The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-02 00:00:00

Spirit of the Public Journals.

MTLTVARY COLONISATION.
(Prom the Times.)
What if we were suddenly called upon to vote
another million; sterling for another Caffre war ?
What if again ( 3very mail from the Cape were to
bring us intelligence of the sacrifice of valuable
lives in a seri es of miserable bush fights with a
pack of wretc bed savages ? This view of Cape
Politics is not a pleasant one ; but we must, ere
long, make up our minds to it, unless we adopt
some precautionary measures for our own security.
The Caffre snake is scotched, not killed. So it
must ever be with ravage warfare. Border fora-4,
philanthropy, regular warfare—we have trim all
these plans, and not with any very brilliant, mwess.
We are now about, to enter upon a four6h epoch of
our dealings with, the Caffre tribes. -Military colo-
nisation is the new idea—although it is an old
enough one in the history of the world. The Ro-
mans of old ipersevered for so long a time in this
system that, even in the absence of direct testi-
mony,
we mi ist presume it to have answered its in-
tent. There, are ruins enough still above ground
on the English and Scottish. border to show that
our first con querors found their account in guard-
ing their frontier by the agency of military herds-
men. This system, we say, is now to be tried at
the Cape by-transporting there the British German
Legion, or :As many of their number as may be wil-
ling to accept the terms offered by the British Go-
vernment to them in thecharacter of military settlers,
in place of claiming the fulfilment of the articles of
capitulation under which they entered the British
service. Now, we are not particularly in love with
Germany or things
a
German. We are perfectly that an outcry may
be raised against
this proposition as one peculiarly emanating from
the Court ; but, on the whole, we think it is for the
public advantage that it should be carried out.
The first question we must ask ourselves is, on
the whole is this system of military colonisation
the best one we can adopt to guard against the re-
currence of friture wars ? It certainly recommends
itself a priori to our favourable attention as a
reasonable scheme, and in the next place well nigh
every other intelligible plan has been tried and has
failed. If this be
.granted, our next inquiry must
be, who are the most proper persons that can be
selected as subjects for the experiment ? Certainly,
but for one consideration, which we will presently
mention, Englishmen, if they are to be had.
Where, however, at the existing rate of wages in
this country, can we lay our hands on a sufficient
number of Englishmen, trained to the use of arms,
accustomed to act together, and of good character,
who will be content to expatriate themselves to
Africa for 6d. a-day, even with collateral advan-
tages When they are told that they must bind
themselves to serve the British Government for
seven years in the manner stated in a document
which we published in our impression of Monday
under the head of " Military Colonisation," can
we reasonably suppose that we could obtain a suf-
ficient number of trained men for onr purpose ?
Common sense will answer " No !"—whether pre-
judice may whisper to the contrary. It must be
remembered, besides, on examining the condi-
tions offered to the German Legionaries, that un-
der any circumstances we are bound to fulfil strictly
with them the terms under which they enlisted in
the British service. If they refuse, as they have a
erfect right, the present propositions of the War-
office, they must be paid to the last shilling, and
this would make a heavy deduction from the advan-
tages of any counter-proposition which might seem
more advantageous at the first glance. The terms
offered are favourable, no doubt—most favourable
—and, when we consider the rate of wages in Ger-
many and the disagreeable incidents of serfdom in
any of the German kingdoms, we are of opinion
that the Legionaries will be very silly fellows if
they lose so fair an opportunity of fortune. In the
first place, they will go out in a body—that is to
say, each man will have with him his relatives and
friends, his wife, his children—even his sweetheart,
for even to this point does the benevolence of the
British Government extend. Their wives and
children and affianced brides, we say, are to have
a free Passage to Africa from Hamburg, Bremen,
Rotterdam, or Ostend. Thus, in Africa they will
find all the ties of home, even if they are compelled
to tear themselves from the familiar lime trees and
chemical waters of their fatherland. It would be
superfluous for us to recapitulate here the terms of
the engagement, as they will be found in our im-
pression of Monday last.
The onlyobjection applicable to this project which
can be accepted as ofany force is, that there might
be danger to British auP remacy from the presence
of so many armed settlers of the same nation at the
same point i a distant colony. At least there is
little fear_ that they will meditate treason against
the British Government in favour of any of the
so-rereigns from whose clutches they have escaped.
The only danger—if danger there be—must, then,
be that they would aim at independence on their
own account. The persons who make this sugges-
tion can scarcely have reflected that the presence of
these Legionaries will maintain tranquillity in the
province, and that tranquillity will allure hosts of
British settlers, that the sons and daughters of either
nation will in due time intermarry, and that then
--why, then the colony must take its chance. We
have little pretension to look half a century into
the future, and as little wish to retain the allegi-
aace of any colony against its will. The negotia-
tion, we trust,
will run on smoothly for it is one
calculated to promote the interests of both parties.
If the thing is to be done at all, Lord Panmure is
quite right in acting with liberality and generosity
tow a
f ,ar-s our future military colonists. They must
will eet contented with their new position, and they
certainly be v very unreasonable fellows if they
find faulthands° with the offers of the War-office.. So
Ine) indeed are these terms, that, if they
are coalied
but ar, out in, practice, we think it would ba
act of justice if Lord Panmure gave an op-
P°rtu:QitY to a v British officer who has served in
any Of the auxiliaryli •
sharing . legions during the late war of
in the advantages
"Platieall if they hold out. We say,
idea. 4,18 7, the terms are adhered to, for an
that ,deduTiabroad among the German LegiDnaries
from, the ho
cn under various pretexts will made
to accept the offers money, &c., if they once resolve
This opinion wasoffers of the British Government.
expressed pretty loudly on Tues-
day last, when the British German Legion was re-
viewd at Colchester, preparatory to its being dis-
banded,
disconteutedehreacean' it app3ars, have been greatly
6/. which were tise
31. were deducted from the
offered.e. to them on enlistment for
the purchase of
fined d
k.its. Besides this, they have
been heavily uring their stay in England for
which"b atchkeydantartages"—that is, not for wilful damage
ay have done, but for the inevitable
wear and tear of such structures,
thatuctures. This F.ystem
is
the
a vile one, even
and we are not surappriPisede it hasßritish soldier, excited great
discontent and disgust amongma our foreign recruits.
The German Legionaries easily satisfy them-
selves, before accepting the teyroffered that they
will be carried out without der ot. of any kind.
Unless this be so they will be perfectlytiouriht to reject
the proposition offered by the British Government,
and to push their fortunes elsewhere,
of Naples, the French, and the Area The King
are said to be anxious to secure theilru:ePr'eviPcuesbliief
they decline to accept our offer of military colonis-
ation in South Africa.

THE RI7SSI AN CIRCULAR DESPATCH,
(From the Morning Post.)
on friendly
"It is the Emperor's wish tHo
His
tajtOstYclitsislits•
terms with all Governments.
that the best means of doing so is Sn
late his views upon any of the questions
connected with European international°ll3, 'which are
law. ,
compact union of those who for many y rhe
years
tamped with ua the principles to which -Europe, for
more than a quarter of a century, was indebted for
peace, no longer exists in its former integrity.
"The will of our august master was a stranger
to this result. Circumstances have restored to u
full freedom of action. The Emperor is resolved
our
to devote his care, in preference, to the welfare of
his subjects, and to concentrate upon the develop.
meat of the internal resources of the country an
activity which will only take an external direction
when the positive interests of Russia absolutely
demand A.,'
Such are the words used by Prince Gortschakoff,
the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the cir-
oular dea Patch addressed by him to every Russian
Minister
at foreign courts, enouncing the foreign
policy
Of the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg, and pro-
testing against
French, anal the the occupation of Greece by the
threatened demonstration against
Naples by the
in a tone more befitting one
who had just eAlliei4
i..riunaphant out of a desperate
and glorious conflict, '
than one who had recently suc-
cumbed from helnle-
hopeless exhaustion in a
wrongful war. The dijoscaulit
of the characteristic ntitself bears the impress
It is the European of Russian diplo-
macy.nnterpart to the Asiatic 1
glorification of the coronation,
tempos eceiasice of the Russianatienae• the nullam i
Whatever temporary reverses 8 --
eridtoitsal autocracy. I
lity of Russia's supremacy remains,
ever revives in full force. The
map come, the vita-'
represents the Hydra of mythology,ouble-
and the pressure
headed eagle
myth itself. but it is no
himthat because F
The argument, insidious as it •
t to do
rlevent
and England refused to permitill'
Turkey, therefore he is entitld moron in
would hoard
right in Greece and Naples, our doing
n
Cambridge. It undoubtedly will at Berlin.?paBB muster at
3.,„forthern Germany have been too long Central and
accueta t
look upon the words of the successor of Peter °,
therine as oracular, and his force as irresile,l434lbe
Ca
disposed to criticise, still less to demur, To the learned

pundits of Norlern Germany the Neva is the Ganges,
not without Juggernaut. To Italian despots the
despatch will
-cm" as glad tidings of deliverance, and
the presence of a Russia:a squadron in the Bay of Naples
will seem the guarantee of their tottering th cues—in-
deed, a Feaser.able chance of
escape from their subjects,
if anything' 13 articular should happen, is not to be de-
spised. There is an
amazing hardihood in the position
manifesto. But a year ago the
smoke still rose / roes the
smouldering
taken by Russia i ;this
—French, Es
gitab, and Sardinian sentinels relieved one
.. ruins of Sebastopol
another o- •
s the holy soil of Russia—the banners that
threats i
aed Constantinople were trampled in the dust
set blood and flame—the fleet rotted under the
eaters of the harbours it never ventured to leave—the
holocaust of the late Emperor's ambition was estimated
at a quarter of a million of gallant soldiers ; but as time
passed, and more accurate statements leaked out, that
estimate was doubled, and now well-informed persons
do not hesitate to treble it ; and besides this horrible
carnage the foreign trade of the empire was all but
annihilated. Some merchandise, indeed, found its way
through Prussia, with much labour and expense,
and little profit, but the ordinary channels of commerce
were blocked. Not a ship could put to sea that was
not captured or destroyed, whilst the people, oppressed
with fresh taxes and forced loans, failed to satisfy the d -
mands of the State ; and the productive power of the
country was reduced to inaction by the incessant demand
for men to supply the ever-accumulating losses before
Sebastopol, or the still more ghastly array of those who
perished in the forced marches by which it was attempt-
el to relieve the deossed fortress. The terrible exhaus-
tion to which Russia was reduced was showfi by the
terms she accepted; and every day since peace opened
her frontier to strangers, more and more has been ascer-
tained of the extent of the ruin and misery she under-
went before her proud spirit bent; and, since the
peace,
events have shown how severe the blow was, and how
disabling it was likely to prove for some time. It can
have been with no ordinary feelings of mortification and
humiliation that an Autocrat of All the Russias could
have brought himself to forego, if it were but for a time,
the traditional policy of his ance-tern of keeping a large
army always on foot to overawe Germany, to threaten
Turkey, and to seize every occasion for extending Rus-
sian dominion and Russian influence, either in Europe
or in Asia. The remission of the 3,500,0001. of taxes
on the express ground that certain classes had been so
diminished by the war, and the privations and epidemics
consequent upon it, and that the adjustment had so be-
come unequal, is an admission of awful' significance.
Everywhere the signs of weakness and exhaustion are
visible, and yet the tone of the despatch which Prince
Gortschakoff has just issued would have been suitable
to the year 1814, when the first Alexander was in
Paris, the acknowledged liberator of Europe, and ar-
biter of its destinies ; and it is not a little remarkable
the rapidity with which it has been circulated, for it
only bears date Sept. 2 ; that is, according to our calen-
dar, Sept. 14, and already it has received the publicity
of the press. Its effects will not be felt now. The Rus-
sian squadron in the Bay of Naples will not fight ; it will
expend its superfluous energies in civilities to French
officers ; nor is the Russian Empire in a state to com-
mence a fresh war, and no men alive know that better
than the confidential advisers of the Czar ; but in after
days the subtle diplomacy of Russia will turn to account
the Roman firmness with which Russia, at the hour of
her greatest suffering, still claimed her high place in
Europe, and abated not one jot of the pretensions she
will know so well how to renew when the hour arrives
that she can support them by her colossal resources,
called once more into life and power. That that hour
may the more speedily arrive, we fully believe that the
second Alexander will most earnestly and energetically,
in his own words, "devote his care, in preference, to the
welfare of his subjects, and concentrate on the develop-
ment of the internal resources of the country an activity"
that we hope most sincerely will not be stimulated and
supported by English money, which, from what we see
going on in certain quarters, we are very much inclined
to fear is likely to be the case. We have every regard
for the Russians, and wish them every success in their
undertakings, if they can afford to pay for them them-
selves, but they have cost us a great deal of money lately,
and we cannot afford to build a wall to run our own
heads against.

THE " DURABLE AND HONOURABLE
PEACE."

(From the Morning Herald of this day.)

Six months ago it was intimated to us "on the best
possible information" that we were to have immediately
a "durable and honourable peace." The fact of a peace
being likely we could not gainsay, because we knew that
Russia required it, and that it was convenient to France
to conclude the war when her own prestige was at the
highest point, and that of England at the lowest ebb.
Another year might have reversed all this ; but when
have the interests of England been allowed to interfere
with Russian projects, even If our Ministers could have
resisted the compulsion of France ?
What we did deny, and what we still persist in deny-
ing, was, that the peace would be " honourable or
durable ; and our reason was, that a peace honourable
to us must be humiliating to the Czar, and such a peace
would not be worth the parchment on which it was
written one hour longer than the time when the Cabi-
net of St. Petersburg might find it safe and convenient
to break it.

We fancy that at the present moment the hardiest
swearers by Lord Palmerston's immaculate honour and
far-seeing statesmanship will not venture to assert that
the peace has been honourable ; and as for its durability
events will speak for themselves, but certainly the poli-
tical horizon "grows dark while we are speaking" and
writing.
We shall enumerate a few of the symptoms of the
times, but first we shall call attentiom to some facts
stated by the able correspondent of the Examiner as to
the condition of opinion in the East with regard to re-
cent events, and, as the world is now pretty generally
influenced and guided by opinion, the admissions
become matters of importance.
The first point is, that there is not a Greek in the
whole Levant who does not believe that the peace —so
called by courtesy—is merely a truce, and that the war
will wake up again with redoubled fury.
In the first part of this we fully concur, but if the
latter. part of it mean that Russia will provoke another
war, in which ehe is to be a principal party, we deny it.
Russia has gained her end, in the movements of the last
three years, by introducing an element of disruption into
the Turkish Empire, by means of the hatti-humayoun,
which all parties now perceive to be, as we told them
years ago, incapable of execution without provoking the
most grievous resistance.
The Turks, therefore, are placed in the position of
choosing between universal discontent among their own
subjects, or of breaking their pledged faith with their
allies. Now if this be not a gain, and a great gain, to
Russia, we are much mistaken.
The second admission of the Examiner is that the
Turks do not consider the execution of the hatti-huma-
yowl practicable. We fancy, however, that the states-
men of the Porte will prove—as they have frequently
shown themselves within the iast few years—abler and
wi,er men than either Russian or Western diplomatists,
and that they will find some remedy for tl.e evil.
It would appear also that public opinion in Constan-
tinople declares that the objects of the war have not been
gained, and even goes so far as to say that the defence
of Kars, of which we have heard so much, was a griev-
ous blunder, and that it ended in the destruction of
Turkish reputation in the East, and the sacrifice of an
and rmy of 16,000 men. • _

, -
The men of the East are of opinion that shutting up
the army in an almost indefensible fortress, instead of
joining Selim at Er zeroum, and making head against the
Russians, who would have had enough to do to hold
their own, was au error for which they were not respon-
sible.

We mention these things to prove that, whether
rightly or wrongly, the interference of the allies has not
produced a very thankful state of feeling amongst the
Turks, who are stupid and obstinate enough to look to
facts and results instead of being deluded by promises
and theories.

Having gained her objec', as we have shown, Russia
now simply declines to execute the terms of the treaty,
and bides her time till disagreements take place in the
West, when she will, as she did in the matter of the
Goolistan guarantee, refuse to be bound by them at all.
Russia, we believe, will trust to a waiting game, and
let events play her cards for her ; and certainly her
hand, if we may judge from the present complications
of Europe, appears to be a strong one.
Let us recapitulate some of the points at present loom-
leg in the horizon :

withstanding our humiliating submission to the dismissal
of our ambassador, and the surrender of our rights to
Honduras, under American dictation.
We have the Neapolitan difficulty.
We have the Spanish difficulty.
We have the Sardinian and Austrian difficulty.
We have the Romish States occupation difficulty.

We have the Neuchatel difficulty.
We have the Greek difficulty.
We have the Montenegrin difficulty.
And last, not least, we have the difficulty of the Aus-
trian occupation of the Principalities.
This list we submit—which might be still further ex-
tended—shows a very pretty state of confusion ; and we
fancy it will go hard with Russia if out of all these com-
plications she does not contrive to raise a commotion in
Europe which will give the West eo much,to do that a
clear field of operations will be left for her in the East.
Another year of the war which we have concluded by
a " durable and honourable peace," would have ren-
dered her incapable of profiting by the state of things we
have described, and therefore we cannot be surprised that
the war did not continue.

We cannot conclude without remarking that Prince
Gortschakoff's circular, however boldly worded, does
not induce us to change our opinion that Russia will
not take an active part in the coming disturbances in
Italy.
She may, as the Times asserts, send a fleet to Naples,
but it will not be to come into collision with the fleets
of England and France ; it will be to embroil the rela-
tions of, and break up the alliance between, the Western
Powers, that the efforts of Russia will be directed ; and
in the confusion and disturbances of an Italian insurrec-
tion, it can hardly be doubted that her efforts, with the
practised aid of our own Premier, will be crowned with
success.

That this course is that which Russia will pursue we
can have no doubt. The late Czar never would have
entered on the original war had he not believed that an
alliance between France and England was impossible.
As soon as that alliance is broken up we may look to
active operations on the part of Russia. Until then she
will work her purposes by intrigue and sowing divisions
among the states of Europe, by the services of her agents,
who are unhappily to be found in most, if not in all,
the Western Cabinets.

1. Russia has demolished the Danubian fortresses,
which she was bound—we say it advisedly—by all for-
mer precedents, to give up untouched ; and no compen-
sation has been demanded by the allies.
2. She refuses to let the boundary line pass north of
Bolgrad, which would remove her effectually from the
Danube—the great point which we are said to have
gained—and claims a boundary which permits her to
have full communication with that river.
3. She insists upon referring the question of the Isle
of Serpents to the wise men of Gotham, at the Paris
conferences. The posses ion of the island would give
her the command of the Sulina mouth of the Danube.
4. She is urging on the union of the Principalities,
contrary to the wish of the Porte and the obvious inte•
rests of the Sultan.
Upon all these poin • ts it has been announced that
France will pursue a "reserved policy." So that if
England stands up against Russian domination the sharp
allies, and
the wedge is evidently inserted between the
and may, in conjunction with other differences
of opinion, break up the entente cordiale.
With regard to her (Russia's) future policy and its
indications,twe may observe, that, according to the con-
tinental journals supposed to be in her pay, site has de-
manded permission of the Porte to allow 10 vessels of
war to pass the Bosphorus, en route from the Baltic, in
order to meet the exigencies of the Circassian war ;
while it is also asserted that the gun-boats from the Sea
of Azof have been transported by the route of the Don,
the Junction Canal, and the `Volga, to the Caspian Sea ;
while information has arrived atl St. Petersburg that
the whole line of water communication has been com-
pleted between that capital and the Sea of Okotsk,
opposite Japan.
Wiseacres may consider these things as unimpor-
tant ; we confess we do not consider them so, more
especially as we learn from other quarters that Spain
and Sardinia are to be cajoled into permitting the
Russian men of war into their Atlanticand Mediterranean
ports.
We consider all these things as unmistakeable indica-
tionsewgelebbaer.e again
spreading their
overm es h eesvoeri-
yt hpart
p iedfert'hs
that the ghreealtd
Transatlantic friends call them, which are
Turning our eyes to the West, we find a few " difficul-
ties," as our
very li
kely to produce that troubled state of the waters
in which Russia is so skilful a fisher.
asettled not.'
We have the Nicaraguan diffiuulty still u ,

rwE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 2, 1 56

Sporting Intelligence.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.
TUESDAY.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

THE Cl:P.—Betting-6 to 1 on Fandango, Homily
led to the Duke's Stand, where Fandango passed her
and gallopped in the winner by 40 lengths. Both were
very leg weary.
THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOM AT NIGHT.

The room was very thinly attended, and only the fol-
lowing bets were made :
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
14 to 1 agst Fulbeck
1000 to 30 agst Mary
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
500 to 30 agst Lance
25 to 1 agst Hungerford
DERBY.
30 to 1 agst Zuyder Zee
500 on Saunterer agst Latvbourn.
WEDNESDAY.

The St. L-ger Stakes of 25 sovs each, for three-year-
olds—colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, 83t 31b ; certain penalties
and allowances. DJ., 2 miles 119 yards. 14 subs.
Captain White's Ulysses, by Annandale,_Bst 7th

distance was from the Dreadnought, at Greenwich, to
Blackwall and back, three times round. What little
wind there was was S.W., light and variable. At a
quarter to one they started wall together, the Leander
having a slight lead, and thus they continued to the
Folly House, where the Leader left her opponents, the
Eliza following her closely. There was no other altera-
tion till coming back at Greenwich the first time, when
the Hand-in-Hand became third, and the Amy fourth,
and they remained so all the way, coming in as above.
Towards the end the match became exciting, as there
was Only a few minutes between each.

SOUTHWARK, BLACKFRIARS, AND LAM-

BETH ANNUAL REGETTA.

(Flatman) 1
Mr. Barnes' colt by Pyrrhus the First—dam by Hamp-
ton, Bst 71b (E. Sharp) 2
Betting-5 to 2on Ulysses, who made all the running,
and won by 50 lengths.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya each, 10 ft.,
' for two-
year-olds. T.Y.C. 5 furlongs, 140 yards. 4 subs.
Duke of Bedford's Spinet, by Orlando, 7st 41b
(Charlton) 1
Mr. F. Fisher's England's Beauty, 75t...(D. Hughes) 2
Mr. W. Robinson's Dusty Miller, Bst 71b (Sly) 3
Mr. W. Robinson's Lady Malcolm, 7st 61b (Quinton) 4
Betting—Even on Spinet, and 3 to 1 each agst Eng-
land's Beauty and Dusty Miller. Spinet made all the
running, and won by five lengths; three lengths between
the second and third ; bad fourth. Lady Malcolm hung
all the way, bolted to the left, and went on the wrong
side of two posts. England's Beauty was in consequence
nearly driven out of the course.

Second Year of the Eighth Triennial Produce Stakes of
10 soya each, for 3-yr-olds—colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst
41b ; the second to receive a sum equal to 10 per cent.
upon the whole stake, and the third a sum equal to 5
per cent. A.F., 1 mile 2 fur. 73 yards.
Lord Clifden's Melissa, by Orlando, Bst 41b(J. Marson) 1
Mr. Coombe's Pitapat, Bst 71b ... (J. Mann) 2
Captain White's Aleppo, Bst 71b (Flatman) 3
Duke of Bedford's Alastor, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 4
Betting-5 to 2on Melissa, and 7to 2 aget Pitapat.
Alastor led to the bushes, where Melissa came to the
front and galloped in the winner by four lengths ; bad
third ; Alastor was beaten off.

Fifty Pounds—for 3-yr-olds, 7st 51b ; four, Bst 81b ; five,
Bst 131 b ; six and aged 9st. D. 1., 2 miles 119 yde.
Lord Zetland's Fandango, by Barton, 4 yrs
(J. Marson) 1
Mr. S. Walker's Winkfield, 5 yrs (J. Mann) 2
Mr. Mellish's Tame Deer, 3 yrs (Bnllands) 3
Betttng-5 to 2on Fandango. Fandango lay off un-
til reaching the Duke's Stand, where he took the lead,
held it to the end, and won by 12 lengths. Tame Deer
was beaten off.

The Granby Stakes of 30 sous each, 20 ft, for 2-yr-olds
not named in the Rutland Stakes—colts, Bst 71b ;
fillies, Bst 31b; certain whansr3 extra. From the turn
of the lands in, 5 fur. 127 yards. 6 subs.
Count Batthyany's Media Noce, by Weatherbit, Bst 31b

A very well-rowed match was contested yesterday by
five watermen's apprentices serving between Gravesend
and Richmond, for three separate freedoms of the
Waterman's Company, and othe prizes. It was a four-
heat wager, and well managed by Mr. R. Larkin, and
some hundreds of persons witnessed it. The following
were the results :

(Sl 1
Mr. E. Day's Bannockburn, Bat 7lb (A. Day) 2
Sir R. Pigott's f by Melbourne Birthday, Bst 31b

_ (E. Sharp) 3
Betting-2 and 3tol on Bannockburn. Won by two
lengths; bad third.

BETTING 13P TO SIX O'CLOCK.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
14 to 1 aget Cotswold (taken)
14 to 1 apt Fulbeck (taken)
100 to 6 agst Quince (offered)
20 to 1 agst Middleton (taken)
20 to 1 agst Alice Wentworth (taken)
25 to 1 aget Mary
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES.
15 to 1 agst Lance (taken)
100 to 6 agst Poacher (taken)
20 to 1 agst Hungerford (taken)

Entries for the Queen's Plate—Homily, 4 yrs ; Me-
lissa, 3 yrs ; Fandango, 4 yrs ; Winkfield, 5 yrs ; West-
minster, 4 yrs ; and Tyre, 3 yrs.
NEW MATCHES. —Mr. Payne's mare Van Tromp, out
of Queen :flab, 5 yrs, Bst 81b, agst Sir J. Hawley's Sister
to Hesse Cassel, 3 yrs, Bst 51b. 150. Last half of
Abingdon mile. Sir J. Hawley's Sister to Hesse Cassel,
3 yrs, Bst 71b, agat Duke of Bedford's Palm, 2 yrs, 7st
51b. 150. Lest half of Abingdon mile.