The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

The representation of 11 Flauto Magico, last night,
was in every respect excellent. Mario is evidently im-
proving in voice. Ronconi was superlatively droll as
the birdeatcher, and Formes was in particularly splendid
voice, and sung the solemn music with imposing effect.
Mdlle. Anca Zerr's wonderful vocal and executive
powers as the Queen of the Night are now familiar to
Her opeuirg air was sung with very great taste and
feeling, but it rs not until she gets among the extraordi-
nary vocal gymuastics, written specially by Mozart for
ana xeeptional femaht voice of his own time, that her full
capabilities arpeur. She attacked the soaring burst of
brilliant fiotittae of the " Gli angui" with extraordinary
ease and perfect correctness of intonation, extending her
ambition solar as actually to touch, and that soundly
and ringingly, A in alt, two clear notes above the
highest Mt tart wrote, which was F. For Mme. Cas-
tellan„ a printed apology was circulated, but there was
little need for it. She sang evenly, steadily, and with
all her vocal grace and sweetness of organ.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert honoured the performances with their
pia Bence last evening. The royal suite consisted of the
Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon.
Lord Polwortb, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Bou-
verie. Among the fashionable company present in the
theatre we remarked his Excellency the Sardinian Mi-
ulster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, the
Marquis of Northampton, the Marchioness of Hastings
and the Ladies Edith and Bertha Bastille, and Cap-
tain Yelverton,R.N.; the Earl of Wilton, the Marquis
of Granby, tho Earl of Cardigan, the Countess of
Memesbury and the Lady Hermione St. Maur, the
Counteaa of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, the
Earl of Pomfret, Viscountess Newport, and Lady Geer-
giana Codrington, Viscount and Viscountess Villiers,
Viscount Cranbourne, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount
Chelsea, Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley,
Lord and Lady Carrington and the Hon. Miss Carring-
ton, Lord Colville, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord Broughton
eret the Hon. Miss Hobhouse, Lord and Lady Ernest
Bruce and Miss Wentworth, Lady Suffield and .Mrs.
Jelin Stanley, Lord and Lady Cranworrh, Lord Harry
Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lady Harriet Ellerten and Mr.
Merton, Lady Webster and Mr. Webster, Lady Wil-
liam
_Compton, Ludy Mary Beatinck, Lady Thorold,
Major the Honourable James Macdold, Hon. Mrs.
George Anson, Hon. Mrs. A. Villiers, Captain the Hon.
C. Hardinge, M.P., Si: R. Peel, M.P., Sir William and
Lady do Bathe, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Lady Webster
and Mr. Webster, Sir David Dundas, Sir Thomas
Hare, Mr. George Mitchell, Sir George Armytage, Sir
Wilitarn Bail, lion. John Forteseue, M.P., Baron de
Steenberg, Baron de Paravacini, Hon. Misses Blake and
Miss Ellis, Mo. flobhouse, Colonel Seek, Major Gage,
Captain Nicholson, Captain Shearson, Captain Leckie,
.M r. Henry Baring, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Bates and Miss
Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Scots, Mr. A. IC. O'em,
Captain Carleton, Mr. Fang, Mr. Lloyd Clayton, Mr.
St. Leger Glynn, Mr. Walter Ewer, Captain !he Hoe.
Claude-Lyon, Mr. Talbot Stanley, Captain Wardlaw,
General Niade, Mr. Ricardo, D 11.1)„ Mr. Martineau, Mre
and Mrs. Coghlan, Miss Gyles, Major A. Hissers, Mr.
Palk, Mr. Wigraro, Captain. and Mrs. Villiers Hatton,
Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. C. H. Mills, Mr. Charles
Morgan, &a.

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WEDNESDAY

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—We entirely concur with a remark made by
Lord Malmesbury, in the short discussion on Monday
evening with reference to the protection of British suL-
jeets in Italy, that it is very unworthy of a
great coun-
try like this to have nobody through whom it can
officially address the Court of Rome, and that England
should only claim by a roundabout course and in a sort
of underhand way the fulfilment of the common obliga-
tions of international law from the Papal Government.
Lord Malmesbury's short experience at the Foreign-
office has already convinced him of the importance of
having at Rome ,a diplomatic agent of sufficient rank
aed importance to make himself heard by the Pope's
Ministers, though it were only for the protection of
British residents in that city, or of British commercial
interests at Ancono and elsewhere; for the character of
Mr.. Freeborn our Consul, or the still more anomalous
position of Mr. Petro, certainly do not enable those
gentlemen to produce much effect on the Vatican.
But since Lord Malmesbury has at length arrived at
this c alclusion, he cannot have forgotten that it was
the clause inserted in the Bill of 1848 by the House
of Lord', on the proposal of his colleague, the present
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which rendered the Act of
the late Government for establishing diplomatic relations
with Rome offensive and inoperative. That clause pro-
vided that the, diplomatic agent whom her MejeetY might
receive in this couutry from the Court of Rome should
not be in holy orders in the Church of R.me, or a
member of any religious order. It was unfortunately
adopted and inserted in the Bill by a majority of 67 to
64. Such a limitation was not unnaturally resented by
thq Popo as an affront, for it was an unprecedented mea-
sure to define by law a Oats of persons to which a di-
plomatic agent sent and 'accredited by a foreign Govern-
ment shall not belong. In point of fact, as was stated
by Lord Aberdeen in Committee on the Bill, there is no
instance of the Court of Rome ever having sent a 'Mi-
nister to any Proteetant country, and though the
Prussian Government has, long had a Minister at
Rome, no Romish Nuncio ever made his appear-
ance at Berlin. Probably tho same course would
have been pursued towards this country. But as
a Nuncio must necessarily be an ecclesiastic by the
usage of the Papal Government, it was an absurd con-
tradiction to profess a desire to promote diplomatic re-
lations with Rome by a Bill declaring that it is expe-
dient to remove all doubts on the subject, and then by
the same Bill to prohibit the reception by the
Queen of
the class of persons from whom the Court of Borne is in
the habit of selecting all its Ministers both at home and

abroad. The consequence was that the Act has re-
mained inoperative or worse. The Pope has not sent to
this country any diplomatic agent; the Pope's Govern-
ment still thinks itself at liberty to hear as little as it
pleases of the remonstrances or demands of an
English
Secretary of State, transmitted by a roundabout course
or in an underhand way; British residents in Rome re-
main without a decent place of worship according to the
rites of the Church of England, and British subjects
may even be cast into prison, or condemned to death,
as far as we know, without inquiry or trial.
There are two parts of the globe in which
our interests are exclusively defended by con•
aular egents; the one is the Chinese Empire, the
other the Papal dominions. Nay, if the theory of non-
recognition were fully acted upon, our relations with
Rome would be those we maintain with Bokhara or
Japan. Yet at this very time, and while the effects of
this shortsighted restriction were hardly foreseen
by its authors, the Pope took the most peremptory and
offensive means of showing that he wanted no Diplo-
matic Relations Bill to establish his ecclesiastical autho-
rity in its most direct and arrogant form amongst us.
He appointed an emissary of his own, trained in all the
subtlety and dogmatism of the Ronsish schools, to be
Primate in Ireland; and he appointed a Cardinal, hold-
ing the rank of a Prince in his own Court, and assuming
the spurious title of Archbishop of Westminster in our
own country, to reside here in the plenitude of Papal
power over the hierarchy he had just called into exist-
ence. The fear of such a result was the very motive
assigced by Lord Aberdeen for objectirg to the pre-
sence of an arch-priest in England in the character
of a diplomatic agent. "It would "be," he said,
" to transfer the Vatican to London, so far as the
spiritual affairs of Roman Catholics are concerned in
this country, and, he added, that he had much rather see
that authority, if it must exist, remain at home than be
transferred here." On this ground Lord Aberdeen sup-
ported Lord Eglinton's amendment, and in fact caused it
to pass. That was in 1848. In 1850 no diplomatic re-
lations had indeed been established with Rome, but a
Cardinal- Archbishop was residing in Westminster with
those very powers of an alter ego to which Lord Aber-
deen had so justly objected. We do not hesitate to avow
our conviction that it the Diplomatic Relations Bill had
received the sanction of Parliament as it was introduced
by the Marquis of Lansdowne, and without Lord
Eglinton's clause, and if a discreet and influential
Minister of the Crown
of had at once been accre-
dited to the Papa Court, the disastrous consequences of
Lord :pinto's mission might bate been repaired, and the
Papal Government might have been so informed and
enlightened as to the policy which it was then the ear-
nest wish of her Majesty's Government to pursue towards
the Roman Catholic subjects of the Crown, that the
we have since had to
acts of provocation and retaliation
deplore would laic) been altogether avoided, and we
should have had less reason to denounce a course of ag-
gression and intolerance on the part of Rome that drives
us back to the defensive weapons of past ages. Far from
increasing the spiritual power of the Pope by a recogni-
tion of his temporal power as Sovereign of the Roman
States, it is precisely by affecting to ignore his existence
as a temporal power that we have left his spiritual
authority wholly uncontrolled; and a large share
of the encroaching and mischievous policy this
country has had of late so much reason to
complain of is due to the bigotry which refuses
to emeloy the only rational and appropriate means
of dee. nce. It is more than probable that when Pius
IX: took the steps which kindled so strong a feeling of
resentment throughout this island, and revived so much
hostility against the Rowan Catholic party, ho was very
ignorant of what he was doing; and the objections of a
competent representative of the Queen of England would
have done far more to prevent this mischief than the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has done to cure it. •But all
these evils, which Lord Malmesbury now regrets, are
the direct result of the amendment which the party now
in power had the misfortune to carry. The case of Mr.
Murray, which gave rise to this discussion,
is imperfectly
known to the world, and though some interest has been
excited ie favour, his what is known of him is not very
favourable to his character. He is the son of a British
officer, but, we
believe, he had become an officer I
of police under the Papal Government at Ancona, and
whilst in this post he is said to have formed a connexion
with a gang of criminals. The weightiest charge
against him is that Count Severido, and another parti-
san of the Pope, who had been imprisoned by the Re-
publican faction, were murdered in prison while they
were in the custody
of Murray, and this at the very
time when an order had been given by the Governor
of that place that they should be released. We know
nothing of the truth or falsehood of this charge, and
the British Government has certainly no induce-
ment to rescue men of bad character from
the fate they may have incurred by their crimes.
But we have some right to require that, even in a coun-
try where justice is administered with as much tardiness
and corruption as unhappily
prevail in the Roman
States, a British subject should have a feir trial ; and to
that extent the protection of the Crown is due to a man
in this cad position. The appeal made to the Pope by
the English residents in Rome is, however, merely, a
supplication for mercy in favour of Mr. Murray; and we
observe that no attempt is mide in that document to
dispute his guilt, though the sufferings he has already
undergone in the Roman prisons may perhaps
plead in
his favour and deter. the Papal Government from in-
flicting the last penalty of the law. Whether that law
subject has been justly administered is a for inquiry by
the Foreign Secretary,and for our Minister at Rome, if
we bad one; but this occurrence forcibly reminds us of
the inconvenient and unworthy position in which we
stand towards that Court, without the usual means of
protecting either private or public interests in the very
country where snob protection is for several reasons most
required.
llKRA.feD.—Considerable doubt seems to be enter,

with his
himself as a cansidate for the
tained. al'to whether Lord Jobe
representation of the City
Russell will again offer
of London, • This doubt is f
want of confidence' felt in him by
on the undisguised
threedestine of this confidence
party have never been satisfied
sbuspspboarateirtssionritgbienCibitytw.
two
Theo by his former political
re en that question, be
sintestion. They have be-
lievedduct in reference to the Jewish it a Radical
would have shown much greater
that if he were really Lordship'sirhe
tion in pushing it forward. Their last energy and determine-
of it was to pass a resolution, cam!) movement in respect
Rus-
sell to introduce some substantive measure
upon Lord J. Rus-
eutive. Government, which should bby the Exe-
forward'with the whole weight of
theing the question
To • this requision Lord Joha repli,ci Administration.
it into his Reform Bill—a Bill -by introducing
well aware would never pass the which he was
rtisens. Further, this Reform .„, Rouse of Corn-
ish' itself h
bon looked upon with favour by the as never
party in the City. Then Lord John it ussell's Whig-Radicduot
al
on the Customs question, there can be con
withdrawn from him a large body of City
no doubt, has
was found supporting his Chancellor of Ytheupport. He
—the most;. unpopular occupant of that oft Exchequer
for a long time been seen—throughout thate that has
graceful contest with the dock companies. most dis-
on that occasion was compared with that f His conduct
Loid of the Treasury, Lord Liverpool, c:beforea Tory First
somewhat similar occurrence (but wholly f whom a
offensive violence of these latter doing) had
from the
place some thirty-five years ago, and who,
. taken
treating the dock directors with the 1?, Instead of
difference which they -"experienced in haughtyl in-
tered into Personal conference with them, stoppedso,en-
law proceedings, and brought the matter to ll'll
cable termination by a course of friendly, han cm'.-
cable
inquiry. The: Radical party, awl
ough strongut effec-
their own political convictions, ;could not but make
in
make
the contrast between the conduct of these two Ministers;
and feeling, moreover, that in the list of our social
social
grievaeces, there is not one more needing reform thn
that of the mal-administration of the Custom than
could not help saying, in the disappointment of their
hind-
rance to a most necessary reform than we find in our
Whig Government? Should we really be worse off °'.llh
Lord- Derby ?" Such, we believe, is a pretty accuratewit
statement of the condition of public opinion
in
the
ee
".eta it Stood previously to the time when Lord John Rue II
resigned the administration of affairs. Since then 'so
say it with tegret, for there is nothing gained to—w°
the
nation by the lowering the standard of the personal
Position of. our leading"statesmen—the course
Lard John Russell has thought it becoming in him which
pursue, as the leader of the Opposition, has damaged his
to
position thro ugh out length and Om* Qf
ug 011 th 0 the land.

EVENING,

MAY 19, 1852.

carry them six hundred miles up the river was vain—the
boatmen proved their devotion to the King by removing
every boat like'y to be useful to the invaders, and such
was the unpleasant and hazardous position of the British
at the commencement of the rainy season, the longest,
perhaps, in any part of India, and during which no
troops could keep the field.
About the end of May, as the Burmese troops swarmed
in, they gradually became more daring, approached the
British position, and commenced stockading themselves
in the jungle, within hearing of the advanced posts. At i
length Sir A. Campbell ordered out a recon-
noitering party, and the stockade, being in-
complete, was abandoned, the Burmese slowly
retiring through the jangle 'before the British troops
until they reached a village protected by two stockades.
A heavy fire was opened from the=se on the British,
which they were unable to return, the rain having com-
pletely wetted their muskets. The order was given to
charge with the bayonet, and three companies rushed
forward, and soon forced their way into the interior.
and as the Burmese would neither give nor take
quarter, a fearful hatchery ensued, the only mode
of exit being a small aperture at the back of the
stockades, in which the defenders were heaped in inex-
tricable confusion. This was the first engagement which
had taken place between the hostile forces, and while it
impressed the Burmese with respect for British valour,
the victory having been won with such disproportionate
galla
ntryo w t sof telt it e
theirßurmese,
hßeai
rr mpe
post
se
t,
means, it taught the English to respect the obstinate
rwaht 11 e ra ltlhoeweedflyt.hemltsewlvaessohto.
served that among the combatants were some female
warriors, who fought with
extraordinary
courage, and
one of them, the young wife of the Governor of Ran-
goon, was found mortally wounded after the action.
The next struggle was the attack upon the fortified
village of Kemmendine, higher ao the river. This was
made on the 10th of June, but at the entrance of the
jungle the advancing column found its
by a formidable stockade, protected on three sides
the jungle, and the visible front being 14 feet high, forti-
fiedesls7
by piles, branches, and palisades, driven diagonally
into the ground. Two 18-pounders were brought up
to breach the work—a large gap was soon
made, and the troops rushed forward. The
usual work of slaughter commenced in the interior,
and upwards of 200 Burmese were left dead in it. The
Burmese commander was killed by a shower of grape, and
the emblems of his authority, the state umbrella, sword
and spear, found near the body. Next morning the great
Kemmendine stockades were bombarded, the effect of
the shells in the crowded stockade being so terrific, that
when the columns of attack moved forward the Burmese
evacuated the works. Towards the end of June, reinforce-
menu having arrived to the Burmese, a formidable as-
sault was made on the British lines, but the fire of some
field pieces loaded with grape and shrapnel turned the
fate of the day in favour of the British. Meantime the
troops suffered severely from the want of fresh provision
and vegetables; multitudes sickened every day, the mor-
tality became alarming, and out of nearly 40,000 men
not one-fourth were fit for field duty. The next great
action was fought at Kemmeroot, about ten miles from
Rangoon, and ended in the capture of ten formidable
stockades, thirty pieces of artillery, and a serious loss in
men to the Burmese; but the British general was unable
to take advantage of the panic he had created, and could
not advance a days' march into the country. A mari-
time expedition two or three hundred miles down the
coast to the province of Tenasserim was, however, com-
pletely successful. The principal cities were reduced
without difficulty, several excellent harbours were ob-
tained, and the climate being salubrious, those who had
been prostrated by the pestilential climate of Rangoon,
soon recovered their health and efficiency.
Towards the end of July the King of Ava not being
able to account for the continued successes of a mete
handful of British troops, sent two of his brothers to
superintend the operations of the war, accompanied by
numerous astrologees, to point out the most favourable
moment of attack. The British commander resolved to
anticipate them, and made a most successful attack upon
some stockade positions in the river, capturing eight
pieces of cannon end a considerable quantity of ammu-
nition. At midnight, on the 30th of August, the Bri-
tish position was attacked in turn by a considerable
force, but the Burmese were repulsed with great
slaughter. An attempt was made to follow up this
success, but owing to want of good feeling between Col.
Smyth and General Campbell, the latter having re-
fused to send a European detachment to cheer and
support the Sepoys, the British were compelled to re-
treat, with a serious loss in killed and wounded, and
Colonel Smyth never held up his head afterwards, but
sunk into an early grave. The health of the troops be
gan to improve in the month of November, and a promise
of an early movement in advance had a great effect upon
the hospitals. A re inforcement of two British regiments,
some battalions of native infantry, a squadron of
cavalry, a troop of horse artillery, and a recket
corps, with 500 Mingh boatmenfrom Chittagong, reached
Rangoon about this period, and transports with draft
cattle were beginning to arrive, when it was announced
that Maha Bandoola, the best general in the Burmese
service; and one of the most formidable the Court of Ava
had yet sent into the field, was advancing at the head of
a powerful army, in order to capture or expel the Bri-
tish from Rangoon. On the 30th of November the
whole forest in front of the Great Dagon Pagoda was
filled with Burmese troops, and all night the wood re-
sounded with the strokes of axe and hatchet, and the
crash of falling trees. The Burmese lines extended iii a
semi-circular direction from the river bank above Kern-
mendine to the village of Pczendoun. Next morning a
fierce attack was made upon Kemmendine, the reduction
of that place being a necessary preliminary to an attach
on the whole of the British position—the contest was
long and obstinate, but the Burmese were ultimately re-
pulsed with great loss, the gun-boats and vessels in the
river having brought their guns to boar upon the enor-
mous masses. In the course of the day several dense
columns of the Burmese defiled in front of the Great
Pagoda' and in a few hours the British were completely
surrounded by the swarming lasses, nothing but the
narrow channel of the river being unoccupied in their rear.
As soon as this extraordinary and presumptuous forma-
tion was completed the Burmese threw aside their spears
and muskets, and commenced operations with their en-
trenching tools with such activity that in the course of a
couple of hours the whole line had dissppearetl, and
could only be traced by a parapet of new earth gradually
increasing in height, and assuming such forms as the
skill and science of the engineers suggested. The mov-
ing masses which bad so lately attracted the anxious at-
tention of the British had sunk into the ground, and to
any one who had not witnessed the whole scene the ex-
istence of these subterranean columns could not be cre-
dited, and to the invaders, who bad watched the whole
of the strange proceeding, it seemed like the work of
magic or enchantment. In the afternoon a strong Eng-
lish detachment made a sortie to discover how the
hostile force was arranged. The movement was wholly
unexpected by the Burmese, and being unprepared for
resistance they were takeri in flank and driven from
their cover with considerable loss, leaving large quanti-
ties of arms and tools behind them. Information was
thus obtained by the British of the Burmese mode of
warfare, and the manner in which they push forward
their approaches. The trenches were found to be
a succession of holes, capable of containing two men
each, and excavated so as to obtain shelter both from
the weather and the fire of the enemys--even a ehcll
exploding in the trenches could only kill two men. As
the troops are not relieved, each hole contained a supply
of rice, water, and even fuel, and a bed of straw under
the bank, in which one man slept while his comrade
watched. When one line of this trench is completed, its
occupiers, taking advantage of the night, push forward
to where the second line of trenches is to be opened,
their place being immediately taken up by fresh troops_
from the rear, and so on progressively, the number
of
trenches occupied varying according to the nature.ans
off
the ground, the force of the besiegers, or the I
larpee and
the general. At the same time a number
ofriver to set fire
formidable fire rafts were sent down the
kill and intrepidity.
to the shipping at Rangoon; but the n e .
For three or
of the British seamen averted the dtao g
forward their
four days the enemy were
allowed
had pusharrived within half
undergrond approaches till they
A furious onslaught w as
musket-shot of the British lines.
1 after an obstinate conflict, thy
then made upon them, and
fled
artillery, their
fled into the Jungle, leaving behind them th •
holy, and a vast quantity of small arms. The following day
Great
the troops stationed at theeat Pagoda followed up
this success, while another division attacked the enemy's
camp at Della. In both cases the British were trium-
phant—the
Burmese were driven from their entire posi-
tion, with the loss dell their artillery and the naatetial
of the army. The Burmese army of reserve, amounting
to 25,000 men, was attacked on the 15th December, and
the trenches carried with an appalling slaughter of the
fugitives. It was estimated that, in the series of actions
between the Ist and 15th December, upwards of 10,000
Burmese bad fallen, and their army had been completely
disorganized.
This may be said to have been the turning
point of
the fortunes of the British—the population of Rangoon
began to return to their homes, and supplies of fresh
pro-
visions and vegetables became plentitul. Much
expe-
rience and information had been obtained, although at
considerable cost, of the character and mode of
of the Burmese and the nature of the country.
The
year closed without any renewal of aggressions on the
part of the Burmese, or without any
decided advantage
on the part of the British. Theiry
ha-
zardous and inconvenient;
the
climatep was esttion was
un-
healthy—they had never been able to advance
ten y e
miles from Rangoon, although the had a larger force
than France had sent to Algiers or than Napoleon had
taken to Egypt. Tee
army had landed on the 11th of
May, and tho 11th of February, n
found them still at Rangoon 'iandne months afterwards!.
nearly
provisions. that time they had lived upon salt the whole :d
their
supplies were obtained Irons India, All
at an enormous cost,
and every bullock landed cost at least 101. Serious re-
verses had also taken place in Arracan, force,
where a
destined to co-operate with that at Rangoon, was ac-
tually attacked by the Burmese, end di iven back with
great loss. The army fell back upon Chittagong—a
most extraordinary alu was created throng 6
m bout .13en-
gal, the peasantry on the frontiers fled from the 61'4
reports were spread that the Burmese were invincible,
and it was with difficulty that the native mer-
chants at Calcutta could be dissuaded from removing
their families and property. The effect of this panic,
together
with a very ill-judged curtailment of their
extra field allowance to the Sepoy re invents, led to very
pore
lamentable results. In the can of Barrack
pore
10th Regiments
were quartered the 26th, 47th, 62d,
of Bengal lalantry. They were all under orders. forto
service, some to embark for Rangoon, and h.ishorrs
parade r
march upon Arracan. When ordered to
seelv in-
spection-
on the 30th of October, the 47th
positdlo loth ',a-hied
fused to tarn out. Portions of the 62(14nBriti,h, joined
fused to turn out. PortionS of the 62d
British, which
the mutineere, and the Royals and
49'
moved to' the bar-
bed not yet quitted Calcutta.
\
were
racks. A brigade of artillery
twos planted
maud the rear of the so as to cem-
ents on the esplanade.
malcontents
them into submission,
Another effort was made to
__
imam
jitoy
opened,
but they rejected it, and the gu"

pouring a storm of grape and canister upon the utt•
happy men. Two hundred men were in a few minutes
cut to pieces—the men were then disarmed, the ring-
leaders put to death, and the 47th Regiment erased from
the "Army List." This ect of terrible severity, did
not appear to have heft any bad impression, and the
troops, Native and British, marched off readily to their
destinations.—Sunday Paper.

SPORTING NOTES.
CCXXIX.
THE DERBY.

TO THE EDITOR OF TETE SUN.

Sift,—The racing yesterday on the Lansdowne, al-
though first-rate in quality, at least for that part of
the world, putting Newmarket altogether to the blush
—differed somewhat in its result from the anticipative
view I took of it. The Lansdowne Trial Stakes—
booked by ir.me of the talent as a certainty for Bordeaux,
on whom they laid 7 to 4 freely, and 10 to 1 against
my selection, Lemartine, was won by the latter in the
most off-hand st;le imaginable by three lengths;
Bordeaux and Old Rowley finding their way home
in the exact positions I awarded them—that
is, second and third. Old Rowley will, of course,
Lot go for the Derby after such a thrashing as he sus-
tained yesterday. Lamartine must make a capital trial
horse for Little Harry; and if the latter can come any-
where near him at even weights, his Derby chance would
seem to be a very good one.
The victory of Chief Justice for the Somersetahire
Stakes would have taken me completely by surprise,
had I not the previous night seen with what avidity the
odds were snapped up by two or three of the commis-
sioners. What can such cattle be worth as were com-
pletely beaten off by Chief Justice, carrying, for him,
the stiffish weight of Bst 31b? Echo answers, what!
Day brought out for the Biennial Stakes a promising
youngster in Cineas, who disposed of Stella (another cer-
tainty) in a very easy style.
The Detby betting on the course was of a very light
referred to Hobbie Noble, who
nwasatuqr nature, andted aptr
Littleprincipally p ay l
Harry at 9, and King of Trumps
at 20 to 1, taken several times, but in small sums.
The following Derby horses are doing excellent work,
several of them having sweated to the satisfaction of
their owners on Monday and yesterday,
Chief Baron Nicholson, Alfred the Great, Clever-
house, Augur, Buckthorn, Harbinger Kingston,
Nabob, Joe Miller, Little Harry, King of
Trumps, Convulsion, Young Hammond, Treasurer,
TNhoeblhe
Marinella colt, Barbarian, and Missive. Of Robbie
Noble's condition
speculators
he obtainm etts any ypasru
tthheanrtei
setacc
theirount.
dead him, he beinghi
faces against •
but fit; on the other hand, s partisans, though shaken
in their confidence to somereported to be anything
taken his exercise and sweatlmee
slang phrase of one of the
sweated
extent,
itn theem still
ni
sineaatmiisso:netgtoiothem,
everybody connected with him,tLsuensdeis'
that there is " still life in a
were
egh increasedweek
Eeipthseemr osftrtuhgegll)eu. tcAhumgeunr,
notwithstthaendineagri inCalasvfiernheotoweighasas
owprbecaeckdinwagrteid their
size since last year, h very little in
having
yavinpartt of the
was in his work in
spring, is once more himself again, ed on
very satisfactorily. Lord Exeter's chancegwith.nS
Stock-
well is all UP, as the horse is doing very little tcicort-
Orelio is said to be not quite the thing. Day's couple,w
Buckthorn and Little Harry, will be brought to the post
perfect pictures, without a superfluous ounce of flesh
about them. King of Trumps is " coming" fast, and I
have but little doubt he will see 10 to 1 or under before
he runs; his owner considers him to be almost as good
as anything of his year, and Dawson fancies that some-
thing good may be made of him. Barbarian is a second
edition of the Brother to Chanticleer of last year, and of
course, will be nowhere in the race; though, by the
bye, his running at the Curragh last month was all
" bosh." Eicot is reported to be falling off again. It
is said we shall be sure to have one of Sir R. Pigott's,
the colt by Hotman Platoff, and the Kingfisher, in ad-
dition to those horses that I gave as starters yesterday.
The market to-day is uneommmonly firm, at least
with respect to the favourites, the following being the
latest prices :-6 to 1 agst Hobbie Noble, take 7 to 1;
8 to 1 agst Alcoran; 9 to 1 agat Little Harry; 10 to 1
each agst Clavcrhouse and Harbinger; 14 to 1 agst Al-
fred the Great; 16 to 1 agst Kingston; 18 to 1 eget King
of Trumps; 20 to 1 agat Augur; 25 to 1 each eget
Orelio, Chief Baron Nicholson, and Joe Miller; 1,000
to 30 each agat Stockwell and Elcot; 40 to 1 agst
Maidstone; 50 to 1 each nest Missive, the Nabob, and
Buckthorn; 66 to 1 agst the Marinella colt; 100 to 1
each mist Barbarian, Young Hammond, Homebrewed,
Ambrose, Kingfisher, colt by Hetman Platoff, Convul-
sion, and either of Sir R. Pigott's.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
May 19, 1852.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BATII RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Lansdowne Trial Stakes of 15 sous., 10 ft, with 50
added for three yrs old and upwards. One mile.
(9 Subs.)
Mr. Powney's Lamartine, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (A. Day) 1
Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux, Sat nib ...(F. Butler) 2
Mr. Triennes's Old Rowley, 3 yrs, 7st (Hiett) 3
Betting-2 to lon Bordeaux-7 to 2 agst Old Rowley
—and 10 to 1 agst Lamartine.
Won by three lengths; Old Rowley beaten off. Run
in 1 min. 50 secs.
The Biennial Stakes of 10 Boys. each, and 50 added, for
two yrs old; second to save his stake. Half a mile.
(12 Subs.)
Mr. Howard na Cineas, Bst 71b (A. Day) 1
Duke of Richmond's Stella, 836 9lb (Flatman) 2
Mr. Soutbby's Contentment, Bst 71b (Knight) 3
Betting-7 to 4on Cineas, and sto 2 agst Stella.
Won easy by a length. Run in 53 secs.
The Somersetshiro Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and 6
only if declared, with 100 sous. added; the second to
receive 501., and the third to save his stake. Two
miles and a dig. (62 Subs., 41 of whom declared.)
Mr. William's Chief Justice, 5 yrs, Bst 31b ...(Lye) 1
Mr. Br) er's Young England, 5 yrs, 6st 91b ...(Hiett) 2
Mr. Isaac Day's Waterfall, 4 yrs, sst 1 llb (Goater) 3
The following also ran:—Russborough, 5 yrs, Bst 71b
(Keegen)—Ephesus, 4 yrs, 7st llb (Wakefield)—Ballet
Girl, 5 yrs, 6.t 11lb (Charlton)—Madam Wharton, 4
yrs, bat Sib (Cowley)—Bacton, 5 yrs, 6st 71b (Preeoe)
—Yugo, 3 yrs, 4st 81b (Steggles)—Grand Duchess, 3
yrs, 4st 71b (Fordham)—Miss Bundy, 3 yrs, 4st (J.
Bundy)—Ferret, 3 yrs, 4st 51b,si ct,tiao9ribieo.d.f
:4
jsot.l7nselhrbsa(eretp.)lillft)e3.ate2,
Betting-5 to 2 agst Hugo; 7to 1 agst Ballet Girl;
Mr.
IA
1M
srrro::
Liolpecsvcmeashbrarbait
Isaac
:Lear r
IghsccLeoldaf
luoTy.
iornitst:::::v
chis,
e,. Sr.ErleDkot\aaßcb, 0,
psor:rEtuirn,bi
T.
blyrTy)
b, I
aeNt
length.
n g
8 to 1 each agst Russborougb, Chief Justice, Waterfall,
and Grand Duchess.
Won by two lengths, Waterfall a very bad third.
Run in 4 minutes.
The Selling Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 25 added. Once
round. (6 Subs.)
Mr. stintoe,, Letterpress (sot.), 7st 11b...(Cbarltonyseirlinl3n,
Mr. T. Parr's Snowdrift (501.), 7st 71b. .(Wakefield) 2
Mr. Hewitt's Merlin, 3 yrs
e third.
(ht
esi
rro
pd/ .
r.)
e, sstssß, u
51110: 1
in
23 ( 1
taCgiosnwt . lx
Merlin,
Phantom, ist 71b (fell), Thrush, sst 101 b, and b g by
Stackpole, sst 101 b, also ran.•
3 tßueltainggs—t S2lsinto:wrildiuraift, and 4 to 1 agst Thrush. Wo
sbywellelpesntgaktbe's o f 1 0 agst
513
otbv as.::.dr6nci
yrs,
shi
7:,
9w,ititch.hlbs.o..l(.oawddneedr)by::h•ei
11, 7st slb • .(Wakefield) 2 dr
AT BATH.
)hIbeERBIYS. to sgst Kingston
95 toto 11
itliggsstt Alhlctiobrits°ll:s(ot
9 toB El augTattNLGiLle .1.141 r
tllobb6s.
1lDtoER1B:t C6lut:elrltorugtbe:( WI: agst,K King of Trumps
to 1 agst Orelio (t)
AT MAN) taIESTER.—TOESDAY.
„8 Alt tte Ilarryle(t)°--b9te—to7l
ceran-9 to Iro t T =
Young, lianiniond agst Harbin-
ger-11 to 1 agst Clay
ton (t)-20 to I 11,75 t
_erhense (t)-18 to 1 aget .n..t gs-
Augur (t) , K nof
r, 1 g Trumps (t)
—ou to 1 abet —25 to 1 apt
tot ag_st.nAl-
-0 k •
- 10.-6 to 1 agst Red Hind--7 to 1 agst Songstress
(1). Ambrose (0-50 to 1 Sget
(t)-9 to 1 agst Attack-12 to 1 agst Gossamer.
-

Ellison, Esq., CRICKET.
ENGLAND r. FOURTEEN OF YORKSHIRE.
' Monday and Tuesday, Mayl7 and 18.
YORKSHIRE.
First Innings. Second Innings.
Crossland, a Box, b Clarke ...... 28 a Box, b Clarke 1
J. Berry, b Clarke ................. 8 b Bickley
b Clarke ... ........ 2
Anderson, c Bickley, b Blynn... 30
Chatterton, c Parr, b Mynn ..... 0
Sampson, c Guy, b Bickley ...... 24
G. Berry, s Box, b Clarke ... 40 not out 2
Armitage, c Box, b Clarke ...... 0
b Clarke... 3
Wright, b Bickley... ............... 3 c Box, b Bickley 2
Coates, not out ~.: ............... ... 14 b Clarke
Skelton, Esq., s Do', 7
Dakin, c Ciesar, b Clarke 0 not out 5
Barber, ruu out 0
n b Clarke
yes Caffy,
Hodgsonß, c
Byes ........ 6
2

- _
Total 162 Total .......•' 32

ENGLAND.
N. Esq, c Berry, b Crossland 30
A. gym Esq , b Crossland 0
Bickley, b Wright .
Box, c Sampson, b Crossland
J. tsar, cJ. Berry, b Skelton 9
W. Caffyn, b Wright.
Parr, c Armitage, b Crossland
08
A. Clarke, b W right
W. Clarke, bJ. Berry ............ 7
Guy, not out
c Chatterton,.. 4
Wright ..
Byes 3, Ib3, w 2 ...... 8

Total 73

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT
.-0n
their annual eight days'
itnr
thepo min g a m
elan c h
oly
Tuesday
epciaosnsemb prlied in the
to hepark of the Earl of
duty. During and singular accident
occurred.
Mr. Templeman, of Middle Chinnock, dis-
mounted from his mare, and gave the animal in charge of a
boy, who was on the saddle, when the mare started off and
ran under a tree, one of the boughs of which struck the boy
with such violence on the head as to cause instantaneous
death. It is a singular additional fact in this unhappy affair
that the horse which caused the accident was the same that
caused the death of another person not long since, and the
the transportation of his accomplice—the mare having, as our
, ,
readers will remember, been stolen from Mr. Templeman, and
conveyed up into Berkshire where where the man charged
with the robbery committed suicide. The unfortunate lad's
name was Job Lake, and his age 16. Lord Ilchester at ones
sent for medical assistance, but unfortunately it Rae found a
of no !wail.— Sherborm tounigi•