The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

There will be plenty of good racing in Hampshire this
week. The Wiliam meeting, which commences to-morrow,
has six items for decision, two of which close this evening.
For the Manor Plate, three-quarters of a mile, thirty-seven
horses have been handicapped, and I shall select Duplicity
or Codicil to furnish the winner.

The Odiham Handicap, ono mile and a half, has twenty-
two subscribers, and Mavourneen or Khmersley appear
the best to stand on.

The Dogmersfield Park Stakes has twenty-three two-
year-olds engaged, and those, to my thinking, with the best
chance of success appear to be Flotilla, Duplicity, and
Malta, in the order named.
In the nurtsbourne Stakes appear the names of several
dark two-year-olds, but Big Ben, despite his 71bs. penalty,
shall do battle for me.
The Bibury Club meeting has only as yet three events
closed—the Handicap, the Bibury Stakes (gentlemen
riders), and the Champagne Stakes.
For the Bibury Handicap of 5 sows. each with 50 added,
one mile and a-half, Worcester, 6 yrs, 1 Ist ; Wanderer, 6
yrs, lOst 41b ; and Norton, 3 yrs, `.lst 61h, shall represent
my interest in the order named.
The handicap for two and three-year-olds has 17 subs;
and the most trustworthy amongst the two-year-olds aro
Flotilla and Cronstadt.

The Champagne Stakes generally brings out some dark
horse, and to the Danebury stable or Shillelagh I leave the
race.

Stockbridge, which commences the day following, always
attracts an aristocratic company, but at present I will
merely remark that the Amport Handicap is likely to fall
to Northern Light or Ariadae, and the Stewards' Plate to
Rupee, Rattlebone, or Mouravieff in the order named. I
shall refer more fully to their respective chances on Wed
nesday.
Monday, June 18.

A FRESH MAN.

SOU2'IIERN ITALY,

The following is from a letter dated Ancona, June 3:
Ancona is a citylcontaining 35,000 inhabitants, with a capi-
tal port, and a flourishing trade at ordinary periods. It
was formerly fortified, but its defences are now in ruins,
and a few discharges from a siege battery would be suffi-
cient to scatter them to the ground. M. de Lamoriciere
comes very frequently to Ancona, which he seeks to con-
vert into a place of refuge, where the Papacy might defend
itself with its own forces, far from the humiliating protec-
tion of those Frenchmen whom the Holy Father and the
Cardinals execrate as the instigators :of all the evils that
have befallen them lately. When questioned on the sub-
ject by the General, the Pontifical engineers demanded no
less time than three years to repair and complete the forti-
fications of the city. Where will Pius IX., the Court of
Rome, and Lamoriciere be in three years at the rate at
which things are at present progressing ? It was, there-
fore, necessary to give up the project, to say nothing of the
money which would probably have been wanting pending
the progress of the works.

Tie Papal reoruits from:Germany, by way of Trice Le, are
disembarked at Ancona. Every two or three daye; a steamer
lands some forty Germans, Austrian sellers in uniform, or
volunteers. They are placed in an old convent for a while,
and when a sufficient number has arrived they are clothed
and despatched to the military depots of the interior,
where the battalions of the new army are at present in
course of formation, though very slowly. These defenders
of the Holy Father are as much the terror of the
good citizens of Ancona as of the country they tra-
verse on their way to their destination. They are
either sent, as I said before, by the Austrian Government,
or they are paid for by a fixed bounty, and they I emit'
themselves all kinds of excesses, being sure of impunity.
They are, for the most part, ruffians and robbers, and of
course utterly devoid of discipline; they think nothing of
foing into the shops in gangs, even in broad daylight, and
taking possession of whatever suits their fancy, saying, on
quitting with their spoil, " The Pope will pay." A great
number of disturbances have taken place through these
desperadoess and several murders. The Pontifical gend-
armes will not interfere in these matters, neither will they
listen to complaints, so that the people are exasperated to
the:last degree, and prepared for anything.
I was present to-day at the arrival of thirty-five volun-
teers of the above description, and I can assure you I should
not be anxious to meet any of them on a lonely road or en
the skirt of a wood.

It is the intention of the authorities to form with these
recruits certain battalions of Chasseurs a pied, the regi-
ments of the line still remaining composed of Romans and
Swiss. The following is an account of the actual troops at
the disposition of Lamoriciere, and the different localities
where they aro stationed :
At Pesaro (frontier of Ron-suna), 2,500 men; TM:l.in°
(between Pesaro and Ancona), 1,000 men ; Ancona, 2,500
men; Gubbio (beyond Ancona and the Romagna), 1,500
men; Perugia (frontier of Tuscany), 2,000 men; Macerata
(on the Adiatic), 1,500; in the depots of Fossonbrone,
Fano, Sinigaglia, Spoleto, and Terni, 2,000 men ; at i
Rome, 2,000 men ; tail, 15,000 men. Of these 15,000
men, 10,000 at least are Pontifical subjects, slovenly,
cowardly, and undisciplined. They would be sure to turn
their backs at the first report of a musket ; 5,000 of them
are Austrians, good soldiers enough if they were not mere
machines, without a sentiment of loyalty; moreover, they
are particularly discontented at the present time.
Those of the foreigners who had sold themselves for a
bounty were, it seems, promised 50 crowns ; they have only
received 10, and they will never get the rest. All those,
moreover, who were engaged or sent by Austria were
assured a daily pay of 20 baiocchi and two good meals. At
present they give theni but 4 baiocchi and one meal per day,
and that but a very sorry one. It may easily be believed
that these men are discontented. Indeed, they do not hesi-
tate to call out aloud that they will serve as they are paid.
The Government certainly cannot count upon them.
As to the thousands of gallant Irish, of whom the
clerical organs have boasted so loudly, they must be re-
duced to 68 individuals. I saw them in the cloisters of the
convent where they are at pr, sent quartered ; they are half
composed of the sons of families in easy circumstances,
who have been fanaticised by the priests, and of poor pea-
sants, enrolled for a bounty. The joke is, that no one knows
what to do with them. The poor Patlanders do not, of
course, understand a syllable of German or Italian, while
the Italian officers and authorities do not speak a syllable
of English—they are hardly expected to be conversant
with Irish. The poor fellows seem already awfully bored
with their position and their national " green flag." As
for the Germans, they are, for the most part, Austrian sol-
diers detached from the Imperial army who have arrived
here with their own officers, and with their
organisation complete. The authorities here openly
boast that they are sent directly by Austria. These
troops were to do wonders, and the Romagnas
were, of course, to be immediately reconquered • but the
scantiness of the pay has considerably modified the general
enthusiasm.

A.---glance at the present financisl position of the Papal
States will soon show to what an extent the Holy Father
must be embarrassed. While his territories remained in-
tact, he was in the receipt of a revenue oftwenty-twc mil-
lians of crowns. Since the loss of tke Romagnas the re-
ceipts have fallen to eight millions of crowns—a clear de-
ficit of no less than fourteen millions on the former revenue.
In the meanwhile the expenses have been tripled, and
principally from the creation of an army with its military
materiel. The King of Naples and the Princes of Germany
sent sums of money to Rome, an example followed by some
of the clergy of France, Belgium, and Ireland. These con-
tributions were, however, of little or no avail towards filling
up such a bottomless gulf of need. The political crisis is
imminent, and in a little while the irresistible movement
of Italian independence will have swept away every vestige
of the Pope, his cardinals, his generals, and his army. The
approaching financial crisis is amply sufficient for the pur-
pose, however, if impatient patriotism will only take the
trouble to wait.

Poor Lmoriciere, who in this wretched service has lost
both his personal and his military reputation, has been the
victim of Governmental misrepresentations of the most
grotesque kind. He was assured by the Vatican that a
depot of no less than 30,000 muskets was at his disposal at
Ancona. He found but barely 6,000 antiquated and
almost unserviceable weapons, half of which would burst
at the very first discharge. These have been supplied to
the 6,000 Austrians.
The small old-fashioned cannon of the Pope's army are
aeither mounted on wheels nor have they any regular
artillery horses. 'They are now buying broken-down horses
from the peasants, and they are dragged along like carts
about a farm. Millions are required for the purchase of
what is still absolutely necessary—and where obtain them ?
They have neither ambulances, hospitals, nor medicines.
A fine army, truly, to start upon a campaign, and do
honour to the general in command.

As for myself, without being a Garibaldi, I would under-
take, with a regiment of French Zouaves, or of Piedmon-
tese Bersaglieri, to teach the united forces of his Holiness
the best use of their legs ; and this is the general opinion
of the inhabitants.

The unhappy Lamoriciere has upon several occasions
visited the garrisons of Ancona, Urbane, Pesaro, and Peru-
gia. Imagine his stupefaction, on attempting to review the
troops, to find that they could not even march in step. It
was hopeless ; from the superior officers to the lowest
corporal, the same crass ignorance prevailed. After
having called from the ranks and interrogated a num
ber of the officers, the poor General retired, confused,
depressed, and crestfallen. The citizens who were present
at this melancholy scene were heartily amused. The same
state of things awaited the champion of the Papacy at all
the garrisons he visited. Everywhere he met with anarchy,
disorder, and organised robbery.
Lamoriciere, not !knowing, or Rot believing, that the
superior officers and employes of this service robbed the
State by unanimous accord in conjunction with the priestly
governors, was at first furious. He ordered punishments
and imprisonments right and left. None of these results,
however, occurred 1; the offenders whom he sought
to displace or cashier retained their ranks and places in
spite of him, and continued their wholesale peoulations in
the old style. Lamoriciere was recommended not to meddle
in what did not concern him; and this is why, even if ho
could obtain the millions he requires, the Pope would never
have an efficient army.
One fact alone will prove to what an extent the govern-
ment is incorrigible, and bent on these malpractices. There
is at present at Pesaro a superior officer of the
named Salvi, a Tuscan, who fled from his country under a
charge of robbery. This Salvi, with the connivance of the
Pontifical Prefect, Bella, invented an ingenious method of
destroying those who were suspected or in any way die-
pleasing to him. He had compromising letters written,
and addressed to the persons he intended to inculpate, pur-
posely dropped in the street. The police agents, properly
instructed, watched till some unsuspecting passenger picked
them up. The passenger was of course que-tioned, vad then
the person to whom the letter was supposed to be addressed
was at once arrested, and from that time at the mercy of the
authorities.
Numberless instances of this kind were exposed to La-
moriciere, together ',with :proofs. He was justly indignant;
he sent for Salvi, and, announcing his immediate dismissal,
threatened him with all the vengeance of the Court of Rome.
Nevertheless, Salvi retains his post, and persecutes the
inhabitants more than ever. It was this worthy who gave
the order to the gendarmes and the regular patrols to fire
upon every person they suspected is the vicinity of the
frontiers. A number of brutal assassinations have conse-
quently taken place.
In conclusion, I can declare, as far as regards the two
cities I have lately resided in, Pesaro and Ancona, that the
people only exist in the hope of an approaching and radical
change. If the movement should be much longer deferred
the people are prepared for everything. I leave to-morrow
for Rome.

TELE ADMIRALTY PIER AT DOVER.—One hun-
dred and fifty feet of the extension of this magnificent work
may now be seen at low water.