The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-27 00:00:00

RATES.

Mr. W. E. FORSTER rose to ask the First Lord of
the Treasury whether the attention of her Majesty's Go-
vernment had been called to the danger of our friendly
relations with the United States, resulting from the
fitting out in our ports of ships of war for the service
of the self-styled Confederate States, in contravention
of the Foreign Enlistment Act, and of the.
rolicy of neutrality adopted by this country.
The hon. gentleman entered at great length into the sub-
ject, and blamed the Government for their supineness in
connection with the undisguised bu.lding of those ships.
He did not ask the Government to infringe the right of any
British subject, but he asked them to act as the Americans
did towards us during the Russian war, not permitting
the construction of ships of war for Russia that might be
used against us.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

Course of the Exchange—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
RA terd am .. 11 181 11 184
Antwerp .. 25 45 25 50
B,usqels — 25 45 25 50
H tinburgh — 13 7/ 13 a
Pa-is
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine --. 119/ 11D1
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid ... —48 i
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 55 25 60
Milan — 2:5 55 25 60
Genoa — 25 .55 25 621
Naples
Palermo — 25 60 25 65
Messina — 25 GO 25 65
Lisbon — 521 53
Oporto — 524 531
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

CROXTON-PARK RACES.—Tats DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
WALTHAM PLATE.

Welland
Lady Evelyn c ..
FARMERS' PLATE (First Heat).

Endell Maid
Bandoline

Nine ran.
GRANBY HANDICAP.

Eidolan
Oakapple:

Six ran.
BILLESDEN STAKES.

d
The Di etor
Sixteen ran. The winner objected to.
SCURRY HANDICAP.

Little Barugh
Primative 9

Four ran.
THE CUP.

Bally Edmond 1
Lady Evelyn colt

Tbree ran.
BELVOIR CASTLE STAKES.

liunkelcl
Glenoichy

Four ran.
CROXTON PARK PLATE.

Interduca . 1
Oakapple

Four ran.

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
14 to 1 agst Adventurer
14 to 1 agst Oberon (taken)
25 to 1 agst thenochty colt (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
12 to 1 agst Dunkeld (taken)

.Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Duk.. of Somerset, ai First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, held a levee yesterday at the Admiralty,
Whitehall. The following (facers attended :—Capt.
C. M. Aynesley, Capt. William Edmondstone, Capt.
G. 11. Gardner, Capt. J. B. Dickson, Capt. Forbes,
Capt. J. Seccombe, Capt. H. C. Glyn, Capt. W. H.
Kitchen, Capt. C. G. Robinson, Capt. Sir J. S win-
bourne, Capt. Sir Wci. Wiseman, Capt. H. Broad-
head, Commander F. T. Thomson, L%mmander C.
D. Irvine, Commander W. K. Jolliffe, Commander
B. P. Priest, Commander T. Davies, Commander H.
L. Round, Commander G. W. Lawsey, Lieut. R.
B. Cay, Lieut. J. Lnarell, Lieut. B. Sharpe, Lieut.
H. N. Knox, Lieut. F. W. Hallowes, and Mr. W.
Hickman (paymaster).
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—J. Cutj ar, master, to the Dauntless,
for the Coastguard ; Edward J. B. Bird, chief en-
gineer, to the Cumberland, for the Cadmus, when
the latter is paid off; J. Grant, acting assistant-
engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary ; and It, S.
Willcocks, assistant engineer, to the Pandora.

THE ARMY.
In consequence of the very favourable state of the
weather yesterday, there was at Woolwich a general
outdoor muster of the troops. The Horse Brigade
and field batteries of the depot Royal Artillery, and
the sth battalion Military Train, in chief command
of Col. Sir David Wood, R.H.A., K.C.8,, assem-
bled on the barrack field, in the presence of General
Sir Richard Dacres and staff, and were inspected
and marched past. The Ist battalion 60th Rifles,
in command of Lieut.-Colonel Sir E. F. Campbell,
performed a series of manoeuvres on the Royal
Artillery parade, and a portion of the two bat-
talions of Royal Marine Light Infantry, in com-
mand of Col. Gascoigne, C. 8., were drawn out on
Woolwich common for the usual battalion exercises
and drills. 128 non-commissioned officers and
privates, in command of Captain Bunce, Royal
Marine Light infantry, went through a lengthened
course of rifle practice in the Plumstead marches.
By the direction of the Duke of Cambridge, Capt.
F. S. Bolton, 12th Regiment, the inventor of the
lime-light signals, is now engaged with the staff of
the Royal Engineer establishment,, Chatham, as.
sisted by non-commissioned officers and men from
the Laboratory, in a series of experiments and trials
with new signals at Chatham garrison with the view
of testing the utmost capabilities of this invention.
The officers and men engaged in the experiments
are nightly despatched to far-distant stations in
various parts of the district and country, between
which a constant succession of signals is flashed
from the principal station, Chatham, the whole
being superintended by Capt. Bolton. On the com-
pletion of the experiments a report is to be made to
the War-office on the result of the trials.
The whole of the officers on leave of absence, to-
gether with the non-commissioned officers and men
on furlough, have rejoined their respective regi-
ments and depots at Chatham garrison, preparatory
to going through their annual course of summer
drill. The officers and gunners attached to the Ist
division of the depot brigade, Royal Artillery, in
the Chatham district, have also returned from the
usual leave granted during the winter months, end
the batteries are being now put through a daily
course of company and set-up drill, previous to the
commencement of the important summer exercises
in the use and management of rifled and smooth-
bore ordnance, and practice with solid shot and com-
mon and segment shell with garrison and field ar-
tillery,