The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-28 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF LA PLATA.

LiviturooL, TUESDAY.—Advices from Monte Video to
March 4 have been received to-day. Notwithstanding th
advantage gained by General Paz, much uncertainty pre-
vailed in Monte Video relative to the speedy pacification of
affairs. Commerce consequently remained in a state of de-
pression ; and we are informed that a cargo of dry goods,
destined originally for the Monte Videan market, had been
reshipped for Rio Grande.
(From the Rio Journal de Comercio.)
•W e have received accounts from Monte Video to the 3,,
inst. (March). Urqueza had invaded the province of Cor-
rientes, and on the 4th February defeated the vanguard of
Paz, at Lagoa Limpia, capturing Don Juan Madariaga, chief
of that force ; continuing to advance, he was drawn by
General Paz into the interior of the country, losing much of
his baggage in the forced marches which he made through
bad roads.

On the 10th of February General Paz halted at Ytaybiti.
an impregnable position on the banks of the Parana, near tc
Paraguay. Urqueza not venturing to attack this position,
and not being able to maintain himself in that which he bac:
taken, commenced his retreat on the 12th, in the directio
of Entre Rios, being actively pursued by the enemy, and, it
is said, abandoning his baggage.
A convoy from Paraguay arrived at Corrientes on tilt
14th of Febrrary.
The French steamer Fulton had also arrived at Corrientes
from Paraguay, conveying Senhors D. Bernardo GovellandE
and D. Artanasia Gonzales, envoys of the Government of
Paraguay, to the Ministers of the intervening powers
(England and France), and to the Oriental Republic.
It appears, from a number of letters and dispatches, that
Urqueza's advance was very bold and rapid, and that its ob-
ject was to give battle to Paz before the arrival of the re-
inforcements from Paraguay. In this respect it failed, as Paz
had received a reinforcement of 4,000 men, which raised his
force altogether to 10,000, before Urqueza arrived in front of
his main army. After remaining there some days, he re-
treated in the night of the 12th. The last account of the
operations of the armies is contained in the following report,
addressed to General Paz :

" I have the honour to announce to your Excellency that
the enemy have fled, rapidly and shamefully, from the bridge
of Ytaybiti. Our army is in pursuit. The enemy continues
to abandon waggons and horses.
" Amoyito, Feb. 15."

" JUAN J. SOTS).'

POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Tuesday a notice was posted
at the General Post-office, that on and after the Ist of June, tlse
British and foreign rate of postage to Hamburgh will be combined,
and the prepayment optional, but the British rate alone will not be
received. Letters to be sent by the direct Hamburgh packets, tho►e
conveyed by private ship, or by way of France, Holland, or Belgium,
will be chargeable with the same rates of postage to which they have
hitherto been subject.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF DUNMORE.
—We have to announce the decease of the Dowager Countess of
Dunmore, who expired on Sunday last, at her residence at Richmond,
after a protracted illness. The late Countess was third and only
surviving daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton, by Lady Harriet
Stewart, fifth (laughter of Alexander, sixth Earl of Galloway. Her
Ladyship was born on the 3d of August, 1774, and married the 4th
of August, 1803, George, fifth Earl of Dunmore, father of the late
Ear!, who died in November, 1836.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH- EASTERN RAIL-
WAY—AsifFOaD, TUESDAY.—In accordance with a notice from the
Board of Trade, received by the Company yesterday afternoon.
Major-General Pasley, the Government Inspector-General of Rail-
ways, arrived by the early train this morning from town to prose.
cute his official ,nquiry into the circumstances attending the fearful
accident to the express train on Saturday afternoon on the line, by
which an engine-driver named Samuel Hill was killed. Mr. P. N.
Barber, the acting engineer, and Mr. Cudworth, the locomotive su-
perintendent, attended the investigation. The accident, it should be
observed, was one of a most serious description. The train was tra-
velling at the rate of nearly 40 miles an hour—the ordinary express
speed—when, from some unknown cause, the engine mounted the
rails, and dashed off the permanent road into the siding of a cutting,
dragging the tender and the whole of the carriages, most of which
were considerably shattered. The guard and stoker escaped, as did
the passengers ; the engine-driver, however, perished by the engine
turning over upon him. Having obtained sundry facts, General
Pasley left by special train for town. What conclusion he arrived
at could not he learned ; nor will it be known until his report to the
Board of Trade is laid before the House of Lords.

A DESPERATE LEAP FROM A WINDOW.—TUSIiday
morning, between one and two o'clock, great excitement prevailed
in the vicinity of Kent-street, Southwark:, in consequence of a female
named Johanna Hefferan, aged twenty-eight years, the wife of a
labourer, jumping from the second floor window of her residence in
a court inhabited by a number of Irish people. It seems that her
husband had been leading a very dissipated life for several weeks
past, and had treated her in a very harsh and cruel manlier. Ile
returned in a state of drunkenness, and when he entered the apart-
ment he seized her by the throat, and threatened to murder her.
She, however, escaped from him, and to evade his brutal treatment
she threw up the window and jumped out into the street. A police-
man who was on duty near the spot ran to her, and when he raised
her up he found that she had received some injury to the legs and
other pasts of her person. She was taken to Guy's Hospital, where
she was found to have sustained extensive injuries, which, it is
feared, will cause her death. _ _ _

. -
MIDDLE TEMPLE.—The Honourable Society of the
Middle Temple evinced their usual loyalty by giving an extra bottle
of wine to each mess on Monday, to celebrate the birth of the young
Princess. The health of her Majesty, and the recent addition to the
members of the Royal Family was given with right good will, and
was received with the heartiest enthusiasm by a very crowded hall.
QUEEN'S MUSICIANS.—It is somewhat remarkable
that the favourite musicians of three Queens fell a sacritrcoteoestryP--
cion and vengeance within a space of thirty years in HO
and grammar oQueen
in 1536; Thomas Abel, who taught musics
hanged
.sad
quartered In
namely, Mark Smeaton, in the service of Anne Boleyn, was executed
Catherine, wife of Henry N of Scotts, who was
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aogfaihnisrfeemnarileidreedm.
employer,
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Monday, Henry Norman,
THE SELF-ACCUand robberies, was again examined at
appeared),y at
numerous murders
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from Ireland, although considerable anxiety to see her has been
manifested by the haul ton. We hope
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that the Earl and Countes
Jersey have pardoned the love•match, and we doubt not that sof
the
gallant soldier, who, without their sanction, became their sop-in-law
will prove no less deserving than the Prince, who, against the wishes
of his parents, now stands in the same relation to them.
ATTEMPT TO POISON POUR PERSONS AT BIRMINC-
itAm.--On Monday a woman named
rminhMary Ann Lawless was com-
muted by the magistrates of Ili ' am to take her trial at the
next Warwick assizes for attempting t
'
°poison her husband and three
other persons. It appears th
livin at Lawless and her husband bad been
g unhappily together for some time past, and that in one of their
quarrels she threatened to •
poison him. On Tuesday evening he ob-
served an acquaintance (Mrs. Murray)passing the door with' little
girl, to whom
he was godfather, in her hand. He invited her to tea,
which she accepted, together with a young man of the name of
H ol
_ Y , who chanced to come in at the time. After the first cup Mrs.
Lawless went out under the pretence of getting some butter, and
immediately on her return she infused the tea. Soon after partaking
of the second cup, none of which Mrs. Lawless drank herself, they
were taken ill, and but for the timely and prompt assistance of the
stomach pump, in all probability they must have all died. An ana-
lysis of the contents of the stomach of Mr. Lawless showed arsenic,
and the policeman who apprehended the woman found the teapot in
which the tea had been infused, and in which was found a small
quantity of white powder, which also proved to be arsenic. The only
regret the woman professes to feelis,that when'her husband was en ill,
"she said it was a pity he was not dead." Her conduct under exa-
mination was of the most unfeeling character.

EPSOM RACES.
The great event brought to an issue yesterday after-
noon, taken as a betting race, was perhaps one of the
least profitable to book-makers that it has ever been
our task to describe, owing, we conceive, less to the
growing importance of the Spring Handicap than to the
heavy losses sustained by some of the leading specula-
tors in Capel-conrt. And if it showed a falling off in
the amount of money at stake, it, until recently, pre-
sented few of those exciting movements amongst the
favourites that gave so much importance to the
transactions at the corner, the only remarkable features
having been the infatuation with which, in the face of
warnings that, if not given in direct words, were suf-
ficiently intelligible to all but the wilfully blind,
thousands were lavished upon animals that the published
reports of the betting must have told had no earthly
chance. But if the race lost caste as a betting event, it
has sustained its supremacy with the public. In truth,
the enormous extension of Derby clubs, which are now
established in almost every house of entertainment in
the kingdom, temperance hotels not excepted, has
diffused an interest amongst all classes, and thus created
an inducement to witness the denouement of a race in
which their hopes and fears had been so deeply involved.
The benefit to those interested in the success of Epsom
Races that resulted from this mania, was seen yester-
day in the immense crowd gathered on the Downs. The
Hill, the Corner, both sides of the straight
run in, and every spot of the ground that
afforded even a glimpse of the course, was covered.
The splendour and animation of the scene, heightened
by the beauty of the weather, and the gay colours that
met the eye in every direction, have never been sur-
passed. There certainly was a falling off in the number
of horsemen, but this might have been expected ; the
removal of the circle, or ring, on the hill, and the an-
nouncement that the betting, as well as the saddling,
would be in the vicinity of the Grand Stand, took away
the chief inducement to equestranize, and thus caused
the throng near the ending post to be much greater than
we have seen on any former occasion. The Stand was
the centre of attraction to all who preferred to them-
selves a cool and comfortable enjoyment of the racing.
The character of the visitors was, perhaps, less aristo-
cratic than of old, but a more fashionable disp'ay we
have never met in this spacious, and, as now ordered,
most convenient edifice ; in mere numbers, the attend-
ance was unprecedented, and the receipts, we trust, will
have satisfied its enterprising proprietor that his efforts
to elevate the character of the meeting, and to consult
the convenience of all classes, have been appreciated.
The large room at the western extremity, with the
lawn in front, the latter rendered available for the pur-
pose of business, by the erection of a circular rail-
way in the centre, was understood to be devoted to the
use and behoof of the subscribers at "the corner ;" the
crush, however, was so great as to lead to a suppo-
sition, that many found their way in, whose features
would not be recognised at 'Tattersall's ; whereat
the bona fide subscribers grumbled exceedingly. Apart-
ments were reserved for the use of the Jockey Club and
their friends, and the magistrates, still leaving ample
room for Mr. Careless, who, as usual, had the care of the
refreshments. Immense as was the crowd within the
Grand Stand, the proprietors of the minor ones had no
reason to be dissatisfied with their share of patronage ;
they were, one and all, full to overflowing. In short,
not to be prolifix on features that have been so often de-
scribed, it was a " grand day," in the fullest sense of the
word ; it proved that John Bull has lost none of his
relish for a sport that throws all others into the shade.
Having treated of matters preliminary to it, we may
now bestow our attention upon the race itself. The
start was fixed for half-past two; and trainers having, by
permission of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, walked their horses
round the large paddock contiguous to the "pull-up,
were, on the elevation of a large flag on the roof of the
stand, conducted to the course, and having been saddled
in front, and passed the ordeal of criticism before the
anxious thousands congregated in this vicinity, were,
with nearer approximation to the time than is usual on
great races, cantered round to the starting-post. Nil.'
Hibbard's efficiency as a starter was a guarantee that the
event would come off without a repetition of those tat;
tating disappointments which, in the 4, good old times,
were the unfailing preludes to the Derby. One failure
only occurred ; at the second attempt the horses quitted
the post, and at five minutes before three a movement
amongst the horsemen on the hill, followed by 0"
long prolonged shout from the stand, proclaimed the
start for
The Derby Stakes of 50 soya. each, h ft, for three years old;
colts, Sst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; the owner of the second horse
to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to
pay 100 sovs. towards the police regulations of the course
Last mile and a hal'. (193 Subs.)
Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First (S. Day) I
Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes
General Shubrick's Brocardo (Holmes)
The following also started, but were not placed :
Lord Maidstone's Tom Tulloch
Sir Mr. Giolhinesattohnceo,
st e 'Gs
Mr. Drake's Bold Archer
rcinbirstoHnet.m..a.n.. P1at.......... t.
'' .. .. ................. h.. (a PLP3l,ee
Lord Chesterfield's Ginger (Duffle)
Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum (Sly)
Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy (Templernan)
Colonel Anson's 1ag0... ............ ...... (F. Butler
Mr. O'Brien's_ The Traverser .

Mr. Drinkald's Widred
Mr. E. Peel's Spithead .
(Franisc) 0
Lord E Russell's Sting
A11,11rr...
ivlllloesrtryyn's,sPeehriy pcolht
(Robinson) 0
cenix—L'llirondelle ...... ((H. Bell) 0
Sir R. Bulkeley's Joinville
( E .
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.(Marlow)
uwa mbdral
Edwards
) :0
Mr. E. R. Clark's The Conjuror
Mr. Wall's Crown Prince (Wakefield) 0
Mr. Gurney's Cantley (Pettit) 0
Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm ( Robertson) 0
Lord Orford's Blackie
Lord Eglinton's Sotades (.parson) 0
Count 13attliyany's Tragical ..... (Crouch) 0
Mr. Balchin's Sir Edmund (W. Balchin) 0
Mr. T. Powell's Holloway
Betting at Starting.-5 to 1 agst Fancy Boy-8 to 1 agst
L'Hirondelle-10 to 1 agst Tom Tullock-10 to 1 agst Sting
—lO to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes-10 to 1 agst Conjaror--
11 to 1 agst Humdrum-15 to 1 agst Peri colt-25 to lal
Brocardo-25 to 1 agst lago-40 to 1 agst Nanette colt---D
to 1 agst Joinville-50 to 1 agst Sotades-50 to 1 agst The
Traverser, and 100 to 1 agst Grimstone. Sir Edmund;
jumped off with the lead, Humdrum, Blackie, and a rush of
horses following him for about 200 yards. Blackie then took
up the running, attended by The Conjuror, Sir Edmund'
The Traverser, Joinville, Tragical, Grimston, and Spithead;
Tom Tulloch, Sting, lago, Brocardo, and Fancy Boy ]Wing
in advance of the second ruck, and in the rear, last but one,
Sir Tatton Sykes. They ran in this order at a good but f
from a superior pace, to the commencement of the turn, t
Tatton there being ast but four, and as some of his friend
who were stationed there, imagined, altogether out of the
race. The Conjourer here went up to Blackie, and went CrA
with a slight lead, until half way between the
turn and the road, when both having had enough
of it, the running was taken up by Grimstone,
Brocardo, who had reached the front rank at the
turn, taking the second place, Joinville third, Tom Tulloch,
lago, Sting, Pyrrhus the First, and Fancy Boy next, well
up, and Sir Tatton Sykes also getting into the first flight in
coming round the bend. This order was kept until within
a distance and a half of home. Grimstone then gave way,
1 and Sir Tatton Sykes went in advance, followed by Pyrrhus
the First, Brocardo third, and Joinville fourth, in which re-
lation they neared the Stand. Sir Tatton's lead then began
to diminish, and at the centre of the inclosure, Sam DaY,
calling upon his horse, reached him in the last two or three
strides, and won by a neck, beating—not the horse, but hl5
rider, who was too much exhausted to finish ; Brocardo third,
about a length from the winner, beating Joinville not more
than a head. Tom Tulloch, Sting, lago, and Fancy
Boy were well up, but so close together that we cannot say
decisively which was fifth; our opinion leans towards Toni
Tulloch. There seems to be no doubt that Sir Tatton Sykes
would have won had he not laid so much out of his ground
in the early part of the race, or had Scott been in a condition
to make the most of him at the end. Sting too lost his
.
chance in conseqnence of Spithead having crossed him, and
obliged Bell to pull back and go round his horses—a cir-
cumstance that led to a complaint of foul riding again%
Francis. Fancy Boy was still more unfortunate; he w.sf
badly kicked twice before the race, and in running round tne
turn, was run against, and almost knocked down ; he 1153
looking well at the time, and notwithstanding the loss of
ground consequent on the accident, finished respectably.
The race was run in 2 min. 55 sec.
Previous to starting, The Conjuror was objected to on the.
score of age, and a counter objection was made by Mr. E. -5
Clark against Tom Tullock.
The Carew Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added ; three year"
old, 7st 101 b ; four, Bst 11lb ; five, 9st 2lb ; six and ago,'
9st 61b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to
be sold for 120 sovs. One mile.
Mr. Mostyn's c by Hetman Platoff, out of Miss Thoma-
sins, 3 yrs (Whitehouse) .1-
Mr. Ramsbottom's c by Mus, out of Belvidere, 4
yrs
(H. Bell) N
Palllot:l3.lbs.WoNne
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York's
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5e Attorney-General,
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The Polesdon Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added;
101 b ; five, 9st 21b ; six and
claimed.
three-
years-old, 7st 10lb ; four,
aged, 9st 61b. Mares and g
—Duke of Rutland's A(
tsedY2rsbut..w..e.r.e not( placed :—Gen"
T.Y.C.
3s-brsa,ld.eston's sister to Devil among
J. Howlett) .h
Mr. Walker's The Nobni .......... ... (Lye) 0
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btyo ILa. agst Attorney-Gene'
—s_f4and 5 to 1 agst Prudence.
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Grosvenor ii,
eiNie:xtioleYabbler a bad third. The wiline
Liverpool—Dir. John'
son's
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claimed.

The Burgh Stakes of 5 sous. each with 30 added • three Yr?
old, Bst 21b; four, Bst ; five, 9st • six, and aged, 93" e
41b ; mares and geldings allowed 311.4'. The winner to b
sold for 80 sous. Last half-mile.
Mr. Cooper's Caen, 6 yrs (-cat) 1
2
Mr. Ford's br c The Attorney 4 •yrs ....................... 5
Mr. T. Walker's The Nobbler, 5 yrs ...............................
The following also started, but were not placed :--Iff•al.„
S. Douglas's Lucile—Mr. E. Batson's Malvoisie—Mr. s.
deston's Brother to Sorella—Mr. T. Smith's Antonio—NlLs
Smith's Brompton—Mr. Greville's Motilla—Mr. T. Dawsuo
Montgomerie.
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great tailing amongst the others.
LATEST OAKS BETTING.

2 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant
4 to 1 agst Mr. Bower's Mowerina
6 to 1 agst Sir C. Muneles Vanish
8 to 1 agst Treen's lot
11 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Osprey
12 to 1 agst T‘)rd G. Bentincles Princess Alice
25 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Prussic Acid

HONITON.—On Monday night, the 18th instant, 6,, "e
broke out in the High-street of this town, by which seventeen u,v.v.
lings were destroyed by the flames, and at the request of the Rev'
H. P. Somerset, tile rector, Fred. Kitson, Esq., and several othe_rr_....,
spectable inhabitants, an inquiry was made before H. R. Aberd eft-t'eur
Esq., coroner, as to the cause of its taking place. The illrY,,,,tses
some consideration, returned a verdict that tile said dwellingnoel _
were wilfully and maliciously set on tire, but by whom
appeared.— Westcrn Times. GO"
We are enabled to announce positively that our
he
vernment has received formal notice from the President of
titiat
United States that it Is the desire of the American GOA-ailment
ot,„
the treaty for the joint occupation of the Oregon territory sh
cease and determine at the expiration of twelve months from Ow
date of such notice.--Obsercer. no evid xis