The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-25 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGRNCR.

TATTERBALL'i.-410NDAY.
The eu part of the atomism was compled by the
sparing tithe few otttataudiaLseeweverr (toe the west's
rashg. Towards the clone, settled
down Into • siguilimat form, sad at in
Ten carried as with tairked Iniskares. Pew =CI
bib: their departure for Binninghara. sad the more true
lissufero monerimady altaade& The heatersots woo,
obi few lermatoriel asseptiorm made at nearly the was
ante cif aids that regal
sh ated briars, in the City oa Saturdan
.
tar the Nothomplon Slakes Prime Plausible main.
laird his poiliaa wim
ith wool imam Both Ramose
mid Dark IA of at Improved gaotations. 10 to 1 being
Ohm about gosh to money. Prom 25 to 1 quoted on Sr
may, West End adomesd to 1011 to 7 (taken). Schism,
leo had lima 'imam tospicioe in the City duriag the
Emig, moaned support at bar old prior,. 100 to 7, sad
there was a strong disposition evinoed to back Irorlande.
for Earl Spencer's Plate Maid of Hamm came with a
tremendous ma, and so numerront ware her admirers, sad
or may were the investments in her favour, that only 4 to
1 our obtainable about her at the aloes.
The tsaneestiene en the City sad Sntawbor show =z
VeZ4Mugu Dwelt bower.
wpossd tomilisey. was in Mae
11 hwhisigy
7 to 1 would ern been Wren about Old Calabar for the
Two llamas& sto 1 was the highest offer spirt The
liemuis, about whomcoaddarable bamboo would have been
dorm if had sprung a point or hall a point more.
Closing prier
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
Bto 1 apt Count Batthyany's Prince Plausible (t)
10 to 1 Mr. J. Osberne's Rappers, (t)
10 to 1 Mr. T. Parr's Doak (t)
100 to 6 llr. R. Law's Imitator (t)
100 to 7 Lod Willies% West Eod (1)
100 be I Lord Werinterabots Schism (t)
20 to 1 Baron Niviem's Noland. (t)
20 to 1 Mr. B. Boyar's Cansbrook (t)
25 to 1 Mr. Roiek's Pasique (t)
EARL BPENOZWB PLATE.
4 to 1 apt Lord Stroderd's Maid of Broom (0
15 to 1 Mr. Thomas Dietatcw (1)
20 to 1 Lord Stamford's Tisiphone (t)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
10 to 1 apt Count )3atthyany's Suburban (t)
12 to 1 Mr. A. Nichoble Phantom (t)
12 to 1 Mr. H. Smile's Ducat (t)
20 to 1 Mrs. thirshborton's Oemorloo (t)
25 to 1 Xribrry'sebiWildDayrell—vest (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 spt Sir R. Bulkoley's Old Calabar ft no 2)
sto 1 Mr. S. Hawkers The Marquis (t 11 tot
10 to 1 Heron Rothschild's Wingrave (t)
25 to 1 Mr. T. Parr's Tolurno (off)
THE DERBY.
16 to 1 spt Mr. S. Hawker's The Xar9ais (t)
40 to 1 Colon) Towoley's Cellanus (t)
40 to 1 Lord Staniford's Athlete (t)
1000 to 20 Lord Glasgow's c by Dothan's—
; Clariset (off)

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.
MONDAY NIGHT.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKED.
9to 1 apt Priam Plausible (t)
100 to 8 Rapper« (t)
20 to 1 &him WS)
25 to 1 Moore** (off)
25 to 1' Fiske& (off)
25 to 1 Uwe (t)
Prima Moak pew& at 10 to 1 in the moraiag, aad
afterwards reeetted to% to 1 bat °laid at 9to 1. 100 to 7
was laid at ow time about him. Rename also varied, but
closed ea 100 tri 8.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
10 to 1 eget Sabartaa it freely)
100 to 8 Pheatem (t freely)
20 to 1 Cauteriao (t)
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.
6to 1 eget Maid of B
(t)osom (t)
16 to 1 Trawls
16 W 1 BMeebox (t)
10 to 1 Coulidenee (t)
100 to 3 Loposteber (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEA&
4 to 1 apt Old Calabar (t freely)
CHESTER CUP.
30 to 1 set Nods (t freely)
100 to 3 Vietriz (t fres/y)

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had abaidoned.
An °Tidal despatch from General Curtis confirms
the news of the battle at Sugar Creek. General
Curtis says that General M'Cullooh was killed.
The House of Representatives has passed a re-
solution concerning pecuniary compensation to
States abolishing slavery, In accordance with Pre-
sident Lincoln's 'negation, by 88 against 31 reds.
It is reported that the Confederates are fortify-
ing Island No. 10 in the Mississippi, below Co.
lumbna.
Beatiregad has set out to take the command
there.
The Metals have occupied Jeiquin (1), on the
Lower Potomac, which ltad been abandoned by the
Confederates.
A all of the Clowssi. `of Virginia for 10,000
militia was read ha.-14 streets of Jeiquin
Nearly anti* abbolidist tooling to that place
were with. Caddarals army.
The Norfolk Day Book . the crew of
the Cumberland for their barmy, NA says that
some shot her. the Cumberland entered the Mari-
mee, killing 17 men, and wounding Command.
Buchanan, who afterwards died.

The Day Bask admits %that the Monitor is a for-
midable vied.
Batesby :ones commanded the Merrimac. The
same journal states that some slight repairs will
be necessary to the Merrimac.
CONVEDERATZ NAVAL VICTORY.
NSW VOSS, Mason 11, Emma
Mir Aram, vii QuessAows.)
The Onitimie iron-clad steamship Menimso
sad the Iheinteste steamers Yorktown and
Itlbrfolk on the morning of the Bth
Want, and attacked the Federal sailing frigates
lOuratorland and Congress at the month of James
r Mier. The Merrimac received the broadsides of
the Cumberland and Congress at 100 yards without
sustaining any damage. The Merrimac then ran
into the Cumberland with her iron prow, literally
laying open her aides. She then drew off, fired a
broadside into the Cumberland, and again dashed
at her' knocking in her side, and left her to
sink. The Congress, which had kept up a
brisk engagement with the Yorktown and James-
town, then struck her colours and surrendered. The
Federal frigates Minnesota and St. Lawrence were
being towed to the assistance of the Cumberland
and Congress when the Minnesota got aground and
could render no assistance. During the following
night the new Federal iron-plated Ericsson steamer
Monitor arrived at Fortress Monroe, and in the
morning was attacked by the Merrimac. These
two vessels fought five hours, during which they
nearly touched each other ; the Monitor finally suc-
ceeding in forcing a hole in the port side of the
Merrimac, which thereupon retired with the Con-
federate fleet to Norfolk. The Monitor was unin-
jured. The Confederates set fire to the Congress
and blew her up. Fifty men are supposed to have
been killed on board the Congress, and 150 were
killed and wounded on the Cumberlend. Nobody
in the Monitor was hurt
The sides, bows, and stern of the Merrimac were
covered with sloping iron plates, extending two feet
below the water line, and meeting above like the
roof of a house. At her bows on her water line
were two sharp iron points, resembling prows, Mix
or seven feet apart. Her number of guns is stated
to be 12, which were seen projecting from long
elliptical portholes.
The New York World publishes an account of
the pilot of the Cumberland, stating that the Mer-
rimac was not disabled when she retreated to
Norfolk. _ _ _

General Halleck officially reports that the Federal
army of the south-west, under General Curtis, had
gained a victory, after three days' hard fighting at
Sugar Creek, Arkansas, over the combined Con-
federate forces of Van Dorn, Price, and McCul-
loch. Guns, flags, and provisions were captured in
large quantities. The Federal cavalry were pup-
suing the enemy. The Federal loss is estimated
at 1,000 killed and wounded. The enemy's loss is
stated to be larger.
Commodore Dupont's naval expedition, which
left Port Royal, captured and occupied Brunswick.
The expedition then proceeded to Cumberland
Sound, the entrance to the harbour of Fernandina,
Florida, and took possession of Fort Clinch, which
the Confederates had evacuated.
The Federals captured twelve large guns. They
also occupied Fernando and St. Mary's, the male
inhabitants having left.
The Confederates are supposed and reported to
be making a grand stand at Chavenoon, Tennessee,
a place of t natural strength, at the junction
of four rsilroada.
The Senate has passed a bill that no Federal
officer or soldier shall return fugitives.
The New York Tiny/ thinks the abandonment of
Manassas is a confession by the rebels that the war
is ended. President Lincoln, as commander-in-
chief, had issued a War order No. 1, saying that
on the 22nd March a general movement of the
Federal forces at Fort Monroe and the forces on
the Potomac and in Western Virginia shall take
place, and that the naval force in the Gulf of
Mexico shall be ready for movement on that day.
The order directs Major-General M'Clellan, com-
manding the army of the Potomac, to proceed to
organise that part of the army for active opera-
tions. General Fremont has received a command.

WARSAW, Masai 17.
Great excitement prevails here in consequence
of an atrocious outrage committed by the govern-
ment. You will, perhaps, recollect that in my last
letter I alluded to the seizure by the police of M.
Alexander Zemoyaki, who was suspected of having
been concerned in the publication of a pamphlet
entitled "The Voice of the Nation to Archbishop
Felinakin It appetite that the authorities had de-
termined
to revive, in this case, the course pumped'
by the Holy Inquisition, in forcing their victim to
reveal the names of hi; accomplices ; and exceed-
ingly they began by removing from the conimbeihn
of inquiry those members who might have ob-
structed their views by scruples of humanity. Ahe
Polish inembeis—MM. Skowronski, Dahrowski,
and others—and two Russians were thus shut out
from the proceedinin, which were left to be car-
ried on br- three Modem who have of late
chiefly distinguished themselves by their unseen-
pulousness and barbarity. You may rely on the
truth of these particulars, which I have frontons al
the members of the commies:ion. This iambs
triumvirate conducted their examination of the
unfortunate prisoner at night, from ten to cue
o'clock, for several nights, and during the whole of
the examination be was stripped and flogged inn ,
most Merciless manner, the bload flowing from t
body in streams. The torture, however, failed ii
eliciting from him any information as to the autliqpi
or other persons concerned in the pamphlet ; Mid
at last M Zamoyski was so exhausted with the
frightful wounds he had received that fears were
entertained for his life, and he is now in the
doctor's hands. The government is only waiting
for his restoration to health to inflict new tortures
upon him, for he has just been sentenced by the
commission to the galleys for life, and 200 lashes
in addition to the hundreds he has already re
°rived.
We as yet hear nothing of any intention to put
an end to the stets of siege, whisk is marked by
the same barbarous arbituannems on the part of the
rtundess
authorities as ever. The people, on the other hand,
are particularly careful to- avoid giving the govern.
meat a pretext for asserting that their conduct
forms it to maintain an exceptional state of things
in the country. That the Poles are quiet is a fact
that cannot be disputed ; General Ltiders himself
admitted it a fortnight ago, in his decree relative
to state of edge. And yet what are the results
of die tranquillity and Order among the people,
1 wonderful indeed if we consider the noiseless pro-
"Maid= to which they are subjected 1 The
'Mild to be out till eleven instead of nine at
Islbant a haters, and the making a favour
what is a right—not to make a criminal o
istrespindive m its effects. Such conduct as Usti
on the pert of the government is an evident stultill-
alien of all its peat eds. A state of siege is
a asentry can only be Justified by-the exidemes of
extraordinary circumstances which render souresp.
Mona, and in its essence tmnporary, a seam° im-
perative. These extraordinary mreandanota the
government pretended to perceive in the open con-
tempt which the people evinced towards the autho-
rities, and the singing in their churches of a hymn
which had been written by order of the Emperor
Alexander L, and had been sung in Poland
for five-and-forty years with the sanction and si the
instance of the authorities. But now these disturb-
ing causes have ceased. What all the power of the
government could not do was done by the Arch-
bishop of Warsaw ; at his request the Poles ceased
to sing a hymn which yesterday Russia praised sad
approved, and which to-day she brands as revolve
tionary ; and their prayers for their country are now
' said in silence during the five minutes set apart for
that purpose after every service. Tranquillity reigns
everywhere ; the viceroy has no fault to find with
the "Poles ; still, he continues a barbarous and
horrible punishment which places every man and
woman in the country at the mercy of a licentious
army and police, every member of which, from the
general to the private soldier or policemen, is armed
with a vast and irresponsible power which be ex-
ercises according to the unbridled impulses of his
savage will. Such a wanton and wholesale system
of torture, exercised on.a people of sixteen millions,
who have given the strongest evidences of the
highest moral and intellectual qualities, is a disgrace
to humanity.
There is a talk of reviving the provincial and
municipal councils, which met with so untimely an
end by the state of siege. It will, of course, be
necessary, should this be done, to have a new
election, as the former delegates are nearly all
of them, either in Siberia or in the fortresses of the
kingdom. At any rate it is clear that, in the pre-
sent shameful anarchy and tyranny that prevails in
the country, it will be a mere mockery to grant it
institutions, even with such limited attributes as
those councils. The general sitting of the Council
of State has again been put off to the 26th. General
Krzyzauowskoj has left for Lublin and Zamoec to
inspect the troops, and is temporarily succeeded as
Governor ofiWarsaw by Prince Bebuton, a man
who has a reputation for humanity--a very rare
quality in the government of this country.
The following persons, titer staying soma
months in the citadel, have been liberated a'
inrocent i—F. Notrakosnoki, H. Przybylskl, .1.
Niewiarowski, fisteinhans, and H. Wohl. Eight
others were at the same time sent out of the country.
12,000 recruits are to be taken from the kingdom
immediately, in the proportion of 5 per 1,000
robies and townsmen, and 5 per 2,000 peasants. '
This retested of the usual order of things shows
that Russia's object in this enlistment is not to re-
cruit her army, but to take out of the country its
moot zealous patriots, nearly all of whom belong to
the highest and middle class.
Much indignation has been excited among the
country people by the wanton pillage by the sol-
diery of the ornaments which it is the custom in
Polish villages to hang on the wooden crosses that
abound in the country. The pretext is, that revo-
lutionsty emblems and inscriptions are often found
on them • but the ignorant soldiery, not knowing
bow to distinguish between a religious and a poli-
tical symbol, and doubtless also actuated by a
wanton love of mischief, have stripped the village
crosses of nearly all their decorations.

MURDIa OF • 0111 K SAILOR IN Liviaroca..— I
On the night of the 14th instant • number of Greek and
Italian sauces were drinking at Boatianes Vaults in White.
chaprd. Liverpool, whoa • quarrel arose about • girl, sad
when theykadleft the pubilaboueean Italian named A 'ltalia,
stabbed • Greek, named Themistades Constantino, under
the ribs. The wounded man was taken to the Southern
Hospital, when be theta ea Friday ailbt A .nowt. jury
yesterday Mara verliet al " WW•I milder"
Antonio, sad the. polio. were ward to arrest him=
with.
ROYAL Fan Hamm., °awes-um-Ram—
The number of patients relieeedst thin Morita &deg the
I week ending Much 22, was 2,846, d width 751 we* sew
ono.

TUIUN, ifatca 20.
of any colleague whose presence in the ministry
may be offensive to the moral sense of the public,
and will thus bring things back to a normal state.
Such, then, is the manner in which the provisional
majority which now sustains Rattazzi is generally
understood. Indeed he is himself aware of it, and
knows well that a majority brought together by
fear and illusion cannot be of long duration. He
is therefore already endeavouring to modify his
ministry, and to bring into it some name that
commands respect. At present his efforts
are bent on overcoming the repugnance of
the Marchese di Torreana, prefect of Flo-
rence, to whom he wishes to entrust
the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The mar-
coin is a Sicilian, and among the beet esteemed of
the islanders. He spent twelve years in exile.
Under Count Cavour he was sent as envoy extraor-
dinary to Switzerland, and Ricasoli appointed him
prefect of Florence. He has many friends among
the English aristocnrci -and in choosing him for
a colleague Signor
. Rattazzi seems to give token of
dahltvniunotgne°beuscitiblind"lmelissertlintt "of France.
Preliminaries minister
oug were signed yesterday for a gigantic
scheme at Batton, foie executed in Piedmont
by an English company. This project, conceived
by Count Clavour and elaborated under the Ricasoli
armisi*y, it now taken up by Marchese Pepoli, the
new Yiefiiter of Agriculture and Commerce.
Some Aar ago there was a violent explosion of
alarm in Serdinia, caused by it rumour that Signor
Rattazzi had concluded a treaty for the surrender
of the island to France. The Sardinians were ready
for insurrection, and wanted to expel the French
consul ; but on the news being conveyed hither by
ti.ersh, the Sardinian deputies in Turin tele-
to nem different points on the island, eon-
thelaMg rumour, and quiet was restored.
French soldiers on furlough have for the last few
days been seen about Turin. It is the first time
they have made their appearance here, and no one
can geese what it is IBM his 'inspired them with
this new curiosity to see Turin. It is true that they
are now nearer to it than they were three years
ago, but nom of them visited it last .
General Garibaldi is here, and has Went inter-
views with the Hungarian general, Klap and the
ex-dictator, Kossuth. Garibaldi has for the prnt
quitted Oaprera, and it appears that he will rethain
on the continent, occupied in establishing ands
for Ain practice in all the cities of the kingdom, for
the purpose of training all Italians to arms • and
this is as it should be, provided that Garibaldi does
not take upon himself to initiate war and dragtbe
nation into extreme perils, ' This is what is feared,
forasmuch as Rattazzi has not weight enough to re-
sist Garibaldi, and Victor Emmanuel has rather
toe keen a senior the excitement of war. Andithe
Emperor Napoleon I Heaven only knows what are
his intentions, and whether he may not think it
for his advantage that Italy should be again ex-
posed to danger, and in need of the aid of Frain..
In the Neapolitan territory a band of a hundred
and thirty brigands contrived suddenly to surrotind
eighteen of our infantry soldiers and put them all
to death. This is the second catastrophe of the
kind that has happened in thirteen months of almost
daily fighting. It is curious that General Goyon
demands decorations for his ofaceral in reward of
their good services in preventing brigands collected
in Koine from invading the kingdom, seeing it is
notorious that General Goyou has always feigned
of the fact that brigands are collected in
=armed there, and despatehed into the Nea-
politan provinces.
Baron Rieasoli has taken his departure, and for
four or five days nobody, not even excepting his
brother, knew whither he was gone, so that it was
impassible to transmit to him the news received by
telegraph that his daughter was dangerously ill. It
is now known that he is in Switzerland, where he
his received better tidings of his daughter. The
=rity of Baron Ricasoli in Italy has increased
of diminishing since he has ceased to be a
minister. He wants the winning manners and the
administrative experience of Count Cavour, but the
nobleness of his character puts him above all the
other statesmen that remain to us. General La-
marmora alone is deemed worthy in that respect to
stand by his side, and possibly the day will same
when these two men will save Italy.