The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-08 00:00:00

THE LATE EARL OF ORFORD.

Just at the close of last year death added to the
bead roll of the sporting aristocracy of England the
name of the above nobleman. Such an event our
readers could hardly have been unprepared for,
froth the advanced ago of his lordship, who was
born in 1783, and consequently was in his 76th
year. Descended from the great statesman, Sir
Robert Walpole, ,who after serving as Prime
Minister to George the First and George the
Second, was raised to the peerage as Earl of Orford,
the late nobleman succeeded to his ancestral honours
in 1822, and soon became a frequenter of Newmar-
ket, and the other great racing meetings of that
period. The first' horse of any consequence his
lordship may be said to have possessed was Clear-
well, by Jerry, with whom, in 1832, he won the
stake of that name, beating Nonsense and a very
large field ; and the Two Thousand Guineas in the
following year, after which he was beaten for the
Newmarket Stakes by. Forester : and beyond win-
ning the Wokingham with him at Ascot, as a four
year old, with the top weight, Clearwell did little
more worth remembrance. In 1855 Lord Orford's
luck improved, as he won the St. James's Palace
Stakes, at Ascot, with Ascot, as well as the New-
market St. Leger, and was only beaten a head with
the same horse for ,the Derby, by Mundig, after
one of the severest races ever remembered at Epsom.
The defeat of Ascot was mainly attributed at the
time to the style in which William Scott rode
Mundig, as fairly " flung him in" by sheer
physical force. Passing over several years,
in which, although he had many horses
in training, Lord Orford seldom acquired a
nod from the judge, we find him in 1846 and
1847 winning some good stakes with Footstool and
Prussic Acid; and in 1850 he won the One Thou-
sand and the Coronation Stakes at Ascot, with the
filly by Slane out of Exotic. In 1852 he brought
out .Alcoran, by Theon, which horse it will be re-
collected beat Stockwell at Newmarket in the
Craven, and won a large sweepstakes in the
First Spring, wherefram he became a prominent
favourite for the Derby, and but for his temper,
which interfered with his preparation, there is no
doubt the horse would have, been a formidable op-
ponent to the winner, Daniel O'Rourke. With his
increasing years his stud diminished in numbers,
and was not of a character to require farther refe-
rence. Lord Orford preserved in a remarkable
degree the eccentricities'of his family; and his re-
ply to the Bishop of Norwich, when asked for a
subscription to the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel in Foreign Parts, will long be remem-
bered as a curiosity for its quaintness and reasoning.
By the older school of Turfites, more than the pre-
sent generation, Lord Orford will be missed, for
when seated on his pony, or standing on the seat,
of his carriage (his lordship was of a very short
stature), watching the running of his horses, he
was frequently apt to betray his excitement in
terms which, however amusing to certain of the
bystanders at the cords, were hardly calculated for
ears polite. His lordship's horses of late years
were formerly trained by Beresford, and more
recently by- Arnull, at Newmarket, and generally
ridden by Flatnran; Sly, Bartholomew, and the late
Frank Butler. The present Earl has as yet exhi-
bited, but a slight tendency to the pastime to which
his father was so attached, but it is to be hoped
the'white jacket and orange sleeves will long re-
main in the pages of " Weatherby " as a memento
of the old associations Newmarket.--Bell's Life.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE

ALFRED.

On the 24th of Dec. the Admiral commanding
Meditei Tanean fleet issued the following order
Nlajesty having permitted her son,
to t1:1 e captaiv.3 of her Majesty's ships in Malta Har-
bour
Hff.,Tl. mess Prince Alfred, to enter the
-" Her
his Rovai
Mediterranean
Roy al Navy, trusting him to the care of the offi-
cers,marines of the naval and
- having joined the Me
seamen, ant.
his toyal Highnes\ service,
-s, as a naval cadet on board the
fleet, under my ordo,
Euryalus
,^ommemorate the event of his
passing h s first Christn.
as in the naval service,, it
i in order tce
,:en under punishment on
is my direction that all
board the ships in port h.e forgiven, and that ap
extra allowance of spirits Itl)'e issued to the respec-
tive ships' companies to-mor.
-ow afternoon." We
learn that 26 civilians were
•eleased from Corra-
dino Prison by the local authorix lies in commemora-
tion of the auspicious event of Pr:nee Alfred's visit
to Malta, and also about the same. number of pri-
soners belonging to the two servictes, naval and
military, who were sentenced to 'imp- risonment
the Courts of this island. A splendid illumination
of the public buildings and principal sti .eets of Val-
letta took place on the occasion of the .memorable
Malta Exchange ball. On Tuesday, thy' 28th of
December, his Royal Highness honoured Rear-
Admiral Codrington, C. 8., with his comvany at
dinner, at the -Admiralty-house. The Prince, ac-
companied by Major Cowell, RE., and Captain
Tarleton, C. 8., arrived there a few minutes be fore
7 p.m., and was received on landing by Admiral
Codrington, his Flag-Lieutenant Fellowes, and
secretary, Mr. Telfer. Duriag dinner the fine band
of H.M.S. Conqueror perforaied several beautii`,:ul
selections of music. In the evening Mrs. Codrin.,g-
ton gave a ball, which was numerously attended by
the principal personages of Malta, among whoqn
were his Excellency the Governor, Vice-Admiral
Fanshawe, and Lieutenant-General Sir I. Penne-
father. His Royal Highness opened_ the ball with
Mrs. Codrington, and dancing was kept up with
spirit till 2 a.m. The beautiful arrangements
made for illuminating the whole front of the Ad-
miralty residence were partially frustrated by the
tempestuous state of the weather. Blue lights
were burnt on the arrival and departure of his
Royal Highness. The Prince cadet left on the
30th of December, in her Majesty's ship Euryal'us,
amid Royal salutes, for Tunis, from which place, it
is said, his Royal Highness will return to Malta in
about a fortnight, and then proceed to Corfu t,
Athens, and back again to his home, Old England..
—Malta paper.

TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES'.

Memorandum, dated 28th November, 1858, ad-
dressed to the Sublime Porte by the representa-
tives of the contracting powers in the treaty of
Paris respecting the late acts of the Caimakams
of Moldavia and Wallachia.
"To the demand of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Sublime Porte, the representatives of
the contracting Powers of the Convention of Par: is,
being assembled to-day in conference to take in to
consideration the irregular conduct in certa in
respects of the Caimakamies of the Principalities of
Moldavia and Wallachia, are unanimously agreed
on the following points :
" 1. That the conduct of the Caimakams has a
manifest tendency to surpass the limits traced for
them by the firmans.
"2. That the authorities in the Principalities
ought to display a suitable respect for the suzerain
power, both out of regard for its peculiar position
relatively to said Principalities, and by reason of
its capacity as the organ of all the great Powers
collectively when it enjoins the observance of the
Treaty of Paris.
" 3. That the refusal made by the Caimakams
Moldavia to send a telegraphic message of the
Imperial Commissioners of the Sublime Porte is a
want of courtesy that no circumstance can
justify; and that if the Ottoman Commissioner
abstains from all interference in the affairs of
the country, ho is entitled in the present
case to prolong his stay in the _Principality,
for the object of keeping his Goveviment ap-
prised of events ; for that the basis of the conduct
to be followed by the Caimakams ought to be the
organic regulation, and that all deviation from this
rule should be justified by a serious and urgent
necessity, or by the exceptional case previously
arranged, viz., the immovability of the ministers
and directors of departments, as well as of the
functionaries nominated after the 19th of August by
the ex-Caimakam.
" 5. That the ordinary affairs of the administra-
tion can be decided by the majority of the Caima,
kams, but as to questions referring to the interpre-
tation of a treaty or of a firman, they must be sub-
mitted to the Sublime Porte. In cases of serious
differences of opinion, as for the nominations of
employes, as it touches a principle announced in the
firman, it seems to them that it would be more ap-
propriate to assure themselves of the unanimous
approbation of all the members of the Caimakaunie,
that it would be a guarantee against the spirit of
faction or party ; it being necessary to take account
of the opinion of the Caimakam on whom directly
depends the agent to be nominated or dismissed.
6. It being seen the difficulties which may arise:
in seeking to annul certain acts that the Caimakam
may have sanctioned unanimously, or by a majority,
the representatives admit that these acts, provided
at least they do not seriously contravene the con-
ditions on which the Caimakamies have been con-
stituted, may not be revoked.
" 7. They consider, nevertheless, the dismissal of
the director, or of other employes of the Minister of
the Interior, or of one of the Caimakams by his two,
colleagues, without his consent or knowledge, as an.
abuse that it is so much the more just to reform,,
that the conditions on which the Caimakamie re-
pose established him chief of his own department.
"They think, finally, that in the case of a partial
vacancy in the Caimakamie, the member, or the
two members remaining, shall have the power to
provide for the vacancy by the appointment of one
or two Ministers in the order of their rank ; and
that, in the case of total vacancy, the Provisional
Administration of the Principality shall have the
full right conferred on a Council of Ministers by
analogy with the terms of Article 11 of the Con-
vention of the 19th August; in either case, the
Provisional Caimakamie so constituted must refer
the matter to the Sublime Porte, whose opinion is
expressly reserved, as also that of the guaranteeing
Powers. The representatives express the wish
that the Government of the Sultan will be pleased
to give instructions to its commissioners of Bucha-
rest and of Jassy to understand, with the members
of the consular body, who will on their side be
advised as to the unanimous opinion of the guaran-
teeing powers at Constantinople."