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

PARIS R ACES.

One of the most numereus crowds ever seen at the
Paris races lined the, vast arena of the Champ de
Mars on Saudi.), to witness the fourth and last of
the spring mt:eiiogs. The stande, too, were filled to
excess, and ladies, m9ny of theta of high real, and
all in most elegant tuiltttes, were in the mejority.
Tte gathering within the ropes of dashing equipages,
also chiefly occupied by ladies, and of horsemen, was like-
wise as great as on the most palmy days of the Paris
turf. Toe attendance of noblemen and gentlemen who
take an interest in races, and especially of those con-
nected with the Jockey and other Clubs, was on the
whole more numerous than usual. The weather was
beautifully tine, and the day's business spirited.
The Priace President of the Republic was not present,
but a great many eminent official personages, and some
ex-ministers, were on the ground.
The Stakes de Tertres, of 1,000 f., for horses and mares
of three years and upwards; entry 50f.; 'weight for
age; the winner to bo claimed for 6,000 f., but horses
indicated as to be claimed for less to carry less
weight; distance once round. 5 entries:—
M. Reiset's f Z-rlitie, 3 yrs, 791 b (Planneur) 1
Aumont's t Bueolique, 4 yrs. 981 b - 2
M. Cuurtois' m Wass, 5 yrs, 1061 b
M. Lupin's f Lutetia, 4 yrs, 981 b
M. Saillard's c Adolph°, 4 yrs, 1071 b
Zcrline 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
Bucolicpe. Tho winner was claimed for 2,305 f.; she
was entered as worth 2,000.
Special Stakes of 4,000 f., given by the Minister of the
Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce, for horses and
mares of 3 yrs and Upwards, foaled in France, and
whose descent is traced in the French Stud-book.
Entry 106 f. The same weights 113 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. A4f ll yrs, 1171 b (Spronty) 1
Mr.Cuamrtellets'flth:vsrtrin' 4
ation, 4 yrs, 117ib 0
Prince M. de Beauvau's c Electrique, 4 yrs, 1121 b ..•
_0
Electrique got off first, with the other two just behind.
In this position they went to the Ecole Militaire in
laat round, when Electrique was caught, and soon passede
by Hervine and Illustretion. Between these two a goo,
a
race ensued, and the former won by a length.
tr
bet TO the
Trial StfilteS of 3,000 f.. added to I,ooo,:iesrl
600 f., and 5001. only if declared twoli _ Y.,. weight,
rates. For colts and fillies foaledsei 184
second to save its
colts 1081, fillies 1051 b.
The
be round, starting
Y; forfeit
600 f.,
fernoly.th eptui Distance
aftercbc'u t thelb rbridge.ce-f,r.
(t 4/.0 u g Carter) 1
Mr. Carter's f Bounty ...................... entries......
o
M. Mosselman's LI EP°7ll,;*
Baron de Pierre
At starting
ahead. Near the distance Eperon,
Prince do
Beativ'aauf'sjcyuldndwarJdultiheteteFigrsott away and ran
,forfeit 2, the
to the Boole Militaire,
wwnw eohhanoerulhyeaadtso
easily.
yee.e Bountyn erryßeti
nifigttii theats ,
at
taorookint'he second place. Bounty
.1. mares offeredo f threeby
1001., and
n r of the wfzleiii.dg
fnetclheab:eotig.,oaonod".
yrs and .
T"ht-eh :13- Princerne Prince
President,ar resident'sds.
Entry, 2001.;
1 ec2rasopeost.o.:;hawn4ofeodfrore; mo.:ja.a,
May,
. published
p i
sta t
too
ne
and slb extra on any horse that hes
501. only it d)e,scrldarse.d
Tbilteorweetighoht6s
'nee then. If the handicap he not ace'Ved
.., .. by
t
at least two proprietors, no race. The accoud horse
atvihbooe:22,u2foMo 4,
to receive 400 F. from the entries. 9 en.tries.
M. Auosont's c Porthos, 3 yrs, 102 lbs ...... (Sprouty) 1
Mr. Carter's f Annette, 4 yrs, 107 lbs. .................. 2
Prince de Beauvau's c James, 4 yrs, 106 lbs ............. 3
M. Lupin's f Grenade, 4 yrs, 102 lbs. ..................
M. Mosselman's f Amalie, 3 yrs, 83 11)3,
............... 00
Porthos went away with the lead, with Annette second,
James and Grenade just behind. No change took place
to the end, and Porthos won easily.
Hurdle Race of 1,200 f., added to 125 f. entry; forfeit
100 E, and 50f. only for those declared before the 6.1
May. Tho weights published on the. 3d May. pis-
tanca once and a quarter round, starting from the
turning from the Euule Militaire. Six hurdles to leap.
Two horses to start or no race. 7 entries.
M. de la Motte's in Miss Burns, ageci,l32lbs (Jackson) 1
M. Leyer's h Mitierbio, aged, 120 lb 2
Hardy's f Josephine, 4 yrs, 122113
Count de Costaudon's en Aphra, 6 yrs, 1301 b
Count Lehon's in Dalearnara, 6 yrs, 1421 b
Mr. Clifton's The Polley, yrs. 1141 b ...... . ••••••“" 0
Several of the jockeys in this race were exactly the
same colours, so that it was next to impossible to
the race. All that we could make out was that Miner.bio
made the running to the third hurdle, when it was takens
up by Miss 13urns, who soon went far ahead sad rsa_l2e.
she pleased. The lea in of the different hurdles, gave
rise to nothing worthy of note. It is to be hoped thatn
care ....., in future the stewards of the races will take
prevent the inconvenience which arises from the. follow
wear-
ing of the same colours by two or more joeker

Tn POLITICAL EXILES —The Litnerick Reporter
saays :—" Father Kenyon, of Templederry,
December ; it affords a
long letter from his friend John- Mitchel. The letter was
written in has just received
Present position and prospects of the exile and his family,
andta taken
n Lis
a health
large
who are enjoying glowing picture of the
the sweets of domestic happiness in Van
Diemen's Land. B tr. and Mrs. Mitchel and their children
are all iu the best hea'th • John Martin is living with them,
• h be is farming himself,
atlrsaootis of land,
improved.wkie . John Mitchel has
and ,which affords him constant occupation. lle writts in
high spirits, by no.means in love with the Whigs, however;
and hla aspirations for the liberation of Ireland are Said to
be RS Yigcutta and 44 C 9134014 as Mr!"

RER MAJESTY
'S DRATVING-R00.21f.
TO THE EDITOR OF TUE TIMES.
Sir,--I have had the honour, in •
Iseveral hundreds of the best of common with
my countrymen and
Sovereign afisendalyLoon tpeaeyoemoay.
the loveliest of my cauntrywo
humble respects to my
and
amen. y
.this
sion of her Aqesty's birthday, and
ectionft
day he ceh !rated with equal loyalty
But I trust I may be permitted to call the attention
those whom it may concern to the unparalleled want of
convenience and due arrangement in the large orecep-
tions occasionally held at St. James's, which would dis-
grace, I will not say any other Court in Europe, where
such scenes are unknown—l will not say nobleman's
house, for he won! i instantly discharge his household
—but any decent place of public amusement in this city.
The carriages as they arrive set down their noble
and beautiful occupants at an open corridor on the
east side cf the Palace, where a muddy mat is placed
on the stones, which are otherwise wet and un-
covered. A feri yards of red baize and a wonden
floor on the pavement 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, whatever the weather may be, and without
shelter, though they may be there for many hours.
On entering 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 drainhes of air, to which
lathes in full evening dress are exposed, most
piercing. I say nothing of the apartments, except
that it would he difficult to 'find another palace in
Earope so inconveniently areinged or so shabbily
furnished. I had the honour of waiting for one hour
this meeting is a room adorned with blunder-
ba.sca and. pikes, which probably figured at the
battle of the Boyne, relieved by painted waieseot-
ing, red flock paper, and dingy stuff curtains. It
is, however, in the gust apartment that the " tug of
war" b.-gins. The rush into the sluices ,reminds one
of a mill-race, and it seldom happens that any one
pasted that Charybdis without the loss of some por-
thin of his or her 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 no whole room in zigzag, as is done at the
theatres in rari e I venture to affirch that the
entry of a crowd at the Palais Royal when Made-
moiselle- Dejazt:t is about to appear in one of her
popular charaeters is far more decorous than what
I witnessed to-da --
Erglacd. y in approaching the Majesty of

O -a
having the presence chamber and descending the
stairs, the scene becomes even more painful. You pass
from apartments of suffocating heat to open passages
with
out escape from the bitterest cold. The narrow
corridor is thronged, so that when carriages are an-
nounced it is impossible to reach them and in this state
women are literally compeller to stand fwi Or boars
k.th
oat a possibility of relief. I saw them
ng
refuge in the mud of the outer corridortoeveasenaptae
pressure within. the
I am sure, Sir, these circumstances are utterly
un-
known to the illustrious Lady to whom wewere 11
anxious to pay our homage, and never more than a
this day. They era also known in a less degree onto
those eminent persons who bare the privilege of
the entrée. Bat a little care and a small amount of
prtparatien would obviate much of the evil. No-
thing of the kind occurs at her Majesty's state
enterrainmints in Buckingham Palace, where the
splendid hospitality or the Clown is sometimes extended
to 2 000 persons, and where everything is conducted
with the most perfect attention and order; and I venture
to make these remarks because I am persuaded the
officers (Aber It.F--j-,sty's }leasehold must feel painfully af-
fected by the Comearisous wiaicn are drawn between these
tumultuoas and ta:iguing scenes and the public receptions
in way other Court in Europe.
May 13.

MILES.

THE SEA-MEW INLAND REVENUE

STEAMER.

The advantages have been found so great and so
cceuomieal 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 made 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 Beard of Inland Revenue; Mr. Anderson,

M.P. (chairman), and Mr. Allen, directors of the Penin-
sular: and Oriental Steam Shipping Company; Mr.
Lloyd, chief engineer of the Admiralty at Somerset-
House; Mr. Lamb, chief engineer -to the Peninsular
and Oriental Company at Southampton; Mr. Water-
man, sen.; Mr. Waterman, jun.; Mr. White, of Cowes;
Mr. John Penn, of Greenwich; and a number of
scientific gentlemen; were on boards to witness the
trial. The Sea Mew was built of -iron, by Messrs.
Marc and Co., from a desi:_tn by Mr. Waterman, jun., and
she is 143 feet long, with 22 teat breadth of beam, and
her draught of w tide'. is only eight feet. The engines by
John Penn and Son, are on their patent principle,
direct acting, and collectively of 60-horse power, and
similar m principle to the engines fitted by the same
eneiaecrs on board her Majesty's steam-frigates Arro-
gant and Encounter, of 360-horse power each. The
diameter et the Ecrow-propeller is 8 feet, with a pitch of
10 feat, and during the trial the nuinbtr of revola•
dons was 120 per minute, the engines wer%ing with
the gresteA tmoothnees, and without the least appear-
ance of heating, alihough 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 strong brece and tide, was about 9 knots per
hour, the result being satisfactory to all on
board. The principal statical 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
with 14 men of an inland revenue party, or a greater
number when r quired, may be moved a distance of 60
miles in one night, and prove a most efficient means of
taking the smtiglrrs by surprise, owing to the celerity
of movement of the party from one point to another;
and her small draught et water and steaming qualities
will enable her to land the parties on board on the
islands and other pieces which ceiling vessels could not
venture to approach for landing parties daring bad
weather.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES. '
Sir,—The last mall trom the Cspe brings most dis-
tressing ticzounts of the barbarities practised by the
lisfirs upon the unfortunate 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 are the barbarians that the Exeter• hall people
would deal gently with. I propose that they be exter-
minated as wolves were exterminated in England; by
giving a rewlrd for each head—say 21. for men, and fi
for oremen and children.
This would turn the Boers on', and is, in my opinion,
the only way to deal with such inhuman
savages,
I am, Sir. your obedient servant,
C. S.

presentation been seen by
~. or the Exhibition of
the
Ufile:jua'cilroll6derbtatavtied
e medals struck by th
that there port
re-
port ofX. fihlelfriTtmo:jes:,slcBsolln.in—Lisl:io
1851 (as far as relates to their proceedings of the re-
time) has just taken place. We e"lngs uP to the present
the Court Circular that
missioners, the Official Catalogues
was accompanied by a set of th
the Jury Reports of the Exhibition,e Com-
missioners,
It wia pr
before the laTter reports '‘' obably be
someth and
time, however,
butiou to the exli.,lto , --IJI be printed and ready'
ractcr. The abo-, r''• " i°l.; to their for distri-
, t..-111enti voluminous cha-
as yet been prepared. acmrecl c'PY i 3
til
only one thatbas
Commission, it win. 1 'A respects the r
out delay. I , i onlitless be laid beforeeport of the Royal
to cont .' ' 'is tinders' and Parliament with-
am in its appendices vto be of co ore bl length, and
ra e
interesting retu alarge -
returns. As number of curious and
Commissioners, this '
a further is only the first report of the
lity, the etu„t:.er report, embracin in all probabi-
looked for. ion 01 the
disposal of the surplus, way be
REPRESENTX
THURSDAY Ev Ti"
Or WINDSOR. --. WINDSOR,
death of Major-General
melancholy intelligeraceeaft the
s
Reid, 81. P.,
residence in Londonwhich
to'clikfflsed a very
general throughoutonWednesday morning,eera_
evening. It
gloom
wan known that the Ge thlewtaoswnsuyireslr
aga Y
from a severe
attack of bilious fever duringi'l.e the whole of last week, but it
~
was stated that he t dangerous crisis, and
the i .• had passed the most
nteltigence of his (Leath took his friends in this town
completely by surprise. General Reid succeeded to the re-
, presentation of Windsor in October, 1845, on the death of the
late John Ramsbottom, Esq., was re-elected without opposi-
tion (in conjunction with the late Lord John Hay) at tha
general election of 1847, and by his death one of the seats for
the royal borough ig vacant. 111 r. Charles William Great'',
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.
PRINTERS' DLLANI•%TIC 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
amateur performance at the St. James's Theatre, on the Ist
inst., in aid of the funds of the Printers' Pension Society and
the Almshouse Endowment Fund. .
Tile CORNWALL liAlLwar.—We are enabled to
state that a sufficient umber of the shares of thi line have
been taken peas to justlythe directors in iinnie-
already
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-
striction of the entire line, at the rate of about 9,0001. par
miie.
John Hambidge, 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.
TEE UNFORTUNATE STEAMER PRESIDENT
.—The
T‘ ne
Grenada Chronicle states, that on the 4th of April a ship's
figure head, of unusual dimensions, WILS cast ashorethat-
island. It had been originally fully eight feet high,
on
that of a senator in the act of speaking. He iand is
bald, end holds a scroll in his right hand; the left PartiallY
scarf which is partially thrown over him. The grasping a
con-
jecture, on what grounds we do not learn, that papers
part of the ill-fated steamer Prezident. it may be a
COAST OF AFRICA.—LAters have
• from Fernando Po, to the 7th of Fah been received
ruary last, stating that
the Banshee, Captain Blacklock
above date, and reported the ' , had arrived there at the
o
of Old Calabar. The Bansheeeath of Archibond Duke, King
vv -
her ALjesty's Consul, to Old Calabar, as serious apprehen-
King's debts. n connexion with the payment of the

which sweeps
A machine has been put in operation in Cincin-
natimight du it. The carpets are fired on rollers, and made to
carpets 2.S fast as s dozen ettirdy men
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