The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

Hunt Cup.

The Emperor
Plicenix

HORSE RACE OF 100 MILES.—TRIAL OF BOTTOM.—
A lettor frorn Albany, in the state of New York, dated
March 30, says :—Two spr,rting men of this city, Taylor
and Dalton. started on horses from the Exchange this
morning at 5 o'clock, for a one hundred mile race, with-
out rest or feed. The bets are 2,500 di h. a side.
laiteslynalueida- tounty, is 'the termination of the
race. The horses. passed. Fonda, 43-Miles of the dis-
tance, at 9.15 a.m. Time, 4 hours 15 minutes. Dal-
ton horse slightly ahead. They arrived at Little Falls
at 17 minutes past 12, the Dalton horse still a little
ahead, but in a bad condition. The general impression
is that the Taylor horse will win the race." A later
despatch add'—"The New York horse is the winner of
the one hundred mile race. He arrived at Whitestown
at 5-30 p.M., making the distance in twelve hours and a
hal: The Albany horse was a quarter of a mile behind."

THE MARCII UPON lICIRAZJOO.Y.

( From the Bombay Telegraph.)

We have abstained for a considerable time from
commenting upon Sir James Outram's march upon
Burazjoon, and the subsequent engagement at
Koosh-ab. We were averse to condemning this
military movement until we h4d perfectly studied

it ; and we were disinclined to deuounce as a defeat
what the pen of Sir James Outram had proclaimed
a victory. A sense of 'duty and justice, however,
compels us to speak of things as they occurred ; to
place facts before our readers instead of fiction ;
and to show that General Out ram's army was panic
stricken and disorganised on its return to Bushire.
It is evident from his own despatches that the ex-
pedition to Burazjoon was a movement which
scarcely uny circumstances' could justify ; and ac-,
cording to his own showing, his leaving Bushire
almost totally undefended for the sake of giving
.battle to an enemy 46 miles off, was one of those
wild acts of insanity which no heroism can extenu-
ate and no victory justify. We are told in his de-
spatches that after a march of 46 miles in 41 hours,
during which the troops were exposed to the worst
of weather, cold nights, and dalliging storms of
rain, they reached the enemy's entrenched position
on the afternoon of the sth, and found it aban-
doned. The enemy, on hearing our approach, had
evacuated his entrenchments the previous night so
precipitately that his tents and camp equipage and
ordnance magazines were left behind. The former
were being rapidly carried off by village plunderers
operating for some hours before we arrived. I en-
deavoured to intercept the retreat of some of Eilk-
hanee's Horse, who had held the camp during the
night, and were still in sight, and a little skirmish-
ing took place, but eventually they made off. The
General says the enemy left behind his camp equi-
page, tents, and ordnance stores ; but in the next
paragraph he tells us that his guns were withdrawn
to the strong passes, which leads us to the conclu-
sion that the tents, (IN., were not of any great value.
Indeed the enemy seems to have abandoned his posi-1
tion more for the purpoie of carrying out a well-
plane ed strategy tiv.nfrom any fear of the advancing
column. Knowing that (ha position could not be
maintained for any length of time the enemy sagaci-
ously evacuated it, leaving just enough of bait in the
trap to occupy our troops until he had perfected
his strategy, which was to attack the expedition on
its march back to Bushire in the rear and on both
flanks. The measures of the Persian general were
beautifully planned and admirably carried out—so
well, in fact, that had it not been for the determined
bravery of our soldiers, General Outram and his
army would have been annihilated. On the night
of the 7th the return march was commenced ; and,
quoting again from General Outram's .despatches,
"at midnight an attack was made upon the rear
guard by the enemy's horse, and parties threatened
the line of march upon every side. The troops were
halted, and so formed as to protect the baggage,
and resist the horsemen in whatever direction they
might attempt to charge. Four of the enemy's guns
of heavy metal opened their fire upon the column,
whilst the darkness of the night prevented any
steps being taken to capture them." According to

the General's own confession he seems to have
marched from Burazjoon without having the least
idea of the enemy's whereabouts. The crack of his
guns on the rear girird was the first intimation be
receive of the proximity of an army, numbering,
according to his own account, neatly 7,000 men.
In his despatches he tacitly admits that he was out-
flanked. The enemy's guns thundered. upon his
rear, and his horsemen seem to have encircled him,
as we find that the British general was obliged to
halt his troops so that they might resist the cavalry
"in whatever direction they might attempt to
charge." From midnight untdl dawn our troops lay
on the cold and damp ground, not knowing the
moment when they might be attacked and cut to
pieces. As soon as day broke, the Persian force
was discovered on our left rear in order of battle,
which was a very' fortunate thing indeed ; as for
anything we could have done to prevent it, the
whole army might have been half-way on its march
to Busbire, and nothing could have prevented the
place from being recaptured. The Persian general,
however, no doubt imagined the city to be strongly
garrisoned, and preferred risking a battle to exe-
cuting a coup-de-main which would have renderedh's
name immortal. With his vast numbers of cavalry,
it would have been impossible for Gen. Outram to
have °vet taken him or saved the city ; but Shooja-
ool-Moolk, like St. Arnaud and Raglan after the
battle of the Alma, was as ignorant of the strength
of Bushire as were those of that of Sebastopol. The
Persians seem to have fought well, but after a few
hours' fighting they were compelled to retreat.
General Outram says they 4( fled in a disorganised
state, generally throwing away their arms, which
strewed the field in vast numbers, and nothing but
the paucity of our cavalry prevented their total
destruction." This statement, according to his own
despatches, sounds extremely improbable. If the
Persians were in such a disorganised state how did
they manage to carry away sixteen guns out of
eighteen ?—the arms which strewed the ground in
such vast numbers belonged, we imagine, to the 700
men who lay dead upon the field of, battle. After
a short bivouac wo are next told that " the greater
portion of the infantry continued their march to
Bushire, which they reached before midnight."
What does General Outram mean by the " greater
portion of the infantry ?" and how was it that the
artillery, cavalry, and infantry did not all march
together ? The following letter from an officer on
the staff left with the force for the protection of
Bushire, will best explain the manner in which the
victorious Army returned to camp. It was but little
woud:er, we think, that the inhabitants of the place
Imagined from their appearance that they had sus-
tained a severe defeat :

" Bushire, Feb. 13.
" My dear * * *)—We got up here all
right, -when General Outram immediately set about
sending a force into Burazjoon, a place 40 miles
inward, where a whole lot of Si;baz had assembled
in force, and were talking bib about attacking
the camp ; so the force, with the 78th High-
landers and 26th Regiment lately arrived
from Bombay, started on the evening of the 3d, and
left the batteries in camp in charge of the naval
brigade—the Semiramis, Clive, Falkland, Euph-
rates, and gunboa,s, with Jacks and Marines all
ashore. On the rit ate
.troop marched in Benz-
and found the Persians had made a hasty re-
treat, tfo-'
...Lug their guns with them, but leaving all
their ammunition behind, and a large store of wheat
and barley, The ammunition was all blown up,
some tons of powder and heaps of shot and shell.
It was blown up by Hassard, of the 2d, and Hag-
gard, of the Actillery, with two of Jacob's rifle
shells. They fired at it at 70 yards ; and the con-
cussion sent them and the rifles flying into the air,
bat without hurting them. They then left Buraz-
joon wit h the prize property ; and that night the
enemy i *allowed us up, and attacked our rear ; on
winch t. tr,e army formed 4 square round the prize-
'Prqed y, and all lay down. flat on their bellies till

the morning, when they went in at the Persian
treopi—the 3d cavalry, Poona horse, and artil-
lery braving the battle. The Persians formed
square, and the cavalry charged clean through it :
went threes about on the other 'side, and charged
back'; threes about and back again a third time ;
theartilleryalso playing upon the square. All sly
that the cavalry charge was one of the most splendid
ever witnessed. They left about.l,ooo dead on the
field ; and the quan'ity of wounded must have been
immense. , Our troops had to • come back into
camp by a forced march ; and were four hours
coming through the Marshella,' a swamp
Some—in fact all—came hack in a dreadful
state ; they were pa,mic-struck as they :neared our
camp—men came in in masses of mud, dropping
from fatigue. They were all singing out that the enemy
wereattacking the rear, and crying out t o pass the
worifer the cavalry and Poonahorso, but they were in
the rear coming in with the two captured guns And
prizes. We were kept-at our guns till nearly mid-
night ; and I kept trailing my gun from one side
to another, according as we heard the volleys of
the stragglers coming in ; and no end of cries that
the enemy are coming in the rear. Wite-m. the bugle
was sounded three of us went. out, armed, to pick
up stragglers. One, wounded man was bundled
out of his dhooly, the bearers running away, leav-
ing the poor fellow on the ground with the calf of
his leg shot off by a round shot. I returned, and,
took him, back in a dhooly, but he died just after
he came in. We wire out till two in the morning,
having picked up ten unfortunate devils, who could
not move, some of them asking us to. let them die.
The General had a severe fall from his horse when.
the troops were attacked at Ii(!osh-ab, and was in-
'sensible for two hours, but he came in all right in
the afternoon, and went out again when the alarm
occurred, and met us on our way back. lie thank-
ed us personally, saying it was most kind, &to.
Nett morning I went out to meet the-force coming
in, the rearguard,of the army, and as the cavalry
came in by twos and threes, and salaamed to.us,
they drew their swords in triumph, crying out
Dekho Sahib,': and there they were, sure enough,
blades and hilts, all smeared in blood, and their
white belts bespattered all over; they must have
made a most glorious charge. Poor Frankland, of
the 2d Europeans,• was made Brigade Major of
Cavalry, to go out with them, only the day before
they started, and in the charge he cut down' three
men, but the fourth shot him dead, right in the
bridge of the nose, the ball' penetrating int)
the head. Our loss was only, as far as I can
learn, four er six killed, and about from forty
to sixty wounded, but it is not as yet rightly
known. They speak very well on the whole of the
Persian troops, and, especially of their artillery.
Certainly the two guns that were captured were as
good as any of ours—horses, harness, limbers, and
all in very fine order. They have got 25 prisoners,
two of whom they say are Russians. The Sukh-
el-Mulk,' who commanded the Persian army, nar-
nowly escaped being taken himself, escaping with-
out his hat. And going back with a' hare head in
this country, I suppose you are well aware, is a
disgrace."