The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-20 00:00:00

NORTHAMPTON MEETING-APRIL 1.

The Earl Spencer's Plate of 100 sovs, added to a handicap
sweepstakes of 15 sous each, 5 ft; a winner of any handi-
cap after March 12, at ten a.m., or of the Whittlebury
Stakes, 71b extra. The New Spencer Plate Course. 5
furlongs. 70 subs., 24 of whom pay 5 sovs each.

Yrs st lb
~ 5 8 12

Yrs st lb
... 4 7 5

Cellium ...

Pericles ... 4 8 10
Out-and-Outer 6 8 10
Salliet ... 6 8 9
Bismark ... 4 8 9
Dlr. Pitt ... ... 5 8 5
Leonie 3 8 5
Tibtborpe ...4 8 4
Indian Star ... 5 8 3
Vespasian 5 8 1
King Victor ... 4 8 1
Monitor (bred in
Prance) 6 7 13
Reindeer ... a 7 13
Moonbeam ... 4 7 12
Tumbler ... 4 7 11
Verulam ...4 7 11
h by Promised Land
—Rather 5 7 10
Wolsey 5 7 10
Zisca 6 7 10
Marshal Ney 5 7 9
Orion ... 3 7 8
Pirate Chief 4 7 7
Fakir ...4 7 5

Alruna 4 7 2
Belphegor 3 6 13
The Czar ... 6 6 13
Sycee ... 4 6 13
Man of Ross ... 4 6 11
Conundrum ... 5 6 11
Miss Hayes ... 4 6 11
Charnwood ... 3 6 10
Milton ... 3 6 ►3
Witchcraft ... 3 6 9
Bliss ... 3 6 8
Brother to Knight of
the Crescent ... 3 6 7
Irontnaster ... 3 6 7
Chantilly ... 3 6 7
Sritfire 3 6 5
Eleanora 3 6 5
Rhino Wino ... 3 6 4
Prince George ... 3 6 2
Picnic 3 5 12
Patrician ..• ... 3 5 12
Laird of Scotland... 3 5 10
Ligurian ... 3 (pd)

IVA VAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE.

We are authorised to state that there is no foun-
dation for the report which has appeared in some of
the weekly papers that there is shortly to be a fur-
ther distribution of the Order of the Bath among
officers of the Royal Navy.
The Matilda Atheling has been chartered by the
Government for the conveyance of a large number
of Fenian and other convicts from Chatham and the
other convict establishments to Gibraltar, and is to
be ready to embark them at the Nore on Tuesday
next. A strong guard, consisting of detachments of
the let Battalion of the 13th Regiment and the 2d
Battalion of the 15th Regiment, will proceed in
charge of the convicts, who are to be employed on
the works connected wich the defences at Gibraltar.

In addition to the Sultan, the new ironclad war-
ship of the Hercules class ordered to be laid down
at Chatham Dockyard, a powerful turret armour-
clad ship to be named the Triumph is directed by
an Admiralty order, just received, to be constructed
at that establishment, the designs for both vessels
having been prepared at the Admiralty, where the
drawings and plans are now being made.
The following detachments have been placed under
orders to proceed from Chatham garrison for em-
barkation on board the troopship Himalaya, for con-
veyance to Bermuda and North America, to join
the service companies of their respective regiments
—viz., two officers and 54 men of the Ist Battalion
of the 15th Regiment, two officers and 60 men of
the Ist Battalion of the 22d Regiment, and two
officers and 72 mcii of all ranks of the 30th Regi-
ment. The detachments for embarkation will be
officially inspected by Major-Gen. F. Murray to-
day. Consequent on the large number of troops
which have recently left Chatham for embarkation
for India and the colonies the various corps sta-
tioned at the garrison have been reduced very con-
siderably below their proper strength.
An order has been received at the Royal Engi-
neer establishment, Chatham, directing a party of
non-commissioned officers to proceed to Persia to
join the detachment of sappers of the Royal Engi-
neers engaged in laying down the telegraph over-
land to India, under the superintendence of Major
Smith. The party will leave Chatham on the 28th
inst.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. Edward Seale to the
Aboukir ; Navigating Lieut. John Aylen to the
Fisgard, for the Rapid ; Charles H. S. Pretyman
to the Doris ; Charles Cotton, chief engineer, to
the Liffey ; Nicholas T. Connolly, assist.-surgeon,
to the Pandora; Lieut. Herbert F. Gye and Lieut.
Day 11. Bosanquet, to the Bristol ; Sub-Lieut.
Charles Lindsay and Sub-Lieut. Henry C. Bigge,
to the Royal. Oak ; W. W. Glanville, midshipman,
to the Royal Alfred ; and Francis Powell, Alfred
Vautier, Richard W. Fawkes, and Cecil H. Wright,
midshipmen, to the Royal Oak.
The Rev. Thos. Ashe, 8.A., has been appointed
chaplain and naval instructor of her Majesty's ship
Victory.

RAILWAYS 7'o THE PACIFIC ACROSS THE

AMERICAN CONTINENT.

General Palmer, about whom we lately wrote as
exploring the route for the Eastern Division, Union
Pacific Railway, on the Southern Pacific Line in
New Mexico and Arizona, writes from the latter
territory as follows :—" As directed by the Presi-
dent I have ordered the discontinuance of the Gila
surveys, being not only satisfied of the practica-
bility of the thirty-fifth parallel, but convinced that it
is the best across the continent. It is rarely that we
have been obliged to resort to the maximum grade
permitted by Congress. The climate is unexcep-
tionable on the mountains—rather uncomfortable
from the warmth in this valley ; but it will be a
little change for the passengers to eat water melons
at Christmas time. The Mojave Indians are selling
them around the fort now, and I saw some tomatoes
getting ripe on perfectly green vines on the river
bank yesterday. We shall not be troubled with snow
on the San Francisco mountain, the highest summit
we reach, in my opinion, as much as the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, is in crossing the Alleghanies ;
and for a summer and late autumn resort, I do
net believe there is a finer spot on the continent
than ' President's Park' on that summit. The
fagged out people of the Mississippi Valley will
come up here, 7,400 feet above the ocean, and re-
new health and spirits by breathing the purest air
in the most delightful climate, amidst the most
striking mountain scenery probably in America.
If they choose they can ride five thousand feet
higher on the back of a burro,' to the summit of
the old volcano, and find out there, if they can, where
all the lava and ashes came from which are strewn
around. In the Park the grass is very rich, the
soil black, and capable of raising almost every-
thing but corn. The base of San Francisco moun-
tain is covered with little parks of a similar cha-
racter, occupying intervals in the great forest of
pines.

" Taking a practical view of the subject, we
shall have a large passenger business to this
Elysium, and as the road runs for over 100 miles
through, or close to, this forest, our lumber busi-
ness, for the supply of the valleys and mining
districts, will probably be goo 3. There is another
such forest on the Sierra Madre, in New Mexico,
this side ,f Wingate, but not equal to San Francisco.
" I have been quite rejoiced at finding such al,
excellent descent to the Colorado Valley. There
was 3,000 feet to come down, but we found -a valley
leading from the second range back to the river and
turning the south end of the first, or river range, which