trip down the
river yesterday, to ascertain her speed and the
working qualities of her engines, Mr. Wood, chair-
man of the Board of Inland Revenue; Mr. Anderson,
ALP. (chairman), and Mr. Allen, directors of the Penin-
sular anti Oriental Steam Shipping Company; Mr.
Lloyd, chief engineer of the Admiralty at Somerset-
Houce; Mr. Lamb, chief engineer to the Peninsular
and Oriental Company at Southampton; Mr. Water-
man, son.; Mr. Walermen,jun.; Mr. White, of Cowes;
Mr. John Penn, of Greenwich; and a number of
scientific gentlemen; were on board, to witness the
trial. The Sca Mew was built of iron, by Messrs.
Mare and Co , from a design by Mr. Waterman, jun., and
she is 143 feet long, with 22 feet breadth of beam, and
her draught of water is only eight feet. The engines by
John Penn and Son, arc on their patent principle,
direct acting, and collectively of 60-horse power, and
similar in principle to the engines fitted by the same
engineers on ti.:,.crd her Majesty's steam-frigates Arro-
gant' and EnconnVr, of 360-horse power each. The
diameter of the tercw-prepelltr is 8 feet, with a pitch of
10 feet, and during the trial the number of revoln-
lions was 120 per minule, the engines working with
the greatest smoothness, and without the least appear-
ance of heating, although it was their first trial. The
average speed to-day on one run down and one up the
measured mile in Long Reach, the up run against
a strung brecz) and tide, was about 9 knots per
hour, the result being satisfactory to all on
board. The principal statien of the Sea Mew will
be on the coast of Ireland, extending from Limerick
to the Giant's Causeway, and by her aid a lieutenant
will 14 men of an inland revenue party, or a greater
number when required, may be moved a distance of 60
miles in one night, and prove a most efficient means of
taking the smugglers by surrese, owing to the celerity
of movement of the party from one point to another;
and her small draught of water and steaming qualities
will enable her to land the parties on board on the
islands and other places which sailing vessels could not
e
to epproach for landing parties during bad
weather.

TO. THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—The last nv.il from the Cape brings most dis-
tressing cceounts of the barbarities practised by the
Kafirs upon the unfatunate British prisoners, such as
roasting them alive, cutting them up piecemeal; and
when one unfortunate man complained of hunger they
cut slices of his body and gave them to him for food.
These a•co the barbarians that the Exetc.T. hall people
Wculd deal with. I propose that they be ex.er.
minuted as wolves wirc exterminated in England, b
giving a reivAd for each head—say 21. for men, and 11.
fur women and children.
This would turn he Boers out, and is, is to, .
the (Ally way to ti with such inhumaa savages.
°PIM;
I am, Sir, your ohodiont
_ C. S.

EXIIIDITIO---`---
Nor 1851.—1 t will 118 °e
the Court c been seen by
ircular that the official presentation of the
re-
pert ofher bhjesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of
1851 (as far as relates toi their proceedings Up to the present
wtime) bas just taken p ac,e. We understand that the report
as accompanied by a set of the medals struck by the Cam-
nlN% issimere, the Official Catalogues of the Exhibition, and
the Jary Ifeports. It will probably be some time, however,
before the latter reports will be printed and ready for distri-
bution to the exhibitors, owing to their voluminous cha-
racter. The above-mentioned copy is the only one that has
as yet been prepared. As respects the report of the Royal
Ceintuit,sion. it will doubtless be laid before Parliament with-
out delay. P. is unders!ood to be of considerable length, and
to Contain in its appendices a large number of curions_aFtt
interesting returns. As this is only the first report Commissionen, a furthcr report, embracing, in all a be
lity, the question of the disposal of the. surplus, 1138 Y
looked for.

death of Illa•orZ
residence in3Lor einNeGr ari' hßeide
general gloom throughout REPR ESENT AT
TriURSDAy EN, I" OF WINDSOR. -- • WINDSOR,
Od Wednesday morning, diffused a very
, name 1.
pa n.,c hwo lhyi
which
intelligence
tookplsce ofat thehis
the town yesterday evening. It
wai known that
attack 01 bilious og from a severe
the General was sufferi , .
fever during the whole of last week, but it
was stated that hethe most dangerous crisis, and
the intelligence of hadh passed r
his
friends
in this town
completely by surprissedeatClente°r°al Reid succeeded to the re-
presentation of Windsor in October, 1845, on the death of the
late Jn3en Ramsbottom, Eaq., eras re-elected without opposi-
tion (in conjunction with the late Lord John Hay) at the
general election of 1817, and by his death one of the seats for
the royal borough is vacant. Mr. Charles William Grenfell,
one of the sitting members for Sandwich, is the liberal can-
didate at the approaching general election, and it is under-
stook that he will accept the Chiltern Hundreds, and offer
himself for the present vacancy.
PRINTER. a' DRAMATIC SOCIETY.—His Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the patron of this society, has forwarded
to the secretary ten guineas, to enhance the receipts of an
r
amateu performance at the St. James's Theatre, on the Ist
haat., in aid of the funds of the Printers' Pension Society and
the Almshouse Endowment Fund.
THE CORNWALL RAILWAY.—We are enabled to
state that a sufficient number of the shares of this line have
already been taken up as to justify the directors ia innae-
, diately proceeding with the works. Out of the sixty five
miles, to which the railway will extend, the landlords
along the line have taken the price of their land for 'thirty
miles entirely in shares. Contracts will be forthwith adver-
tised for, and already it is understood that responsible par-
' ties have intimated their readiness to undertake the con-
' struction of the entire line, at the rate of about 9,0001. par
' mile.
John Hatnbidge' who was tried at Gloucester last
assizes, for the wilful murder of his father, and sentenced to
only fourteen days' imprisonment, was on Monday com-
mitted to his old quarters for having shot his Mother •in-law
at the same place.— Worcester Chronicle.
TDB UNToRTUNATE STEAMER PREsTurin.—The
Grenada Chronicle states, that on the 4th of April a shine,
figure bead, of unusual dimensions, was cast nstior -
island. It had been originally fully eight feet high,
e on that
that of a senator in the act of ;peaking, He i and is
bald, end boles a scroll in his right hand, the leftis Partially
scarf which is partially thrown over him. The t.)-;-"r—g a
jecture, on v, hat grounds we do not learn, that ' -iltrs C'lll-
- of the ill-fated steamer President.
it may be a
COAST OF Aruicx.--Letters bole 1,
from Fernando Po, to the 7th of February.een received
the Banshee, Captain Illnkio k last, stating that
above date, and reported the ' c ) had arrived there at the
of Old Cal'abar. the 1? ee,,,ueath of Archibond Duke, King
hersKijty's Consul, to d'idee, would convey Mr. Beecrott,
apprehen-
sions were Entertained in Calabar, as serious
King's debts. connexion with the payment of the

A machine has bEen put in operation in Oincin.
nati which sweeps carpets as fast as a dozen sturdy men
might do it. The carpets are fixed on rollers, and mode ti 4
P4O, bNitel.l opriLg Whip@ Alia ItyviTiDA Dr. 141115,