The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

Eight ran.

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SON'S.
Killigrew 1
Raffle
Queen Liley 3
EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP.
Farmer's Son 1
Sneer colt

Fourteen ran.
HOPEFUL STAKES.

Ariadne
Cantina 2

Seven ran.
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES.
This message has missed coming.
NINTH TRIENNIAL STAKES.

Bird in the Hand

Delusion
Four ran.
MATCHES.
Leontes beat Mentmore.
Harry beat Jaffa.
BUCKINGHAM STAKES,
Mayonaise beat Aneuriu.

LATEST BETTING.
EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Sneer colt
Bto 1 agst Menceus
10 to 1 agst Orianda

15 to 1 agst Lord Beverly
15 to 1 agst Peter Flat
15 to 1 agst Dumfries

BETTING AT NEWMARKET LAST NIGHT.
12 to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken)
25 to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken)

CHINA.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH.
(From the London Gazette of this Evening.)
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 27.
With reference to the despatches from Rear-Admiral Sir
Michael Seymour, K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief of her
Majesty's ships and vessels on the East India station,
dated the 21st May last, inserted in the Supplement to the
London Gazette of the 27th July, 1858, the following de-
spatch has been also received from Sir Michael Seymour,
by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Coromandel, at Tientsin, June 1, 1858.
Sir,—Owing to the short time I had to prepare my de-
spatches, after the capture of the forts at the mouth of the
Pei-Ho I omitted to inform the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty that the Cormorant, the leading ship
at the attack, had to force and break a heavy boom
of bamboo cables drawn across the channel, upon
which the fire of the enemy was concentrated ; a descrip-
tion of the boom is inclosed. I should also have men-
tioned the essential services rendered by Captain Rode-
rick Dew, in her Majesty's steam gun vessel Nimrod, the
fire from her formidable broadside having mainly contri-
buted to destroy a sand bag battery of 19 guns, upsetting
nearly every gun in the work.
I enclose a statement of the troops in the batteries, trans-
lated by the Rev. Mr. Martin, from muster rolls picked up
in the forts, amounting to 3,200. This is independent of
the large encampments of troops which were in rear of the
position.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) M. SEYMOUR,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
Secretary of the Admiralty, London.
H.M.S. Cormorant, River Pio-Ho, May 21.
Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that, in obedience
to orders received from you to examine into the size and
description of the cables stretched across the rivers which
the ship under your command had to force her way
through, under a heavy fire from the batteries on both
sides of the river, the first set of cables were seven in num-
ber, made of 9-inch bamboo rope, and buoyed the whole way
across the river with spars of about 19-inch, and moored
with Chinese anchors.

The second set of cables, about 200 yards north of the
first set, were of the same size and description as the first.
—I have, &c., (Signed) W. H. FAWCKNER,
Master Commanding Hesper.
Commander Saumarez, H.M.S. Cormorant.

A Summary of Chinese Troops at the Southern Battery at
the mouth of the Pei-Ho, from a Paper picked up on the
day of the Battle :
Old Fort.—Total of all the battalions 885, distributed as
follows :
Haikow Battalion
Ho Koo Battalion B5
Ho Kien Battalion
Tientsin Regiment 290
Middle Fort.—Total of all the battalions 1034, distributed
as follows :
Left and Marine Battalions 3OO
Ho Kien, 2 Levies 197
He Kow Battalion
Militia Trained Band..
Southern Fort.—Total 628, distributed as follows :
Left Battalion
Woo Kwan • l5O
(Cetera desunt.)
A roll picked up upon the north bank gives the number
of troops at the Noith Bank Fort as 353.
A wounded man met with at this place gave the total at
all the batteries as 3,200.
(Signed) W. A. MARTIN.