The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-28 00:00:00

Consultations tree.

CHESTER MEETING.
The following races close and name on Tuesday next,
the 17th of Mar. h. For conditions see Sheet Calendar and
80-k Calendar. Nomination 4 received by Messrs. Weatherby,
London ; Mr. R. Johnson, St. Mary's, York ; and Mr. E. W.
Topham, Chester.
The Palatine Cup Stakes.
The Wynnstay Handicap.
A Handicap Plate of 50 sovs.
A Sweepstakes of 5 goys each.
The Eton Stakes (Handicap).
A Sweepstakes of 10 Boys each.
Handicap of 70 sovs.
The Marquis of Westminster's Plate.
The Cheshire Welter Cup.
Handicap of 5 sovs each.
The Cheshire Stakes.
The Stewards' Cup.
A Handicap Plate of 60 sovs.
In all races, where fewer than three horses start, the added
money will be withheld.

THE SCOTTISH CHAMPION OPEN
1_ MEETING, under the auspices of the Biggar and Cale-
donian Coursing Clubs, by the kind permission of the Right
Hon. the Earl of Home, dm., will be held at Douglas, on
Tuesday, March 24, 1863, and followinc, days, when the fol-
lowing stakes will be run for :
I. The CALEDONIAN CHAMPION CUP. for 32 all-
aged greyhounds, at £lolos. entrance; to be divided in
the fo.lowing manner:—
Winner £l6o
Runner-up
Third and fourth, each
Fifth, sixth, • eventh, and eighth, each 10
IL Th. DOUGLAS CUP, for 32 all-aged g"eyhounds, at £5
Se. entiance ; divide I as follows :
W nner
Runner-up
Thi d an, fourth, each
Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth, each
111. The CLYDE STAKES. for 16 puppies of 1861, at £4
10s. entrance; divided as follows :
Winner

£BO

It unner-L p iz
Third and iourth, each 5
IV. The NORTH STAKES for 16 greyhounds, pupped on
or after Ist June, It 61, the age of which has been eub-
lished in " The Sporting Gazette," " Bell's Life," or
"The Fiel4,"(l)Tin the season 1862-3, or proved to the
g•
satisfaction of the stewards and committees; divided as
follows :
Winner 440
Runner-up
Ti ird and fourth each 5
V. The SELLING STAKES, for 16 all-aged greyhounds,
at £2 10s. ; auy dog ent, red in this stake may be claimed
for £lO, except the winner and runner-up whimmay be
claimed for £l5 each; the owner of the runner-up to
have first c aim for the winner. but all claims must bs
lodged with the secretary within fifteen minutes after
the stake is won ; divided as fo lows :
Winner
Runner-up 6
Third and fourth, each 2
The meeting to be governed by the National Club rules.
All winners of £2O and ut wards to pay 5 per cent. to the
dinner fund. The drawings for Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4, will take
place at 6 p.m., in the Douglas Arms Hotel, Douglas, Lanark..
shire, on Monday, the 23d March, 1863, previous to which all
entries must be made, and entry moneys paid. Diener imme-
diately after the drawing. All nominators in Nos. 1 and 2
must take a dinner ticket, price 3s. 6d. The entry and draw-
ing for the Selling Stakes will ta.r.e place after the second
day's running. Single nominations secured in the order of
application to E. J. Lindsay, Esq., Hon. Secre, ary, Hallcraig
' House, Carluke, Lanarkshire, N.B. If the stakes do not fill
by the 14th March, double nominations will then be given in
the order of application. A four-horse omnibus will be in
waiting at Carstairs Junction station, on Monday, the 23d
March, which will start for Douglas direct at 6 2., p.m., for
the exclusive accommodation of gentlemen attending the
meeting. The express train from Carlisle at 1 '2O p.m., the
expresses from Glasgow at 4 p.m., and from Edinburgh at
4 15 p.m., will c tch the omnibus, the arrival of which at Dou-
glas will be waited for for dinner. Private conveyances can
be had at any time at Carstairs or Lanark by ordering them
beforehand of Mr. Irving, the Clydesdale Hotel, Lanark. The
meet each morning' will be within a few yards of the Lanark
and Douglas turnpike-roads at 930 a. TI Quarters for men
and dogs can be secured by applying to Mr. Amos, Douglas
Castle, Lanarkshire.
BIGGAR CLUB. CALEDONIAN CLUB.
J. Gordon, Esq., of Aikenhead PRESIDENT.
A. Graham, Esq., of Capellie His Grace the Duke of Boo-
th L. Ewing, Esq., of Calder- clench
cruix STEWARDS FOR 1862-3.
H. B. Irving, Esq., of Milbank Earl of H addington
W. M. Gilmour, Esq., of Glas- John Gibson, Esq.
gow Lord Binning
sq.,of Glasgow Major Boothby
of Arkleton John Gordon, Esq.
J. Hon. Sec., I A. Graham, Esq.
E. House, near Car- G. Blansbard, Esq., Hon. Sec.
W.
Jardine,
Lindsay,.riioc. 11E sEctis
Hallcraig
luke, Lanarkshire

Mr. WARWICK, Slipper.
Mr. AI'ERR. Jude.

SZTRATFORD-ON-AVON STEEPLE CHASES
►►) will take place over the Borden Hill Ground, on Wed-
nesday, April 8, 1853.
The STRATFORD-ON-AVON OPEN STEEPLE CHASE (Han-
dicap) of 10 sovs each, 51t, and 2 only if declared on or before
Thursday, April 2, 1863, with 60 sovs added, over about four
mils of fair hunting country; the winner of any handicap
steeple chase, after the weights are declared, to carry lb
eXtrn ; the winner to pay to a.va Inwards exponeeS, and the
se:ond horse t.) save his stake. To close and name to Capt.
Hamilton, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon, on or before Mon-
day, March 23, 1.63 ; weights to appear in " Bell's Life," on
the 29th day of March ; the 5 soya ft, name of horse, and
colours of rider to be enclosed together, or the nomination
will not be received; three horses to start or the public
money will not be added.
The HUNTERS' STAKES of 5 sovs each, 3 forfeit, with 30
soya added, over about four miles of fair hunting country, for
horses that have been regularly hunted with any established
pack of foxhounds in the season 1862-63 ; four years 12st,
five years 12st 71b, six and aged 13st ; winners 71b extra;
professional riders 71b extra ; the winner to pay 5 sovs to-
wards expenses. To close and name to Capt. Hamilton,
Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon, on or before March 23. 1863;
the 3 soya ft, name of horse, and colours of rider to be en-
closed together, or the nomination will not be received;
three horses to start, or the public money will not be added.
The WELTER CUP, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 soya each ;
13st 71b ; about three miles ; a winner of 100 sovs to carry 71b
extra, and of 2uo sovs 141 b extra ; gentlemen riders : nomi-
nation, with entrance-money, name of horse, and colours of
rider, to be sent to Capt. Hamilton, on or before Wednesday,
April 1, 1863.
1 he FARMERS' AND TRADESMEN'S STARES of 2 soya each,
with 15 soya added, for horses bona fide and unconditionally
the property of farmers or tradesmen residing within fifteen
miles of Stratford-on-Avon, and that have not been in a train-
ing stable for six months from date of entry ; 12st each ; to
be rid ten by farmers, tradesmen, or their sons; winners of
any steeplechase or hurdle race 101 b extra. To close and
name (with entrance money) to Capt. Hamilton, Shottery,
Stratford-on-Avon, on or before Wednesday, April 1; about
three miles ; three horses to start, or the public money will
not be added.
Sir c HARLES MORDAUNT, Bart., M.P.,
Sir ROBERT HAMILTON, Bart„ K.C.8.,
Capt. PEACH, Stewards
Hon. W. H. NORTH,
Lord CONYERS,
F. W. HAMILTON, Shottery, Stratford-on -Avon,
Ho Secretary and Ti easurer.

DEATH-CRY, YET SLOW-POISON'D HOPE.
For Church-law riddance of Carib-red Indian's Civic-
Tie, as Prince Consort for soil-right, under Quebec's quad-
ruple 3ty-1764 ;in Russia's Canada-paper guarantee-'66, on
Clement 14's Pekin Jesu Col. vefol- so Partition of Poland,
'72-5, on the Behring-str. mark of Asia's union ingress and
egress agency to Prince of Wales' Cape, to Labrader's Mo-
ravian act HeLeofminster settlements in America.
PETER BASCLUET, with white Ally, prays 'YE! on his
knees, to consider their Keyholt position—of your own
creation—as the elect of England's Income-tax succession,
by medal Badge (as was his uncle, Indian Joseph Brant, of
Stamp Act 1775) mark—Toll-set by Zollverein Convention
Treaty of 2d March, 1841, by order of Palmerston, BuLo,
and Labouchere, for America's criminal law, as extended to
-New Zealand, &c, Medal-attested by late King of Prussia
at Windsor Castle, as the 3-rabet Church's man, under the
Berlin 3ty toll-weight standard on 5.6 W. 4, c 63, Prince
Consort'ment on the day of (N. South) WALES' equatorial
Christen'ng, 21 years past, Vestibule met by DOURO, Wel-
lington's son, when conducted and paid by, police superin-
tendent Carter, till Lord Ashhurton association on board
the Warspite, 74, with His flag union of England's Tower
issue, Jan. 31, 1842, under the ' Admiralty limit red flag
Commission of Array,' 7 Geo. 4, c 38, 1826, for the King's
Bank' in Chancery, by Sheriff Perley's writ return as the
fit elect by seizin of Lord Seaton's Criminal court badge, for
trial of Canada's bills' of Soil-indictment.

On this Carib event Ld. Stanley, now DERBY, said "Tis
well you came over to England, as this is the headquarters
of your Indian state elect.' So on his arrival in 1851 Earl
Grey's official Nov. letter on Fact of felony says, " Justice
shall be done to your report of marine stores on premises
without license." So his successor, Pakington's letter says,
"No money in this office for your constables' mileage
and maintenance" [Yet, money-provided by the Police Act
of 10 Geo. 4, cap. 44, to Carter in 1842, under extraordi-
nary expenses in the execution of orders, and to Mr. Police-
man Dowling, of Liverpool, in 18511, So, on refusal the
successor of Lt. major Cartwright. with Brant, to the Crown
and Colonial Superintendency of the Indian Tribes on £9O
per year since 1820 as Governor's Lt., deputy C. H. Acker-
ley, R.N.—came to his aid, as supreme court Stay, by
1817-19-26 acts—still 43 years unrelieved from this duty.

He under Antipodean anomaly, as England-set in the
4th Geo. 4, c 96, sec. 4, 28-forperpetual tax, conjoined with
the Montague Exchequer bills, in Russia's Canada paper,
on Bank of England security under 9th March 11 1826, as
extended across the earth, by 1823-6 Act for duty by nave
lieutenants either on full or half--pay as the criminal juries
Court-pivot of Crown colony Newfoundland Bermuda-tie,
with colleague 'd Deputy Commissioner, Chief Justice F.
Forbes, as extended to New South Wales Supreme Court,
by sec, 40. So Ackerley has spent, in this case, all his
savings, £1,700, to aid & support his Indian coadjutor (all
parties being dead) and he, the Admiral's-Lt., being made
to carry the meter word of faith-burden, of 1820-25-Brazils,
Stuart de Rothsay '2B-in Egypt, its Stamp man of Greece,
and '37 England's J,P,, as conjoin'd with the Indian chain
guaranteed by Derby and Grey's Treasury rota.
So I if mistake has had place, for God's sake visit not the
innocent—or sanction a compromise of Carib birth-right to
the tidal law for one and all, never being told that the civil-
law churches claimed his special' services, therefore pro-
tests againet any breach of the Indian right of vote, by
juggling, self-interested fiends, as MACBETH say s—
• tr
• "That palters with us in a double sense,
That keeps the word of promise to the ear
::• • . And breaks it to our hope.''
' Patient ti ent in 13
God's
hope 2lO yearsf l
landing
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ionng dount yh—i s IGI IA
GASPS
yearsl E
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BorvEtrTiben,eBnNdWialiweaarrupd-ehßanrdant.

At, 5, Swallow-street. London, March 25, 1863.
t We (Christians) could not enslave the aboriginal Red
Indians, or make them useful to us in the cultivation of
their soil, or amalgamate with them—the only thing we
could do was to exterminate them. This Policy, North,
South, East, and West, has had place till only 360,000
remain in North America.' Yet obliged to reserve one as
State representative.—See limes of 23d Marsh, '63.
II For progress to the New Papal Churches GLENELG' S
July letter order-passage allowance of £6O for each minis-
ter, and £4O for 6 males and 6 Roman Catholic female
teachers to the late 1826' Georgean Public Sohool trust.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The complaints of the New York Cham-
ber of Commerce found expression, if not an exact
echo, last night in the House of Commons. A dis-
cussion on the proceedings of the Alabama since she
steamed out of an English port, unarmed, on a
"pleasure excursion," was inevitable ; and no one
can regret that it has taken place, if the explana-
tions tend to altsy the angry feeling excited in
America by what this ship in the hands of Captain
Semmes has done to damage the commercial in-
terests of the North. The anger is most natural,
and full allowance should be made for irritation;

but the most useful effect of passion is to disable the
reasoning powers, and expend itself on the first ob
ject at hand, when the real worker of the mischief
is out of reach. When a man with small means

contrives to do more with them than another can
effect with tens of thousands at his command, the

difference of result must be attributed to greater

skill, better management, or ability of some kind
which more than balances the material advantage

on the other side. It is futile to blame the ship•
wrights of Birkenhead for mischances and losses of
which the real instruments are the extraordinary

energy and daring of two ship's crews. Europe
knows what they have effected with limited means,

and the real djficiencyOFil; North, to which it
should ascribe the damage it has sustained at sea, is
the want of the qualities that have made the Ala-
bama and her consort so formidable. In one of the

latest American despatches an opinion is expressed
that the officers of the Federal navy are inferior to
the Southern commanders. The misgivings, ex-

changed between Mr. Adams grid Mr. gewaid are,
perhaps, not unfounded. But they might be carried
further. The efficiency of the Northern navy, it is
admitted by the American journals, confirmed by
official inquiries made too late, has been sacrificed
to the inveterate spirit of jobbery that has prevailed
at Washington, wasting the " boundless resources"
of the North, and obtaining less war power out of
them than the South has secured at comparatively

small expense. The North has a fleet of nearly
400 vessels. Why has it not one that can chase and
capture the Alabama ? Because, instead of building
or causing to be built ships of the best material and
model, merchant vessels, river steamers, and ferry
boats were chartered by the score and made part of
the navy, By exhausting the means of construct-
ing fifty Alabamas, the mercantile marine of the
North swims the ocean as defenceless against the
two ships of its enemy as a shoal of herrings chased
by two sharks. It is impossible for any Eur3pean
nation to act on the Northern theory of what neu-

trality ought to be. It cannot treble its police at
every seat of manufacture and at all its outports for
a fruitless attempt to prohibit a contraband trade
which would baffle any official vigilance ; still less
can it allow one belligerent to have full access to
the market and exclude the other. Mr. Laird last
night struck a balance between the amount of war
materials exported for the Federal Government
and the two ships built for the South at Liverpool.
One side has purchased cannon and rifles, the
other these two ships. Both supplied themselves
with what they most needed. The advantage was
plainly on the side that had most money, and till
recently the wealthier party had not to evade any
police of the sea at all. By no precedent of inter-
national law are we bound to prohibit supplies of
war material. We leave ships, cargoes, goods, and
speculators to the risks they incur. They may be
sunk burnt, and captured in transatu, and we give
neither crews nor owners any protection, leaving
them to be dealt with by the strength and vigilance
that determines the issues of war. The Foreign
Enlistment Act, it should be observed, is a statute,
and to put it in force requires a prosecutor, who is
bound to be provided with legal evidences of its in-
fraction. In the case of the Alabama it appears
that this evidence could not be obtained. All that
has made her dangerous has been added to her since
her escape. In the condition in which she left Liver-
pool she might have been captured by a single gun-
boat, for she was only armed when far out of
British jurisdiction. For her feats on the sea we
cannot be made responsible, as we certainly did not
sell the South either Captain Semmes or his skill.
Just as little, in selling cannon and rifles to the
North, did we furnish the more or less of efficiency
with which they have been employed in the field.
MORNING POST.—Rumours were yesterday flying
about town which had their origin in the recent
seizure of the Peterhoff by Admiral Wilkes. It was
asserted that the law officers had given an opinion
. . .

that thecapture was in violation of international law,
and it was also said that our fleet in the West Indian

waters was to be at once largely reinforced. in
short, it was assumed that we were to have another
Trent affair ou our hands. We believe we are

corect in stating that the rumours in question are
devoid of foundation. As far as we know at pre-
sent, the case of the Peterhoff is not likely to as-
sume any alarming aspect, and it is not true that
an additional force is to be despatched to the West
Indian station. With regard to the course which
Admiral Wilkes chose to adopt in the present
information
on we have yet to receive official
cln the subject ; but in the meantime, it is quite
clear that a belligerent has a right to seize a neu-
tral vessel upon reasonable grounds of suspicion,
and to carry her before a prize court. If his suspi-
cions turn out to be groundless, as we think it is
highly probable they will in the present case, then
the neutral can recover adequate damages for the
seizure and for his loss of time. We do not see why
any doubt should exist as to a satisfactory issue in
the ca-e of the Peterhoff. If Admiral Wilkes was in
the right, there will be nothing to complain of; if,
on the contrary, he was in the wrong, the owners
of the Peterhoff will of course be amply indemnified.
Their case has nothing in common with the stop-
page of the Trent on the high seas and the forcible
removal of two of her passengers without form of
law. Messrs. Slidell and Mason were taken
from under the protection of our flag by the arbi-
trary proceeding of a naval officer of the United
States. This constituted a gross outrage on the
righte of nations, and, as such, was resented by
otber Powers, who felt it incumbent on them to
join with ourselves in our protest against an act
which menaced the freedom of every flag. The
Peterhoff is, however, to be duly carried before a
competent tribunal, whose decision we cannot but
presume will be in accordance with that strict ex-
position of international law which American jurists
have always set forth and observed. The matter is
no doubt unpleasant, for, according to all the infor-
mation
of which we have at present possession, the
capture was effected upon an accusation which will
not justify the condemnation of the vessel or her
cargo. But it would be preposterous to suppose
that we can properly decide on this from one-sided
representations, when the whole case will be tho-
roughly sifted before a court to which we have no
reason to take any exception, and whose duty it
will be to award full and complete compensation to
the owners of the ship in the event of Admiral
Wilkes's failure to prove his case against her. We
may, therefore, dismiss from our minds any anxiety
as to a serious disturbance of our relations with
the United States arising from the case that gave
birth to the rumours to which we have referred.
MORNING HERALD.—The steamer Peterhoff, one
of a line of vessels trading between London and
Matamoras, left the former port laden with a regu-
lar cargo, having on hoard nothing auspicious; no-
thing which, had she been bound for an unblockaled
Confederate pot t, would have subjected her to con-
fiscation as carrying contraband of war. She was
boarded off St. Thomas by the Federal cruiser Ala-
bama, which overhauled her, and endorsed on her
papers the record of the visit, and the admission
that her papers were regular and her voyage
regular. She went into St. Thomas to obtain
coal ; and on quitting that station she was seized
by the Vanderbilt, under orders from Capt. Wilkes.
This vessel, bound from a neutral port to a neutral
port, and laden with a perfectly innocent cargo, has
been captured in neutral waters and sent into Key
West for adjudication by one of Mr. Lincoln's prize
courts—that is, for confiscation. This is the con-
sequence, as Mr. Fitzgerald said, of the weakness
displayed by the Government on previous occasions:
of their patience under the blockade of Bermuda,
and of Lord Russell's very foolish and impertinent
reply to the metchants who protested against the
interruption of the trade between Liverpool and
Nassau. What makes the matter worse is that the
name of the Peterhoff occurs in a list of suspected
vessels supplied by Mr. Adams to Lord Russell,
which vessels, as it appears from their own repeated
assertions, the Federal cruisers have received orders
from head-quarters to seize whenever and wherever
they might find them. It does not appear that the
Foreign Secretary gave warning to the owners of
the Peterhoff; or that he warned Mr. Adams that
the capture of a vessel bound for Matamoras would
not be endured by Great Britain. It is evident,
then, not only that the outrage was premeditated
by the American Government, but that it was, as it
were, sanctioned beforehand by our own. It be-
hoves Lord Palmerston's Government to give some
explanation of their previous conduct, and some
pledge as to the future ; some security that
they will no longer treat with " a cold and un-
friendly neutrality" the quarrel of
their countrymen
against the Government of the United States, and

that they will remember, first, that tame submis-
sion to wrong is worse than war, and secondly, that,
in dealing with the United States, such submission
only tempts fresh insult, and renders utterly im-
possible the maintenance of peace.
DAILY NEWS..—Are we to go on building Ala-
bamas in this country on behalf of a Slave Power
we do not recognise, and for the purpose of devas-
tating the commerce of a nation with whom we are
on terms of amity and peace ? Ate British ship-
builders to be allowed to fit out and equip fighting
vessels for the Confederates, and this with compaza-
tive if not complete impunity ? Such appears, at
all events, to be the existing practice. A list of Con-
federate war vessels now in course of construction
in this country was read openly in the House of
Commons last night. The facts are notorious, the
number and names of the vessels, the names of con-
tractors, the yards i❑ which they are being built,
theirrelative stages of progress-have been authorita-
tively stated, and are familiar to all connected with
the trade. Now the real question for the Government
and the country is to consider whether this violation
of our law is to go on, and if so, what will be the
natural and probable result. No one doubts that
the Government, by a little ordinary vigilance and
a little decision, could pat a atop to this illegal traffic
at once. A declaration of their determination
to institute a searching inquiry and enforce obedi-
ence:to the law would suffice. There can hardly
be two opinions as to the supreme duty of pur-
suing such a course. It is dictated by a regard alike
for our interests and our honour. The people of
this country desire nothing more earnestly than the
maintenance of the friendly relations which exist
between England and the United States, and- we
may happily accomplish this by doing our duty in
an honourable and straightforward manner. At
present, undoubtedly, the Americans have a serious
ground of complaint against us. We have failed
to carry out our own law, and this failure has in-
flicted on them terrible injuries, such as inflame the
passions of a people, and bring on war. We do not
want war with the United States of America. It is
equally opposed to our principles and our interests,
and if any section or party desire to involve us in
hostilities with this free, friendly, and kindred
people, they are the enemies of their country. We
cannot accept Lord Palmerston's exculpation of his
subordinates, and we are sure that impartial ob-
servers in Europe will not accept it. There is not
a maritime power in the world that would submit
to have Alabamas fitted out in neutral ports while
it was at war. We notice, however, Lord Pal-
merston's declaration that the English Government
sincerely desires to maintain peace, and act in a fair
and honourable spirit towards the Government of
the United States, so that if there has been any
negligence in the past, we may hope there will be
no future ground of complaint on this score.