The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

Irish Racing Fixtures for 1857.
APRIL.

_2l

Curragh
MAY.
Howth and Bakkyle Summer 19
JUNE.
NVicklow
Monckstown (Co. °silk) 9 I

JULY.
Bellowstown 8 Heath of liaryboro'...2B
Down R. Corporation 2l

AUG UST.
Galway 4 1 Ballyeigh 25
- .............. 11 I Town not fixed
...18

Tarnore
Killarney

Curragh
CatheTeiven

SEPTEMBER.
........ 2 I Jenkinstown Park 22
8 Johnstown 29

It is understood that the tidal trains between
London and Paris, by way of Folestone and Bou-
logne, will be recommenced, at :the latest, on (the
15th of next month, and possibly on the let. It is
difficult to understand the grounds on which the
South. Eastern and French Northern Companies
matiraar
uolithese trains to take piece.
TUe r
6 inter
constantly increasing traffic betwe, n London and
Boulogne is naturally attracted to another rota e;
The number of boats between London-bridge arid
Boulogne be; been increased from three to four a week,
and will be further extended to six a week each way
next month. The goods traffic is largely augmenting,
and indicates a considerable extension in the interna-
tional trade.
THE ETRUSCANS.—The Etruscans were a people
foreign in Italy, called by the Romans Etrusci, or
Tusci ; by the Greeks, Tyrrheni, or Tyreeni ; and by
themselves, Rasena. The country between the Tibur
and the Marc Inferum, or. Tyrrhenian Sea,
and bounded on the north and north-west by
the Apennines and the river Macra, was their
seat. Their early history has given rise to much die-
cussion in modern times, and it is now admitted on all
sides that the people known to the Romans as Etrus-
cans, were not the original inhabitants of the comp
try, but a mixed rate. The most ancient inhabi-
tants appear to have been Ligurians on the north,
and Siculians on the south, both of *hone *ete
subsequently expelled by the Umbrians, From this
point two opinions hare prevailed, The first (that of
Herodotus) ascribes tiem to a colony of Lydians
under Tyrsenus, son of the King of Lydia, from whom
they took their name and in this opinion Cicero,
Strabo, Paterculus, Seneca, Pliny, Plutarch, and Ser-
vius follow ; the semi(' is, that a Pelasgic race, called
Tyrrheni, subdued tie Umbrians, told settled itx the
country, who were afterwards in their turn con-
quered by a powerN lelia3tian race, called Rasena,
who descended from the Alps and the valley of the
Po. Hence it was feen the union of the Tyrrheni-Pelai-
glans ant the Rs'ela that the Etruscan nation was
formed. Dion of Heicarnassue considers them abori•
gives, but admits that a tribe of Pelasgi passed from
Tees saly into the heart of Italy prior to the
Trojan war, who assisted the aborigines in
their war with ee Siculi, whom they forced
to fly to Sicily, the Kt of the ancient Sicani. Gibbon
agrees with Dion. G)rius derives the Etruscan element
from Egypt or nee
gr • nal seats of the Peleti ; thence driven out into Achaia,
Thrace, Arcadia, etti •
Italy. Mazz mhi fol
vpVg the Oriental ;theory. Maffei
liciaan which he considers the ori-
d from thence passing into
brings them from Ca:
were the same
from the East after he Flood or Babel,
people ; that
asserting that
the Umbri and abori and Guarnacci derives them
they spread over Itaey and some tribes of them, called
Pelasgi, thence emigrated to Greece, See. Being en-
tirely ignorant of thei language, it is impossible to ar-
rive at a definite leowledge of their origin.—The
- Builder.