The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-26 00:00:00

upwards. T.Y.C. 12 subs.

Mr Alexander's Peon, 3 yrs, 7st 4lb (Woodhouse) 1
Mr Craven's Almack, 4 yra, 7st 101 b
Mr llodgman't, Ilawkshaw, 3 yrs, 6:t 101 b ....(Morris) 3
Walloon, Crocket colt, Crisis, and Chicot tho Jester also
ran.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Pon, 3to 2 agst Almack, 6to 1
agst Crisis, 10 to 1 agst any other.
Chicot the Jester made play for the first quarter of a mile,

when llawkahaw went to the front, attended by the Crochet
colt. At the distance the latter dropped back and halt
way up the cords Peon, coming with a rush, hewed the two
others, and won easily by two lengths, Hawkshaw finished
a length behind Almack. Crisis was fourth, Chicot the
Jester fifth, Walloon sixth, and Crochet colt last.
Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 30 EOVS, 2J ft, for 3-yr-olds
and upwards; winners extra. T.Y.C. 5 subs. The
highest weight accepting being 7st 61b, it has been raised
to Bst 101 b, and the others in proportion.
Duke of Beaufort's Crytheia, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (Fordham) 1
Mr \Voou's Rose, 3 yrs, Bst 41b (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr Nelson's Gamecock, 6 yrs, Bst 51b ...... (Cowley) 3
Mr 1: rench's Nebula, 4 yrs, B,t 51b (Chelloner) 4
Mr Kellie's Reaper, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b (Custance)
Betting-7 to 4 aget Crytheia, 100 t) 30 agst Gamecock,
4 to 1 agst Rose, and 5 to 1 egst Nebula.
Reaper got away in front, and was closely followed by
Gamecock, Rose, and Cry theia into the cords, where th
first named wore beaten, leaving Rose with a slight lead,
which she retained to within halt a dozen strides of the
chair, when Fordham brought up the favourite, and won a
fine race by a short head ; a bad third.
Optional Soiling Stakes of 5 buys each, mall 25 added, fur

2-3 r-old colts, Bst 121 b, and fitlies, Sst 81b, with selling

allowances, T.Y.C. 9 subs.
Mr G. Crook's Brovca Willy, by Wild Dayrell, 7st 51b, £6O
(E. Taylor) 1
Lord Uxbridge's Herschel, 7st 51b, £6O (Mortis) 2
Mr Seymour's Bessy, 7st 11b, £6O (H. Covey) 3
The following also ran : —Godmersham, uetliet, 3ulea-
ton, Ninetta, Incision, and, Lord Roland.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Incision,,s to 1 each agst Herschel
and Brown Willy.
Brown Willy jumped off with a clear lead, was never after
caught, and won in a center by two lengths, a length sepa-
rated the second end third.

liandiwip Sweepstakes of 15 says each, 10 ft, for 2 and 3

yt-olds. 16 subs.
Mr Bowes's Coup d'Etat, 3 yrs, Bst 11b....(Woodhouse) 1
Mr Jackson's Sidev.ind, 2 yrs, 7st 21b (Carol) 2
'Mr Craven's Ptovisor, 2 yrs, 7st 21b

The following also ran :—Moulsey, DAwdle, Idle Girl
Athels'ane, Idumea, Black Duchess, Verdant, Kathleen
and Pinch filly.

Betting— 7 to 4 on Coup d'E!af, 6 to 1 agst Provisor, 6
to 1 apt Moulsey, 10 to 1 agst any other.
The favourite, blipping his horses, cane on with a clear
lead, and wen in a canter by two lengths, Sidcwind defeat-
ing Provisor by a length and a half.

WEIGHTS FOR THE NURSERY-FRIDAY.

at lb
Z embesi
At helstane
Le Bernais
Brobma
Missionary
Sancho..
Siberia
Laurel
Monitor
Discretion
Vest colt
Heir at Law
Eltham
Scarborough
Brown Bread
Harold
Watchbox
The Swift
Advance ..
The Grinder
King Arthur
Edinburgh
Jack Jukes
J.I ONV VV 41Y
Moostissima filly .. 7 10
Saloon
Ardericca 7 10
Contract
Lady Florence
Welfare
Provisor
Whiteleg filly 7 7
Salpinotes
Charity
Troubadour 7 7
Hetty
Indigestion
Vixen ..
Wild Poppy
Goram (late Enone)
King Alfred
Hanstead .. 7 5
Canterbury 7 4
Sentinel
Cadogen (late Chelsea) 7 4
Kate Hampton
Spice
Cacuta 7 4
Puck
Doge

st lb

Endsleigh
Latitude
Sister Mary 7 3
Club Queen 7 3
Prosperity
Arkansas
Cockcrow
Nu
Amber .. 7 1
Red m ire
Lily Lye 7 0
Jack Ketch
Lavender
Imogene filly
Pink (late Kathleen
Mavourneen, late
Black Duchess)
Mincemeat filly 6 13
Verdant
General Rally
Jevington (late Sante
Ruisseau)
Cram y
Joss-stick
Scheldt
The Brigand
Rose of Denmark
B2lla 6 10
Grace Darling 6 9
Scylla
Rosetta 6 8
011erton
Glen Isla 6 7
Mishap oolt 6 7
Kildare
Jetty Treffz filly 6 7
Pepper's Ghost
The Gay Deceiver 6 6
Anadyomene
Belgrave
Lady Wildair colt
Lansdown
Camillus
Cripplegate
Cob web
Lady Cochrane
mey Bee
Lady Rollo 6 0
Brother to Guerilla

Mr. W, E, Forster, M,P., on American
Slavery,

Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., presided last week at a meet-
ing held at the Mechanics' Institution, Bradford, under
the auspices of the Western Freed Men's Aid Commission.
He said that the address of that commission showed that
in the progress of the fearful contest waging in the United
States the slaves had flocked within the Federal lines
in multitudes, in a condition of wretchedness and want,
clothed in rags, toil-worn bymarohes, depressed and afflicted
by privations and exposure. lie considered that, apart from
the actual distress, the slaves of America had strong claims
on the sympathy of England. lie could not forget that
when the starving psoplo of Ireland were in great distress
the Americans most generously came forward and relieved
them. Ho could not forget that, a few months ago, when
the sad and terrible war caused great misery in Lancashire, I
notwithstanding the claims which the Americans had at
home, they came forward most nobly to the assistance of
the Lancashire poor. It was therefore now the turn of
England to pay back to the suffering Americans, for though '
black these negroes wereAmericans,what they had done for
us. Besides the claims of distress and gratitude, they had
also the special claim that we Were friends of the coloured
man and haters of slavery. They had also this claim upon
us, that the existing state of things followed the emancipa-
tion of the slave in British dominions: It followed the
efforts which had been made to bring the people of America
to the same standard as ourselves, and to consider slavery
a sin. No one could deny the stand which was made in
this country against American slavery, and the protests
which were being cons'antly dinned into the ears of
Americans who came amor gst us, how inconsistent slavery
was with their institutions, and that those remonstrances
had had a great effect in raising that feeling in America
which induced the people of that country to take such a
position against the extension of slavery that the slave-
holder felt the institution threatened; therefore, he
rebelled, and the war begen. He was not going to speak
of the meats and demerits of that war, but should confine
his remarks to the condition of the negro in consequence of
it. They had heard that Mr Jefferson Davis had estimated
the number of emancipated slaves at 2,000,000. Whether
there was that number, or whether there was only one-
half, it was a set-off against the evils of the war, but such
a change could not be brought about without immense
suffering. They must expect it to be severe, and this
country having been instrumental in bringing it about, we
were especially bound to do what we could to relieve it.
He did not regret that we had been thus instrumental in
bringing the existing state of things to their present con-
dition, for we had only taken the position which wo would
have taken the more strongly and the more earnestly years
ago if we had known how. It was certainly not our fault
that we had raised the standard of freedom, and done all
that we could to excite our fellow-Christians in America
who felt as they ought for their enslaved follow-citizens.
It was not because we did our duty in this respect that
therefore we were to blame; blame, of course, fell upon
those who were now reaping the terrible punishment—upon
those who preferred to continuo slavemasters rather than
listen to the protests against it. Though the sufferings of
the negroes were great, he must not allow those whom he
addressed to go away with the idea that they were no better
before their present condition was brought about. They
had most delightful end encouraging proofs of the improve-
ment in the condition of the negro, there were encouraging
instances of the noble manner in which, generally
speaking, the negro race had responded to the 0411 that
had been made upon them by the circumstances of the
war. Gen. Banks, who was sent down to be governor of
Louisiana after the Federal army had taken possession of it,
had under his protection many thousands of emancipated
negroes. In March last he wrote stating he had no doubt
whatever the emancipated coloured people could discharge
all the duties incident to the great change in their condi-
tion. lie had seen them in all situations within the last year
and a half, and they seemed to have a clearer comprehen-
sion of their position and duties than many o' her classes.
Among other things they demanded they should not be
flagged, that they should only labour when they were well
treated, and that their children should be educated. The
touching earnestness with which these poor people asked for
the education of their children was one of the most encour-
aging facts connected with their condition. Though
when Gen. Banks assumed the command of that depart-
ment there were many thousands of coloured people without
employment, and many suffering from disease, there were
not in March 500 who were not self-supporting. Col. Hanks,
the superintendent of negro slavery in the Gulf department,
said, in February last, he had 6,500 coloured men at work
on the abandoned plantations and fortifications, and he
had no difficulty with them, although it was true that
some of them had a dislike to return to their old masters.
He (Mr Forster) considered that among all the different
and extraordinary statements that had been published
in the English press there had been no more common
statement than that, however abstractedly slavery might
be an evil, yet there was a great difficulty in getting rid
of it; and that emancipation would practically end in
failure, because negroes would never have the courage to
fight for their freedom ; and such was the degraded condi-
tion that they would not work without being compelled.
Both these assertions had been contradicted by facts. The
slave had earned respect in America from those whose pre-
judices were against him. leEr Felbrigg, a Boston merchant,
had grown large quantities of cotton in the Sea Islands ;
and by holding out the hope to the negroes of good payment
eventually he had proved, that with all the peculiar diffic-
culties under which the experiment was labouring, the cost
of cultivation was very little more, if not kss, than when it
was grown by the negroes during their slavery. Such a fact
should make England hopeful with regard to the negro ;
and it should also be considered as a commercial value for
themselves- Even if the South sueeeeded, which was not
so certain even in the eyes of their friends, slavery was
disorganised to that extent that it would not do for England
any longer to rely upon it, not merely as friends of the
negro, not merely as men who wished that a great Mushy
should no longer depend on the sinful system of slavery for
its support, but also as men who had a commercial interest
in the supply of the most important article of English in-
dustry being placed on the soundest foundation. They
must look to these experiments with the greatest interest

and hope for their success.
The claims of the society were afterwards advocated by
Mr L. Coffio, the Rev. Dr. Massie, end other speakers.
Resolutions were carried in favour of the formation of an
auxiliary at Bradford. A vote of thanks was given to Mr
Forster for presiding, and for his efforts on the American
question in Parliament. This concluded the proceedings.

Corkiere dell Eattlia confirms the news that the
Marquis Papoli presented his letters of recall to the Empe-
ror of Russia at Darmstadt. The journal adds that the
Czar and Prince Gortschakoff expressed in the most cour-
teous manner their regret at his retirement,

HEALTI.T. OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

In the week that ended on Saturday the deaths of 1,355
persons were registered in London. The average number of
deaths in corresponding weeks of ten years, 1854-63, was
1,080, and if a correction is made for increase of population,
it becomes 1,188. It appears tkerefore that the deaths ex-
ceeded the average number by 147.
Scarlatina is the most fatal disease in the zymotic class ;

it caused 100 deaths, 94 of which were those of children

Six deaths from this disease occurred in the sub-district of
St John, Weetmiaster,:and five in the sub-district of St.
Peter, Walworth, Nine deaths were caused by diphtheria.
Typhus was fatal :`,o 79 persons. Smallpox exhibits a low
mortality; only five Coati's from this disease were recorded,
the corrcc,ed average Auxnber being 13; 3S children died
from measles, and 27 from whooping cough.

Btonchitia was fatal in 305 cases, 119 persons died from
pneumonia, 139 frem phthisw, and 3.3 I.om other diseases of
the respiratory organs.
Diseases of the heart caused 65 deaths; 112 persons died
from diseases of the brain and neavous system ; four deaths
from delirium t, emens were registered, and one death was
occasioned by intemperance.
Thir: y-five deaths occurred from accidents. Seven per-
sons were killed by vehicles in the streets. Two children and

two adults were burnt. Five persons were suffocated, and
Four persons drowned.

A labonrer, aged 61 years, died in the workhouse, White-
chapel, from sufbcation, caused by a piece of beef lodging
in the windpipe. A painter, aged 29, CDnanlitted suicide by
taking nitric acid. Four nonagenarians died during the
week.

Last week the births of 997 boys and 957 girls, in all
1,984 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 185 t .63 the average number
was 1,895.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.315 in. The barometri-
cal reading was 29.92 in at the beginning of the week, and
decreased to 28.71 in on Thursday. The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 53 1 deg, which is 4.0 deg above
the average of the bame week in 43 years (as determined by
Mr Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 79.2 deg
on Wednesday. The lowest night temperature was 42'6
deK. on Friday. The entire range of temperature in the week
aew-poitu, tecupeL.L.L. auta .4. „
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 77, complete
saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount
of 0.55iu. The general direction of the wind was SW and
SSE.

The births* registered in Dublin during the week ending
Oct. 23 were 161, and the deaths were 78, in a population of
254,808 (in 1861), spread over an area of 3,808 statute
acres.

The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr Glatter, were
267 in the week ending Oct. 15, when the mean tempera-
ture was 47 5 deg, that at Greenwich having been 50.3 deg.

* This return is supplied by the Registrar-General of
Ireland.

A deputation from the firm of Chubb and Fry,
introducel by Mr Berkeley, M.P., had an int3rview
with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, at the office of the
Board of Trade, yesterday, on the subject of their invention
for communication on railways.
LORD PETERBOROUGH AND THE MILLER'S

,AUGLITER.—Like many other men of original
genius, he appears, notwithstanding his miiitary proclivities,
to have held the gewgaw glories of the world very cheap.
High fashionable society wearied and disgusted him. He
was in the habit of taking long walks into the country, and
upon one occasion met with a remarkably pretty girl, with
whom he was much struck. She was the daughter of a
miller, one James Smithers, and a modest worthy girl. On
the following day Lord Peterborough, giving the name of
Copp, and attired in homely fashion, presented himself at
the mill, obtained an interview with James Smithers, and
offered a large sum—the amount is not specified—to be
taught the art and mystery of the miller's craft, making no
doubt some plausible excuse for the request, which was
complied with, and Chas, Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough,
under the name of Richard Copp, positively worked in a
mill near the village of Wheatstone, for several weeks, in
the hope of ingratiating himself with Jane Smithers. He
did not succeed. " Pretty Jane" was engaged privately
to the ECM of a neighbouring farmer, and one fine
morning it was discovered that she had secretly married
a week previously 1 The Earl was fiercely wroth, and
in his rage revealed his rank. One can hardly suppose
that John Bunt, the successful rival, and husband
of " pretty Jane," would have appropriated the miller's
daughter had the Earl tempted her with a coronet. As it
was, ho had not only lost his love and the money premium
paid to the miller, but got himself laughed at, sung in bal-
lads, and altogether made to cut a very ridiculous figure.—
Ecceritric Personages, by 4 illianz Russell, LL.D.
ROYAL GRATITUDE.—The Nord Zeitung of
Hanover publishes the following anecdote on the
occasion of the anniversary of the battle of Leipsic:—
" After that famous engagement Frederick Augustus, King
of Saxony, who had been one of Napoleon's most devoted
adherents, was made prisoner and taken to Berlin. At the
same time the whole financial administration of Saxony fell
into the hands of the conquerors. Under these circum-
stances, M.B„ a Saxon superintendent of finance, who
was devotedly attached to the Royal house of Saxony,
thought it would be an act of patriotism on his part to
secrete for the King as much as possible of the funds in
his hands, He accordingly abstracted several millions of
thalers, and in the confusion which then prevailed the
Austro-Prussian administrators never missed the money,
When the King was restored to his throne, M. B. solicited
an audience to inform his Majesty of the existence of this
sum ; but as, according to the etiquette of the Saxon Court,
he was not of a rank sufficiently high to claim that honour,
one of the Ministers, M. de Zeschwitz, was charged to re-
ceive his communication. M. B. then informed the Mini-
ster how ho had managed to secure the money and where he
had concealed it. The Minister expressed his satisfaction,
and at once communicated the fact to the King. 'M. B. has
done exceedingly well,' said Frederick Augustus, ' but how
shall we escape the obligation of rewarding him for this ser-
vice?' The Minister promptly replied, ' Sire, we will give
him a reprimand.' M. B. accordingly received a letter ac•
knowledging his good intentions and accepting the money.
He was, however, told that he had acted very rash.y, but
that the King was graciously pleased to overlook his fault
and pardon him. M. B. was so chagrined by this reprimand
that he died ift less than a year afterwards."
THE ANTIQUITY OF THE HOTTENTOTS.— A
remarkable ethnological problem is presented by
the appearance of a single race in the southern province of
Africa, entirely different from the South African family,
both in physique and in language—a race of copper
colour and low development amid dark races of noble
Physical structure, and separated from them both by mental
peculiarities, and by a language presenting features ex-
hibited in no other tongue. This poople—the Hottentots
—are supposed to be the oldest people on the South African
continent, and among the evidences of this is the fact that
the rivers, even in the Bechuana territory, bear Hottentot
names. Though found principally on the southern point
of the promontory of Africa, various fragments of their
tribes are met with far in the interior, even north of Lake
Ngami, as if the race had been gradually pressed down from
the north by more powerful tribes. It is en instance of the
vitality of race, that the Bakalahari, the poorest of the
Bechuana tribes, living side by side with the Bushmen,
the most degraded of the Hottentots, under precisely the
same circumstances, are as different from them as they ever
were; the former gladly raising, wherever possible, a few
pumpkins, or keeling a few goats, and the latter scorn-
ing any culture of the ground or care of cattle, and pre-
ferring the wild life and the poor game or vermin which
the desert furnishes. Tho Hottentot peoples have been
gradually disappearing before the attack of civilisation. In
the beginning of the last century, a number of tribes were
settled on the south-east coast, between the Cape and
the river Kai, Some of these have been entirely exter-
minated ; others have become scattered servants of the
colonists, or hate entered the Hottentot regiment in the
colonial army; while a considerable body of emigrants
have settled themselves on the Winter Mountain, near the
Kat River. The whole number is not thought to exceed
20,000.-2 he Races of flee Cld World, by C. L. B uce.
FILEY. IMMENSE CATO II OF HERRINGS:
Never in the memory of the oldest fisherman has
there been such a prodigious quantity of herrings caught as
on last Monday and Tuesday night. One Filey boat ar-
rived on Thursday morning with 13 lasts, and the other 26
belonging to the place varied from 12 to 5 lasts each. It
is computed that at Scarb trough and Filey alone not less
than 70 boats contained on an average eight lasts each, and
10,000 being a last, the total of herrings delivered in these
two places would exceed five millions. Taking an average
of £7 per last, the sum realised would be nearly £4,000.
A. barbarous murder of four ehilden by their
father has just been committed at Port Neuf (Ain). A
small farmer named Goy had lately been in a gloomy state
of mind owing to domestic troubles and an accusation of
robbery which weighed over him. Three days back, during
the absence, ho first strangled with a cord two of his chil-
dren, ono aged 20 months and the other four years, and
then placed them in bed, covering them over with a sheet.
He next took the two others, aged seven and nine, to the
• river Ain, and wading into the water drowned them both.
L The crime completed, he went home, changed his wet
clothes, and absconded. No traces have been obtained of
• him.

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Friday evening a little
girl named Higgins, daughter of a tailor residing at
Ashton-under-Lyne, foil into the canal between Hyde and
Ashton. Harrison, a young man employed Iss a labourer
on the public works near the place heard the scream of the
girl's little brother, who was with her, and ran to the spot,
Throwing off part of his clothing as he was going, he im-
mediSttly jumped into the canal and swam to her rescue.
The place where the girl full in is very deep, end she had
gone down a third time, when ho dived and brought her to
the surface. The child was taken to the Waggon and
Horses Inn and restored to consciousness, and sent home
next day. Harrison was loudly cheered by the spectators.
—Mane/water Cow-4r.

SECOND EDITION.

bUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocßis

SPAIN.

MADRID, Oct. 25.—The Noticias states that Pt rU
having refused to give explanations, diplomatic
relations between Spain and that country are SUE.
pended.

SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE—This Day.
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NEWMARKET RACES—This Day.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES.

Rattler ......
01,eron ...... 1
Wangle Eye ....

Nine ran.
L 5 T
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Hippolyta
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GLASGOW STAKES.

Olma-
aon Basilio
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LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening,

WAR. OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Om 25.
61st Regiment of Foot—Major General Edward Hunger-
ford Delays! Elers Napier to be Colonel, vice General
John Reeve, deceased.
ADMIRALTY, 0 CT. 22.

The following promotion has been made :—Mr Samuel
Lloyd to be First Class Assistant Engineer, with Bericrity
of 18th October, 1864,

BANKRUPTS.

The following arc the on'y bankrupts o 7 commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
Mark Ilunaby, watchmaker, Salisbury
Dm :d Kirby Viewer, upholsterer, Pimlico
Robert Lees, cotton spinner, Oldham
Edmund Whitehead, cotton spinner, Oldham
Josiah L'udon, farmer, Old Stratford.
VATIV, VariditßBr,siVlCeita; Hs.t.hanzzarden
Mark Marks, broker, Cardiff
Emanuel Lawrence, innkeeper, Shrewsbury
John Hart, commission agent, Monkweli-street, City
Hen•y Nowlen, builder, Rotherhithe
Thomas Davies, cheesemonger, King's College-road, St.
John's-wood.
Thomas Baker, nurseryman, Surbiton-hill, Kingston-
on-Thames

Professor Anderson and the Davenport
Brothers.

Yesterday afternoon, in accords ice with an invitation from
Professor Anderson, a large party of ladies and gentlemen
assembled i a St. James's Hall, to witness a performance
in daylight similar to that gone through by the Brothers
Davenport in the dark. The whole of the so-called spiritual
manifestations, the tying and untying, were very cleverly
accomplished by the Professor's daughter and Mr Sutton, his
secretary, amidst the vociferous cheering of the audience,
The tying of both artists previous to their being placed in
the cabinet, was minutely inspected by Tom Taylor, Esq.,
and others, and after it had been declared perfect, in less than
five minutes both the lady and the gentleman ap-
peared perfectly free, the ropes lying at their feet.
The musical trick was also very cleverly performed ;
and at its conclusion, - Godwin, Esq., proposed a
vote of thr.,,ks to the professor, which was agreed to unani-
mously. Mr Anderson, in reply, said the only objs.,ct he had
in view was to show the absurdity of the so-called spiritual-
ism, and he hoped that what he had shown would convince
all that ropes could be untied without the a'd of spirits,