The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, triumphantly, " any question that by the law of war property both of enemies and friends may be taken when needed ? And is it not needed whenever the taking of it helps us or hurts the enemy ? Armies, all the world over, destroy enemies' property when they cannot use it." According to this reasoning, Mr. Lincoln's Generals, instead of freeing the enemy's negroes, might destroy them, just as they would the enemy's horses or pigs, or any other pro perty they could not consume or carry away. Of course Mr. Lincoln intended to convey no such mean ing, although some of his Generals, in placing negro regiments in positions where their annihilation was all but certain, with the object of proving to the world that negroes could fight if they pleased, have acted as if the destruction of such "property " were Tiite as allowable as the destruction of stone walls. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Mr. Chose having to provide 60,000,000 dollars to pay the arrears due to the army and navy, has come into the market as a borrower of 50,000,000 dollars. He proposes to raise the money by the issue of th at amount of promises to pay in sums of 10 dol'ors and upwards, bearing interest at five per ce at. per annum. The b anks of New York have a-4re ad to take 35,000,000 dollars, and those of Boston 15,000,000 dollars of the amount. These pror uses to pay partake of the double cha racter of an Exchequer Bill and of a bank note. In the first capacity they bear interest, and in the second they are declared to be legal tender for al. debts, pubic and private. As these issues must of necessity b e followed in quick succession by oth ers o f like or a greater amount, if the army and navy are to be paid, the contractors settled with, and the war pushed forward, a feeling of distrust bas communi cated itself: to the speculative public. The non-suc cess of the operations before Charleston, the grow ing doubt whether Admiral Dahlgren and General Gilmore will not fail as egregiously to capture the city as Ge:a. Hunter and Admiral Dupont did be fore them; the calculation, based on unmistakable data, that these futile attempts to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina have already cost the Federal Government in round numbers the handsome sum of 500,000,000 dols.,which any professional accountant, surveyor, or assessor would certainly declare to be 300 per cent. in excess of the value of the fee simple of all the land in the city, and of every house,church, bank, office, or other building within its bounds, and all the movable property therein contained; and a similar calculation that the little treaeure acquired in Vicksburg was not purchased at a smaller cost, from first to last, than 400,000,000 dole., have con tributed each in their degree to excite the fears of many bankers, brokers, and merceants who see no way out of the corner into which the Government is driven except by further issues of baseless paper, and who know that such issues inevitably lead to financial collapse and national bankruptcy. To these sources of disquiet have to be added, first, the pos sibility—and. as many think, the extreme proba bility—that General Lee will take advantage of the depletion of the army of the Potomac, many thousands of whose veterans are doing unnecessary duty in the quasi-hostile occupation of the city of New York, to flank Gen. Meade and march upon 'Washington ; and secondly, the letter of Mr. Lin coln to the Springfield Convention, which puts the extinguisher upon all the hopes of peace which have recently taken possession of the public mind, by showing that as long as he is President he will listen to no terms from the South except unconditional surrender, to be coupled with immediate emancipa tion. Nor is this, formidable as the list may be, the whole catalogue of causes that have come into simultanec us operation to disturb the money market and shake the card castle of Mr. Chase's finance. The European harvest is known to be so abundant as to make it certain that Great Britain and France will not this year be very large purchasers of Ame rican breadstnffs ; that, consequently, the importa tions of dry goods and other articles from Europe which the necessities or the luxuries of the Ameri cans may require will have to be balanced not with corn and flour, as in other times, but with gold. How much or how little these several causes of anxiety or alarm may have affected the sensitive barometer that marks its fair audits foul in the prices of stocks and the premium on gold it is not easy for the most patient student to predicate with accuracy. Possibly the main motor of the panic that has taken possession of Wall-street for the last three days was Mr. Chase's appearance as a borrower. However that may be, the card castle has bad a rough shaking. Shares in the "fancy" railways—mani pulated by the leviathans of speculation—have come tumbling down, and gold has gone clambering up. A few men have made large fortunes, for Mr. Cease does not keep his secrets so effectually as not to let his relatives, his personal friends, and some Western politicians and financiers, on whose services he relies to get a large - Western vote for the Presi dency, know a few days, or even a few weeks be forehand, that he is going to issue fresh greenbacks, contract a. loan, or otherwise operate on the share market and the price of gold. But while these favoured few, and the " ring" or clique that sur rounds them, have either kept clear of mischief, or made money, ruin has seized upon hundreds of the smaller and less privileged class of speculators, who have learnt, to their cost, the old but ever recurring lesson that gambling is no certain road to wealth, and that industry and the legitimate pursuits of commerce, though they may not always lead to for tune, and never to sudden riches, are the only safe avenues on which the wise man will travel who ex pects to make a sure provision for his old age, and leave a competency to those who are to follow him. While gold has advanced nearly 11 per cent. since Saturday last the decline on railway stocks has varied between 2+ and 31 per cent. ; New York Central has fallen 94 ; Erie, 15 ; Illinois Central, 111 ; Fort Wayne, 16+ ; Harlem, 28 ; Harlem pre ferred, 31 ; Michigan Southern, 22+ ; Chicago and Alton, 14 ; and Cleveland and Pittsburg, 11. Go vernmentstocks have also felt a downward tendency, and have declined from + to per cent. The President's letter, which has done so much to produce the mischief and to disabuse the public of the idea of a speedy peace, is a characteristic and, in some respects, an important document. Ardently desiring peace and a restoration of the Union, he sees and knows of no method securing these objects but by the vigorous prosecution of the war. Com promise he believes to be impossible, for the all sufficient reason that the Southern leaders and armies will listen to no terms short of absolute in • dependence, an independence to which he, as Presi dent, cannot consent, and which he must continue to combat by every means in his power. He fur thermore admits, though not in express terms, that the recent successes of the Federal armies have in reality done nothing to convince the South of the hopelessness of its cause, or induce it to make offers of submission. All this is undoubtedly true, though its public confession by the President is aleulated to cool the boiling enthusiasm of that Large and impulsive portion of the Northern people , were until yesterday of opinion that Gettys "rß, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson were three blows so o or n e s nearly arly fatal to the South as to require but one m ° complete its subjugation, and which, ac cording to th e programme, was to fall with crushing Charleston, weight at a n d m a ke a n end once and for ever of Southern independence. I\l r. Lincoln does not share the views of the many ardent Unionists and defenders of what they e nation," who insist that his Ic) ar o li cla t m he atio l n ife of ot the nation," was a mistake—a rr bull against the co met ,' Wi T- h an unconstitutional inter ference with matters w i hicb, as President, he h a d nothing to do,andof which the bitterest has mainly b ee n to unite t h e South in the oretrheshto hostilityhopelessly to the N o rth, and to divide the N into angry and relentless faction,. Mr. p Lin e c ss ol y n believes to r none ecall of the or se modnify thi gs, and consequentlymati gives savour s ne)re strong r his proclamation. The reasou which ho of the attorney's oc © at Springfi e l d than of y the 'White House at Washington. "The procla mation," he says, " is either valid or not valid. It it is not valid, it needs no retraction ; if it is valid, it cannot be retracted, any more than the dead ea , be brought to life." This isr. line of argument which shows more of the "crankiness' of a lawyer than of the sagecity of a statesman. If it be not valid, its promulgation might yet betray such an animus against the Southern slaveholdara as to goad them into a more &tea mieed resistance to Mr. liacolh'e armies than they might otherwise have displayed, in which case its invalidity would be no real bar to any retraction which he might think it expedient to mak e . And, in the same way, if it were is valid as the law, the Constitution, and the fact could make it, the same authority that i ssue d could withdraw it, if the public interest de manded. Another argument which Mr. Lincoln uses in defence of his proclamation would, if admitted, prove a great deal too much for his case. " The Constitution," he says, " invests the Como:leader-in- Chief with the Law of war in time of war. The most that can be said, if so much, is that slaves are property. Is there, has there ever been," he ukt On the general principle of the employment of negro soldiers Mr. Lincoln's reasoning is as satisfac tory as it is unnecessary. There is no just reason why the free negroes of the North, and these who have made themselves free by running away from their Southern masters, should not, for the military purposes of the Federal Government, be placed on a footing of perfect equality with white men. Neither the law of the Northern States nor the Federal Con stitution forbids their employment as troops, and it military necessity or political expediency requires their services the Northern people would be unwise if they did not use them to the utmost extent. But the objection to negro soldiers lies among white soldiers, and is social and ethnological, not legal or constitutional. Though white brigadier-generals , colonels, majors, and captains are willing enough to command negroes, white private soldiers obsti nately refuse to serve along with them. The ne groes must be kept scrupulously apart or the whites will mutiny—a state of affairs which remains wholly unaffected by Mr. Lincoln's vindication of his undoubted right to enlist soldiers without re• ference to the colour of their skins. The negroes are quite aware of the prejudice, and although they offer themselves in sufficient numbers to form three or four regiments, there are more white candidates for the higher posts of command over them than there are black soldiers to be commanded. Although it is asserted that this letter is wholly Mr. Lincoln's own composition, and that Mr. Seward more especially has been prevented either from mending or marring it, there are indications that some other hand than Mr. Lincoln's has re vised and endeavoured to elevate its style. When the Federal navy is described as " Uncle Sam's web feet" the world may be sure that the image is Mr. Lincoln's own, but when with a rhythmical cadence it is announced "that the father of waters again flows unvexed to the sea," the hand of Mr. Seward, or of some other quondam schoolmaster of the ' Cabinet, may be suspected, if not positively traced. The whole composition will no doubt be as widely read in Europe as in America. In its concluding prayer North and South might well agree. " Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time." Without sharing Mr. Lincoln's beief that peace is any nearer than it seemed to be at any period of the war, not only North and South bt,t the whole civilised world may say " Amen to this sweet prayer." Another and a much shorter letter of the Presi dent, characteristic of the simplicity of his mind and the original kindliness of his nature, excites attention, and inspires hopes that he has at last seen the error of his ways in his constant interfer ence with the plans of his Generals. It is addressed to General Grant, thanks him in cordial, though not in eloquent terms for the victory achieved at Vicksburg, and admits that several times during the progress of the operations that were ultimately so successful he had his misgivings that the General was wrong, that he (Mr. Lincoln) would have acted otherwise had he been in the same position. The President candidly admits that in all this he was iu error. Taken in connexion with the fact that in his letter to the Springfield Convention Mr. Lincoln, for the first time, admits that General M'Ciellan gained a victory at Antietam, and that that battle was as " bravely done" as Murfreesborough or Gettysburg, people are inclined to hope that Mr. Lincoln will for the future remember that he is only an ornamental and nominal Commander-in-Chief; that he knows nothing of the art or science of war, and ought, therefore, either to leave his Generals untrammelled by his advice until, for cause assigned he and his Cabinet see fit to remove them. The tribute to General Grant is honest and hearty. Thar to General M'Clellan seems to be an accident—due to a slip of the pen rather than to a studied desire to do justice. The draught in the cities cf New York and Brook lyn and the towns and villages of Staten and Long Islands has been brought to a close, and in a fort night or three weeks the Government will be able to count how many men it has produced. No dis turbance whatever has cccurred during its pro gress, except one provoked in a ginshop by a drunken major and a drunken colonel, and of which a drunken Irish lad of 20 was the victim. The presence of 50,000 men, and the reliance of the poorer conscripts that the city would pay their ex emption fee, has kept all things quiet, and, in spite of the irritating presence of the soldiery, they are likely to remain so. The Mayor and Controller have publicly advertised for 10,000 substitutes, to each of whom, if accepted, they offer the sum of 300 dole., so that the conscription has resolved itselt at last into a system of volunteering, with the only difference that the city of New York provides the funds for the purpose of paying the bounty money, instead of Mr. Chase. Sensible people think that tho Government would have acted more wisely if it had saved itself the odium of the proceeding, even although Mr. Chase may be a gainer of three millions of dollars by the transaction. It is notice able that very few native Americans consent to serve personally, either as original conscripts or as substitutes. The five substitutes shot for desertion last week in presence of the Army of the Potomac, and of 25,000 shameless civilians, who ought under no circumstances to have been admitted to the spec tacle, were all foreigners—Germans, Italians, and Irish. Out of every 100 substitutes who offer them selves not three are American born, but mainly Irish and Germans, some of them newly arrived, who have net been 10 days in the country, and others discharged volunteers, whom the war has unfitted for honest industry. There are yet no signs of the withdrawal of the army of occupation, although not the shadow of a necessity exists for its presence. The well-known author and introducer of the Act of Conscription, Mr. Wilson, shoe manufacturer, of Massachusetts, and senator for that State in the last and present Congress, custodian of the conscience of Mr. Lincoln, and prime mover in all the projects that have for their animus the laying waste of the South with fire and sword, and the extermination of all its people, with the sole exception of the negroes, has, however, in a speech made at Brunswick, in Maine, given a rea son for the invasion of the peaceful community of New York, which may well make the citizens shud der. " There are," said he, " forty-four regiments in New York to help the Government to enforce the draught, and there is not a soldier among them Rho would not rather shoot a Copperhead, put a bullet through his brains, than he would shoot a rebel." Mr. Wilson took the trouble to repeat this asser tion twice, iu order that there might be no mistake. If by " Copperheads" ho meant all those who dis approve the war and the policy of the Government —se class who fo rm a l argo ma j or i ty of the people ev l_locparlylsilattaere excop tin New England—a n d if th ese Copperheads, entertain towards the Black Repub- Ab olitiouists half of the hatred and malice to Which Mr. Wilsoa frequently and Secretary Stanton sore et i mes • give utterance, it will fare ill : f a t r if ever the Copperheads, with the party i n through the agencyP t ousting he ballot-box, or any other, bitterness seats the present of feeling is on occupantsshal lsucce o e f d o i ffi n poisons all social the increase on both sides,p ral America as inter course, and bide, fair to render disagreeable a place of residence as Congou or Dahomey to every one but a soldier, a cn,,tractor, a Secretary of State , an d a "war Christian;' Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by put .. chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 38. 4d, and 4s. "High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 41, Sd. ), 18 the strongest and most delicious imprted. Agents in every town supply it in packets, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPITMBER, 17, 1863. v -~ = -✓° o SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Among the many marvels and paradoxes of the American Revolution there is none greater than the part played by President Lincoln himself. That such a man should have been called upon to guide the destinies of a mighty nation during a grand historical crisis is surely strange enough, but that he should have blundered and vacillated as he has, without for a moment losing confidence in himself, or altogether forfeiting that of his coun trymen, is stranger still. His language on the great questions at issue has varied so much at different times as to show that he never can have had anything worthy of being called a policy, unless it be that which he described in the wisest of all his homely sayings as a resolution to " keep pegging away." It we compare his early addresses and his first Presidential Message with his subsequent letters and his speeches, or with his last Message, we find a degree of incop sist:- ncy which is perfectly ludicrous. The great problem with which he has had to deal has of course been slavery, and it would be possible to cull from his declarations on this subject passages in favour of every principle from Abolitionism to ab solute non-intervention. Between the elaborate compensation-scheme proposed in tha Message of December, 1862, and the Proclamation of January, confiscating the slaves of all the seceding States as a measure of military necsssity, there is a theoretical abyss which na argument can span. So far, however, from seeing this, the President justifies both indis criminately in the letter to the" unconditional Union men" of Illinois, which we published yesterday, and manages to confound both with the arming of no , groes on behalf of the Union, which has nothing:to do with either. This letter is in otber respects so remarkable a document, and so characteristic a specimen of the President's style and habits of thought, that we cannot do better than extract the most ambitious paragraphs of it for the benefit of our readers : The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea, thanks to the great north-west for it. Nor yet wholly to them; 300 miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone and Jersey hewing their way right and le. t. The sunny South, too, in more colours than one, also lent a lai,nd. On the spot their part of the history was jotted down in black and white. The job was a great national one, and let none be banned who bore an honour able part in it. And while those who have cleared the great river may well be proud, even that is not ad It is hard,to say that anything has been more bravely and better done than at Antietam, Murfreesboro', Gettysburg, and on many fields of less note. Nor must Uncle Sam's web feet be forgotten. At all the waters' margins they have been present, not only in the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. Thanks to all tor the Great &public, for the principle by which it lives and keeps alive for man's vast future. Thanks to all. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. How any man in his sober senses could have sat down to compose such a rhapsody as this, or having composed it, could have read it over with gravity and ordered it to be printed, passes our compre hension. It is something between a prophecy and an oracular response, with a dash of Yankee slang and terms of expression which remind us alter nately of Ossian, of the incoherent utterances of the :Maori Chiefs, and of schoolboy translations of corrupt choruses in Greek tragedians. Crom well never spoke and Mr. Carlyle never wrote a f nything so hopelessly obscure, and the persons, there be any such, to whom such a jargon can appear impressive or even intelligible must have faculties and tastes of which we can form no idea. One is really tempted to think that Mr. Lincoln cannot have been himself when he penned to grotesque a production. Herodotus tells us that the ancient Persian deliberated drunk as well as sober on important affairs of State, but we may be sure that the conclusion of a debate was conducted in tie latter condition. It is difficult to believe that the American President can have observed this pie caution, though he winds up with the timely injunc tiou, "L e t u s b e qu i te so b er ," an d so l emn ly warns his readers not to be over-sanguine of a speedy triumph. And yet it would not be fair tdjudge of the whole letter by his wild and vague declamation. The early part, though by no means free from faults of grammar or compatible with our notions of lite rary dignity, is not devoid of a certain rough honesty and force. It is this, tempered by a lawyer-like smartness, that secures to Mr. Lincoln, in spite of his arbitrary weakness, a certain popularity among a people who enjoy a joke even wben it is practised at the expense of themselves or the dearest interests of their country. In the address before us he boldly takes the bull by the horns, and defends him self against the censures of the Peace par y. This defence deserves serious attention, inasmuch as it purports to define the objects of the war for the future. "I am as desirous of peace as any of you," says Mr. Lincoln," but how can we attain it ? Only in cne of three ways; either by forcibly suppress ing the rebellion, or by giving up the Union, or by some compromise." The second of these expedients he declines to discuss, and the third he considers impracticable without adopting the second. "I do not believe that any compromise embracing the main tenance of the Union is nog-possible. All that I learn ' leads to a directly opposite belief." Nothing re in sins, therefore, but to embrace the first course and " keep pegging away." An European critic, accepting this trilemma as exhaustive, would proba bly fix on the alternative which President Lincoln dismisses so summarily, and endeavour to show that the aim' of the North, instead of refusing to contem plate final separation, should have been from the first to dictate its terms. Let us look at the matter, how ever, from the writer's own point of view, andassume that no compromise excluding a restoration of the Union would be satisfactory to the North. Does it follow that this restoration can be effected by force of arms ? Mr. Lincoln's logic would have been equally good, and ho would have shown a higher statesmanship, if he had demonstrated, as he easily might, that no reunion worth the name could be brought about by war, and that consequently some form of compromise must ultimately be enter tained. But no overtures of this kind, he assures us, have yet been made by the leaders of the rebel army or by any of those who control it. Can there be a stronger proof of she indomitable determination of tee South not to have the Union as it was, and can any State be compelled to be a member of a Confederation against its will ? We cannot help sus pecting that Mr Lincoln himself feels this difficulty, for he is at much pains to distinguish b-tween the Southern people and the Southern army, and to prove that the true sentiments of the former cannot be as certained tiil the latter is annihilated. Two years ago such views might have gained credence, but they are now quite exploded. There is not the slightest reason to doubt that the Government and army of the South represent the white population gene rally. It is conceivable that that population may be exterminated or so crushed as to make such a peace with the North as the Polish insurgents might make with Russia, but it is inconceivable that they can be beaten and insulted into loyalty. A still deeper fallacy underlies the President's apology for the Proclamation of Emancipation. He adheres to the statement that it was a military necessity, and appeals to the testimony of military commanders in favour of its strategical value. But when he comes to deal with the political objections to it, on the ground that it substituted Abolitionism for Unionism as the future casus bell, he betrays a very shallow cunning or a strange blindness. His argument is, that while some are fighting for the freedom of the blacks, others may just as well fght for the restoration of the Union, and inasmuch as the success of both causes depends on the same event, no antagonism between their par tisans should exist. " Whenever you shall have conquered all resistance to the Union, if I shall urge you to continue fighting, it will be an apt time then for you to declare that you will not fight to free negroes." Can Mr. Lincoln fail to see that the Proclamation in question must have extinguished any lingering spark of regret for the Union in the South, and thus have rendered the chance of recon ciliation infinitely smaller than before ? An Illinois Unionist may well think, though we do not, that the seceding States would have returned to their allegiance, after all, had their rights over their slaves been respected, but he knows that by obey ing the counsels of the Abolitionists the North has now incurred their implacable enmity. Whatever such a man may think of the President's confident, belief that " General Meade's army can keep Lee's army out of Pennsylvania, and I think can ulti mately drive it out of existence," he must perceive that in the meantime he is being taxed, and perhaps made to serve in the ranks, to promote an end with which he has no sympathy. _ _ PosT. —The approaching Prussian elections will soon show how wofully the Ministry have overshot their mark. The ground on which the King pro fesses to have dissolved Parliament is that he is re solved to forget past differences with his people, and that he offers up the Lower Chamber es a common scapegoat for both parties. He makes also, in his recent declaration, other more direct constitutional professions, and gives the public to understand that he will listen temperately to their discus sion of his budget. But can his present Ministers possibly take this part ? They have hitherto only maintained their existence on the supposition that the conformity o f the Icing's policy to their own outrageous demeanour in the Chambers gave the presumptive shelter of the Crown to the course to which they were com mitted. If, however, the King's announcement has any meaning at all, it imports that he is pre pared to make ar honourable surrender of the un constitutional prerogatives to which he laid claim during the sitting of the last Parliament. But he cannot do this without first making a surrender of the Ministers who are identified With those asSump• _ ` _. - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES—WEDNESDAY. THE ST. LEGER DAY. The contrast presented by the aspect of the gathering on Doncaster Meeting within the last few years is a striking one. Through causes which it is unnecessary here to dwell upon, the races had assumed a purely business character. The course was denuded of all those attractions which make Ascot and Goodwood such delightful reunions, and the meeting was rapidly loosing the prestige which its past glories flung around it. But a change, going far to re-establish the old order of things, has taken place. The zealous co-opera tion of all well-wishers to its prosperity has made Doncaster what it used to be before the springing up of so many pro vincial meetings—the head-quarters of the Northern Turf. True, its moor does not exhibit, at least in the same form, the galaxy of rank and beauty that 50 years since gladdened the eyes of our forefathers. The Fit zwilliams, the Stanleys, the Vanes, the Saviles, the Dundases, and the Pauletts do not come in the pomp and pride of coach-and-six, and with their families and retinue of servants, fill the quiet little town for the week. This railway age has changed all that. still, the course to-day presented such a spectacle as Good. wood only could rival, and in one particular not exhibit. For here, in addition to the long array of grand seigneurs and ladies of high degree, were the people, in densely packed ranks, taking as great an interest in " t'Leger" as their betters, and having only the one object before their eyes that had brought many of them such long distances from their homes. The distress in the North happily no longer tended, as last year it did, to keep back the masses from the manu facturing towns, and the unmistakable type of that class was present in great numbers. A larger assem blage has not been seen on the moors for some years. Nor was the cause that had brought this great assem bly together unworthy of such a presence. Though the lot was generally considered rather a moderate one, still they were the progeny of mighty sires, whose fame has been bruited abroad throughout the world. The sons and daughters of Voltigeur, New Minster, Kingston, and Blink Bonny, descendants of yet more illustrious names, were met to contest for the great prize, as their ancestors had done before them, and in presence of those whose fore fathers had witnessed their triumphs and defeat renew the struggle for equine fame. And that struggle promised to be an exciting one. The changes that the leading favourites had gone through within the last few months, the equivocal position held by Lord Clifden, the unceasing hostility exhibited towards him by so many influential members of the ring, not to mention the mystery attaching to the movements of other horses in the race—all contributed to invest it with an unusual inte rest. The shuttlecock, as Lord Clitden had been termed, seemed destined to deserve his name to the last. Yesterday fluctuating from 7 to 6 to 1, he this moiaing was first fa vourite et 4 to 1, but a leading book-maker speedily drove him from thr.t position, and Avenger again took the lead, The Ranger was firmer, and was backed for some money at 6 to 1. Previous to the race, however, another change took place, and Lord Clifden was again elected to the premiership, Avenger and the Ranger being respectively 4tli and 6 to 1. As they were marshalled past the stand in single file the blooming condition of most of them elicited marked admi ration. Lord Clifden looked as well as horse could possibly do. Blue Mantle's style of going was much fancied, and National Guard's appearance won him many friends. Queen Bertha and Ranger did not command any enthusiastic com mendation, and Borealis, thounh universally admired, was admitted to be too much of a pony for a Leger winner. Directly the flag fell, Lord Clifden was over one hundred yards behind everything, and a derisive roar broke from the members of the ring as they saw the horse, for another mile, last of all. At this moment any price could have been obtained about him, £lOO to a shilling having been absolutely laid. He, however, showed himself not un unworthy of his blood, and Osborne, most judiciously obeying orders, did not hurry him until he got over the hill, when he began to act, and went through his horses in an instant. At the distance he was in front, with Queen Bertha and Borealis alone near him. On they came amid the roar of many voices, and with the gaze of thousands fixed on the struggle. Vainly did Wells call upon Queen Bertha, and Challoner urge on the game little daughter of Blink Bonny. It was not to be, and, amid great cheering, Lord Clifden's number was hoisted as the Leger winner of '63. Lord St. Vincent, naturally overcome with excitement, rushed down from the stand, shouting that " Lord Clitdeu was the best horse in the world," and when he appeared in the betting ring he was greeted with a tremendous ovation. Lord Chute?, are,. .1-se-eerier Osborne, when they retlirned to weigh in, were hailed with immense cheering, hats being thrown up in all directions. Edwin Parr, as he led the horse from the ground, was also enthusiastically congratu lated by the crowd. It was doubtless felt that the race was a triumph over the machinations of the bookmakers, and the ill-natured spite of people who libelled the trainer and questioned his ability. Singularly enough, the Marquis, who was second to Carac tacus for the Derby, like Lord Clifden obtained the first place at Doncaster, Subjoined are full details of the run ning The Municipal Stakes of 200 sovs each, left, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; and fillies, Sat 71b. Red House in. 5 subs. Sir J. Hawley's Washington, Sat 101 b .. (Wells) 1 Lord Glasgow's Clarissa colt, Sat 71b (Aldcroft) 2 Betting -2 to 1 on Washington, who made play, closely followed by Clarissa colt to the distance, where the favourite drew away, and won very easily by a length and a half. The Corporation Plate of 100 sovs in specie, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 10 eovs each, 5 It; for all ages. Winners extra. The owner of the second horse to receive 15 sovs out of the stakes. T.Y.C. 42 subs. Sir J. Hawley's Columba, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (Loates) 1 Lord Bateman'e Despair (late Fig), 4 yrs, (car 7,t 71b) (H. Grimshaw) 2 Mr. R. Sutton's Man-at-Arms, 6 yes, 9et llb (Wells) 3 The following also ran :—.Tattoo, Waterwitch, Leontes, Miss Armstrong, Stockinger, Maid of the Mist, Manrico, Littlecote, Laura, and lei eophyte, Columba, with Despair and Man-at -Arms in close corn pany, laid in front, and wide on their whip hand came Neo phyte, Tattoo, and Waterwitch, the latter apparently out paced. They ran thus to the turn into the straight, where the two leaders drew away, and finished a close race home, the young one holding her own to the end, and winning a fine race in the last stride by a bead. Man-at-Arms, who stopped under his weight, finished a bad third; Water witch was fourth, Stockinger fifth, and Laura next. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 soya each, for 3-yr-olds, colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Sat 51b. The owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes. St. Leger course. 204 subs. Lord St. Vincent's Lord Clifden (J. Osborne) 1 Mr. T. Valentine's Queen Bertha (Wells) 2 Mr. W. I'Anson's Borealis (Challoner) 3 Mr. Beaumont's Golden Pledge (G. Fordham) 4 Lord Glasgow's Light Bob Mr. W. Ash wor th' s Doctor Syntax Lord Glas g ow' s Clarior . Mr. J, Joh ns t one ' s Th e Serf (Adams) 0 Lord Stamford' s A venger Count F. do Lagrange's Jarnicoton (Watkins) 0 Mr. T. Parr's Blondin . (W. Boyce) 0 Capt. D. Lane's Blue Mantle (Daley) 0 Mr, H. Robinson's Donnybrook (French) 0 Mr. Savile's The Ranger . (J. Goatee) 0 Lord Stamford's Onesander ...... (Sharp) 0 Mr. H. Stew ar t' s C airncastle (Foster) 0 Mr. E. W. Watson's Columbia (Hibbert) 0 Mr. Watt's National Guard weighed for Amazonian, Midgley ex hibited on the telegraph, but was(J. Snowden) 0 Mr. Savile's Prince Lee 800 a nd h his subsequentlyn u (mtaken w Mann)a s down,o and the home did not start. Betting -100 t o 30 agst Lord Clifden, 9 to 2 agst Aven ger, 6 to 1 ags t R anger, 7 to 1 agat Queen Bertha, 10 to 1 agst Golden Pledge, 100 to 7 ag a t Borealis, 15 to 1 aget Blue Mantle, 25 to 1 each agst The Serf and Donnybrook, 33 to 1 agst Cairneastle, 40 to 1 agst Onesander, and 60 to 1 aget National Guard. The race was set for 3.15, but it was nearly 4 o'clock be fore Mr. Marshall could persuade the riders to obey his orders, when ho lowered his flag, and the lot left the post in very close company, Blue Mantle being in advance, bat he• fore they had proceeded many strides he was joined by Dr. Syntax, closely followed by Prince Le 800 and Onesander, the two latter foreleg a pace to serve their stable com panions; then followed The Serf, Cairneastle, National Guard, and Clarior, several lengths in advance of the ruck, who were brought up by Blondin, Jarnicoton, and the fa • vonrite, the latter, not appearing to act when the signal was given, got badly off; and was many lengths in the rear of the hindmost horses. Rising the hill Dr. Syntax drew slightly in advance of Capt. Lane's colt, who was closely followed by Prince Lo 800, Lord Stamford's two, side by side, Ranger, Queen Bertha, Golden Pledge, and Borealis, in a body, the others as they reached the bottom getting on better terms with the leaders. They ran in this order to the mile-post, when Lord Clifden, who had gradually quitted his rearward position, took his place immediately in the rear of Ranger, Queen Bertha, and Borealis, the lot running in company to the post, where The Ranger for a fow strides appeared in front; but, breaking down shortly after, he was headed by Lord Clifden, Borealis, Queen Bertha, and Golden Pledge in front, to which lot the race was now Confined. Halt way down Queen Bertha came up next the rails, and having dispoae,d of whatever chance the game little Borealis possessed, made her effort opposite the Stand to reach Lord St. Vincent's colt, but failed, and was beaten in very clever style by half a length, amid the most vociferous cheering heard for many years. Queen Bertha defeated Mr. I'Anson's pony, who was com pletely outpaced at last by tour lengths ; Golden Pledge, evidently ridden home for a place, finished a bad fourth; The Ranger was fifth, Avenger sixth, Clarior seventh, Blue Mantle eighth, the next three being Dr. Syntax, Light Bob, and National Guard ; Prince Le 800, The Serf, and Donnybrook walked in the last, Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds. Winners extra. The owner of the second horse to save his stake. Red House in. 28 subs. Mr. Wood's Rose, 7st 51b (Cox) 1 Mr. R. H. Jones's Kapunda, let Lord Westmoreland's Wild Thyme, 7st 31b (Morgan) 3 The following also ran :—Vanessa, Acolyte, Greville, Lady Mary, Oneida, and Eugenie filly. Betting-2 to 1 agst 'Wild Thyme, 3to 1 agst Eugenie filly, sto 1 each agst Rose and Lady Mary, 100 to 15 agst Oneida, 8 to 1 agst Kapunda. The Eugenie filly took a slight lead, followed by Wild Thyme and Oneida, They continued in this order to the distance, when Lord Westmoreland's filly looked like win ning, but Cox brought up Rose, and challenging Wild Thyme, won a good race by a neck ; a bad third ; Greville was fourth, close up with whom were Oneida and Vanessa. Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, h ft, with 50 soya added, for 2-yr-olds, 7,3 t; three, Bst 10Ib. The second saves his stake. Red House in. 14 subs. Mr. Phillips' Persuasion, 2 yrs, fist 111 b (J. Gtimshaw) 1 Mr. Lincoln's Light, 2 yrs, Est 111 b (T. French) 2 Lord Stamford's Livingstone, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b (A.Edwards) 3 The following also ran :—Midnight Mass, Crisis, Lady of Coverham, Orphene, and Harvest Mell. Betting-7 to 4 agst Livingstone, 4to 1 agst Light, 9to 2 agst Midnight Mass, and 6 to 1 agst Persuasion. The three placed ran in front throughout, Light having a slight lead, which she held to the distance, when Persua sion got up next the rails, and won, after a good race, by a length and a half, a head separating the second and third. Crisis was a bad fourth, Lady of Coverham was fifth, Har vest Mell next, and Midnight Mass last. Prior to the start, which waq delayed by the fractiousness of Persuasion, who lashed out and struck Whiteley on the leg, but not suffi ciently as to prevent his riding in the race. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas; 3-yr-olds, Bst 31b; 4.yr-olds, 9st 71b ; 5-yr-olds, 9st 131 b ; 6-yr-olds and aged, lOst. Cup course. About two miles and five furlongs. Mr. S. Thellusson's Jack of Hearts, 3 yrs.. (Fordharn) 1 Mr. Merry's The Knave, 4 yrs Lord Glasgow's Brother to Rapid Rhone, 4 yrs+, (Aldcroft) 3 Mr. I'Anson's Caller Ou, 5 yrs (Challoner) 4 Betting-5 to 4on Caller Ou, 4to 1 agst The Knave, 5 to 1 agst Jack of Hearts. _ Jack of Hearts took a commanding lead, followed by Lord Glasgow's colt, The Knave, and Caller Ou in the order named. On ccming over the hill Caller Ou drew up, and at the two-year-old post The Knave also came to the front, and at the Red House Caller Ou slightly gave way, and Jack Jf Hearts going on with the lead, won a good race by a head, two lengths separating second and third, The Stand Plate Handicap of 5 soya each, with 50 added, for 3-yr-olds Mid upwards. The second horse saved his stake. Red house in. 16 subs. Mr. H. Goatee' Crerle, 3 yrs, est (Mordan) 1 Mr. Watt's Nonnarket, 3 yrs, Oat 121 b (T. French) 2 Lord Westmore and's Erin-go-Bragh, 3 yrs, 7st 81b (A. Edwards) 3 The following also ran :—Lady Clifden, Zora, Calabria, Stockowner, Csulon, Canzonette, Disdain, Knave of Trumps, and Curie. Betting -2 tc 1 agst Lady Clifden, sto 1 each agst Stockowner and Creole, 100 to 12 agst Disdain, 10 to 1 agst Erin-go Bragh, and 100 to 8 agst Newmarket. Zora, with Lady Clifden and Newmarket lying up, got away in company to the bend, where Stockowner obtained the lead, which he held to the distance, where Creole joined him, and shortly &fter came on in advance, and won by half a length. The same distance between second andthird. Curie was a bad fourth. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. CESAREWITCH. 100 to 6 agst Jack o'llearts (taken) BETTING AT MIDNIGHT. 18 to 1 agst Jack o'llearts (taken) 20 to 1 agst Drummer Boy (taken) 25 to 1 agat Umpire (taken) 33 to 1 agst Agag (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lioness (taken) 40 to 1 agat o.ikapple (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIR E. 100 to 6 agst Birdhill (taken) 20 to 1 agst Catch'em Alive (taken) 20 to 1 agst Borealis (taken) 33 to 1 agat Turcos (taken) 40 to 1 agat Merry Heart (taken) 50 to 1 agst Kemptown 50 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken) 40 to 1 agst Claremoni DONCASTER ClT.—Lord C ACCEPTANCES FOR I,C\ll:ahroireinni AurelianKi Carnival av e Sire st lb .. 4 8 12 carisbrook ,- .. 4 8 6 .. 5 8 o Black Prince .. a 8 5 Bellman .. 5 8 3 : l ave •••••• 3 ! 8 : 4 2 3 Ihnpire .. .. 6 8 1 Harlequin .. 4 8 1 C hi a u p r t r a i in an C e ro w .. 4 8 0 .. 4 4 :T i l i t FaultlessQliuieL Beckenham Spain n o h f aE 4 7 10 Watchman • • King of Kent •• 5 7 King of Utopia • • 3 7 ... 6 7 11 .. 4 a 7 7 1 : Twilight • • 3 7 6 Change .. • • 7 5 Anfield • • " - Blackdown .. •• 3 3 7 7 4 5 LOn)rnicusor:sinnino . . d a er .... .•.•.. 4 ; 7 2 T i , 3 Welcome .. •• 3 7 1 Dunkeld .. • • 7 1 Blue Mantle •• 3q 7 1 Giraffe colt • ' s ' . 7 0 Myrtle .. •• a 7 0 Emblem .. ••:; 7 0 Fantail i''z.Eva ... .• : 4 3 6 6 1 2 3 Leonora .. :: 5 3 6 6 12 B:ithfield .. Damascus .. • ' 3 6 12 Blondin .. 6 6 1 1 2 1 ‘ C v ti o t i c d h g ' e: . Alive Chere Arnie • . 3 6 11 A F g la a s a h in th . e . Piii . ... - • 4 a 6 6 1 0 0 ACCEPTANG'-:S ...y F 6r O s ß BBt 1 T 1 2 13 1 Caller Ou 5 9 4 Nlan•at-Arrus 6 8 9 Umpire •• ▪ 3 8 8 Carnival , a 8 7 L• •. .lack Prince 5 8 ' Aurelian ..• 5 8 6 ' Lady Clifden. The Knave • 4 • 4 8 8 Carisbrook Quceu of Trum' s .. 4 7 8 . 0 Gemma 6 3 Faultless .. 4 7 13 1 Hurricane Alerte •• 3 • 4 7 13 Golden Pledg! • , 7 7_ 12 4 Queen of Spai' •• s 7 •• 12 2 Exchequer „ Glenorchy •• 12 Knutsford •• 5 7 12 Victor .. •• 4 7 12 Bathilde •• 7 10 King of UtoP 4 i 10 Bellman •• •• 5 7 10 Alvediston 4 7 10 Harlequin •• 4 7 10 T e legraph •. •• 4 7 9 Jackal • •• 4 7 8 The Monk. 6 7 8 G o odbye • • 5 7 8 it Ki n g of 4t 5 Saccharomfer H ,? ospodar / 7 Birelhill 4 7 7 7 Vivid • 3 7 6 Marigold ~• 6 Blue Meath 3 , 7 5 Tein Fool Leontes L i(r)milgyo.hnstei Brighton 44 : 7 7 77 3, 4 „ Blackdown ••3 7 2 Guillaume I,Taci_ Anfield Chang° • 3 7 21 Tolurno • 4 7 2 Borealis .. 3 7 1 turni3 2 Myrtle .. • 5 7 1 Dun 3 7 0 Catch 'em Ave 4 7 0 Baldwin .. • 3 7 0 Little Pippir 4 7 0 Fantail .. • 3 7 0 Giraffe colt • 3 7 0 Port Royal .. 3 6 13 Jarnicoron.. 3 6 13 Despair (latTi„) 4 6 13 ;:uleika • 5 6 13 Blondin • 3 6 P" Cairlicastle • 3 6 11 Agag ..4 611 Bonnie Bell .. 3 6 11 Flash-in-thEp an a 6 10 The Knightl El lerslie 3 6 10 Sea King • • 3 6 10 The Serf .. • 3 6 10 Royal Slag • 3 6 10 Roman Bee 3 6 10 The qnotat n of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille pm., and the short exclave on London is 25.274 per £1 sterling. On c om p arin g tese rates with the English Mint price of 47 17 s ' " 'l d ' Perunc4 for standard gold, it appear that gold is about 3-1 , 1)q,b-- vw, cent, dealer in London than 311 Faris. DERBY. ; (taken) ifden is struck out. THE cESAREWITCII. Yrs st lb Drummer Boy 4 6 10 S i lksto ne .• . 6 8! 6 8 Corona • • 0 Benjamin • • 4 68 • • 4 6 8 Li on ess • • Killigrew .• •• a 6 8 Cock Knight it o li t f i e n aEritisersi f e • 3 4 3 6 6 6 7 ,5 7 Honest John ••3 6 . 4 Real Jam • •• 4 6 4 o.kapPle •• •• 3 6 4 Lady of the Isles.. 3 6 3 Kangaroo .. • • 3 6 1 Romanoff .. •. 3 6 1 The Plover •• 3 6 1 M. Philippe •• a 6 :566 6 1110331 1 1 iieeeptipn 3 „ Sandforci 3 1 : 0 3 Walpole • 4 5 12 Summerside 3 5 : 11.1‘171.1B(1‘' Pa u l' ihaieurc r i aremi jek b eani z a ePhStzg°B d rete'lia o :art. ln e twfi ik s senn'as . : • a n 4 33333 66 55 11 Schoolmistress 35 10 Resc rye Laura 3 5 10 Nebula •• 3 510 •• .. 3 5 10 Venison • .. 35 10 The Fawn.. •• 3 5 10 Voluptas 3 5 9 Meland ra .. 3 5 8 Copenha gen • a 5 8 Lady Frances filly 3 5 8 Adine filly.. • 3 5 8 Lusdnia .. 3 5 8 E CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Yrs B Niro ar l t d er ga 8 6 6 t 1 1 1 0 0 b T 'PsY .. 3 6 9 Amelia .. " 3 6 9 Killigrew .. a 6 9 Amazonian .. 3 6 9 Silkstone .. 4 6 9 Pilot .. 4 6 8 Jack of Hearts .. 3 6 8 Hubert .. .. 4 6 8 Soapstone .. .. 3 6 7 Eastern Princess.. 5 6 7 Turcos 3 6 7 Daniel O'Connell 3 6 7 Villafranca .. 3 6 7 The Plover .. 3 6 7 Mr. Nardoni .. 3 6 7 Gold Dust .. 3 6 6 Comet .. .. 3 6 6 Coron a,by Kohinoor 5 6 6 Bohemia .. .. 3 6 6 Cl: menti .. 4 6 5 Bright Cloud .. 36 5 Barchettina .. 3 6 5 The Fkincipal .. 4 6 4 Bonny Breast• knot 4 0 4 Jacqueline colt .. 4 6 4 Fiancee .. 3 6 3 Lady of the Isles.. 3 6 3 Mountain Buck .. 3 6 2 Tresham .. 4 6 2 Nebula .. 3 6 2 Misfire .. .. 4 6 1 King Charming .. 3 6 1 Tiptoe .. 4 6 1 Juliet .. a 6 1 M. Philippa a 6 1 Itomanoff .. 3 6 0 Deception .. 3 6 0 Thaleetris 3 6 U Laura .. 3 6 0 Grande Dame .. 3 6 0 Muezzin .. .. 35 13 Mazagan a 5 13 Bar badoes 4 5 13 Voluptas .. 3 5 12 Merry Hart .. 3 5 12 Cantonad .. 3 5 10 Kangaroo .. 3 5 10 Ac'xon .. 3 5 10 Father O'Leary .. 3 5 9 Schoolmistress 3 5 9 Cat zonet te 3 5 9 Suminerside .. 3 5 9 Touch .and- go .. 3 5 9 Fanfaron 3 5 9 Ptarmigan 3 5 9 Keroptown 3 5 9 Melandra 3 5 9 Spitfire Kitty .. 3 5 9 Meriaen .. 3 5 9 Pas Pardus .. 3 5 7 Melrose .. 3 5 7 Mine filly.. .. 35 7 Luscinia .. 3 5 7 Lucretia .. .. 3 5 7 Pancake's dam c .. 4 5 7 Jenny Wren .. 3 5 7 Stampede 3 5 7 tions, and who have stigmatised themselves by the grossest and most deliberate insults to the repre sentatives of the people. Perhaps, however, on a charitable view, we may exempt the Prussian Ministers from responsibility for a great blunder, on the supposition that their devoted loyalty led them to love their Sovereign better than themselves. But when an absolutist Ministry come forward as peni tent converts to a constitutional policy, they simply find that there is no locus pecnitentice for them. The theory of the constitution at once offers up these very Ministers as a sacrifice for the errors of the Sovereign, who is supposed to have acted under the influenee'of their advice. That is the only safety valve for monarchy under representative go vernment. The alternative, therefore, seems to lie between the abandonment by King William either of his administration or of his constitutional pro gramme. But if, on the other hand, we are really to suppose that Count Bismark intends to meet the forthcoming Prussian Parliament as the imperso nation of a new and constitutional policy, we must expect to see his - Ministerial career cut short by the verdict of the tribunal to which he will then have acknowledged obedience. Probably, in three cases out of four, the same representatives will be returned by the constituencies to the new Parliament. These gentlemen, on their return to Berlin, are not very likely to perceive the necessity of their having been sent to the country merely to register the recan tation of an intriguing Ministry, who, after having hoped to carry out an absolutist policy with a high hand, find themselves in the predicament of being obliged to court the favour of the people. There is little doubt that one of the first acts of the new Prussian Parliament will be to ratify the positions assumed by its predecessor, and to assert the rights of the public on all those matters on which the King and the late Parliament were at issue. This will lead to a state of things which it is hardly possible that the present Ministry can brook, even if the Lower Chamber does not go the constitutional length of petitioning the Crown to dismiss its ad visers. It offends the first principle of parliamen tary government that the same administration, after violating constitutional rights in one year, should pretend to identify itself with them in another. But whatever attitude the Ministers may assume on the constitutional question that is at issue in regard so the home government of Prussia, nothing will be felt as more ludicrous by the whole Prussian public than their ad captandum effort to represent themselves as the vindicators of Prussian dignity against the reformers of the German Band. The Prussians too well know with whom the compro mise of their national dignity has originated. It can have escaped none of them that but for the dead lock to which the constitutional relations be tween the King and the Parliament had been brought by the folly and arrogance of the present ad• visers of the Crown, there would have been no attempt made at Frankfort to legislate for Germany without the concurrence of the Court of Berlin. The dignity of Prussia, both within and without the King's own dominions, has been simply betrayed by Count Bismark, Gen. von Roon, and the other members of the present Cabinet, who, in an incre dibly short space of time, have contrived to cut off the Throne from all sympathy end alliance, whether in the bosom of foreign Courts or in the hearts of the Prussian people. The coldness with which Eng land, France, and Austria now regard the Prussian Court is only equal to the animosity which its vio lence and faithfulness have provoked at home. If, however, the Bismark Ministry innocently antici pate that the new Parliament will accord the same forgiveness to those who have so ill advised the Sovereign, as that which they will doubtless be ready to offer to the Sovereign himself, they are perhaps really prepared to transfer their alliance from the German Princes who have betrayed them to the Prussian public whom they themselves be trayed. It will then be an edifying spectacle of political humiliation to see these Ministers wading through the terrible quagmire of their own abso lutist pretensions, and calmly discussing first the budget, then the reorganisation of the army, and finally the period of military service in the Land wehr, with a retrenching, economising, and possibly a domineering Parliament. There will then be no limit to their career of eating their own words and revoking their own policy. This is the phase which one contingency will present. But it is quite as probable, on the other, that Ministers will meet Parliament with no direct concessions of questions heretofore in dispute, but will attempt to turn pub lic attention to "Prussian ascendancy in the Con federation," and to put themselves forward as the supporters of the traditionary pretensions of their country. Should this be the course they mean to take we need hardly predict its certain failure. We have no doubt that the Chamber will refuse to be led away by specious arguments from the real ques tion at issue at Berlin, which is whether the Parlia ment shall share in the government of the country, or whether the Crown shall dictate to the Parlia ment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---Sept. 16. GUILDIIALL.—THE STREET- BETTING NUISANCE.— Charles Manners, described in the police-sheet as a Com mission agent, residing at 492, Old Kent-road, was charged before Mr. Alderman Besley, with using abusive and ob scene language in a public thoroughfare. Mr. Louis Lewis appeared for the defendant. George Chambers, acting inspector of the Fleet-street station, said—The defendant was brought in yesterday evening, shortly before six o'clock, charged with obstruct ing the thoroughfare in Fleet•street. The constable told me that there was a number of other persons with the defend ant, but he refused to move on, and I therefore took him into custody. I asked defendant if he would promise not to obstruct the footway again, but he said he would not make any such promise. I after wards discharged him, with the caution that if ho were brought there again 1 would send him before the magistrate. As ho was leaving the sta tion, he began to abuse me, and called me an opprobrious epithet, upon which I ordered the constable to bring him hack, and I locked him up for using obscene language. He had a friend with him, whom he called his brother, but who is a returned convict. Mr. Lewis—How do you know that ? Chambers—From a constable who is now present. Mr. Lewis—Did you not say that the evidence of ob_ struction was not sufficient, as the defendant wad waiting for an omnibus, and had a right to do so ? Chambers—Certainly not, for he told me he was in the habit of making bets for gentlemen, and visiting that part of Fleet-street, opposite the Sunday Times office, three or four times a day for that purpose. Mr. Lewis—Had he not a gentleman with him ? Chambers—He had a man with him, but I cannot say that he was a gentleman. Police-constable Andrews, 323, said—There were a great many persons assembled on the pavement in front of the Sunday Times office yesterday afternoon, and the obstruction was so great that respectable peop e had to walk in the road to get past the Sunday Times office. I requested the defen dant to remove to allow the people to pass, but he said he was waiting for an omnibus, and he should stand there as long as he liked. I told him he must move on, and he said with an oath he would not. I went a little way up the street, and on my return I told defendant I should be obliged to take him to the station, in reply to which he said I might take him to the --- if I liked, but he would be if he moved. I took him into custody, and after he was dis charged he said he would go to the pavement in front of the Sunday limes office as often as he liked, in spite of all the City police, and called the acting inspector a foul name. Cross-examined—The prisoner was speaking to four per sons near the Sunday Times office, and there were about 40 others round them, mostly betting men. The pavement in front of the bunday limes office is obstructed sometimes for hours, and nearly every day, and the nuisance is so great that the inhabitants frequently complain of it. Mr. James Anderton, a solicitor, of New Bridge-street and member of the Court of Common Council, gave similar evidence of the nuisance in question, and said the obstruc tion arose from the exhibition of racing lists in the windows of the Sunday Times office, and that whenever he wished to go to Temple-bar he was obliged to go the back way, through Whitefriars. It was a public nuisance, and a great obstruc tion to the traffic. Mr. Lewis said there could be no doubt of it, but the Sunday 7imes was the sole cause of the obstruction and consequent nuisance. Mr. Kirk, a tobacconist, and Mr. Granville, a taller and draper, and one of the churchwardens of the parish, neigh bours right and left of the Sunday limes office, bore testi mony to the intolerable nuisance, day after day, of crowds of betting people assembling in front, not only of the Sun day limes office, but also their own shops, to tho obstruc tion of the thoroughfare and their business. Mr. Lewis said the only question he had to deal with was the abusive language. He admitted that the epithet in question was made use of, but the defendant applied it to his brother, and not to the acting inspector, whom he desig nated as a " bumptious policeman." (Laughter.) With regard to the statement ventured upon by that officer with respect to defendant's brother, he thought it monstrous that the character of a respectable man, against whom there had never been even a breath of suspicion, should be so lightly and so rashly assailed. He submitted that the provocation he had received from the policeman and the " bumptious in specter"—(laughter)—had irritated him into using the lan guage he had done to his brother, who was the cause of his losing one omnibus and having to wait for another, whereby he got into his present difficulty, and that the inconvenience he had already suffered would be a sufficient punishment. George Manners, the defendant's brother, was then called to support this view of the case, and swore that he was not a returned convict, and that he had never been in custody for any off3nce. Hann, a detective, said the witness was one of a clas s known as "Welchers," who take money for bets, but never pay when they lose. Alderman Besley said ho was of opinion that the defendant was obstructing the footway as described, that he had le•• !Aged the police, and made use of the abusive and obscene language imputed to him, and he therefore fined him 40s. At the same time he recommended the police not to travel out of the record when giving evidence, but confine them selves to that only which they were in a position to prove. Defendant said he would pay the money, but he wanted to know if he was to pay 40e. every time he was waiting for an omnibus. Alderman Bes ley said certainly, if he were brought before him, and the evidence was equally clear on the point. Defendant said in that case he would take a cab, and not wait for the omnibus. (Laughter.) SOUTHWARK. THE SOCIAL EVlL.—Edward Shields, a smart -looking young fellow, was placad at the bar before Mr. Burcham for final examination, charged with being concerned with a female, not in custody, in stealing a valuable gold ring and four sovereigns from the Rev. William Poynden, incum bent of Home, in Surrey, who, on the last examination, gave the name of William Pearson. Mr. Perry, from the office of Mr. Buchanan, appeared for the prosecution, and stated that his client was at present residing at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, and on Friday night, while standing outside the latter, was accosted by a young woman who told him she could take him to the person who had stolen his watch—he having been robbed of his watch a short time age. Mr. Burcham observed that he recollected the prosecutor at this court some months ago, charging two young girls with robbing him. He seemed rather fond of lecturing females in the streets, and afterwards finding himself in a disreputable house, Mr. Perry told his worship that he knew nothing abo ut that. He was instructed to say that the female in question took him over Blackfriars-bridge, and when near the Ele phant and Castle she suddenly seized hold of him, robbed him of his ring and four sovereigns, and decamped. The prisoner rushed up to her, and the ring was found on him. He called The prosecutor, an elderly, grey headed gentleman, who at first objected to give his real name and address. Ha thought the name of Pearson was quite sufficient for the ends of justice. Mr. Burcham told him if he intended to proceed against the prisoner he must giva his real name and address,what over the consequence must be. The prosecutor then stated his name to be the Rev. William Poynden, incumbent of Horne, in the county of Surrey. At present he was staying at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, On the night of Friday last while standing outside the latter place, a female accosted him. He repelled her several times, but when she told him she knew where he could find the watch that had been stolen from him by another female he spoke to her and proceeded with her °via. Blackfriars-bridge. They went on convers ing together past the Magdalen, up the London-road, but never entered any house with her. While he was giving her some good advice she suddenly seized hold of him, wrenched the wring off the left hand and decamped. He saw nothing of the prisoner until he attempted to capture the female, and he distinctly saw her pass something to him, when he zan off. Witness then pursued him, calling out "Stop thief," and saw him stopped and taken into custody, and the ring was found, but whether the constable gave it to him or the prisoner he could not tell, as there was so much contusion. Witness knew that some one placed it in his hand. In cross •examination by Mr. Edwin for the prisoner , witness said that he never saw the prisoner until after the female had robbed him, when he came between them. He had never taken any liberties with the female, neither had he made any immoral proposals to her, but accompanied her merely to see if he could find any clue to his stolen watch. William Lamar, carman, residing in Pitt-street, St. George's-road, said that about one o'clock on Saturday morning he was near his home when he heard a cry of " Stop thief," and saw the prisoner running towards him. He stopped him, and while they were struggling together the prosecutor came up and asked him for his ring. The pri soner then handed the ring to the gentleman, and at that moment a constable came up and took him into custody. Police-constable James Sianage, 89 L, said that he took the prisoner into custody, and received the ring produced from the prosecutor. Mr. Burcham said that the prisoner was remanded with the view of finding the female who actually stole the property, and inquired if she had been found ? The constable replied that she had not, although he had made every inquiry about her. The prisoner, however, denied all knowledge of her and the ring also. Mr. Burcham observed that if such was the case he t i o st be committed for trial. Mr. Edwin hoped his worship would deal summarily with the prisoner, as he pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr. Burnham had no doubt of his guilt, and that he was connected with a gang of females who prowled about th e street at midnight decoying old gentlemen, and robbing them, when he was ready at hand to receive whatever plun der they might have obtained. He, therefore, sentenced him to six months' hard labour in the House of Correction at Wandsworth. COUNTRY MARKETS. , 1^ - NEWARK—WEDwzsDA.y. A moderate supply of wheat at our market, with a quiet demand, at prices fully is per qr lower than last week. Beans were quite as well sold. Barley came well to hand, and the late ext•eme prices were made Oats a fair sale at former rates. The harvest is concluded in this district, and the yield is abundant. White wheat new, 45s to 48s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 32s Red do. 42s to 48s Oats, old, .. 2Bs to 30 s Old white 44s to 49s New do 24s to 27s Red do. 41s to 44s Beans. 398 to 42s Barley, malting.... 36s to 40s I Beans, new.. —a to --13 HULL—ruEsna.Y. At to-day's corn market there was a fair average show of English wheat, which was taken off slowly at is to 2s de cline on the prices of last week. Foreign at late rates. Not much doing in barley, at last week's prices. O a t s n ot mach in request, at rather lower rates. Beans and peas were unaltered. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 49s Od to 50s 03 Old red New white .. 1 , New red .... ~ Barley.... English m a lti ng 36s Odto 37s Od Grinding 268 6d to 285 Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s Od Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per at oBl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 05130 Swedish and Danish OBl2Ad to Oslad Beans ....English, old, per qr . 43s Oa to 45s Od New pigeon New tick Egyptian 3OB Od to 33s 6cl Peas Foreign boilers Grinding —s 33s Od to t t AO 343 90 (id Tares ....Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding 528 Od to 56s Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) llO 0 0 to SO 0 0 u Foreign: Bl5 oto 9 0 ~ Rope cakes 6 0 oto 0 0 0 " Bones 5 5 oto 610 LYNN—TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a moderate show of whesti which met a fair sale at rather higher rates than last week' The weather has been more favourable daring the last fell days, and the harvest is about finished. White 46s to 50s i Barley. 34s to 38 0 Red.. 42s to 458 1 Grinding ..28s to 3 20 Beans .384 to 40s I Oats.. New —s to .-13 I Peas .20 —s s to 2_4 0 _: [ADVERTISEMENT.' - Royal Artillery. -- Holloway'e Ointment and sergeant in the Roy a l Artillery writes on Deo. 12, 1862, from Posnamattee, Madras Presi dency, that his right leg, from the ankle to the calf, was 5 quagmire of disease and corruption—that he was on the hospital roll for 12 months without any improvement in his case—that he, as a forlorn hope, resolved to try Holloway's celebrated Ointment and Pills. These soon gave ease, ex pelled the bad humours from the limb, healed the appa rently incurable sore, and restored him to sound health. Soldiers and sailors are earnestly recommended to have re course to these invaluable medicaments for curing old wounds, sores, or ulcers, more particularly when they have arisen from imprudence and seem incurable. Births. AYRTON —On the 14th inst., the wife of W. Serape Ayrtont Esq., Allerton-hill, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, of twins —a son and daughter. EWART —On the 16th inst., at 17, Norfolk -square, Hyde park, the wile of Major C. B. Ewart, Royal Engineers, of a son. MA.UDE.—On the 15th inst., at 19, St. George's-square, S.W., the Hon. Mrs. Henry Maude, of a son. LLOYD.—On the 14th bast, at Felton Grange, Shrewsburl) Lady Frances Lloyd, of a son. Marriages. LEAHY—BASER-011 the 10th inst., at St Mary's Church , Chatham, James Wiltun Leahy. Esq., R.N.; to Frances Ann, eldest daughter of Thos. P. Baker, Esq., R.N., of H.M. Dockyard, Chatham. SA.mrsoN—RmitrE.—On the 15th inst at Stroud, GloY cestershire, Edward Barnard Sampson, Esq., of Stroud. to Janet, second daughter of Alfred Ritchie, Esq of the same place, late of Greenwich. Deaths. BATT:MAN.—Oa the 12th inst., at Guilsborongh, N cl ; thamptoxishire, the Rev. John B. Bateman, M.A., ag e ' 58. CoLsort.—On the 14th inst., at St. Peter's Rectory, Dor chester, the Rev. Morton Colson, LL.B. COMPTON.—On the 13th inst., at Thruxton, .A.ndovert Thomas Compton, Esq., aged 57. FOSTER.—On the 11th inst., at Lee, Kent, the idiot daughter of C. J. Foster, LY.J.D, . 14wiarrs.—On the 10th inst., at Brighton, Wm. 11e121 Hawkins, Esq., J.P., aged 68. PHILLIPS.—On the 14th inst.. at 44, Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, John Edward Phillips, Esq., aged 64. TURNER.—On the 13th inst., at Gouray, Jersey, E s ther, widow of the late General Sir Htlgrove Turntr, aged 89. WALLACE.—On the 13th inst., at Guildford-street, W-C. , David Wallace, Esq., aged 78. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREV S of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office No. 11° f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e - O kilddlesex,-:-Thursday, September 17, 156 County 01