The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENI,NG, OCTOBER 16, 1862.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING,

WEDNESDAY.

A portion of the settling on the Cesarewitch took place
at the Rooms this morning, but the larger balances were
left open among members of Tattersall's for Monday next.
The chief winners are the Messrs. Smith and Mr. Steel,
the "gentlemen" being heavy losers by Umpire, Silkstone,
and Balder. The card of the day promised excellent sport
and the morning was fine, but a change came on in the
afternoon, rendering the heath bleak and comfortless to
the assembled company, which, for an off day, was very
numerous. A curious contretemps occurred in the second
race, the Bedford Stakes, for which the number of Lord
Stamford's Oscar was placed on the telegraph instead of
that of his stable companion Armagnac. The race was
run, and Armagnac beaten, when a question arose as to
the decision of bets, which were void as regarded Oscar,
but stood as regarded the real loser.
The racing, although plentiful, was not of a highly inte-
resting character, the Bedford and the 50 Soya Stakes only
having any connection with future events. The Select
Stakes are claimed by Wells, who rode Wingrave, and was
third. The largest field of the day was for the °Milan&
Plate of £5O, with 29 horses entered at 3 sous each. Rain
fell heavily as this race was run, and the heath was almost
deserted before the last event came off at half-past four
o'clock.

Match ; A. F. (1 mile 273 yards). 500, 200 ft.
Lord Coventry's Exchequer, Bst 71b........ (J. Adams) 1
Mr. R. Boyce's Carisbrook, Bst 121 b (Rogers) 2
Betting-6 to 4on Carisbrook, who made play at a slow
pace to the " bushes," where he increased, but was caught
at the cords, and defeated cleverly by a length.
The Bedford Stakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 101 b ; and fillies, Bst 71b. Winners extra. Five

furlongs of A.F. 11 subs.
Sir H. de VCOUX'S Taje, 9st 21b (in 61b extra) (Custance) 1
Lord Stamford's Armagnac, 9st 21b (in. 610 extra)
(A. Edwards) 2
Betting-7 to 4on Taje, and in running 3tol on Ar-
magnac.
Oscar's number was exhibited on the telegraph, but by
some mistake his lordship's recent purchase, Armagnac,
ran in his place, and in consequence all bets were declared
void.
Armagnac made the running to halfway up the hill,when
he was caught by Taje, who headed him in the next stride,
and won in a canter by three parts of a length.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 2-yr-
odds. Last half of Ab.M. 3 furlongs 217 yards, 16

subs.
Mr. John Dawson's Trumps, Est 81b . . (Wheatley) 1
Mr. 11. Goater's Antipodes, 6st 7th (Noble) 2
Mr. R. Sutton's Glengowrie colt, Est 81b.... (J Plumb) 3
The following also ran :—Arrogante, Battery, Santhal,
Infante, Newchurch, The Herald, Fletton, The Maltster,
and Queen of Clubs.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Antipodes, 3to 1 agst Queen of
Clubs, 5 to 1 agst Newchurch, 6 to 1 agst Infante, and 10
to 1 agst Trumps.
In consequence of numerous breaks away, the start was
delayed some time. When the flag was lowered the lot got
away upon equitable terms. The Maltster in company with
the Glengowrie colt, Trumps, and Infante were the first off,
and came on nearly abreast to the cords, when the former
was beaten, Trumps at the same time took a clear lead, but
in a few strides further he was joined by Antipodes, the
three finishing a close and exciting race home, Trumps
winning in the last stride by a head, a like distance sepa-
rating the second and third, Infante and Queen of Clubs,
close together, were fourth and fifth, and Newchurch next'
the last two being Battery and Fletton.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, for 3-yr-olds and
upwards. First half of Ab. M. 3 furlongs 215 yards.

10 subs.
Mr. G. Angell's East Sheen, 4 yrs, Bst (Perry) 1
Mr, I. Woolcott's Grisette, 3 yrs, 6st Blb .... (Dowling) 2
Count Batthyany's Aroma, 3 yrs, sst 91b (J. Grimshaw) 3
The following also ran :—Qaeon. of the Vale, Lava, Zora,
and Tubal Cain.
Betting—Even on Lava, 5 to 1 agst Grisette, 7 to 1 agst
Queen of the Vale, and 8 to 1 agst East Sheen.
The flag was lowered to an unsatisfactory start, in which
Queen of the Vale and Lava were left at the post, Wells
pulling her up and walking home. East Sheen jumped
away with a clear lead, followed by Tubal Cain and Grisette
to halfway in the cords, where Tubal Cain was beaten, and
disappeared from the front ; Aroma at the same time joined
Grisette, the three running a close race home, East Sheen
winning cleverly by a length, a similar distance separating
the second and third. Lava, who was ridden through, was
a bad fourth, Zora fifth, Tubal Cain sixth, and Queen of
the Vale, who walked in, last.
Match—T.Y.C. 5 furlongs 140 yards. 100, h ft.

Mr. Greville's Camperdown, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (car. 7st 81b)
(G. Fordham) 1
Duke of Beaufort's Birdhill, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b.... (A. Day) 2

Betting-5 to 4on Camperflown, who made all the run-
ning, and won cleverly by half a length.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya each ; for 2-yr-olds 7st 31b, and 3-
yr-olds 9st; fillies allowed 31b. The winner to be sold

for 80 sous. T.Y.C. 4 subs.
Lord Westmoreland's Truant, 7st 31b (S. Adams) 1
Mr. Mundy's Foie de Gras, 7st 31b
Mr. Payne's Antidote, 7st (Drew) 3
Mr. Jackson's Boatswain, 7st 31b (Doyle) 4

Betting-6 to 5 agst Truant, and sto 2 agst Antidote.

The favourite jumped away with a clear lead, followed by
Antidote, Foie de Gras lying away until entering the cords,
when he made an effort to reach Truant, but failed, and
was beaten in a canter by four lengths, a like distance sepa-
rating the second and third.
Maiden Plate of 50 sovs ; for 2-yr-old colts Bst 71b, and
fillies Bst 41b ; if entered to be sold for 100 sovs, allowed
71b. Last half of R.M. 4 furlongs 71, yards.
Mr. Bevill's Lady Abbess, Bst 41b (H. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. H. P. Delme's Poland (£100), Bst (J. Adams) 2
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Neilgherry, £lOO, 7st 111 b
(Challoner) 3
The following also ran :—Nawadaha, Blanche of Lan-
caster, Boatswain, Rest, Village Belle, Ossian, Glance colt,
Dictator, ]Para filly, and Lady Evelyn colt.
Betting-5 to 2 agat Lady Abbess, sto 1 agst Ossian,
7 to 1 each agat Neilgherry and Rest, 8 to 1 agst Poland,
12 to 1 agst Blanche of Lancaster, and 15 to 1 agat Nawa-
daha.

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and Blanche of Lancaster, came on with the running to the
Bushes-hill, where Dictator fell back; half-way down the
hill Ossian was in difficulties, and the three placed singled
themselves out and ran a close and exciting race home,
Lady Abbess, who was stopping at every stride, winning
by half a length. A neck between the second and third ;
Ossian was fourth, close up, Dictator fifth, the LadyEvolyn
colt, and Rest next.
The Select Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 3-yr-old colts,
Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b. Winners extra. R.M. 16 subs.
One mile 17 yards.
Lord Bst 71b (A. Edwards) 1
H. Grimshaw) 2
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Farfalla and Watchman also ran.
Betting-5 to 4 on Wingrave, 3 to 1 agst Farfalla, and 5
to 1 agst Alerte.
Alerte made the running, followed by Lacydes and Win-
grave, Farfalla, and Watchman lying up. In this way they
ran into the dip, where the two leaders closed, and ran
together half-way up the hill, where Wingrave attempted
to get first, gut was shut out,Wells having to stop his horse
to prevent a collision, leaving the pair to finish the race,
Lacydes
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getting up in the last stride by a neck, Wingrave
third, close up. On returning to scale, Wells objected to
the
two first on account of shutting him out, and Grimshaw
objected to Lacydes for hanging on him, which remains for
the decision of the stewards.
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Mr. Bowles's Fig,(S. Rogers) 1
Lord Coventry's 3 Balder,
7st 21b (Wynne) 2
Balder, 3 yrs, Est 101 b (car. 6st 131 b)
The following (Boyle) 3
Queen of the Vale, alson:An :—Waterwitch, Schism, Oberon,
Bosh, Turn of Luck, High Treason, Brown Stout, Maggiore,
Longstring,
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Feanscombe, Pilot, Xurullo, Bandage,
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Balder, 6 to 1 agst Xurullo. 8 to 1
100 to 8 each agst Turn of Luck
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and Munchausen made the rwttch, Oberon, Fig,
the others lying in close attendance, On across the flat,
ground Maggiore ran out to the On reaching the new
possession of Fig, who was waited u.left, leaving the lead in
field's colt Waterwitch, and Balder, ken bY Lord Chester-
by Bandage and Fanscombe. In this order ruck being headed
site of the old Duke's stand, wherethe they reached the
away and came on together some lengths in advance
leaders drew
der, Baron Munchausen obtaining a slight l of Bal-
up, and winning cleverly by a length,
Balder ad half-way
third, Voltello was fourth, Oberon fifth, Fanswas a. bad
Bandage seventh, and Cock Robin next. Brown s
combs sixth,
the last. The Drone was weighed for by Judd, buttout was
did not
get to the post in time to start.
Sweepstakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for 2-Yr-old colts, Bst
71b, and fillies, Bst 51b. Winners extra; maidens al-
lowed 31h. Criterion Course. 5 furlongs 182 yards. 6
subs.
Count F. de Lagrange's Villafranca, Set 21b
(H. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Fiancee, Bst 21b ..(Challoner) 2
Lord Stamford's Revolver, Sat 71b (J. Edwards) 3
Betting-5 to 4 agst Fiancee, 5 to 2 agst Villafranca, and
3 to 1 agst Revolver.
Flames jumped away with a clear lead, waited upon by ,

Revolver and Villafranca to the half distance, when the
latter joined the leaders, and obtained a slight advantage
within half a dozen strides of the chair, and won by half a
length, three lengths separating the second and third.
Post Sweepstakes of 500 soya each, 200 ft, for 3-yr-olds,
Bst 101 b each. A.F. 3 subs.
Mr. H. Savile's Buckenham, Bst 10Ib .... (J. Water) w.o.

BETTING AT MIDNIGHT.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
20 to 1 agst Queen of Spain
20 to 1 agst Umpire
20 to 1 agst Aurelian
20 to 1 agst King of Diamonds
25 to 1 agst Hartington
25 to 1 agst Dictator
30 to 1 agst Limosina
30 to 1 agst Bathilde
40 to 1 agst Lapidist
50 to 1 agst Alchymist
60 to 1 agst Clarissa c01t,:4 yrs

school, a canteen, a library, houses for the married
men, a female hospital, and an infant school-rooml
have recently been completed. The force at the
barracks is at present small, but it 'will shortly be
considerably increased. Good conduct medals have
just been presented to Sergeants Marley, Gosling,
and Payne by Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, command-
ing Royal Artillery at Woolwich, who has made a
visit of inspection in the course of the past week.
The gallant General was accompanied by Colonel
Kennedy, Major Milward, and Major Riley, and
expressed himself much pleased with the general
appearance of the barracks and the efficiency of the
troops.

7HE MAGNIFICENT SADDLE 31U7INY.

Among the curiosities formerly to be seen in the
old East India House was a magnificent saddle,
covered with crimson velvet and lavishly decorated

with caparisons of gold_ It was a wonderful thing

to look at, but the story which it recorded was more
wonderful still. That saddle was the trophy and

memorial of an event which, forty years afterwards,
was followed by the massacre at Cawnpore and the

most terrible scenes of the great Bengal mutinies.

The very exploit which we shall presently relate
springs out of the same transactions, and, as Nana
Sahib has still to be captured, this is not the last

time, we trust, that the tale will be brought before
the public. The object in question was the State
saddle of the Peishwa, or Prime Minister of the

great Mahratta Confederacy, taken by us at the
battle of Ashti in 1818, by which victory the
Mahratta power was overthrown and the Peishwa
himself made a pensioner of the British Govern-
ment. His pension, however, was large, and his

position, except that he was under restraint, by no
means a bad one. He survived as a kind of State

prisoner in Hindostan for many years, and, being

Childless, exercised the Hindoo privilege of adopt-

Lng sons. The children of his adoption were three
in number—Nana Sahib, Bala Rao, and a third,

who died, but who left a son named Pandoo Rao,
or Rao Sahib. All this family, though living in
luxurious opulence, conceived themselves aggrieved
by the proceedings of our Government in the ex-
Peishwa's affairs, and the atrocities at Cawnpore,
near which city they resided, were executed under
their direction. Nana Sahib and Bala Rao
superintended the massacres in person ; Rao
Sahib, it is said, remained at Bithoor, the family
residence, in charge of the mansion; but more than
one cold-blooded murder was perpetrated by his
orders, and a body of fugitives from Futtyghur, in-
tercepted by his troops, were forwarded by him to
Cawnpore to share the fate of the other victims.

After the restoration of our ascendancy it was, ol

course, the anxious desire of Government to capture
these three assassins, and to many persons it has
probably appeared strange that, with the whole of
India in our hands, and all the resources of a well-
organised Administration at our command, we should
hitherto have failed in the attempt. The fact, how-
ever, that an Irish murderer is still defying justice
at home, and eluding all the efforts of atrained con-
stabulary to arrest him, may serve to render the
escape of the Bithoor family somewhat less extra-
ordinary. Nana Sahib and Bala Rao, if they still
live, are probably beyond the frontiers of our terri-

tory, either in Nepaul or on the other side of the
Himalayas. Rao Sahib might have been suppose,d.
till the other day, to be in the company of his uncles

—but he at last was delivered into our hands, and
by the intelligence and energy of an Indian officer
has been consigned, after a series of extraordinary
adventures, to the gallows he so well deserved.
It appears that after escaping from the advance of
our troops he joined Tantia Topee, the partisan who
so long eluded our flying columns, and was only
taken and hanged after two years' flight. After the
dispersion of that chief's band he wandered about
India in disguise, settling sometimes at one place of
pilgrimage and sometimes at length, till at length,
about a year ago, he took up his abode at Chineanee,
a small district in the territory of Jummoo, lying
between the northern frontier of the Punjab and
the rugged hills of Cashmere. In this remote
and secluded spot he remained for twelve months,
unnoticed and unknown, till he was one day recog-
nised by a Hindoo pilgrim, with whom be bad
formerly had some cause of quarrel. The pilgrim
immediately betook himself to Sealkote, the nearest
station in the Punjab, and communicated the
intelligence to Mr. Macnab, acting deputy commis-
sioner in the Punjab. That gentleman took his
measures without an hour's delay. First arming
himself with a letter from the Lieut.-Governor to
the Maharajah of Jummoo, in order to meet the con--
tingency of any reluctance or timidity on the part
of that Prince, he started for Jummoo in the night,
and arrived there by daybreak. An interview with
the Maharajah satisfied him that his Holiness was
entirely ignorant of the facts reported and without
any suspicion of the people who had found a hiding-
place in his territories. For the rest, he was willing
enough to co-operate in the capture of the murderer,
but the enterprise, notwithstanding the proffered
assistance, was beset with difficulties. Rao Sahib
was on his guard day and night. His servants and
followers watched for him ; the arrival of a British
officer in those parts would be instantly signaled,
and at the first alarm the fugitive might plunge
into a country through which it would be hopeless
to follow him. It was necessary, therefore, that
Mr. Macnab should succeed in getting to Chineanee
not only in person, but with such an escort as might
be required for effecting the arrest, and yet excite
no suspicion of his approach or his purpose. Such
a problem was no easy one, nor was it facilitated
by the circumstance that Mr. Maenab himself was
so ill at the time as to be unable either to walk or
ride. From Jummoo to Chineanee is a distance of
45 miles, through passes and over precipices of the
wildest character, and seldom traversed by Euro-
peans. How was such a journey to be accomplished,
and, above all, to be accomplished without alarm ?
And after a brief consultation—for time pressed,
and the loss of an hour might be fatal to the whole
enterprise—the following scheme was arranged and
adopted :—A Tehsilder, or revenue agent of the
Maharajah's, stationed a little beyond Chineanee,
either was, or could very naturally be supposed to
be, a defaulter in his accounts, and the Maharajah,
therefore, was to despatch a trusty secretary
for the ostensible purpose of superseding
him. That the secretary proceeding on such an
errand should take an escort was but reasonable,
and this pretext provided for the guard of 50 sol-
diers. Finally, as the new kigent might wish for
his wife's company at the scene of his duties, a litter
was provided for the conveyance of' his lady, and
this character and, conveyance Mr. Macnab appro-
priated to himself. He next took the precaution of
sending his own litter back to the Sealkiionbteienriyfnowgrimthera,
little public demonstration, in order that he might
be thought to have returned to his station, and that
his name might not by any chance be connected
with the expedition to Chineanee. This done, the
little party started ; the Secretary at the head of
his soldiers, and the British officer representing
the Secretary's wife in the closed litter. The road
lay across the most terrible rocks and soulsu an
and was so painfully difficult that half- at-
hours
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still retained, and, after being duly tried, was
hanged on the 21st of August at the scene of his
crimes. The story, our readers will acknowledge,
is a remarkable one. The public at home will be
interested in an exploit which recall some of the
most romantic achievements of the old Indian ser-
vice, and the public in India will be impressed, we
trust, with the conviction which such a feat is well
calculated to carry—that treason and blood-guilti-
ness, though they may succeed for a season, will
surely meet with retribution in the end.—Times.