The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-29 00:00:00

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPI7.)

SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SON'S.

Comquot
Aster

Vigliacconi
SELLING HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES,
Miss Nightingale
Azimuth colt
Mabel

Eight ran.

LATEST BETTING.
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.
6to 4 on Blink Bonny
4 to 1 agst Ayacanora (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
15 to 1 agst Turbit
20 to 1 agst Gemma di Vergy
25 to 1 agst Commotion
25 t ) 1 agst Riseber
40 to 1 agst Polestar
50 to 1 agst Pantomime
100 to 1 agst Longsight
100 to 1 agst Barfl,!ur

DERBY.
Bto 1 agst Antjn (taken)
8 to 1 agst Biink Bonny (nfiereti)
9 to 1 agst Skirmisher (off..red)
100 to 6 agst (taker.)
25 to 1 agst Lady Hawthorn (taker.)
25 to 1 ',gat Adamas (taken)
25 to 1 aget Sydney (taken)
25 to 1 aget Loyola (offered)
40 to 1 agst Blue Jacket ffered)
THE OAKS.
7to 2 agst Think Bonny
10 to 1 agpt Lady Hawthorn

STORMING OF A,BETTI G HOUSE BY
THE POLICE.

Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'click,
acting under the authority of Sir R. Mayne, the Com-
missioner of Police, the superintendent of the C division
of police, accompanied by several inspee.ors and a body
of 40 police-constables, proceeded from the Vine street
station, to Little Newport-street, Leicester-square, and
invested a house kept by Gideon and Fisher, in that
street, ostensibly for the sale of cigars. The constable.~
were quickly drawn up, to prevent all egress or ingress
to or from the premises, and the superintendent, accom-
panied by several officers, immediately entered and sur-
prised between 30 and 49 persons, busily engaged laying
bets upon the events pending at the Newmarket meeting,
the Chester Cup, Derby, and other forthcoming events.
Several parties, on seeing the po!ice, rushed upstairs, in
their flight throwing their betting-books out of the win-
dow ; some few got on to the parapets, and by scram-
bling over the roofs of the adjoining houses, got clear
away. Gideon, one of the proprietors, however, was
captured, and his assistant and 13 persons who were
there far betting ; the police searched the prisoners and
found large sums of money, betting books, &c. By this
time thousands of people bad congregated in Newport-
street, and the police bad to procure six cabs to carry
their prisoners to the station house, the mob loudly
cheering as each vehicle drove off. Such as found bail
were released, the rest were locked up in the Vine-street
station, and were brought up at Marlborough-street
police-office this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

We shall give the result of the case in our late edition ]

THE PERSIAN WAR.

(From the Gazette of last evening.)
INDIA BOARD, APRIL 28.
The following despatch has been this day received at
,be East India House :

From the Governor-General of. India in Council to the
Secret Committee of the East India Company, Fort
William, March 24, 1857.
(Extract.)

We forward a printed copy of a notification, publish-
ing Sir James Outram's despatch to his Excellency
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, reporting his
signal victory over the Persian army, commanded by
Shooja-ocl-Moolk, in their entrenched Camp at Borax-
goon, on the Bth ult. We beg to bring to the favour-
able notice of your honourable committee the service
rendered by the officers and men on this occasion, and
the manner in which it has been performed.

NOTIFICATION.

FORT WILLIAM, FO iIEIGN DEPARTMENT,

MARCH 12.

The Governor-General in Council has great pleasure
in publishing the accompanying despatch* from Lieute-
nant-General Sir James Outram, K C.B.

It describes a new success of the British army in Per.
sia, achieved, between the 3d and the 9:h of February,
against a force much superior in number, and in the face
of difficulties which have made conspicuous the energy
and promptitude of the commander and of the officers
associated with him, as well as the courage, discipline,
and cheerfulness of the troops.
The rapid and toilsome night-marches, deliberately
planned and accomplished with precision ; the inclement
weather, against which no protection of any kind was
available to men or officers ; the steady resistance to an
attack in circumstances the most trying to the patience
and order of an army ; and the utter rout and contu-ion
of the enemy with very heavy loss, when the morning
light enabled our soldiers to discern their assailants,—
have marked this operation against .the Persian en-
trenched camp at Borazoon, as one of which the force
under Sir James Qutrain's command may well be proud.
In the course of it officers and men have exhibited all
the qualities which make an army invincible.
To Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, and to his
brave Companions in Arms, the Governor-General in
Council desires to offer an early assurance of the warm
approbation and thanks which they have so well earned.
These are especially due to Major-General Stalker, C.B ,
and to Colonel Lugard, C. 8., Chief of the Staff, who are
described by Sir J. Outrun as having guided the troops
to victory in the time—most happily not of long con-
tinuance—during which be was disabled by a severe fall
of his horse. But they are due to all of every rank who
have taken share in this signally successful exploit,
which bas called for extraordinary exertions from al, and
in which al have borne themselves with gallantry.
The Governor-General in Council will have the great-
est satisfaction in expressing to the Honourable Court of
Directors his appreciation of the service rendered, and of
the manner in which it was performed.
The Governor-General in Council has to lament th.e
loss of one gallant young officer—Lieutenant Frankland,
of the 2d European Regiment—who, acting as Brigade
Major of Cavalry, fell dead in the first of the brilliant
charges by which our small body of Horse on that day
distinguished itself. Captain Forbes, commanding the
3d Regiment of Light Cavalry, and Lieu.. Greentree, of
her Majesty's 64th Regiment, have been severely
wounded. But, upon the whole, the casualties on the
side of the British Forces have been few compared with
the very heavy loss inflicted upon the enemy both in men
and munitions of war.

By Order of the Right lion, the Goyernor.General
in Council,

G. F. EDMONSTONE,
Secretary to the Government of India.

* Published in the London Gazette of the 3d of Apiil,
1E,57, pages 1,213 to 1,216.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO THE NEW
PARLIAMENT.

(From the London Gazette of last evening.)
CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 27.
Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned
to be holden at Westminster, the 30th April.
Borough of Dartmouth—James Caird, E-q.
Borough of Devizes—Simon Watson Taylor, of Ercb-
font, Wiltshire, Esq. ; Christopher Darby Griffith, of
Padworth, Berkshire, Eq.
APRIL 28.

County of Wilts, Northern Divieion—Walter Lonr,
Esq. ; Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Esteourt, Esq.
Southern Division—The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert ;
William Wyndham, E;q.
• Borough of Chippenham—Lieut..Colonel Henry Geo.
Boldero ; Robert Parry Nisbet, Eq.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCIASTER, TUeS•
day.— There has been a very flat market to-day, the
demand for all counts of yarns being exceedingly limited,
and although there may not be a decided fall in prtces,
still some spinners would enter into contracts at 1-16th
to 1-Bth per lb. decline of last Tuesday's rates. In clo'h
there is very little doing ; manufacturers are compelled
to make a concession to induce purchasers to buy. '
NOVEL INVENTION.—It might bo thought that the
almost entire loss of health which to so large an extent
arises from exposure to the sudden changes of the atmo-
sphere would have originated some effectual kind of pro-
tection for ladies while passing to their carriages, in full-
dress costume, from the Opera, or other place of faeldon-
able resort where the air is at a high temperature. What,
however, is the practice ? What do we actually witness
at the termination of any gathering of the beau monde,
where groups of lightly-dressed, elegant, and delicate
figures come forth from suffocating heat to the rude winds
of a bitter winter's night to await the arrival of their car-
riaaes ? One beholds the strange pl-ienomenen of men
well buttoned up in great coats and muflliars, while the
softer sex are less clothed and protected than on any
other occasion. Wby this reckless exposure ? Doubtless,
it is consequent on the want of some full-dress graceful
cloak, constructed to exhibit the desired effect in the
concert-room or theatre, and without trouble to krill it
self into a means of secure protectiou from cold on hP.V-
ing it. This grand desideratum appears now to 6e ac-
complished ; and if the invention, i.iluetr,a,:seven,jeed i,ntthbeelaAtlliaeys
Fashions of the Illustrated London Roes even approaches
the perfection which it is there said to posses,
will have substantial reason to reuxembertbe4oeturvreintro-irrss
and patentees, Messrs. Jay and Smith, time
of the Sponealia, in Regent-street.