The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-29 00:00:00

The Insurrection in San Domingo,

By the Royal Mail Company's steamship Shan_
non, which arrived at Southampton yesterday, we
have intelligence from San Domingo giving details
of the fierce straggle which, as we mentioned yes-
terday, was going on in that island between the
Spaniards and the Dominicans.

The Jamaica Guardian of Oct. 9 publishes the
following intelligente :—" By the arrival of the
Spanish schooner Monte Christo we have later
intelligence from Santo Domingo. The Domi-
nicans, after having driven the Spanish soldiers
out of Puerto Plata, with terrible slaughter,
had been attacked by reinforcements from the
capital, and compelled to retire to Santiago de
Cabelleros, a town in the interior, where they
had made a stand against the Spaniards. General
Santona has not been killed, as was reported,
but had marched at the head of 2,000 men into
the district of Cibao to operate against the
Dominicans at Santiago de Cabelleros. Of the
force sent from Cuba on the receipt of tidings
of the outbreak, several men had been
wounded in the attack on Puerta Plata. The
officer in command, a colonel of artillery, had been
killed, being the only one of the attacking party
who fell in that encounter. Subsequently aba was fought between Puerto Plata and Santiagottle de
Caballeros, in which the Dominicans were worsted.
They were preparing, however, to make a stout
defence at the latter place.
The latest intelligence from San Domingo an-
nounces that the Spanish Government are pouring
in troops from Por:o Rico and Cuba. Quite 11,000
had already landed. The Spanish losses at San-
tiago exceeded 1,000. The battle of San Louis was
a serious encounter, but the Spaniards were victo.
rious.

By the schooner Rapid, with 54 refugees from,
Porto Plata, we have dates to the 18th September.
The 2,000 Spanish troops that left on the 3d for
' Santiago, under the command of General Suero,
were followed on the 10th by another force of 1,600
r but both divisions have been defeated. The latter,
on reaching Perez, a place about 18 miles from
Porto Plata, were attacked by the Dominicans.
and obliged to retire with the loss of several killed
and many wounded. They returned to Porto Plata
at midnight, which caused the greatest uneasiness
among the people, as everybody fancied that, the
rebels had entered the town. The men under Suero
succeeded in entering Santiago, and in uniting with
I the garrison commanded by Brigadier-General
Buceta, who had managed to retain the
fort. But Santiago having been burnt by the rebels
and there being a dearth of provisions, the
Spaniards were compelled to capitulate to a force
of 5,000 Dominicans. The terms of the capitula-
tion were, that the Spaniards should give up
tke fort to the Dominicans, on condition of their
permitting them to retreat to Porto Plata un-
molested. The Dominicans, however, did not
respect these stipulations, for the Spaniards had
no sooner left the fort and began their
march to Porto Plata, followed by a large
number of the inhabitants of Santiago, than the
Dominicans pursued them, firing upon them w ith
deadly effect. The Spanish losses are over 1,001) in
killed and wounded. Many of the inhabitants of
Santiago, who had sided with the Spaniards, Were
also killed during the burning of the town,
and
many more, including women and ail.
dren, were slain during the retreat of
the troops to Porto Plata. The atrocities
committed on both sides were horrible, and are
eneighbourhoodi
said to have been as bad as those committed
during the Sepoy rebelliont
u India The
ef
townsa
of San Carlos, in the
Domingo city, is said also to
haveburnt by the rebels, and it isbelibeeveend
that Porto Plata will share a similar Ate.
Many of the town's people, and some who
have had no share in the rebellion, except as
sufferers, have been arrested and imprisoned by
the Spaniards; others are denouncing their friends,
hoping that they will thereby shield themselves.
Bands of soldiers armed with Minis rifles, and pro-
ficient in rapine and lust, are daily roving through
the streets, breaking into houses, and destroying
their contents.

...--. 4., 4.........,
Navy a and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
VALET' rA, Oct. 24.—Her Majesty's iron screw
troopsh.Ap Or ontes, Capt. W. Hire, has made an-
other rand tb ird trip to Malta, from Gibraltar, which
she perform.ed in three days and a few hours, bring-
ing with her this time the 100th (Prince of Wales's)
Royal Canadians. She arrived here on the 17th
in at., and the same day the regiment disembarked
and took up their quarters in Fort Ricasoli, lately
-vacated by the 15th Foot. The following is the
strength of the 100th Regiment, as disembarked
from this ship—Major W. Campbell, Major H.
Cook ; Capts. H. G. Browne, T. W. W. Smythe, J.
Lee, -R. L. Bayliff, J. Lamb, and H. E. Davidson ;
Lien ts. F. W. Benwell, H, W. Lawrell, C. A. Bol-
ton, R. B. Dowling, G. U. Prior, and J. B. Kerste-
-man ; Ensigns W. Ritchie, W.' Hudson, J,. C. Shir-
lay, G. D. La Touche, D. S. D. Johnstone, G. P.
Lawry, and J. C. Jackson ; Surgeon J. S. Chartres,
.Assist.-Surgeon 1. T. Donaldson, and Quarter-
master W. Smith ; 106 non-commissioned officers
and men,62 women, and 104 children ; Mrs Browne,
Mrs. Chartres, Mrs. Smythe, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Lamb,
and Mrs. Smith. Col. Hallewell, Deputy Quarter-
master-General, who left by the Orontes, also re-
turned by her. The 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers
embarked to-day on board this vessel for Gibraltar,
and on her arrival there she will have completed the
service of transporting to Gibraltar and bringing to
Malta regiments comprising in all about 6,500 per-
sons, without, hitherto, a single casualty, and within
the short period of not more than seven weeks. Her
Majesty's surveying tender Growler, under the com-
mand of Staff-Commander Stokes, R.N., returned
into port on the 17th inst. from surveying the Me-
dina Bank to the eastward of Malta. It was dis-
covered some time ago by Capt. Spratt, 0.8., when
returning from the coast of Barbary, and called by
him after the name of the ship under his command.
The Hydra, surveying vessel, is on her..w. ay from
England to the Medina, which has been casmantled,
and is to be broken np. The unexpected retirement
of Capt. Spratt from the surveying service, of which
he was so distinguished a member, will cause a
change in her destination, and it is doubtful, under
"'resent circumstances, whether two vessels will be
retained in the surveying service on this station.
We learn from Corfu that the other surveying ves-
sel, Firefly, Commander A. Mansell, left on the 15th
inst. for the northward, to continue her hydrogra-
phical operations in that neighbourhood. The Or-
' lando, 46, Capt. G. R. Randolph, has also left Corfu
-for the Piraeus, to await the arrival of the King of
the Hellenes, and at last date there were no Eng-
lish men-of-war at that island. A Turkish trans-
port, with troops from Montenegro for Constanti-
nople, had put in there to coal. Her Majesty's
screw sloop Icarus, 11, Commander N. Salmon,
which has been under orders for England for some
months past, has at last received positive orders to
proceed to Malta on her way home, and she is daily
expected here from the Piraeus. Nothing more is
said about the immediate return of the Marl-
borough, 121, Capt. C. Fellowes (flagship of Com-
mander-in-Chief), and it is believed that she will
not leave Athens until after the arrival of the King,
when the Revenge, 78, Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley
(hearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R. Yslverton,
C. 8.), will take her place on the Athena station ;
and. Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H., will return to
Malta. Her Majesty's ship Gibraltar, 81, screw,
Captain J. C. Prevost, which left Plymouth
on the 7th inst. for Gibraltar and Malta, to re-
lieve the Queen, 74, Captain C. F. Hillyar,
.a ordered home, has not yet arrived here. Her
Majesty's despatch-boat Psyche, 2, Lieutenant-
Commander Sterne, moved round from the Sliema
Creek yesterday to the Great Harbour, and left this
morning with the mail received last night from
-Marseilles for the Commander-in-Chief."
The iron-cased frigate Prince Consort, Captain
Vesey, left Pky mouth Sound yesterday at noon for
the westward.

The iron screw steamship Black Prince, 41, Capt.
James F. B. Wainright, one of the Channel squad-
ren, now in the new long dock at Devonport, has
become a most, interesting object to the residents,
many of whom have visited her. The ship, not-
withstanding her great length, preserves nearly
the tame level as when afloat. During the late trial,
when her bottom was clean, she stemmed over 14
keeots an hour. She is now receivin new starboard
:howse-pipes, in consequence of the fracture of the
former pipes when dropping anchor. Her general
repairs ere of no great extent. Naval men in the
:locality suggest that the mainmast of the Black
.Prince ought to be further forward, nearer her
centre, if the position of her engines and machinery
would permit it. Many consider that her great
length demands four masts. Like several other
ships of war, her main shrouds are made of iron
wire. If these are shot away in action there are no
ready means of repair, as with hemp. It is sub-
mitted that the wire should be shackled on in
lengths of 10 or 12 feet, and that spare lengths
should be kept in store so as to be ready for any
casualty. One of the principal objects of placing
the Black Prince in dock was to examine her bottom
in regard to its condition after the application of
two kinds of composition which were put on some
five months since. The starboard side received a
coating supplied by Mr. Melnnis ; that on the port
side is from the laboratory of Mr. Hay, the Admi-
ralty chymist. It may be said, in the first place,
that neither of these inventions is a complete pre-
ventive of the fouling of this ship's bottom, and in
he second that it is difficult for an ordinary ob-
server to
pronounce a faithful judgment on the
relative merits of either as demonstrated in the pre-
sent ease. Weed or grass, about eight inches long,
prevails on both sides, more on the starboard than
on the Port side. The
growth is chiefly on the water
line, where it is Supposed to be encouraged by drop-
pings from the ni, which are naturally attracted
to the sides froth
the
tsurface of the soa. Weed pre-
vails less below
on h
starboard side, which has
also less shellfish
thanethere is on the port side,
where there are a few barnacles above. Below what
are called the " lands,
port side, clusters
of small mussels and corealtnile
is
stated that
shellfish
are said to prevail. It
that where they
exist the bottom of the Black Princew y
was chafed b
some floating substance over whit she passed at
sea. The quality of these applications, most impor-
tant in the estimation of naval men, remains to be
referred to—viz., the presentation of rust. The
starboard side is spotted with rust in almost every
direction, whereas on the port side corrosion has
only where the bows have been abraded
commenced
by the chain cables, or the sides chafed by boats,
after the bottom &c. It is therefore intended,
ohs
thoroughly cleaned, to pap her over entirely with a
coat of Hay's composition, that being considered
the best suited for the purpose.
Admiralty instructions have been received by the
authorities at Sheerness to the effect that her Ma-
jesty's screw steam iron ship Valiant, 34 guns, 4,063
tons, 800 horse power, built by the eminent firm of
Messrs. Samuda, which was launched at Millwall a
few days ago, and has since been taken into the
Victoria dock to receive her machinery, is to be
taken to Chatham to be docked and surveyed, after
which she veal be removed to Sheerness, to be fitted
for the first division of the steam reserve at that
place.

The Fawn, 17, screw steam sloop,
751 tons, 100
horse power, now fitting for sea at Sheerness Dock-
t_ e
Yard, has been removed from No. 1 Dock into
ibasic, where she was placed under the shears anh
masted. She is being brought forward for com-
mission with all despatch, and will shortly be com-
pleted. It is expected that the Fawn will take the
place of the Greyhound, 17, screw steam sloop, or
the Desperate, 8, screw steam sloop, both of which
vessels are ereplo,
ed on the North America and
West India stations.
Thy Ciio, 22, screw steam corvette, 1,472 tons,
400 horse power, belonging to the first division of
the Sheerness steam reserve, and only placed nut of
milers of the Admiralt
commission a few wePits also, has been docked, by
y, to
undergo alterations and
repairs, after which she will be again brought for-
ard for immediate commission.
w--- Tamar, 2, iron screw
The -', F.
troopship, 2,812 tons,
Capt. H. Stirling •
she
will
yard offf%
, Is expected
500 horse power,
the hands of Sheerness dock
to be out of'
I be taken
fortnight, when
cials in about a
ff m
/0 e I aplin Sands for It pre-
nil
to the mnsured