The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

TAD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

RADCLIFFE RACES-THIS DAY.

EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
RADCLIFFE PLATE.

Honest John
Fanfaron
Queen of Clubs

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Five ran. ...........
3

RACING FIXT

JRES FOR 1863.
TNE.
8ever1ey................ 17
I Stockbridge is
Chelmsford ............ 23
Newcastle-on-Tyne .....23
Carlisle ................30

Ascot 2
Newton 10
Hampton
Odiham 16
Bibury Club 17

LONDON GAZETTE--This Evening,

FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 18.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ed-
mund Douglas Veitch Faae, Esq., now Attache to her
Majesty's Legation at Tehran, to be a Third Secretary in
her Majesty's Diplomatic Service.

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
John Ellis, joiner, Pendleton
William Sever, cab proarietor, Bury
Thomas Palmer, wheelwright, Manchester
James Gilman, tailor, Berwick. street, Oxford Street
Wm. R. Rhodes, painter, Hampton, Middlesex
James Costin, plumber, Hoxton Old-town
John C. Chute, theatrical manager, Birmingham
Stephen Smith, grocer, Birmingham
James Smith, builder, Liverpool
IsAac Evans, shoe maker, Llandilo, Carmarthenshire
Howsin, horse dealer, Leeds
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James
Robinson,e fls
grocer,hm Doncasternger , Bradford
Robert
Robert Yeates, cutler, Hackney-road
JaWns
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8.57 commissionilliams,wh traveller,eelwrightWest New K e
Croydonnt Kent-road]
Wm, J. Neil, flax manufacturer, Rickinghall, Suffolk
Chas. Gilder, builder, Birchen
George Trought, tailor, Dalston
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Risk, merchant, Glasgow
Alexander Macdonald, writer, Greenock
George Sanderson and Thomas Scoular, cutlers, Dunse
Robert Dubie, lather, Glasgow
James T. Renfrew, grocer, Glasgow
Thomas Stewart, brewer, Ceres, Fifeshire

Course of the Exchange.—This Day.

Amsterdam
152 11 l 6
Ditto
.. 3 Months, 11 171 11 18i
Rotterdam .. 11 17i 11 18~
Antwerp • • 25 45 25 50
Brussels — 25 45 25 50
Hamburgh — 13 7.i. 13 7,1
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine —119 k
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 351 35i
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 471 25 52/
Milan ... 25 471 25 521
Genoa — 25 471 25 52/
Naples - 25 471 25 521
Palermo .. 25 50 25 56
Messina — 25 50 25 55
Lisbon —52 i
Oporto — 524 53
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz.. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars ,
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

The Federal Panic at Fredericksburg.

The correspondent of the New York _Herald

%rites :

must frankly confess that I have no ability
odo justice to the scene that followed. It was my
of to be in the centre of that field when the panic
burst upon us. May I never be a witness to an-
other such scene. On one hand was a solid column
of infantry retreating at double quick from the face
of the enemy, who were already crowding their
rear; on the other was a dense mass of beings who
had lost their reasoning faculties, and were flying
from a thousand fancied dangers as well as from the
real danger that crowded so close upon them, ag-
gravating the fearfulness of their situation by the
very precipitancy with which they were seeking to
escape from it. On the hill were 10,000 of the
enemy, souring their murderous volleys in upon
us, yelling and hooting to increase the alarm and
confusion ; hundreds of cavalry horses, left riderless
at the first discharge of the rebels, were dashing
frantically about in all directions; a score of bat-
teries of artillery were thrown into disorder, some
properly manned, seeking to gain positions for
effective duty, and others flying from the field;
battery waggons, ambulances, horses, men, cannon,
caissons, all jumbled and tumbled together in an
apparently inextricable mass, and that murderous
fire still pouring in upon them. To add to the
terror of the occasion there was but one means of
escape from the field, and that through a little
narrow neck or ravine washed out by Scott's Creek.
Towards this the confused mass plunged headlong.
For a moment it seemed as if no power could avert
the frightful calamity that threatened the entire
army. That neck passed, and this panic stricken,
disordered body of men and animals permitted to
pass down through the other corps of the army, our
destruction was sure. But in the midst of that wildest
alarm there was a cool head. That threatened cala-
mity was averted by the determined self-possession
of Major-General D. E. Sickles. Spurring his horse
forward, he forced his way through the tangled mass
and entered this narrow neck. Across this neck
there runs a thick brick wall, behind which the
forces of General Williams and Berry had already
thrown themselves preparatory to meeting the
enemy. On one flank of the wall was the
sunken bed of the creek, impassable for any p
deeplyecie
s s
of vehicle and scarcely safe for men. At theh upper
yLisrseS.Wooril;
the
e only
regardless of
gpsetting and
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blocked the thisarro point egGweraneeghr.a Sickles
picked his
pway,assagaendwitthhere,
himselfdrawing
and
came the panic-stricken crowd, terrified artillery,
riders spurring and lashing. their horses to the ut-
ahmorbsueslandcaesahitui
being
dashed to pieces against trees and stum •
flying and crying with alarra—a perf PS men
ect torrent of
passion, apparently uncontrollable
ut-
most,
t,
obstaclesrider lriderless
all the brave General threw hi Bat, against it
termined bravery brought mself; and by his de-
cannon drawn by six the first heavy omass--
halt, and blockaded the rses, well mounted—to a
up behind and crowded Passage.
Others dashing cursing Rupon the first, their drivers
andswearing and calling to the foremost to
go on. The loose hors •
the flying ee jumped the stone wall, and
men scrambled ove.r It, utterly oblivious
to the fact that the opposite side was crowded with
men whose lives were thus doubly endangered. But
by the blockade of the
m
of the artillery and
cavalryai
n hpaadssaigmeentheprsitnacmippaeldlye
checked. Once halted, reason began to return to
those who had previously lost it, and much of the
artillery, properly manned, was quickly brought
back upon the field. They all seemed possessedw ith
an instinctive idea of the shortest and modst
directto the
line from the point whence they
started
ftethem did
United States Ford, and the majorityf,,,rd° Many of
not stop until they had reached the ein and swam to
them on reeching the river
dashedsed to be running yet.
the north side, and are
supposed
than with officers.
It was no worse with. privatesrsi;
the disgrace general."
The stampede was universal;

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day.

DFlytrap .......................................
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Antipavid Ann ........................................ 2
odes.... ...................................... 3
Five ran.
SELLING STARES.

TDavid Ann ....................................... 1
rentham.................. 2
Three ran.
STEWARDS' CUP.