The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-24 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS,

Commissariat Office,
Aldershot, Bth April, 1863.
QEALED TENDFRS will he reePived at this
1,7 office, until noon on WEDNESDAY, the 6th May, 1863,
from persona who may be willing to enter into Contracts to
supply

FLOUR AND MEAT
In such quantities at; may be required, from the let June to
30th November, 1863, for the use of her Maje' ty's Forces
stationed at Alnerehot Came, and within the command.
Separate Tenders are required for Fl ur and f r Meat.
Forms o' Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained .11 application at this office, by letter or in person. be-
tween the hours of ten and tour o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up
and sizned, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope,
mark d on the outside " render for Commissariat Supplies•'),
and no tender will be n ticed unless made on forms obtained
from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed.

y IVERPOOL JULY MEETING_
au SECONf) DAY. TUESDAY, JULY lt.—The Lxvt n-
POOL CUP, in specie, value 2 ,0 soya given by the Lessee,
added to a handicap 'weep takes of 25 soya each, 15 it, and
5 only if declared on a day hereafter to be named, to Messrs.
We.therby, London ; or to Mr. W. Tophan;, Clerk of the
C, urse, Chester; the winner of any sweepstakes, cup, cup
stakes, or plate, of the clear value of 500 sov- after 'he weights
appear 5 b, two of such races 101 b extra, but this in an, case
to be the extreme penalty; the winner of the Manchester
Union or Trades Cup, Ascot Stakes, Northumberland Plate,
or Cumberland Plate, 10lb extra ; or of any other handicap
race i.t the value ~f 200 sous clear 51b, of 400 71b, or of any
two of sueli last mentioned handicaps 81b extra ; the winner
T.41,12.'3,30 sous to the juclore, and 20 soya towards expenses of
be course ; second to save his stake; two miles. Weights to
Published in due time.
SUBSCRIBERS.
Lord PRESENT
A.l.l''nunte:rlbeilYry Mr.,l J. BT,ennet,t, 1
Lor4 ttartio„t r. ~. 'Ague',
1 Sett.„n on Mr. W. G. Craven
•orcrw
Sir L. „,stroorei , Mr._r D wroll
C°l. PO'reWinall'"Q M . Dicas
Col. C. Pi,ttr Mr. Frail
Capt. ebri-"lie Mr. 1, Hall
Capt. virhistette Mr. Ffargreaves
Mr. G. Anzett Mr. Mr. Hart
,I
Mr. Barber Mr. T.Unel'an
If the Illzhestw i I Mr. T. Hughes
raise 1 to that, ameth acee
w wa, Pting be under Bst 121 b, it will be
The MERSEY STARES `rS‘tsll PrOpoPllo I.
added, for two yeair-o‘'it,l4 of ,t,_ firs
oeach, 5 ft, with 50 soya
second t,) his stake.'wto;',7,!_ t lb, and fillies Fist 71b;
more 81b extra, but not 'to be of ion sous clearslb, 200 or
race ; T.Y.C. acelunulative ; 8 subs or no
T Fut? I) DAY.—WI4II)NRsh A .v.
STARES Of 10 SOW; each, 5 ft, w-i-chientv 15.—The STANLEY
three year olds ; two year olds 7.C4),,R0Ys added, for two and
geldngs allowed 21b ; winners of ''• three Set • fillies and
;ctlheaer to carry 51b, 200
the present year amounting to leo ''atea or sweepstakes in
winner
mod" or more 81b extra, handicaps excepted soya to the fund; T.Y.C.
to
PRESENT SUBSCRIBRIts pay 10.
Lord Annesley, I Mr. W. G. Craven. 1 ivt„ ,
111 all races, at Liverpool, where fewer than "-• Payne. atat. the added money will be %ithheld. n three horses

Mr. Jackson
Mr. W. Lynn
Mr. J. Merry
Mr. W. Owen
Mr. Payne
Mr. W. RAnh
Mr. R. Riddell
Mr. R. Riddell
Mr. Saxon

Mr. T. Scott
Mr. F. Swiniell

BERWICKSHIRE STEEPLE CHASES, at
Kimmerzhame-Mains, within tht ee miles of i 'time and
twelve of Berwick, on Wednesday, April 29th. 1863.
I. ME SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE
of 100 soya, added to a Free Handicap of 5 soya each (in case
of awe tance) ; the winner of any handicap at eple chase of
the value of 50 FOvS after the weights are i üblished to carry
%lb extra; the winner to pay 20 soya towards expense., and
the entries, the second to save his srake; five horses to start, or the added
money wit,
not be given wit• out tne consent of the Stewards ;
aboutthree mil
toes entra a and - half over a eood hunting country; 2
to go to the fund, which must be remitted with
, IT. -The
of I
~,,,,,,_
___ ,etherwise they will not be received. To close and
0f—ii141.??.112 Clerk of the Course, Dunse, on or before 31st
John„on, ir*:r.ii. To weight,STEEPLE
CHASE
s7EI b
0. f
50 sp s.,Handicapper,a ded Mr.t olta.
the Earl of 'Welnyssi
Sweepstakes of 5 s
, orsea that have bc'eeva each, i forfeit to the fund, open to all
n
hor e to save his stake:!
tesularly hunted in Scotland, and with
Northumberland7lldgyrinoldsll
21h, six and a-ed 12st 71b ;°llr
71b zN,,,,jrainers,
ot
urb,
five
y r olds;
chase or hurdle race value 514revi"a
:soya 7lb extra ; the winner to
pay R soya towardsperxopfeenszeos__stbo winners of any steeple
s eTqnsdt
ut three miles and a halt ;
gentlemen riders :
grooms, or any one
who has ridden for pay
lll.—The TALLYHO HUNT STEEP y:
added to a 'weepstakes of wonya each CHASE 01 25 soya.,
for horses that have never any sties forfeit to the fund,
race, nor paid race horse duty previous t),)eighase or hurdle
horses that have been regularly hunted in 8' open to all
the Earl of Wemyss's Hounds in Northumberland. ' or
with
horse to save his stake; about three miles second
weio.hts and rid.,rs same No. 2. and a half ;
IV.—The IIt:NTERg' SELLING STEEPLE CHASE of
each, 1 forfeit to
the fund, with 20 soya added; the sovs
second to
save his stake ; four yeor olds, list 4 ,lb • five ,y ar olds, 12st
21b ; six and aged, 125 t 71b; the winner to be sold for 6esovs:
it entered t) be sold for 50 soya allowed 71b, if for 40 soya 141 b,
if for 30 sovs ?llb. and it for 20 soya 281 b ; the winner to be
sold immediately after the race, and the surplus to go to the
race fund; three horses to start, or the added money will not
be given : about three mile,. and a half.
Nos. ?and 3 being intended for bona fide hunters only, cer-
tificates from the respective masters of hounds must be pro-
duced before starting, if required,that tneY have not only
been regularly hunted, but ridden to hounds, and must not
have been in a public training stable in 1/-63.
Entries for Nos. 2 and 3to be made to the Clerk of the
li
Course, Dunse, on or before the 214 April, and objections t
oi
r
qualifi ation of hor es to be made to him in writing no later
than Monday, 27th ApriL Colours to be declared at time of
entry for each race.
Sir G. R. BOSWALL, Part,
Sir DAVID BAIRD, Bart, Stewards.
Major INNES,
Major L' AMY,
J. B. KELLIE, Clerk at the Cows*,

True History of the Coup d'Etat.

From a masterly criticism upon Mr. Kinglake's
" History (soi disant) of the Crimean War" in the
newly-published number of the Quarterly, we quote
the following perfectly conclusive and wholely un-
answerable narrative of the actual facts as they
were, and as they are now proved to have been, in
reference to the ever-memorable Second of De-
cember :

The chapter which contains the history of the coup d'etat
of the 2d December illustrates the tendency of Mr. King_
lake to warp every fact eo as to suit his own particular
theories; to receive any evidence, however untrustworthy,
which may support his own preconceived views; and to
reject any testimony, however weighty, which may be at
variance with them. The truth of history is sacrificed to
the most malignant persecution of the object of his rancour
and hare. ith reckless ingenuity he mingles fact and
fiction : whilst avoiding positive statements, he cunningly
insinuates inferences opposite to the truth, dives into the
gutter for every remnant of personal scandal, has recourse
to the vulgarest arts of rhetoric, and leaves no means un-
tried to prejudice the minds and to influence the passions
of the reader,

It happens that those English writers who have written
about the Emperor, and the condition of France under his
rule, have for the most part derived their opinions and their
information from the leading members of the two great poli-
tical parties who have been deprived of power by him, and
are consequently hostile to him. The most distinguished
French literary and political men have belonged to the
Orleanist party. These writers and thinkers have exercised,
and justly, a certain influence on the literary men and
women of this country. They have given a certain hue to
the opinions of English &clay and of the English press
with regard to France and her ruler. Moreover, those
whose object it has been to discredit the Emperor, and to
bring him into hatred and contempt, have been persons of
great activity and ready resource. They have moved rest-
lessly about with their mouths full of slander, and their
pockets full of pamphlets.
Into the hands of these persons Mr. Kinglake seems to
have helplessly fallen. He goes even beyond them in the
intensity of his hate and in the bitterness of his tongue. He
pursues the Emperor and those about him with a rancorous
animosity and a fierce, fiery invective which savours more
of the unforgiving vengeance of one who has experienced
some great personal wrong, than of the calm judgment of
the historian. He so overwhelms them with taunts, sar-
casm, and sneers that at length the reader, however unfavour-
able his opinton of the men may originally have been, feels
a sympathy for human beings so remorselessly persecuted.
Louis Napoleon, Persigny, more properly Fialin, St.
Arnaud, formerly Le Roy, Maupas, and Fleury, become,
from bad men who should be objects of our hatred, martyrs
and victims to be pitied, By this ill-advised and unscru-
pulous, and, let us add, un-English course, Mr. Kinglake
has frustrated his own object. It has brought about a
reaction in favour of the Emperor, and has led people to
forget his faults and his misdeeds in a manly Indignation at
the injustice done to him. Those who in the country had
from the beginning denounced his political sins—those who
in his own capital had held aloof from him because they
could not condone acts which they conscientiously con-
demned—have gathered for the first time about him to
prove at least that they protest against the reckless accu-
sations contained in Mr. Kinglake's book.
Mr. Kinglake seems entirely ignorant of both France and
Frenchmen, According to him, a free and constitutional
country was suddenly and in one night bound and trampled
down by a small band of conspirators—men of no character
or reputation, and of small ability and means. A plot
helaoneau.etichniemeptedot byeet them within the walls of the Elysee suffised in
a few hours to change tha destiny of France and to influ-
ence the
hasetpublichaving
aisvhipolicynodishonour
havingo secured
rebourfoir
fEbe
bribed
utdhr
theotehpi.
their
. servicesarmT yh
country,
,e President
effectedfb s and his
l e tg theau gain,
be told. It was not the uotmt
Emperor,uo tthisnhse:
rrguworpehwuaon-t,
personalßut
aided by his associates, had alone conspired against the
liberties of France.
nTspheotty itrea was,tbod anyofd he,the nfrautmiona wereeinty
this
of causes,
conspiracy,if
co ira
their leader. The coup
ctetat of the 2d
Dezember
no unexpected- event. If ever conspiracy
o becamew was
was public in the hatching, it was this one, For months

Mr. Kinglake's sketch of the character of the Emperor,
his sneer at his personal courage, sad his merciless and
reckless abuse—sometimes uttered in words scarcely befiit-
ting, at other times in unbecoming sarcasm—have been so
generally and justly condemned, that we have no wish to
dwell upon them.

Mr. Kinglake is constrained to admit the total indiffe-
rence with which the coup d'etat was viewed by the vast
majority of the population of Paris. The chiefs of the ex-
treme democratic party—of that party which was most feared
by moderate men and by the commercial classes of France
—sought, after the arrest of the deputies, to excite a
popular tumult, and, with the help of the Reds, to raise a
barricade at the corner of the Rue St. Marguerite, in the
Faubourg St. Antoine; but Mr. Kinglake confesses that
they received little sympathy and no aid from the people.
One battalion of the 19th regiment of the line sufficed to
disperse them, but not without bloodshed : Charles Baudin
and another deputy of the democratic faction were killed.
The Committee of Resistance then caused barricades to be
thrown up in the streets between the Hotel de Ville and the
Boulevards—that part of Paris which up to this period had
always been the centre of such attempts at revolution. Still
the great massof the population of the capital took no part,
and up to the 4th of December the Government had no fear
of any organised resistance to as authority. On the after.
noon of that day, however, the barricades becoming more
numerous, General Magnan received orders to take them
and to disperse those who had raised them. He sent a
strong column to occupy the tread boulevards stretching
from the Madelaine to the first barricade near the Porte St.
Denis. Notices, as Mr. Kinglake admits, had been pre
viously posted in the public plates, and distributed, calling
upon the people not to assemble in or to encumber the
streets, and cautioning them that any crowd would be
dispersed by force without further summons. Ample
warning seems thus to have been given. Mr. Kinglake
describes General Magnan as " wavering, and throwing
away the whole of the morning, and the greater part of the
afternoon." The fact was that, acting upon the experience
of (Janeral Cavaignac and others who had been engaged in
quelling similar risings, instead of scattering his troops, he
kept them together until the insurgents were collected at
the principal barricades, which were then taken without
difficulty or much bloodshed. The column on the Boule-
vards had captured the barricade near the Porte St. Denis.
All resistance had ceased. The troops were resting on their
arms ; the officers collected in knots ; idlers were gathering
together on the pavement, and appearing at the windows.
Suddenly some shots were fired from a house upon the
soldiers. They were seized with a sudden panic, not un-
common to men so plc ced, and, facing round the whole line,
and, it would seem, without any order from their officers,
they commenced firing upon those who stood as spectators
at the windows and in the streets. A field-piece was
bro ,ght to bear against one house, from which, there is
reason to believe, shots had been fired.

Accounts differ as to the time during which the
firing continued. According to the testimony of one
who was present, it scarcely lasted more than five
minutes, and few of the men had time to reload
before their officers interposed and stopped them,
Even according to the witness cited by Mr Kinglake, it
only lasted a quarter of an hour. However that may be,
many victims fell in what may be admitted to have been
an unprovoked and barbarous attack, equally disgraceful to
the troops which committed it, and to those who were in a
position to prevent it. It might have been thought that the
bare statement of the facts as they occurred would have
sufficed even so virulent a writer as Mr. Kinglake. But,
as usual, he goes out of his way to heap up story upon
story, without sifting the evidence upon which they may be
founded, so long as they tell against the object of his hate
—the Emperor Napoleon. The principal witness he pro-
duces is one Captain Jesse, who stood in a balcony near the
corner (;f the Rue Montauban, and who sent an account of
what he saw to the Times. We all know how easily a
man's judgment may be influenced and affected by an event
on,
and
n blood other
as alarming as that witnessed by Captain Jesse, and how
natural is the tendeney,under such circumstances, to exag-
gerate it. But every statement that in any way contradicts
him, Mr. Kinglake rejects (vol.
i i,
g p.
pwaarst s
no
of
doubt Paris fightingsbed
as the street barricades
were more obstinately defended than those on the Boule-
vards. Mr. Kinglake states that men and women innocent
of any share in the fightespweecriay
made prisoners and delibe-
ellrately shot. Others, he declares, were killed in the court-
yardss 26 8
note),
much
of the Prefecture by police-officers, with loaded
clubs, as men who killed bullocks. For this fact he
quotes M. Xavier Durrieu, a Red Republican, and one of
those who strove to "raise the people" in the Faubourg St.
Antoine (p. 254), who says that he saw some •
thing of the kind from his prison window, but whose
words, as given by Mr, Kinglake in a note (p. 274), do
not quite bear out the somewhat exaggerated statement in
the text. Mr. Kinglake willingly gives currency to stories
of "whole batches of men shot by platoons" in cold blood
and by night in Paris, It is surprising that, as a lawyer,
he should have produced in support of his belief such evi-
dence as that of the "Judge-Substitute," who "under-
stood" that men were carried off from gaols to be shot;
who," indeed, was certain that they were so shot," although
he had no personal knowledge of the fact (p. 279). Sounds
cif platoon firing, accompanied by shrieks, were heard in the
dead of the night in "one of the undisturbed quarters of
Paris "—in the Faubourg St. Germain, probably, where
the Paris gobemouches who nourish Mr. Kinglake chiefly
dwell. He adds, without one atom of proof, that the bodies
of men thus murdered were buried in batches in pits. Such
things are denied by well-informed persons and by the more
respectable leaders of the Republican party themselves, and
we have never met with an impartial Frenchman who be-
lieves in them.

To the most exaggerated accounts of the number of the
slain Mr. Kinglake, in spite of his comical assertion that
"it is hard to believe such things," seems to give credit.
According to a nameless Colonel, one regiment alone killed
2,400 men! As the regiments " operating against Paris"
were between 30 and 40, 20 of which were on active work,
he believes that " a very high number would be wanted for
recording the whole quantity of the slaughter." Taking
his own arithmetic, this would give a total loss of 48,000
killed I We presume that from 20,000 to 25,000 would
scarcely satisfy him. In great battles where large armies
have stood face to face in serried ranks and in deadly strife
from dawn to dark, such slaughter has probably never been
witnessed : the total of the British killed at Waterloo was
onty 2,109. How could it have been inflicted upon the
passengers in a street and spectators at a window, who at
the first shot would at once flee in all directions ? The very
sight of a dozen dead bodies would naturally lead peaceful
citizens to think that there had been a general massacre.
midst
the
of little value to the
tof these alarms, or in the
forgetting the character of a
historian.aTnhgeuir ishevevidence
Ae
mr. m
Kinglake,
judge in that of the partisan, accepts all without scruple.
Two documents, however, exist, bearing an official cha-
racter, of returns of the killed and wounded in December,
1851. One of them, stating the loss of soldiers and officers
at 25 killed and 184 wounded, is quoted by Mr. Kinglake
(p. 282). How comes he to omit all allusion to the corres-
ponding list, published at the same time, of the civilians
killed ? It would be an insult to the labours and re-
searches of eight years to suppose that he is not aware of
its existence.

The list to which we refer was drawn up by the " Chef
de la Salubrite," at the Hotel de la Prefecture, whose duty
it is to examine every dead body at the hospitals of Paris
and at the M
to giving license for its inter-
ment.
The name Morgue
character of this ffieer, the late emi
oranpdreviou s
nent surgeon M. Trebuchet, is a sufficient voucher for its
veracity. According to it the total number of "persons
not belonging to the army, killed on the 3d, 4th, sth. and
6th of December, 1851, or dead of their wounds," amounted
to 1911 No attempt could be made to ascertain the number
of the wounded, who were, of course, concealed by their
friends to keep clear of the police.
The reason of Mr. Kinglake's silence with respect to the
document we have quoted is evident. It demolishes at once
his monstrous intOnuation that the massacre of peaceful
citizens on the Boulevards on the 4th December was the re-
sult of a cunningly devised scheme on the part of the Bar
peror N..poleon to awe the inhabitants of Paris, to establish
his rule, and to make himself the arbiter of the destinies of

Oa the " Newmarket Oaks" day there is usually a large
attendance of the fair sex, who congregate lon the heath to
witness the performances of their favourites just as they do
at Epsom, though, of course, not in corresponding num-
bers. To-day, however, very few ladies appeared, in spite
of the continued fine weather, and the attendance of all
classes was below the average. From the well-known un-
certainty attending the running of mares at this early sea-
son, there is far less interest connected with this race than
with that for the Two Thousand Guineas, as it does not
afford the same key to the Oaks which the latter gives to
the Derby. The race was won on this occasion in the
most hollow manner by Lord Stamford's mare, the second
also belonging to his lordship, whose success, after a long
series of disappointments, gave the highest satisfaction to
a large majority of the spectators. The winner is a fine
slashing mare, but from her running in the Chesterfield
last year, when she was beaten by Saccharometer it was
feared that she was unable to stay ; having; shown in the
early part of that race that she was possessed of sufficient
pace, but dying away at the finish, her stoutness was re-
garded as very doubtful. She is engaged in the Oaks, as
well as Flying Fish and the three placed next. Tornado,
who started an even favourite with the winner, was not
persevered with beyond the entrance to the cords, and it is
probable that she might have run second to her, but hav-
ing no chance for the first place she was very properly re-
served for the great Epsom event. The winner was pur-
chased of Lord Derby, and Flying Fish of Mr. Tattersall,
Lord Stamford being thus at length rewarded for his num-
berless spirited purchases of racing stock.
Plate of £lOO ; for 3-yr-olds, 7st; 4-yr-olds, Bst 10Ib ;
5-yr.-olds, 6-yr-olds, and aged 9st. R.M.
Mr. Astlev's Atherstone, 5 yrs, 9st (Fordham) 1
Baron Rothschild's Giraffe colt, 3 yrs, 7st (Daley) 2
Lord W. Powlett's Eleanor, 3 yrs, 7st .... (E. Martin) 3
Mr. H. Goater's Poland, 3 yrs, 7st (Hunter) 4
Lord Uxbridge's General Hess, 6 yrs, 9st .. (S. Rogers) 5
Sir W. Booth's Dunsinane, 3 yrs, 7st (Drew) 6

Belting-5 to 4 agst Atherstone, 3to 1 agst General
Hess, 7 to 2 agst Poland, 5 to 1 sgst the Giraffe colt.
At the first attempt Eleanor and Atherstone went in
front, but before they had gone a couple of hundred yards
the Giraffe colt rushed past them and made the running at
a quick pace, the other two named lying next, with Poland
in the rear. At the entrance to the cords Atherstone came
through, and, getting the best of it in a few strides, won
easily by two lengths, Eleanor being a bad third ; Poland
improved his position a quarter of a mile from home and
finished fourth ; Dunsinane was beaten off.

A Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 3-yr-olds and

upwards. Last half of Ab. M. 9 subs.
Lord Westmoreland's Speedy, 4 yrs, sst 9113.... (Loates)
General Shirley's Lizzie, 5 yrs, 7st 71b Daley)
Mr. Yorke's Blanche of Lancaster, 3 yrs, Est
_2lb

- . (Murfitt)
Mr. Payne's Catalpa.colt, 3 yrs, sst 71b (carried sst 91b)
(G. Prince)
Mr. Angell's Cadiz, 3 yrs, 6at 101 b .... (A. Woodhouse)
Lord W. Powlett's Batsman, 3 yrs, Bst 31b.. (E. Martin)

Betting-7 to 4 agst Speedy, 3to 1 agst Lizzie, sto 1 agst
any other offered,
Speedy got off in front, attended by Lizzie and Cadiz,
and made the running throughout, winning in a canter by
tour lengths ; Lizzie, Blanche of Lancaster, and the Ca-
talpa colt finished next, and in the order named, a head
separating each; Cadiz was fifth, close up, and Batsman
was last all the way.

Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 soya each, 15 ft, for
4-yr-olds and upwards; winners extra. T.M.M. 15

subs.
Lord Stamford's Citadel, 4 yrs, sst 121 b (Loates)
Lord W. Powlett's Paste, 5 yrs, Bst 11b ....(E Sharpe)
Lord Portsmouth's Vinegar Hill, 5 yrs, 7st 51b (Drew)
Mr. G. W. Fitz william's Rubicon, 5 yrs, 6st 61b (Murfitt)
Mr. Arnull's Fanscombe, 6 yrs, sst 121 b (A. Woodhouse)
Betting-5 0 4 agst Citadel, 3to 1 agst Rubicon, sto

each agst Vinegar Hill and Paste.
Paste made play at a slow pace, attended by Citadel,
oN:icnueircar Htililll,,haenydeßamubeitchoron,uinghthtehoetdgearpn, named.
FllonscoohaLge
passed Rubicon, the pair lying a long way in the rear of the
others. At the foot of the bill nearing home Citadel ran up
to Paste, whom he headed in a few strides and defeated
easily by three lengths, a like distance separating the second
and third.
The One Thnusand Guineas Stakes, a subscription of 100
sovs each, h ft, for 3-yr-old fillies Bst 101 b each, the
owner of the second filly to receive back his stake. D.M.

66 subs.
Lord Stamford's Lady Augusta, Bst 101 b .... (Edwards) 1
Lord Stamford's Flying Fish, Bst 101 b (Roper) 2
Lord Anglesey's Cadeau, Bst 101 b (Daley) 3
Mr. Hargreare's Marigold, Bst 101 b (Doyle) 4
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Tornado, Bst 101 b (Fordham) 5
The following also ran :—Curie, Tease •me• Not, Amelia,
Gold Dust, and Crafton Lass.
Betting-7 to 2 each agst Lady Augusta and Tornado, 5
to 1 agst Marigold, 7 to 1 agst Amelia, 12 to 1 each agst
Crafton Lass and Gold Dast, 20 to 1 agst Flying Fish, 25
to 1 each agst Cadean and Tease-me-Not.
A beautiful start was effected at the first attempt, Flying
Fish immediately going to the front, with Cadeau next,
Amelia being on the whip hand, and Gold Dust and Tor-
nado on the other side. Thus they ran through the ditch
gap, when Lady Augusta took close order with her stable
companion, the remainder lying in compact order. Ascend-
ing the hill Marigold emerged from the background, but
about half way up Lady Augusta came out, followed by her
stable companion, the former winning in a canter by three
lengths, a like distance separating the pair from Cadeau,
who beat Marigold three lengths for third place, Tornado
was fifth, and Tease-me-Not and Amelia were next, the
last, beaten a long way, being Curie.
Sweepstakes of 10 offs each, for 3-yr-olds, 7st 121 b ; 4-
yr-olds, Bst 101 b; 5-yr-olds and upwards, Bst 131 b.
Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold
for 100 sow, if demanded, &c, First half of Ab. M. 4

subs.
Captain D. Lane's Southport, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b (Fordham) 1
Lord Westmoreland's Speedy, 4 yrs, Bst 7st (J. Goater) 2
Mr. G, Angell's Strawberry Hill, 3 yrs, 7st 91b
(Challoner) 3
Mr. Fleming's Miss Emma, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (Norman) 4
Betting—Even on Southport, 5 to 2 agst Miss Emma.
Speedy was first off, and he lad for 100 yards, when
Southport joined him, and the two came on together, a fine
race ending in the victory of the favourite by a head. Straw-
berry Hill was a bad third. Lord West moreland claimed
Southport.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 Bove each, 10 ft; for 3.yr-
olds and upwards. T.Y.C. 3 subs.
Lord Stamford's Cerintha, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (Edwards) 1
Mr. Bry'n's Zora, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Custance) 2
Baron Rothschild's Battery, 3 yrs, Est 91b (E. Martin) 3

Betting—Even on Cerintha, 6 to 4 agst Zora.
The favourite waited upon Battery and Zora to the cords
where the Baron's filly dropped off, and Cerintha chap
lenged Zora, the race terminating in favour of the former
by a length and a half. Battery was a bad third.
Handicap Plate of £5O for 3-yr-olds and upwards. A.F.
Baron Rothschild's Wingrave, 4 yrs, Sst 81b.... (Wells) 1
Mr. Saville's Harlequin, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b (Fordham) 2
Mr. Stinton's Foie de Gras, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Good) 3

. . . _ .
The following also ran :—Oberon, Fig, Perseverance,
Equinox, Douche, and Belle of Yorkshire.

Betting-5 to 2 agat Harlequin, 3to 1 agat Equinox, sto
agat Wingrave, 6 to 1 aget Fig, 8 to 1 agat Oberon,

Previous to the start Foie de Gras bolted and ran across
the health to the telegraph-office before he could be stopped.
Equinox and Douche made play to the Bushes-hill, where
Harlequin, Wingrave, and Oberon came on with the lead,
Foie de Gras lying next. In the cords the issue was left
to the two first names, Wingrave winning by a head;
Foie de Gras a bad third; Douche was fourth, Equinox
fifth, Perseverance last.

WIITP.-Sir J. Hawley's Asteroid, 5 yrs (Wells), walked
over, receiving forfeit from Lord NV . Powlott's Tim Whiffler,
4 yrs.

LATEST BETTING.
CHESTER CUP.
3to lon the field (offered)
GREAT NORTHERN HANDIcAr.
9 to 2 agst Fantail (taken)
sto 1 agst Carbineer (taken)
11 to 1 agst Gameboy colt (taken)
TATE DEILI3I.
9to 2 agat Lord Clifden (taken)
7to 1 aget Maccaroni (taken)
9to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
t
15 to 1 agst Automaton (taken)
16 to lags en)
colt (taken)
Is to 1 agat Ranger (taken)
A thin muster, but little betting.

MEETINGS OF THE JOCKEY CLUB.
A general meeting of the Jockey Club was held at New.
market on Wednesday. Present—Lord Coventry, Admiral
Roos, -
and Mr. Alexander (stewards) ; Mr.
Bayne, Count
Batthyany, Mr. W. G. Craven, Lord Chesterfield, Sir H.
Des
Lord Port Vceu.a, Lord Glasgow, Sir J. Hawley, Lord Lincoln,
smouth, Lord W. Powlett, Mr. Payne, Mr.
Saville, Lord Stamford, Lord Strathmore, Lord Strafford,

- - _
After some discussion a division took place, when the
numbers were—for Lord Coventry's amendment, 7 ; for
Lord Glasgow's motion 15. Lord Glasgow's motion was
therefore declared to be carried.
Admiral Rous then proposed to amend the second para-
graph of rule 42, as passed at the last meeting, by inserting
after the words " the three stewards " the words "of the
Jockey Club," which was unanimously agreed to.
A discussion rose upon this rule 42 generally, which was
thought to require some attention, iu order not to limit un-
duly the power of stewards of country meetings, and also to
define accurately the time at which suspension should com-
mence when a complaint against a jockey is not heard on
the day on which the offence complained of is committed,
and some notices of amendment were given, to be taken into
consideration at a meeting of the Jockey Club on Friday
(to-day).

Some further business not of a public nature was trans-
acted, and the meeting adjourned.
The following notices of motion have been given for the
meeting which is to be held to-day :
"To insert in the second paragraph of rule 42, as pub-
lished in Sheet Calendar, No. XII., after the words 'no
jockey can be suspended' the words ' beyond the meeting
at which the offence is committed.' "
"To add to the third paragraph, after the words last
race of the day,' the words 'on which the punishment is
awarded.' "

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-April 23.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings in Banco at Westminster, before Lord Chief
Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Crompton, Mr.
Justice Blackburn, and Mr. Justice Mellor.)
EX PARTE THE EARL OF CARDIGAN V. LIEUTENANT-
COLONEL THE HON. SOMERSET TALBOT CALTHORPE.--
THE LIGHT CAVALRY CHARGE AT BALAKLAVA.

In this case, relating to the bravely-made but
calamitous light cavalry charge at Balaklava, Major
General the Earl of Cardigan, who commanded the
brigade and led on the charge, complains that he
has been grossly misrepresented.
Mr. Bovill, Q.C,, with whom was Mr. Garth,
now applied, on behalf of the noble and gallant
general, the Earl of Cardigan, for a rule calling upon
the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset Talbot Cal-
thorpe, who served in the Crimean war, and who
has written a book entitled " Letters from Head-
quarters, the Realities of the War in the Crimea,"
by an officer on the Staff, to show cause why a cri-
minal action should not be filed against him for a
libel reflecting upon, and calculated, if uncontra-
dieted, to reflect upon and prove injurious to the
military reputation of the noble and gallant general.
The libel complained of was contained in the de-
scription of the attack by the light cavalry brigade,
under the command of the Earl of Cardigan, upon
the Russian batteries at Balaklava, in which the
noble earl contended that his military character and
honour had been impeached, by its being said he
did not take his brigade through the battery, but
that, " on coming up to the battery (as he after-
wards himself described it), a gun was fired close to
him, and for a moment he thought his leg was gone.
Such was nut the case, as he remained unhurt.
However, his horse took fright—swerved round—
and galloped off with him to the rear, passing,
on the way, by the 4th Light Dragoons and Bth
Hussars, before these regiments got up to the
battery." 17.1r1 Cardigan, after the first edition
of the work, called the author's attention to the
above erroneous statement, and in the second
edition, without altering the original text, he pub
lished a notice, in which he simply stated that no
doubt the statement that his horse ran away
with him was erroneous. In a third edition he
still retained the objectionab.e passage, with a
similar note. Mr. Kinglake's recent work on the
Crimea had again called attention to the events
there, and the noble earl found that these calumnies
in reference to the charge at Balaklava were being
freely spoken about in public society. In February
he called upon the author to stop the publication of
the work, or expunge the ojectionable passage,
but he declined to do so, and he therefore felt bound
to make the present application. The learned gentle-
referred to and quoted largely from affidavits which
he put in in support of his motion, deposing that
there had been much misapprehension and misre-
presentation on the subject of the light cavalry
charge at Balak lava, and in support of the manner
in which the Earl of Cardigan led the charge, and
concluded, after much discussion, in submitting that
he was entitled to a rule.

The court granted a rule nisi.
The Earl of Cardigan was in court, and sat in
the Queen's counsel box, close to his counsel, while
the motion was being made.