The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—YESTBILDAY.
Speculation on the Cambridgeshire underwent an im-
portant change. Weatherbound came with great force ;
all prices were taken down to 10 to 1, land that so freely
that no one seemed inclined to make an offer. Dulcibella
receded to 12 to 1 (offered), but at the close 10 to 1 was
taken. The afternoon was nearly taken up by the friends
of Weatherbound, and the transactions done on the ether
animals quoted were not of a very important character.
CLOSING PRICES.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Weatherbound (taken freely)
10 to 1 agst Dulcibella (taken)
16 to 1 agst Thunderbolt (taken)
20 to 1 agst Maggiore (taken)
20 to 1 agst Sutton (taken)
20 to 1 agst Stampedo (offered)
22 to 1 agst Sir William (taken)
25 to 1 agst Roesia (taken)
25 to 1 agst Contadina (taken)
20 to 1 agst Cavriana (taken)
30 to 1 agst Prelude (taken)
40 to 1 agst Benbow (taken)
100 to 1 agst Brassey (taken)

CURRAGH OCTOBER MEETING.—WEDNESDAY.
Sligo Stakes, 25 sovs, 10 ft, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b;
fillies, Bst 31b. Seven subscribers.
Mr. Disney's Bombardier (J. Wynnes
) w o
Second-class of Trainers' Stakes—Sweepstakes of sovs
each, 3 ft, 25 sovs added from the Trainers' Fund. One
mile and a half on the Peel Course.
Mr. Irwin's Nightingale, 3 yrs Est (T. Brodrick) 1
Mr. Ceurtenay's Tomboy, 4 yrs, Est 71b (Williamson) 2
Mr. Dunne's Busy Bee, sst 121 b .... (Gannon) 3
Pontelland and Nuncio also ran.
Betting—Even on Tomboy,;3 to 1 agst Nightingale, 4to
1 agst Busy Bee, and 6 to 1 agst Pontelland. The running
was made by the Bee for the first mile, when she resigned
it to Nightingale and Tomboy, the former winning on the
post by a head ; Busy Bee a bad third.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's Plate of 100 guineas,
two-yr-olds, Est 71b ; three, Bst 121 b ;' four, 9st 71b ; five,
six, and aged, 9st 101 b ; 31b allowed to mares and geld-
ings. One mile and a half.
Mr. Gowan's Daniel, 4 yrs
Mr. Cockin's N (MAMA, A,.
1,113 Lonowing also ran :—Lovebird, British Grenadier,
Recipe, Amain, Bandsman, Princess Royal, and Lena
Rivers.

Betting-7 to 4 agst Daniel, 3to 1 agst Bandsman, and
4to 1 agst Princess Royal and Nosegay. The running was
made by Nosegay, with Bandsman and Daniel handy—the
three raced together abreast from the half distance, when
Osborne came to the front with Daniel, and won cleverly
by three-quarters of a length ; Bandsman a good third ;
the other beaten of.
Renewal of the Kildare Handicap of 5 soya each, 50 sovs
added. One mile and a half on the Peel Course.
Mr. Keary's Shamrock, 4 y rs, Bst 41b 1
Earl of Miltown's Aferin, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (D. Wynne) 2
The following also ran :—Gracchus, Garibaldi, Daniel,
Terror, Darling, and Ninetta.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Daniel, sto 2 agst Darling, sto 1
agst Aferin, 8 to 1 agst Gracchus, 10 to 1 agst Shamrock.
Darling went off with a commanding lead, which she held
for upwards of a mile, when she died away, and Shamrock
drew forward, with Aferin on the inside, the former win-
ning a good race by three-quarters of a length ; Garibaldi
a bad third.
Beresford Stakes of 5 Boys each, with 100 added, for 2-yr-
olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. One mile.
Mr. Cockin's Lawyer, 9st 21b, inc. 121 b extra (Gardiner) 1
Mr. Disney's Cromwell, Bst (D. Doyle) 2
Mr. Disney's Moss Trooper, 7st 111 b (Igoe) 3
Earl of Howth's Reindeer, Bst 21b (Osborne) bolted.
Betting-7 to 4on Lawyer, 3to 1 agst Cromwell, and
4to 1 agst Reindeer. After a false start, caused by Rein-
deer bolting, the three placed got well off together. They
were all abreast at the half distance, if anything Lawyer
having a slight lead. Within 50 yards from home a severe
struggle ensued between Lawyer and Cromwell, the former
winning a fine race by three parts of a length.
Selling Stakes, of 5 sovs each, with 25 added, for all ages.
One mile and a quarter on the Peel Course.
Captain Goff's Vigo, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (n 5).... (Reynolds) 1
Captain Beresford's Lovebird, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (L 25)
(Lynch) 2
Marquis of Conyngham's Rosa Bonheur, 4 yrs, Bst 91b
(Z5O) (Osborne) 3
The following also ran :—Necklace, Little Girl, and
Honesty.

Betting--2 to 1 agst Little Girl, 3to 1 agst Lovebird, 4
to 1 agst Necklace, 6to 1 agst the winner. Vigo went off
with the lead, was never headed, and won by two lengths.
The ►inner was sold for n 2.

The Sport announces that nine horses belonging to
Count F. de Lagrange have left Royal Lieu for Newmarket,
and that among them are Mdlle. de Chantilly, Nuncio,
Pretendant, Pierrefonds, and Angelo.

OND THOUSAND POUNDS FOUND.—YOL'ATT WK. GRAY'S
selection for the Cambridgeshire Stakes is as good as £l,OOO
found. The horse will see 4to 1, and win easier than Dul-
cibella did. 66 to 1 can be got at the time he writes this.
Liverpool Cup is a good thing ; ho selected Meg Merrilies
last year. Terms, to the end of the season, ss. ; ono week,
2s. 6d.—Address 15, Charing-cross.—Advice on the Cam-
bridgeshire will be issued up to six o'clock on Monday
evening.

Louis Napoleon is a ruler who gives his personal atten-
tion to all that relates to the improvement of the ports of
France, the internal means of communication, the drainage
of land, the embankment of rivers and canals, the beautify-
ing of Paris and other towns, and the adoption of any
weapon to increase the efficiency of his land and sea forces.
Above all, he has paid particular attention to the build of
gunboats. The iron plates with which his vessels of war
are plated, it is said—and we believe with some degree of
probability—are not so brittle as the iron employed for the
same purpose in England. It was proved some years age,
by experiments at Woolwich, that on a solid shot striking
iron plates, the latter fly into showers of grape that would
deal death on or between decks of an iron-built ship. It
1 was
this discovery that led to the condemnation of iron
frigates ; but if metal can be made so as to break without
splintering on contact with cannon shot, then iron will be
far superior to wood for the construction of ships of war.
This, we hear, is what Louis Napoleon is aiming at. He
is trying to produce iron-plated gunboats with metal capa-
ble of resisting light ordnance, and which does not fly ißte,
small particles when struck. That he will succeed to va
great extent in this experiment we can easily understand,
from the perfection arrived at in England in the manipula-
tion of iron. Our only surprise is that such efforts should
not have originated on this side of the Channel, instead of
the other.
The French gunboats, fitted in pieces so as to put toge-
ther, and which were intended for operations up the rivers
and on the lakes of Italy, were little hornets in their way;
and as we may some day be engaged in warfare, and op-
portunities for the fighting of gunboats may present them-
-1 selves, it would be no loss if our Government were to take a
French lesson in this respect, as our Admiralty is imper-
vious to teaching from English tutors. We possess, it must
be conceded, an abundance of steam gun vessels, but whe-
ther we have gunboats is another question. Such gun ves-
sels as we have are splendid models of their sort, and they-
are valuable for some services; but, if they can be Xnocked
to atoms or sunk by the unskilled firing of Tartars, as lately
witnessed in China, it is clear that a well-manned four-gun
battery would smash a fleet of them. What the nation
wants, and what is urgently required, is a fleet of small
gunboats, so constructed as to stand it good hammering.
The Emperor of the French has had his eyes opened to
this want, and Louis Napoleon was present to witness
the experiments on a gunboat in the River Seine, at
Paris. This boat was constructed on, the report states,
a new principle for landing troops. The Emperor wit-
nessed the trial from the bridge at St. Cloud, and set
apart a whole day for the purpose. This gunboat can
carry 180 men, with arms and baggage, a 4-pounder rifled
A
field-piece, its ammunition, waggon, aud horses. boat
of this sort would be invaluable in penetrating, by river or
creek, into an enemy's rear. The Indian revolt gave many
with the
chances of using such boats, but those whom we entrust
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interest of some one to look into these affairs ; and, as there
is evident remissness in high quarters, we
the attention of thepublic to this moment venture to draw
ous point.
On investigation of many new inventions, it will be found
that though they have been brought out in France theY
have been initiated here,
and this is the case with thew: small
iron gun boats. In 1846 Mr. T. Moore
tlesi boat, which, we are told, he
submitted towed a
tie late Oliver
Lang, master builder of her Majesty's dockyard, Woolwich.
Having gained this practical man's his plans,
he, approval of
he, in September, 1846, now 14 years ago, submitted the
drawings to the Lords of the Admiralty. Mr. Moore, it
appears, strove to accomplish three essential things :-1.
To turn out a boat with light draught of water. 2. To
model her so that shots would glance from her sides. 3.
To make her available for landing troops. He set to work,
it wottld seem, somewhat in this manner. The hull he
designed of an oval form, partaking somewhat of the
Dutch galiot, so that she should not present any perpendi,
eular sides as a target. He intended to line her sides with
2k-inch iron. Instead of one screw at the stern, he intended
to have one screw under the fore rim of each quarto:L., the
blades in passing upwards to enter a kind of covered well, so
as to be out of reach of cannon shot, and to be as tree as pos-
sible from fouling by gear. The screws were to be driven
by direct:action from the cross shaft of the engine. On the
upper deck the centre section was to be a fixture, and to
carry a pivot gun. The fore and after part of the deck was
to be doubled, so as to be taken up to be used as a gun raft,
or for the disembarkation of troops or horses. The oval or
convex sides of the ship gave a concave space in the inside,
which he proposed to fill with air cases, for service with the
raft, or to give a landing stage for marines or soldiers. The
experience gained during the last 14 years may have pre-
sented fresh ideas to the inventor, but it seems singular that
the French, in 1860, should be approaching the ideas pro-
pounded by this gentleman in 1846. The difference betweau
the British and French Governments in these matters would

seem to consist in action and non-action. The former allows

a really useful scheme to be shelved, and when emergency

arises, runs up a lot of wooden-built vessels, which rot or
decay from the haste in which they are put together, and

from unseasoned timber, discarding the advice given to try
iron; whilst we see the Emperor of the French solicitous
to possess a gunboat of the strongest material and the best
form to do battle in shoal water or to land troops. Our Ad,
miralty appear to be content to follow in the footsteps of the
French, to be mere imitators, and to set their faces against
innovations even should they improve the efficiency of her
Majesty'ssea defenees.—lfitchell' s Steam Shipp big howl.

AUTUMNAL HERRING VOYAGE
LOWESTOFT:-.--
,
This fishery, we are happy to report, is progressing most
favourably. On Monday nearly all the boats had good
safers, and ono or two had as many as three lasts. Brices
ranged from 3s. 7d. to 4s. 10d. per hundred. Ono boat has
already rode over 4200,—,eury smut Norwich rust,

TILE WAR IN ITALY.

A letter dated Naples, Oct. 5, says :—" Half a
mile from St. Angelo, on the road to Capua, which
is flanked on both sides by a thick wood, and again
on the right by the Volturno, a battery of two guns
(12-pounders) had been constructed on the night of
Sept. 30, by the 3d battalion of the brigade belong-
ing to,Brigadier Dunn, who had arrived with his
column from Messina two days previously. This
was, therefore, the extreme outpost of Garibaldi's
army. The guns which had been brought up the
mountain in rear of St. Angelo opened fire on the
Neapolitans, who replied vigorously with shot and
shell, and the Z ouaves of Dunn's brigade, under Major
Wyndham, were then extended along the banks of
the river to annoy the enemy's artillerymen, and
again reinforced by another battalion from the
same brigade. From the right and left of the bat-
tery, on the road to Capua, the battalions protected
the front, and thus only left one in reserve at the
battery. At half-past four o'clock the Neapolitans
marched out and attacked the whole of the line,
concentrating most of their strength on St. Angelo,
and attacking the outposts in force. For five hours
Dunn and his brigade resisted their continued
efforts, sending in vain for support which was not
at hand, retiring from tree,.to tree, and again charg-
ing forward with the bayonet, now and..,, then the
guns from the battery plo ughing through the enemy
as they endeavoured VA concentrate. About 11
o'clock the battle was most sanguinary, continued
fresh troops from Capua poured down shot, shell,
and grape, and heavy platoon firing had covered
the ground with dead and wounded. Dunn's aide-
de-camp was killed, three majors wounded, and then
the major of the Ist battalion fell dead. The colo-
nel of artillery was shot through the head, the
enemy haying filled. the. wood with their Swiss
rifles, picking off the officers on all sides: Dunn
was then forming up his goo en to retire into the bat-
tery, when a shot struck him in the side and he
fell. The enemy now attacked on all sides, and
rushed into the battery, shot and killed all there,
and burnt the wounded. The chaplain, administer-
ing the last sacrament to a dying man, had his eyes
cut out and was then stabbed. Dunn had been
luckily carried away by his men to the rear.
At this moment Garibaldi arrived with fresh
troops, and the battery •was again retaken. It was
a complete victory all along the line, and the
enemy retired with great loss. Dunn's little brigade
alone lost 900 killed and wounded, with 32 officers.
I send you this as I was at St. Angelo, and you
will doubtless have other particulars of the other
part of the fight.

Another letter written from the outposts of the
Italian army, dated San Angelo di Capua, Oct. 13,
says :—The concentration of Garibaldi's troops'
around Capua has assumed within the past week a
more decided aspect. The division commanded by
General Bixio, which up to the affair of the Ist had

been quartered at Caserta and Maddaloai, has
marched up to Santa Maria, partly to replace Gen.

Eber's brigade, which had been ordered to sur-
round Ponticello, and partly to strengthen our posi-
tion at Santa Maria. Gen. Medici has taken up

quarters in a farmhouse near to the village of San
Angelo, where Col.:Spamgaro has been in command
of the extreme outpost in an eastward direction

during the past month. Two batteries, composed of
two 32-pounders each, are placed on the crest of the

mountain separating San Angelo from the Royalists.
On the right bank of the Volturno the latter have
a battery well mounted with about 10 guns, while
on a hillock about a quarter of a mile distant from
the river a farmhouse has been turned into a re-