The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1863.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THIRSK RACES-WEDNESDAY.

The Scurry Handicap (Selling) of 3 sous each, with 20
added. Four furlongs 132 yards.

Mr. F. Over's General Bixio, 4 yrs ..(Whiteley) 1
Mr. Frank's Dick Swiveller, aged (Ilowey) 2
Mr. J. Smith's Trump About, 3 yrs (Lawson) 3
The following also ran :—Slingsby, Exile of Erin, Small
Beer, BenevolencP, Little Pinkie, and Sledmere.
Betting-2 to 1 agst General Bixio, 3to 1 agst Benevo-
lence, 5 to 1 any other.
Won by half a length ; a neck between second and third.
The North Riding Farmers' Cup, value 100 sous ; added to
a Sweepstakes of 2 soya each; 4-yr-olds, list; live, list
101 b; six and aged, 12st 31b. Two miles.
Mr. Cass's Skyrocket (Owner) 1
Mr. Gilling's Is That You, aged (Mr. Thompson) 2
Mr. Cass's The Jew (Mr. Leighton) 3
Mr, Robson's Maid of the Rye, 5 yrs (Owner) 0

Betting-5 to 4 agst Skyrocket-2 to 1 agst Maid of the
Rye.

Won by a length ; a bad third. The winner objected to.
The Thirak Handicap of 5 soya each, with 100 added ; win-
ners extra ; second to save his stake. About and mile
and 6 furlongs.
Mr. Brodie's Lothians' King (late Ducat), 5 yrs, 7st
(Whiteley) 1
Mr. Dawson's Tommy Jones, 4 yrs, 7st Glb (Buck) 2
Captain Gray's Fairy Queen, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (inc 51b ex)
(Marlon) 3
The following also ran :—Haddington, Charles Fox,
Prologue, Alice, Zest colt, Bohemian, and Cachuca.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Haddington, 7to 2 agst Fairy
Queen, 6 to 1 each Lothian's King and Charles Fox.
Won by a length; half a length between second and
third. Haddington was left at the post ; he is now en route
to Epsom.

The Tyro Stakes of 3 soya each, with 25 added, for 2-yr-
olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies and geldings Bst 31b, selling al •

lowances. 4 furlongs 132 yards.
Mr. Osborne's Coverdale (Whiteley) 1
Mr. Rogers's Thornton (Metcalf) 2
Mr. Winteringham's Lady Braybrook (Noble) 3
Mr. Thourpson's Mary Avenal (Owner) 4
Betting—Even on Coverdale, 6 to 2 agst any other,

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Won by a length, same between second and third.
The Silver Cup, value 50 sovs, for hunters; 5-yr-olds list
7st, six 12st 41b, aged 12st 91b, gentleman riders, About
one mile and three quarters.
Mr. Smith's Village Girl, 6 yrs (Mr, Smith) 1
Lord Middleton's Friar Tuck, 5 yrs (Mr. Price) 2

D'Orsay Clark, Blackfriars, Is that You, and The Jew
also ran.

Betting-5 to 4on Friar Tuck, 6to 4 agst D'Orsay
Clark.

Won by a neck. Only two placed,

CHELTENHAM GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLE-

CHASES-WEDNESDAY.

The Arle Plate (Handicap) of 30 soya, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sous each, the winner to be sold for 60 gs.
Three miles. 13 subs.

Hon, Col. Berkeley's Long Odds, 6 yrs, lOst 41b
(Geo. Holman) 1
Mr. E. Green's Deception, aged, lOst 71b.... (C. Boyce) 2
Sir Henry also ran.
Betting---6 to son Deception, sto 4 agst Long Odds, 6
to 1 agst Sir Henry.
Deception made play for a quarter of a mile ; Long Odds
lay second, but coming round the bend towards the back of
the stand, Sir Henry, who for some time previously had
been miming alongside Long Odds,took up the running, and
carried it on behind the stand, and until arriving near the
starting place,where Deception again went to the front, Sir
Henry second, and Long Odds third. After the favourite
had been indulged with a commanding lead, her two oppo •
nents closed up before reaching the brook, which was taken
near the ropes, first by Deception, and then by Sir Henry
and Long Odds, well together. Passing the judge, Long
Odds and Sir Henry, side by side, were about a couple of
lengths in the rear of Deception, and the disastrous leap be-
yond the stand was watched with great interest. All, how-
ever, got over admirably, and from this point Sir Henry
was beaten. At the last jump but two Deception staked her-
self, and literally opened her off-side flank, but notwith-
standing this unfortunate accident Boyce continued a severe
race to the brook, when Long Odds had the race in hand,
and coming on, won easily by three lengths. Sir Henry
did not pass the post.
The Grand Annual Steeplechase, a Handicap of 10 soya
each, 5 ft, 3 only if declared ; winners extra. About four
miles. 30 subs., 14 of whom pay 3 soya ft.

Lord Coventry's Emblem, aged, list 71b (G. Stevens) 1
Mr. Hudson's Pine Apple, aged, 10st., (G. Waddington) 2
Mr. Murray's Freshman, aged, list (Mr. Edwards) 3

The following also ran :—Wee Nell, Sinking Fund,
Romeo, Light of Other Days. Piff Paff, and Orphan.
Betting-6 to 5 agat Emblem, 3to l agst Sinking Fund,
4 to 1 agat Wee Nell, 7 to 1 each agst Pine Apple and Piff
Paff.

After one failure they left the starting post, Sinking Fund
at once rushing to the front, followed by Freshman, Wee
Nell, Piff Paff, Light of Other Days, Pine Apple, and
Romeo. Half a dozen lengths in the rear of the "old horse"
came Orphan, and a similar distance from her Emblem, at
least 100 yards from the leader. Approaching that part
where the horses went behind the stand Wee Nell passed
Sinking Fund, and, adding fresh pace to the already
"cracker" at which they were going, Emblem and Orphan
were left still further in the rear. In the long grass field
before reaching the starting point the lot were in Indian
file, Wee Nell carrying on the running with Pine Apple,
Sinking Fund, Freshman, Light of Other Days, Piff
Paff, Romeo, Orphan, and Emblem following in the
order named. At this point Emblem and Orphan were
fully two hundred yards from the leader, and although
Lord Coventry's mare was going well within herself, offers
of 2to 1 agst her winning were freely made. Arriving at
the starting point, Sinking Fund again took up the running,
Wee Nell going on second, and with the others there was no
alteration until coming towards the back of the stand the
second time, where Orphan and Emblem rapidly made up
some of their lost ground. In the ploughed field behind the
stand they were altogether, and on proceeding along the
large grass field Sinking Fund continued in front, with Wee
Nell second ; Puff Paff running past some of her horses,
took third place, with Light of Other Days fourth, Pine
Apple fifth, and at a distance of half a dozen lengths, Romeo
and Freshman. Orphan having been stopped, Emblem, who
was still in the rear, was the only other in the race. The
water-jump was cleared in the following order :—Sinking
Fund, Wee Nell, Pine Apple, Light of Other Days, Emblem,
Freshman, and Romeo. The field was further reduced by
Piff Paff having come to grief before reaching the brook,
and at the subsequent "skew" fence, so disastrous on Tues.
day, Romeo and Sinking Fund refused, and walked back to
the enclosure. This mishap to the " Baker" division left
Wee Nell in possession of the lead, Pine Apple going on
second and Emblem third. Freshman and Light of Other
Days were at this point pursuing a stern chase. Wee Nell
narrowly escaped a " purler" at the fence three- quarters of
a mile from home, and was very much distressed ; she fell
on her hoed, and Knott had much difficulty in saving her
from being hors de combat. As it was, this mishap gave
Pine Apple the lead, and enabled Emblem, who was here
full of running, to take second place. Stevens patiently
waited with Lord Coventry's mare until arriving upon the
race-course—half a mile from the finish—when, upon being
let out, she came away from Pine Apple, and finally won in
a canter by ten lengths. Freshman was a bad third, and
Wee Nell, "tired to death," walked home.

The Farmers' Steeplechase, a Sweepstakes of 3 sous each,
with 25 added, for hunters, 12st each ; gentlemen riders ;
professionals, 71b extra. About three miles. 9 subs.
Mr. Cook's Beckford Lass, 12st 71b (Inc 71b extra)
(Owner) 1
Mr. Williams's Gaper, 12st (Mr. Davidson) 2
Mr. Powell's Maid of the Mill, 12st (Mr. Gough) 3
Mr. T. Pearce's Berkeley Lass, 12st 71b (inc. 71b extra)
(Mr. Birch) 4
Betting—Even on Berkeley Lass, 3 to 1 was offered agst
any other.

Berkeley Lass made lay until she fell at the water jump,
which gave the lead to Gaper, who was waited upon by
Beekford Lass. Half a mile from home Beckford Lass went
to the front, and won by three lengths ; a bad third.
The Consolation Scramble (handicap) of 1 soy each, with
Two miles.._
Mr. B. Land's Oliver Twist, aged, list 71b

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
QUEENSTOWN, April 15.

The Inman steamer Etna, which arrived here this
evening, brings 34 cabin and 62 stet rage passengers,
and 414,050 dols. in specie.
(Per Etna.)
NEW YORK, April 3, Morning.

It is reported from Hilton Head that Gen. Hun-
ter has ordered a negro brigade to return from
Jacksonville, it was supposed to operate in the at-
tack on Charleston.

Gen. Dix writes from Fort Monroe that he has
no information to warrant the conclusion that the
Confederates are evacuating Richmond.
Semi-official Washington despatches say that
reports from the commanders of the Federal vessels
which attempted to pass Port Hudson were re-
ceived, from which it appeared that all the vessels
had reached the last and most formidable of the bat-
teries when the steamer Mississippi grounded. This
mishap caused a derangement of Admiral Farragut's
plans, and the vessels returned down the river.
Southern journals assert that the only casualties in
the Port Hudson batteries during the passage of the
Federal vessels were one lieutenant wounded, and
one severely wounded,

The Richmond Examiner contains an official re-
port from General Bragg,. dated Tullahoma, 27th,
stating that Gen. Forest had visited Brentwood,
burnt the bridge, taken all the property and arms,
and captured 800 prisoners, including 35 officers.
Brentwood is nine miles from Nashville and Frank-
lin, at both of which places there are several thou-
sand Federal troops.
An engagement has occurred on the Bear River,
Washington territory, between 200 Federal troops
and 500 Indians. After four hours' fighting nearly
the entire band of Indians were killed, 420 of them
being left dead on the field. This band of Indians
had murdered many miners and emigrants of the
overland route.

The Savannah Republican, referring to negro
expeditions into Florida, hopes that the whole
negro force will be concentrated at Jacksonsville,
as owners will then recover their negro property,
provided that the blacks can be got far enough
from the gunboats, and ridicules the idea of negroes
doing serious fighting against white men. The
Federal journals, however, assert that the negroes
have several times encountered the Confederates
near Jacksonsville, and defeated them.
The want of
"more pr
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oSoasvaionnsaahvßaneopouhbl Republican
esoaoyms
impor-
tant.i:o-
The city authorities have requested the rail-
way authorities to refuse to carry provisions out of
town. This may do good so far as rice is concerned,
but it is questionable whether there is anything
else in Savannah. For the last few days it has
been difficult for families to buy bacon, and many
persons could not find corn meal even in small
quantities. The evil is that retailers of provisions
have been forced to go or send to the country for
supplies. They succeeded in buying some in small
quantities, but their army was stopped by Govern-
ment agents at the Gulf road. Even small parcels
remain there while families require them."

A public ovation to General Butler will take
place to-night at the New York Academy of Music.
The Loyal League will hold a mass meeting in
Union-square, New York, on the 11th of April, the
anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter.
A large Union Meeting has been held in Wash-
ington, in the House of Representatives. President
Lincoln and the members of the Cabinet were pro-
sent. War speeches were made, and war resolu-
tions passed.
During the mouth of March 200 gold, silver, and
copper mining companies were formed in San
Francisco to develop the mines in California,
Nevada, and North-Western Mexico; their nomi-
nal capital was over eighty millions of dollars.

A British frigate arrived in Hampton Roads on
the 31st ult., from Havannah on the 23d. All is
quiet in San Domingo. The rebellion is crushed.
The Captain-General of Cuba is making a tour
through the island. He visited Matanzas, Car-
denas, and Bimba Saguan.
Admiralvaah, Wilkes,
the Vanderbilt, arrived at
H nn
sailedandin
thence shortly afterwards.
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The British steamer Neptune arrived at Haven-
nab. It is supposed that she is intended to run the
blockade,

Upon the substantial confirmation from Cairo of
news in respect to Vicksburg comes a further rumour,
that Admiral Farragut, in the Hartford, has been
captured by the Confederates.
Admiral Farragut passed Port Hudson batteries
with only two damaged vessels.
The repulse of Gen. Banks is now reported on the
authority of Philadelphia pipers. This of course
entails fresh delays before Port Hudson, and leaves
the Confederates at liberty to continue their traffic
overland and by the Red River with Texas, Arkan-
sas, and Mexico.

NEW YORK, April 3, Afternoon.

Further Federal accounts from New Orleans assert
that Gen. Banks's second reconnaisance from Baton
Rouge succeeded in its object, which was to aseer-
tain the whereabouts of Admiral Farragut's vessels,
but the details of the expedition do not materially
differ from those published by the Philadelphia
Enquirer.
Gen, Banks is at New Orleans.
There is a considerable Confederate force under
Gen. Kirby Smith in the neighbourhood of Brashear
City, and the Confederate gunboats, Queen of the
West and Webb, are said to be in Chafalaya River,
not far above Brashear.

The main body of the Federals under General
Weitzel are at Bayon Bouf and Brashear, and skir-
mishing occurs daily between the contending forces.
An expedition has been made from New Orleans
across Lake Pontchartrain to destroy the Pass
Manchac bridge, at the opening of Lake Pontchar-
train and Mauripas. The expedition is reported to
have taken possession of Pass Manchac and pro-
ceeded to Pontchatoula. Several prisoners and 400
bales of cotton were captured.

It is reported in New Orleans from the Gulf that
yellow fever was already assuming a malignant
form in the extreme South, and an impression was
prevalent that it would reach New Orleans this
summer. New Orleans has been free from yellow
fever since 1858. Union leagues are being esta-
blished at New Orleans.

The Charleston Courier of the 27th says :—" Four
steamers have arrived from Nassau since Sunday.
Notwithstanding the blockade Charleston is en-
joying a larger direct foreign trade than she has
ever had before.

The steamers Cornubia and Beauregard, with
1,400 bales of cotton, arrived at Bermuda on the
23d from Southern ports. The steamer Gertrude
has arrived at Charleston, and the steamer Bri-
tannia has arrived at Wilmington.

The privateer Florida has captured and burnt the
ship Star of Peace, from Calcutta for Boston. The
Florida has captured another American schooner.
She was chased by the Vanderbilt off Barbadoes,
but escaped.
The captain of the steamer Peterhoff is said to
have laid the facts of her capture before Lord Lyons,
who, it is reported, will make a formal demand on
the Government for the release of the vessel, and
indemnity to the owners.
The British schooner Mary Jane has been cap-
tured off Wilmington.
The Virginia Legislature has passed a bill pro-
viding that speculators in food shall be punished
for misdemeanour.

President Davies is reported to be suffering from
an abscess in the eye, by which it is feared he will
lose his sight.
The preliminary report of M'Clellan's operations,
from the evacuation of Harrison's Landing to the
close of the Maryland campaign, has been pablished..
He declares that the disgraceful surrender of Har-
per's Ferry deprived his operations of the results

which would have formed a brilliant sequel to a
substantial and gratifying success.
A large ovation was given last night by the royal
League and the citizens to General Butler at the
Academy of Music.

General Butler made a characteristic speech, and
declared that the British Government and aristo-
cracy hated America with hate passing all under-
standing. He urged a proclamation of non-
intercourse with England, and the stopping of ex-
portation of gold, so that the Western produce
would be shipped to France in exchange for silks.
A mass meeting of the Loyal League was pro-
posed to take place in Washington in June.
NEW YORK, April 3, Evening.
General Sherman's Sunflower expedition has re-
turned, and is disembarking at Young's Point. The
expedition is said at one time to have been hemmed
in by the river obstructions placed in the front and
rear of the transports, and to have been extricated
with difficulty.

The canal opposite Vicksburg is abandoned, the
Confederate Cannon commanding two thirds of its
length.
It is reported that the Confederates have taken
the steamer Indianola to Alexandria, o❑ the Red
River, and repaired her sufficiently to make her
serviceable.

Fears are entertained for the safety of Admiral
Farragut's steamers Hartford and Albatross, as the
Confederates now have three rams between Vicks-
burg and Port Hudson.
The Confederates, under Van Dorn, are crossing
the river at Palmyra, and are endeavouring to flank
General Rosencranz on the left. Van Dorn has a
heavy supply of Artillery, and his movement is sup-
posed to be aimed against Kentucky.

The Confederate armies of Tennessee and the Mis-
sissippi are reported to be forming a junction.
The Confederates are in force in the neighbour-
hood of Fort Donelson.

General Hooker has ordered a general muster of
the troops of the Potomac army for the use of the
provost-marshal in making a draft to fill up the
complement of each regiment.
Mosby'a Confederate cavalry visited Centreville,
Virginia, on Tuesday, and left for Dranesville,
where they encountered a squadron of Vermont
cavalry, whom they defeated and put to flight.
M'Clellan's official report of the seven days' fight-
ing on the Peninsula, and falling back to Berkely,
is published. He says in the report that no such
difficult movement was ever more successfully exe-
cuted.

The New York Times says General Butler's de-
nunciations of England, and his predictions of re-
tribution for the wrongs she has committed, were
received and echoed with the utmost enthusiasm at
the Academy of Music.
The cargo of the ship Star of Peace was valued
at half a million of dollars.

General Price is re-organising the Confederate
forces in Arkansas, preparatory to the invasion of
Missouri.

The Federals burnt Pensacola previous to eva-
cuating it.
NEW YORK, April 4, Morning.
The committee on the conduct of the war has
issued a report.
The Democratic journals continue to assert that
a number of furloughs have been granted to Con-
necticut soldiers, with the special condition that
they would vote a Republican ticket.
The World publishes a special order from the
War Department, dismissing from the service a
New Hampshire officer, for circulating copperhead
tickets, and doing all he could to promote the suc-
cess of the rebel cause in his State.

It is reported that the Government will not at
present take any action under the Letters of
Marque Act.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, April 3, Evening.

Money easy, gold, 54 ; exchange on London,
bankers' bills, 167 to 169. Stocks quiet : New York
Centrals, 1121 ; Illinois, 89 ; Erie, 77-,-1. Cotton
dull: middling Upland, 75c. Flour quiet, 10c_
lower. \Vheat quiet. Corn quiet, lc. lower. Pro-
visions quiet. Coffee, sugar, and molasses quiet,
and unchanged.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, April 3.

Private advices received from Mexico state that
the Mexicans at Puebla numbered 18,000, under
Ortega; 4,000 more, under Comonfort and Car-
vajal, are between Puebla and the capital. At the
capital Juarez had no force of importance, and on
the fall of Puebla would take refuge in the State of
Morella.

General Forey, with 12,000 men, was advancing
by way of Orizaba, and General Bazaine, with
11,000 men, by way of Jalapa; they would meet
at Amozoc. Great complaints were made of Gen.
Forey's indifference to the political aspects of the
campaign, and Gen. Bazaine is expected to succeed
him, particularly as it is understood that M. de
Saligny has been restored to his full diplomatic
functions.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The screw steam frigate Orlando, 46, Capt.
George G. Randolph, from Bermuda, March 31,
under canvas only, arrived in Plymouth Sound
yesterday evening, all well. She left at the island
the Galatea, the Petrel, and the Terror.
The hired transport Newcastle, 1,137 tons, Capt.
Benest, belonging to Messrs. Green, of Blackwall,
from Calcutta, January 17, has arrived off Ply-
mouth, with 149 men, 6 women, and 14 children,
invalids from various regiments, under command of
Major Brownlow, and in medical charge of Dr.
Woodsworth. Sergeant Murphy, of the 80th Regi-
ment, died on the 14th of March.
The iron screw steam transport Megeera, 6, Com-
mander Henderson, left Plymouth yesterday with
the left wing of the 32d Regiment, for Dublin, en
route to the Curragh.
The Leander, 2,760 tons, 400-horse power, lately
attached to the Ist division of the Chatham steam
reserve, was commissioned at the Nore yesterday
by Capt. Thomas Harvey (January 31, 1848), late
of the Colossus, 80, 400-horse power, for service on
the Pacific station. The Lender was formerly one
of the fastest 50-gun sailing frigates in the service,
and about three years since was cut asunder,
lengthened 30 feet amidships, and converted into a
screw steamer. She is now one of the smartest
frigates of her class in the British navy. The
armament of the Leander has been reduced to 35
guns, like that of the Euryalus, flagship of Rear-
Admiral A. L. Kuper, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief
in the East Indies. The Leander has been fitted
with additional cabins to t,ccommodate a Commo-
dore and his Staff. She will probably relieve the
Topaze, 39, 600-horse power, bearing the flag of
Commodore the Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, senioroffi-
cer on the southern division of the Pacific station.
Yesterday Major-Gen. H. Eyre, cowmandn g the
forces in the Chatham district, reviewed the' whole
of the troops composing the Chathamgarrisonon.tie D
i
Lines. The forces on the greound Royal included
Engineers,
battery Royal Artillery,t
h
the depots of the East India and British regiments,
and
the the three battalionsor I
finfantry,.fantry.
Each
the brigade of Royal Marines Light
of the troops was provided with 10 rounds of blank
cartridge. On the arrival of Gen. Eyre on the
ground he was received by the troops drawn up in
contiguous columns of companies, and after inspect-
ing erch battalion the General took up his position
in front of the flagstaff, when the entire force
marched past, by columns of companies, in slow and
quick time. The remainder of the afternoon was
devoted to the execution of a variety of maneouvres
incidental to a brigade field day, in all of which the
troops engaged acquitted themselves in a very satin
factory manner. The troops quitted the Lines