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

Hunt Cup.

The Emperor
Phceaix

base RACF, OF 100 MILES.—TRIAL OF BoTTOlt.;—
A letter from Albany, in the state of New York, dated
March 30, says:—Two spwting men of this city, Taylor
aad 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 2,600. d,‘l4, a side.
Whitesboro, Oneida c3unty, is the termination of the
race. The horses passed Fonda, 4
.3 miles of the die-
tande, at 9.15 'a.m °. Time- t hOsurs,,, 15 minutes.. Dal-
ton horse slightly ahead. They arrived at Little Fills'
at 17 minutes past 12, the Dalton horsy still a little
ahead, but in a bad condition. The general impression
is that the Taylor herAe rril win tne race." A later
despatch add ,--"The New York horse is the wit:l3er of
the one hundred mile race. He arrived at Whitestown
at 5-30 p.m., making the distance in twelve hours and a
half. The Albany horse was a quarter of a mile behind."

THE MARCH UPON BURAZJOON.

( 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 had perfectly studied
it ; and we were disinclined, to denounce as a defeat
what the pen of Sir James Outram had proclaim-d
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 Outram'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 any circumetances 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 acte 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 deluging 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-
banee'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, &c., were not of any great value.
Indeed the enemy seems to have abandoned his posi-
tion more forthe purpose of carrying out a well-
planned strategy than fram any fear of the advancing
column. Knowing that the position could not be
maintained for any length,of time athe enemy sagaci-.
ously evacuated it, leaving just enough otbait in the
trap to occupy our troops until ho had perfected
his strategy, which was to attack the expedition on
its march back to Bushire in the roar 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
army would have been annihilated. On the night '
of the 7thillie 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 guard was the first intimation he
received of the proximity of an army, numbering,
according to his own account, nearly 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 until 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 Bushire, 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-eacrin which would have rendered his
name-immortal. With his vast numbers of cavalry,
it would have been impossible for Gen. Outram to
have overtaken 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 Outran says they " 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 I—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 we 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 I" 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
wonder; 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' * * got up here all
right, when General Outram immediately eetabout
sending a force into 'Burazjoon, a place 40 miles
inward, where a whole lot of Sirbaz had assembled
in force, and were talking big about attacking
the camp ; so the force, with the 78th High-
landers and 2Gth Regiment N. 1., 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 gunboats, with Jacks and Marines all
ashore. On the sth the troops marched in Buraz-
joon, and found the Persians had made a hasty re-
treat, taking 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 Artillery, 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,
but without hurting them. They then left Buraz-
joon with the prize property ; and that night the
enemy followed us up, and attacked our rear ; on
which the army formed a square' round the prize-
property, and, all lay down flat on their bellies till,