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THE SUN, LONDON, TiftIRDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1865.

lice colt only beat Student a head ; Lady Audley was a
good fourth, Rustic fifth, Redan sixth, Fleuretto seventh,
and Queen Mary next ; the last two were Elegance and
Jetty Treffz colt.

The Bath Handicap of 10 save each, 5 ft, with 300 added,
for three-yr-olds and upwards. 30 subs, 15 of whom

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declared.
Mr. G. Crook's Donnybrook, by Sprig of Shillelagh—
Fly, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (inc. 51b extra) (J. Goater) 1
Mr. Whittaker's Godmorsham, 3 yrs, Gst 71b ...(Carroll) '2
Mr. Payne's Beadle, 4 yrs, Bst (Clement) 3
The following also ran :—Guardsman, Jezabel, Orloff,
My Cob, Lady Rollo, Duonna.

Betting-4 to 1 agst Beadle, sto 1 each agst Donny-
brook and Godinersham, 3 to 1 was taken at first about
Donnybrook, 6 to 1 agst Orloff, 100 to 15 agst Lady Rollo,
8 to 1 agst Guardsman.

My Cob made the running to the distance, where Donny-
brook, Godmersham, and Beadle headed him, Donnybrook
coming away and winning by three parts of a length ;
three lengths separated the second and third ; Guardsman
was fourth, Lady Rollo fifth, and Orloff last.

The Beaufort Cup, value 300 sous., by subscription of 10
sovs each, the rest in specio ; for throe-yr-olds and up-
wards ; certain penalties and allowances. About two

The Atlantic Telegraph.

miles and a half. 64 subs.
Mr. Cartwright's Ely, by Kingston—The Bloomer, 4 yrs,
Bst 10Ib Custance 1
Lord Stamford's Cambuscan, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b Fordham 2
Lord Portsmouth's Sydmonton, 3 yrs, 7st 51b H. Covey 3
Mr. W. H. Scott's Buckfoot, 4 yrs, Bst 10lb ( . Osborne 4
Duke of Beaufort's Todlebon, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Morris) 5
Mr. W. Day's A. D. Wagner, 3 yrs, 7st 51b...(S Adams) 6
Betting-5 to 2on Cambuscan ; 100 to 30 agst Ely ; 100
to 8 agst Todleben ; 20 to 1 agst Sydmonton ; 100 to 3 agst
Buckfoot.

Todleben and Sydmonton jitnped off together in front,
but after going 200 yards A. D. Wagner took up the run-
ning, followed by Todleben and Sydmonton, Cambuscan
going on fourth, Ely fifth, and Buckfoot last. Before
reaching the bottom turn A. D. Wagner dropped into the
rear, and Todleben went on in front, with Sydmonton
second, and the favourite third ; but upon entering the
straight A. D. Wagner assumed the lead and went past the
stand two lengths in front of Todleben, close behind whom
was Sydmonton, Cambuscan lying well np fourth, and Ely
fifth, Buckfoot half a dozen lengths in the rear of Mr. Cart-
wright's horse. About a mile and a half from home Cam-
buscan ran to the front, but at the mile-post Todleben
assumed the lead, followed by Sydmonton, and A.D.Wag-
ner having retired and joined Buckfoot, Cambuscan and
Ely drow towards the leading pair. When half a mile from
home Todleben held a clear lead of Sydmonton, and Cam-
buscan and Ely headed Todleben before reaching tho dis-
tance, and tho Duke's colt at once compounding, Ely and
Cambuscan ran past Sydmonton, and Mr. Oartwright's
horse won in a cantor by four lengths ; three lengths sepa-
rated the second and third ; the others were beaten off.
Tho Welter Stakes (Handicap) of 10 soya each, 5 ft., with
50 added; for three-yr-olds and upwards ; gentlemen

riders ; jockeys 61b extra; winners extra. Once round

and a distance. 11 subs.
Mr. Bevill's Mumma, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Mr. W. Bevill) 1
Mr. Astley's Overstone, 5 yrs, 1 Ist 71b (Mr. Scobell) 2

Betting-4 to lon Idumcea, who made all the running,
and won in a cantor by a hundred yarda.
The Badminton Stakes of 10 sovs each, sft, with 100 added
for all ages; winners extra, and maiden allowances
Straight half-mile. 26 mite.
Mr. Smith's Ozone, 2 yrs, 6st bib (lleartfleldi 1
Mr. Reldiff's Cranbury, 4 yrs, 9st lib (Payne)) 2
Mr. S. Thellusson's Reaper, aged, 9st 51b (Custance 3

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Tb.o following also ran—Molly Carow, Tennyson, and
Attraction.

Betting-11 to 8 agst Hosper ; 100 to 30 agst Cranbury;
4 to 1 each agst Attraction ; 10 to 1 agst Tonnyson and
Molly Carew ; 25 to 1 agst Ozone.
After going a hundred yards Ozone made play, and
maintaining tho lead to the end, won by half a length ;
length separated the second and third ; Molly Carew Was
fourth, Tennyson fifth, and Attraction last.
The Dyrham Park Handicap of 100 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and
upwards; winners extra. Once round and a distance.

Yesterday his Royal highness the Prince of Wales
paid a long visit to the Great Eastern to inspect the
arrangements made for stowing and paying out this
gigantic submarine telegraph, all the details con-
nected with which are now fast approaching their
final completion prior to the departure of the expe-
dition. The visit, considering the importance of
its nature and the real interest of the occasion, was
unusually private, only a few friends of his Royal
highness being present in addition to those scien-
tific gentlemen who aro more or less connected with
the great undertaking, either as its original pro-
moters, or as those who have given towards its
completion all the care and skill which the highest
electrical and mechanical science has enabled them
to place at the disposal of the company. Beyond
these visitors none were present, either at the de-
parture of the train or on board the Great Eastern.
His Royal Highness arrived privately at the
Charing-cross Station at twelve o'clock, where he
was received by the Dukes of Manchester and
Sutherland, with Viscount Sidney and Lord Alfred
Paget. Mr. Eborall, as manager of the South-
Eastern, was also in attendance. The Prince was
accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward
of Saxe-Weimar, and attended by Colonel Keppel.
The other visitors present included Lord Suffield,
Lord Lyons, Viscount Torrington, the Hon. Mr.
Cartier, the Hon. Mr. Brown, the Hon. Mr. Mac-
donald, the Hon. Mr. Galt, the Right Hon. Stuart
Wortley, Mr. D. Gooch, Mr. J. Pender, M.P., Mr.
S. Gurney, M.P., Mr. J. Smith, Mr. G. Elliot,
Mr. A. S. Finlay, Mr. W. H. Russell, Mr. C.
Edwards, Mr. W. H. Barber, Professor Thompson,
F.R.S., the Hon. R. Grimstone, Mr. J. Chatter-
ton, Mr. H. Clifford, Mr. C. F. Varley, Mr. R. A,
Glass, Mr. S. Canning, Mr. C. V. de Sauty, Mr.
W. Shuter, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, Mr. J. C. Deane,
Mr. W. Fairnbairn, Professor Wheatstone, Mr. J.
Whitworth, Mr. J. H. Stanton, Sir Edward Cunard,
Mr. E. Cropper, Mr. Temple, Mr. G. Peabody,
Captain A. T. Hamilton, Mr. E. Moon, Mr. F. Le
Breton, Mr. W. Grieve, Mr. G. Saward, Mr. W.
H. Stephenson, Mr. J. Horsfall, Mr. W. T. Henley,
Mr. C. W. Eborall, Mr. J. P. Knight, Mr. C. V.
Walker, F.R.S., Mr. J. Cudworth, Mr. J. Barnes,
Mr. E. Noden, Mr. Willoughby Smith, &c.
The train left soon after 12, and on arriving at
Chatham the party at once embarked on board Ad-
miral Talbot's steam tender Wildfire, a vessel which
seemed difficult to steer, and still more difficult to
steam, and which made such slow progress that his
Royal Highness was glad on the return voyage to
avail himself of the offer of Mr. Eborall, who placed;
at his disposal ono of the company's steamers, the.
City of Rochester, without the aid of which it would
have been impossible to keep railway time, or in-
deed any time at all.

32 subs.
Mr. Payne's Bradamante, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Clement ) 1
Mr. Hugh Smith's The Count, 4 yrs, Est 81b (Carroll) f 2
Mr. H. Tompkins's Seven-and-a-Half, 3 yrs, sst 71b
(car. Bat 21b) (S. Mordani 3
Mr. J. B. Starky's Jassy, 3 yrs, Est (carried Est llb
(C. Page 4

At 2 the Great Eastern was sighted, lying
moored at the mouth of the river off Sheerness,
and her gigantic form at once attracted all atten-
tion. Some years have passed since this magnifi-
cent vessel filled the great place in the world's at-
tion which it is to be hoped she will now soon occupy
again. The lapse of time and the exigencies of
cable-shipping have by no means improved her ex-
ternal appearance, but she still sits the water as
gracefully as ever, and it is impossible to imagine
any more suggestive contrast than was afforded by
the appearance of the craft which lay alongside her
yesterday as the Royal party approached. Close
under her sponson beam aft lay a small yellow, heavy
bowed, ill-shapen thing, " dwarfed to a cock boat"
by the juxtaposition, and which might have been
mistaken for a lighter had it not been known that
this was a 26-gun frigate of 20 years ago, one of the
crack vessels of the navy in those days, A barge
alongside looked like a mere float, while on the
stavboard quarter two tall colliers showed little
more than their mastheads ahovc tho htilwnrlra of
the great ship. The Great Eastern, though not I
nearly so low in the water as she has yet to be,
brought before starting on her great trip, still in
outward shape looks as well as on the first memor-
able day she left the Thames. On deck, however, a
great change was visible. The after-masts have been
stripped of their yards, and the broad expanse of
deck is neither so white nor by many feet so broad
as it used to be, for little villages of carpenters' shops
and hamlets of forges have overspread it, and Sheds,
offices, and overseers' houses perhaps, cumber it from
stem to stern. His Royal Highness made no inspec-
tion of the vessel on his first arrival, but with the
other visitors proceeded to lunch while all was being
got ready for his examination. The d6eilner was
laid in the state or ladies' saloon, that which was so
fearfully devastated on the memorable Friday after-
noon when the Great Eastern blew up off Hastings.
To this repast all the visitors sat down, Mr. Pender,
M.P., chairman of the Telegraph Construction Com-
pany, taking the chair. No speeches were made, and
the only toast given was that of her Majesty, which
was drunk with enthusiasm. His Royal Highness
then returned upon deck and made a careful exami-
nation of the vessel, of the way in which the cable
is received on board, the manner in which it is
stowed, how it was proposed to pay it out, &c., and
in fact inquired into all the details connected with
the expedition. So many accounts of the progress of
this great work have already appeared in the columns
of The Sun that on this occasion it will not be neces-
sary to enter into detail. A mere summary will
suffice here.

Betting-6 to 4on The Count, 7to 4 agst Bradamanto,
20 to 1 offered agst any other.
Jassy made play, followed by Seven-and-a-Half and Tho
Count, Bradamante lying off till they came to the straight.
At the distance the two favourites went to the front, and
after a magnificent race they finished a dead heat; Seven-
and-a-Half being a bad third, and Jassy fourth.
DECIDING HEAT.-6 to' 5 onaradamante. The Count
was allowed to make running with a lead of three or fuui
lengths, till they came into the straight, when Bradamante
gradually drew up, closed with him at the distance, and
won in a miter by a length and a half.

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8 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken)
9 to 1 agst Wild Charley (taken)
10 to 1 agst The Duke (taken)
12 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken)
20 to 1 agst Oppressor (taken)
23 to 1 agst Longdown (taken and offered)
1000 to 30 agst Broomielaw (offered)
40 to 1 agst Brahma (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Arid (offered)
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100 to 1 agst Siberia (offered)
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The present Atlantic cable is just 2,300 nautical
miles, or in rough numbers, about 2,600 miles
long. The central conductor is composed of
seven fine copper wires, twisted into one complete
strand, which is insulated with Chatterton's patent
compound. Outside this come four distinct layers
of gutta percha, each also insulated with the same
material that encloses the conductor. Outside the
gutta percha again are wound 11 stout iron wires,
each of which, before being twisted on, is itself care-
fully wound round with strands of hemp, soaked
with tar. Thus, then, there are no less than 25,000
miles of copper wire in the conductor, about 35,000
miles of iron wire in the outside covering, and up-
wards of 400,000 miles of strands of hemp, more
than enough in all to go 24 times round the world.
The cable has been made on an average at the rate
of 17 miles per day complete, and some days its out-
side covering of hemp and iron has been overlaid at
the rate of 173 miles a day, though not a fathom or
a foot has been manufactured without every part
being kept under constant test for " conductivity"
and insulation, and to this hour it is as regularly 1
tested as it was a year ago, when the first mile was
twisted. In strength the cable is equal to bearing
a strain of 7i tons, while its specific gravity is so
low that it can with safety be depended on to sup-
port n miles of its length in water. It has been
made mile by mile, joined up in long lengths of 700
and 800 miles, and shipped on board the Great
Eastern into three enormous tanks. The first of
these wrought-iron structures, which look little gaso-
meters, is in the forward part of the ship, and is
51ft. in diameter ; that in the midships over the
boilers 58ft. Gin., and that in the afterpart 5Sf t.
The first will hold a coil of 630 miles of cable, the
second one of 840, and the third of 830. 500 miles
have still to be stowed away on board, and it will
take a fortnight to complete this work, though the
last mile of the coil will oome through the machines
of tho telegraph works at 3 o'clock on Monday next.
All three tanks are kept filled with water, and when
each is stowed with cable as well, the ends of the
wire will be joined up and a constant system of sig-
nals kept through every part from the moment the
expedition starts till the whole cable is laid. The
tanks themselves, with water and their contents of
cable, weigh in all upwards of 5,000 tons. Great care
has therefore been used in shoring them up from be-
neath the main deck and down by a succession of
powerful supports to the very keelson. Some idea
of the massiveness with which this part of the work
has been effected may be derived from the fact that
in the cohstruction of these cross-beams, struts, and