The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-17 00:00:00

A FRESa MAN

NOTTINGEIAIif SPRING- MEETING.—TUESDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 5 move each, with 30 added; for 3-yr-

..._ , .
olds and upwards.; allowances and penalties. One wile.
14 su;,s.
Mr. J. P:,rker's Martha, by Orlando, ont of Martha
Lyng, 3 yrs. 61 41 . (Roe) 1
- os all Trick, ,1 yrs, Sst Ellb (inc. 51b extra

(Flatinan) 2
Mr. Nicholaon'a Marauder, :; yis, fist 7lb (Bray) 3
The following also ran :—Lort Nelson, Greenwich Fair,
Silica, Lady of Robalion, Steeple, Maggie Lander, and
Bai onage.
- Bet ting-2 to 1 aget Odd Trick-3 to 1 agst Lord Nelson
—5 to 1 agst M iggie Lander.
Martha made all the running, and won in a cantor by a
length ; same distance between the second and, third ; bad
fourth. Greenwich Fair was close up with. Lord Nefron.
The Grand Stand Handicap of 5 sore each, with :'5 added.
T. Y. a 4 subs.
Mr. Blanton's filly, by Joe Lovell—Terpsichore, 3 yrs,
7st
Mr. Angell's Plumstone, 3 yrs, 7st 81b (Cresswell) 2
Mr. Hynde's Queen Lily 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Bray) 3
Mr. Barber's Rickledon' 1 yrs, Bst 71b (fides) 4
The betting opened at 6 to 4 agst Queen Lily, and closed
at even on her-5 to 2 agst Terpsichore filly-4 to 1 agst
Plumstone.
Won by a neck ; half a length between the second and
third. Rickledon was beaten off.
The Little John Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; for
two-yr-olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b. Winners 51b
extra. The second to save his stake. Straight half-

Mr. T. P .1 t's

mile. 23 subs.
Mr. J. Parker's Snap, by Windhound, Bst 41b ...(Bray) 1
Mr. J. Bates's The Dutchman's Daughter,
Os Bst 41b,
. borne) 2
Mr. Blanton's Armenius, Bst 121 b (includ. 51b extra)
(French) 3

The following also ran : Joyeuse, Madame Met,
Sheffield, Thermopylae, Gilbert de Caunt gelding, and
Daniel Forester.
Betting-5 to 2 against Madame Moot (with whom Mr.
J. Dawson declared to win), 3 to 1 agst Joyeuse, 9 to 2
agst The Dutchman's Daughter, 5 to 1 agst Armenius, 6
to 1 agat any other.
A good race, won by a neck; a length between tho
second and third ; a head batween the third and fourth ;
Madame Moet close up.
The Nottingham Spring Handicap of 5 sovs each, with
50 added ; the second to save his stake ; winners extra.

Oue mile and a half. 37 flubs.
Mr. Peter's Gammon, 3 yrs, sst Glb (Madden) 1
Mr. E. R. Clarke's Vandermulm, 5 yrs, Bst ;lb (including
71b extra) (Bates) 2
Mr. R. Jones's Esperance, 3 yrs, sst 41b .(Crook) 3
The following also ran :—Honeytree, Oar Sal, Riga,
Lady of Rohallon, Blueberry, and Young Hopeful.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Vandermulin-5 to 2 agst Honey.
tree-3 to 1 agst Gammon-12 to 1 each agst Blueberry
and Our Sal.
A fine race from the distance ; was won by a short head.
'Esperance was beaten half a dozen lengths from Vander-
mulin ; nothing else near.
The Park Stakes of 5 sows each, with 20 added, for three-
year-olds and upwards; optional selling weights, &c. ;
T.Y.C. 4 subs.
Mr. Saxon's Woodmite, 3 yrs, (401.). Get 91b (Dales) 1
Mr. Barrett's Piff Paff, 3 yrs, (201.), 6st 21b (W. Bottom) 2
Mr. Houghton's Gipsy Girl,syrs, (201.), Sat 71b (Rayner) 3
Betting—ti to 4 apt Woodwile— 6to 4 agst Piff Paff.
Wou easily by half a length. Gipsy Girl was beaten off.

LATEST BETTING.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
I.eo to 7 agst Lough Bawn
15 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Captain Peter Cracroft took op his commission yesterday
at Portsmouth, app inting him to the command of the D,a-
dem, 32 gun screw frigate, during the illness of Capt. Moor-
s= who has been compelled to iuyalide to Hasler Hospital.
The Diadem will leave Spithead in a few days for a trial cruise
as far as the T =gus.
An official intimation was yesterday received at Woylvvick
from the Aumiralty, directing C.4pt. Julius Bunco, Woolwich
Division of Ro •al Marine Light Infantry, to hold himsel in
readiness for the comma d of a pickled detachment, about to
be appointed from the Plymouth Division of Royal Marines, for
service on board her M .jesty's screw steam frigate Euryalus,
51 guns. ecently commissioned by Capt. J. W. Tarleton, to
convey his Royal Highness Prince Alfred on his first sea
C nice.
The Royal standard iron gun foundry, recently erected in
Wool rich Arsenal, commenced operations on Friday last in
an experimental form, uncle the investigation Lieut.-Col.
Wilmot, R. A., Supe inteudent of that department. A c .uple
of the furnaces, each of which is capable of melting upwards
of 12 tons of metal, sufficient to east one of the he.,viest guns
employed in the service, were on that by set in motion, and
towards evening the op ration of casting took place. The
huge piece of ordnance has since been lifted from the mould-
ing pit, and represents the rough cast of a 68-pounder weigh-
ing 95 cwt. A couple of smallar 'guns were likewise cast,
exhibiting, as for as could be judged, a most satisfactory re-
sult. After being planed and bored, these guns, it is under.
stood, will be subjected to some extraordinary proofs, in
order t,-) determine the contemplated advantages of the
establishment, as a check on the contract manufacturers.
The convict ship True Briton, H. W. Morris, master, after
shipping ammunition for the use of a detachment guard of the
26th Camcronians, sailed from Woolwich yesterday for Ber-
muda. The frieghtship Albemarle, laden with military stores,
for Colombo, has also sailed front Woolwich.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, and VA Lightning
paddlewheel vessel, were docked yesterday at Portsmouth, to
be advanced for immediate commission. .

The Algiers, 91, screw two-decker, will be taken out of
Portsmouth harbour to-day by the officers of the steam re-
serve, to try her engines before being reported ready for com-
mission.
The Victor Emmanuel, 92, was taken out by the same offi-
cers on Monday, and tried hor speed at the measured mile in
Stokes Bay.
The Calypso, 21, Capt. Montressor, sailed on Monday from
Spithead for the South Pacific station.
Mr. T. Baring, M.P., ono of the Lords of the Admiralty,
having placed a nay d cadetship at the disposal of the Council
of the Royal Naval Sch)ol, New-cross, it has been awarded,
after a preliminary competitive examination of the candi-
dates, to Mr. C. A. Crespin, sou of the late Lieut. Henry
Crespin, of the Royal Marines.
The following appointments were yesterday made at the
Admiralty :
Lieut. Warren H. Anderson, to the Victoria and Albert,
vice his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiniugen, promoted ;
Lieut. J. G. G. M`Hardy, to the Excellent; W. E. O'Brien
and Marmacluke P. S. Ward, surgeons, to the Calcutta ; Archi-
bald Stevenson and W. 0. Roberts, assistant-surgeons, to the
Calcutta ; Maxwell Rodgers, acting assistant-surgeon, to the
Calcutta ; William Biddlecome, paymaster, to the Euryalus ;
and William Phillips, assistant clerk, to the Euryalus.

MILITIA.
Tho result of the late volunteering from the Royal Eltherne
and Leicester Regiments, stationed at Cork, is as follows :
The Royal Elthorue gave to the lino 140 men, and the Leices-
ter 29.
The RoB.'oll=oll Militia will proceed from Aldershot to
Portsmouth this morning.

lIEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK,

(Front the Report of the Registrar General.)
In the two weeks of February the mortality of Louden
has shown a slight tendency to decline. The deaths ra-
gistered were in the last week of the previous month 1,363,
in the following week 1,314, and in the week that ended
last Saturday (February 13th) 1,195. In the ten years
1848-57 the average number of deaths in the weeks cor-
responding with last week was 1,193 ; but as the deaths in
the present return occurred in an increased population,
they should be co ()pared with the average, after the latter is
raised in proportion to the increase, in which case it will be
seen that the number of persons who died last week was less
by 117 than would have died if the average rate of mortality
h d prevailed.
Of the 1,195 deaths of last week, 575 (or ne rly half) oc-
curred under 20 years of age, 137 in the period 20.40 years,
185 at 40-50, 246 at 60-80, and only 40 at the age of 80 years
and upwards. Of these 40, five were deaths of nonagenarians,
of whom one, a pensioner in Greenwich Hospital, was 94
years old, and two had attained the age of 95.
Of 1,172 deaths, 244 are referred in the returns to the
zymotic class of diseases, 201 to the constitutional, 533 to
the local, 145 to the developmental class, and 45 to violence.
Of the 45 under the last head, 39 were accidental, ono was by
homicide, four by suicide, and one by public execution. A
sailor on board a ship in the West India Dock was suffocate 1
by sulphurous vapour from a stove. In the return made by
the coroner's jury the suffocation is described as accidental.
The deaths from bronchitis, which in the previous week
were 221, decreased last week to 193 (the corrected average
being 147). From pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs),
104 persons died (the average 98) ; from phthisis or con-
sumption 130 (the average being 152). Measles continue to
bo the most fatal complaint in the zymotio class ; it carried
off 57 children, the same number as in the previous week ;
four children died of it in thewsdi bectth of
most St. John (S
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t.
George-in-the-East), and it app to e fatal
the East districts generally. Next to measles is whooping-
cough, which was fatal to 53 children. 35 personsdies of
typhus and common fever (3 in Flumstead), ape 27 sla-
tina. " Diphtheria" is returned in four cases, in two of
which measles was the primary disease. A man died from
want of food ; a child from erysipelas after vaccination.
Last weak the births of 943 boys and 893 girls, in all
I,B36lchildren, were registered in London. In the 10 corre-
sponding weeks of the years 180-57, tire average number was
1,675.

CALCUTTA. JAN. 9.

A Gccet'e Extraordinary, published on Wednesday last.
informed the people of Calcutta of the arrangements which
Government had ordered for the reception of the illus-
trious heroines and their children, who, after undergoing
unprecedented hardships during a siege of four mouths,
have finally been relieved by Sir Celin Campbell, and sent
down to Calcutta in the steamer Madras. On Friday, the
Bth, at 5 p.m., two guns from the ramparts of Fort Wil-
liam announced that the Madras was passing Acheepore,
and almost everybody that had horse or carriage
rode down to Prinsep's Ghat, where it was inti-
mated the passengers would land. The Madras
having, however, a heavy up-country boat in tow,
made, notwithstanding the tide in her favour, but
slow progress, and as it soon became evident that rho could
not come up ere the night set in, a telegraphic message was
despatched to the commander of the steamer to anchor
below Garden-reach, and to come up next morning. At 6
o'clock on Saturday morning a crowd of people ae,embled
at Prinsep'e Ghat, but a dense fog delayed the arrival cf
the Madras, and it was not until a quarter to eight that she
could be sighted, A. royal salute of 21 gnus from the ram-
parts of Fort-William announced her arrival, and other
wades follevred from the men-af-war in the river. All
vessels in the river, with the exception of the American
ships close to Prinsep's Ghat, were dre,sed out with all
their flags and presented a very imposing sight. Along the
steps from the Ghat. down to the water's edge was formed
a sort of gangway, guarded by policemen, and along the
whole red carpeting was laid out, such as it is customary
to use on state occasioes. At last the Ma,lres •artive 1 off
the Ghet. but owing to some cause or other considerable
delay took place before the pee rengers could be landed ;
the public in the meantime looking on in stern silence, as
if afraid lest even now tome accident might happen to those,
whose escape fr•en the hands of a bat bare us and blo
thirsty enemy was decreed by a merciful Providence. Th
ir)le scene partook of a solemnity rarely witnessed, and
in.ieed the expression on the faces of the bystanders b.
tokened universal sympathy for those they were about to
welcome to the le gip; table City of Palates. Mr. Beadon, the
secretary of the home department, on behalf of govern-
ment ; the lion. Talbot, private secretary to the Go-
vernor-General, on behalf of Lord Canning; and Dr.
Leckie, as secretarr-to the Relief Committee, .went down
to the water's edge to receive the ladies. A sudden rush
towards the river, a thronging towards the gengway,nend
a slight whisper of voices, indicated that the landing be.o
begun. Cheers were given at fist, but only slowly re-
sponded to, people evidently being too much occupied with
their own reflections to think of cheering ; but as the ladies
and children proceeded up, people doffed their bats }doles'
mechanically, silently looking on as the heroines passed
up. At this moment another ship in the harbour fired a
salute. but it did not sound joyfully ; it appeared rather
like minute guns in remembrance of those whose widows
and orphans were now passing in solemn review before us.
The black dresses of most of the ladies told the tale of
their bereavement, whilst the pallet faces, the downcast
looks, and the slow walk, bore evidence of the great suffer-
ings they must have undergone both in mind and body.
And yet how thankful must we be that they been spared
other trials, in comparison to which death itself would be
relief. As they passed, a chaos of sad recollections forced
itself upon our mind, and we asked—where are those who,
for the sake of saving English women and children from dis•
honour and death, have willingly sacrificed their own lives?
Where is the illustrious Havelock? where the heroic Niell ?
where so many others that have stretched forth the arm
for the rescue of helpless women and innocent chil-
dren? Alas ! they are no more ; but their names will
live for ever in tho heart of every true Briton. And,
though there is no monument to mark the place where
they sleep the everlasting sleep, their blood has marked in
indelible ink in the bosom of their surviving brethren the
word "retribution." The solemn procession thus passel
on,"and was handed into carriages which conveyed them to
their temporary home. Home, did we say ? It sounds
almost like mockery to call the solitary room of the widow
and her orphan by that name. Though the government
Gazette intimated that the Governor-General's state barges
and carriages would be in attendance, by some oversight
none of them came up to the Ghat, an :I we confess that in
our humble opinion the presence of Lord and Lady Can-
ning on such an occasion would have been as desirable as
gratifying to all.