The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-06 00:00:00

looked forward to heavy losses, and prepared to
resign herself, She would not submit without pro•
test, but she well knew that the weak must go to
the wall. Without allies or protectors she might
well have been suffered to perish. But what hum-
bles and prostrates her—what she can neither com-
prehend nor digest—the unkindest cut of all—is,
that those who have at all times admitted the jus.
tice and sanctity of her cause—those who were, in
a certain measure, bound and pledged to uphold it
should, by a voluntary accord with the spoiler
make, as it were, common cause with him, and
become sharers of his guilt.

These are the comments I hear on all sides with
respect to the projected cession of Holstein, Lauen-
berg, and a part of Schleswig, to the German
Powers. Deeper sorrow than I see depicted on the
countenances of all honourable men here—a more
universal sense of humiliation and despondency—l
never at any time witnessed in any country. The
only consolation and hope of the Danes is that the
Conference will turn out to be as impotent as it is
in their opinion undignified and unscrupulous; that
the drawing of a frontier line across any part
of Schleswig will be found impracticable; that the
Germans will strike for the possession of the whole
of both duchies ; while the Danes, for their
own part, would rather cut off their right hand
than sign their name to any treaty which
shou.d assign to them less than the Schlei, the
Dannewerke, the Treene, and the Eider, including
the town of Schleswig, Hollingstedt, Frederick-
stadt, and Tanning—a line that has at least the
advantage of being a natural boundary and a strong
military frontier—a line, too, which would leave
the Germans all they waged war for, the harbour of
Kiel, with both sides of the bay, and the coveted
stronghold of Rendsburg. Had no foreign Power
" meddled and muddled," the Danes think they
could hardly have obtained less honourable terms
even from such enemies as Austria and Prussia.
Although such is the nature of common talk about
me, I doubt not, however, but that the Danish Go•
vernment will assume a far difierent and more con-
ciliatory tone before the Cooference and its meeting
to-morrow. I have applied for information at the
Foreign-office here to know what is their conclusion
as to the proposal that was lately referred to them
as well as to the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets.
The answer was that, although their mind is to be
made known within 24 hors, yet they are anxious
that it never should be said that any particulars
connected with the transactions of the Conference
ooz:d oat through any fault of theirs, and had,
therefore, nothing that they felt authorised to com.
municata.

I am, therefore, at a loss for official intelligence.
The general impression here, however, is that the
Government does not reject the scheme of arrange-
ment proposed by the Great Powers, and it will
accede to the cession of Holstein and Lauenberg,
and the partition of Schleswig, on general principle,
reserving its further decision as to the line within
which the frontier of Denmark is to be withdrawn,

BERLIN, June 3,

, -
The following farewell address has been issued
by Field-Marshal Count Wrangel to the allied
Prusso-Austrian Army :

Head-quarters, Horsens, May 20.
His Majesty the King, my most gracious master, has
deigned to relieve me from the chief command of the allied
army by a Cabinet order of the 18th inst., and at the same
time to confer upon me the rank of Count. Until further
notice the chief command is intrusted to his Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, as the senior
General present at the scene of war, while General von
Herwarth, of the infantry, undertakes the post of Com-
manding-General of the combined army corps.

His Majesty has given me his Royal thanks for the glo-
rious campaign, which has just arrived at a pause, I,nd
summons me to be near his gracious person at Berlin, that
I may not be exposed, at my advanced age, and after
an arduous winter campaign, to the poasibiiity of new
fatigues.

I therefore take leave of you, dear comrades of the allied
army, who have victoriously overcome the enemy in a cam.
paigu of several months, and endured the hardships of an
untvually severe winter.

The allied army under my leadership has so brilliantly
fu;filled its appointed task, the occupation of the Duchy of
Schleswig, that hundreds of guns and thousands of prisoners
remain in our hands, and that the enemy is expelled from
the continental portion of his kingdom.

The allied troops, as the worthy representatives of two
great armies, have fought side by side in faithful comrade-
ship with most praiseworthy z:Jal, and have thus attained an
object, which being gained I am enabled to retire with
satisfaction, highly honoured by the favour of our illus-
trious monarch,

For all this I return the Generals, officers, functionaries,
and soldiers of the allied army my 'warmest and most heart-
felt thanks. At your head I have passed the proudest and
happiest days which the favour of Providence has appointed
to my lot.

Farewell, and do not forget your veteran leader, who
will recollect you and your exploits with thankfulness and
pride until the last hour of his lire.
VON, WRANGEL, Field-Marshal.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE NAN Y.

A letter from Malts, dated May 31, says :—" Her
Majesty's screw steam transport Tamar, and her
Majesty's screw steam transport Himalaya, left on
the 24th, both for Corfu, to remove the troops thence
on the cession of the lonian Islands to Greece.
Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Galatea, which
arrived from Portland and Uibraltar on the 25th,
and her Majesty's steam sloop Trident, which ar-
rived from Serbi on the same day, left both for
Corfu on the 26th. Mr. Richard Reade, promoted
from the Vice-Consulate of Bengazi to be Consul at
Scatari in Albania, went passenger by the Tamar,
and Lieut. Wynne, R.E., by the Trident. The
Himalaya will return to Malta about the 4th of
June with the 4th to relieve the 25th Regiment,
which will be conveyed to Canada by the same ves-
sel. Her Majesty's screw steam gunboat Foxhound
arrived from Tunis on the 25th, bringing intelli-
gence that three other large French ships of war
had arrived from Toulon, whence four more were
looked for in addition to the five which have been
some weeks in Tunis Bay, where there were also
six Italian ships of war, three Ottoman, and one
Portuguese, the Royal Oak ironclad steam frigate,
and the Pelican steam corvette, English. The Fox-
hound put to sea on the 31st of May, without mak-
ing known her destination. She is supposed to have
proceeded to Corfu, with despatches for Admiral
Smart, to hand from England, via Marseilles, on the
evening preceding. At a court-martial held on
board her Majesty's ship Hibernia in Malta har-
bour on the 19th of May, Lieut. Hanson, additional
of the troop ship Tamar, was tried for having,
daring hie watch at sea, on board of said ves-
sel, when carrying
troops in the West Indies,
been found intoxicated
and asleep. The accused
denied the charge, and attributed the state in
which he was found to debility and illness brought
on by fatigue in a scorching suet, and a constitution
severely shaken by Wet schen:serving in the Burmah
war, but, nevertheless, the
Court declared the
charge proved, and pronounced his sentence of dis-
missal from the service. The movements at Malta of
foreign ships of war consist of the French steamer
IVlonette, which arrived on the 24th from Tunis,
and left the 25th of May for the Piraeus of Athens;
the sultan's stea m yacht Feizi Diebat, haein _
gon board
Vice-Admiral Rassoum Pascia,
which after having
her bottom cleaned, left for the Golden Horn, Con-
stantinople, on the 26th of May; the Italian screw
steam Principe Remberto, which left for Cagliari on
the 26th, and the United States sailing corveete
Constellation, which arrived from Tunis on the 28th
of May. An Ottoman line-of-battle ship, under
the command of Captain Arif Bey, accompanied by
two large frigates, passed Malta ov the 24th of May,
beating up against a strong westerly wind. We
understand they are from Constantinople, bound to
England to be fitted with steam machinery."
The screw steamship Norman, Capt. Johns, be.
long to Mr George Langley, of Southampton, char-
tered by the Government to bring military invalids
from Gibraltar direct to Netley Hospital, arrived at
Southampton on Saturday morning. She left Gib-
raltar at 4,30 p.m. on the 28th ult., and had fine
weather on the passage, with fresh to light winds,
principally from the northeast. The troops on
board comprised Capt. Siree, of the 3d Buffs; En-
sign T. R. Watson, 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers
Dr Murray, AseisteStaff-Surgeon; 85 invalids, 33
rank and file, 18 women, and 34 children, Before
leaving the ship the
handed to Capt. Johns a certificate expressive of

their perfect satisfaction with the accommodation
and all the arrangements made on board the Nor-
man for tha troops, and with the attention and
kindness shown by Capt. Johns and the ship's com-
pany generally.

On Saturday there was launched from Mr Chas.
Langley's Commercial Dock, Rotherhithe, an
Alabama-rigged patent combination ship, classed
A 1 at Lloyd's for fifteen years, belonging to Messrs
Smith, Heming, and Co., merchants end ship
owners, of 18, Leadenhallastreet. She is of 650 tons
burden, and is intended for the East India and China
trade. She was built from the design and under the
superintendence of Messrs S.H. Harrington and Co.
naval architects, of 27, Leadenhall•street, and in
consequence of the novel mode of construction has
excited much interest. She has been visited by Lord
Clarence Paget, Mr Reed, the chief constructor; and
Admiral Robinson, Comptroller of the Navy. The
result has been that the Admiralty have contracted
with Mr. Langley to build an ironclad vessel of
war on the same principle. They are about to adopt
it in the construction of their new 4,000 tons troop
ships, the estimates for which have already been
passed. The mode of construction is this:—The
frames of the vessels are, in the first place, con-
structed entirely of angle iron of the same weight as
that used in building iron ships of a similar tonnage.
Each frame is then riveted to a horizontal keel, stem
and stern plate broad enough to fasten the garboard
to. A middle line keel is then riveted between the
upper and lower horizontal keel plates, by means of
angle irons running longitudinally the whole length
of the ship, forming therewith a strong girder of a
similar construction to those used in railway bridges,
The half-floor plates are riveted to the middle line
keelson between doubling clips of angle iron, and
carried up in the usual way to the turn of the bilge,
and the reversed frames are rivited on across the
floor heads and carried up to the stringer plates.
Ball iron beams are then fixed, which makes the
whole frame rigid and ready to receive the planking,
the first coating of which consists wholly of teak,
and is fastened to the frames by galvanising nut and
screw-bolts from keel to gunwale. The wood keel is
also brought on the iron horizontal keel plate, and
fastened) to it by moans of iron screw-bolts from
inside. The garboards are then rabeted in and
fastened through the iron keel-plate with galvanised
iron nut and screw bolts. This first skin is 2fin.
thick, and the seams are fitted close, and double-
fastened to the frames throughout Diagonal steps
of iron by lie. are then let in, and on this
skin, crossed in squares of about 6ft., fastened
through frames when they cross, and carried from
keel to gunwale. A suitable composition of chunam
is then used, and the outer skin of 2iin. rock
elm brought on to the turn:of the bilge. Thence
upwards 21in. teak is used. Each plank is fitted
to overlap the inner seams (rendering it impossible
for the vessel to leak), and then fastened with yel-
low metal clench bolts to the inner skin, all the
holes being carefully bored free of iron frames or
straps. By this means the planking of the vessels
is tied together vertically as well as longitudinally;
no copper bolts or metal sheathing are in contact
with iron, and the vessel is felted and sheathed
with copper in the ordinary way. The obvious ad-
vantage of this system is that there are no through
seams, no risk of galvanic action, great longitu-
dinal strength, increased buoyancy, and capacity
over vessels built wholly of iron. As vessels of
war, they will be able to go to any part of the
world, where there are no facilities for docking—
which is an absolute necessity to our Channel fleet
three or four times in the year. These vessels also
afford a greater security to life in the event of ship•
wreck, as they cannot break up so readily as iron
ships.

To-day and to-morrow the troops of the 18th
Hussars, at present stationed at Norwich, Ipswich,
and Northampton, will leave those towns en route
for India. The barracks of Ipswich will shortly be
occupied by two troops of the 16th Lancers, while
the remaining troops of that regiment, with the
rwaequarters, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Dickson, will be stationed in the new cavalry bar•
racks at Colchester, The old system of dividing a
cavalry regiment between Norwich, Ipswich, and
Northampton e.-ppears to be abandoned.

Ocean Yacht Race,

On Saturday the great yachting event of the
Thames season—the ocean race for schooners,
cutters, and yawls, from tte Lower Hope be-
low Gravesend to H trwich Harbour—cause off
with the utmost success. The first prize, for
schooners, was £BO ; and the second, for
cutters, £5O; but these rewards, as may be
guessed, were the least part of the inducements
which drew together such a beautiful fleet of
yachts—all in the finest condition as to trim and
equipment, and all anxious, and more or less
confident of their ability, to carry off the Great
Thames prize, the highest honour which can fall to
the lot of the Thames Club boats. No less than 27
yachts entered to compete for this race-13 cutters,
11 schooners, and 3 yawls, and a finer or more
numerous fleet never assembled on the Thames for
match-sailing. The yachts were the Glance, cutter,
36 tons, G. W. Chorlwood—Vindex, cutter, 45, A.
Duncan—Surge, cutter, 52, W. NV. F. Hay—Zigan,
u J. T. Powell—Volante, cutter, 60, H. C.
tatter, 4,
Mandalay—Marina
Marina cutter, 65, J. C. Morice, Astarte
cutter, 75, T. Seddon—Hesperus, schooner, 33, T.
Marriott-Dodington—Amberwitch, yawl, 51, Capt.
H. Bacon—Aquiline, schooner, 55, H. Chamier—
Clytie, schooner, 64, Capt. F. S. Clarkson—Mad
cap, schooner, 71, J. S. Abbott-Dunbar—Medea,
schooner, 70, W. J. Rideout —Whirlwind, yawl, 77,
A. Fox—Fleur de Lys, schooner, 77, H. W. Birch
—lolanthe, schooner, 81,H. Bridson—Water Lily,
yawl, 105, Commodore Lord A. Paget, M.P.—Al-
batross, schooner, 110, I. R. Tetley—Zoraide,
schooner, 155, W. J. Pawson—Albertine, schooner,
155, Lord Londesborougle—Zue, schooner, 162, Sir
Bruce Chichester. Of these vessels all with the ex-
ception of the Amberwitch and Zoraide, were yachts
of the Thames Club, the Arnhem itch belonging to
the Yorkshire Club, and the Zoraide, to the Royal
Squadron. In addition to these a large number of
other yachts not entered for the race or belonging
to different clubs were at the Lower Hope as well,
so that the waters of this usually desolate-looking
part of the river were crowded with craft, gliding
in all directions, or waiting, like the competitors,
with everything ready to let go when the signal
came which was to start them out to sea. The
weather from the visitors' point of view was all
that could be wished—but the competitors and
yachtsmen generally would have been well con-
tent to have exchanged their share of the bright
sunshine for rain itself, so that it brought
wind with it. It is, perhaps, one of the drawbacks
on these yacht races that the weather that suits the
yachts for racing is seldom agreeable to the visitors
who come to see them from the steamers. Cloudy
weather, with a keen and eager wind, and now and
then a squall of rain to soak the sails, is what the
yachts want, while the visitors' taste not unnatu-
turally inclines to warm sunshine and mild balmy
airs, which as often as not reduce the contest for
speed between the yachts into a mere drifting match
with the tide. One of the most exciting races that
was ever sailed on the Thames was about five years
ago, when the match was through a succession of
fierce squalls with torrents of blinding rain, and
when the winner, and most of the losers, too, came
in with nearly all their standing rigging carried
away, with sails split and spars sprung. That was
a most exciting contest, and for the spectators a
awriattsovstertyhrloi tutglehoe:ittheemreanctxc.e,
Southend
most supremely miserable one. On Saturday there
a sufficiency It
an d was
except visitors'
w h
ewhen weather
near
, and for a very short time, there was never
qualities
of wind to develope the best sailing
of the competitors • especially of such large
vessels as the
A orderne and
to Zee,
get ore evenlar
g e
ao ff
itehe e
Water Lily, thetln
Lord Alfred yawl of the commodore of the Paget,club,
into proper starting order, it was decided that they
should start in tiers of three
each, each class of yes•
sels being separated, the smaller ones, of course,
taking the front rank. As 11
we as the depth of
water would permit, this arrangement was adhered
to, the buoys which marked the t s a ions extending
along the Essex shore from 0 woes buoy to the light
on the Mucking sand. All the schooners had availed
themselves of the permission granted to hoist their