The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-23 00:00:00

Sporting Intelligence.

TATTERSALL'S.—THIIRSDAY.
What with the settling of the Bath accounts, compar-
ing bets on the Derby, and booking additional invest-
ments, a good deal of business was transacted. The
betting was not, however, marked by any very import-
ant point of difference from the quotations last published,'
except with regard to Vandet rnulin, who "came again"
with much force. In City circles be was backed freely
during the morning, and at "The Corner" 12 to 1 was
taken about 'him to some money. These odds were,
however, currently offered at the close. The investments
on Wentworth at 3 to 1 exceeded 1000/ , and backers,
hardening in confidence, were evidently willing to go on.
Fazzoletto was in considerable request ; 5 to 1 was
taken to severel hundred pounds. At half a point
higher the outlay in his favour would have been greatly
increased ; 8 to 1 was offered against Cannobie, and 9
to 1 taken about Artillery. In the early part of the
afternoon 10 to 1 was booked to 501. about Coroner ;
subsequently 11 to 1 was laid, and at last 12 to 1 was
offered. Several inquiries were made about Fly-by-
Night, but we did not see him backed ; 15 to 1 in fifties
would have been betted. At 1000 to 30, 30 to 1,
and 25 to 1, the investments on Ellington amounted to
ab.bift 7001. ; 30 to 1 was his closing price. The odds
quoted again t the Prince was taken to 1001. Of the
outsiders, .Cotswold and the Barbarina colt were in most
de nand.
The prices at the conclusion of the business were as
under

• THE DERBY.
3to 1 agst W.otwortii (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Fazzoletto (taken and offered)
Bto 1 a.;st Cannobie (offered)
9 to 1 ag,t Artillery (taken)
12 to 1 agst Vandermulin (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst C ironer (Afered)
15 t,) 1 agst Fly-liy-Night (offered)
20 to 1 ag•t The Prince (taken)
30 to 1 agst Ellington (taken)
40 to 1 agst Verdant Green (taken)
50 to 1 agst Barbarina eAt (taken)
50 to 1 agst Astrologus (taken)
1000 to 15 azat Cotswold (taken freely)
1000 to 10 agst Puck (taken) '
Offers to bet 1000 to 60 on twenty.

THE DERBY AND OAKS.—Youatt Win. Gray issued
his final selection fur the Derby and Oaks on Thursday
last, and is certain of success. I shall stand on one horse
only, as I 'know that nothing can defeat my selection.
The playmen to a man are on, and nothing can be dan-
gerous, unless it is the hove at 60 to 1; he will get a
place. This race and the Oaks I never lost. Remember
my great hits on the Oaks the last two years v‘ith
Mincemeat and Marchioness, at 30 to 1 each. I have
one just as good this year, which must win. Terms for
Derby and Oaks, ss. ; for advice 'on every race next
week, 7-. 61., and per centage. Address, 15, Charing-
cross. Send directed envelopes.

WINNER or THE DEREY.—The Era,
Family, Theatrical,
Masonic, and Sporting Newspaper, of to-morrow, will
contain :---Touchstone '8
Prophecy for Derby and Oaks,
"
with list of Starters, Riders, and Latest Betting—
The I
Stable Mouse" will also squeak theWinner—Bath Races
—Concluqion of Palmer's Trial, Verdict, and Sentet•ce
—The Budget, Sunday Music and the Parks—Tnewri-
MI News of the Day, and all the News of the Week—
Great Scullers' Match at Putney, and other interesting
Aquatic information—Cricket, Pedestrianism, Chess,
&e. Order of your Newsagent immediately, or send six
postage stamps to Era Office, 3, Catherine-street, Strand,
Landon.

A vacancy which had occurred among the clerks of
the Colonial-office has just been competed for. Six can-
didates were selected, and it has been won by Mr.
Richard Hall, of Jesus College, Cambridge, where Mr.
Hall took a wrangler's degree.
ANOTHERof Sunday PALMERdarnext, May '25, will publish a SuppIeSUPPLEMENT GRATIS. —The Dis-
patch,
mein, containing a Full Report of the Trial of William
Palmer for the Murder of Mr. Cook—Speech of Mr.
Sergeant Shee for the Defence, Pec. The Dispatch will
also contain an B-say, entitled " Constitution Tinketing"
—Letters by Publicola,
"To the Sunday school Teacher,
of Great Britsin ;" and by Caustic, "The Budget"—
Town Talk—The Sunday Bands, &c., &c.—Office, 139,
i Fleet-street.

(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, May 8.
The French army continues to embark daily, and we, with
more dignity and at greater leisure, 'follow their example.
The French speak confidently of a great campaign in Africa,
and even in another quarter of the globe, and they predict
that peace will not last for two years. The Russians arc
equally hopeful that they will have a chance 'of war, in a
short time, and they do not disguise their earnest burning
lust to phlebotomise Austria, " A utriche• lathe et ingrate."
The evacuation of the Crimea is taking place with rapidity,
and, if it 'desirable, there can be no doubt that the allies
can leave the, soil of the, Czar long beiare the time which
has been gra°Otedato us—six months after the conclusion of the
treaty—haa exp:red. The Tartars beng in terrible stories of
the revenge taken by the RussianS on those unfortunate bre-
thren cf theirs who have given aid to the allies, or have
been engaged in their service. They tell us that several
of. these Noe creatures have
,been binged at Simpheropol,
that 'others have been sent off in exile, and that more are
condemned to .work on the roads for life., Could not a word
be said to avert the wrath of Russia, and to induce her to
extend her clemency to the remnants of this miserable race?
During the recent excursion of General Windham, in the
Banshee, to Kertch and back, an incident took place which
shows very clearly the real character of the Russian Govern-
ment, and demonstrates the worthlessness of the professions
which it makes. Prince Gegarin, who holds a command on
the south coast, was extremely polite in all his communica-
tions with Major-General Cunyngharne and the other English
`officers at Kertch and Yenikale, and promised them, every
facility should they be desirous of visiting the interior, or
proceeding to Sebastopol liy land. He also specially invited
all English bfficers to visit him at Kaffa (Theodosia) in their
way; • General-Windham, beinginformed of these little pelite-
nesses, resolved to pay a visit to Kaffa on his way back from
.Kertch. : On entering the bay on which the town is situated,
they were' astonished to perceive a fleet of many sail of
merphant vessels lying, in quarantine, and they soon
were Made to understand that the Banshee was in a similar
disagreeable situation. Most of these -ships had gone up the
Sea of e zoff to ,Taganrog, and had been sent back again all
the weir to Kaffa to perform quarantine. The usual quaran-
tine station for the ports in the Sea of Azoff is Kertch, but as
that place is in the hands of the allies and as the Government
establishment is desteoyed, the Russian authorities have for
the present selected Kaffa as a substitute, and vessels bound
from the south and east willl have a considerable detour to
make from the true course, but that is better than being
sent back altogether. This is a valuable commentary on the
statements which have been made that the Czar has given
orders to the Minister of the Interior, etc., to remove all re-
strictions 'on trade—exports and imports. When General
Windham and staff were permitted to land they were-placed
in a 'small room with bars to the windows like a wild beast
ce ge,a regular quarantine prison in fact, and when hehad pre-
pared a note for Prince Gagarin it was taken from him through
the bars by a pair of tongs: The Prince, allgold lace and fea-
thers, soon made his appearance and received his visitor with
great cordiality and politeness through the bars. He re-
gretted that his orders were so strict; he dared not permit
the General to visit the town without performing quarantine,
but if he came round by land he should be most happy to
receive him. Meantime he bad sent off a letter to the Gene-
ral Commanding-in-Chief, and an answer was speedily re-
turned to the effect that the General's order from the
Ministers were so exceedingly stringent that he could not
relax them, notwithstanding his most earnest wishes to do
so. General Windham in the course of his interview thought
it necessary to apprize Prince Gagariu that he had seen
enough to convince him it would be right to advise the Com=
mender-in-Chief to keep possession of Kertch till all our
stores were withdrawn—an intimation which seemed not a
little to perplex and confound his Excellency. It appears
that General Luders had expressed a wish that in
the interest of trade, Kertch should be evacuated as
speedily as possible, and that steps were being taken
to remove the Turkish troops, whose presence was especially
objectionable • but, as General Windham observed, if the
port were handed over to the Russian authorities before all'
the stores were removed, the vessels which were sent for
them would be placed in quarantine, and great annoyance
and delay would be experienced. -
Colonel M'Mnrdo returned from Trebizond on Thursday
night, and has had the rare good fortune to find near the city
a good market for his best horses and mules. It appears that
the main road to Persia passes from Trebizond through a
small town, the name of which I do not know, where the
great horse fair for Asia Minorto su ply the merchants with
pack and saddle.animals is held, and we have just been luoky
enough to meet the demand for transport which has arisen,
no* that peace is proclaimed. Col. M'Murdo has received
very fair prices for all the animals he could sell, and in
some instances he got more than the original cost price.
Our excursions into the Crimea aro becoming rarer as curi-
osity becomes satisfied, and leave more difficult to be obtained
for lengthened absence. General Codrington has paid a visit
to fhe Alma, and most of us who could go have performed a
pilgrimage to the same place. The graves are scrupulously
respected and are marked with large stones. The inscription
on the stonetele,graph tower Cut by the French, " La Bataille
d'Alma. 20th September, 1854," has been altered to " Bth
September" by the Russians, to reconcile the date to
their old style. The Russians are returning our visits now,
and some unfortunate officers who, in the height of goodfel-
lowsbip and amid flowing bumpers, gave their name and an
invitation to their .boon companions to " come and stop a
week with me, and bring your friends and family," have
been horrified by the vision of a couple of droskies at their
tent doors, containing a whole bevy of fair Musco-
vites and their attendant lieges. Major Montague, of the
Eugineer.,, is entertaining, at his 'pretty hut on Kamara-hill,
a number of Russian ladies who were kind and attentive to
him when.he.was a prisoner in Simplieropol, and is fortunate
in being able to evince his sense of their humanity and good
nature.
Although the greatest cordiality exists between. the bulk
of the men of both the allied armies, there have been some
awkward rencontres between the French and the English ou
two cr three occasions, of which I have hitherto made no
mention, as the subject is one of extreme delicacy. It ap-
pears quite clear that the French are very ready to resort to
the use of firearms on such occasions. The first of these
affairs which has been brought under the notice of the shiers
of the two armies took place some time ago at Kamiesh. It
appears that some men of the Mail Staff Corps went out to
hunt rats iu the neighbourhood of one of the French redoubts,
and that as they appr.ached the parapet they were fired upon
by the soldiers inside. Lieutenant Budgen, staff-adjutant of
Kazitch, ran out of his hut on hearing the shots fired and
proceeded towards the redoul-t, and when he was chal-
lenged be' replied in French, " officier Anglais." He was
at once fired upon three times in succession. On finding
out what had taken place he sent on board one of the men of
war for assistance, and when reinforced by a naval officer
and a small body of Marines unarmed, he approached the re-
doubt, invested it, and captured the men inside, but some
of them escaped, and appear to have attacked and killed the
serjeant of Marines in their flight, and .to have wounded an
officer by a shot through the leg. I shall not dwell on the
details further than to state that the serjeant's brains were
knocked out by blows of a musket stock, and that the officer
was, when lying on the ground, charged by a soldier with the
bayonet. General Codrington referred thesease to Marshal

Pelissier, and the latter, after a long and minute invest ga-
tion, sent back the result of his inquiries to head-quarters to-
wards the close of last week. It is understood that the Mar-
shal considers the unfortunate affair does not call for any
sanguinary punishment, but that the excessive vigour of the
measures taken by the men on guard was justified to such
an extent as to hold them blameless by the orders they
had received for the safeguard of their post. The second
occasion took place at one of the wells in camp,-from 'which
men are forbidden to draw water after sunset and before sun-
rise, and which is guarded by French sentries. Some of our
sOldiers went down after dusk to draw some w4er. The sen-

try fired ou them with ball, and his comrades of the guards
turned out and contributed a volley, but fortunately they
hurt no one. The third instance of this sort occurred the

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into campasho were drinking at a French canteen. As our
men approached to execute their orders they were fired upon
with ball. The circumstance has been reported to General
Codrington for the information of Marshal Pelissier. It is
posit le that the bare statements of facts respecting these un-
fortunate
affairs do not convey their true character, and that
there may be some inaccuracy in the reports. Let us hope
there is. A French sentry is rigid in obeying his consign.
Surgeon Le Blanc, of the 9th, was killed by a sentry, whom ho
approached too closely at night, and I have seen French
officers treated with rudenet.s and imperiousness by common
soldiers en faction when the former have been in the slightest
degree infringing les foOmalites de la poste. Perhaps it is
only right that the utmost precisiou on all such matters
should be observed during war time. We are not without
our own internecine fights now and then, but we certainly
do nor use firearms so promptly as the French. The removal
,of the Zouaves has given more peace and quietness to the
line, as there were a sort of rivalry between the infantry and
these famous regiments, the latter of which 9rofessed to look
down on all men in red pantaloons. •
There have been some discreditable,transactions in our own
camp lately, which have led to the retirement of two officesa
from the army, as notified by general orders. In one instance
an officer was detected in the act of reading a private letter
addressed to a brother officer; in the other a gentleman
forgot how to write his name. General Codrington has a
gentler touch in such matters, than General Simpson.
The latter had three officers
‘cashiered by court-martial.in as
many weeks after he was appointed Commander-in-Chief ; in
the present cases the punishment is the same for each offence,
and is therefore unequal, for the magnitude of these offences
is not the same-
My diary extends from the 6th to the 10th of the month.
TUESDAY.
The 63d, which was seen off by General Garrett this morn-
ing, embarked in the Andes, but the .sea was so high and tho
swell so heavy that it was not deemed expedient to send her
to sea, and the vessel remained at anchor till the roll which
set in on coast had subsided. Brigadier Showell goes
back to the Sth Hussars. It was this gallant and excel-
lent officer who, beyond any other, saved the remnant
of our cavalry at BAlaklava, when his attention was called
to a movement of Russian Lancers by Lieutenant Phil-
lips, of the same regiment. He has received the honour
of the C. 8., and now returns to the command of his regi-
ment. ,After all that has been said to the contrary, it ap.
pears that the Colonels who held the rank of Brigadiers will.
have to rejoin their regiments. The belief that this " degra-
dation" would have been spared them for a little time was
general a short time ago, and it is now ascertained to be
groundless. Brigadier-General Van Straubenzee will return
to the, command of the 3d Buffs, unless he avoids •doing so
by getting leave of absence before they embark on Saturday.
However, he, and officers in the same category, are cheered
by the hope of the brevet to come, and by the refreshing
showers of the Bath which are expected to accompany it.
In a few days the sailing transport, Star of the South, a
.fine ship of 1,100 tons, laden with gunpowder, will leave for
England. She has been lying inalaklava harour about
18 months, during which time she never moved b
an anchor,
and she has cost the country, at a rough guess, about 22,0001.
for that time as the freight on her cargo and her hire at so
much per mouth. I believe she was. at first hired at 325. 6d.
per ton,.
has erved a kind of oatin. hotel for
ttohne.n atlBs. per ton, and that she now stands at 16s.
somep t
of the harbour naval officers and agentfls, forg travelling
gentlemen, and merchants. She bas been at least once on fire
—that is, she has been in the way of finishing Balaklava, and
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The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented several peti-
tions against the abolition of Church' Rates, and also
Petitions against the opening of places of amusement on
Sundays.
Lord RAVENSWPRTH rose to call attention to
certain circumstances 'in connection with the projected
approaches from Pall-mall to St. James's-park, and the
defects of the east front of St. James's Palace. The
noble lord objected to the contemplated removal of the
German Chapel, believing that it was not calcu-
lated to confer the advantages of relieving
the traffic at Charing-cross, which it was stwposed
it would do. He thought that the abolishing the toll of
Waterloo-bridge would be far more likely to relieve that
crowded thoroughfare than the proposed alterations in
St. James's park. The noble I ird. then went on to say
that he thought the time had arrived when some im-
provement might to be made to the east front of St.
James's Palace. It bad an appearance at present highly
discreditable. He thought that an attempt to follow out
the style of building in the now hall lately erected in
Lincoln's-inn could,be made, and, at the same time, it
would greatly improve the appearance of the royal pa-
lace. At present it was a building utterly unworthy of
this great country. The-interior arrangements
were also highly objectionable, the confusion created
in the lobbies and staircase on the occasion of her Ma-
jesty hdding a drawing:l.3oin was such that the safety
of the ladies attending alone ought to be of itself
sufficient to cause some alteration to be immediately
made. As it was a' proper time, when it wad contem-
plated to improve the approaches of the park, to
consider whether the court-yards attached to
that building might not be dedicated to better
and more -advantageou.s. purpose, od whether the
-riot
palace might be rendered- 1W yof the metro-
polis,m if
both to its internal ebellisbin nts and external
accommodation. Tne noble lord then'proceeded to take
objection to the position of the statues that at present ex- '
isted in the metropolis. The statute of Pitt in
Hanover-square, he said was exceedingly bad, as was
the case with the statue of the Duke of Kent in Port•
land-place. It looked like a small black man hiding
himself. behind some trees. He thought that it
would be paying a compliment to her -Majesty,if the
statue of her royal father was removed from its present
position, and placed in a. more appropriate site near
Buckingham Palace. The noble lord next alluded to
the pictures bequeathed to the nation by Mr. Tur-
ner. The pictures were at preise'at stowed away
in a cellar, although they were worth their weight in
gold. He had lately seen three pictures by that eminent
artist sold for 5,000 guineas. ,

Llrd LAN.SbOWNE said the pictures alluded to
were in a place of safety until a building worthy of the
arts could be erected for their reception.
[LENT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS--(This Evening.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 5 mioutea to 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Blackburn, itc. Roads, Colns Valley and Halstead
Railway, Cork Bridges, Waterworks, &0., Fleet wood,
Preston, and West Riding J unction Railway,
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (Ex-
tension of Time, &c.), Shrewsbury and Hereford Rail-
way, Stockton and Middlesbrough IJew Road and
Bridge, Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway, and Perth
Burgh and Harbour Bills.
The following bills were considered and ordered for
third reading :—Ha,uptead Junction Railway ; Metro-
politan Rail way ; Mid-Kent Direct Railway (Bromley
to St. Mary's Cray) ; and Westminster Terminus Rail-
way.

NEW WRIT.
On the motion of Mr. HAYTEII, a new writ was
ordered for Lichfield, in the room of Lord Waterpark,
who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
THE REFORNIERS OF TEIE WORLD.

Mr. ROEBITJK presented a petition from the re-
formers of the world signed by Mr. Robert Owen, whom
be looked upon as a well-intentioned man, praying that
the views of the society might be adopted by the house
and the people for hastening the arrival of the mil-
lenium—(laughter)—and also another equally im-
pertinent and silly petition from the Investi-
gation Society at S'iefriald, cimplaining that " the
Plenipotentiaries at Paris had emceeded their duty."
(Laughter.) If that was not plain speaking he did not
know what wa,, but as the petitions were both respect-
fully worded towards the house, he had no objection
to present them, although he . differed from both.