The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1853.

Paris and Orleans, 1,055 ; Paris and Strasbourg,
900 ; Paris and Lyons, 909 f. ; Paris and Rouen,
1,0451.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

6001. unless exemption from being sold is claimed at
the time of entrance, and horses for which the claim
is made to carry 91b extra. New mile. 14 subs.
Mr. Mare's Ariosto by Orlando, 5 yrs 9st (F. Butler) 1
Captain Lane's Ephesus, 5 yrs, 9st ...(Bartholomew) 2
Mr. J. Perren's Adeline, 2 yr 4, 4st 41b (Bundy) 3
The following also ran :—Mr. R. E. Cooper's Letus'
3 yrs, 7st 41b (Wells) : Lord Exeter's Phoenix, 2 yrs
4st 41b (J. Edwards) ; Lord Exeter's Nutshell, 6 yrs,
9st 31b (Norman) ; Duke of Richmond's William Rufus,
3 yrs 7st 41b (Flatman) ; Lord Londesborough's
Broughton, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Harrison) ; Mr. Treen's
Ladybird, 2 yrs, 4st 41b (Bush) ; Lord John Scott's fby
Alarm dam, foaled in 1843, by Elis, out of Antler's
dam, 2 yrs 4st 41b (Plumb) ; Mr. J. M. Stanley's Hybla.
3 yrs 7st 41b (J. Osborne) ; Baron Rothschild's Lady
Louisa, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Charlton) ; Sir R. Pigot's Sister
to Filius, 2 yrs, 4st 41b (carried 4st 1.11 b) ; T. Cliff ;
Mr. E. Parr's Ham, by Robert de Gorham, 2 yrs, 4st
41b (carried 4st 61b), (Sopp) ; Mr. Reeves's Lioness, 2
yrs, 4st 4lb (Cresswell).
Betting-2 to 1 agst Ephesus, 4to 1 agst Ariosto, 5
to 1 agst Broughton, 10 to 1 agst any other. Lioness,
Adeline, Ephesus, Ariosto, Lotus, and William Rufus
composed the front lot ; Lioness making the running to
the distance when it was carried on by Ephesus, who
was headed by Ariosto at the Queen's Stand, and at last
beaten cleverly by a length. Half a length between the
second and the third. Letus was a bad fourth.

SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCOCXXXVI.

THE ASCOT MEETING.—The opening-day of " Royal
Ascot" was worthily inaugurated ; every body and every
thing that was required to assist—with the exception of
her Majesty—being there ; the weather, the company,
sport, and competitors contributing their portion. The
fields were good in almost every instance—even the
" certainties' sending more than could be expected to
the post.
. _

IMPORTANT FROM TURKEY.

A telegraphic message from Berlin, states that
intelligence had reached that capital from St. Pe-
tersburgh, in which it is announced that the Em-
peror of Russia had dispatched a courier to Con-
stantinople, with a demand that Prince Menschi-
koff's last proposal should be accepted by the Porte
within eight days.
The Cologne Gazette has the following under the
head of Constantinople :—" The Sultan in putting
his signature to the answer rejecting the proposi-
tions of Prince Menschikoff, is reported to have
said, really cannot understand what it is at-
tempted to exact from me. I desire only the hap-
piness of all my subjects, without distinction of
religious creed, and have shown this desire with
more ardour than any of my predecessors, and yet
the more I display this feeling the less gratitude do
I find on the part of the Christian Princes who are
my neighbours.' The Sultan then signed in a bold
hand. The language of the Sultan has spread
everywhere, and has produced an electrical effect.
Never was Sultan more beloved by his subjects."
We read in the Debats

The bookmen must have dropped a pretty penny, as
all but two out of the eight races came off exactly as
the backers most desired ; and even on the only piece of
good luck that fell to their snare—the Ascot Stakes—
some unfortunate wight betted a cool hundred against
the winner while running.
The first race—the Trial Stakes—produced a good
race between Ariosto and Ephesus, the horse most fan-
cied being just beaten by a length—the feather, Ade-
line, running a good third. The tidy number of fifteen
ran for this stake.

The decision of the next race—although the winner
had the odds betted on him on the course—must have

produced some surprise in town where he was hardly
noticed, and 2to lon Lamprocles eagerly laid. The win-
ner is another of the first-class two-year-old division,
winning in a canter. He will take a prominent position
in the Derby betting.
_ _

Her Majesty's Vase produced a good race between
the first three, Pelion at last most unmistakeably finding
his master in Ratalpan, who left off first favourite sA 6
to 4. This running must have its effect on what is
generally called the Vase, otherwise the Emperor's
Plate ; and while elevating the chance of Stockwell, has
entirely put out that of Pelion.
Ninnyhammer won by a neck from Filbert, Cobnut,
and Orinoco, the Ascot Derby Stakes ; but when we
take into consideration that Butler rode him, we can
guess how long that neck might have been.
The Ascot Stakes produced the surprise of the day ;
Buckthorn, hardly mentioned at starting, and being dis-
appointed in one place while running, came home a
winner from King Pepin and Waterfall by half a length.
The " pot," Lady Evelyn, had enough of it at the dis-
tance.

SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for two-year-olds ;
colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 31b. Three quarters of

" The following, according to our correspondents,
are the circumstances which produced the last Ministe-
rial crisis at Constantinople, and brought back Reschid
Pacha to power. On the 12th ult. the old council of
Ministers had resolved to reply to the dispatch in which
Prince Menschikoff acknowledged in anything but con-
ciliatory terms the reception of the note of Divan, dated
on the 10th, which, as is well known, rejected the draft
of the treaty, presented on the sth by the Russian am-
bassador. This new reply of the Turkish Government
was to be handed to the Prince in conference to which
he had been officially invited through Nourredin-Bey,
Dragoman of the Divan, and at which was to be present
the Grand Vizir, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the
Seraskier or Minister of War, and Arif-Effendi, the
representative of the Ulemas. Prince Menschikoff
accepted the appointment for the following day at the
palace of the Grand Vizir. At the hour fixed
on, the Ministers, who were assembled at Kouron-
Tchesme, the residence of the Grand Vizir, had the
annoyance of seeing the steam-frigate of the Prince,
bearing the ambassador's flag at her mast-head, dash
past the windows of the palace,
.Fhere they expected
to see her stop, and proceed to Beschick-Tasch, the
palace of the Sultan, as though the Russian ambas-
sador had forgotten the appointment made on the
previous day, and paid no attention to the remark
made to him by the Grand Vizir a few days before
when the Prince talked of a fresh audience of the Sultan,
that his Highness was unwell, and could not see any
one. It was in fact the Sultan himself whom Prince
Menschikoff wished to see. The first dragoman of the
Russian embassy, M. Argyropoulo, was charged to
transmit to the first Secretary of the Sultan the demand
of the Prince, and which it was thought proper not to
refuse, however unpleasant it might be for the ministers
of the Sultan. On being admitted to his presence, the
Russian ambassador immediately began to complain of
the resolution of the Divan. We do not pretend to give
the conversation which took place textually, but we
think we may rely on the following as being the sub-
stance of it The intentions of the Emperor,' said the
Prince, 'towards your Majesty and your Government
have been badly interpreted. The Emperor will never
forget that you are the son of his friend the late Sultan
Mahmoud, and no one would be more distressed than
he to see a rupture take place between the Sublime
Porte and the Court of Russia. Let your Majesty
deign once more to listen to the counsels of a neighbour
and a friend ; let me permitted to hope that the reply
given to my ultimatum is not definitive. Perhaps your
Majesty has not yet consulted all the persons who could
enlighten you on this subject and make you appreciate
rightly the importance of a refusal given on such
an occasion to my august master. I entreat your
Majesty to weigh maturely the consequences which
might result from a prolonged resistance on your
part to the wishes of the Emperor.' After making these
remarks the Prince returned on board, and instead of
going to Buyukder6, he kept his frigate stationary
under the windows and opposite the gate of the palace.
After having received this communication, the Sultan
sent for the Grand Vizir and the Seraskier. 4 I will not,'
he said, break off my relations with the Emperor of
Russia, neither will I give myself up entirely • find me,
therefore, a middle course, which will satisfy iussia, and
save the honour of Turkey.' To these remarks, the
ministers, who had not recovered from the emotion
caused by the affront just given them, replied by advising
resistance. It is, said the Grand Vizir, the only means
of saving the independence of the Sultan. The plan
adopted was decided on almost unanimously by the
Council, and it is impossible to change it. He concluded
by offering his resignation. The Seraskier Mehemet-
Ruschdi-Pacha, went still farther than the Grand Vizir ;
he declared to the Sultan that he would sooner lose his
head than give his consent to an act which in his opi-
nion would place the empire at the feet of Russia. The
Sultan dismissed his two ministers, telling them that he
would consider of it. An hour after he again sent for

a mile. 6 subs.
Mr. Payne's Boer, by Van Tromp, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1
Lord EgHilton's Lamprocles, by Pyrrhus the First,
Bst 71b (Marlow) 2
Betting-6 and 7tol on Boer, who made all the
running, and won in a canter by two lengths.

HER MAJESTY'S VASE, added to a Sweepstakes of 20
Boys. each ; for three-year-olds and upwards. Various
penalties and allowances. Two miles. 15 subs.
Mr. Thollusson's Rataplan, by The Baron, 3 yrs,
7st 31b (Wells) 1
Lord Clifden's Polio; 3 yrs, 7st (carried 7st 51b)
(Flatman) 2
Captain Lowther's Rackapelt, 3 yrs, 6st 81b
(S. Steggles) 3

After the Welcome Stakes had been won by Butler,
by a neck, on Sittingbourne from Cobnut, Lord Exeter
was rewarded for his perseverance in providing sport, by
seeing his Ilex run in first by half a length framWeather-
gage, one of the " certainties."
Sittingbourne walking over for the Sweepstakes of
50 sovs. closed the first day's racing.

The following also ran :—Mr. Milner's Grapeshot,
3 yrs, 7st 31b (J. Mann) ; Mr. Morris's Indian Warrior,
4 yrs, Bst (Basha,m) ; Duke of Richmond's Rattle, 3 yrs,
6st 131 b (Garvey) ; Mr. E. R. Clarke's Mr. Sykes, 3 yrs,
7st 31b (Sabin) ; Baron Rothschild's Orestes, 3 yrs, 7st
31b (Charlton).
Betting-6 to 4 agst Rataplan, 7to 4 agst Pelion,
7 to 1 agst Orestes, 10 to 1 each agst Rattle and Dove,
10 to 1 offered agst any other. After running a short
distance Grapeshot took the lead, and, on entering the
Swinley Course, Dove and Rattle lay second and third ;
Rataplan, Pelion, and Rackapelt, were about the middle
of the ruck. On rounding the turn into the straight,
Dove had a slight lead, which she held to the distance,
where Rataplan came out, followed by Pelion and Rack-
apelt ; Pelion made a good effort, but was beaten
cleverly by a length ; half a length between the second
and third ; Grapeshot and Rattle the next two.
ASCOT DERBY STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h ft ; for three-
yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b. Swinley
Course. 16 subs.

My judgment was more than tolerably correct yester-
day—having run first and second with Ariosto and
Ephesus in the Trial, and 4 to 1 could have been got
about Ariosto ; dittoed the performance for the Fifty
Sovs. Stakes ; only beaten half a length with Pelion in
her Majesty's Vase ; successful with Ninnyhammer in
the Ascot Derby ; out with Lady Evelyn in the Ascot
Stakes ; right with Sittingbourne for both Welcome and
Fifty Sovs. Stakes ; and beaten half a length with
Weathergage for the Triennial Stakes—thus hitting five
winners out of eight attempts.
The first race for the grand day of the Meeting (to-
morrow) takes place at half-past one, and is, I believe, the
Visitors' Plate of 100 soya., and 25 soya. to the second by
subscription of 5 sous. each. This, together with a 50
soya. Handicap Plate (three quarters of a mile), I am
not enabled to say anything about, not having seen the
handicaps.
The St. James's Palace Stakes of 100 sous. each, h ft,
for three-year-olds, one mile, will, I presume, be con-
tested by Cobnut, Speed the Plough, and The Reiver—

Captain Lane's Ninnyhammer, by Orlando, Bst 71b
(F. Butler) 1
Lord Exeter's Filbert, Bst 71b (Flatman) 2
Lord Exeter's Cobnut, Bst 71b (Norman) 3
Mr. J. M. Stanley's Orinoco, Bst 71b ...(J. Marson) 4
Betting—Even on Ninnyhammer, 3 to 1 each agst
Orinoco and Filbert. A fine race with the first three ;
won by a head ; a neck between second and third ;
Orinoco beaten several lengths.

THE ASCOT STAKES of 25 SOVS. each, 15 ft, and only 5
if declared ; the second horse to receive 50 soya. out
of the stakes, and the third to save his stake ; winners
extra. Two miles and a half. 95 subs, 70 of whom

pay 5 sovs. each.
Lord Palmerston's Buckthorn, by Venison, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
(A. Day) 1
General Anson's King Pepin, 4 yrs, Est 81b (Aldcroft) 2
Mr. Isaac Day's Waterfall, 5 yrs, 6st 81b ...(Crouch) 3
The following also ran :—Lord H. G. Lennox's Chief
Baron Nicholson, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (F. Butler) • Lord
Wilton's Lady Evelyn, aged, Bst 61b (Flatman; ; Mr.
Dawson's Russborough, 6 yrs, Bst llb (H. Neale) ; Lord
Clifden's Poodle, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (G. Mann) ; Mr. W. E.
Hughes na Little Davie, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Pattie) ' • Count
Batthyany's Herbert, aged, 7st llb (Hiett); Mr.
Combe s Nervous, 3 yrs, 6st 81b (J. Steggles) ; Sir J.
V. Shelley's c by Cotherstone out of Lucy Banks, 3 yrs,
6st 41b (Wells) ; Captain Lowther's Rackapelt, 3 yrs,
6st 41b (S. Steggles) ; Mr. E. Batson's Gavotte, 3 yrs,
sst 131 b (Garvey).

Betting-6 to 5 on Lady Evelyn, 8 to 1 agst Lucy
Banks colt, 9 to 1 agst Little Davie, 10 to 1 each agst
Chief Baron Nicholson, King Pepin, and Rackapelt ;
12 tot each agst Nervpus and Gavotte, 14 to 1 agst
Waterfall, 20 to 1 agst Buckthorn. In the early part
of the race 100 to 2 was laid agst Buckthorn. Herbert
went off with the lead, King Pepin, Little Davie, and
Lady Evelyn lying up in the order named until they
arrived at the top turn, when Lady Evelyn took up the
running, with Herbert in close attendance. At the old
mile-post Herbert dropped off, whilst Buckthorn, who
had been lying in the rear of the ruck, began to draw
forward. On passing the limekilns he was well up with
Lady Evelyn, but in making the turn into the straight
he met with a disappointment, caused by Russborough
and Rackapelt. He was, however, quickly up again
with the front horses. Buckthorn then went ahead,

them, and he summoned to him at the same time
Mustapha, Rifaat, and Reschid-Pachas. He named
the first Grand Vizir, the second President of the
Council of Justice, and Reschid Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs ; and then turning towards the old Grand Vizir
Mehemet Ali, and towards Mehemet Ruschdi-Pacha:
Council. General-in-Chief
Prince
Menschikoff,of the Guard,
who w ihthada
and told them that he wished to give them both proofs
of his confidence in naming one Seraskier, and the other
iin t
self all this time before the Palace did stationedvoe h
not leave Beschick-
Tash to return to Buyuddre until after all these changes
th
e
change taken place as it were before his eyes. Thustle
change in the Ministry, in which Mehemit Ali Pacha
occupied the post of Grand Vizir, could not have been
the result of any dissent between the Sultan and his ad-
visers ; at Constantinople it was thought that it had
more particularly for object to bring back to power
Reschid Pacha, the statesman who is the personification
of reform, and whose liberalism and tolerance are justly
appreciated in Europe, and who will return to office
with the mission of accomplishing nearly definitively the
political emancipation of all the Christian races of the
Empire. He will besides, it is said, endeavour to effect
more—attribute henceforth to all the powers of Europe
that protectorate which Russia now claims for herself
alone. In the same manner that the independence and
neutrality of Turkey have been placed by treaties under the
safeguard of the whole of Europe, will it be under its aus-
pices that the Christian inhabitants of Turkey will revive
to political life, and it is from the ideas and the institu-
tions of Europe that they will demand pledges for their
existence and future welfare. It is positively stated
that the manifesto which is to announce this new step
of Turkey in the career of reform, and withdraw the
Greek race from the exclusive influence which Russia
wishes to exercise over it, is being prepared in the
bureaux of the Porte, and will shortly appear. It is
said to be the English Ambassador who has impelled the
Porte in this path, and it is thought that the favour with
which his ideas on the subject were received contributed
not a little to precipitate the resolutions of Prince Men-
schikoff."
The Patrie says :—" A letter from Vienna of the
Ist announces, as a rumour generally current, that
the mediation of Austria was probable in the affairs
df Turkey. We cannot say if this rumour is well
founded, but it had assumed a tolerable consistency
at Vienna."
Mr. Tucker, one of the couriers of the Foreign-
office, in London, embarked at Marseilles on the
sth, in the Caradoc steamer, with dispatches for
Admiral Dundas at Malta.
We learn from Marseilles that the Leonidas
steamer has arrived there with Constantinople
letters to the 25th ult. The enthusiasm for the
Sultan, in consequence of his resistance to the de-
mands of Russia, is stated to have become almost
general in the Turkish capital. The inhabitants
were getting up a patriotic subscription. When
the Leonidas passed by Malta the British fleet was
still in that harbour.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 23d, says,
it was reported there that Halil-Pacha, the brother-
in-law of the Sultan, will be sent as special ambas-
sador to St. Petersburgh. The same letter informs
us that, although it was hoped that war will be
avoided, the Porte is preparing on every point for
resistance. Four thousand barrels of powder and
other munitions of war have been taken from the
arsenals, and distributed among the fleet and
army.

followed by King Pepin and Waterfall, and the race ter-
minated in his savour by half a length ; same distance
between the second and third. Gavotte was fourth.
The others widely scattered.

The WELCOME STAKES of 20 Nova. each, with 50 added,
for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ;
winners extra. Swinley Course. 13 subs.
Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne, by Chatham, Set
101 b (including 31b extra) (Butler) 1
Lord Exeter's Cobnut, by Nutwith, Bst 71b (Norman) 2
Betting-10 to 1 on Sittingbourne, who waited until
they were within a hundred yards of home, when ho
went up and made a good race in, winning by a neck.
Third Year of the TRIENNIAL STAKES, of 10 soya, each,
with 100 added • for four-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ;
fillies, Bst 41b ; the owner of the second horse to re-
ceive 50 sovs. out of the stakes. Horses having started
for the first or second year of this Triennial Stake,
and not having been placed first or second, allowed 5
lb. Once round. 46 subs. "
Lord Exeter's Ilex, by Beiram, Bst 21b ... (Norman) 1
Mr. Megson's Weathergage, Bst 71b (Marlow) 2
Duke of Richmond's Harbinger, Bst 71b...(Flatman) 3
Mr. J. Scott's Songstress, Bst 41b (F. Butler) 4
Mr. Farrance's Joe Miller, Bst 71b (Goater) 5
Major Martyn's Convulsion, Bst 71b (Abdale) 6
Betting—Even on Weathergage, 2 to 1 agst S•ng-
stress, sto 1 agst Ilex, 10 to 1 agst any other. A good
race. Won by half a length. A neck between second
and third. Songstress well up ; the others beaten off.
SWEEPSTAKES of 50 soya each, h ft, for three-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 91b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; those by stallions out
of mares that never bred a winner allowed 31b ; if
both, 51b ; once round. 10 subs.
Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne, by Chatham
(allowed 31b) (F. Butler) Walked over.

Mr. Milner's Grapeshot (allowed 51b), and Lord W.
Powlett's Scandal (allowed 31b), received 50 Boys. each
out of the stakes.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
EMPEROR'S PLATE.
2to 1 agst Stockwell (taken and offered).
sto 2 agst Teddington (taken and offered).
7to 1 agst Kingston.
7to 1 agst Defiance (taken).
ST. LEGER.
6to 4 agst West Australian (take 7to 4).
6to 1 aget Rataplan (taken).
7to 1 agst The Reiver.