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

fHURSL)AY EVENING, SEPrEmßp]il, 17,
..j863.

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 I'Anmon'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 eeventh,
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 sous 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. 7et (French) 2
Lord Westmoreland's Wild Thyme, 7st 31b ; (Morgan) 3
The following also ran :—Vanessa, Acolyte, Greville,
Lady Mary, Oneida, and Eugenie filly.
Bitting-2 to 1 agst Wild Thyme, 3to 1 agst Eugenie
filly, sto 1 each agst Rose and Lady Mary, 103 to 15 agst
Oneida, 8 to 1 agst Kapunda.

The Eugenic 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 7st ; three, Bst 101 b. The second saves his stake.

Red House in. 14 subs.
Mr. Phillips' Persuasion, 2 yrs, Est 111 b (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Lincoln's Light, 2 yrs, 6st 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 was 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 13Ib ; 6-yr-olds and
' aged, 10st. Cup course. Ab.)ut two miles and five

furlongs.
Mr. S. Thellusson's Jack of Hearts, 3 yrs.. (Fordhan)) 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 coming 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 On slightly gave
way, and Jack of 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 sous each, with 50 added,
for 3-yr-olds and upwards. The second horse saved his
stake. Red House in. 16 subs.
Mr. H. Goatees Crerde 3 y'
rs 6st (Mordan) 1
Mr. Watt's Newmarket: 3 yrs 6st 121 b (T. French) 2
Lord Westmoreland's Erin-go-Bragh, 3 yrs, 7st 81b
(A. Edwards) 3
The following alio ran :—Lady Clifden, Zora, Calabria,
Stockowner, Coulon, Canzonette, Disdain, Knave of
Trumps, and Curie.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Lady Clifden, sto 1 each agst
Stockowner and Creole, 100 to 12 agst Disdain, 10 to 1 agst
Erin-go Bragh, atd 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 ater 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.
CESAREIVITCH.
1.00 to 6 agst Jack o'llearts (taken)
BETTING AT MIDNIGHT.
18 to 1 agA Jack o'llearts (Taken)
20 to 1 apt Drummer Boy (taken)
25 to 1 apt Umpire (taken)
33 to 1 apt Agag (taken)
33 to 1 agit Lioness (taken)
40 to 1 apt Oikapple (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 6 agtt Birdhill (taken)
20 to 1 apt Catch'em Alive (taken)
20 to 1 apt Borealis (taken)
33 to 1 agst Turcos (taken)
40 to 1 apt Merry Heart (taken)
50 to 1 apt Kemptown
50 to 1 agtt Exchequer (taken)
Denny.
40 to 1 agst Claremont (filter)
DONCASTVI. CC?.—Lord Clifden is struck out.

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Killigrew •. a 6 8
Jack of Hearts .• 3 6 7
Knight of Ellerslie 3 6 7
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Carisbruok .4 4 8 6
Aurelian 4, 5 8 5
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Captain Crow .•
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King of Kent • • 8
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Aurelian .. ' 8 6 Amazonian .. 36 9
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King of Utopia ••3 7 10 a-mend .. .. 46 5
Gellman • • ••6 7 10 Bright Cloud .. 36 5
Alvedistpn "4,7 10 Barchettina .. 36 5
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TelegraPh • • ••4 7 9 Bonny Breast knot 46 4
:•• 64 7 8 Jacqueline colt .. 4 6 4
7 8 Fiancee .. .. 3 6 3
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Voluptas .. 3 5 12
Merry Hart .. 3 5 12
Cantonade .. 3 5 10
Kangaroo .. 3 5 10
Actaeon .. 3 5 10
Father O'Leary .. 3 5 9
Schoolmistress .. 3 5 9
Ca.Lzonette 5
3 9
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Touch.and-go .. 3 5 9

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..3 5 9

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Melanolra „. 3 5 9
Spitfire Kitty .. 3 5 9
Meriaen .. 3 5 9
Pas Per;lus .. 3 5 7
Melrose .. 3 5 7
Adine filly.. .. 35 7
LUSCiLia .. 3 5 7
Lucretia • • .. 35 7
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Jenny Wren .. 3 5

Stampede ..

..3 5

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIM ES.—Amon g 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

gieat 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 " lcsop 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 incc:i-
s)stc- ncy which is perfectly ludicrous. The great
problem with which ho has had to deal has of
course been slavery, and it would be possible to cull
from his declarations on this subject passages is
favour of every principle from Abolitionism to ab-
solute non-intervention. Between the elaborate
compensation-scheme proposed is the 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 ne.
gross on behalf of the Union, which has nothing:to
do with either. This letter is in other 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
unvexod 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 hand. Oa the spot their part of the history
was jotted down in black awl 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 all. It is
hard.to say that anything has been more bravely and batter
clone 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 for the Great Ittpublic, 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 iu 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
anything so hopelessly obscure, and the persons,
if there be any such, to whom such a jargon
can appear impressive or even intelligible must
have faculties and tastes of which we Lan form
no idea. One is really tempted to think that Mr.
Lincoln Cannot have been himself when he penned
0 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 the ;atter condition, It is difficult to believe that
the American President can have observed this pie-
caution, though he winds up with the timely injunc-
tiob, "Laths be quite sober,"and solemnly 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, 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 when 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 party. This
defence deserves serious attention, inasmuch as it
purports to define the objects of the war for the
future. "lam as desirous of peace as any of you,"
says Mr. Lincoln," but how can we attain it ? Only
in ene of three ways; either by forcibly suppress-
ing the rebellion, or by giving up the Union, or by
some compromise." Tiae 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 now possible. All that I learn
leads to a directly opposite belief." Nothing re-
mains, therefore, but to embrace the fast 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 aite 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, andassutne
that no compromise excluding a restoration of the
Union would be satisfactory eo the North. Does it
follow that this restoration can be effected by force
of arms ? Mr. Lincoln's logic would have beeta
equally good, and he 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 the indomitable determination
of the 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 P We cannot help sus-
pecting that Mr. Lincoln himself feels this difficulty,
for he is at much pains to distinguish between the
Southern people and the Southern army, and to prove
that the true sentiments of the former cannot be as-
certained till 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-
rilly. 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 Aeolitioniem
for Unionism as the future casus belh, he betrays
a very shallow cunning or a strange blindness.
His orgument is, that while some are fighting
for the freedom of the blacks, others may. just as
well fight 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 far you to declare that yon will not fight
to free negroes." Can Mr. Lincoln fail to see that
the Proclamation in question must havo 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 hes
now incurred their implacable enmity. Whatever
such a man may think of the President's confident
belief that " General Meade'a tame 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 Pruseian 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 foeget past differences with his people, and
ttiat he offers np the Lower Chamber tae a common
scapegoat for both parties. He makes aloe, in hie
recent declaration, other more direct cons.titutional
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 of the King'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 be is pre-
pared to make an honourable surrender of the un-
constitutional prerogatives to which he laid claim
during the sitting of the last Parliament. But I,e
cannot do this without fret making a surrender of
the Ministers who are identified With those tiebuttep.