The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-10 00:00:00

AQUATICS•

CAFFIN AND KING (the Ex-Champion Pugilist) FOR

£25 A-SIDE.

It will be remembered that this race was rowed on Tues-
day, the 28th February, when a protest was lodged by Mr.
Robert Bain, the trainer of Caffin, against the boat that
King rowed in, as not being an old-fashioned one accord-
ing to the articles drawn up on either side. The match
eventually took place, but a foul having occurred, the re-
feree decided that it should be rowed again on Mon-
day, the 13th of March—the protest in the mean-
time not having been decided. Since the match was
rowed an eminent boat-builder has given it as his opinion
that King's boat was not an old-fashioned one according
to the articles, consequently had he won the first match
the race the would been given to Caffin. Mr. Robert Bain
has again chartered the Volunteer and the Child
Harold steamers for the convenience of the numerous
visitors that are likely to accompany the match.
They will leave London-bridge at half-past one
o'clock, on Monday first, calling at all the piers upwards
to Putney. The Childe Harold will convey the umpire
and referee, and the other officials engaged on the occasion.
The other steamer will be specially devoted to the accom-
modation of the public. More than usual interest depends
upon the result, as King has already won two out of the
three events that he has backed himself for.

King is trained by George Drewitt, at Barnes ; and
Oaffin by Robert Bain, of Lambeth, at Wandsworth. King
is the favourite, at 2 and 3 to 1 on him.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, held a levee yesterday afternoon at the
Admiralty, Whitehall. The following officers at-
tended :—Rear-Admiral W. H. Anderson Mors-
head, Rear-Admiral E. Ommanney, Rear-Admiral
H. Layton, Capt. S. B. Piers, Capt. H. Harvey,
Capt. W. G. H. Johnstone, Capt. L. J. Moore,
Capt. the Hon. A. C. Hobart, Capt. T. Wilson,
Capt. T. Cochran, Capt. G. T. Hornby, Commander
W. H. Phipps, Commander E. L. Strangways,
Commander W. Jardine, Commander D. G. David-
spn, Commander J. A. Agnew, Commander E. B.
H. Franklin, Commander C. F. Boughey, Staff-
Commander W. S. Luke, Lieut. Seymour Curtis,
Lieut. J. B. Barnett, Lieut. J. B. Michell, Staff-
Surg. R. Bernard, Dr. J. Donnet (surg)., and Mr.
R. L. Sutherland (paymaster.)
Her Majesty's screw frigate Phaeton, 39, 2,396
tons, 400-horse power, Capt. G. Le G. Bowyear,
arrived at the Nore on Wednesday from North
America, and saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir
C. Talbot, K.C.8., Naval Commander-in-Chief.
During the day she commenced discharging her
powder and shell into one of the war department
transports sent from Chatham for conveyance to
the stores at Upnor Castle, and she is at once to be
dismantled in order to be put out of commission.
The Serpent, 4, screw steam gun vessel, 695 tons,
200-horse power, has been placed in the large basin
in Sheerness dockyard, and is being prepared with
all despatch for surveying service on the coast of
Japan, and will shortly be commissioned by Com-
mander Charles J. Bullock.

On Wednesday the screw steam Coastguard ship
Hawke, 60, Captain Edmund Heathcote,. from
Queenstown (accompanied by the paddlewheel
steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Captain Francis • H.
Shortt) arrived at Plymouth, and anchored in the
Sound. Shortly afterwards the ironcased screw
steamship Prince Consort, 35, Captain George 0.
Wines, C. 8., also lying in the Sound, got under
way foi the purpose of testing her speed at the
measured mile outside. The wind at the time was
strong from north-west, and the weather was rather
thick. The Prince Consort ran foul of the Hawke
and carried away her jibboom and damaged her
bowsprit. Her own fore and mainyards were in-
jured and a boat was smashed. Having sent down
the injured yards the Prince Consort proceeded on
her trial. Seamen belonging to the Hawke will be
paid off ; she is ordered to be dismantled, and will
probably be broken up.
Orders have been received at Chatham dockyard,
directing a survey to .be made of the sailing sloops
Childers, 12, and Mariner, 12, attached to the re-
serve in ordinary, previously to both those vessels
being broken up.
One of the divers attached to Chatham dockyard
has been selected by the Admiralty to examine the
bottom of the Great Eastern steamer, in order to
ascertain its condition, special application for his
services having been made to the Admiralty by the
Atlantic Telegraph Company.
The undermentioned non-commissioned officers
and privates of the Woolwich division of the Royal
Marine Light Infantry were on Wednesday pre-
sented at a general parade with medals for good'
conduct and long services, and also with gratuities:
—Staff-Sergt. and Gun Drill instructor William
Stock Sergeant, £l5 and medal ; Private Charles
Read, £5 and medal ; Private Charles Robinson,
£5 and medal ; William Henry Willoughby, pen-
sioner, late colour-sergt. ; Charles Jarvis and Alex.
Clarkson, late privates, pensioners, a medal only ;
and Sergt. William Jackson, £lO ; and Private
Young Baker, £5. Thirty-nine recruits joined
head-quarters of the Woolwich division on Wed-
nesday from the recruiting depot at Deal, and 40
left head-quarters at the same time for the
depot. Captain Melville Suther, R.M., has been
placed under orders at Woolwich to proceed by the
packet of the 20th inst., to join the battalion of
Royal Marines, serving in Japan. The following
notification was on Wednesday announced at i
Wool-
wich : Lieut.-Col. W. G. Suther, C. 8., n
com-
mand of the battalion serving in Japan, hashad
conferred upon him by
his Imperiali Majesty the
Emperor of the French the insignia
of officer of the
n
Legion of Honour ; and her
grerMaaniteshteyrtlßieoyQaul licence
been graciously pleased to
for that officer to accept and wear the Imperial
Order accordingly.
of stock pur-
It appears that the total quantity
chased on account of military savings..banks from
September 19, 1845, to January 5, 1865, was
£431,116—viz., £119,458 Three per Cent. Consols,
£90,590 Reduced Three per Cents., and £221,068
New Three per Cents. The total quantity of stock
sold in the same period was £94,236—viz.,
£78,118 Three per Cent. Consols, and £16,118
New Three per cents. The total otoeli thus held

by the fund for military savings-banks on January
5, 1865, was £336,880,—viz., £41,310 Three 'per
Cent. Consols, £90,500 Reduced Three per Wats. `7C:3
and £204,950 New Three per Cents. The £336,880
of stock represented an actual amount of cash held
of £302,959.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt.
E. Lacy, arrived at Spithead early yesterday morn-
ing, with the 92d Gordon Highlanders on board,
after a quick passage of 46 hours from Greenock,
strong winds from north to north-west prevailing
from the time of the ship leaving Greenock up to
her arrival at Spithead. The 92d will disembark
this morning from the Himalaya alongside Ports-
mouth dockyard, and proceed by special train on
the South Western Railway to Aldershot camp, via
Farnborough. Major Hamilton is now in command
of this distinguished regiment, which will arrive at
Aldershot to-day in the following strength :-27
officers, 782 men,. 99 soldiers' wives, 137 soldiers'
children, officers' families, and six officers' chargers.
The Himalaya's next duty will be to convey a
regiment from Dover to Queenstown, Ireland,
and afterward one other regiment from that port to
Malta. From Malta the Himalaya will next convey a
regiment to Canada, and return thence with the regi-
ment relieved by the one from Malta to England.

The sailing ship Trafalgar (one of the Messrs.
Green's Indian fleet), Commander E. Stackpoole,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning with invalid
troops on board for the Royal Victoria Military
Hospital at Netley, under contract with the Hon.
Council of India. She made the voyage in 86 days
from the Calcutta Sandheads. Her troop list com-
prises Major J. H. Creagh, 27th Regiment; Capt. J.
Wyse, 34th Regiment; Lieut. Lampard, 54th Regi-
ment; Lieut.W. H. C. Smith, 104th Regiment; Lieut.
C. G. Norris,Both Regiment; Assis. -Surg. C. Hooper,
42d R. H. B. W.; 142 invalided men from various
regiments, 1 time-expired man, 12 soldiers' wives, and
12 soldiers' children. Eight invalided soldiers died
during the passage home. The greatest satisfaction
is expressed with the accommodation and the food
and medical attendance on board. The disembar-
kation of the troops will be effected from the Tra-
falgar, at Spithead, by a Government steamer, for
conveyance to Netley this morning, the state of the
tide yesterday precluding the disembarkation on the
ship's arrival at Spithead. With the promised new
pier over the mud opposite the hospital at Netley it
will be possible, however, to land a freight of troops
from steamers of light draught, which are now being
constructed specially for the purpose, at any time of
tide, and any ship load of sick or wounded soldiers
who may then arrive in England will be removed
from the 'tween decks of the transport ship, so soon
as her anchor is dropped at Spithead, to the wards
of the hospital without having to undergo the vexa-
tious detention of some 24 hours on board ship, as
will be experienced by the majority of the troops
coming home from India this spring.
Her Majesty's 4-gun iron screw troopship Urgent,
Capt. Samuel H. Henderson, arrived at Woolwich
on Tuesday morning, and went alongside the T-pier,
in the Royal Arsenal. The Urgent reached Green-
hithe on the previous day at 1 p.m., where she made
fast for the night, sailing on the following morning
at 6, and arriving at Woolwich at 9. She brought
five batteries of the sth Brigade Garrison Artillery.
from Plymouth, in command of Major Lukin, con-
sisting of 26 officers, 477 non-commissioned officers
and men, 69 women, and 140 children. They
landed and marched up to the barracks at 4 o'clock,
taking up the quarters vacated an hour previously
by the first seven companies of the sth Fusiliers, on
their departure for Ireland. The Fusiliers mus-
tered on the Royal Artillery parade at 3 o'clock 550
strong, every man answering the roll, and were
carefully inspected by Major-Gen. Warde, C. 8.,
commanding the district. It was said that a more
exemplary body of men had never entered the gar-
rison, and that their temperate and well-regulated
conduct during the time they had been quartered
in Woolwich had been the subject of official re-
mark. A report to that effect was drawn up for the
Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief. The detach-
ment was under the command of Lieut.-Col. Mil-
man and the following officers :—Surg. W. K.
Swettenham, M.D., Captain TolArnshend, Captain
Matthew, Quartermaster Drake, Lieut. C. J. Mills,
Lieut. and Adjt. Enderby, Lieuts. Williams, Ormond,
Knox, and Hill; Ensigns Marker, Sanders, Tynte,
and Way. There were also 47 soldiers' wives and
48 children; the whole of them embarked on board
the Urgent for transport to Dublin, to be quartered
at Birr. The remaining five companies are under
orders to depart on the return of the Urgent from
Ireland, after transporting the first detachment to
their destination. She yesterday steamed down the
Thames from Woolwich arsenal, taking her depar-
ture at 11 o'clock.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—On Monday—.
Capt. E. Heathcote, to the Frederick William, vice
Codd ; Richard Holman, chief engineer to the Fis-
gard, to the Alecto ; John R. H. Potam, of the
Black Prince, and William Hallowell, of the Liver-
pool, promoted to first-class assist.-engineers; and
J. T. Trickett, acting second-class assist.-engineer,
to the Fisgard. On Tuesday—the Rev. John Er-
skine, to be chaplain of the Blenheim ; Peter Com-
rie, surgeon, to the Sparrowhawk ; John Dearden,
chief engineer, to the Sparrowhawk ; Philip T.
Gruchy and George F. Boothe, promoted to be
chief 'engineers ; Ezra Miles, engineer, to the Blen-
heim, for the Escott ; John Clift, engineer, to the
Sparrowhawk ; James Ireland, acting engineer, to
the Blenheim, for the Raven ; and Joe Bates, first-
class assist.-engineer, to the Sparrowhawk.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THis DAT.—Morning, lh. Bm.—Afternoon, lh. 30m.
To-Monnow.-Morning, lh. 50m.—Afternoon, 2h. Bm.