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

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ASCOT RACES—Fainla.

A Plate of 100 soya for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Weight
for age. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs. From the
distance post, once round. 4 subs.
Captain D. Lane's Glance colt, 3 yrs 7st 41b (car. 7st 51b)
(J. Daley) 1
Mr. G. Crook's Miss Taft, 4 yrs, Bst 71b .... (Clement) 2
Mr. T. Hughes's Harvest Moon, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b
(T. French) 3

Betting-7 to 4on Harvest Moon.
The Glance colt made play, with the favourite and Miss
Taft in close attendance, to the Old Mile post, where Har-
vest Moon dropped back, leaving Mr. Crook's mare in
waiting upon the lealer, who, however, was never ap-
proached, and won easily by two lengths. Harvest lloon
beaten off a long way. The winner was not claimed.
Tenth Ascot Triennial Stakes of 10 sovs each with 100
added, for 3-yr olds. Colts, Bst 71b ; fillies. Bst 41b ;
maidens allowed Sib. The second received 10 per cent.,
and the third saved her stake. New mile. 33 subs.'
Mr. T. Valentine's Queen Bertha, Bst 41b (car. Bst 51b)
(Wells) 1
Mr. Bowes's Early Purl, Bst 71b (Alderott) 2
Ma. H. J. Smith's Avondale, Bst 41b (J. Mann) 3
Mr. Hamilton's Cadeau, Bst 4lb (J. Daley) 4
Betting—Even on Early Purl, and 7 to 4 agst Queen
Bertha, who made all the running, and won in a canter by
six lengths. A bad third. Cadeau beaten off.
The Railway Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 100 added ; for
3-yr-olds and upwards. New Mile. 10 subs.
Mr. Hudson's Walloon, syrs, Pat (H. Covey) 1
Lord Glasgow's Anonyma, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Aldcroft) 2
Mr. T. Hughes's Flash-in-the-Pan, aged, 7st 71b
(T. French) 3
The following also ran :--Peignoir, Misfire, Change,
Dirt Cheap, Calot gelding, and Microscope.
Betting-5 to 2 each agst Anonyma and Flash-in-the-
Pan, 6 to 1 agat Walloon, and 10 to 1 agst any other.
They left the post in admirable order, and ran together
to the road, where Walloon took up the running, followed
by Flash-in-the-Pan and Anonyms, the latter lying wide
on the upper ground. At the enclosure Lord Glasgow's
colt made his effort, but failed to reach Walloon, who won
in a canter by two lengths; a length between the second
and third. Rosina was lourth, the Calot gelding fifth, Mi-
croscope sixth, Misfile sevtnth, Dirt Cheap next, and Peig-
noir last.
The First Class W( kingham Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya '
each, with 50 added, for 3-• yr-olds and upwards. Last
three-quarters of the New Mile. 21 subs
Lord Coventry's Exchequer, 4 yrs, Bst (3. Adams) 1
Lord Glasgow's Beauvale, 3 yrs;, 7st 21b (H. Covey) 2
Mr. W. C. Craven ns Confidence, 5 yrs, 7st Sib
(J. Daley) 3
Mr Saxon's The Monk, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b (Midgley) 4
Mr. Greville's Ossian, 3 yrs. Est llb' (Loates) 5
Captain D. Lane's Glance colt, 3 yrs, Est 51b (Barry) 6
Betting—Even on Confidence, 5 to 2 eget Exchequer,
and 4 to 1 agst The Monk.
Confidence, in company with Beauvale, Exchequer, and
The Monk, made play to the enclosure, where the former
was beaten, leaving Exchequer with a slight lead, which
he held to the end, and won in a canter by two lengths.
Beauvale, who headed Confidence a few strides from
home, obtained the barren honours of second by a length;
a length between the third and fourth ; the others were
beaten off.
The Second Class Wokingham Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya
each, with 50 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Last
three-quarters of the New Mile. 21 subs.
Mr. Payne's Catalpa colt, 3 yrs, sst 71b .. Norden) 1
Mr. C. P. Hudson's Walloon, 5 yrs, 7st 81b.. (H, Covey) 2
Mr. Bevill's Lady Abbess, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Edwards) 3
The following also ran :—East Sheen, Lady Derby, Miss
Vivian, Peahen, Turcos, and Meriden.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Walloon, sto 1 agst Meriden, 6to 1
agst East Sheen, and 7 to 1 agat Catalpa colt.
Lady Abbess jumped away with a clear lead, followed on
the lower side by Walloon and Miss Vivian, with the Ca-
talpa colt and Meriden in the upper ground, the others)
headed by East Sheen, lying up. At the distance Lady
Abbess gave way to Walloon, who, with the light weight
at her quarters, came on in advance to the Queen's Stand,
where the latter got his head in front and won cleverly by
three-parts of a length. A bad third. Miss Vivian was
fourth, Meriden fifth, and Turcos next; Lady Derby and
Peahen were the last two.
A Plate of 50 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each
for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for age, with selling
allowances. Cup Course, 5 subs.
Lord Coventry's Hypermnestra, 3 yrs, Est 91b (SO sovs)
(Maidment) 1
Mr. R. Poulson's Flying Spur, 3 yrs, Est 91b (L5O)
(Hibberd) 2
Mr.Stinton's Foie-de-Gras, 3 yrs, 6stslb (£.50) (Cannon) 3
Petersham and Hilly Grove also ran.
Betting-6 to 4on Hypermnestra, 100 to 30 agst Hilly
Grove, and 10 to 1 agst Foie-de-Gras.
Hilly Grove eut out the work at a good pace, Petersham
and Hypermnestra, side by side, coming next, followed by
Foie-de-Gras and Flying Spur. In this order they ran
past the stand, but on reaching the Swinley turn Hilly
Grove bolted, and in so doing took out Petersham, which
left the lead with Lord Coventry's colt, who was joined
half way down the hill by Foie-de-Gras and Flying Spur.
The three ran abreast into the bottom, where Hypermnestra
drew away and made the rest of the running, winning in a
canter by eight lengths, a bad third. The winner was
claimed.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas; 3-yr-olds 7st 101 b, 4-
yr-olds 9st 71b, 5-yr.olds 10st, 6-yr-olds and aged 10st
21b. About three miles. 17 subs.
Mr. W. PAnson's Caller On, 5 }re, lOst (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. Swindell's Birdfinder, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b.... (S. Adams) 2
Betting-4 to lon Caller Ou, who waited upon the
youngest to the Swinley turn, where he ran out, leaving
the favourite with a commanding lead, which she held
throughout, although from the slowness of the pace Bird-
finder was enabled to get within a couple of lengths at the
distance. Aldcroft then set her going, and won, with con-
summate ease, by a dozen lengths. Run in smin. 2iseo.
The Borough Members' Plate of 5 soya each, with 50 added
for three-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for age. Win-
ners extra. The
.winner to be sold for 150 sovs. Old
Mile. 8 subs,
Mr. W. Bunce's Lord of Linne, 4 yrs, 95t.... (Hibberd) 1
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Santhal, 3 yrs, 7st 131b(G.Parsone) 2
Mr. R. Law's Incitatus, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b . . (Hughes) 3
Mr. Swindell's Tolurno, 4 yrs, 9st (S. Adams) 4
Betting-7 to lon Tolurno, 3to 1 agat Incitatus, and 4
to 1 agst Lord of Linne.
Incitatus was the first off, but after running a few strides
he resigned the lead to the favourite, who carried it on for
the first quarter of a mile, when he was joined by Lord of
Linne, who raced with him into the straight,where Tolurno
gave way, and his pla3e was taken by Santhal, with Inci-
tatus at his girths ; but as they proceeded Lord of Linne in-
creased his lead,and won in a canter by half a dozen lengths ;
a bad third. The winner was claimed by Mr. Ten Broeck,
and Mr. Law claimed Tolurno.
A. Plate of 60 soya for three-yr-olds and upwards; weight
for age. Half a mile. 9 subs.
Captain Lamb's Southport, 5 yrs,9st (100 aim) (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. T. Parr's Reindeer, 5 yrs, 9st (100).• • •(C. Marlow) 2
Mr. G. Angell's Vigil, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (100) .... (Perry) 3
The following also ran :—Duke of Cambridge, Surbiton
Hill, Epaulette colt, and Churchman.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Vigil, 9to 2 agst Southport, and 7
to 1 bar two.
Vigil, with Reindeer on his left and Southport on the
upper side, made the running throughout to the stand,
where Southport obtained a slight lead, and won a fine race
by a head, a neck only separating the second and third—
Surbiton Hill was fourth,Duke of Cambridge fifth,Church-
man sixth, and the Epaulette colt next. The winner was
claimed by Mr. Parr and Reindeer by Mr, Angell.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.

J.orts.
Newton 10
Hampton ..10
Odiham 16
Beverley. l7
Bibury Club l7

Stockbridge 18
Chelmsford ....23
Newcastle-on-Tyne ..... 23
Ipswich ..
Carlisle 3O
JULY.

Worcester Summer '2
Newmarket July .. 7
Liverpool 13
Abingdon 14
Hungerford l6
Pontefract 16
Stamford l6

Winchester 2l
Nottingham 21
Southampton 22
Cambridge
1 gnutsford 23
Hartlepool ... 27
Goodwood 22
kUEIT._ .

Brighton
Brighton Club a •••
Lewes
Wolverhampton ll
13
Reading
Wenlock l4

ierk August lB
Plymouth 20
Egham
Stockton 26
26
Oxford
27
Lichfield
31
NUR,

SEPT:

Devon end Exeter 1
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Kings Lynn •••••• 3
Warwick .. 8
Leicester lO
Doncaster 16
OCT,

Coventry
Bedford 6
Caledonian Hunt
Newmarket S. Ce, l2

Wordsley 21
Brecon 2l
Richmond 22
Monmouth 24
Manchester Autumn 25
Newmarket Ist Oct. 29
Edinburgh, &o. Club 30
'OBBR.

Novz

I
Worcester..

Westmeath ............ 1
Kilkee ................10

Lincoln: Autumn 20
Ke150...... 2l
Gloucester 22
Newmarket H.oughton. 26
IMl3Blit.

! Shrewsbury Autumn.... 16
,SH.

Bellewstown
Down Royal Corporation 21

AV U:

Heath. •
Wicklow e • •
SEFTE'

Curragh ....... 1
Carlow ...............
Listowel 2l
ocrl

NE.
IWicklow l7
Curragh 23
'LT.

Curragh ..........

Tramore ......
..30

,UST.
1 I,olldOnderly 14

:BER,

Limerick 22
Jenkinstown Park 23

IRBIL

~ . . 20

(Meer to the French
Captain Bourdon de Vat ry, of the 94th Regiment
oEfaithpeerLorin.e, has been appointed orderly

THE FEDERAL HOSPITALS,

A correspondent of a Federal journal, the St. _Louis Re-
publican, writes from the Federal camp opposite Vicksburg
upon the 28th of February in the following words :—" To
ignore longer the terrible condition of our army before
Vicksburg cannot but be fatal. Unless the truth be spread
before the country, before long the brave army of the
Mississippi will be destroyed, and the world will stare to
think that it has been cruelly, shamefully murdered by our
own neglect. You must know that we have much sickness
—too much. The warm, moist, murky atmosphere, the
muddy ground, the worse quarters on board steamboats,
the hard fare, and the swollen river are of themselves suf-
ficient to produce numerous disect: es ; but these unfavour-
able conditions are rendered worse by the wretched in-
efficiency of the surgeons, the actual cruelty of their :assist •
ants, and in a great measure by the want of suitable food
for the men. The number of sick now here cannot be esti-
mated readily, as they are so scattered. One-sixth of the
army is on the sick list, The admissions to hospitals are
300 a day. They were greater, but now give signs of de-
creasing. From 30 to 50 a day have died within the last
month. That rate, of course, could not be long endured
without destroying the entire army. The cruelty of our
hospitals (so called) transcends any torture ever devised for
criminals. The principal hospital for the camp, before the
arrival of the new hospital boats from above, was a collec-
tion of negro quarters; situated at the upper edge of the
camp on a small bayou known as Ballard's Huts. There are
about 40 of them, and in these huts were confined about 400
patients, all huddled together in a noxious, dark, noisome,
filthy atmosphere—the dead, the dying, and the invalid in
one common lot. There is literally nothing anywhere to be
seen which gives an idea of a hospital, unless it be a row of
newly-made graves not far distant. The 'nurses' as they
are called, by a stretch of language, consist of about 70 men
detailed for that purpose from various regiments. They are
without system, without medicine, and seemingly without
hope or in'erest in their work. Perhaps this is not entirely
due to a want of heart, but to the apathy and general reck-
lessness of the place, the very bad example of the surgeons,
who go off and remain away as if indifferent to the welfare
of their patients, if, indeed, they had not as soon have
them dead as be troubled with them living. These are
weighty words, but we speak with due caution. In these
same huts a poor man was found, who had been lying on
the hard floor with nothing under him but half of his coarse
blanket for three weeks. During this time the surgeon had
been treating him for typhus fever, but the stranger dis-
covered that the man's back and spine were in a state of
gangrene mortification, unknown to the surgeon. Pass-
ing through the wards one day, a lady overheard this con-
versation between a surgeon and his assistant, A poor
patient in great pain was groaning very loudly and conti-
nuously, when the latter called out at a distance, ' Say,
can't you stop that noise ?' The former, sotto voce, put in,
If he does not stop it soon fix him.' Next morning
the man was dead, although the nature of his wound did
not presage such a fate. The impression lett on my
mind was that which will occur to the reader, un-
natural as it may sound. Let us hope that it is an erro-
neous one, though there are facts leading to the dark, dole-
ful belief that there are men so debased, so fiendish, as to
send the soul of a patient to its eternal home rather than be
annoyed over their cups by the cries from his pain-racked
body. We have no need to allude to the coarse, brutal,
profane, and offensive language used by some of the sur-
geons, but kicks are sometimes dealt to the sick. The nurses
take example from them. The neglect is infectious, until
at last all concern for the sick comes to be looked on in the
light of an unmanly and obsolete proceeding. We are asked
who is responsible for these things ? It is difficult to put a
finger on any one responsible for all, for each in turn points
to his neighbour as the culprit, or to the regulations, until
we have come to consider the latter as the cunningest de-
vice for slaughter and torture ever conceived. The massacre
of lives, of hearts, of hopes, the consequent sacrifice of
valuable soldiers and military advantage is enormous. If
possible, it is more damaging to the cause than the blun-
derings of Generals, for it is their greatest, though most
unnoticed blunder. It is a severe battle when 1,000 men
are needlessly killed, but here is a steady drain of thou-
sand, half of whom might be saved. Incredible as it may
seem, it is here a proverb that "It is easier to have
a grave dug than to be troubled with writing de-
scriptive rolls and discharges.' There is a discharge, an
honourable but mournful discharge, which comes to them
too soon. But discharges on earth the men cannot get when
disabled, When this is procured, there is transportation,
then rations, then various papers from one commander to
another. The labour of getting them is a task for a sound
man. How must it be for a tottering, sinking, helpless
invalid ? Many a man's heart has broken in the attempt.
Many another, after spending days of pain and moments of
insult, finds there is some trifling informality, and it is all
to go over again. God help these nameless martyrs I"