The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

A Scurry Handicap Sweepstakes of 2 sous each, with 15

added; the winner to be sold for £5O. Two miles.
Mr. Barry's Attoman, lOst 101 b (A. Sadler) 1
Mr. Fletcher's Remunerator, list 21b (Brazier) 2
The following also ran :—The Don, Concave, and
Sprat.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Concave and 3to 1 agst any other.
Remunerator led for the first mile, when Attoman joined
him, and half a mile from home held a clear lead of Remu-
nerator, but the latter never catching Attoman, was beaten
easily by two lengths. Nothing else passed the post.
The winner was bought by Mr. Wright for 100 guineas.

RACING FIXT

JRES FOR 1865.

MA.
Warwick Spring
Yinceitnes
Chelmsford Spring ...... 28

Grand National Hunt 2O
Barham 3O
Lewes Spring...

AP.
'Vincennes
Northampton 4
Croxton Park
Newmarket Craven l7
Durham

Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O
Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Spring

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury ' lB

Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

OCTO
Northallerton 5
Newmarket 2d Oct 9
Vincennes

Vincennes
Chelmsford
Manchester Summer
Ascot
Beverley
Liverpool
Alexandra Park

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester
Abingdon
Stamford
Winchester

Brighton 1
Brighton Club
Lewes 4
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham l5
Royal Windsor l7

York
Plymouth
Lichfield 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summer 30
Weymouth 3l
Baden 3l
Stockton —
KBER.

Leicester .
Doncaster

Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn 22
Newmarket lst Oct 26
Walsall
BER.

Brecon lB
Richmond
NOTEA
Liverpool Autumn

Shrewsbury

STEEPLECHASE F.
MARC

'IXTURES FOR 1865.
CFI.

Shrewsbury
Scarborough l6, 17 Torquay 2B
Chertsey 16, 17

West Somerset 5

Abergavonny 20, 21

THE COURT OF AN AFRICAN SULTAN.—On the
17th, at one p.m., a dance took place for an hour, after
which a court assembled on the sa,mA ground to hoar
evidence regarding the M'salala war. In the centre space
lay the tusk of an elephant. Only the Sultan and his
wuzeers or officers sat on stools. The women were most
attentive listeners to the speeches, and all was marked
with the utmost decorum. For an hour the Sultan ad-
dressed the crowd, sometimes stopping to think, and pull-
ing out hairs from his face with iron tongs. There were
bursts of laughter at his jokes, and when he had finished,
a general conversation began. A wuzeer now spoke very
sharply, and after each of his sentences there was a great
clapping of hands and assent:of "hums." Two of the
crowd then delivered addresses, which were received with
a single " viva" and the court abruptly broke up.
Except the ridiculous part of pulling out the hairs of the
Sultan's beard, there could not be a more impressive or
orderly court. It again assembled two days afterwards ;
the tusk still lay in the space, and was presented by the
chief of M'salala in token of submission to the court's
decision against him. Thus, by simple arbitration, ended
their war of four-and-twenty days, which had entailed
no greater loss than half a dozen men.—A Walk, Across
Africa, by Captain .T. A. Grant.

ITALIAN EXCAVATORS.—Do not imagine when

you read of excavations in Rome, that the excavators are
like those stalwart British navvies, who work with sur-
prising will and energy, due to good wages and plenty of
beef and beer ; your Italian labourers is a very different
animal. Piano, piano, is his motto, and so daintly does
he handle the mattock that you might suppose he was a
dilettante antiquary. In keeping with this performance,
reminding you strongly of children with their tiny spades
on the sea shore, are the small carts drawn by impotent
mules, in which the rubbish is carried away. Slow and
lazy as it all seems, there is this advantage in the method,
that the labourers are not likely to injure, by violent and
hasty digging, any fragments of sculpture, or other antiqui-
ties, on which they come ; and so abundant are these re-
mains, that the entire hill, one mile and a half in circum-

Terence, some sown, as it were, with them. Very interest.

ing indeed is to watch the workmen. Every few minutes
you see fragments of marble, or portions of fresco, the
colours as bright as the day they were laid on, or a delicate
piece of sculpture, or a fragment of oxidised glass, radiant
as a gem, brought to light. The most profound archteo-
logists are unable to assign names to the various chambers,
&c., discovered, generally underlying a fragmentary stra-
tum, 20 feet deep, made of crumbled masonry. Names, it is
true, are attached to them, but they are for tho most part
but feeble guesses at truth.—Last Winter in Rome, by C. R
Weld.

HANDLING RECRUITS.—Some months ago a fine
stalwart young Englishman, named M., came to this
city from liverpool with tho intention of entering the
army. Ho had served his time in the regular British
service, and brought with him official testimonials and
certificates as good conduct and general efficiency, which
he thought would aid him in securing a commission in our
service. After weeks of unsuccessful endeavour he made
up his mind to enlist as a volunteer, and take his chance
for promotion. In pursuit of this he fell into the hands
of a bounty brokerage firm in this city, who took him at
once to the office of a well-known city provost-martial,
an officer of prominence, politically and socially, and
presented him as a recruit. Tho provost-marshal ex-
amined and passed him, made out the necessary papers
and desired him to sign -them. M. perceived, by the
wording of the papers that he was placed as a substitute,
and to this he objected, saying he did'nt care to "sell
himself; he wished to enter the service as a volunteer."
The provost-marshal told him it was all right ; it was only
a matter of form, and something which all recruits were
obliged to sign."' This satisfied the man, who signed the
papers, took his $4OO, put on his uniform, and was sent
to the rendezvous at Governor's Island. The provost-
marshal posted at once to the store of a merchant in
Beaver-street, who, a day or two previous, had requested
him to find a substitute for him. The merchant listened
with pleasure to the glowing account of M.'s physique,
and jumped at the chance of securing him for the moderate
sum of $9OO. The bargain was arranged, and on the
following day the merchant called on the provost-marshal
with nine $lOO bills, for which he obtained a receipt and
the necessary exemption papers. Of this $9OO the recruit
had already received $4OO, and was, of course, entitled to
the remaining $5OO. Of course he did'nt get it. The
recent investigations showed that $2OO went to the brok-
ers, and the provost-marshal himself pocketed the rest.—
New York Times.
At the Armagh assizes on Thursday, before Mr.
Baron Deasy, three persons, named Lamb, M'Ardle, and
M'Keeno were found guilty of the abduction of a young
woman named Rose Morgan, who had a small property,
with a view of forcing her to marry Lamb; but the police
and her friends came in time to the rescue. The principal
offender was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, and
the other two to 12 months' imprisonment.

SUNDAY SMOKING.—We are informed that a sta-
tion order has been issued in the Mediterranean prohibiting
"privilege-leave men" from going on shore at Malta on.
Sunday. It is now rumoured that the commander in chief
contemplates another order forbidding smoking on Sun-
day afternoon, as heretofore allowed. We trust that this
does not indicate the introduction of Sabbatarianism, for
that is a new phase of the church in the navy which we
shall be the very last to welcome.— United Service Gazette.

finder and Gorsehawk. Lady Douglas, a long way in the
rear, was pulled up after going two miles. The favourite
held a‘slight lead of Balleycasey when two miles and a half
had been traversed, Goldfinder following many lengths in
the rear. Crossing the lane half a mile from home Rattle-
snake gave way to Balleycasey, and Monahan sending
Goldfinder along, caught Balleycasey before reaching the
last fence, and won cleverly by three lengths ; the same
distance dividing the second and third. Gorsehawk walked
in fourth.

Match, 200 sovs each ; 11st each. Two miles.
Mr. Gilke's Moscow (Pickett) 1
Mr. George's Dinorah (Mr. Harford) 2

Betting-7 to 4on Dinorah.
Moscow made nearly all tho running, and won by two
lengths.

A Selling Handicap of 30 sous each, with 20 added ; the
winner to be sold for 40 sous. About three miles. 14
subs. •
Mr John Oliver's Donkey, lOst 101 b (J. Page) 1
Mr. Fletcher's Remunerator, list (Brazier) 2
Mr. W. Riley's White Stockings, lOst 121 b. (Mr. Grant) 3
The following also ran :—Surbiton, Strike, Eheu, and
Irish Lass.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Donkey, sto 2 agst Surbiton, and
4 to 1 agst Strike.

Remunerator made play for the first mile, when he was
joined by the favourite, and the two took a long lead till
within two distances from home, when White Stockings
got on better terms, but the favourite maintained his ad-
vantage to the end and won easily by three lengths. A
neck divided the second and third ; Surbiton was fourth,
and Strike and Eheu, side by side, next.
The winner was bought in for 51 guineas.