The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-29 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION Commissions, under the conditio ns of the Horse Guards' Circular Memorandum of February the 15th, 1861: Captain and Brevet-Major Henry J. Coote, half-pay, 18th Foot. Captain Richard Wm. Wake, halt-pay, Royal African Corps. Captain Francis Pitts, half-pay, Unattached. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock LONDON GAZETTE-(7731S EVENING). WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 29. 19th Foot—Major-General Sir Abraham Josias Cloete, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir W. Rowan, K.C.8., transferred to the 12d Regiment. 52d Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir William Rowan, K.C.8., from the 19th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Sir Archi bald Maclaine, K.C.8., deceased. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Frederick Stephens, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted. 2d Dragoons—Lieutenant John Stansfeld, from the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Samuel Seggie, who ex changes. 4th Light Dragoons—Captain Henry Benjamin Pedder, from the Tipperary Artillery Militia, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Cave-Browne-Cave, appointed to the 9th Light Dragoons ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Edwin Wilson to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Campbell, appointed to the 42d Foot. 18th Light Dragoons—Walter Yeldham, Gent., to be Cor net, by purchase, vice Tisdall, promoted. Military Train—Ensign Christian Fred. Gardner to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexander M'Donald, who retires. Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Samuel Seggie, from the 2d Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice John Stansfeld, who exchanges. sth Foot—William Assheton Eardley Wilmot, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice James Fergussoe, appointed to the 73d Foot ; H e nry Robert William Miles, G en t ., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Legge, promoted. 9th Foot—Edward John Algernon Smith, Gent., to be E ns i gn , by purchase, vice Arthur Piercy Cosens, ap pointed to the Ist West India Regi men t . 12th Foot --Ensign Arthur Leroux Whipple to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Christopher Hodgson, who re tires; James Inge Duncan, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Latouche, promoted. 15th Foot—William Fhineas Bury, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grier, promoted. 17th Foot—Captain Arthur Charles Elliot, from the 94th Foot, to be Captain, vice Thomas George Brutton Atkin son, who exchanges. 21st Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Banbury Eames, from the let West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice John Blaksley, who exchanges. 22d Foot—Ensign George Robert Henry Daubency to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ernest Theodore Evans, who retires. 24th Foot—First Lieutenant Thomas Carroll Dempster, from the Tipperary Artillery Militia, to be Ensign, with out purchase, vice Francis Arthu r Holmes Yonge, who resigns. 25th Foot—Richard Thomas Higgins, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Praed Praed, promoted. 33rd Foot—Lieutenant Hon. R. H. de Montmorency to be Captain, by purchase, vice John McKay McKenzie, who retires ; Ensign Frederick Easton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hon. R. H. de Montmorency. 42d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Charles Campbell, M.D., from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Maclean, appointed to the Royal Artil lery. 43d Foot—Coll McLeod, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gerald Henry Baird Young, who retires. 49th Foot—Edward Foot Gilbert, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Roberts, promoted in the Ist West India Regiment. 50th Foot--Lieutenant Robert H. Patrick Doran to be Captain, by purchase, vice Tillbrook, promoted, by pur chase, to an Unattached Majority. 54th Foot—Farrand Haig, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Lambard, promot e d. 63d Foot—Henry Christopher Beadnell, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice myth, promoted. 67th Foot—Robert Patch, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Fraser, promoted. 75th Foot—Lieut. Godfrey Goodman Mosley, from half pay, 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice James Streets, who retires upon half-pay ; Ensi gn F. B u ll en Morristo be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mosley, who retires. 81st Foot—Ensign George Buchanan Bevan to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Tristram Charles S. Speedy, who retires ; Ensign Rowland Purdon, from the Kerry Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bevan. 83d Foot—John Olphert Gage, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edward Meyricke, who retires. 90th Foot—The second Christian name of Lieut. Murray is Paterson, and not Patterson, as hitherto stated. 92d Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Eldridge Haines, to be Major, without purchase, vice Mackenzie, promoted to an Unattached Lieut.-Colonelcy, without purchase. 94th Foot—Capt. Thomas George Brutton Atkinson, from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Arthur Chas. Elliot, who exchanges. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Blaksley, from the 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Bun bury Eames, who exchanges. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Francis Charles Gavegan, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice George Kerr Ross, deceased. STAFF. — Captain George Bernard Morgan, from Town Ad jutant at Gibraltar, to be Town Major of that Garrison. UNATTACHED.—Captain Philip Limborch Tillbrook, from the 50th Foot, to be Major, by purchase; Captain and Brevet-Colonel Archibald Campbell, half-pay, 2d Ceylon Regiment, Staff Officer of the Pensioners, to be Major, without purchase. BANK OF ENGLAND. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE COMING 8.11.41 if BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Augustus Whitmore, upon half-pay (Military Secretary to the General Commanding in Ireland), having, on Feb. 15, 1861, completed five years' continuous service as Lieutenant-Colonel, to have the rank of Colonel under the Bth clause of the Royal Warrant, Captain Richard William Wake, half-pay Royal African Corps, to be Major in the Army. Captain and Brevet Major Richard William Wake, half pay Royal African Corps, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Captain Francis Pitts, half-pay Unattached, to be Major in the Army. Captain and Brevet-Major Francis Pitts, half-pay, Un attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Paymaster Duncan Cameron M'Naughten, 13th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Captain under the Royal War rant of 27th January. The undermentioned promotions to take place conse quent on [the death of General Henry James Riddell, Colonel of the 6th Foot, on the 6th March, 1861 : Lieutenant-General Peter Augustus Latour, C. 8., Colo nel of the 3d Light Dragoons, to be General. Major-General William Cowper Coles, Lieutenant-Co lonel, on half-pay Unattached, to have the rank of Lieu tenant-General. Major-General John Eden, C. 8., Colonel of the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant-General. Brevet-Colonel John Crofton, from Lieutenant-Colonel, half-pay Unattached, Assistant Military Superintendent of Pensioners, to be Major-General. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Edward W. C. 'Wright, Major of a Depot Battalion, to be Colonel. Brevet-Major James William Graves, Captain, half-pay Unattached Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieutenant- Colonel. Captain George Dean Pitt, 80th Foot, District Inspector of Musketry, to be Major. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of General Sir Archibald Maclaine, K.C.8., Colonel of the 52d Foot, on the 9th March, 1861: Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans, G.C.8., Colonel of the 21st Foot, to be General. Major-General The Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel of the 3d Foot, to be Lieutenant-General. Brevet-Colonel John Grattan, C. 8., from Lieutenant- Colonel, half-pay, 18th Foot, to be Major-General. Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Alexander George Russell, Rifle Brigade, to be Colonel. Major Demetrius 'Wyndham Grevis James, 2d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain John Vize O'Donnell, 27th Regiment, to be Major. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of Lieut.• General Sir Lovell Benjamin Lovell, K.C.8.. Colonel of the 12th Light Dragoons, on the 11th March, 1861: Major General William Lennox Lascelles Fitz Gerald Lord de Roe, Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower, to be Lieu tenant-General. Brevet-Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay, from Lieut.- Colonel of the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Major-General. Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel George Anthony Leaton Blenkin aopp, Captain 45th Foot, to be Colonel. Major John James Grant, Royal Newfoundland Com panies, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Edward Bowen, 69th Foot, to be Major. The following promotions to take place in her Majesty's Indian Military Forces consequent on the deaths of— General James Welsh, Madras Infantry, on the 24th january,.lB6l ; _ _ General Aleiander Fair, C. 8., Madras Infantry, on the 29th January, 1861; Major-General William John Gairdner, C. 8., Bengal Infantry, on the 3d February, 1861; General Peter Delamotte, C. 8., Bombay Cavalry, on the .sth February, 1861; and General Jerry Francis Dyson, Bombay Infantry, on the 20th February, 1861. TO BE GENERALS. Lieut.. Gen. Pater Lodwick, Bombay Infantry. Lieut.-Gen Suetorius Henry Todd, Bengal Infantry. Lieut.-Gen. John Briggs, Madras Infantry. Lieut.-Gen. Harry Thomson, Bengal Cavalry. TO BE LIEUTENANT-GENERALS. Major-Gen. David Capon, C. 8., Bombay Infantry. Major-Gen. Wm. Donald Robertson, Bombay Infantry. Major-Gen. Duncan, Madras Engineers. Major-Gen. George Sandys, Madras Cavalry. TO BE MAJOR. GENERALS. Col. George Farquharson, Bengal Infantry. Col. William Robert Corfield, Bengal Infantry. Col. Robert St. John, Bombay Infantry. Col. Richard Horsford, Bengal Artillery. Col. John Christie, Bengal Cavalry. 'I he undermentioned Officers retired upon full pay, to have a step of honorary rank, as follows : TO BE MAJOR - pENERALS. Col. Josiah Wabbe Goldsworthy, Madras Infantry. Col. Herbert Jacob, Bombay Infantry. Col. Richard Rodney Ricketts, Madras Infantry. Col, Edward Hume Hart, Bombay Infantry. TO BE COLONES. : Li eutenant -Colon e l John Powell, L Bengal Infantry. Lie utenant-Colonel William Augustus Cooke, Bengal Infant ry. Lieutenaut-Colonel Frederick Burgoyne, Madras Artil lery. Lientenaut-Colonel Andrew Henry Duncan, Bengal In fantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Percy Denham Eld, Bengal Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Mawdsley, Madras Artillery. E .11.alliiietTENANT COLONELS. Major Willra O m ß Major Hugh HigAis),:t.irfrey, Bombay Infantry. IMadras Artillery. Major James G. Gaitakell , g_al Infantry. Major Arthur Walton On' slower, Bengal Infantry. TO kE MAJORS. fantr y Captain Archibald Montgomery C ampbell, 11 1•Adras In- Captain Trevor Henry Shunt, Bengal Infant Captain James Dann, Bombay Infantry. r y MEMORANDA. Major John Edward Ellay, half-pay Unattached, h as been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission, he being about to become a settler in North America. The undermentioned Officers, upon half-pay, have hem permitted to retire from the Service by thn tiale of their FIGHT. (From the Brighton Examiner.) The proposed interview between Lord Ranelagh and the Mayor of Brighton, with the view of facilitating the pro ceedings of the volunteers on their approaching visit to Brighton, took place on Thursday evening, in the Mayor's room at the Town Hall. Many gentlemen coinected with the volunteer movement were present by invitation, in cluding the principal officers of the corps, the chief officer of police, &c. Lord Ranelagh stated what arrangements had been proposed, on which he invited those present to give their opinion, and to ask questions, which his lordship readily replied to, and intimated his determination to go through with the matter, notwithstanding the opposition which it had met with had been more than was anticipated. On the following day his lordship, accompanied by Lieut.-Colonel Estridge, Lieut.-Colonel Moorsom, Lieut. Hallett, Mr. Henry Catt, and Mr. E. C. Scott, went up to inspect the site of the proposed operations, and were led to the conclusion that it is admirably adapted to the intended purpose, the race-course forming the central point of view of an amphitheatre within which the military evolutions will be comprised. From the statements made by Lord R....A... 6 2" dr, ta... meeting on Thursdayevening, we find that the Government will have no control or supervision of the Easter Monday's operations, but that they will be conducted by the volun teers themselves, to try the experiment of their efficiency or deficiency and ascertain the probable value of the force should it be thrown upon its own resources, or called upon to repel some sudden and unexpected attack. Lord Rene- lagh, from his own experience of the qualities of our vo lunteer forces, has expressed his confidence in the result of the present proceedings. The office of Commander-in-Chief will be undertaken by Lord Ranelagh, assisted by Lieut.-Colonel Loyd Lind say, Lieut.-Colonel Cole and other officers; the Sussex Artilleryßrigade being commanded by Lieut.-Col.Estridge, I and the Sussex Rifles by Lieut.-Col. Moorsom. The corps who have engaged to come consist chiefly of those of Mid dlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Sussex, with the Cinque Ports Artillery, and the whole number is calculated to be from 16,000 to 20,000 men. The first train from London is expected to start at 6 a.m., and it will probably be 9 o'clock before the last trains get off. They are not to be brought into the Brighton station, but the volunteers will alight in front of the new shed, and form on. the open space from which the immense mountain of chalk has lately been removed, from thence marching down the Montpellier-road to the Level, and thence by va rious routes—the Marine-parade, the Hospital, the Queen's Park Wall, Richmond-street, and the Race Hill-road—will reach the scene of operations as near the same time as prac ticable, entering at the south end of the racecourse, passing between the spectators, who will be assembled on the out . side of the rails and on the Grand Stand, where also will be stationed the Earl of Chichester (Lord Lieutenant of the county), and also the band of the sth Dragoon Guards, which have been kindly permitted by Col. Calthorpe. It is anticipated by Lord Ranelagh that the whole of the men will be on the ground by half .past 11 o'clock. The manoeuvres to be represented on this occas:on will be those of a retreating or retarding force preparing to receive an enemy's army, landed at Shoreham, and marching out of Brighton to give battle. Two lines of defence will be formed, one facing the Grand Stand, extending about a mile; the second line on a ridge extending from the Indus trial Schools to Ovingdean. The engagement vill commence by the Artillery on the extreme left opening fire on the imaginary pursuing enemy, and a great variety of evolu tions will be performed, skirmishing, forming of squares to Violist cavalry, charging by the mounted rifles, and all other evolutions which are possible under the circumstances. The field of action having been selected nearer to the town than was at first anticipated, the spe,ctators will have a more favourable opportunity of witnessing the proceedings, in which, no doubt, the greatest possille interest will be taken. At the conclusion of the review the volunteer troops will return by two routes—the Marine-parade and the Lewes road, under the direction of their several commanders; ax d afterwards proceed by the various consecutive trains to London and other localities by the main, south coast, and branch lines of the London, Brigbcon, and South Coast, and the South-Eastern Railways. Refreshments will be provided for the 'volunteers so !hat, if possible, they may not be compelled to leave their ranks; but the arrangements for this purpose are not yet completed. The ground will be kept by the Surrey Mounted Rifles, assisted, perhaps, by a detachment of Dragoons, and the county constalulary, in order to prevent encroachment on the ground by vehicles, foot passengers, &c., for whom bo'ho,:is will be marked out, so that no mili tary manoeuvres may be interfered with, nor any danger incurred by the spectators. Accommr,dation for those volunteers who prefer to come down on the Saturday or Sunday will be provided as far:as possible; and Mr. Samuel Akehurst has consented that his office may be used as a place of reference for apartments or lodgings, with addresses and terms, which will also be ad vertised for. The above are the principal arrangements thus far, and any others which may be deeded necessary for the satis factory carrying out of the whole matter, not only as re gards the success of the military programme, but also the comfort and accommodation of the volunteers, the keeping order both in the town and on the field, and the gTatifica• tion of those of the inhabitants and visitors who will as semble to witness the imposing and gratifying spectacle will be adopted. We can see nothing at present likely to prevent the whole affair going off with great eclat, but the possibility of unfavourable weather; against which contin gency it is, in our uncertain climate, alway s necessary to be prepared, as much at a late season as at an early, for the experience of all will, of course, remind theta that as heavy (or heavier) rains may be anticipated on our hot July days, as !ti the month of April, to which tradition has a l ways I Pointed as the se ason o f" gent l e showers." An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria. cap. 32, for the week ending on l Wednesday, the 27th lay of March, 1861: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ...--12-6,-37V,065 X 26,377,0851 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal X 14.563,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 8,415,844 Other Deposits 11,104,930 Seven Day and other Bills £28,487,981 M. ] Dated March 28,1861. Government Debt X11,0:5,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 11,63,703 Silver Bullion .... 348,382 £21,377,065 EPARTMENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) Other Securities JIO 19, , 967,5U Notes . 6,967,990 Gold and Silver Coin .. 953,391 £38,487,181 SHALL, Chief Cashier. AVERAGE PR CE OF MAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscavado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week eiding the 26th day of March, 1861, exclusive of the duties Jf Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Muscovado, the produce of the British pos- PER CWT. sessions in America Muscovado, the produce:of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 2Bs 4d Average price of the foregoing.., .. 24s 41d BANKRUPTS. Christopher Walker, smallware manufacturer, Manches ter, to surrender April 17 and May 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Samuel Deighton, draper, Proton, April 11 and May 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court, James 'Hayden Gates, builder, Manorcistreet, Clapham, April 5, at eleven, and May 9, at two, at the Quart of Bank ruptcy. William Craft, baker, Maidstone, April 1.1, at half-past twelve, an May 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William James Dalton, builder, Balham Hill, Surrey, April 8 and May 13, at twelve, s. the Court of Bankruptcy. Philemon Rolfe, chemist, Gravesend, April 8, at eleven, and May 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Benjamin Carman and Robert Bailey, cabinetmakers, Harwich, April 10, at half-past two, and May 14, at fialf past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Probert, hop dealer, Worcester, April 11 and May 2, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. James Cowton, fruiterer, Birmingham, April H and May 2, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Thomas Retaken, grocer, Swansea, April 8 and May 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. William Thomas, innkeeper, Llantarnum, Monmouth shire, April 9 and May 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Benjamin Garfit Bottomley, ironmonger, Devonport, April 8 and May 6, at half-past twelve, at the District Court, Plymouth. George Griffin, grocer, Walsall, April 4 and 25, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Joseph William Adlington, iron master, Oldbury, Wor cestershire, April 11 and May 2, at eleven, at the Birming ham District Court. George Drake, leather dresser, Saint Thomas's, Devon- shire, April 10, at one, and May 8, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court. William Skinner, innkeeper, Redcar, Yorkshire, April 16, and May 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Anthony Burton, grocer, Sheffield, April 13 and May 4, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. John Davis, manufacturer, Manchester, April 10 and 30, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. John Fowler, sharebroker, Whitehaven, April 9, at twelve, and May 14, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne DiStriet Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. George Husband Baird Brock, miller, Muiravonside, Stirling. Henry Antlett, wine merchant, Dundee. William Davidson, grocer, Leith. Charles M'Laren, zinc and glass merchant, Glasgow. , f James Penny, grocer, Dundee. James Mullin, auctioneer and valuator, Glasgow. James Tait, plasterer, Edinburgh. THE SUN, 7. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1861. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 28. The North German Lloyd's screw steamer Bre men, Captain H. Wessels, arrived off Cowes at an early hour this morning with New York advices of the 16th inst., and has gone on to Bremen. She brings 94 passengers, 26 of whom are for this port, and 68 for Bremen. She has had westerly winds during the passage. The Etna, from Liverpool, arrived at New York on the 14th, and the Prince Albert, from Galway, on the 15th inst. Advices by this arrival are three days later than those brought by the Adriatic. There was no further definitive news relative to the reported intention of the Administration to order the evacuation of Fort Sumter. All that was known was that the Cabinet held another meeting on the 15th, and it was supposed that they were in consultation on military affairs. General Scott was present. In connexion with this subject it was said that great weight was attached in political circles in Washington to the declaration of Mr. Fessenden in the Senate, that the Administration contemplated a policy of peace, and would exercise no authority not strictly in accordance with law, and not until ample time had been taken for the examination of the question in all its branches. But.a short time was spent in open session by the Senate on the 13th. During that time a resolution was offered by Mr. Douglas calling upon the Secre tary of War for information relative to the forts in the seceded States—whether it was necessary to re occupy them; and, if so, what force would probably be required to accomplish that object. Messrs. Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Mason, of Virginia, objected to its consideration, and it was consequently laid over. A resolution was also offered by Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, directing the Secretary of the Senate to strike from the roll the names of those senators from the seceded States who had declared that they were no longer members. No action was taken on it. On the 14th Mr. Mason, of Virginia, offered a resolution calling for information as to whether any portion of the Militia of the district of Columbia had been mustered into the service of the Government. Mr. Sumner objected, and the sub ject was laid over. The Senate refused, by a vote of 16 to 24, to proceed to the consideration of Mr. Douglas's resolution calling for information relative to the Southern forts and other public property. Mr. Fessenden's resolution, declaring the seats of Senators from seceding States vacant, and directing that their names be struck off the roll, was dis cussed at considerable length. The resolution was modified so as to direct the Secretary of the Senate to " omit their names respectively from the roll," and then passed by a vote of 24 against 10. An interesting and exciting scene occurred in the Senate on the 15th. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, again brought forward his resolution of inquiry relative to the Militia of the district of Columbia and the service in which they had been employed by the Government, which was laid over, its immediate consideration being objected to. Mr. Douglas then called for the consideration of his resolution making inquiries in regard to the fortifications in the seceded States, and proceeded to make a speech censuring the Republican Senators for their silence regarding the policy of the Administra tion. He was replied to by Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Douglas rejoined, and was understood to say " the Senator from Maine," which Mr. Fessenden corrected. Mr. Douglas denied that he used the language attributed to him ; and, on Mr. Fessenden persisting, Mr. Douglas pronounced it " false," and that Mr. Fes senden " knew it to be false." Mr. Fessenden re plied in a "keen, cool, and scathing" speech. He said he would concede to Mr. Douglas everything he claimed except that he was a gentleman, which he could not acknowledge, because he had used lan guage which no gentleman, without greater provo cation, ever used. Mr. Douglas rejoined, saying, as Mr. Fessenden proposed to settle the matter else where, he had no more to say. Mr. Fessenden re plied, denying that he had said so. The skirmish was very sharp. Mr. Fessenden said Lincoln had declared his policy to be peace ; that he would enforce the laws where he had legal authority to do so—otherwise not. With this declaration he believed the country was content. The Cabinet had sent several nominations to the Senate—among them that of Col. E. V. Sumner, as Brigadier-General, in place of the traitor Twiggs, and ..varni army promo tiring_ The mission to Spain was at first declined by Cassius M. Clay, but it was understood that he had been prevailed upon to accept it. Joshua R. Giddins will probably be Consul-General at Montreal, and Mr. Thayer Con sul-General at Alexandria. The mission to London was understood to lie between the Hon. W. L. Dayton and the Hon. C. F. Adams. General Spinner, chairman of the Committee on Accounts in the last House of Representatives, is to be the United States Treasurer at New York in place of Mr. Cisco. Mr. Elijah Crosby, formerly of New York, but now of California, was appointed Minister at Guatemala. It was understood that the Cabinet had agreed upon Mr. Holloway; of Indiana, as Commissioner of Patents. The Commissioners from the Southern Confedera tion, at 'Washington, had sent a communication to the State Department requesting recognition by the Government, with the view to the opening of negotiations, at the same time stating that the Secre tary of the Commission would call for an answer at noon on the 14th. At the hour designated the Secretary called at the State Department, when he was informed that the Administration desired time for further reflection on the communication sub mitted. It was said that the Commissioners did not expect an answer for several days, and it was understood that the subject of their embassy was engaging the attention of the Cabinet. The New York Tribune of the 16th publishes an authentic copy of the permanent Constitution of the Southern Confederacy, the provisions of which differ in several respect! from the telegraphic sum mary brought by the last mail. The Constitution provides for the election of members of Congress every second year, the representatives not exceed ing 1 for every 50,000. Alabama, until an enu meration is made, will be entitled to nine represen tatives, South Carolina six, Georgia ten, Florida two, Mississippi seven, Louisiana six, and Texas six ; total, 46. Each State will have two Senators, and they are to be elected for six years. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof, subject to the provisions of the Constitution. Congress is to assemble once a year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December unless a different day is appointed. The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slavehold ing States of America is forbidden, and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually pre vent the same. Congress also has the power to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, or of a territory not belonging to, the Confederacy. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State, except by a vote of two-thirds of both houses. The President and Vice-President are to hold their offices for six years, but the President shall not be re-eligible. If there is not a majority of the electoral votes cast for any candidate for the Presidency, then the House of Representatives is to elect. States (Slave or Free) may be admitted into the Confederacy by a vote of two-thirds of the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate, the Senate voting by States. The ratification of the Convention of five States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same. When the Constitution shall have been ratified in the manner specified the Congress under the Provisional Constitution shall prescribe the time of holding the election of President and Vice- President, and for the meeting of the Electoral College, and for the counting of votes and inaugu rating the President. They will also prescribe the time for holding the first election of members of Congress under this Constitution and the assem bling of the same. There was nothing of interest to report with reference to the proceedings of the C.P.A. It was expected that a recess would soon take place. The Alabama Convention has already ratified the new . Constitution. A telegram from Savannah states that the Georgia Convention() had' transferred" the forts, arsenals, arms, and munitions of war lately seized by order of Governor Brown to the Government of the Southern Confederacy. Ex-President Tyler occupied the whole day, on the 14th, in the Virginia Convention, in his reply to the speech of Mr. Summers. He had not con cluded when the Convention adjourned. The speech of Mr. Summers is represented to have been the ablest yet delivered in the Convention. The im pression was pretty well fixed that an ordinance of secession could not now pass, and, even if it could, that it would be voted down overwhelmingly by the people. On the 15th Mr. Tyler closed his speech. He takes the position that Virginia should put forth an ultimatum, demanding full and ample security for Southern rights as the only condition upon which she can remain in the Union, and he is inclined to the belief that the cotton States will eventually return. The various reports of the Com mittee on Federal Relations were to be taken up by the Convention on the 16th. It is stated in a telegram from New Orleans that Captain Hill, Commander of the United States troops at Tort Brown, Texas, agreed on the 6th inst. quietly to surrender that fort to the Secessionists, and that he would evacuate as soon as transports for his forces could be procured. The steamship Daniel Webster was still lying off Brazos, awaiting the embarkation of the United States troops which she had been detailed to carry off. The New Fork Times says :—" Governor Hous ton does not seem disposed to allow the Seceders to have everything their own way in Texas after all. According to a despatch which reaches us from Gal veston he has refused further to recognise the State Convention, considering that its functions termi nated with the submission of the Secession ordi nance to the people. He accordingly announces that the Legislature is soon to meet, and himself will now attend to such public questions as may arise, and declares himself in favour of a new Con vention to make necessary changes in the State Constitution. He at the same time does not hesitate to declare his opp)sition to the Southern Confede racy. The Convection have taken issue with him, and have passed an ordinance claiming full powers, and proposing to consummate the connexion of Texas with the Southern Confederacy as speedily as possible. They also propose to make it obliga tory upon all State officers to take an oath to sup port this new Government, and, on the refusal of Governor Houston, to supersede him. Meantime a report is curren: that the Governor is raising troops on his own recount." The polls at Petersburg, Virginia, closed on the 15th, and the result of the three days' voting was 879 for secession, and 762 against it. Accounts from Chirleston say that Governor Pickens and Genersl Beauregard had ' decided on erecting fortificatiens at Steno, and at all the inlets leading to that harbour. Col. Forney, in ccmmand of the Pensacola Navy yard, informed the commander of the Brooklyn, on the Bth, that he could get no more water or coal at that station. A Bill had beer introduced into the Southern Congress to establish an Admiralty Court in Missis sippi, the judge to reside at Vicksburg. News had been received at Montgomery that five United States' war vessels left Ness York on Tuesday night, well armed, and with a large number of Marines and ample provisions on )oard, believed to be destined to some Southern post. The first case of real difficulty growing out of the absence of United Stiles' collectors at some of the Southern ports occurred on the 14th inst., and re snited in the seizure of the schooner Restless, at New York, from Havannah, the collector at Mobile re fusing, as a United States' officer, to exchange a coasting license for a register in order to permit that vessel to go to ilavannah for a cargo. The captain "protested." The Spanish Consul counter signed his document, end he then proceeded on his voyage. At New York Collector Schell seized the vessel for a violation of the laws. The facts of the case had been sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, who it was believed would remit the penalty in curred. An important decision was given on the 14th inst. in the United States' Supreme Court, in the Kentucky and Obio mandamus case, which was decidedly adverse to Kentucky. It was held that, while it was the duty of a State to surrender fugi tiv3 oiayco ou °per proof, Congress could not com pel State officers to do their duty. The mandamus was, therefore, refused. The steamship Tennessee arrived at New Orleans from Vera Cruz, bringing the important intelligence that the British Minister at Mexico had forniall3 recognized the Constitutional Government. Gen. Uraga had accepted the mission to the United States. TILE NAVY. A Malta letter dated Valetta, March 23, says : "We have had no naval movements during the week, except the return on the 20th inst. of her Majesty's gunboat Mohawk, Commander Howard, from Bengazi and Tripoli, and the departure on the 22d of the Dutch corvette Cycloop, Capt. Toewater, for Port Mahon. The Mohawk, as you are already informed, had proceeded to the coast of Barbary, with Messrs. Ford and Laws, telegraph engineers, for the purpose of selecting landing-places for the electric cable about to be laid between Malta and Alexandria. Bombah, which had been proposed for one of the telegraph stations, has been rejected, owing to its want of protection from attack by the natives of the neighbouring country—a predatory and savage race who not long ago murdered the crew of a French vessel, which was so unfortunate as to be cast on its inhospitable shore. The points at which it has now been determined to land the cable are Bengazi and Tripoli. At Malta it will be landed in the Bay of San Giorgi 3, on the south east coast of the island. Her Majesty's gunboat Lapwing, Commander Montagu O'Reilly, which has been expected here by the naval authorities for some weeks past from Smyrna and Candia, has not yet made her appearance, and people are beginning to wonder what can have detained her. The last French steamer from Beyrout, which put into Can dia in consequence of tempestuous weather, brought intelligence that some disturbance between the Turks and Christiars had taken place in that island, and that a more serious outbreak was appre hended. It is reported that on account of this state of affairs the English Consul at Canea had made application for the presence of a British man-of war. The Lapwing had not arrived at Candia by the last dates. MD Doris frigate, from Beyrout, and the Alacrity gunboat, from the Piraeus, are shortly expected ; and the Amphion frigate, which has been some time at Palermo, will probably return to Malta very soon. The ships in port under sailing orders are :—The Han. nibal, 91, (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Mundy, C. 8.), for Beyrout ; the James Watt, 91, for Corfu; and the Firefly surveying vessel, to re sume her hydrographical operations in the Levant. All three vessels will leave early in the week, most likely oa Monday or Tuesday. The following are her Majesty's ships now in port :—The Neptune, 90 (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral W. F. Martin, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean) ; the Hannibal, 91 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral G. R. Mundy, C. 8.) ; the Cressy, 80; and the James Watt, 91 ; the frigate Liffey, 51; the surveying ship Firefly; the gunboats Assurance, 4, Mohawk, 4, and Quail, 2; receiving ship F.ibernia (flag of Rear- Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 3.), and tug Hearty. The gunboat Assurance has gone out with a mail for Corfu, and Capt. Coffin, 21st Regiment, and two non-commissioned officers, 9th Regiment, as pas sengers." The launch of the Glasgow, 51 . gun screw frigate, was effected yesterday from Portsmouth dockyard in the most successful manner. The morning had turned:eut llnc.l - peeteclly fine, aod some thousands of people surrounded the slipway. When all was prepared, the bottle of wine, suspended from the ship's cutwater by its tricoloured silken cord, was placed by the master-shipwright in the hands of Mrs, Alexander, the daughter of Vice• Admiral H. W. Bruce, who &shed it against the ship's bows with a " Success to the Glasgow," and the frigate had received her name. Some blocks remained to split out, which was soon done, when a mallet and chisel being handed to Mrs. Alexander, she sepa rated with them the cord across the vessel's stem, which held suspended the pigs of ballast, and these latter, descending in their channels, knocked away the dogshore, and the ship was free. She was im mediately taken in tow by a steam tug and placed in the steam basin, where she will receive her machinery, of 600 horse power (nominal), by Messrs. Ravenhill. Sal keld, and Co. The figure-head of the Glasgow is the bust of a Highlander, with Glengarry bonnet and plume. Beneath the figure head on either side the cutwater is a shield bear ing the arms of the city of Glasgow—the traditional salmon and tree—and the motto, " Lord, let Glas gow flourish." The armament of the Glasgow will consist of 30 eight-inch guns on the main deck, of 65 cwt each and 9 feet long. On the upper deck 18 32-pounders, of 56 cwt each and 9 feet 6 inches in length; and two of Sir W. Armstrong's 100- pounder guns as pivots. According to present ar rangement it will be nearly 12 months before any other man-of-war will be launched from Portsmouth Dockyard. His Danish Majesty's screw frigate Sjvelland, Captain Ipsen, sailed from Spithead at daylight yesterday morning for Copenhagen. In compliance with the orders issued by the Ad- miralty, the 300 novices on board the Britannia training ship at Portsmouth will he draughted out of her, as required, to other ships. When the num ber of novices has been reduced on board to 150, the entry of boys will commence, and will be continued until their number reaches 150—the maximum— by which time the whole of the no vices will have been cleared out of the ship. The entry of boys for the naval service urgently requires being placed on a more satisfactory footing, A n office attached to the Admiral commanding in each dockyard, where applications should be made, with a revised set of rules for the admission of boys, would appear to be the most simple and efficacious remedy. The pre sent system of making applications on board the flagship, independent of the expense of waterage to the applicants, is attended with many evils. The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., at Portsmouth, is ordered to refit. Her crew have been granted leave of absence in watches, three weeks to each watch. The construction of this ship has been rather a costly experiment, as she has, it is now acknowledged, proved to be too slightly constructed to carry either her present armament of 10 inch main deck guns, or to allow of her ma chinery being worked up to its full power, without thoroughly disabling herself as she has during her last cruise. On her official trial of speed when first commissioned she made 13; knots, but the vibra tion was terrific. The Pandora, 5, screw, receiving her copper and fitting valves in dock at Portsmouth, is being fitted with machinery of horse power (nominal), by Messrs. Summers and Day, of Northam. She has nearly the whole of her copper on. The boilers and machinery of the Chanticleer, 17, screw, in the steam basin, and recently launched at Portsmouth, are from the manufactory of Messrs. Inglis, of Glasgow. The Cossack, 20, screw, Capt. R. Moorman, at Portsmouth, is reported as ready to proceed to Spithead on the Bth of April next. The Pincher gunboat has been placed in the steam basin at Portsmouth to fit with new boilers and condensing engines. The steam reserve at Portsmouth, exclusive of gunboats under slips, comprises the following ves sels, according to a return ending the March quar ter : First Division—The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, 700 horse power; the Shannon, 51, screw, 600 horse power; the Euryalus, 51, screw, 400 horse power; the Volcano, 6, paddle, 140 horse power ; the Rinaldo, 17, screw, 200 horse power ; the Cygnet, 5, screw, 80 horse power; the Brazen, 2, screw, 60 horse power; the Rose, 2, screw, 60 horse power; the Snapper, 2, screw, 60 horse power ; the Traveller, 2, screw, 60 horse power ; the Grinder, 2 screw, 60 horse power; the Blazer, 2, screw, 60 horse power; and the Leveret, 2, screw, 60 horse power. Totals—first division, 275 guns ; 2,540 horse power. Second Division—The Royal Sovereign, 131, screw, 800 horse power ; the Victoria, 131, screw, 1,000 horse power ; the Prince of Wales, 131, screw, 800 horse power ; the Duncan, 91, screw, 800 horse power; the Nelson, 91, screw, 500 horsepower; the Frederick William, 86, screw, 500 horse power; the Sutlej, 51, screw, J)00 horse power ; the Medea, 6, paddle, 350 horse power ; the Stromboli, 6, paddle, 280 horse power; the Coquette, 4, screw, 200 horse power ; the Pelican, 17, screw, 200 horse power ; the Cracker, 2, screw, 60 horse power; the Fancy, 2, screw, 60 horse power; the Swinger, 2 screw, 60 horse power; the Pincher, 2, screw, 60 horse power ; the Savage, 2, screw, 60 horse power. Totals, second division, 775 guns, 6,230 horse power. . _ Third Division—The Tribune, 31, screw, 300 horse power; the Rosamond, 6, paddle, 280 horse power ; the Vigilant, 6, screw, 200 horse power ; the Vulture, 6, paddle, 470 horse power ; Cheerful, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Rambler, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Pet, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Daisy, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Angler, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Chub, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Ant, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Pert, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Decoy, 2, screw, 20 horse power ; the Hunter, 2, screw, 20 horse power; and the Fen ells, 2, screw, 20 horse power—total, 71 guns and 1,740 horse power. Fourth Division.—The Fox, 42, screw, 200 horse power ; the Penelope, 16, paddle, 650 horse power ; the Retribution, 28, paddle, 400 horse power; the Erebus, 16, screw floating, battery, 200 horse power; the Meteor, 16, screw floating battery, 200 horse power; the Glatton, 16, screw floating battery, 200 horse power. Total, 131 guns and 1,850 horse power, giving a grand total in the four divisions of 1,235 guns, propelled by 10,768 horse power, nomi nal. This return does not include such vessels as have not yet received their machinery, as the Prince Regent, Octavia, &c. The Isis, 44, Capt. F. L. Barnard, left Chatham harbour at 11 a.m. yesterday, in tow of the paddle wheel steamer Adder, Mr. J. Mincin master com mander, and proceeded as far as the Nore, where she saluted the flag of Admiral Hope Johnstone, the Commander in Chief at that station. The Isis will call at Portsmouth, where she will take on board the remainder of her crew, and will also put in at Plymouth to receive the Royal Marines from that division, who proceed in her to Ascension, to join the detachment of Marines now doing duty at that island, under the command of Captain Webb. Capt. Barnard's wife and family accompany him in the Isis to Ascension, at which island Capt. Bar nard will remain as Governor. The Isis, before leaving Chatham yesterday, took on board two complete sets of Heinke's diving apparatus whichlthe Admiralty have directed to be sent to Ascension. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—J. Thompson, master, to the Indus, for the Himalaya ; S. E. Derrick, 2d class assist-engineer. to the `Weser; and J. Taplin, 2d class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, for service in the Griper: THE ARMY. Yesterday Major-General Eyre made his general inspection of the East India depots, composing the 2d battalion of Infantry at Chatham garrison, under the command of Colonel R. N. Phillips. The officers and men were drawn up on the general parade ground of Chatham barracks, in heavy marching order, at 2 o'clock p.m., the depots com prising those of the Ist battalion 20th Regiment, Ist battalion 23d Royal "Welsh Fusiliers, 31st, 52d (Light Infantry), 73d, and 83d. Major-Gen. Eyre, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Lieut.• Col. Gor don, arrived on the parade-ground shortly after 2, and immediately commenced a minute inspection of the arms, appointments, and kits of the non-com missioned officers and men, in which he was occu pied some time. In consequence of no reinforce ments having been despatched to India for several months past, the battalions at Chatham are now very strong, numbering rather more than 3000 bayonets. Licut.-Col. Levctt, commanding the King's Own Rifle Regiment of Staffordshire Militia, has received orders to assemble his regiment at Newcastle-under- Lyme, for 21 days' training, on the 30th prox. THE ROMAN B 4 Tl] AS APPLICABLE TO TRAINING RACEHORSES. (BY THE HON. ADMIRAL RAMIS.) The most wonderful discoveries have lately taken place in every branch of science, and the most ex traordinary inventions and improvements in every item connected with the luxuries and the comforts of mankind ; general education has civilised and enlightened the great working classes. The islands are looking up; even our domestic animals have improved in quality, and 20 per cent. in point of size, from poultry and pigs to sheep, cattle, and horses, owing tc care and attention in breeding during the last century ; and nothing has retro graded but seamanship, emasculated by the intro duction of steam ; sailors are numerous, but seamen are scarce. Lloyd's list of wrecks proves the melan choly fact, but there is one profession on a humble scale which has made no progress, no improvement, for 150 years ; I mean the training of racehorses ; and at the same time I must add my testimony that a more respectable or a better class of tradesmen do not exist than the majority of English trainers, who from being in constant communication with gentlemen, imbibe liberal ideas, and prove them selves worthy of the highest trust and responsibility. Thanks to Mr. Urquhart (to whom this country is more indebted than to any living man) for the introduction of Turkish alias Roman baths, a new era has arisen, the present barbarous system of preparing horses to race by drastic purgatives, hot clothing, hot stables, and four and five miles sweats will be ameliorated, and we may look forward with confidence to a revolution by the aid of hot-air baths, which will enable a trainer to bring his horses to the post in first-rate condition without subjecting them to a destructive apprenticeship. There was always a difficult problem to be solved, how is a trainer to prepare a horse to race ? alias to get his inside clean and his muscles in full vigour without the assistance of strong purgatives, and gallopping long distances under a weight of heavy woollen clothing. Ido not deny the necessity of giving horses the strongest exercise, wisely adapted to their age and condition. It is proved that you can lighten a horse's frame as well by the operation of a hot-air bath as by a four-mile sweat ; and the question arises, which is the best practice to get them into condition ? My belief is that a smart two-mile or a three-mile; gallop with the horse stripped, carrying a light weight, and a hot-air bath afterwards, is more beneficial to a horse's lungs, and, no doubt, to his legs and sinews, than a four-mile gallop under heavy clothes. Try it on a jockey ; let him take his usual walk of nine miles under sweaters ; and the next time walk half the distance, and then take a hot-air bath ; I fancy he will find himself a lighter, a stronger, and a wiser man after the second process. Owing to the exhaustion of a four or five-mile sweat, a horse is only fit to walk the following day, and many horses are annually disabled by this severity ; but after a hot-air bath a horse is fit and ready for any task. I therefore pronounce the hot-air bath a most powerful and valuable auxi liary ; with this assistance you may bring an infirm horse to the post which would break down in two orthodox four-mile sweats. With respect to the sound horses, why should not we try to keep them sound ? Is not prevention better than cure ? The Roman bath invigorates a horse's frame, gives increased action to his liver, improves his appetite, cleanses the pores of suppressed perspi ration, and fortifies the skin from extreme heat and cold ; the joints become more supple, the sinews more elastic, and the heart, lungs, and kidneys, being freed from fat, horses are able to take the strongest exercise, without suffering from internal fever. Rheumatism, sore shins, and cu taneous eruptions are speedily subdued by hot air. Under this system no horse ought to be exercised in heavy clothes. In my opinion, it is always objectionable to give a horse a sharp or very long gallop when he is clothed, and looking to hot air as an agent, we may keep our horses sound for thrice the estimated period of their present efficacy ; the veterinary surgeon and the saddler will send in diminished bills ; this will balance the expenses of the bath, and will save large sums of money to the proprietors of race-horses. Of all animals in the world there are none better endow ed by nature to endure ihe vicissitudes of climate than a horse. From the burning deserts of Arabia to the coldest regions of Europe, Asia, and America, they enjoy the most perfect health and vigour. Why are we, then, to treat thew in this tem perate clime like exotic plants ? If, from the day a foal is dropped, he is never shut up with his dam in a close hovel, except during a severe frost ; if the same practice be adopted after he is weaned till he is taken into the stable to receive his education, there is very little risk of his catching cold, cough, or any disease, all those indispositions arising from young stock being confined in a close, unwholesome box, and then being suddenly exposed to cold winds. When the yearling colt is removed to a well-built warm stable, you would suppose that, if he en joyed perfect health during his days of liberty, in the open air, rolling on the wet grass, if this mode of life agreed with him, and added daily to his growth and strength, that as far as fresh air was concerned, you would allow him all the advantages which nature can bestow. From a life of freedom, housed in an open box, inhaling pure, fresh air, he is confined with his head tied up to a manger stable, the windows jealously opened by day, as if the air was injurious to his health, and care fully shut on an average of thirteen hours dur ing the greatest part of the year. As a foal he roughed it in the paddock during the cold winds of February ; 18 months afterwards he is clothed and shut up in a warm, close room. Before the colt is reconciled to his first lessons of servitude, a woollen rug is strapped round him, to add to the naturally inflamed state of his blood : and to crown his mis fortunes, from having always had free access to water, the trainer restricts him to two draughts per diem ; it signifies nothing whether the weather is hot or cold, the stable regulations, like the laws of the Persians, are inviolable. The trainer drinks ten times a day if his throat is dry, but he never cal culates that his horses may be more thirsty than usual if the thermometer in his stable rises to 90 deg. It has been proved over and over again that if horses in a stable have free access to water they will not drink as great a quantity as when water is offered to them twice a day (excepting in sultry weather) ; 'oecause the horses, having more sense than their master, drink a whole pailful to lay in a stock to meet the exigencies of feverish thirst, and the interior demands which nature may require in the long interval of destitution. This saves trouble, but it is in direct antagonism to the principle of training men to run or to fight, who are never allowed to take a large draught. Thus, the raw material, in the shape of a healthy, well-grown colt, 18 or 19 months old, is introduced to the care and tender mercies of the groom. After the usual process of leading him about, lunging him, backing him, his proud spirit bends to the yoke; from gentle exercise he is abruptly called upon to mend - his paces, and within 14 weeks he is tried with older horses, from 600 yards to half a mile. A trainer may justly complain and object to these early preparations. He generally quietly ac quiesces, owing to a natural curiosity to find out a trump, or to be enabled to select the wheat from the chaff. As far as the early trials are concerned, the experiment can now be made at half the risk of destroying the colt, or, in other words, laying the seed of future unsoundness, by using the hot-air bath for absorbing his internal fat and superfluous flesh, without having recourse to strong medicine or long preparatory gallops. At two years old the trainer considers it neces sary to clothe the unfortunate colt more warmly, on the principle that he becomes more tender as he ad vances in age (a novel doctrine) ; and he is not satin , fled until he makes the horse uncomfortable by a flannel or a woollen hood when he goes out to exer cise. A showman thinks it right to dress up his dancing dogs or his monkey at a fair, that is quite admissible; but a hood makes a horse susceptible of cold ;it is laying a trap for a sore throat. A hood is excusable in a railroad van, for all other purposes it is only good for trade. Ask a trainer why he uses it ; you will receive an unmeaning answer. If their predecessors quarrelled with fresh air, and stopped up the keyholes for the pure love of ammonia, which propagated the disease of roaring, and made a great many horses blind, there was one redeeming point—they took out their horses twice a day to exercise, for eight months in the year, which gave two opportunities for reventilating a putrid stable. This practice was in vogue for many years after I went to Newmarket, and highly ap proved ; it is now changed, because it disturbs the domestic felicity of the trainer. You would imagine that during the height of summer the horses would be out at daybreak, when the dew makes the grass pleasant to their feet, and that the work would be over and the stables made up and 'horses fed by 7 o'clock. Not at all. Instead of exercising their horses in the cool of the morning, and taking them out a second time at 6 30 p.m. to walk them an hour, when the stables might be thoroughly cooled, the trainers consider it a more judicious plan to commence work at 7 in the morning, and to keep the horses out till 10 o'clock, frequently the hottest time in the day, before the breeze springs up. By this policy they evade the trouble of saddling their horses a second time. When oxygen is a scarce article in the stable, and ammonia gets the ascendancy, horses suffer from lassitude, loss of appetite, and a dull coat sig nificant of disease. This is expected, as a matter of course, and parried with calomel and aloes. When a horse's coat breaks in October, and race horses are deeply engaged, a cough is heard, and coughing runs like wildfire through the stable. What is this owing to ? The stable temperature charged with ammonia, the warm clothes, flannel bandages, hoods, and deleterious physic have won the battle ; every horse's skin impregnated with suppressed perspiration was susce ptible of dis ease, and they have caught w h a t the trainers have so studiously engendered. I have known more horses coughing in a stable at Newmarket than in all the cabs from Hyde-park-corner to Somerset-house, simply because the c ab-horses stand for 14 hours in the open air, and race horses are shut up for 21 hours in a hot stable. The laws of nature cannot be defied with impunity. The trainer now has a lucid interval. He turns the sick horses into open boxes from a temperature of 65 to 40 ; the cold air invigorates them, the fever is checked, the cough ceases, 'and the horse gets well in a week. Woe to the invalids if they are still confined to the warm stable. They erY be on the sick list for months. But the racing season is over and the money is lost. Again the trainers fall back to the ancient system, and all experience is lost upon them. It is not to be wondered at that these horses suffer from catarrhs, and that their legs fail. If you talk to a trainer he will say, " I must keep 1 1 . 1 1, windows shut during the night or the hor s es will be ill. They must be warmly clad, o r they will catch cold ; they must be well physicked ; or they will fly to pieces when I put them in hard work , and they must have hard work at any risk, other wise they won't stay a distance. If their legs shoal symptoms of weakness I must support them with plaisters, elastic cloths, and flannel ban dages." The answer is simpl e . If miss Nightingale, of undying fame, and our cleverest doctors insist upon the windows of a hos pital containing patients with e v ery dis ease being kept open night and day, why ar e trainers to be more learned than they? If the fresh air at night is not salubrious to a healthy horse why do you strip a horse labouring under violent inflammation and turn him out in the cold air as the only means of saving his life ? Every year tells the same sad tale of coughs and illness ; they are considered as dispensations of Providence—no fault of the trainers. It is their kismet, like the fatallists of the East, who have great contempt for drains to carry off the filth of their cities, and thereby patro nise the plague. Warm clothing is useful after a long, severe race (a dead heat), and the horse is required to run a second time ; then a trainer thinks it advisable to discontinue its use. He will, walk his horse stripped in a cold wind ; and there he stands with his coat dry and wiry, the heat driven back to his lungs and heart. An American trainer covers his horse up with clothes, and moves him about till he breaks out in a profuse sweat. This brings the enemy to the surface ; the heart and lungs are relieved , and if the horse dries up well after he is rubbed down he is fit to run for his life when the Eng; lish trainer's horse :is suffering from interne' fever. An Affghan trooper comprehends this theory, and acts upon it after a long, fatiguing march ; to a common English groom it is a para dox. He will clothe his horse when he ought to be stripped, and he will strip him when he ought to he clothed. If horses be free from organic diseases, water, hot, tepid or cold, variously applied, and hot.air bathe , will cure every complaint incidental to the equip° race; cold wet linen bandages, covered with oilskin and woollen cloths, will cure sore throats m ore readily than mustard poultices or blisters, and leave no mark. Fever, influenza, and colic may be sub' dued by cold wet linen sheets round the body, ant: the evaporation carefully guarded by blankets till the patient perspires profusely an d the disease conies to the surface ; then drench him well with c old water when you strip him; let him drink cola water, rub him well dry, and keep him in a molt well ventilated stable. This water system is chest' and simple, and acts promptly on the disease with' out impairing the horse's natural vigour, and there are no bills to pay. If the horse's constitution is like iron he may recover by the aid of medicine in the last stage of debility. My training theory is that no racehorse should be clothed beyond a linen or cotton sheet, either in the stable or at exercise, excepting during a cola winter, when a simple rug may be allowed both indoors and when his work is confined to a straw bed during a frost, It is an outrage on comni° sense to say that an old horse is more tender than a sucking foal. The hot-air bath, by cleansing and opening the pores of the skin, restores its ton e and reinstates the animal in his original puritY: despise the changes of the weather, th e trainer having exerted all his ingenuity to make him tender , helpless, and susceptible. As the hot air stimulates the action of the liver physic will seldom be required, and then in very small doses. When a yearling conies into the stable fat and fleshy, instead of giving him extra slow work and keeping him out four hours, it saves 4 great deal of trouble to physic him well. Extra physic is less troublesome than extra work , and it is supposed to be all the same thing in the end' From the 15th of March to the end of the racing season the horses should be exercised twice a elsi' and kept out altogether four hours, instead of the present system, from two hours and a half to thre e hours at one interval. They should always Ni ce access to water,or according to the American syste ra r it should he offered to them in small quantities Si' seven times in the course of the day. Most horse s you cannot feel too highly when they are in s trong work, and my belief is that no three horses requi re exactly the same food and the same exercise. A stable should be built on brick arches, u tiles s the foundation is chalk or limestone. Rooms a hon,' 17 feet in height, with large windows, ventilate u near the ceiling by hollow or perforated bricks no mangers to the stalls or boxes ; large whin wooden basins hooked on to staples in the weal') the corn, the said basins to be taken away all;; washed when the horses have fed, and in every ste" a fixture for a water pail. There are three appe n ' dages necessary to a perfect establishment—a d°!: mitory for the lads, who should n o t b e allowed "." sleep in the stable, because when the night :tit is cool they will shut the windows ; a Roman bath' thirdly, a weighing machine, to register clver. 9 .. horses's weight after each operation of the hot 01 : and after every public race or trial ; a wooden re': ing over the floors of the stalls, fitted with ire' hinges to trice up to the sides in order to be w ash ea A and purified, would be a great improvement, a nd there would be no necessity for straw litter. All the cavalry depots in Great Britain, Ireland' and India ought to be fitted up with Roman bath e capable of containing six horses. In India the A r n ' are two indigenous complaints which destrol ' per cent. of our cavalry horses. The first is a cute" neous disorder called burnsattee, from the Hin do s ' tanee word burusaria, relating to this disease, rev liar to the rainy season ; it generally attacks lors, ef picketed out in wet gro un d. N o d ou bt th e di.Setl' o is propagated by an ins ec t, a n d i s con ta g i ous . fearful complaint is of a tubercular nature ; skin swells, then ulcerates until regular for' t are formed; no part of the body is exempt, 10 " it generally commences in the legs, and is COn; sidered incurable. The second, a cold night air wile', the wind-stroke, which paralyses a horses loins,' and I have heard of every horse in a stable bei n P o disabled in one night. They rarely recover. I t I very probable that the hot-air bath would ouraboth these terrible diseases, and at a very small exPe w diture millions of rupees may be saved. To a hunting establishment a bath is a most N'a be able acquisition. During a long frost horses ma/ kept in the most perfect condition. After a 11 10 .. day's work it is a most powerful restorat ive to and horse, and nothing would surprise me less t han to hear that the kennel lameness in hounds (which I presume is rheumatism) can be cured by the ealn e process. Finally, old-fashioned trainers will condemn th e bath without condescending to investigateits result s ' for nothing is so intolerant or presumptuous as t' t prejudice of an ignorant man. It reminds me th a when steam was in its infancy a celebrated stagy coachman hoped to be b ange d, or somethingv°r',il if they could ever travel so fast upon an iron ref for 20 miles as he could drive his old chesnuts. be course this hot air, so potent in its effects, mai er abused lik e an y o th er va l ua bl e gift. I leave to sled and experienced men to define where its use mill and abuse begins. Grooms have much to leana, 0 . ; 10 more to forget. And as the farmers of 186lridic ro the system of husbandry in 1820, so will the trairs;r of 1870 amuse themselves with the errors of tux* predecessors in 1860.—Baily's Magazin& id I It T H S. BYRON.—On the 26th inst., at 48, Eaton-yin°, the il°ll. Mrs. Frederick Byron, of a son. re!' NAPIER.—On the 26th inst., at the Royal MilitarY o f lege, Sandhurst, the wife of Colonel Wiliam Napier, a daughter. MARRIAGES, LOCICERBY—SCOTT.—On the 26th inst., at Holy VD:I4 Church, Bayswater, John Lockerby, Esq., of Wand e' worth, to Mary, fifth daughter of John W. Scott, EB4.' of Croydon, Surrey. MILLER—DUFFELL.—On the 26th irst., at Southanloll A co u nl gu p s a t n u y s , E to sq i , li o z f ab t e h t e h P , esinsular and Oricil t l ,, daughter of J• Duffell, Esq., R.N., Royal Mail Steam -packet CoroP o ' Southampton. DEATHS. ARMYTAGE.—On the 25th inst., at Northampton, J°llll Armytage, Esq., aged 93. 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