The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-23 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING .4.T MA.NOHESTER--WEDNES
LINCOLN AI.HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Heurlys (offered)
9to 1 agst Manrico ff
Bto 1 agst Donnybrook (takd)
LIVERPOOL STEen freely)
20 to 1 agst Charming (o
EPWLereomanECHASE (taken)
10 to 1 agst Emblematic (taken)
100 to 8 agst Light Heart (offered)
100 to 7 agst Tony Lumpkin (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Jerry (offered)
100 to 6 agst Arbury (taken)

20 to 1 agst The Czar (taken)
25 to 1 agst Joe Maley (taken)
25 to 1 agst L'Africain (offeied)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.

Bto 1 agst Skeffington (offered)
100 to 7 agst Lion (offered-100 to 6 t freely)

TWO THOUSXXD.
9to 2 agst Lidding-ton (offered)
10 to 1 agst Zambesi (off—take 12 to 1)

CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (offered)
100 to 6 agst Ackworth (taken)
25 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken)

WATERLOO CUP.
15 to lon the field (offered)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bateman's (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Randell's '(taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's (taken)
33 to 1 agst Dr. Richardson's (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Hornby's (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bake's (taken)

DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.
TUESDAY, March 14.
Acceptances for the Doncaster Spring Handicap of 10 sovs
each, with 100 added. lm. Gfur. 132yds.
f
East Lancashire ,A 5e Bst
lb
12 Age st M. Philippe
... a 6 10
0
Oldminster ••• a 8 8 Hartley
... 4 6 9
Buckenham ... 68 5 Idle Girl . .. 46 9
Gibraltar ... a 8 3 North End ... 46 8
Turcos ... 5 7 11 I Physician a 6 8
Dunkeld ... 5 7 10 At ... 4 6 7
Revolver ... ••• 57 i° Bombay, ... 4 6 6
L'Africain ... 6 _ n
c. , it meno 3 6 6
Change ...
65
77
66
3Fli:tiedbaeyh
:::
43
66
lleurlys
Wandering s. tr. e.
.1 455
777 433 TimßG er n
aap
puldloeearar g 1: e:
..8
333
5566.
;4
Gaily
Demon ...
Deerstalker 4 7 2, Minette 3
55
1122
3
Fanfreluche ... 5 7 0 Doge
0 Moldavia ... 3 5 lo
Royal Stag ...
Privateer 4 7
4 7
_9 Lord Withlegrave... 3 5 10

Olivia ... ...4 6 13
Oberon ... ... 4 612
Earl of Surrey ... 6 610

\u
Club Queen
Gannochy

... 3 5 -6"
... 3 5 9
... 3 5 8

LINCOLN MEETING.-The committee have decided upon
a further postponement, and appointed to-morrow and
Saturday for bringing off the races. Tho latest telegram
reported the ground to be softening fast, and that there
was every probability of the meeting being held.

RACING FIXT

JRES FOR 1865.
VARY.

FEBR

Lincoln Spring

Derby Spring 2
West Drayton
Liverpool Spring 7
Shrewsbury Spring lO
Doncaster Spring l4
Vincennes

Nottingham Spring
itcu.

Warwick Spring
Vincennes
Chelmsford Spring . .....
Grand National Hunt
Barham ... 30
Lewes Spring 3O

Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O
Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Spring
MAY.

Vincennes
Northampton 4
Croston Park 7
Newmarket "Craven l7
Durham

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB

Vincennes
Chelmsford 7
Manchester Suumicr 7
Ascot l3
Beverley l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester
Abingdon
Stamford l3
Winchester lB

Hampton 2l
Newton
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge

'ST.
Brighton 1 I York
Brighton Club
Lewes 4 Lichfield 9B
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham l5 Baden " t
Royal Windsor l7 Stockton --
SEPTEMBER.

Nottingham
Southampton l9
Chesterfield
Goodwood
Down Royal Corp

AUG

Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon lB
Richmond

OCTO.
Northallorton
Newmarket 2d Oct 95
Vincennes

Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 2G
Walsall
BER.

NOTE
Liverpool Autumn

Newmarket Ho. M
Vincennes

Shrewsbury

IXTURES FOR 1865.

STEEPLECHASE F.
MARE

Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Scarborough l6, 17 Torquay 2B

UTILISATION OF SEWAGE.—The bill prepared and
brought into the House of Commons by Lord R.
Montagu, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Forrand, and Mr. Hib-
bert, for facilitating the more useful application of town
sewage in Great Britain and Ireland, has been printed.
The bill, which it is proposed shall come into operation
on Ist January, 1866, constitutes all municipal corpora-
tions, improvement commissioners, local boards of health,
or others having charge of the sewerage of towns or
populous places, under any public or local act of Parlia-
ment, " The Local Sewer Authorities," tynd vests in them
power to acquire property in all night-soil and the like
refuse collected from house to house in the district where
the Local Sewer Authority has a contract or service to
collect the same ; and also litter or refuse from stables,
cowhouses, and the like places, the occupiers of which may
signify the consent in writing to such removal, protecting
their rights so acquired by a penalty not exceeding £5
against all persons wrongfully 'diverting such average.
Several exceptions are made to the protecting clause, giving
to occupiers of houses the right to contract with any com-
pany or person for the removal of sewage, or to use
it upon their own land, provided that no nuisance bo
occasioned by such removal. Power is also given to occu-
piers of land, with the consent of the Local Sewer Autho-
rity, to apply the contentsof a sewer, or drain pipe running
to waste upon their lands, to the fertilisation of such lands.
The bill proposes to give powerto the Local Sewer Autho-
rity to acquire waste land, sand-banks, and other lands
improvable by the application of sewage under the Lands
Clauses Act, on a provisional order granted by the Secre-
tary of State, and confirmed by Parliament. The Local
Sewer Authorities are further empowered to dredge for or
take away anyballast, mud, sand, or other substance, in any
river or stream, railway, canal, dock, or harbour, within
their district, with the consent of the Local Ballastage and
Conservancy Authorities; to deposit such ballast or rubbish
on the bank of a river or stream. Power is given to the Local
Sewer Authorities to contract with landholders for the ap-
plication of sewage to theirlands—the terms of such contract
in no case to exceed ten years, and landholders may. form
associations to take such concessions of sewage. SerTini
contracts may be entered into with any winricuoYnotr Persons.
Contracts °the
Contracts may be renewed. In cases of such contracts,
discretion,
local sewer authorities shall, at any
,int o use
inspected by
cause the sewers and distributiontrawticoas:
land-
holders associations or other contractors,
power to order any
by a surveyor appointed by them,
'd according to agreement.
defect in such works to be 113133're
LOCAL TAXATION.return by the Home-office
pge
the
hoe
et,
ordered by the Local Taxation Re-
made to Parliament,tliattisthe total amount of local taxation
turns Act, showsntryin 1863, so far as it has been returned,
borne by
the clho
return is
ispnno necessarily
fsrasaratr isehl yo(rtincoinliuctaohinme
£16,646,125.
tose)un, imamsistaoutthendeting to £9,174,976.
but it
—The usual annual return made
salSeNhloslp
oile:leigicedieistrtrhsael.t.
county
by the Controller of the Navy shows that on the Ist
February there were in the Royal Navy 445 steamships
afloat, 3a7 of them screws and 26 screw steamers building ;
there were also 69 effective sailing ships afloat, 54 of them
mortar vessels and floats. These numbers make 540 in all.
Of the steamvessels afloat 27 are armour-plated screw ships,
namely, six third-rate iron ships and six wood, two fourth-
rate iron ships and one wood; four cupola ships, fourth-rates;
one wood corvette, sixth-rate; two sloops, three iron float ing
batteries and two of wood. There are 55 ships of the line,
screws, and 43 frigates, 37 of them screws. There are also
37 gun vessels and 105 gunboats, all screws. The rest are
block ships, corvettes, sloops, mortar ships, small vessels,
tenders, &c. Of the 26 steamships building, eight are armour-
plated—namely, three third-rate iron ships and one of wood;
one wood corvette, sixth-rate ; and three iron gunboats.
Of the other 18 steam-vessels building, the building of 12
is suspended, and only a frigate, three sloops, and two gun-
boats, all screws, are proceeding. The return of the Ist of
February, 1864, showed 593 vessels afloat and 38 building.
There are seven more armour-plated vessels afloat now
than there were then, but fewer paddle-ships, fewer gun-
boats, and fewer sailing ships.
The Derby Mercury says :—" We are in
lassr:ia;
tion to state that Townley was buried on Saturty
d, but in
in the model prison, as many parsons suppo
Finchley Cemetery, near London."

Naval •and Military Intelligence.

VALE" orA, Feb. 17.—The Magicienne, 16, paddle-
wheel, frigate, Capt. W. Armytage, left port on
Tl'Axrsday last for Corfu, to be present during the
f33arnival and the elections. The Orlando, 46, screw
frigate, Capt. G. G. Randolph; left the same clay for
the coast of Syria, to relieve the Phoebe, 35, screw
frigate, Capt. T. D. Fortescue. The Hydra,
paddlewheel surveying sloop, Capt. A. L. Mansell,
also left port on Thursday to resume her surveying
duties on the west coast of Greece. The Firefly, 5,
paddlewheel surveying vessel, Commander G. R.
Wilkinson, is still in dock. The Caradoc, 2, pad-
diewheel despatch vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
E. H. Wilkinson, was undocked on the 10th inst.,
and will leave to-morrow (18th inst.) for Alexandria,
to embark Sir Henry Bulwer, who is about to return
to Constantinople. On Tuesday last
.the Victoria
101 (flagship of the;Commander-in-chief, ,
Vice-Ad-
iniral Smart, K.H.), Capt. Goodenough, left her
moorings in the Grand Harbour, and put to sea for
target practice andizeneral exercise. She re-entered
port this afternoon. Thikmagnificent ship has lately
en thoroughly overhauled, and is now in splendid
order. The Pelican, 17, screw sloop, Cora. H. W.
Comber, has been recalled from Bengazi in conse-
quence of it having been' impossible to complete the
necessary repairs to the Bengazi and Alexandria
section of the Malta and Alexandria cable. It ap-
pears there is not sufficient length of cable on board
the telegraph ship Fanny Lambert to replace the
faulty part. The Fanny Lambert will also return to
Malta, and proceed to England. Another section
of the cable, that between Tripoli and Bengazi, has
latelyproved defective. Thisistheflrsttime that any-
thing has gone wrong with this portion. It is sup-
posed the fault lies near Tripoli, and has been
caused by the late storm. Two Prussian war brigs
the Rove, 12, Lieut. E. Arendt, and the Mosquito,
10, Lieut. Nurnberg, have arrived during the week,
the former on Sunday from Palermo, and the lat-
ter on Tuesday from Naples. They are bound for
Cadiz. The long services of Mr. Thomas Hamshaw,
Superintending Engineer of the Royal Naval
Dockyard at this station, have been recognised by
the Admiralty, and an augmentation of salary has
been granted to him. Mr. C. J. Nelson, assist-
master of the dockyard school, has applied for and
received his discharge, and proceeded home in her
Majesty's storeship Supply. The following super-
numeraries, brought to Gibraltar by her Majesty's
steam sloop Geyser, have arrived at Malta on board
the Gibraltar, 81, Capt. R. Coote, and have been
distributed as follows :—Sub-Lieuts. —Messrs. C. P.
G. Hicks and Owen ; Midshipmen Messrs. Voy-
sey, Findlay, Mann, Prothero, Mackenzie, Walcot,
and Chichester ; Naval Cadets—Messrs. Spring,
Jones and Rogers, to the Victoria, 101, flagship of
the Commander-in Chief ; Midshipmen—Mr. St.
John to the Gibraltar, 81 ; Mr. Baker to the Magi-
cienne, 16 ; Mr. Barry to the Phoebe, 35 ; Mr.
Gamble, Mr. J. Hicks, and Mr. Mandeville to the
Meeanee, 60 ; Mr. Cochran and Mr. Lowe, to the
Royal Oak, 35 ; Mr. King to the Cossack, 20 ; Mr.
Gresley and Mr. Holbech, to the Phoebe, 35 ; Mr.
Beauclerk to the Revenge, 73 (flagship of Rear-
Admiral R. H. Yelverton, C. 8.) ; Naval Cadets—
Mr. Henderson to the Meeanee, 60 ; and Mr. Leckie
to the Cossack, 20 ; Masters'-Assistants—Mr. Fil-
mer to the Royal Oak, 35, and Mr. Snell to the Or-
lando, 46. Mr. Bradshaw, sub-lieut. of the
Victoria, has been appointed to the Enter-
prise. Mr. Compton, masters'-assistant of the
Caradoc, has been appointed to the Orlando. The
English screw steamer Laconia, Capt. John Cain, ar-
rived yesterday from Alexandria, having in tow the
English schooner True Blue, 96 tons, of Jersey,
which she had met with about 240 miles to the east-
ward of Malta, abandoned and foremast cut away.
The corpse of a sailor, having his face bruised, was
found lying in the cabin. The schooner was laden
with wheat and bound from Ancona to a port in
England. There were three feet eight inches of
water in her hold. The logbook showed she had
been navigated till the sth inst. ; and on the slate it
was written that she had continued her navigation
until the following day. The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, just arrived,
reports that that she took off the master and three
men from the True Blue, on her passage to Alex-
andria, and that they are coming on in the Delhi,
Mr. Hadow, one of the directors of the Peninsular
and Oriental Company, having granted them a
passage to England. The man found on board
the Laconia was killed by the fall of the foremast.
The body was left in the ship in the confusion of
getting to the Ripon, the master and crew believing
their ship was foundering.
The following is an extract from a letter received
at Southampton from an officer of her Majesty's
ship Liffey, dated Gibraltar, Feb. 15 :—" We have
got thus far, and find 230 supernumeraries waiting
to be taken to Colon for the ships in the Pacific.
Our orders are to sail with them immediately, but
the.ship is in such a fearfully bad state that we can-
not go until at the soonest the 22d. Thirteen days
making the passage from Malta ! Two of the heaviest
gales I have seen in the Mediterranean, both dead
foul winds. It is a shame to send us across the
Atlantic. Both outside and inside the ship is to
pieces, and they are endeavouring to patch us up
by caulking inside only. A mess they are making of
it, as the oakum comes right through every seam.
They are not to caulk the sides in our cabin, although
the water comes right through. I have not slept in
a dry bed the whole of this month, as there is a con-
stant drip through the main deck and sides on my
bed and all over the cabin. Half our tanks have
broken through the working of the ship. They
cannot be replaced here, so we take them with us,
and shall have to distil the whole way across.
Another heavy gale and we expect them all to go,
as they have been upwards of six years in the ship,
and are as thin as wafers. In fact, we ought to go
to England. A survey of the ship there would
condemn her. Several beams have started, bolts
in knees drawn, as well as the copper bolts in the
side. The decks are too thin for the guns ; and,
to sum up, by the carpenter's report it would take
three months to patch the ship up in one of
our dockyards at home. She requires a new
stock, lock, and barrel, as the soldiers would say.
We might weather out six months longer on this
station, but are unfit for the West Indies. Our hope
is that the Admiralty will send us home soon, before
the sickly season sets in, otherwise we shall suffer se-
verely from fever, as the ship is filthy below, owing to
the state of the sides and tanks. It is believed that a
large number of rotten planks and timbers will be
found when they examine her bottom by and by. We
have just lost two marines, drowned alongside, and
but for the gallant conduct of Dundas of the 15th, who
was officer of the guard, and happened to be near the
jetty at the time we should have lost two more. He
jumped
into the water, and kept two up until a
boat came to his assistance."

The Torch, 5,428 tons, 80-horse power, was com-
missioned yesterday at Chatham for the West Coast
of Africa. She is to have a complement of 65 officers
and men, including marines. The Torch is fully
rigged and has the greater portion of her sea stores
on board. She has just undergone extensive re-
pairs at Chatham-dockyard, during which she has
been almost entirely rebuilt.
The iron screw steam troopship Urgent, 4, Capt.
Samuel 11.
leCiHenderson,.llo from Portsmouth, arrived
yesterday
(veeSdaY) morning at Plymouth. She
is appointed to
ment, commandedlivbey to Queenstown the 2d Regi-
now quartered in thy Col. Thomas Addison, C. 8.,
Including the de
t4whialilL,n Barracks, Devonport.
the regiment musterspo
but
the head-quarters,
at:
at Cork a detachment of about mnpenp.,-, On
arrival
nd, Roche Island,
will be sent to Youghal, spike -tall-- company each
tiwChhina, the 2d
and Haulbowline. After servin
they re-
Regiment landed at Portsmouth4.occupled
mained nine months ; they then
at Aldershot for 14 months; after which theyill part:rs
ceeded to Devonport, where they have beenne.a ov-
two years. Their quarters in the Raglan Barracks
are are appointed to be occupied next by the 28th Regi_
ment, the right wing of which embarked on the sth
of November on board the transport Tiverton, Capt.
Smith, at Bombay. The left wing were to embark
shortly after. The Urgent landed a company of
artillery from Portsmouth.
The French gunboat Cuvier, Capt. De la Mure,
from Dartmouth, bound for Falmouth, arrived at

Plymouth yesserday. She is employed in watching
the progress of the French fishing vessel.
A general regimental order, signed by Col. G.
Gambier, C. 8., Deputy Adjt.-Gen. Royal Artillery,
has been received and promulgated at Chatham
Garrison, announcing the next examination for ad-
mission of officers of the Royal Artillery to the ad-
vanced class at Woolwich will be held in the month of
October or November next, under the direction
of the Council of Military Education. Officers ap-
pointed to the class will be required to join in April,
1866. Candidates for this class must have undergone
a course of instruction at Shoeburyness, or they
must pass satisfactorily a preliminary examination in
practical artillery. No officer will be admitted who
will not have completed six years' service on March
31, 1866. The subjects in which the candidates will
be examined and the relative importance attached to
each are as follows—Mathematics, 700 marks ; che-
mistry and physics, 300 marks ; French, qualifying.
Mathematics include plane trigonometry (so much
of it as is included in the first 16 chapters of " Tod-
hunter's Treatise") ; co-ordinate geometry of two
dimensions (Hymer's or Todhunter's)—viz., straight
line referred to rectangular, oblique, and polar co-
ordinates; the circle, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola
referred to rectangular and polar co-ordinates. The
equation to the tangent and the normal to the cir-
cle, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola referred to rec-
tangular axes, the sections of a right cone made by a
plane. Applications of the above to solutions of
simple problems. Differential and integral calculus
—the earlier portions of " Todhunter's Treatises."
Practical mechanics " Twisden's Treatise."
French will be qualifying for the purpose of ascer-
taining that the candidates have such an acquain-
tance with the language, and especially with tech-
nical terms in common use as to be able to consult
with facility professional works, such as " Piobert's
Traite d'Artillerie," or the " Aide Memoire d'Artil-
lerie." Candidates will be expected to obtain 75
out of an assumed maximum of 100 marks in this
subject, the examination being confined to transla-
tions from French into English. There will be a
probationary examination at the end of the first
year, and at the end of the second year a final exa-
mination, when certificates will be given to success-
ful candidates.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Commander G. A.
Douglas to the Torch, commissioned ; Matthew B.
Grundy, assist-paymaster in charge to the Torch ;
William J. Grundy, second master, to the Torch ;
Henry J. Weaver, assist.-clerk, to the Torch; John
Johnson and James C. Sanders, supernumeraries
in the Indus, promoted to the rank of engineers :
Lieut. J. G. M'Hardy, to the Excellent ; Robert
Crosswaite, engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary ;
and Edward Lewis, engineer, to the Liverpool.