The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-27 00:00:00

KENT OR VEDETTE.

The town is filling rapidly, and people are posting
from Huntingdon and Cambridge in such rapid suc-
cession as to remind the old inhabitants of the good old
days before railways were not. The weather as I write
is bitterly cold, but the interesting week's racing in store
renders us indifferent to the skiey influences.

I shall perhaps have time to touch upon the One
Thousand in my " Notes " on Wednesday. At present I
can only tender my unconditional allegiance to Blink

Bonny.

A FRESH MAN.
Newmarket, Monday morning, 8 o'clock.

TATTERSA.LL'S—SATMIDAY.
TWO THOUSAND.
3 to 1. agst Vedette (fakeu and offered)
10 to 3 agst Kent (rakes)
7to 1 agst Anton (taken)
9 to 1 agst Sydney (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Lambourn (taken)
100 to 9 agst cby Surplice—Beeswax (taken)
12 to 1 agst Loyola (taken and offered)
15 to 1 apt Druniour (taken)
25 to 1 a-4.st Lord of the Hills (offered)
700 to 25 agst Vedette winning the Two Thousand
and Skirmisher the Derby (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
11 to 1 aget Mmcepie (taken)
1000 to 30 aget Rogertborpe
40 to 1 agst Claret

12 to 1 agst
15 to 1 agst
25 to 1 :kgst
40 to 1 agst
30 to 9 agst

DEBBY.
skirmisher (taken)
Kent (taken)
Lady Hawthorne (taken)
Adams (taken)
Beeswax colt (taken)

THE OAKS.
3to 1 not Think Bonny (offered)
20 to 1 apt Lady Hawthorne (taken)

LATEST CITY BETTING.—SATURDAY NIGHT.
TWO THOUSAND.
12 to 1 agst Colt by Surplice—Beeswax.
20 to 1 agst Drumour (offered)
ASCOT GOLD CUP.
12 to , 1 agst Gtinnia di Vern, (take 1 to 1251.)
2000 to 10k: agst Mincepie (taken)
2000 to 100 at„,st Polestar (taken)
1600 to 40 ages P,oodle (taken)
pretty Boy, Fandango, and Skir-
-600 to 300 agst
wisher " mixed" (taken)
800 to 100 agst Magn.:fier, Sprig of Shillelagh, and
Savnt..Ter " mixed" (takeu)

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BETTING AT MANCHEST,NR.—YESTERDAY.
3 to 1 agst Vedette (taken- fiPelY)
7 to 2 agst Kent (taken)
600 to 100 agst Anton (taken)
13 to 2 agst Beeswax (taken)
100 to 8 ag:•t Loyola (offered)

The report that the Austrian army is being reduced is I
incorrect. That great numbers of men are sent to their
homes is perfectly true, but the gaps are filled up by
the recruits raised during the last two months.
TRIESTE, April 25.—Accounts from Al, xandria, of the
19th inst., announce the arrival in that city of 3,000
Turkish troops, whose destination is not known.
CHANCES OF THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.—We have
shown in a previous discussion of the subject that it is
by no means ridiculous or extravagant to think it possibl,e
that some (if oily two or three) of Sir John Franklfit2,
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companions, vigorous men who went out at the
age o
or 28, and would he now, as to their years, of the age
when men have but attained their complete ripeness aud
the Esquimaux,
strength, may have taken refuge among
all his among
as Dr. Kane declared that it "required powers,
moral and physical, to prevent" his men from doing, when
they also were placed in a critical position. Dr. Kane
coarse
says of himself and his men, " we regarded th
life of these people with eyes of envy, and did not
doubt but that we could have lived in comfort upon their
It is clearly possible, then, that at least
re.ources."
one Englishman may still be living among the Esqui-
maex, parted by a vast and impassable tract of desert
continent from the most northern settlements of his own
countsymeo, and to whom the eight of a deliverer would
bring such joy as we who live all the years through
among friends and in families are utterly unable to ima-
gine. We have already pointed out how the behaviour
of the Etquimaux has led more than one Arctic
sailor to believe that they know somethiog about Sir
John Franklin's crews, that they are indisposed to tell
what they know, and that it needs time and tact
to extract their knowledge from them. The space
of ground within which it is now certain that Frank-
lin's ship% were lost, and probable that their
disabled hulls are to be found, is of so limited
extent that even on maps of a considerable size it may be
covered with a shilling. To Cambridge Bay, on one side
of this region, a single sailing vessel has passed and re-
turned home unscathed, its commander expressing kis
conviction that the passage is so constantly open that
ships can navigate it without difficulty in one season.
To the other side of this region there is achotce of routes,
and the point that would be reached by a vessel entering
Peel Sound would, probably, be less than 200 voiles dis-
tant from the limit of the area of search on the western.
side. From such a point the whole area could be expi red
easily and safely by the help of doge.—Dickens's flow-
hold Words.