The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

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IRISH RACING FI

Kildare Hunt
8
Athlone
kerriea
tells ..... ~ 23

Cork
Nenagh
Howth and Baldoyle l4

Westmeath 3

Bellewstown

Heath
Wicklow
SIFT

Curragh
2
Carlow .. 10
Londonderry .. l2

O OTC
Limerick
Ourragh 2l
Novi

Armagh

Tramore l6
Jenkintown Park 24

IBER.

Ardee .. 29
Down Royal Corporation 31
IMBIR.

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By the present Australian mail intelligence is
received of the sailing from Melbourne of the gold-ships
Copenhagen with 13,524 ounces, the Prince of Wales 9,777
ounces, True Briton 32,299, and the Latona with 7,409
ounces. Including the sums previously reported by the
Yorkshire, Omar Pasha, and E. A. Bright, the total
known to be on the way to this country is about £400,000,
AFFRAY ON THE LIVERPOOL 'CHANGE.—The
prevalent dulness in Liverpool business circles was yester-
day relieved by a personal encounter on 'Change between
two gentlemen well known in the mercantile circles of that
town. Mr. G—, considering himself aggrieved by some re-
marks made by Mr. S— to his banker, demanded an apo-
logy by letter and word of mouth, threatening personal
chastisement on refusal. Mr. S— refused to apologise, and
on this Mr. G-- struck him while in the news-room.
Friends promptly interfered, but before the parties were
separated Mr. G— carried off as a trophy a porticn of one
of Mr. S—'s whiskers, which he afterwards stuck on ono
of the new slates, appending a notice, "This is Mr. S—'s
whisker." Of course this was removed at once by the
employes of the news-room committee, and great regret
was expressed that both " gentlemen" were not at once
handed over to the custody of the police.

GREAT FIRE AT FALMOUTH —The buy little
seaport town of Falmouth has just been the scene of a
terrible conflagration, which threatened to destroy the
principal part of the borough, and which has resulted in
the total destruction of thirty houses, together with a large
amount of property contained therein, and entailing
the greatest distress on many families. The fire broke
out on Ludgate-hill, it is supposed, in the store at the back
of a grocer's shop, about one o'clock on the morning of
Saturday. The wind was blowing strongly from the har-
bour at the time, and the flames rapidly spread to the
houses on the right and left, and ultimately to those on the
opposite side of the way, Ludgate-hill being very narrow
and ancient. The fire quickly assumed such magni••
tude that it became manifest that to extinguish it
was hopeless, and all efforts were therefore concen-
trated to the limiting it to as small an area as possible.
With this view four houses were pulled down, one on either
side at both ends of the street. These measures were so far
successful, and the loss was limited to twenty-six houses
burnt and four pulled down. Prompt steps have been taken
to relieve the immediate wants of the bouseless families, and
their pecuniary losses will, in some measure, be met ulti-
mately by the insurance offices. The Sun, Alliance, and
County are, it is believed, the companies most largely in-
terested.

DEATH FROM STARVATION .—An inquest was held
on Saturday evening at the Lord Wellington Tavern, Three
Colt-street, Stepney, before Mr. Walthew, deputy-coroner
for East Middlesex, on the body of a child nameee:am""
Altham, aged 3 years. The mother of the deceased
that her husband was a house-painter,
living• had any Alpha-
place, and in consequence of his notl hfaainvrinlyg
had been in a
d stated
em-
ployment during the winter the whole family
had often been
state of the most abject poverty. They
evening, the 6th,
many days without fOod. OnteS
ill be-
be very ill, and she took
her youngest child appeared .
ahvimailto,
as
hdeocdttoerd,
nwexhto
iet hou
poort
n:edrumiinngis.terHede
had
nevermedicine,. butbeTe
n:
' hopeless to apply to the parish for woman said it was
fore, and she attributed his death to starvation.
re-
lief, as the authorities would not grant it unless the whole
family went in the house, which would have ruined all
their prospects. Dr. Maskell, who made a post mortem
examination of the body, said the organs were all healthy
but perfectly bloodless. The body was reduced to mere
skin and bone, the stomach Was quite empty, and there
could be no doubt that death had resulted entirely from
starvation. After some observations by the deputy-coroner
on the melancholy facts of the case, the jury returned a
verdict of" Died front absolute starvation."

THE MOSQUITOES' OF MARS.EILZES.

As Sou are dropping off to sleep, there comes sr
you from the outer darkness s blast of a fiercely blown
little trumpet, which vibrates in your ears like the
note of a very shrill musical glass ; and, if you are
at all familiar with the sound, drives sleep away at
once. The first thing to be done is to shut the win-
dow, and in the course of this operation you damage
your fingers with that combination of crank and lever
employed to fasten windows in France. Your temper
is thus dangerously roused, and with towel and
lighted taper you go forth to battle determinksd to
spare neither age nor sex. ' In the blindness of your
wrath you murder a couple of innocent sleeping
flies, and smash a late spider who is hurrying home
to bed up the wall; but of the enemy you can
see nothing. He is in ambush, however, watching
you, for no sooner are you in bed and the candle out
than he returns to the charge. Then you think of
trying a stratagem, and letting him settle before you
attack him. After a prolonged fantasia in some-
thing unusually sharp, the music comes to a sudden
i stop, and you prepare to steal out your hand for a
match, when sting! goes his stiletto into the corner
of your left eyelid, and instinctively you deal your-
self a thwack on the adjacent organ that for the
moment produces the effect of a final burst of fire-
works at Cremorne. Surely you hit him that
time you think ; but you didn't, and he comes
down upon you again as soon as you are quiet ;
and so with sorties and retreats and severe
punishment about the face—and perhaps, if have
mosquito curtains, a diversion created by setting
fire to the house—the night drags on until at last,
wearied out and fairly beaten off, you bid him
bite his best, and fall into a dogged 'doze and dream
that you are being
i pursued down very deep steps
on account of the informality in your passport, by.
the whole French army, wh. len somehow changes
into a cloud of mosquitoes just as you are getting
away. Bat the sorest trial comes with the morning
light. The field of Waterloo on the morning of the
19th was not a more touching spectacle than that
which your glass presents to you. Left eye nearly
closed ; eyelid pendulous, looking like a little sack
of currant jelly, and forcing you to regard nature
with a wink fixed and rueful ; forehead all over
bumps like the crust of a pigeon-pie or the surface
of a common where the moles have been burrowing.
Nay, more than this. There are yet other woes in
store for you; for is there not an unusual feeling
about the tip of your nose? Surely the accursed insect
cannot have violated the sanctity of that sacresacred
feature ? And yet, now that you come to look at it,
there does seem to be something wrong; it is far
redder than it has any right to be in a person of
your strictly temperate habits, and viewed side-
way, there is a decided bump on the end of it. This
is the cruellest blow of all. Now, you think you
could have been happy with a closed eye and a
knobby forehead. What is even a black eye to a
nose that is gradually assuming—for you do feel it
swelling—the dimensions and colour of a tomato ?
There is something rudely heroic about a black eye;
it may have been received in the defence of beauty
and virtue, but the expression of your unfortunate
countenance is simply comical, and here you are
condemned to go [stout for at least eight-and-forty
hours (supposing you Theft get bitten again) with
bitterness in your heart, irritation in your skin,
and a physiognomy as grotesque as a pantomime,
mask.—Frassr's Vagazine for April.

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF INDIA

Accustomed as India has been tocommanders-in-chief of
the type of Sir Wm. Gomm, the spectacle of Sir Hugh Rose
laying aside all state and travelling courier fashion over 600
miles of as wild and barren a frontier as the world can pro-
duce, is too remarkable to be passed over without an attempt
to chronicle his movements. It is well known that for many
months he has intended to make himself personally ac-
quainted with our Trans .Indus border, and that a journey
from Peshawur to the confines of Scinde formed an impor-
tant part of his projected tour of inspection for the winter
of 1861-62. It was always his intention, with reference to
the known character of the country, to travel with a reduced
escort and staff, but it was only after his arrival at Pesh-
awur, and after consultation with Brigadier-Gen. Chamber-
lain, that the exact form in which the journey should be
made was determined on. The simplicity with which it has
been thus far conducted is remarkable. Not a single tent
has accompanied his progress. Each day's journey, averag-
ing from 30 to 50 miles, has been performed on horseback,
with an escort of a duffadar and five troopers of irregular ca-
valry. He has depended for shelter and refreshment each day
on the scanty resources of the frontier officers, and the re-
sult has been tilt t he has seen more of frontier life and sys-
tem in a few days than if he had paraded through the dis-
tricts in ordinary state for as many weeks. Sir Hugh Rose,
after completing his inspection of the troops and posts in the
Peshawur valley, rode o ver from Peshawur to K ohat,through
the pass which formed the scene of Sir Chas. Napier's brief
campaign in 1849.50. He arrived at Kohat on February 3,
halted the next day, looked at the troops, consisting of a
battery of artillery, a regiment of cavalry, and three of in-
fantry—all of the Punjab Irregular force, examined the fort
and everthing worth seeiag, and on the 6th commenced his
arduous ride to Mittuncote, accompanied by Brigadier-
General Chamberlain, commanding the Punjab Irregular
force, Major Roberts, V.C., Assistant Quartermaster-Gene-
ral, Lieut.-Col. Sarel, Assistant Adjutant-General of
cavalry, one aide-de-camp and the staff officer of the Pun-
jab Irregular Force; six officers in all. The officers com-
manding the several stations and districts on the frontier
had received orders to provide relays of cavalry or artillery
horses, and of riding camels and mules from the regimen-
tal establishments, for the very limited baggage of the
party. Seven camels and nine mules were foand sufficient
for the latter purpose. The frontier officers had• also been
warned to have either tents or houses according to circum-
stances prepared for the party at each resting place.
Bahadoor Khan, a frontier post midway between Kohat and
63
3tamtiloln was
es,
from
theth first
e formerresting
and somewhatple. His leseExcel-
lencyfrom
the latter
fortmewnapsiedly by
contentedordinar iwitha
thesm ffiaollreoeorminthe
commanding.keeThe
keep of the
fort was built some years ago for the purpose of controlling
the Bahadoor Khail salt mine, a great resort of the power-
ful Wuzeeree tribe, who act as carriers of sal thence to
various parts of Affghanistan and the intermediate hill
tribes. It stands on the very edge of the British territory,
facing a remarkable natural fortress, in the shape of an
enormous hill, called the Infidel's Castle, about 15 miles
beyond the border, and sees in reverse the low line of hills
which separates the Wuzeeree country from the valley of
Bunnoo. Through this range the Korrum finds its way,
and issuing into the plain fertilises a portion of the Bun-
nou Valley and thence passes on to join the Indus. On
the morning of the 6th the Commander-in-Chief rode
through a dery difficult, and, until late years, dangerous
overdefi thle, called
walledurteheeree Tull, or pastureakP and
grdtohunend of theceonto Bunnnomadsoo
Wuzeeree tribe, for a full description of which we must
refer our readers to the pages of Colonel Edwardes's book.
At Bunnoo he was entertained by Lieutenant-Colonel.
Green and officers of the station. On the 7th he halted and.
looked at the brigade, consisting of a battery of artillery, a
regiment of cavalry, and two of infantry, all, as at Kohat,
of the Punjab Irregular Force. On the Bth the Commander-
in-Chief rode on between 30 and 40 miles to Paharkheyl, a
village at the mouth of the Bhaim pass which leads through
the low range of hills dividing Bunnoo and Murwut from
the plains of the Derajat, a defile which has only lately been
reclaimed from being utterly dangerous and impassable
without strong escort.
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at
.8f
htto
hdhr
ecrt
oh
mte
w p pole.axrit.yoTnhhsadeaGrh.intln:slsenist
on to Paharkheyl from Bunnoo. On the 9th his Excel."
lency rode on to Tank, about 30 miles. This is thet
Prinaend-
pal military outpost on the Dera Ismail Khan
the headquarters of the 3d Punjab Cavalry.
Affghanistan,grand roads of
tehnatenrktafainlleydtbhye Leioeauntt.yKaeonnoomedmyoadnadtiehais officers, accepting
ehacacenpting
out-
postree
afforded. The 10th was devoted. towbv.tishaitfilneegurnettihkheerne,nowuat
posts in the Gomul valley, and exeplotnhng
communicationwn
Gon t Gomul orG w a abreat
wpeaesns
of Calcutta.
or Povinda mtherecihiahu:
ber and Bolan passes being
principally used by the
the
noeethe bazaars
thisover by the party day was not less
whose
eosgremorning of the 11th his Excellency
than 50 miles. On the
un-
commonoo nobdj athleticect
riddenformaat thi and
this se season ann
looked at the 3d Punjab Cav
healry w,aans dthen rode into Dera
Ismail Khan, 43 miles, when entertained by Lieut.-
the
Colonel Vaught
and the officers of the station. On the
hh e Brigade, consisting of a Battery of Artil-
lery, a detachment of the 51st Light Infantry and two in-
fantry
regiments of the Punjab Irregular Force. The
evening was devoted to inspecting the small fort which con-
tains the magazine from which all the troops on the fron-
tierlit saw
south of Kohat are supplied. On the morning of the
13th the detachment of the 51st Light Infantry was put
through a searching inspection, and, this done, the Comma-
nder-i- Chief galloped off to look at a bund or dam in course
of construction six miles above the station, which, it is
hoped, will divert the stream of the Indus to the oppo-
site bank, and thus save the town from destruction, which
last autumn appeared imminent. In the afternoon a grand
durbar was held, and 170 individuals of various rank and
degree were presented to his Excellency. On the 14th, the
Commander-in-Chief rode out 38 miles to Drabund, a vil-
lage on the extreme frontier, opposite the pass of the same
name, end facing the grand mountain of the Scrolymnnhrtaiungee,
called " Solomon's throne." Here he passed the night
few small tents which had been sent out from Dera
alongs
mail
the frontier road to Vehowa, a small outpost
Khan for his accommodation. On the 15th
44 miles
mit'edlees below
Drabund, and again passed the night indae
ecittarigun
grota
extempo-
rised for the purpose. On the 16th he onto
DheierawGa ts was t o proceed
30 miles, and according to the last acco
his cam p at Fero-
but may be prodUctive of
yhatozeme Shan
and
rejoin
far has xhot merely
zopore or Umballa. His
gratified a laudable curiositYy,
tangible good.—Fried of nouranthdnAlittuntinc.de' whence
he
willt anniceatkoe