The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WARWICK SPRING MEETING, MARCH 18.
A Match for £5O, £lO ft, Two miles.
Mr. Formby's Pip, list (Mr. Rich) 1
Mr. Park's Paddy from Cork, aged, 12st (Owner) 2
Betting-7 to 4on Paddy from Cork, who made the
running to the T.Y.O. post, where the non. favourite joined
him, the pair running abreast to the entrance into the
straight, when the favourite was beaten, leaving Pip to
canter home a winner by 20 lengths.
The Racing Stakes of 5 says each, with 25 added, for two-
yr-olds and upwards; weight, for age, with selling and
maiden allowances. Five furlongs. 6 subs.
Mr. J. H. C. Wyndham's The Flower Safety, 3 yrs, 7st
51b ... (S. Adams) 1
Mr. J. Saxon's Calot, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (X. 50) (Midgley) 2
Mr. T. Jacob's Lufra, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (450)
.. (Whiteley) 3
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Contractor, 2 yrs, sst 131 b (L5O)
Mr. Marsh na, Rose de Clare (Murfitt) 4
, 3 yrs, 7st 9lb (x5O)
( Reeves
Lord Bateman's Sybil, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (£5O) 6)
(J. Grimshaw) 6
Betting-5 to 2 agst Flower Safety, sto 2 agst Calot, 4
to 1 (at first 2 to 1) agst Lufra, and 6 to 1 agst Sybil.
Upwards of half an hour was consumed at the post, occa-
sioned by the restiveness of Sybil, who repeatedly broke
away with Grimshaw, and resolutely refused to face the
At last she was led to her horses, when the flag was
lowered to an equitable start, Rose de Clare, with Calot
and Lufra at her girths, jumped away in front, followed by
the favourite, Contractor, and Lord Bateman's filly, to the
half-mile post, when Lufra bore his colours to the front,
and entered the straight slightly in advance of Calot, the
pair being joined at the distance by Flower Safety, the
three running nearly abreast, when the favourite got her
head in front and won cleverly by a length. Calot defeat-
ing Lufra by a neck for second. Contractor was a bad
fourth, Rose de Clare next, and Sybil last. The winner
was bought by Mr. W. Scott for 235 guineas.
The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for 3-yr-
olds and upwards ; maiden allowances. The winner of the
Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger to carry 101 b extra. The mile
course. 8 subs.
Lord Stamford's Le Marechal, 3 yrs, 75t.... (I'. French) 1
Mr. J. N. Astley's Atherstone, 5 yrs, 9st (G. Fordham) 2
Mr. Samuel's Twilight, aged, 9st 41b.... (H. Grimshaw) 3
Lord Strathmore's Sea King, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b (Whiteley) 4
Betting-6 to 5 agst Atherstone, 2to 1 agst Le Marechal,
and 4 to 1 agst Twilight.
Lo Marechal cut out the work at a strong pace, having
the favourite ;with Sea King in close attendance, with
Twi!ight: next the rails, last, They ran thus into the straight,
when Atherstone quitted his companion and joined the
leader at the distance, the pair running together to the
stand, where the young one shook him off and won in a
canter by a length. Twilight finished a bad third, and Sea
King was beaten off.
A Sweepstakes of 25 soya each, 10 ft ;for 2-yr-old colts, Bst
10Ib, and fillies, Bst 61b, and slb allowed, Straight run in.
About three furlongs. 6 soya.
Count Batthyany'sVanderveltle (31b), Bst 71b (Wheatley) 1
Lord Bateman's Coimbra, Bat6lb (G. Fordham) 2
Betting-4 to lon Vandervelde, who made all the run-
ning and won in a canter by three lengths.
A Handicap Plate of 50 soya, for all ages. Winners 51b
extra. Five furlongs.
Baron Rothschild's Queen of the Vale, 5 yrs, Bst 21b
(Cnstance) 1
Lord Bateman's Peignoir, 4 yrs, 9st (ino 51b extra)
(G. Fordham) 2
Mr. Saxon's Churchman, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Midgley) 3
Mr. C. P. Hudson's Walloon, 5 yrs, Bst 41b
(H. Grimshaw) 4
The following also ran :—Hungerford, Lapidary, and
Measure for Measure.
Betting-2 to 1 (at first to 4) agst Measure for Measure,
sto 1 each agst Peignoir and Lapidary, 6 to 1 agst Queen
of the Vale, 8 to 1 agst Walloon, and 10 to 1 agst Church-
man.

The start was delayed some time by the over-anxiety of
the light weight to get away, but at last Mr. M'George,
having got them in something like order, despatched them
from the post ; the running being taken up by Lapidaty
and Measure fer Measure, who ran together to the turn in
the Star close, where they ran wide, which left Walloon
with a slight lead, Measure for Measure going on second,
Lapidary next,with Peignoir, Queen of the Vale, and Run-
gerford lying up, Churchman bringing up. On entering
the straight, Walloon and Lapidary were disposed of, leav-
ing the favourite, with Peignoir and Queen of the Vale, in
advance. At the distance the young one was beaten, and
Churchman, having made up his leeway, came on in cora.
pany with the leaders to the stand, where Baron Roths-
child's filly beaded Peignoir and won a good race home by
half a length,three lengths separating the second and third.
Rungerford was fourth, and Walloon was fifth ; the others
were pulling up as they passed the post,
The Willoughby Handicap of 15 sovs each, 1.0 ft, and 5
only if declared. Winners extra. To be ridden by gen-
tlemen ; jockey 61b extra. The winner to pay 10 sovs to
the fund. Two miles. 8 subs., four of whom declared.
Count Batthyany's Loiterer, 6 yrs, list 91b (in. 61b ex.)
(G. Fordham) w.o.
The Stand Handicap of 5 soya each, 2 ft, with £25 added,
for 3-yr-olds and upwards. One mile. 7 subs.
Count Batthyany's Suburban„64rrs, Bst 81b (Wheatley) 1
Mr. Lloyd's Mias Minna (late Donetta), 4 yrs, Est 81b
• (J. Loates) 2
Mr. E. W. Taylor's Grand Vizier, 3 yrs, Est (Hazlewood) 3
Mary Stuart also ran.
Betting--6 to lon Suburban, who, after several false
starts, jumped away in front, with all his horses beaten be-
fore they reached the T.Y.C. post, find won in a trot by 20
lengths. Mary Stuart was beaten off a distance, and did
not pass the post.
The Farmer's Plate of 60 sovs, given by the gentlemen of
the hunt, with 10 sovs to the second horse, for hunters.
3-yr-olds, lOst 21b; 4-yr-olds, list 81b; 5-yr-olds, 12st
61b ; 6-yr 'olds and aged, 12st 121 b ; thorough bred horses
to carry 71b extra. Two miles.
Mr. W. Cowper's Ouiston gelding, 4 yrs, h b, 71st 51b
(Mr. Bawoutt) 1
Mr. James Milward's Little Lady, 4 yrs h b, list 51b
Milwd, jun
Mr. Cornborough's Sir William, 5 yrs, hb, 12star 31b.) 2
(Mr. T. Cook) 3
The following also ran .—Hipbriar, Starlight, Catspaw,
and Mary Baker.
. Betting-6 to 4 agst Little Lady, sto 2 agat the Oulston
gelding, and 4 to 1 agst Catspaw.
Little Lady made the running, followed by Mary Baker,
Catspaw, the Oulston gelding, and Starlight, to the dis-
tance, where she was headed by the Oulston'gelding, who
won by three lengths; Catspaw finished a bad fourth; the
others beaten off.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
7to 1 agst Knutaford (taken)
Bto 1 agst Canzonetto (take Bto 1)
Bto 1 agat Grirastone
CITY AND SUBURBAN;
10 to 1 agst Adventurer (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 6 agst Le Marechal (offered)

CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY.
WARANICK HANDICAP.
6to 2 agst Dulcibella (taken)
4to 1 agst Tolurno (taken)
sto 1 apt Optimist (taken)
6to 1 agst Lord Stanley (taken)
TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKE 3.
2to 1 agst Lady Nichol (taken)
3to 1 agat Chicquot the Jester (taken)
NOR:MAXI TON STAKES.
7to 1 agat Grimaton (taken)
Bto 1 agat linutsford (taken)
12 to 1 agst Canzonette (taken freely)
15 to 1 agst Chaff (taken)
16 to 1 agst Man-at-Anne (taken)
20 to 1 agst Voluptus (taken)
2Gt to 1 agst Freeholder (taken)
25 to 1 agst Carisbrook (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
100 to 7 agst Glenochty colt (taken)
1N to 7 agat Adventurer taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Hospodar (taken)
sto 1 agst Saccharometez (taken)
10 to 1 agst Rapid Rhone (taken)
121 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (taken)

Lord Stamford's Barcarola died last night of inflamma-
tion,

AQUATICS.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.
We are now enabled to announce to our readers that the
negotiations of Messrs. Chitty and Selwyn have been at-
tended with success, and that the race will be rowed on
Saturday week, March 28, from Mortlake to Putney, most
probably at half-past 10 o'clock in the morning. The fol-
lowing are the names and weights of the crews as existing
when vr e heard from our correspondents at Oxford and
Cambridge.

THE POLISH QUESTION,

DEBATE IN THE FRENCH SENATE.

PARIS, March 17.
The debate in the Senate on Polish affairs yes-
terday afternoon had not the anticipated import-
ance. Prince Napoleon and M. Billault, who were
both present, took no part in the proceedings, these
great athletee reserving their forces for the conflict
later; yet it elicited some sentiments from Viscount
de Lagueronniere and others which are of sufficient
interest to justify my troubling you with a con-
densation of the voluminous report of the proceed-
ings which was sent roun d to the journals shortly
after midnight.

The debate commenced by one of the Marquis de
Boissy's escapades. He had a strong regard for the
Irish, but he would not admit their right to petition
the Senate to interfere between them and England,
I nor could he recognise the same right in the Poles
to implore the interference of France between them
and Russia. They were foreigners and had no right
to petition the Senate. The foolish marquis gained
his object by causing some trouble in the examina-
tion of this constitutional question, which was at
last referred to a special committee.
M. Bonjean then addressed the Senate—" The
astonishment and sorrow which I felt the other day,
on hearing the Commission propose the orders of the
day, has not diminished since I read their report;
for the Polish question is the only one on which
every one is agreed in France, the only one which
has the privilege of inspiring universal sympathy.
If this feeling be more intense in the workshop and
the cottage, where the old Gallic blood has not been
cooled down by political exigencies, it exists, though
somewhat tempered, in the higher classes of society;
and is it on such a question that we are bidden to
pass to the order of the day ? for that would imply,
that the petition is undeserving of interest or atten-
tion. The Commission seems to declare that it would
be satisfied if Russia would cease its massacres,
and would realise to Poland its promise of 1815.
For my part I would accept any reform joy:
fully, but only as. an instalment, for which
I would not give a receipt in full ; for I could not
hold such palliation as sufficient satisfaction for the
general European interests which are complicated
in the Polish question." M. Bonjean then entered
into an historical examination of the Polish ques-
tion. He narrated the perfidies of Catherine in
1772; the remorse of the nobler Maria Thersea,
who tad the French Ambassador at Vienna, in
1'775, "The partition of Poland is a blot on my
reign ; but I should be forgiven were it known how
I had yielded to the pressure of Russia with the
assent of Prussia." The orator continued his his-
torical citations to prove not only the iniquity of
the partition, but the necessity for the reconstruc-
tion of the kingdom of Poland on its original basis.
" Who cou!d have forseen in 1859 that Austria
mould have given up Lombardy ? And since then
what changes have we seen. For my part I have
boundless confidence in right and justice. England
has abandoned us in the Polish question, as she
abandoned us in Mexico, as she will abandon every
power when she sees the way to her own interest,
Or to the injury of others; but she, as well as
Austria, will eagerly accept our support and aid
when we shall have called upon Russia to give up
Poland. Let us hope that the Emperor will be
able to deliver Poland without peril to France; it
would be the noblest act of his reign, and would
justify the old adage, Gesta Des per Frances."
The Viscount de Lagueronniere thought that
France ought to interfere energetically, by diplo-
matic means, and that her action would induce the
European Powers to act with her ; but he abjured
for France a European conflict, the interest of which
would not:compensate either its dangers or its sacri-
fices. The " order of the day " did not imply indif-
ference to the petitions, but confidence in the Em-
peror's judgment. The Viscount then entered, like
his predecessor, into an historical disquisition on
Polish partitions. Austria, he said, had entered
unwillingly into the compact of 1772 to-avoidlaav-
ing the two great Powers banded against her. For
Russia, the rending asunder of Poland was the
condition of the double movement which led her
on to the East and to the West. It extended
the bases of Prussia, and enabled her to become
what she now is—a great German Power. Russia
and Prussia were impelled by ambition, Austria by
the necessity of keeping pace with them. And the
concentration of these three Powers on the wreck
of Poland prepared that coalition which Napoleon
himself was powerless to break up. " Messieurs, it
is time for Russia to give up those compromises,
those concessions, those restricted reforms, which
have only ended in disappointment. The time has
arrived for adopting a larger system, by returning
to the rights of treaties from which Russia has
diverged. Where would be the obstacle to the re-
turn to the treaties of 1815 ? At Berlin ? The
public irritation against the convention of the Bth
of February sufficiently shows the opinion of the
Prussian people. At Vienna ? Would not Austria
follow the traditions of her policy, and allow her-
self to be drawn into new aspirations and sympa-
thies for a cause which France would defend with
her ? Would England be an obstacle ? Why, she
has anticipated us in her zeal. (Murmurs.) She
has given a great, impulse to the diplomatic move-
ment. She has taken the initiative ; and as Eng-
land does not generally pass for an adventurous
nation, she must have had some cause for hopes of
sucess in her diplomatic interference. As for France
her policy is clear. In 1855, when Count Walewski
requested Count Persigny to call the attention of
the British Government to the situation of Poland,
England replied—' That she would see with plea-
sure the re-establishment of the guarantees of 1815,
as a satisfaction accorded to right and justice. She
regretted that she could not extend her hopes
farther, as she considered the reconstitution of an
independent Poland as a barrier against the en-
croachments of Russian policy.' If England has
isolated herself, as in Mexico, in America, in Italy,
it is because she objected to a collective action ; but
it is not the less true that by her individual action
she has recognised those principles which we now
defend, and has devoted her great influence to their
triumph."

M. Dupla —She knows how to get out of them
when it suits her.

M. de Lagueronniere—Yes. She knows how to
get out of them, but here is a decisive fact resulting
perhaps from political expedients; and when these
principles are avowed before Europe by the most
illustrious of her statesmen, England will not die-
avow them. The hour has come for reviving the
rights secured to Poland by the treaty of 1815, and
it is in this sense that the Senate should give its
support to the Government. This is the policy of
peace. There is another policy of war. I admit
my mistrust when I saw the English press urging
us on to the Rhine, for I know that when England
bids us look to the Rhine her gaze is turned towards
the East. When she throws open to us the road to
Poland, it is to involve us in a quarrel with Russia.
(Hear, hear.) This is the expedient of a jealous ally,
who would forge chains for an alliance which we
could not easily break. If jealous love be the most
sineere, there is a vivacity of sympathy in England's
conduct, a delicacy of sentiment, which leaves
nothing to be desired. Yes, Messieurs, there is a
war policy, not only in the perfidious incitements
of the English press, but also in generous and im-
prudent passions. This is a war policy the result of
which may be appreciated by its very promises. It
demands the annihilation of treaties. It desires a
great Poland, and that Russia should be effaced from
amongst the great Powers of Europe. But is not
this great Poland a dream? What would be its
gene d?araPhical expression ? where would it begin or
And is France interested in diminishing the
power of Russia? The two Powers are too far sepa-
rated to interfere with each other. Russia, tending
towards the East, is destined to become a great
maritime Power. We fought against her ambition
rejoice to see her
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cewe should
now
on the seas. It behoves France
to ask Russia, not for an independent-Poland—that
she would not grant—but a free Pond,'with con-
.titutional institutions, or a grand genevoiiisoifey
which would wipe out the stains Of the blond'whiahi

has been shed. tet France pursue this object_
There would be more honour in attaining it than
wisdom in going beyond it. (Hear, hear.)
Prince Poniatowski said that he spoke, not as a
Pole, but as a French senator. He expressed his
dissent from the viscount's conclusions, and assured
him that the peace of Europe could never be secured
until Poland was reconstituted as a great and free
kirgdom.
The debate was then closed until this day.

PARIS, March 18.
The debate on Poland was continued to-day in
the Frenoh Senate.

The Marquis de la Rochejacquelin supported
passing to the order of the day, and maintained that
the movement in Poland was not national but
revolutionary.

M. Walewski protested against the Marquis de
la Rochejacquelin, and said that the treaties of 1815
did not establish the rights claimed by the Czar over
Poland. He also protested against the assertion
that the Polish insurrection was a revolutionary
movement.

Prince Napoleon opposed •passing to the order of
the day, a course which would, he said, be consi-
dered by public opinion much less sympathetic
with Poland than it the Senate were to refer the
petitions for the consideration of the Government.

The Prince continued :—" By simply referring
the petitions to the Government, without stormy
debates, would have strengthened the confidence of
the Senate in the wisdom of the Emperor, and
would have shown France abroad to be intimately
bound to the Government on the Polish question."
Alluding to the treaties of 1815, Prince Napoleon
said they should only be mentioned to be execrated.
The instil rection in Poland was, he said, lawful on
account of the conscription, which was a real pro-
scription en masse directed by the good pleasure of
the police.

The Prince enumerated the barbarous measures
taken and the atrocities committed by the Russians,
and asked whether the Emperor's Government
ought not to do for Poland what preceding Govern-
ments had done ?

In reviewing the position taken up by the great
Powers, the Prince was of opinion that Russia
sought to disturb the good understanding existing
between France and England, in order to carry out
her designs in the East. " Russia, in order to hold
her troops available against the emancipated serfs,
endeavoured to conclude a convention with Prus-

sia."

With regard to Austria, Prince- Napoleon said
that her conduct, though it might cause surprise,
was satisfactory.
The Prince then drew attention to the unanimity
of the Polish movement, and said, " Men of all
opinions and all ranks, up to the Archbishop of
Warsaw, take part in the insurrection. With this
state of things it would be deplorable to be only
able to give to the Poles counsels of resignation.
To pass to the order of the day is to vote against
the national feeling of France. Circumstances are
more favourable than ever. The Emperor is in
the prime of his years and his genius. Our pres-
tige is great abroad, and affairs at home are on a
solid basis. The moment has come to act."

Prince Napoleon concluded by expressing a hope
that. the Senate would not pass to the order of the
day.

M. Billault requested the Senate to adjourn the
debate till to-morrow, in order that the govern-
ment might reply to the many imprudent words
that had just been uttered.