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THE FIELD 
Merrythought and Baronet'. Daughter »" way they ran to the 
hill turn, in rounding which Merrythought slipped up. throwing her 
rider with great force to the ground. This accident gave Marchioness a 
decided lead, which sho held to the end, and won by half a length 
The Town State of 3 .ova each, with 30 added. Heats. One mile and 
a half ond a distance. 4 subs. 
Mr. Formby's Lady Blanche, by Epirus, f. yre 8"t 
5 U, i l’nco 3 0 11 
Mr. Sherrard * Antonia. 4 jT»,7st 121b, £40. 
J . S toggles 14 2 2 
Mr. T. Brown’s Young Honesty, 0 yra. Hut 91b. tflO, 
Hornsby 2 0 4 3 
Mr. Land's Vestige, 3 yn, 7st 41b, £60.. Land, Jun. 4 3 3 dr 
First heat won easily by two lengths Second heat : Lady Blanche 
obtained the lead, immediately after joined by Honesty, and the pair 
finished an excellent race with a dead bent Third heat : won by a 
neck. Fourth heat : won by half a length. The winner was not .old. 
The Hurdle State of 1 .ov each, with 25 g. added. One mile and a 
distance ; over three hurdles, four feet in height. 4 subs. 
Mr. Land's Munroni, by Beverioc, 4yr., 10st 41b, 
T. Troen 2 1 1 
Mr. Hayward'. Bullfinch, aged, list 41b Eat well 12 3 
Mr. Sherrard's Miw Emily, (1 yrs, list 41b . . Morgan 3 3 2 
First beat : Bullfinch won by two lengths Second bent : won by 
two lengths. Third heat . Massaronl won in a canter. 
A Sweepstakes of 2 bovs each, with 20 added. Heats. About one mile 
and a half and a distance. 0 subs. 
Mr. Lnnd.\'s hg Massaronl, 4 yrs, 8st 71b, j£ 80, Land, Jim. 1 1 
Mr. Murray's Bess, Bst lib, £40 Hornsby 2 2 
Mr. Banks's Merrythought, 8 yrs. o*t 121b, £00, J. Stegglcs dis 
Mr. Formby's Diminutive, 4 yrs, 7-t 01b, £40 . Price dis 
First Heat : Massaronl won, hard held, by two lengths. Second 
Heat : won in a canter by three lengths. Tho winner was not sold. 
OLDBURY (NEAR BIRMINGHAM) RACES. 
These races came off on Monday and Tuesday lost, and It has been 
arranged that the same shall be held annually. The ground selected 
for tho course is distant six miles from Birmingham, and close to 
Mr. Hleken's, of the Engineers' Tavern, on the Oldbury-road. 
Monday. 
The Trial State of 10s. each, with 3 sovs added, for ponies not ex- 
ceeding twelve hands high, twice round and a distance, were won cle- 
verly, in two heats, by Mr. Biddle's b p Birmingham Lass, beating Mr. 
Ashford’s gr p Lewis, and Mr. Heath's b p Fancy. 
The Innkeeper's State of 10 s. eneli, with 6 bovs added, for ponies not 
exceeding 13 hands high. Twice round and a distance. 
Mr. W. Massey's gr m Alice Grey 3 1 1 
Mr. D. Stanley's ch p Hobble Noble 1 2 2 
Mr .1 Heath's b m Black Bess *2 8 0 
First beat won by half a length, second beat by a neck, and third 
heat won by a bend, after a good race with two. 
A Sweepstakes of 10s. each, with 3 sovs added, for ponies not exceeding 
12 hands high, twice round ami a distance, were won by two lengths, 
by Mr. Roost's b m Nunnyklrk, heating Mr. Ilickon's b p Tommy, 
and Mr. Clifton's gr m Jenny (dis). 
Tuesday. 
The Oldbury States of 10*. each, with 6 sovs added. For ponies not 
exceeding 13 hands high. Twice round and a distance, were won 
cosily in two heats, by Mr Heath's b m Black Bess, beating Mr. W. 
Massey's gr m Alice Grey, and Mr, Roosc's b in Nnnnykirk. 
The Ladies' Pune of 2 sovs, 'added to a Sweepstakes of 1 0* each, for ponies 
not exceeding 12 bands high, were won cleverly in two heats, by Mr. 
Ashford's gr p Lewis, boating Mr. Heath's b p Fancy, and Mr. Clifton's 
gr m Jenny. 
BUNGAY RACES. — Tuesday , Sept. 12. 
A Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, with tho Gentlemen's Purse of 20 sovs 
added Heats. One mile and a quarter. 4 subs. 
Mr. Sale's b h Chorus, by Kremlin, 6 yrs, lost 2 lb, £100. . 1 1 
Mr. Holland's b m Uasquine, 3 yrs, ( 1 st 711>, £20 2 <lr 
Mr. Norton’s ch m Susannah, 3 yrs, Hsl, £100 3 dr 
Mr. Banyan's eh h Sir William, aged, Os! Gib, £40 dis 
The Hunters' State of 2 bovs each, with 12 added. Heats. One mile 
nml a quarter. 1 subs. 
Mr. Norton’s ch m Susannah, by John o' Gaunt, 3 yrs, 
Ost Sib ' l l 
Mr. Bridge's bk m Worthless, 3 yrs, fist 81b 2 2 
Mr. Holland's b m Basquim , 8 JOT, 9»t Mb 3 3 
A Sweepstakes of 1 sov each, with 10 added. Heats. One mile. 
4 subs. 
Mr. Archer's b m Miss Goldsmidt. 5 yrs, 8st 101b, £30 — l 1 
Mr. Norton's eh m Susannah, 3 yrs, Nat, £80 2 2 
Mr. Holme's b m Unfortunate Miss, by Coningsby, 3 yrs, 
Gst 71b, £20 3 3 
The Seurrii Handicap of 5 sovs. For horses not thorough bred, bona fide 
the property of farmers or tradesmen residing within twenty miles 
of Bungay. Half a mile. Won, in two heats, by Mr. Mitchell's gr h 
Arabian Knight, lx-nting Mr. Strnnglemnn's Unknown, Mr. Peek's 
Sally Go Faster, and Mr. Page's Jenny Lind. 
TURFIANA. 
At the Newcastle Spring Meeting, Dalkeith, the winner of 
the Welter Stakes was objected to, for having claimed the 
half-bred allowance, though a thorough-bred horse, and the 
stakes have since been paid to tho owner of Smuggler Bill, 
who came in second. 
Mn. Keegan, of Hamilton Lodge, Curragh, lias sold 
Tearaway to Mr. Hall, of Duddiughill Stud Farm, and 
bought Epirus, and brought him to Ireland. From this 
horse’s breeding, beauty of symmetry, and success as a 
race-horse getter, he will make a valuable acquisition to the 
breeders of blood-stock. 
[The fallowing appeared in our Third Edition of Last Week.] 
DESPATCHES FROM THE CAMP, NEAR VARNA. 
[from our own correspondent.] 
Light Ca caliy Brigade, Camp at “ Ytni-Basaar " (“AV» Market ") 
2 0th August , 1861. 
The policy which has directed the partial inactivity of our 
forces now engaged in this campaign, may be, and we trust 
is, very wise and very good, but it has had a decided per- 
nicious effect upon the troops themselves, and to them is 
inexplicable and irksome. Upwards of three months have 
now elapsed since the expedition first appeared at the scene 
of action, and as regiment after regiment debarked upon the 
alien soil, firm and sound, both morally and physically, as 
their native planks, just abandoned, each heart then beating 
in unison, every' bosom then filled with the same all-absorbing 
emulation to meet the foe and prove themselves no unworthy 
sons of their ancestors, and with yet another strong incentive 
to fire their martial enthusiasm, since they were to fight 
eide by side with the choBen bands of France, their national 
rivals, but row cordial allies — troops which each Briton 
has from infancy known, and been familiar with, as con- 
nected with every warlike deed or tale of military glory. 
Never were British troops in a higher or better state of 
efficiency to take the field : and yet here we have been kept 
in inglorious idleness for upwards of three months, roasting 
in camp by day under a broiling sun, and exposed to the 
chilling pestiferous dews by night, and that, too, almost in 
sight of the enemy, without the excitement of a battle, or 
even a skirmish, to chase away the gloomy clouds of ennui. 
About the end of June we weie for a short time regaled 
with the joyful anticipation of something stirring, in conse- 
quence of a portion of the Light Cavalry Brigade, under 
Major-General Lord Cardigan, having been rather hurriedly 
ordered to advance on the Danube. It was thought, and 
sincerely hoped, the object of this movement was to hover 
about and harrass the rear of the Russian army, then retreat- 
ing from the siege of Silistria, until rejoined by stronger 
reinforcements ; but this hope was not destined to be realised. 
His Lordship’s object was only to make an extensive recon- 
naissance of the enemy’s movements and retreat., which he 
most successfully effected, having on the 2nd July, in the 
vicinity of liustchuk, approached so close to a Russian 
division, under the command of General Luders, that the 
two forces were distinctly seen by each other, the river 
only intervening between. A Turkish officer, bearing a flag 
of truce, was dispatched immediately from Lord Cardigan 
to the enemy’s lines — the purport of his errand has not 
transpired. General Luders having ascertained, on inquiry 
from him, that the troops on the opposite hank were English, 
was observed to scan them most attentively through his 
glass, but no hostile demonstration occurred on either side. 
After seventeen days’ harrassing marching, and as many 
nights bivouacked in the open air, without tents or other 
camp equipments, his Lordship rejoined the remainder of 
hia brigade at Devna. Towards the end of July, to make 
our lines, already miserable enough, still more so, cholera 
made it s appearance among the troops, bringing in its train 
fever, diarrhoea, and dysentery. Forthwith the different 
encampments were ordered to move forward and take up 
fresh positions, hoping that change of atmosphere and locality 
might contribute to allay the violence of this fearful scourge. 
The Light Cavalry Brigade, followed two days’ march behind 
by the Heavy Brigade, encamping at Kotlubi, Jassyteppe, and 
Yorjago, at length selected the elevated highlands of Yeni- 
Baziuir as likely to be the most salubrious situation for 
their encampment, and at this place have remained sta- 
tionary since arriving on the 1st inst. Experience has 
justified this selection, as the brigade at Yeni-Bazaar is the 
most favoured at present from the fatal ravages of the 
pestilence. Among the infantry divisions the mortality is 
fearful ; some regiments have already been decimated, and 
each day seems to add fresh strength and virulence to the 
inroads of this awful unseen enemy. The Heavy Cavalry 
Brigade suffered much ; in one regiment alone, the 5th 
Dragoon Guards, about 300 strong, thirty-two cases of 
cholora and fever had terminated fatally between the 1st and 
10th inst. This regiment was, during that time, encamped at 
Kotlubi, but on the 18th marched back for Vania. Among 
tho more favoured regiments of the Light Cavalry, the 
mortality is lamentably great. Since the 1st of the mouth 
the average number of sick per day in the hospitals belong- 
ing to the four regiments composing the brigade, has been 
176 men per day. Of this number there have been deaths, 
in the 8th Hussars, eleven ; 11th Hussars, four; 13th Light 
Dragoons, four ; and 17tli Lancers, fifteen ; in all, thirty-four 
cases of death ; also three women have died. They, poor 
creatures, suffer much privation, and many of them are left 
widows by this visitation. 
Since the outbreak of the cholera, half a gill of mm per 
man has been ordered to be issued to the troops from the 
Commissariat stores, which is certainly a great boon to the 
soldier. This order was dated 30th July, and it was the Oth 
August when the first issue was given to the Light Cavalry 
Brigade, owing to the tardiness of the Commissary depart- 
ment in sending up the much longed for supply. Since the 
issue of this, though very small, allowance of spirits, there 
has been a veiy perceptible decrease in the daily number of 
sick ; and if the full regulated ration of one gill per man 
was given, there cannot he a doubt that it would be still 
more conduoivo to the health of the men ; and iu no case is 
it possible that such indulgence could, as Sir George Brown 
fears, ho the cause of intoxication in the army. On the 30th 
July, the full ration of spirits, of one gill per man, was, in 
the general orders, promulgated by Lord Raglan, sanctioned 
to he issued; but, ou the following day, 31st July, that 
order was cancelled, and the half-gill substituted for the full 
ration. This curtailment of their grog the soldiers them- 
selves ascribe to the interference of General Brown, whether 
deservedly or not, God knows ; but he is said to have been 
in quite u panic lest every man in his division should be in a 
continual stato of inebriation from drinking daily — what ? 
one gill of rum diluted in water before issue to the con- 
sistency of what sailors contemptuously term three-water 
grog. Certain it is, Sir George Brown is very unpopular on 
this campaign, while the Duke of Cambridge is universally 
beloved, and almost idolised by the whole army. With 
respect to the grog, it will be seen, on reference to the 
Mutiny Act, that a soldier on foreign sennet forfeits his penny 
a da// ( bar money ), but that also lie is liable to receive daily 
a ration of spirits in kind, in lieu thereof, provided the 
officer commundiug-in-ehief deems such necessary to the 
health and comfort of the troops. In an inhospitable, 
barbarous country like this, much worse than any 
other where British troops have ever before campaigned — 
a country which affords nothing and can produce 
nothing fit for British soldiers to drink, except an 
unwholesome bad wine, which of itself, if drunk, is very 
likely to bring ou the cholera — in a country, moreover, where 
there is such a dearth of water, that it is with the greatest 
difficulty sufficient can be obtained for the wants of our 
cavalry-horses, and sometimes not found until dividing the 
brigades into regiments, they are scattered over a great extent 
of country, and then are obliged, by troops and sections, to 
draw it up twenty or thirty feet, from wells which are only 
to he seen about the wretched villages of the country. In 
such a country, and at such a time, when tlie health and 
efficiency of the troops so much depends upon their good 
spirits, it surely would not have been out of time or place, 
to have granted the soldiers their full regulated ration, as 
has been done on former campaigns, instead of giving them 
cause of murmur and discontent, by the preseut commuted 
allowance. Our present state of apathetic idleness is far 
more intolerable and trying to the troops than all the accu- 
mulated hardships of a state of active warfare. Disease 
stalking among us with fatal strides — each tent has lost au 
inmate, each man a comrade, each day, sometimes each hour — 
adds another to the list of our dead companions, and not 
knowing whose turn may be the next. In such an unen- 
viable state of disheartening suspense, with what joyful 
thankfulness would au order to meet the enemy he received ! 
The general feeling now among our troops is unqualified dis- 
content, it runs thus : we caine| out here expecting and pre- 
pared to maintain the honour of the British arms, instead of 
which we have for upwards of three months, until the 
summer mouths have nearly gone past, been kept altogether 
inactive, and at the same time exposed to all the hardships 
of active warfare, without the chance of any of its meeds of 
glory. A fearful epidemic is raging among us, making sad 
havoc with our numbers, each day our comrades are dropping 
down one by one by our side ; if we are to die, why notallow 
us to die under the walls of Sebastopol, or any other place, 
only let us have the consolation of dying as British soldiers 
ought and were wont to die, fighting gloriously for our 
Queen and country, and not thus cut off, like rotten sheep, 
one by one, in anguish and misery. ’ 
General Cannon, an English officer in the service of the 
Porte, visited the camp at Yeni-Bazaar this morning. He 
reports that the Russian army has crossed the Pruth, and 
expresses it as his opinion that the fighting is over in this 
quarter for the season. It is rumoured that the cavalry are 
about being sent in to winter-quarters at Constantinople and 
Adrianople. 
JtaitflSfluni mii Jfinsonir 3uitlligtnrr. 
Royal Arch Mason-tit. — Colchesttb Chapter. — On Thursday 
evening, the 7th inst., the Companions of the Chapter of Royal Arch 
Masons, No. 59, with a number of brethren of the Angel Lodge, dined 
together at the George Hotel, as a complimentary acknowledgment of 
the exertions of Companion Forbes in behalf of the Chapter, and of the 
craft generally. The banquet was well served, and gave entire satis- 
faction to the guests. First Principal J. Pattison was in the chair, 
supported by Companions Haddock and Slaney, and Brother Ellisdon, 
W.M. of tho Angel Lodge, filled the vice-chair. There were also 
present — Companions Johu Mann, S. D. Forbes, G. Chaplin, Williams, 
Dorling, and Townsend (Ipswich), J. Partridge, Howe, ond Shave; 
Brothers J. S. Norman, W. Browne, G. T. Butcher (Ipswich), G. D. 
Croyden, H. May, T. Hall, Saunders, rolmer, Averili, Prior, Root, 
Moore, Flynn, &c. A number of masonic and local toasts were drank, 
including the Major and Magistrates, with the health of Companion 
Mann; the President and Vice-Presidents; tho supporting Compa- 
nions ; Companion Forbes, with thanks for his zeal and exertions ; 
Brother Dorling ond the Provincial Grand Lodge of Suffolk; the 
visiting brethren, &c. . and the banquet was enlivened with some excel- 
lent songs by Brothers Palmer, Dorling, Prior, &e. 
Isle of Wight. — A Tractarian weekly journal, delighted, doubtless, 
to have a fling at the excellent Bishop of Winchester, has the following 
in its Summary of News last week : — “ We regret to see the Bishop of 
Winchester united with the Provincial Grand Master and the Provin- 
cial Chaplain of the Freemasons in offering up prayers at the laying 
of the foundation-stone of St Thomas's Church, at Newport, in the 
Isle of Wight We are amazed and grieved to see a Christian Bishop 
countenancing the mummeries of a Society which comprehends Jews, 
Turks, infidels, and heretics among its members." The narrow-minded 
prejudices of the writer, who shrinks with horror from having anj-thing 
in common with o Jew, a Turk, or any one of different religious 
opinions from himself (we deny the charge of admitting infidels, as 
belief in a God is absolutely necessary for initiation), need no comment. 
A Society, whose works of benevolence are so widely spread, without 
regard to differences of creed or politics, will moreover, wo think, 
survive its ceremonies being called " mummeries " by one who never 
has understood their hidden practical meaning, and only sees things 
through a medium of prejudice and Pharisaical self-conceit 
€§t (Prijrttr. 
From Tuesdays Gazette. 
WAR OFFICE, September 12. 
Staff — Colonel William Frederick Forster, half-pay unattached, to 
be Deputy-Adjutant-General in Ireland, vice Eden, promoted to be 
Major-General 
Recruiting Districts — Colonel Thomas Edwin Kelly, from the Pro- 
visional Battalion at Chatham, to be Inspecting Field Officer, vice Bush, 
promoted to be a Major-General ; Colonel Arthur Hill Trevor, half-pay 
4th Foot, to be Inspecting Field Officer, vice Frith, promoted to be 
Major-General; Colonel Thomas Armstrong Drought, from the 15th 
Foot, to be Inspecting Field Officer, vice Maunsell, promoted to be 
Major-General. 
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, September 11. 
Royal Regiment of Artillery — Major-General Thomas Hutchesson to 
bo Colonel-Commandant, vice Major-General John E. Jones, deceased. 
MILITIA. 
The following commissons have been signed ; — 
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Theobald Butler Aldwell, Royal Jersey 
Militia, to be Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia. 
Captain George Burrard, to be Major in the Hampshire Regiment of 
Militia. 
Lieutenant John Lousada, to be Captain, vice Burrard, promoted, in 
ditto. 
Richard John Peckham, gent, to be Surgeon, vice Elgar, who retires, 
in the West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. 
Alexander Henry Ross, gent., to be Lieutenant in ditto. 
John Stanley Keeling, gent, to be Lieutenant in ditto. 
George Owen Ramsay, gent, to be Ensign in ditto. 
Cornet Edward Allesley Boughton Leigh, to bo Lieutenant in the 
Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry. 
William Chvnberlayne, gent, to be Cornet in ditto. 
Lieutenant Joseph Robert Wilkins Atkinson, to bo Captain, vice 
Upton resigned, in the Hussar Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) 
Yeomanry Cavalry. 
Lieutenant the Honourable William Duncombe, to be Captain, vice 
Lord Downe, resigned, in ditto. 
Cornet Robert Tennant, to be Lieutenant vice Atkinson, promoted, in 
ditto. . 
Cornet Thomas Greenwood Teale, to be Lieutenant vice Duncombe, 
promoted, in ditto. . 
William Preston, gent, to be Comet vice Tennant promoted, tn 
ditto. 
William Clough, gent, to be Cornet '-ice Teale, promoted, in ditto. 
Lieutenant Edmuna Calverley, to be Captain, vice Blschoff, resigned, 
in ditto. „ 
Comet James Robert Walker, to be Lieutenant vice Calverley, pro- 
moted, in ditto. __ 
Lieutenant Thomas Holy Hu'dsworth, to be Captain in the 2nd W est 
York (Light Infantry) Regiment of Militia. 
Ensign W. Beaumont, to be Lieutenant in ditto. 
Ensign Richard Johnstone, to be .Lieutenant in ditto. 
John Edward Hawker English, gent, to be Ensign in ditto. 
Ensign Walter Henry Hinde, to be Lieutenant, vice Eastwood, 
resigned, in the 3rd West York Regiment of Militia. 
Ensign William Greaves Blake, to be Lieutenant, vice Thcophilus 
Smith, resigned, in ditto. . . 
Lieutenant Frank Henry Eadon Eadon, to be Captain, vice Rodgers, 
resigned, in ditto. _ . , 
Ensign Henry Dickenson Wilkinson, to be lieutenant, vice Eadon, 
promoted, in ditto. 
Thomas Nixon, gent., to be Ensign in ditto, _ 
Sir Charles Henry Ibbetson. Bart., to be Captoiti in the 6th West 
York Regiment of Militia. _ . 
The Queen has been graciously pleased to approvi> or the 1 st n esi 
York Regiment of Militia being formed into a Rifle Crirpa. 
From Fridays Gazette. 
WAR-OFFICE, September 15. 
2nd Regiment of Life Guards — Francis Woodgat'e, gent, to be 
Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant by purchase, rice Lumjey, promoted, 
fith Dragoons — Lieut. Edmund D'Arcy Hunt to be Captain. by pur- 
chase. vice Doyle, who retires ; Comet Henry Timson to be Lieutenant, 
by purchase, vice Hunt ; Edward Finch Dawson, gent, tt> be Cornet, y 
purchase, vice Timson, Sept. 16. i . 
l.’th Light Dragoons — Comet Robert Edward Roc to U ' s Lieutenant, 
by purchase, vice Hill, who retires, Sept. 15. , . ho 
’ To be Comets by purchase — Cyril White, gent, vice Schoficheio, 
retires. Sept 1 J ; Fitzhardinge Jones, gent, vice Roe, Sept y 5 ' . 
17 th Light Dragoons — Cornet William John Pearson Wuftson to 
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