The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-12 00:00:00

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SA.LERNO, FEB. G.
The ttial, f!.x mitt, last two x three days, laas
o_ntaine:l itt.y points of such itt!eo est as (!qring he
firs; day, tly,tign has been imp ~rant to English-
men from the examination of Park and Watt,
AfT.er a suspension of one day the court re-opmed
on Wednesday morning, when the captain and 15
of the crow of the Cagliari were examined.
After his deposition had been read to Captain
Sitzia, he protested against the chart of his course
which had been made by the Mariana Reale of
Naples. He would not, in reply to the President,
point out exactly the point of his 'capture, but in
older to do so demanded the assistance of maps and
an experienced captain.
The counsel for the defence insisted that " periti)!
(or professional persons acquainted with navigation)
should be employed to examine scientifically the
place where the Cagliari was taken, and to decide
whether she was out of her course..

The Procurator-General demanded that the offi-
cers of the Tancredi, which captured the Cagliari,
should be examined ; to which the counsel for the
defence objected, on the ground that the depositions
of the officers were already in their hand.
The Gaut, after withdrawing for a short time,
decided that the officers should again be examined ;
and that the choice of "periti" aft:Twards, as ne-
cessity might seem to dictate should be reserved.
Park was called up immediately after Brfzia. He
manifested no desiro to alter his deposition, but
objected to its being considered that they (the en-
gineers) were the indeAndent controllers of the
movements of the veasel.

Watt, who was present this morning only for the
second time, and had oven now been dragged down
by the captain, Sitzia, and two or three of his com-
panions, was called afterwards. In answer to the
President, who asked whether he understood
Italian, he replied " But little," and refused an
interpreter. On his deposition having been read,
he was asked whether he would add to it or correct
it. He became confused, and turning round to
Park, said that he did not understand, but would
assent to all that Park hid said. He appeared to
me to be labourinz under much ue:votis excite-
ment.

In like manner their diToiitions were read to 13
others of.ther crew, and tly.p,gh it is not extraordi-
nary that they should exculpate theruslreF, stall
there was a harmony w2d yet a diff,:rouce in the
statsments of all. Their ta!e amounted to this, that
about two hours after If_,lving G-noa th 3 insurgents
uHn them, oompelltd them to go below, put
guards over them, and threatened to blow their
'brains out if they opposed them ; that th 4 captain
wept and was ruu.)h grievud, awl that none of the
nviriuers landel

Orr Thurs.lay morning Watt did not mAlce his
appearance again, nor could anything i,:ducehin
to leave the prison. Medical men, therefore, were
sent for to decide as to his competyncy and that of
three other prisoners to appear in court. After
three hours' delay the " professort" were found,
and r,cmvizeg their instructions, set off for the pri-
son. In another hour, they returned, and repotted
that Watt exhiA.ited symptoms m-ntal aberration,
yet that as their exAninatiou had only been brief,
they recommended a fuller examination. Do-
menico Strule.7;e, ;mother of the absfmtees, had been
left behind to watch over Watt. The chief keeper
was of opinion that force could not be used without
the chance of producing great excesses. The other
two were suffering only from temporary illness.
The (*and Court, after retiring for some time,
decided on theirreturn that fire medicalmen should
examine Watt, and declare whether he is compe-
tent to appear any more. Until the consul- ation
took place all proceedings were suspended, and the
business of the day thus terminated.
On Friday morning, the British Acting-Consul,
Mr. Barbar, and Mr. Roskelly came up from
Naples,_ in consequence of a telegraphic despatch
which was sent to them 'immediately after the
decision of the court.

Watt's mind seems quite broken down by
anxiety and long imprisonment.
In the course of Friday evening Mr. Roskelly,
together with the five medical men of Salerno,
and accompanied by the acting-consul, Mr. Barbar,
again visited Watt in his prison. They have ap-
pointed Sunday evening for another interview
before giving their final opinion.
The British public will, therefore, probably hear
in the course of a few days that their countryman
Watt, against whom no evidence worth a straw
exists, after having been the inmate of a Neapo-
litan prison since June last, is the inmate of an
asylum. Is this a question to be pooh-poolied—
to be smoothed over with soft words, or set aside
with a joke 7

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A ;-faircri,al cirdfir has bee:c.issued by dorairtatt6.7oc
Duke 01-Causkrir)ge, (Urectisg- that the
c-Antilittent; paid, t the ttoops, as laid rdowh'i
•, the otie,T'l -regulitions, to be 0,34-pirle-rt•ii at,
apPlicablei to the-officen ot. the civil depattrngnt of
thb.army wh-n in unifotn. •
. Captain Richard Henry Traver, 24th Regiment,-
Kts'been appointed instructor in musketryto the
3d depot battalion, quartered in the huts ef:Prince
El ward's Bastion, Chatham.
An announcement was ' yesterday received at
Chatham from Buckingham Palace, by 'Majot-
Geaersl ,W. H. Eden, Commandant of the gar-
rison, intimating
,--that his Royal Highness -the
Prince Consort woUld- visit 'Chatham for the pur-
pose of making an inspeCtion of the military
ho3pitals at that garrison, and also •the invalid
establishment at St. Mary's, appropriated for the
use of the sick and wounded troops:on their arrival
from India. The visit of his Royal Highness is to
be a strictly p:ivate one, and is understood to haVe
been decided upon in consequence of the reports
and statements 'which have recently 'appeared iii
the Times relative. to the defective state of the
military hospitals at Chatham. His Royal High-
ness was 'expected to arrive yesterday afternoon;
and the usual preparations were made at the vari-
ous establishments to• be visited for his reception;
brit late in the afternoon intelligence was received
at Chatham that the intended visit had been post-
. •
'Colonel Bloomfield, Second Commandant of the
Artillery Garrison, Woolwich; and aide-de-camp
to her Majesty, has assumed the chief command of
the garrisou during tke 'absence on leave, as ar.-
nounced in garrison orders, of Major Sir Fenwick
Williams during the session of Parliament.
Preparationi for launching the icreir steam tors
vette Challenger to-morrow at Woolwich are in a
for ward state, and no delay is likely to occur be-
yond the time
,appointed.' The dockyard gates
will he throWn open to the public at 1 o'clock, and
the lltinch 'will-commence at a quarter before 2.
The dimensions of the Challenger are similar to ,
those of the 'Scout, Nall; Scylla, and Charybdis,
recently built, at Woolwich and Chatham .dock-
vards, on a new principle, to carry an armament of
21 cum. The Chttllenger is moreover provided
with an additional deck. Her iTincipal dimens-ona
are the followiri . _

.- Feet. trchf.s,
. _
beng-•th between the perpenditin- ' 20j - 0 •
Length of keet f3r:tannage.
IL-Lci t 11, extreme
Breadth for tonnav
iireacith moulded
I)epth in hold, .-i , , ;.,. n 22 3
..
Burden in tons, 1,462 1.-04,-
Her Majsety's screw steam-sloop Racer, ' launched
a few weeks. ago at Deptford, yesterday steamed.
down from Woolwich to Noitti Reach, on ktial of
her machine -y of 150-horse power (noreinaly. - The.
above named trial hid been delyed for some days,
to give Vice-Admiral Sir George Sartorius an op-
portunity of being present, Sir George having been
deputed by the.POittignese Government to order a
nutnbor of '3OO-h:Avie power engines from the Same
fiL m 01 ssrs. Humphry: and Co.) Mr. Dins -u,
th Admiralty ioTector of machinery, and
.Mr.
ro a;tridie, frdrn WoolWich dockyard, accoinpanied
he Racer to verify th4jrate of speed,' which was
portßd as 10
_3.10, with 100 rcvoirVions Fr
minuie.

ITHE WIZARD'S WONDERS IN PAP.TAR
MACIIE.

It was but the other day-tt.at we took occasion
Ito advert.to the magnificent display of silver plate
which Mr. Anderson, the Wizsrd, has enabled
Messrs. Gough
,and Silvester to make at their rooms
in the Parade, and now we have to call the attention •
'to another illuStration of the Wizard's taste and
munificence. At the establishment of Messrs, Jen-
inens and Bettridge thire is at the present moment a
'collection of Magical paraphernalia specially prepared
to feast the eyes of the Australian gold-diggers. Mr.
'Anderson seems determined not to adventure to
Ithe Antipodes in such a manner and with such ap-
fpointments in the way of baggage as ordinary tra-
Ivellers adopt, but to uo ma. Monarch, and take a
whole palace-full of palatialfuyniture withhim. Innu-
merable tables fitted up with every desdription of per-.
plexing machinery, and Ornamented with ice-di ops
imitated in pearls and 'Saracenic arabesque work-,
worthy 'of the harem of the good Haroun al Raschid
fill an entire compartment. Then there are chairs,
with more gem work •on their backs and more
mystic contrivances about their legs than chairs
were ever known to have before. Gorgeous as they
appear exte: nilly, we know well enough that there
is more bewitchment about them than we would
willingly encounter. There are fanciful bizarre-
looking stands, too, which would serve as work-
tables for a fairy princess - there are caskets with-
out number, for any one of which we warrant that
Sinbai 'would, hwe ventured his life even after
having seen the "diamond valley." There are
vases also worthy of having adorned de bond. it of
Cleopatra, and weird-looking things begemnied and
brilliant, but obviously of mysterious use. Tenny-
son's poem relative to that same Haronn al Raschid,
of whom we have already spoken, would have to be
read up for ideas of gorgeousness, Opium would
havelo be stneked, or hashish taken, the Alhambra
Vi4ted,, Yathek luokeal through again, and a
kaleidoscope played wth t' s ice hours before we
could tightly di sulk) the f',.ast, of artis' ie fancy
which- Messrs. Jennrns and Bettridge have served
up at the touch of the Wizard's wand. , We hear,
however, that these and all lils-nt,w' apparifir, are
to be exhibited by Professor Andeflon, at the
Music flail, next week, and as the show-room-will
be largo enough to accommodate a goodly numh•A-
of visitors, we have no doubt that the public will
duly patronise the Wizard in - return. fzr his
patronage of the Birmingham manufactures, and
the spirited way in which, through his inArurntn-
tality, the industry of our town will be represented
in the gold regioni of the lauds across the seas.—
Birmingham paper.

44 AN ACC,IIINT OF CHIJRCEI ORNAMENTS, (to. ;''
I?etei arui wet tor, b by Mesere. Cex And Son, and pub.
lished by them at their Elecleeia.ticel Warehouse', 28,
and 29, Southampton-street, Strand, London.--Herein
is x aeries of the best ex.smplee of church furniture,
ornaments, and vestments, condensed into a pamphlet
size, and arranged in a form the most convenient
for !requent reference. It has made ue at once ac-
quath • ted with the requireuneete of the church, and the
expense thereof, whether we should desire to gratify a
taste for the elaborately ornate or the beautifully simple.
To those about to make acceptable offerings to places of
worship the work will be at once a guide and an expo-
nent ; while to the architect or founder of a church it is
to all intents and purposes an indispensable aid, It is true
it is intended for a gratuitous professional circulation,
but it is not the less valuable on that account. Few are
aware of the extent of knowledge, of research, and of
reading, in collecting, illustrating, and digesting mate-
rial for such works.
RED PETTICOATS.—Since the days of good Queen
Anne, when Will Honeyconibe used to devote an occa-
sional essay in the Spectator to the petticoat, that delicate
subject has been held in too great reverence to be made
the topic of newspaper discussion. Whether it bas beeu
owing to refinement of feeling or a lack of gallantry that
the petticoat bas been held in sacred reserve we will not
pretend to decide, but suddenly it has been dragged
ruthlessly before the public gaze again, and we wish we
could add, with as much gallantry and easy gracelde
as were displayed by jovial Dick Steel when be handled
nrendo
the subject. Our countrywoman, the lady of Sir
Ouseley, at Washington, has been the cause of this is
d
turbance. She has startled the politicians ,
at our national
capital, and "fluttered the V;olsciaua of the
t ona ,y, u y
ca
generally, by displaying a elimrnt
nipetticilat ahs ptasbvhee
walked the streets, of course not in e
olfdtlyie
robe
n ever which
thatvai n graceful Frenchmenn and
hfaava ec i I imaginedatg' g
jlifting
nno a
manner has had the effect upon the
which that fiery eolour is supposed to
produce p
passions do
of an excited bull. The red
displayedmasculinep ro
eproperly
y open
out of Paris. The little bit of red
in
the thisu i
publico
petticoat has become the current theme of conversation,
and Broadway, era long, will probably have a fiery
ls
ccstreak
cession
ne
costume. Nell,
uif
it be
Ncnbvaieern
agl
rnaewa ad
long
tteltteril
tcei eoygai pavement ali
odnvr
get
amo
pgetarthise tete
ndianous
nc
athoughfull
:f
ea
but
dal, rt:aei
ion,
should say that I. softer or milder tint would be more
becoming for summer, let the case be as it may in
winter. We have an indistinct recollection of having
epee etijey, d a transcient glimpse of an embroidered petti-
coat of enowy whLeneee, which we caught an involuntary
soglit of as a ..tatsly lady displayed it one day as she
lilted her I:row-tiled in stepping across Bro:ltheas
to preveet the Lem of her dress from coming in contact
with the muddy pavement. We have not the boldness
to oppose our bumble opinion to a newly introduced
fashion, but we will venture timidly to intimate that
the snowy purify of dimity or muslin is much more
likely to make a lasting impression on the masculine
bean t than the t bril,iat t scarlet that ever hung Rem,
a feminine an1;1.:. But it is said that Queen Victoria
wore the red petticoat when she_ was last at her palace
of Balmoral in the Highlands. Of course that settles
this matter, and we have not another word to say on
the subject. If the Queen wore the -crirason lope in
6eotiaed, what better reason could be desired as au
apology for our ladies wearing it in Broadway ?—hvo,..,
2ork, limo.