The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

711 E NAVi.

The iron frigate Black Prince, 40, screw, Capt.
J. F. B. Wainwright, was docked yesterday at
Portsmouth preparatory to the resumption of her
speed trials. It is intended to undock her again to-
day and send her out at once to Spithead, to com-
mence her trials again at the measured mile to-
morrow.

The Vindictive sailing frigate, coal and bread
depot ship, for Fernando Po, Master-Commander
Low, sailed from Spithead for her destination at
daylight on Wednesday morning with a fine easterly
breeze. Towards noon, however, the wind fell light
and variable inshore. The Vindictive and a fleet of
outward-bound merchant vessels at 4 p m., being
off St. Catherine's, close hauled, with the wind light
at W.S.W.

The Stork gunboat, commenced testing yesterday,
in Porchester Creek, Portsmouth,the sample armour
plates on the side of the Sultan target ship,supplied
from the Thames Ironworks, the Mersey Ironworks,
the Alonkbridge Company, and Messrs. Hill and
Smith.

The forging of portions of the iron work connected
with the fitting of the towers and shields on Capt.
Coles' plane to the decks of the Royal Sovereign has
been commenced in the smithery of Portsmouth
Dockyard. The number of hands employed upon
the ship has been increased to carry out the altera-
tions required to her upper decks.
The Psyche Admiralty yacht, master commander
Petley, was swung yesterday in Portsmouth har-
bour to ascertain the deviation of her compass.
The Simoom,iron screw troopship, lately returned
from service in China, has been brought down to
Portsmouth harbour and placed in the steam basin
preparatory to docking and refit so soon as men can
be spared from other work in hand in the yard.
The Simoom is one of the strongest built iron ships
in the Navy, has excellent accommodation for
troops, and, next to the Himalaya, is, without
doubt, the most efficient troopship under the Crown.
'We are glad to find that steps have at length been
taken to render her again available for the public
service.
The Hindostan, 78, having been repaired, was
removed yesterday from No. 4 deck, in the Devon-
port dockyard, to her moorings among the steam
reserve. It was intended to send her to the West
Indies to do duty as a receiving ship, but the Abou-
kir has been left there for that purpose.
The screw steam corvette Rattlesnake, 21, Capt.
A. E. Wilmot, C. 8., was put out of No. 3 dock at
Devonport, on Wednesday evening, and placed along-
side the hulk Endymion. The bottom of the corvette
has been cleaned and her copper repaired.
The screw steam gunboat Magpie, 3, was ap-
pointed to vacate the north basin at Keyham steam-
yard yesterday afternoon, and make a trial of her
machinery to-day outside Plymouth breakwater.
She will probably leave that port on Monday for
Queenstown, to resume duty as tender to the Hawke.
The copper has been stripped off from the bottom
of his Prussian Alajesty's screw steam corvette Ar-
cona, 26, Capt. Sundewall, which is now in No. 1
dock at Devonport yard. The leakage, caused pro-
bably by the action of the propeller, is near the
shafthole, which seems decayed. Artisans will be
hired to expedite her repairs.
The Prometheus, 5, 200-horse power, paddlewheel
steam sloop, lately returned from the West Coast of
Aft ica, is ordered to be taken into dock, at Chatham,
to undergo a thorough overhaul and repair, the
order for the Vixen, 6, 280-horse power, to be docked
at Chatham having been countermandedby the Ad-
miralty. The Prometheus will ge into the dock now
occupied by the Pylades, 21, 400-horse power, which
has been some months in the hands of the ship-
wrights.

The screw gunboat Sepoy, 2, 60-horse power, is
fitting for the first division of the Chatham steam
reserve. The Lily, 4, 200-horse power, is also fitting
for the steam reserve squadron in the Medway,
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Henry J. Harvey, confirmed
in rank of paymaster; and Josiah Sharp, in the
Fisgard, confirmed as second-class assist.-engineer.

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The following letter from Turin of the 23d, in
the independance of Brussels, gives details of the
state of public kcling in Ca!abri;Y„ the importance
of which cannot, be overrated, if they arc founded
on fact :

Fresh circumstances every moment occur to com-
plicate more and more the state of affairs. What
was new yesterday is old to-de; ; accounts follow
each other with that precipitation which is the cha-
racteristic sign of the gravity of the moment. Alarms
and false rumours make their way more then ever,
r and, what is natural enough, the most absurd and
the most terrible inventions are ercalated. It is
the reaction against the optimism which prevailed
at the commencement of the affair, when the Go-
vernment concealed and ettenuated the real state
of things. The impurtant fact and the news of the
day is the change which is about to take place in
the operations of Garibaldi and of the party of
action. Up to the present time Sicily has been the
scene of action ; now it is about to be removed to
the continent, and precisely into Calabria. That
province is in a blaze, and several thousand voluu-
teers arc already there. They form three corps,
one under General Corte, another under General
Bruzzesi, and the third under Null°. They occupy
the neigbourhood of the three great towns of
Calabria—Cattanzaro, Reggio, and Coacnza. They
arc waiting for Garibaldi, and their number every
day increases by reinforcements from all sides,
and especially from Sicily. It was at first
thought that Garibaldi would go alone to the
continent, and leave his volunteers in the island to
afterwards join him in small bands or isolatedly.
The ex-Dictator has adopted a precisely opposite
course. As soon as he found the impossibility of
crossing over to the continent with all his corps, he
immediately devised the means of getting over the
difficulty. It was then that the passage of the
volunteers by bands of 50 and 100 was decided on.
You will doubtless remember the inumerable de-
spatches which announced to the Government that
the volunteers were deserting en masse from the
Garibaldian camp. Every one was deceived, and
the Government was the first to fall into the error.
Those pretended desertions were only the breaking
up of the camp. When Garibaldi advanced on
Catania he had only about 2,500 men with him,
and from Catania the movement towards the con-
tinent was carried on on a large scale, so that at
the present time only a few hundreds of the volun-
teers remain in the island, and they will soon
follow their companions. Garibaldi intends to
embark the last, and, in spite of all the precautions
of Persano, it will be difficult to prevent his
reaching Calabria. It is thus that the movement
to which no one at first paid any attention has now
assumed such immense proportions, capable of
compromising the future fate of the whole Italian
Peninsula by consequences the nature and bearing
by which it is impossible to foresee.

The Monitear publishes the following at the head
of its political summary :

" According to the latest advices from Italy,
Garibaldi left Catania at 11 p.m. on the 24th, with
about 2000 men. The passage to Melito, where the
expedition arrived the next morning at 5 o'clock,
was made on board the steamer General Abbatucci,
belonging to the Valery Company, which had been
forcibly detained for two days at Catania. The
squadron of evolutions, commanded by Vice-Admiral
Regnault de Genouilly, has received orders to pro-
ceed from Ajaccio to the Bay of Naples." The
squadron in question consists, according to the
Opinion Nationale, of the line-of-battle ships Alex-
andre, Algesiras, Redoubtable, Bretagne, Castig-
lione, and Donawerth, and the despatch boat Caton.
A Paris letter in the Independance Beige thus
sums up a number of current reports :
" It is said that an ultimatum has been sent by
the Imperial Government to the Italian Ministry
calling on the Government of Victor Emmanuel
effectually to suppress the Garibaldian movement,
and adding that, in the event of its inability to do
so, France would herself execute ix, the Two Sicilies
the work which the Italian Monarch had failed to
accomplish. The rumour in question goes even so
far as to specify the contingencies to which this
intervention may give rise, and ascribes to the
Government the intention of occupying Gaeta, as a
preliminary step ; further, the report pretends that
these intentions, which have as yet no official foun-
dation, but rest on mere conjecture—have awakened
the susceptibilities of England, and alleges that the
British Cabinet has officially informed the Govern-
ment of France that if a French division thus ar-
bitrarily took possession of a fortress belonging to
an independent prince recognised by the two na-
tions, and installed itself on the Neapolitan coast,
at the same moment English vessels would land
troops in Sicily. There is nothing serious in all
this talk. Events have not indeed arrived at such
a point, but the facts, such as they are presented in
these surmises, have nothing, it must be acknow-
ledged, which is not logical, and if a dangerous
path is once entered upon, events might realise
what is yet but newsmongers speculation. It
would be, indeed, serious to furnish Great Britain
with an occasion for one of those occupations
which with her have scarcely ever an end, when
no resistance has been offered to them at the
outset, and especially when they are coloured
with a plausible pretext. Besides, it will no
doubt not be from considerations of prudence
—although sufficiently justified—that the denial
which the French Government will oppose to those
who attribute to it so rash a policy, must be re-
ceived. Notwithstanding the deplorable delays
which perpetuate so lamentably the melancholy
situation of Italy, the Conqueror of Solferino has
evidently too much interest in the unitary mo-
narchy, which only exists through him, to inflict
in the eyes of Europe such humiliation on the Mo-
narch who personifies that unity. Until further
information no credit should therefore be attached
to the report of that intervention. It is said that
under these unsatisfactory circumstances, M. Bene-
detti will not hasten his return to Italy. The
French Minister desires it will be easily understood
that the situation should be clearly defined, or at
least that a little light should be thrown upon it.
It is also affirmed that at the camp of Chalons the
Emperor consulted several general officers on the
subject of the Garibaldian rising, and that the ex-
pressions of their military susceptibilities and
wounded point of honour greatly contributed to
the tenor of the note which has just appeared in
the Moniteur."

GREAT Loss OF £2,500 BANK NOTES, &c.—This
morning information was forwarded by the city police to all
the various police stations in the metropolis and suburbs,
of the lbss of -€2,500, under the subjoined circumstances :
,
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday last, a gentleman
belonging' t° Charlton, in Kent, left a banking establish-
ment it, Clement s-lane, City, for the purpose of proceeding
by to North Rent Railway to Charlton. At that time he
had in his possession two £l,OOO Bank of England notes,
And a cheque for £5OO. He proceeded along Lombard-
street, Graceehurch-street, and over London-bridge, to the
station, and thence by the North Kent line of railway to
Charlton. On arriving at his destination he found the
whole of the large amount of money to be missing. He
cannot account for the disappearance of the money. The
notes and cheques have been stopped payment, and Mr.
Inspector Hamilton, of the city police, has issued this
morning a reward of £lOO.
THE CIRENCESTER SWINDLER.—Captain Conroy,
as he calls himself, but whose real name is James Summers,
has now been finally examined before the Cirencester ma-
gistrates, and fully committed for trial at the Glocester
Winter Assizes on the charges of swindling and bigamy.
As already stated in Vic Sun, his final committal was de-
ferred until atter the Glocester Assizes, finished last week,
in order to afford time for the police to obtain evidence on
the several charges against him. At the concluding exa_
mination it was proved that the prisoner had married three
young women in succession, and deserted them. He first,
in the name of James Summers, ;
married Margaret London
at Christ Church, Blackfriars, in July, 1847 her father
was a pawnbroker, and the prisoner lived with his wife
until about three years ago, when he deserted her, but
afterwards, finding she was getting a good livelihood by
letting apartments at
her.h u had four children
by this a yearparrarti ago
ee returned to her, and
about
He married, secondly,
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age. tas g
Emily Dawson
Graham under circumstances already narrated ; and lastly,
he married Miss Date, daughter of the landlord of the
King's Head Hotel, Cirencester, on the 9th of July last.
He then represented himself as a
bachelor, and gave his
name as John Alexander Conroy. The prisoner when asked
what he had to say in reply
46 Nothing," answered
to the charge
and was fully committed for trial,