The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

Sportittg

the day first fixed.
Tan INDIAN ARMY.—The details of the reorganise•
tion of the Indian army are being arranged, and we
believe that, as regards an equitable settlement of the
vested interest in. the different funds, no difficulty is
likely to arise. The European cavalry and infantry
regiments, which have been hitherto local, will become
part of the Queen's regular Imperial service ; tho
cavalry being numbered the 19th Light Dragoons, &c.,
and the infantry the 101st Foot, &c. But we under-
stand the purchase system of the present Imperial army
will not be extended to these corps, in which a system
of promotion by seniority, tempered by selection, will
be adopted, the first appointments in these regiments
being made by open competition. The officers of the
native regiments that mutinied, most of whom are now
on the staff, will be allowed to continue in their appoint-
ments without any restriction as to time ; but all the
new staff appointments will be made from a staff corps,
for which any officer belonging to a corps serving in
India, who has himself been one year with his corps in
that country, will be eligible. A certain period (five
years) of actual staff service, exclusive of leave of
absence, will entitle the officer to a step of military
rank.—Army and Navy Gazette.
Tarn NOMA ATLANTIC CABLE.—Captain Sherrard
Osborne writes to the Times to express his approval of
the scheme for a North Atlantic telegraph. "In a
nautical and physical point of view I know of ne reasons
why a cable should not connect the Coatis or Labrador
with England. lam fully aware that ice streams run
down the coast of Greenland and Iceland; but I do
not see in what way that will affect a small cable
lying upon the bottom of the sea. Icefields do not pre-
vent the Baltic being crossed with electric cables; ice
I does not cut off communication across the American
lakes, or Russian rivers. The delicate shells, weeds,
crustacea, and other animate and inanimate produc-
tions which cover the bottom of the Arctic sea,
in latitudes far north of where it is proposed this
cable shall be placed, afford the best pried that the
bottom of the Northern Sea is a far safer and pleasanter
plice of sojourn than that service over which we
Arctic seamen have lately so often sailed and
laboured. I consider the main difficulty of the
North-about route to lie between the point at which
about 150 fathoms of water will be found on that
Labrador shore, and so in to the coast. But if any-
where upon the bottom of that submerged shore of Lab-
rador a line of deep sea soundings can be found, with a
shallower bank to the north of it, so as to form a sort of
trough- running iu an east and west direction, there can
be little doubt, as Col. Shaffner says, that the cable will
lie there as safe as it would do across the Straits of Dover.
A floating iceberg can never hurt a submerged cable, and
even one grating or pressing along the bottom may, nine
cases out cf ten, fad to pick up a piece of rope imbedded in
the mud or sand; indeed, the probabilities are the cable
would be only thrust still deeper into the bottom. Ice-
bergs have not got claws or creepers, and I believe the
cables across the narrow seas between England and
Europe run fifty times more risk from the thousands of
anchors, creepers, and trawling nets ever passing over
them-than any cable would d under the Atlantic between
Hamilton Inleteand Greenwald."

Manchester.

paper:
GAMBLING IN Bezeracreses.—A curious question was
raised in the Court of Queen's llench on Saturday. An
alehouse keeper, living in a village in Essex, was fined
by the local magistrates for having permitted gaming in
his house. This fine was inflicted, although it was
shown that the persons playing at cards were the defen-
dant's own friends, and that the stakes were extremely
small in amount. The defendant appealed, and the case
was decided on Saturday before the judges. An inte-
resting discussion took place on the knotty point as to
the extent to which the innkeeper, under his license, had
surrendered his rights as a private individual. The
conviction was Confirmed.
Simrcii or xrrE WOMEN.—Aint it curious, squire,
weddin' is never out of women's heads? They never
think of nothin' else. A young gal is always thinlein' of
her own. As soon as she is married, she is a match-
making for her cempanions; and when she is a grain
older, her darter's weddin' is uppermost agin.. Oh, it
takes a great study to know a woman. How cunnin' .
they are! Ask a yonng gal the news, she'll tell you of
all the deaths in the place, to make you think she don't
trouble hoeself shout marriage. Ask an old woman,
she'll tell rft of all the marriages, to make you think
she is te.kii? an interest in the world that she aint. They
certainly do heat all, do women.—Sant Slick.
A BOY SHOT AT A MILITARY PARADE.—The men
of the 72nd and 74th regiments., presently stationed in
Dudhopc Barracks, were, on Wednesday afternoon, the
23rd inst., engaged in rifle practice with blank cartridges
in the Barrack-park, and in the course of this exercise
an affair occurred which resulted in the death of a boy,
aged twelve years, named James Watt. The deceased,
while amusing himself in company with others in
watching the proceedings of the military, was noticed,
immediately after a volley had been fired, to press his
hand to his head and fall to the ground. Nothing serious,
however, was then suspected by the bystanders. till he
began shortly thereafter to exhibit symptoms of great
pain, when it was observed that blood was profusely
flowing from his temples. The poor bey was imme-
diately removed to the infirmary, where Drs. Glen and
Greig were promptly in attendance upon him, and before
dressing the wound succeeded in extracting a green pea
from the right temple, which rested close on the brain.
Notwithstanding the efforts which the medical gentle-
men made for the lad's recovery, his death occurred on
Thursday afternoon. One of the private soldiers named
James Smith has been apprehended on suspicion of having
fired the pea:which iunicted the fatal wound ; and an
investigation was entered into by the Procurator-Fiscal
and police authorities, the result of which is kept private ;
but Smith, wo learn, will be brought before the police
on the charge of culpable homicide, and will then be
remitted to the Fiscal, in order that further investiga-
tion may be made, and, if that is considered to afford
sufficient ground, he will be brought to trial. It is said
that the pea which struck the deceased was intended for
one of the officers; and it is also stated, as a fact of some
importance in the case, that the man who was in rank
before Smith when the volley was fired, had part of his
stock blown away by the force of the discharge.—
Dundee Advertiser.
THE MARRIAGE OF 'ME PRINCE OF WALES.—There
is a rumour abroad about the forthcoming matrimonial
alliance of the heir apparent to the British throne with
a Princess of Prussia. German newspapers, solemn
always and full of erudition, inform us that all the par-
ticulars of this union have long been determined,—
arranged, in fact, at the time of the nuptials of our
Princess Royal with young Prince Frederick William
of Prussia. It was then settled, we are given to
understand, that' there should be• a "Double Mar-
riage" between the royal families of Great Britain
and Hohenzollern ; such double marriage as was
seriously contemplated a century ago by the then mon-
archs of England and Prussia, but unfortunately broken
off at the eleventh hour, to the great grief of a certain
Crown-Prince Frederick, no lees than of his latest
British biographer. Indeed, histoiy tells us that Ger-
man princes have always been very fond of arranging
these MSS- alliances as we might call them ; and
that it is owing to the principle which they involve,
that the whole of European royalty is at the present
moment one vast family of brothers, sisters, and cousins.
The Emperor Napoleon is, we believe, the only
s thiso singlee a drawn
monarch of the western world not directly related
to this august family ; though even he, by means
of more or less
mess
ycdsitsitanctirecaoeu.sinswhipit,h is m
towards h
excep-
tion, if it is such, the whole of the royal houses of
Europe form but one family, all the members of which
are blood relations. The'stock or root of this family is
in Germany—the "fatherland" pre-eminently—and it
is there, apparently, that a continual desire is felt more
and more to unite the branches of this tree, more and
more to engraft like on like. . The title of courtesy of
" Mon frere," by which European sovereigns address
each other, is to bee_ erne 41141219491 y a complete reality.
—Spectator.

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LATEST BETTING.
MANCHESTER.
Union Crr : 5 to 1 agst Sutton, taken and offered; 5 to 1
ant liorace, taken and offered ; Gto 1 agst Sir William, taken
and offered ; 10 to 1 agst The Druid, taken ; 100 to 6 agst
Andover colt, offered; 20 to 1 agst Jack Spring, offer to take.
Taantsattnes PLATE : 3 to 1 agst Btn :Webster, taken ; 4 to
1 agst Sir William, taken.
ASCOT Cur : Even on Thorraanby, taken.
TATTERSALL'S.
Astor STANER: Bto 1 agst farmer's Daughter filly, taken ;
Bto 1 art Ancient Briton, taken ; to 1 agst Newcastle,
taken : 10 to 1 agst Tunstall Maid, taken.
Ascot Crr : Evens on Thormanby.
Row, Hen Crr : 100 to 6 agst Ancient Briton, taken;
to rata Montebello. taken 100 to 6 agst WoOdburn, taken.
nde : 3 tq 1 agst Tnormanby, offered..
Dean', 1861: 15 to I agst Dundee, taken.
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RACING FIXTURES FOR 1860.
MAY.
.... ... , 3O linngerford.
JUNE. •
Ascot 5 Bibury Club...,
Hawiek 8 Stockbridge ..,.
Hampton l3 Winchester
Newton l3 Newcastle......,
Southampton
OrtPon, l9
JULY.
Newmarket July Meeting 3 Nottingham l7
Carlisle
Worcet•ter SurnmerMeeting 5 Stamford . l9
Liverpool 9 Knutsford
19
ridgend
.'ambridge
Abingdon l2 Hartlepool.
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Pontefract
AUGUST.
Brighton 1 Oxford lll
Brighton Club 3 Plymouth 2l
Wolverhampton 8 York 22
Reading.
Radcliffe
Egham
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SEPTEMBER. '
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4 Leice.Tter.. ....... ........ 19
6 Monmouth 2O
6 Richmond
11 Manchester Autumn 2l
17 Newmarket F.O.M. 25

OCTOBER.
Bedford 3 Newmarket Houghton 9
Newmarket S.O.M A Worcester Autumn......... •. 36
NOVEMBER.
Hereford.. , 1 Shrewbbury Autumn M..... IS
Liverpool Autumn Meeting 7

• COURSING FIXTIT.RES FOR 180.
BER.
OCT
Place. CounOty. Judge meeting.
Wiltshire (Amesbury) Wilte
S. Lane. (Fouthport).. Lineashire 16, &e
Baldock Club Hertfordshire. Mr. Warwick ... 17 &
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County Louth Club lreland
Brougham & W. Open Westmoreland. "%, &e
Brough &Catter'k 0.0 ork Yshire "3, &c
CardingtonClub Beds Mr. Warwick "9, &c
NOVEMBER.
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Nevratarket Cham Suffo
pion lk
Coquetdale (Open) Northumberl'd
Melton Union Club .... Yorkshire
Hampton Court Chain. Mi ddlese% ............
Alit ar Club Lancashire ...... ..
Marham Club Norfolk
West Herefordshire.... Herefordshire .
DECEMBER.
Bridekirk Cumbeiland. Mr. A. Palzell 4 5
Baldoek Open Champ Hertfordshire ."Mr. Warwick 5, &e
RidgwaYC (Conthport) Laneashire
Mountainatown Club... Ireland.. l2, 13
JANUARY, 1861.
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Club ....

6, &.e
13, &e
13, &a
20, &e'
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21, 22, 23
—2l, 22, 23
, 29, 30

Altear L
Cardincton Club,

. Lancasture...... 23,24
Beds ...... Mr. Warwick... 29, ke.

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