The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BIBURY CLUB RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The rain which descended in torrents the evening pre-
vious gave promise of as soaking a wet day as was experi-

enced on the second day at this meeting last year. The

sun, however, shone forth most gloriously this morning,
and the weather continued beautifully fine during the after-

noon. The different alterations that have been made to the
stands and enclosure met with very general satisfaction,
and the running ground was in capital order. The first race
produced a field of six. starters, and when the betting first
commenced Liston was made slightly the favourite, but

just before the start was effected the odds were in favour of

Tippler, who won, after a fine race with Tornado, by a
head. For the Champagne Stakes 6to 4 was at first laid
on Master Richard, but the betting closed at 6 to 4 each
agst Hengist and Master Richard, the former winning
easily by a length. The Handicap Sweepstakes resulted in
favour of Nathalie, after a fine race with the Olitipa filly.
The winner was not backed for any amount of money, as
much as Bto 1 being laid against her. For the Selling
Sweepstakes, which was reduced to a match, Drumstick was
made the favourite, and justified the confidence placed in
him by winning in a canter. He was put up to auction
after the race and realised 70 guineas. For the Bibury
Stakes Rubicon was made first favourite, but he was beaten
in a canter by the Marquis of Hastings' horse Tippler. For
the Plate of 50 sous six horses contested, and Confidence
was most fancied, and after a brilliant finish wun by half a
length. Seventeen horses started for the Two-yr-Olds
Stake, the Doctor being installed first favourite. 'After a
most magnificent race King George won, Ccour de Lion
being second. Full details of the running will be found
below.

Handicap Plate of 100 sous for_3-yr-olds and upwards,

Winners extra. Old mile.

Marquis of Hastings' Tippler, 3 yrs, 6st 41b.... (Deacon) 1
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Tornado, 3 yrs, bat 51b..(Murfett) 2
Lord Uxbridge's Liston, 3 yrs, sst 9113 .. (J. Grimshaw) 3
Little Dick, Muezzin, and Princess Vocqsal also ran.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Tippler, 9to 4 agst Liston, sto 1
agst Tornado, and 6 to 1 agst Little Dick.
Liston was the first off, but was immediately followed by
Muezzin, who, with Lord Uxbridge's colt at his girths,
came on with a clear lead, followed by Tornada and the
favourite, the latter lying wide on the right. Entering the
dip Muezzin was beaten, leaving Liston with a slight lead,
which he held to the distance, when Tippler and Tornado
joined him, the three running abreast to the centre of the
stand, where Tippler drew away and won a fine race by a
head, three lengths separating the second and third, Little
Dick was fourth.

The Champagne Stakes of 10 sous each, with 50 added, for
2-yr-olds; colts Bst 101 b, and fillies Bst 71b. Winners ex-
tra. From the Bush in. 25 subs.
Lord Portsmouth's Hengist, Bst 101 b (J. Goater) 1
Mr. J. Day's Master Richard, Bst 101 b (Salter) 2
Mr. W. G. Craven's Practitioner (41b), Oat .. (Custance) 3
Mr. J. B. Starky's Izaak Walton, Bst 101 b.... (Cowley) 4
The betting opened at 6 to 4 on Master Richard, apd
closed at 6 to 4 each agat Hengist and Master Richard, 6 to
1 agst Practitioner, and 8 to 1 agst Izaak Walton.
After one failure, in which Practitioner and Master
Richard ran to the top of the hill, the flag was lowered,
whey Hengist, with a clear lead on the far side, made the
running, followed by Master Richard, Practitioner, and
Izaak Walton to the brow of the hill, where J. Goater pulled
him back, and indulged Master Richard with the lead to
the enclosure, where Lord Portsmouth's colt again resumed
the premiership, and won very easily by a length, three
lengths separating the second and third ; Izaak Walton was
a bad fourth.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 100 added, for
2 and 3-yr-olds. Winners extra. From the Bush in,
about five furlongs, 18 subs.
Mr. Night's Nathalie, 2 yrs, sst 71b (S. Mordan) 1
Mr. Payne's Olitipa filly, 2 yrs, 6st 71b.. (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. W. Day's Brother to Rubini, 2 yrs, sst 71b
(C. Barrett) 3
The following also ran :—Souveraine, Coupon, and
Vaulter.
Betting-5 to 4 agst the Olitipa filly, 3 to 1 agat
Vaulter, 4 to 1 agat Brother to Rubini, and 8 to 1 agat
Nathalie.
Souveraine made play, closely attended by Nathalie,with
the favourite on her whip hand, the others, who were

headed by Brother to Rubini, lying close in the wake. De-
scending the hill into the dip Soveraine was beaten, and the
lead was left with Nathalie, who, with the favourite in close

attendance, came on together to the enclosure, where Grim-
shaw made an attempt to get up, but failed, and was beaten
cleverly by a neck, half a length separating the second and
third ; Vaulter was fourth, Coupon fifth,- and Souveraine
last.

A Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added, for 3-yr.old4
and upwards. Weights for age. To be ridden by memo
bers of the club ; jockeys allowed to ride by carrying 71b
extra. One mile.
Mr. J. Day's Drumstick, 4 yrs (£5O), list 31b
(Mr. Wombwell) I
Sir W. Codrington na Belgrave, 3 yrs (E5O), lost 121 b
(in 71b ex) (G. Prince) 2

Betting-7 to 4on Drumstick, who made all the running
and won in a canter by two lengths.
The winner was bought by Mr. Weatherby for 70
guineas.

The Bibury Stakes of 6 soya each, with 50 added. The
second to save his stake. To be ridden by members of
the club ; jockeys allowed, carrying 71bextra. Last mile
and a half. 36 subs.
The Marquis of Hastings' Tippler, 3 yrs, lOst 21b
(Mr. H. Wombwell) 1
Mr. S. Thellusson's Rubicon, 5 yrs, list
(Mr. G. S. Thompson) 2
Lord Uxbridge's General Hess, 6 yrs, 12st 71b
(Captain Little) 3

Princess Vocqsal and Croydon also ran.
Betting—Even on Rubicon, 3 to 1 agst Croydon, and 6 to

1 each agst Tippler and General Hess.
Princess Voeqsal, immediately the flag was lowered, went
to the front and made the running, waited upon by Croydon
and the favourite, Tippler, with General Hess side by side,
bringing up the rear. Descending the hill Rubicon ran
into the second place, and came on in waiting upon Mr.
Starky's filly to the " dip," when the latter died away,
leaving Rubicon with a slight lead, Croydon lying second,
and Tippler next. At the distance the three were joined by
General Hess, the lot running in company to half-way up,
where Mr. Wombwell brought Tippler to the front and
won easily by a length ; a bad third. Croydon was a bad
fourth. Princess Voeqsal pulled up and did not pass the
post.
A. Plate of 50 sous, for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for
age, with optional selling weights. From the Bush in,
about five furlongs.
Lord Westmoreland's Confidence,' 5 yrs, Bst 61b (£100)
(J. Goater) 1
Mr. G. Angell's Reindeer, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (£100) (Perry) 2
Mr. W. Baker's Bolero, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (L 200)
(J. Nightingall) 3
The following also ran :—Habena filly, Vision, and
Tresham.
Betting-6 to 5 agst Confidence, 100 to 30 agst Bolero and
6 to 1 agst Reindeer.
The Habena filly and Reindeer, side by side, made play
into the dip, where the favourite joined the pair. At the
distance the Habena filly was beaten,leaving Reindeer with
a clear lead, which he held to the enclosure, where Confi-
dence got up, followed by Bolero next the rails, the three
running together to within 20 strides of the chair,when the
favourite headed Reindeer, and won a good race by half a
length. Bolero was third, two lengths in the rear; Vision
was fourth, and the Habena filly last. The winner was not
sold.
First Year of the Fifth Stockbridge Biennial Stakes of 10
sous each, with 100 added each year, for 2-yr-olds ; colts,
Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 51b. Bush in, above five furlongs.
87 subs.
Captain Gray's King George Bst 101 b (F. Adams) 1
Duke of St. Albans' Cceur de Lion, Bst 101b..(Custanee) 2
Lord Stamford's Leicester (31b) Bsl. 71b (A.. Edwards) 3
Lord Portsmouth's Becky Sharpe, Bst 51b...... (Wells) 4
The following also ran :—Rappel, Idler (late Lacy Lad),
Dovedale, Old Fuller, Tailor, Ackworth, Pyrrha, The
Count, The Doctor (late latros), Farnham, Glendusk, Plush
colt, and Aunt Judy.
Betting-7 to 4 agst The Doctor, 4to 1 agst Ackwori

(at first 5 to 2), 5 to 1 agst Leicester, 7 to 1 agst Becky
Sharpe, and 10 to 1 agst any other.
Aunt Judy, in company with Becky Sharpe, Rappel,
Leicester, and the favourite, was seen in advance as the lot
breasted the hill, and they ran in this way into the bottom,
where the leader with Mr. Brayley's colt disappeared from
the front, and Becky Sharpe came on with a clear lead,
Leicester and The Doctor lying wide on her right, with
King George,
Cceur de Loin, Ackworth, Idler, and Dove-
dale in the centre of the course in close attendance. On
entering the rails Leicester moved to the front, but had
in a few strides after to be steadied by Edwards in con-
sequence of the currishness exhibited by The Doctor,
who ran anything but straight. This let up
King George and Ccour de Lion, the four, although running
wide, joined issue and came on nearly in a line to the stand,
when Becky Sharpe was disposed of, and in a few strides

further Leicester was headed by Capt. Gray's colt and Coeur
de Lion, who finished a fine race home, the former winning
in the last stride by a head, the latter defeating Leicester by
a length and a half for second, who finished two lengths in
advance of Becky Sharpe. Ackworth was fifth, close up;
Aunt Judy sixth, Glendusk seventh, and The Tailor next;
then came a lot of pulling up horses, tho last of them being
the Plush colt.

A Match. Mr. Crook's Adventurer, 4 yrs, agst Mr.
Hogman's Libelous, 6 yrs. New mile. 500 sovs, 200 ft.
Adventurer to give 71b. Off by consent.

BEVERLEY, HULL, AND EAST RIDING RACES.

WEDNESDAY.
The Kingston-upon-Hall Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25
added ; 2-yr-olds, sst 121 b ; three, 7st 12Ib ; four, 9st ;
five, 9st slb ; six /me aged, 9st 71b. Penalties and allow-
ances. About three-quarters of a mile. 9 subs.

Mr. J. Osborne's The Little Stag, 2 yrs, Sat 91b (Carroll) 1
Mr. Wise nd Angelus, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (Metcalf) 2
Mr. T. Masterman's Shuftler, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (Marson) 3
Mr. Waters's Travestie colt, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b • . (Snowden) 4
Mr. C. Reynard's Pizarro, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b (Proctor) 5
Betting—Even on The Little Stag, 4 to 1 agst Angelus,
6 to 1 agst Shuftler.
Won by a length ; bad third.
The Londesborough Handicap Selling Stakes of 5 sous each,
2 ft, with 30 added; winners extra; second to save his
stake. T.Y.C, 6 subs.

Mr. Gilby's Jackal, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Snowden) 1
Mr. T. Bancroft's Cronstadt, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (Challoner) 2
Mr. Reynard's Comet, 4 yrs, Bst
Betting-5 to 4on Jackal, 6to 4 agst Cronstadt, sto 1
agst Comet.
Won by a length ; six lengths between second and third•
The winner was bought in for 31 guineas.

The Bishop Burton Stakes of 5 sous each, with 100
added, for two-yr•olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and gel-
dings, Bst 71b; winners extra. T.Y.C., 4 furlongs 1051
yards. 21 subs.

Mr. W. Hudson's Coast Guard, Bst 101 b.... (Whiteley) 1
Mr. J. Osbome's Prince Arthur, 9st llb (inc 51b ex)
(Osborne) 2
Mr. Murland's Castle Espie, Bst 101 b (Ashmall) 3
Mr. Ridley's Eola, Bst 101 b (J. Snowden) 4
Sir G. Strickland's Durando, Bst 101 b (W. Found) 5
Betting-5 to 2on Prince Arthur-6 to 1 agst Eola.
Won by a head; four lengths between the second and
third.

The Beverley Cup (Handicap), of 100 soya in specie, added
to a Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, 10 ft, and 3 only if
declared ; winners extra ; second to save his stake. One
mile and a half. 21 subs, 8 declared.
Mr. I'Anson's Borealis, 7st 111 b (H. Robinson) 1
Mr. Brown's Venison, 3 yrs, Est (car Est 21b) .. (Noble) 2
Mr. W. Hudson's Flytrap, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Whiteley) 3
Mr. Gregory's Prologue, 6 yrs, 6st 01b (Lawson) 4
The following also ran : —Cannon Ball, Hawise m. and
Boatswain.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Borealis-4 to 1 agst Prologue-5
to 1 each agst Venison.and Flytrap.
Won by a head ; the same between second and third; four
lengths between third and fourth.
The Grimstone Plate (Handicap) of 60 sovs in specie
added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, 2 ft ; winners
extra ; second to receive 10 sovs. One mile. 9 subs.
Mr. Masterman's Honest John, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b.. (Noble) 1
Mr. E. Shaw's Ripley, 3 yrs, 7st (Robinson) 2
Mr. T, Raymond's General Bixio, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b
(Snowden) 3
Mr. B. Canter's Slingsby, 6 yrs, 7st 61b (Metcalf) 4

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The Lancashire people are under the im-
pression that the real condition of the manuftictur-

.ng districts is not understood. Misapprehensions,
say, prevail in Parliament, in London society,

and in the views taken of the matter by the Press.
They think it of the utmost importance that the
truth should be made known before the Recess, and
that our legislators should not aeparate without
getting an insight into the actual position of affairs.
For this estimate of the case there is some founda-
tion. We are not sure that the opinion of Lanca-
shire on the exigencies of the crisis should be
adopted without correction, but we certainly think
that the subject cannot be too fully discussed ;
and we avail ourselves, therefore, of the last report
of the Central Relief Committee to place the ques-
tion in its new light before the public. The first
great fact is that the distress in the cotton districts
has been regularly decreasing during the whole of
the present year. The recipients of relief have de-
clined in number at an average rate of 4,000 a week.
There were upwards of 270,000 persons in that po-
sition on the 6th of last December, whereas there
were but 167,000 on the 6th of this present month.
These figures are given for the 2'7 Unions from which
returns are published, and they May be taken, we
presume, as fairly indicating the condition of the
manufacturing districts generally. We learn, there-
fore, beyond all question. that through the opera-
tion of various causes, but mainly through the re-
vival of trade, the distress of the cotton workers has
been growing less and less for the last six months,
until it is now not very much more than half as
severe as it was. We have also been told, in the
next place on authority which is not disputed, that
the manufacturers of Lancashire are actually build-
ing new mills and enlarging old ones in all direc-
tions, so as to evicce their own belief in the good
times at hand. This persuasion is shared by the
operatives also, who are looking forward to the days
when labour will be at a premium and labourers bet-
ter off than ever. Such being the state of things,
with a material improvement visibly going on, and
an expectation of prosperity evidently prevailing,
the Lancashire people are not unreasonably appre-
hensive of public incredulity when they proclaim
that the prospects of the cotton industry are now
worse than ever. They tell us that our impressions
are mistaken; that next winter will prove more for-
midable than the winter of last year; that the pro-
posed grant for public works will be totally insuffi-
cient ; that larger borrowing powers must be con-
ferred on the local authorities ; and that, unless we
mean to incur most serious embarrassments, we must
divest ourselves of the idea that the old cotton hands
are regaining a permanent livelihood from the old
trade. We are not so sanguine as to build upon the
immediate and complete revival of the cotton indus-

try even in 1868 ; hilt, on the other hand, we should
have expected, except for these warnings, that the
material recovery which we really do witness would
have done us some good in the coming winter. We
did think the worst was over, though we could not
hope to see the best again. The Lancashire people
are now making sure of the best five years after
date, but cannot even discount it sufficiently to save
us from the worst at present. That is what puzzles
us. The Central Committee are quite right in think-
ing that there are doubts on the question, and that
persons who see what is actually going on in Lan
cashire cannot understand the representations which
are made from those parts. They may rely, how-
ever, upon this, that the public wish only to learn
the truth. We shall all be ready to do our duty

when we see our way. There are things at present
which we do not quite comprehend, but we have no
doubt that the Committee can explain them, and
for that information we wait.

HERALD.—The American struggle seems to be
rapidly approaching a crisis, military and political,
of which it would be extremely rash to predict the
immediate issues. Vicksburg is still untaken. Re-
pulsed with tremendous loss in several desperate
assaults, Gen. Grant has summoned the city to sur-
render, and has met, of course, with a peremptory
refusal. Admiral Sir Charles Napier once took a
fortress with a letter, which he certainly had no
means of reducing by force; but though Grant is
an able and skilful officer, he is no more a Napier
than the Confederates are Portuguese, and the Por-
tuguese themselves would hardly have yielded to a
summons after repulsing an assault. The defences
of Vicksburg on the land side are obviously much
stronger than was supposed ; and it is possible that
the defending force is hot so utterly disproportion-

ate in numbe-rs to that of the besiegers as to give
the latter even a reasonable chance of reducing the
place except by famine. Federal reports say that
the city is provisioned for 30 days. It ought to be,
and probably is, provisioned for a much longer
period ; and if it can hold out even for that period,
it is likely that the approach of Gen. Johnstone will
place the Federals between two fires, and compel
them either to beat a hasty retreat or to give
battle with no choice but between victory against
tremendous odds and a surrender at discretion.
General Grant's position is therefore exceed-
ingly critical, and its perils become greater every
day. It is probable that an officer, who certainly
is one of the best in the Federal service, would
not have put himself in such a situation had
he not, in common with most people both in the
North and in this country, believed that Vicksburg
was indefensible against an attack in the rear, and
might be taken by a coup de main. General Banks
is engaged in the siege of Port Hudson. He, like
Grant, appears to have considered that time was of
paramount importance ; and has ventured an assault
which has disabled one of his best officers, cost him
a heavy loss, and seriously discouraged his army.
Speaking without an accurate knowledge of the
condition of the defences, we must say that these
assaults on unbreached fortifications reflect no small
credit on the courage of the Federal soldiery—the
best of 'whom, coming from the great agricultural
states of the North-West, compose the armies now
fighting
.for the possession of the Mississippi Valley.
Everything depends on the rapidity of Johnstone's
movements, and the possibility of holding Vicksburg
and Port Hudson until his arrival, which will not
improbably involve the Federal forces in the State
of Mississippi in the greatest disasters that have yet
befallen them. Meantime from the Rappahannock
comes news of a strange nature. A telegram re-
ceived last night by the Hibernian states that
General Lee has abandoned the line of that river,
and that the Federals, from whom the information
comes, do not know where he has gone. In his
absence General Hooker has again plucked up heart,
recrossed the river, and now occupies Fredericks-
burg. We do not wonder that in the face of these
mysterious movements, great apprehensions are en-
tertained in the North for the safety of Washing-
ton itself. We cannot, of course, pretend to know
more of General Lee's intentions than is known to
the enemy in his front ; but for more than one reason
we are inclined to think it not unlikely that an at-
tempt may now be made to carry the war into Nor-
thern territory. Gen. Hooker's army nomithstand-
ing its advance, must be disorganised and demo-
ralised by its late terrible defeat—a defeat in which
it can hardly have lost fewer than 25,000 men, and
which has inevitably shaken its confidence in itself
and its general, and must have a wholesome and,we
should think, a far from ill-founded dread, that
every forward step it takes is a move into some new
Confederate trap. In the meantime there are signs
of discord in the North,and of wavering in the Fede-
ral Government. The peace movement in New York
proceeds and prospers ; another large meeting has
denounced the war as a violation of the constitution
and as fatal to all hopes of restoring the Union—
and though there is still a division in the ranks of
the Democratic party—it seems plain that the sec-
tion which is in favour of negotiation is predomi-
nant, and is gaining ground, while its adversaries
remain silent or raise but a feeble protest. The
tyranny exercised in the name and probably under
the orders of the President by Gen. Burnside, has
strengthened the Opposition in the West—and a
great meeting at Chicago, as well as the Legislature
of the State of Illinois, have entered an indignant
protest against his proceedings. Awed by the po-
pular displeasure he had provoked, Mr. Lincoln
directed General Burnside to execute what, in the
euphemistic military parlance of the North, is
known as a " strategic movement ;" and the order
suppressing the Chicago Times and forbidding the
circulation of the New York World in the West has
been accordingly recalled. It seems not impossible
that the exiled Vallandigham may, at the first
opportunity, be elected Governor of Ohio—a re-
buke which the Federal Government could hardly
endure, but to which it could offer no rejoinder. It
is clear that the Federal power is losing ground,
and that the Democrats are gaining it—the peace
party makes progress, and the Republians are losing
heart. But the fatal weakness of the Opposition
was aptly pointed out by Mr. Lincoln, when he
asked Fernando Wood, the chief of the peace party,
what reason he had to believe that the South would
listen to terms ? Mr. Wood's reply was not rele-
vant. It may be quite true that the people.on both
sides are sick of the war—but so long as the North
refuses to listen to the only possible conditions of
peace, the war must inevitably, continue. It is
simply absurd to suppose that ,the Confederate
States will ever entertain the question of reunion.
Ordinary warfare would have sufficed to make the
breach irreparable—the savage and murderous ra-
vages by which the Federalists have sought to re-
venge their disgraceful reverses in the field have
possibly
rbly a
implanted in the heart of every man, woman, and
child in the South a passionate hatred of the North
and of the Union, which 20 years of peace will not
efface. A crushing disaster in Mississippi,
successful invasion of Pennsylvania,
ine
teach the North to prefer a possible peace to the
, dream of an impossible reunion; but until that