The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-21 00:00:00

French Empire (distanced)

All the other starters were emphatically "Nowhere," in-
deed there seldom has been witnessed so hollow a defeat.
It was rather thought at one time tho Italians would have
seen their horse assume a better place, and considering the
pains and patience of his backers, we should have been
much pleased to have announced their better luck. Their
horse is young, however, and may do great things yet
Some fancy if French Empire had not hampered his free
running, he might perhaps have shown a little better in the
race. It is clear he is an animal that wants a skilful jockey,
and it may perhaps be questioned if his owner Victor Em-
manuel be so well up to his work as his friends would wish
to see him. The Russians and the Austrians both declared

they meant to win, but looking at their horses the world
put little confidence in either protestation. Quiet Poland
went at one time Olean out of the betting, as much
as ten thousand to one being offered, and no takers. It is
clear that if the Emperor means winning with this horse he
must adopt a vastly different mode of treatment. It is ac-
knowledged on all sides that the poor animal has Leen most
cruelly ill-used, and so long as it continues in its present
Wretched plight the Czar can hardly hope to show well in
competing for the Civilisation Stakes.

That John Ball would win easy it was the universal faith,
but the even event exceeded the general expectation. So
complete a victory has rarely been recorded, and, when it is
remembered with what a heavy weight the a, imal was
burthened, the British nation justly may feel proud of their
old horse. It was a sight to see his present trainer lead him
from the course, for Pam has all the " noble sportsman"
element about him, and likes to see a good horse proving
himself such. French Empire was at one time thought a
rather ugly customer, but this animal, though much
younger, has not half the strength of British Constitivion,
and although at times successful, is not to be relied on as a
thoroughly safe horse. Among other defects, the animal, it
is clear, wants freedom in his uution, and he has had so little
liberty allowed him that of course it stands to reason his
movements must be cramped. On the other hand, John Bull
has long ago discovered that to curb a horse too tightly is
sure to check his progress; and that when you can rely upon
him not to break away, it is wise to let him take what liberty
he likes. The policy of this good training has been shown
in the success with which hs animal has gone through
all his tri,ls, and with ease won the Blue Ribbon of the
Omninational Turf.

British Constitution has great powers of endurance, and
is remarksble as well for his steady going quality, good
temper, and rare pluck. Though not a showy animal, he
goes always in good form. When put upon his mettle,
nothing cramps his stride, and there is no fear of his ever
being fcund among the nick. Although burdened with
such weights as must have heavily tax ,d his energies, he
has always been undaunted in pulling through a race.
When called on, he has answered with the heart of a lion,
and having justified so well the confidence of his backers,
there is very little fear that we shall ever see him scratched.

Cows AND LocomoTivEs.--0a Tuesday morn.
ing the Lancashire and Yorkshire train, which is
due in Manchester from Leeds at 11.25 a.m., had a narrow
escape when approaching Rochdale. Five cows bad got
upon the line, and were not discovered by the engine driver
until he was close upon them. The train was a long and
heavy one, containing a great many manufacturers on their
way to the Manchester market, and the results might have
been serious; but fortunately the engine struck the beasts
so as tl throw them aside, killing only two of them, with-
out getting the wheels clogged by the flesh, and the train
escaped without injury. It will be remembered that a simi-
lar accident on the London and North-Western line, near
Rugby, resulted in a great loss of life to the passengers.

ion to its funds.

HER MAJESTY.

The Duke of Newcastle is staying at Manifield

The Comte de Paris honoured Sir Thomas and
Lady Cochrane with his presence at dinner on
Tuesday. The following were invited to meet his Royal
Highness :—The Archbishop of Canterbury and Miss
Longley, the Duke of St. Albans, the Bavarian Minister,
the Earl and Countess of Mayo, Viscountess Combermere,
the Bishop of Oxford, Lady Caroline Ricketts, the Right
Hon. Cecil and Mrs. Forester, Count Strzelecki, the Hon.
Mortimer and Mrs. West, and Sir William Fraser.

The Dowager Marchioness of Sligo's dance w
take place on the Ist of Juno.

The Earl of Kintore has left Edwards's Royal
Cambridge Hotel, George-street, for Edinburgh.
The Earl of Dudley entertained a large circle at
dinner last evening at Dudley House, Park-lane.
Lord and Lady Lyveden received a select party
at dinner, yesterday evening, at their residence in Saville.
row.

Lady Ebury has issued cards for a dancing
party on the 9th of next month, at her residence in Upper
Grosvenor-street.

We are requested to state that Lady Dinorben's
ball, announced to take plam on the sth of June, is post-
ponEd to Wednesday, the 17th inst.
The Marchioness Gaetani Piccolomini arrived in
London yesterday.
The Marquis de Portes and party arrived at the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, on Tuesday, from Paris,
to attend the Epsom meeting.

At the soiree of the members and friends of the
Pure Literature Society, on Tuesday night, at
Willis's-rooms, the work to which the greatest interest
attached was a magnificently bound volume of the " Illus-
trated Family Bible." just published by Messrs. Cassell,
Petter, and Gate in, which is to be presented by the society
to the Princess of Wales. The volume was superbly bound
in Levant blue morocco, most elaborately ornamented with
gold in the Harleian style, inlaid in various coloured
moroccos, after the style of a volume belonging to Charles
11. now in the library at Crewe-hall. In the centre of each
side of the cover the arms of the Prince and Princess Of
Wales, it may be added, were emblazoned.
" FUN" has the glory of having anticipated
" PUNCH" in a capital little joke by no less Than a
year and a five months I For proof of this see Punch of
this week, in which John Leech with his delightfully
humourowdy pencil, draws (as John Leech only could draw
it) the " Portrait of Tomkins under the delusion that the
Public take the Old Gentleman's Groom for his." Punch's
Comical Penny Rival, Fun, having, as long ago as in the
week ending December 21, 1861, depicted " A Dodge : If
you see a gentleman on horseback followed by his groom,
put your horse between the two and people will naturally
think the groom bel rigs to you." The coincidence—for it
is of course nothing but a coincidence—at any rate serves
to illustrate anew how Wits Jump I
Mr. APTOMMAS'S HARP RECITALS.—The last of
these most attractive "recitals" tor the season took
place last evening at Collard's Concert-room, Grosvenor
street, and attracted a verylarge attendance. Mr. Aptommas
performed a number of very brilliant compositions on the
harp in a manner that won for him the unanimous ap-
plause and admiration of the fashionable assembly. The
concert was a decided success.

How BURGLARIES ARE MANAGED.—A well•
known member of the swell-mob was recently arrested in
London, and on searching his person there was found upon
him a letter, among others, dated from Newtown Park,
near Lymington, giving information that the family would
very shortly be away, and discribing the doors, the
approaches, the various rooms, the way in and out, the
plate and its chests, and everything that could facilitate
what is, in the police world, known as a " put up" bur-
glary. Had it not been for this timely discovery the town
would have been some morning alarmed by a bold and sue-

cessful exploit. The valuables would have been safely re•
moved, and, after a nine days' wonder, the whole would
have passed by, perhaps leaving only a suspicion on some
of the outlying rangers of Norley-wood. As it is, how-
ever, we were astonished at hearing that a detective and
others of the police had come down and arrested no less a

person than the butler of the above mansion, whose name
was attached to this remarkable letter.—Hants Advertiser.
ACTIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS.—At the
Secondaries' Court, yesterday, an action was
brought in one of the superior Courts to recover £5 for re•
freshments, and £5 for money lent. Counsel appeared on
both sides, and the result was a verdict for 505., and the
Secondary gave a certificate for costs. Another case was
tried in which the amount sought to be recovered was small,
and in stating the case the attorney declared that only three
out of every 100 cases brought in the superior courts were
tried, whereas in the county courts nearly all were tried.
He urged that it was better to proceed in the superior courts
for expedition where no defence was made, and for the faci-
lity it gave to arrangements between the parties. The bill
introduced by Mr. Bcuverie to prohibit writs in the supe-
rior courts for sums under £lO has been withdrawn, and
writs are n+ w being issued for small sums, and costs allowed
in cases where the parties do not reside within the same
county court district.

REVERSES OF FORTUNE IN VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.
Victoria resembles Melbourne before the great
gold rush had subsided in that scene of speculation and ad-
venture. A gentleman who once kept his cab in London,
and was the member of a fashionable London club house,
is serving out liquor at a bar; and this gentleman's em-
ployer was, curi,usly enough, a Waiter at the very club of
which this gentleman was a member. A gentleman, who
was formerly a major in the English army, is receiving one
dollar and a half a day as an ordinary day labourer. lam
told that another quondam army man is hawking cabbage
about the streets. Another gentleman, who was a captain
in the English army, was a barkeeper, but has now gone to
try his luck at the mines. Another, who was a lieutenant
in the army, and whom I met nearly every day, was doing
nothing but loafing about, Another gentleman, who was a
captain in the army, went away suddenly, I believe to Stic-
keen. A friend tells me that a lawyer is washing bottles.
Anotherlawyer with whom I am acquainted is looking about
for

work in vain. An Oxford or a Cambridge man, I for-
get which, is working at a forge, where he luckily got em-

ployment from the fact that he cad acquired tke art of shoe-
ing horses, I know the son of a clergyman in one of the

Midland counties who has been working on the roads in

British Columbim. He was a servant of all work for a time

;o Attorney-General Cary. One day I found him working

under a coloured man, helping to remove a wooden house.
For this really hard labour he received two dollars and a-

half a day, btit:it was a temporary job and soon over. The

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lad did not look over well, and had a terribly swollen face,
but ho was compelled to stick to his work, or—l need not
mention the other alternative.— United Service Magazine.
A parliamentary return just published es'imeted
the value of the arras, stores, &el taken at Sebastopol at
£26,000,

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BALMORAL, May 19,
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom-
panied by Princess Helena, and attended by the
Duchess of Athole.
Princess Louise rode out in the morning.
The Duke of Argyll is the Minister in attendance
on her Majesty.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince of %Vales and the Prince Louis of
Hesse, attended by Major Teesdale and Captain
VVesterweller, went to Epsom Races yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales
and the Princess Louis of Hesse honoured Mr. and
Mrs. Thorncroft's studio in Wilton-place with a
visit, to inspect an equestrian statue of the lamented
Prince Consort. Their royal highnesses also
honoured Mr. Noble with a visit at his studio in
Bruton-street.

The Prince and Princess of Wales (attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale),
and Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, dined with
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge last
evening, at his residence, Gloucester House, Park-
lane.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has
consented to become a patroness of the Infant Orphan
Asylum, Wanstead, and has forwarded a liberal contribu-
_ _

The Empress Eugenie is still suffering from a
slight attack of influenza. Her Majesty only goes out for
her usual airing in a close carriage.
King Fernando of Portugal is expected in France
about the beginning of next week. On his way from Spain
he will stop a day or two at Bordeaux, whence he will
proceed to Pails and alight at the Tuileries, where apart-
ments have been prepared for his reception.
Last night Mrs. Gladstone had an assembly at
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's family residence on
Carlton house-terrace. In the face of very adverse weather
Mrs. Gladstone had a numerous company.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland had a
dinner party last evening at Northumberland House.
There were present his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador
and the Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency the French
Ambassador, the Earl of Powis, the Earl and Countess of
Cathcart, Viscount and Vicountess Holmesdale, Viscount
Chelsea, th- Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., and
Lady Pakington, the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P.,
and Mrs. Disraeli, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, M.P.,
and Mrs. Walpole, Sir Matthew White Ridley, M.P., and
the Rey. L. S. Orde.