The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1860.

SP' )11TING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.—TUESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 10 sws each, for three-yr-olds ; colts, Est
71l); fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 100 sews if
demanded, &c. New T.Y.C. 3 subs,
Mr. R. Ten Broek's Pomona, Bst 41b.... (G Fordham) 1
Mr. Barnes' Jewish Maid, Sat 41b (Norman) 2
Mr. llarrison's Annan, Bst 71b (L. Snowdon) 3
Betting-2 to lon Pomona, who made play throughout
and won cleverly by half a length.
Match, 200, h ft. New T.Y.C.

Duke of Bedford's Plum, 2 yrs, 7st 111 b (J. Mann) 1
Lord Glasgow's c by Barbatus—Miss Whip, 2 yrs, Bst
(G. Fordham) 2
The betting was alternately 6 to 5 on each.

They ran nearly side by side to the cords, where Plum
came out and won by a length and a half.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya each, and only .5 if de-
clared, to go to the owner of the second horse ; for three-
yr-olds and upward. New T.Y.C. 12 subs, Gof whom
pay 5 sovs forfeit.

Mr. Payne's Rockley, 3 yrs, Est 31b (J. Daley) 1
Mr. Saxon's Lady Peel, 4 yrs, 7st 9lb (Midgley) 2
Mr. R. Ten Broek's Pomona, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b (W. Bradley) 3
The following also ran : —Leontes, Bentinck, and Ment-

more.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Lady Peel, 7to 2 agst Pomona, 4to
1 each agst Leontes and Mentmore, 6 to 1 each agst Rock-
ley and Bentinck.
Lady Peel, Pomona, and Rockley ran in front to the
cords, where Rockley took a slight lead, and, maintaining
his advantage to the end, won by a head, the same each
between the second and third and fourth. Bentinck and
Mentmore finished clear of them.
Match-100 soya h ft. New T.Y.C.
Duke of Bedford's Cowley, by Rochester, 2 yrs, Bst 91b
(S. Rogers) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Caliban, 2 yrs. Bst 51b.. (G. Fordham) 2
Betting-5 to 4on Cowley, who led throughout and won
by a neck.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, for three-yr-olds, Bst 41b ;
four and upwards, Bst 121 b. The winner to be sold for
100 soya. Chesterfield Course. 4 subs.
Mr. Hughes's Fractious, by Orlando, aged, Bst 121 b
(Hughes) 1
Mr. Saville's c. by Tadmor—Mainstay, 3 yrs, Bst 41b
(G. Fordham) 2

Betting-2 to lon Fracious.

The favourite made the running, and won by two lengths.
The July Stakes, a subscription of 50 sovs each; 30 ft; for
two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b. The owner
of the second horse to receive back his stake. New
T.Y.C. 37 subs.
Mr. H. W. Thomas's Dictator, by the Cure, Bst 71b
(S. Rogers) 1
Lord Stamford's Walloon, Bst 71b (A. French) 2
Lord Exeter's Knight of the Thistle, Bst 71b (G. Fordham) 3
The following also ran :—Jingling Johnny, Clematis,
colt by Voltigeur—dam by Gameboy, Lupus, and Cister-
cian.

Betting-7 to 4 agst Walloon, 100 to 30 agst Dictator,
100 to 15 agst Knight of the Thistle, 7 to 1 agst Lupus, 10
to 1 agst Clematis.

Dictator on the whip hand with Clomatis, Knight of the
Thistle and Walloon on the far-side, ran in front to the
cords, where the first two came out together, Dictator win-
ning by three-quarters of a length; a head between the
second and third.

Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for three yr-olds and upwards.

B.M.
Mr. Godding's Butterfly filly, (h.b.),. 3 yrs, 7st.. (Perry) 1
Lord Stamford's Tyrant, 3 yrs, 7st Glb (Edwards) 2
Mr. Savile's Ochiltree, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Hibberd) 3
The following also ran :—Restes, Roso of Cashmere c,
Chere Amie (dam Blame), Fontarabia, Lawl Pudrick, Rope
Dancer, and Ireland's ellory.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Butterfly, 6to 1 agst Tyrant, 7to 1
agst Ochiltree, 8 to 1 agst Restes.

.INS'URI?BUTION IN SICILY.

(From the Special Correspondent of the ,Times.)

PALERMO, JUNE 23,

The morning after the final evacuation of Paler-
mo by the Neapolitans Garibaldi called on the
three Admirals, who have all since returned his
visit. The French Admiral called the day after,
and Admiral Mundy yesterday morning. As for
the Sardinian and American Admiral, they had
called once or twice before even the evacuation was
completed. Thus Garibaldi is in regular official
communication with the naval commanders of the
foreign navies. The Austrian commodore Lft the
day the Neapolitans departed, and with them went
likewise the Austrian Consul and his family.
As for the Consuls, they could not hitherto enter
into official communication, being accredited to the
Neapolitan Government, and dependent on their
Ministers, who reside at Naples. But the Provi-
sional Government has already taken steps to send
its representatives both to England and France.
The very day the Neapolitans left, the official
Gazette contained the nomination of the Principe di
San Giuseppe as the representative of Sicily in
England. The Prince has been a stanch Liberal
all through, and has lived in exile. The next day
the Principe San Sataldo was appointed in the
same capacity in France. This activity in the first
instance must be naturally very limited. Non-in-
tervention, the principle which all the Powers,
France at the head of them, have recognised as the
basis of the reorganisation of Italy, must be the
great object of their mission for the moment. In-
deed the more they confine their mission to this
cardinal point the better they will deserve their
country. Let the subjects of the King of Naples
settle their affairs with that Government, which all
Powers have repeatedly and in vain tried to change
for the better. Any arrangement beyond that is
premature. Not that there is the slightest diffe-
rence of opinion here about the solution which the
Sicilian question ought to take, almost every muni-
cipality having already sent in its adhesion to King
Victor Emmanuel ; but wishes of this kind only
find a favourable ear when there is something be-
hind to back them up.
As everywhere else in Italy, there hail been a
great change in Sicily with regard to political
ideas. In 1848 there were but few who could raise
themselves above local prejudices and narrow com-
binations. An independent Sicily, under the Prince
of Carignan, was the last expression of this short-
sighted policy ; now the conviction has become al-
most universal among thinking men, that an inde-
pendent and isolated kingdom of Sicily is a political
impossibility, and would lead ultimately back to
Bourbon dominion, and that Sicily can only be free
as a part of Italy. Nay, the only difference of opi-
nion in this respect is the time, some thinking it
necessary to convoke the national representatives
immediately, and deelare the annexation ; while the
majority are d opinion that we should first arm,
and then talk of annexation—decidedly the more
practical manner of looking at the thing. I need
not say that this is Garibaldi's opinion, and he ex-
pressed it the other day to a deputation to him
which came to present an address. In conseqence
of this declaration on the part of Garibaldi some of
the men who had accepted office have resigned.
Among these is the Principe di Torrearsa, a Libe-
ral of 1818, and Baron Pisani, the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs.
Two days ago the Pretorio issued a proclama-
tion, in which it called upon the citizens to come
and help in demolishing the face of the Castello-a-
Marc looking towards the town. This Castello was,
from the most ancient times, the Bastile of Palermo.
It was rebuilt and strengthened by Charles V. to
curb the turbulent population, and has ever since
been used as a citadel and State prison. It occupies
the point of the peninsula which formerly guarded
the entrance to both ports of Palermo. One of the
ports having been altogether filled up, and the other
being considerably reduced, it has lost all its im-
portance as a work directed against ships. The face
towards the sea, although looking old and neglected,
has, however, the advantage of forming as it were
a continuance of the wall of the town. It will be,
therefore, preserved snd strengthened.
The proclamation to demolish this hated object
brought hundreds of volunteer workmen, who as-
sembled in the different quarters of the town, and,
provided with crowbars, axes, and spades, went in
companies of 50 and more to help in the demolition.
Every one of the troops had contrived to get a
band of music, and the work began by cheering
and singing. Never did men, women and children
work harder without being paid for it. Not the
last among the workmen were the monks of the
different religious communities, especially among
the mendicant friars, Capuchins, Franciscans, &c.
Whole monastries seemed to have turned out, and
went lustily to work. You could see it was a work
of love, or rather of hatred. The whole day the
place was crowded with spectators beside, who
encouraged by their applause every suecessful step
in the work of demolition. If this ardour lasts,
there will soon be little remaining.

JUNE `h4.
The Meander, a British commercial steamer, has
come in from Messina, with a number of passengers.
According to their account, the town was a desert,
peopled only by soldiers and mob ; all the rest of
the population had left, taking with them whatever
they could carry away. The garrison of the place
is very strong, all the troops from Catania and
Girgenti being still there, as well as a part of those
who left Palermo. They occupy the town in force,
but their sway does not extend farther. At the
very gates of the town the insurrection is in full
vigour ; the committee is constituted, holds its
meetings in one of the neighbouring villages, and
is organizing and raising troops, like the rest of the
country. It is in regular correspondence with the
Government both by land and sea.
In general the regular mail service has been
established all over the country. This was the
more wanted, as ever since the beginning of the
insurrection the communication was interrupted
with the interior. Of course, the mail service is
restricted to the chief places, which are connected
by something resembling roads. Nothing shows
more how incapable the Neapolitan authorities
were than the neglected state of the roads commu-
nicating with the interiw..

A Russian steamer, belonging to the Russian
has come in this morning
Steam-packet Company,
from Naples, on her way to Malta. It seems the
company is wide awake, and intends to take advan•
tage of the chance offered by the events in Sicily,
and the steamers will call regularly on their road
to and from Marseilles.

JUNE 25.
Yesterday evening the other brigade of the Ist
Sicilian Division—that is, the 15th Division of the
National Army—commanded by Colonel Bixio,
went to the interior, on the road to Parco and
Piana-dci-Greci. Its object is to go through the
interior by another road, and unite with the first
brigade, which has gone by the Catania road.
This latter column left Misilmeri the day before
yesterday, and went on to Villafrati, where it will
stop for a few days to organize and racruit, as well
as to arrange the differences which party spirit has
created in the interior. Of the Sicilians we can
say, as of the Poles, wherever there are two of them
together there are three parties. What license did
in one case opression has produced in the other.
Aledici's column leaves to-day in the direction of
Messina. Thus we shall have two divisions on
march ; while these are organizing in the interior,
the reserve will be formed here under the eye of
the General himself.

There was yesterday a report that the Neapoli-
tans intended to send over 25,000 men under the
orders of General Nunziata. So much the better
they will thus spare us the trouble of seeking them.
But I don't think it very vrobable,

B NAVY.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., one
of the Lords of the Admiralty, arrived at Devon-
port on Monday morning, and in the afternoon, ac-
companied by Rear-Admiral Sir T. Pasley, Admi
ral-Superintendent of the DJekyard, went on board
the screw steamship Hero, 91, Capt. Seymour,
where a large party of ladies were assembled.
Shortly after steam was got up, and the Hero left
Ilamoaze and proceeded into Plymouth Sound,
where she will probably remain until the Prince of
Wales embarks. It is expected that the Channel

fleet will wait outside the port and escort the Hero
into the Atlantic.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-sloop Fire•

brand, 6, Comnaander Bruce, yesterday arrived a

Greenhithe from the west, with orders to embark
a cargo of naval stores and provisions for the use
of the fleet about to convey kis Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales across the Atlantic. A couple
of lighters, already freighted, were yesterday towed
down to Greenhithe from Woolwich by the steam
tug Bustler, Second Master Draper. The rendez-
vous of the ships and the port whence his Royal•
Highness will sail, as at present stated, has been
fixed for Devonport, where the Cornwall Volunteers
have solicited and have obtained permission to
be present at the Prince's embarkation and form a
guard of honour, as representatives of the county
from which his Royal Highness derives his title of
Duke of Cornwall.

The Mars, 80, was clOaygli Yarra9ptb Da 319 n.
dafti the loss of an ancluir:,--ancfnot the Centu•
rion, 81, as erroneously stated in The Sun of yester•
day.

The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Captain
Seccombe, continues in the Sound. A portion of
the Staff cf the Astronomer Royal is expected to
embark on Friday, and the remainder, with Pro-
fessor Airey, on Saturday, when she will probably
sail for the north coast of Spain.
Yesterday the Pembroke, 60, Capt. Charlewood,
left Harwich harbour to join the Channel fleet at
Great Yarmouth.

Nothing whatever has at present transpired from
official or other quarters in confirmation of the re-
port of an intended naval review at Spithead prior
to the departure of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales for
Canada.

The Ranger, 5, screw gunvessel, Commander H.
R. Wratislaw, sailed from Spithead yesterday, at
11.30 a.ra., for the West Coast of Africa, taking a
mail for Sierra Leone.

The Ariadne, 26, screw, Capt. E. W. Vansittart,
will sail from Spithead for Plymouth Sound to join
the Royal squadron for Canada on Thurslay even-
ing. Four additional cabins have been fitted up on
her main deck for the accommodation of a portion
of the Royal suite.

The screw steam gunvessel Viper, 4, Commander
W. N. W. Hewett, from Ascension May 14, and
Fayal Jane 22, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Mon-
day evening. She left at Ascension her Majesty's
paddlewheel steamvessel Spitfire, 5, Lieut. and Com-
mander Constantine 0. D. Allingham, under re-
pairs; the Meander, 44, Capt. W. F. Burnett, and
the storeship Tortoise ; and at Fayal, the American
bark Azor, of Boston, trading. The Viper was com-
missioned on the 12th Nov., 1857, and has been on
duty on the West Coast of Africa, principally on the
southern part of the station. She has captured five
prizes (three of which are payable), viz. :—June 20,
1858, off the Congo, the brigantine St. Andrew,
with valuable cargo and £1,200 in specie. Sept. 15,
1868, off Cologo, the fore and aft schooner Kate
Ellen, found at anchor deserted by the crew, sup-
posed to be Spaniards who had mutinied ; she was
sent to Sierra Leone. Oct. 11, 1858, off Banda
Point, a brigan tine, supposed to be the Rufus Soule,
with American flag ; she was burnt. June 15,
1859, off the Island of Annabon, the brigantine
Rosa ; no papers or colours ; £3lO in specie ;
Spanish crew burnt. And Nov. 4, 1859, off Mekalo,
the brigantine Cavapier ; she had shipped 520
slaves the night before, and was sent to St. Helena.
The Viper brings two seamen and one marine,
invalids from the Fawn, and one marine, wife, and
family from Ascension. Mr. Charles Keys, gunner
of the Viper, died of fever Nov. 15. After leaving
Fayal she experienced light winds, principally
from the north-west, and spoke, May 21, in lat 1
25 N, long 23 31 W, the American brigantine
Ocean Eagle, bound for New York; 24th, in lat 5
38 N, long 23 38 W, communicated with the ship
Yanwith, bound for Valparaiso; 29th, in lat 12 36
N, long 24 18 W, exchanged colours with the Eng-
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lish bark Snowdrop, standing to the southward ;
June 14th, in lat 34 36 N, picked up a small white
boat, bottom up ; 30th, in lat 48 i N, long 9 6 W,
saw a large ship, painted green, with name on
ensign, supposed to be the Ethiope ; July 1, lat 48
5 N, long 6 48 W, passed her Majesty's screw steam
frigate Bacchante, 51, Capt. D. M'L. Mackenzie,
flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Maitland. The
Viper is rotten about the stern, and has a leak each
side of her sternpost, which has kept one pump
constantly going.
The Locust, 3, paddlewheel steamvessel, 100-
horse power, Lieut. and Commander J. B. Field, is
ordered to be put out of commission without delay.
The Rodney, 500-horse power, recently converted
from a sailing to a 91 screw steamship at the
Chatham dockyard, left her moorings at Sheerness
harbour yesterday morning, and proceeded to the
Mapling Sands to test her engines at the measured
mile. The trial was most successful, the working
of the engines exceeding the most sanguine expecta-
tions of the builders, Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and
Field. The vessel attained an average speed of 11
knots ; average revolutions, 71 ; draught of water
aft, 21ft. Gin.; forward, 18ft. Din. ; diameter of
screw, 18ft. ; pitch, 16ft. Gin. ; length, 3ft. Gin. The
trial was under the superintendence of Captain
Schoenberg, Commander Lloyd, Mr. W. Price (in-
spector of machinery afloat at Sheerness), Mr. T.
Baker (chief engineer, Chatham dockyard), and
Mr. Moore (assistant-master-shipwright of Chatham
dockyard), on the part of the Government ; and, on
the part of the contractors, Messrs. Field, Herbert
Maudslay, and Mr. Warren, manager. A remark-
able feature in the Rodney, which is worthy of
notice, is the admirable system of ventilation adopted
by Mr. Baker, by which a constant current of fresh
air is made to pass through the stokehole, thereby
rendering the vessel much cooler and more healthy
to the men employed than is the case in vessels as
ordinarily constructed.