The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-11 00:00:00

WHITLEY STAKES.

Gladiator
Oliver Twist ..
Glautius
___

Nine ran.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agat Satellite (taken)

SCARBOROUGH RACES—THIS DAY.
SCARBOROUGH STEEPLECHASE.
Red Robin
Endor Witch
Seven ran.
INNKEE PERS' PLATE.

Crookshanks
Sam Weller 2
Eight ran.
HUNTERS' STAKES.

Rarey
Rook the Gardener.......,

Six ran.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK LANE.
The supply of English wheat on sale here to-day, was
very moderate. Selected samples were in fair demand, at
fall quotations; otherwise, the trade was dull at Monday's
currency.
With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied.
Importers of all descriptions were firm in their demands,
and sales progressed slowly, at full prices.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request, at
late rates.
The barley trade was very firm, and malting qualities
commanded rather more money. Grinding and distilling
qualities were fully as dear as on Monday.
In malt a modei ate business was transacted, on former

terms.
The supply of oats was small. Sound produce changed
hands at extreme rates ; but inferior qualities met with a
dull inquiry, at low prices.
Beans and peas—the supply of which was very moderate
—ruled firm, at late rates.
Flour was in slow request, yet prices were supported.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 780 3,020 i 2,610 I 100 I 2,710
Irish —
Foreign 4,020 6,670 1,260 50 sack-.
2,160 brls

Sometimes a scene of exultation and rejoicing becomes,
by reason of its surroundings, or its ascertained folly, a
comedy, or even a farce, and sometimes a-scene of sorrow,
by the same or similar influences, is changed into a tempest
of joy. But when exultation is changed to silence because
a supposed cause of joy is in reality a cause of grief, then
the scene is not farcical, but mournful, and there is no
provocation to laughter. It is thus impossible to laugh at
the exhibition which the Abolitionists have been making
over the issue of the President's proclamation ; for,
while they made the air ring with their shouts of ap-
parent delight, and filled the country with tho rejoicings
they have been making in what they call a jubilee, their
rejoicings have already become forced and unnatural; they
give sad evidence that they have no confidence in the result
they profess to accept as accomplished, and all the while
there is going up above their shouts a moan of anguish that
drowns the voice of exultation. All the land mourns over
the brave dead, all the land mourns over the battle-field,
and over the fields of blood yet to be fought, so that there is
no joy in the country. The freed men, or those who have
by the actual presence of the army obtained their nominal
freedom, are starving and dying on the shores of our great
rivers, while the millions of slaves, if they had any feel-
ing on the subject whatever, would but lament that the
labours of the Northern Abolitionists have in all probability
postponed their actual freedom for nearly a hundred
years. Alas I for the poor slave who has been the subject
of political brokerage, the passive instrument of demagogues
in gaining votes and power, but who himself is freed only
for starvation, or condemned to more hopeless bondage !
For us, and for all who sincerely desire the good of the
black race, it is impossible to find any hope of such good in
the present condition of things. On the contrary, the doom
of the black man, whether slave or freeman, seems to be
made darker than ever and the jubilee which fanatics are
celebrating is too horribly mournful to be laughed at. From
all parts of the land we hear that the blackmen who have
been freed are perishing. Government is dealing out its
clothing and rations to keep them from actual death, but
still they die, in the prime of life, in the strength of their
years, actually frozen or starved in this land of abundance.
Accounts from Cairo say that no one can imagine what
they are collected there for, unless it be to fill up the
low lands with their bodies, as they are now doing by hun-
dreds, week after week. The reports from the Virginian
frontier are of the same character; and as to the slaves
within the lines of the rebellion, the entire radical press,
without an exception, we believe, publishes the confession
that the proclamation of freedom has failed, and has fallen
from the character of a weapon to the mere value of a policy
on paper, which must be carried out if possible by force of
arms in a long war. Instead of freeing slaves, the procla-
mation is but another vast work superadded to the former
work of suppressing the rebellion, and rendering the latter
more difficult than ever. No one that we now hear argue
on the subject pretends that the proclamation has the force
of law or can outlast the time of existing hostilities.
The sincere and misguided Abolitionists, who were soweak
as to have faith in the measure, are now lamenting their
disappointment, while the insincere and malevolent, who, as
if enemies of the human race, desire the destruction of both
black and white men, North and South, so they can only
accomplish the designs of vengeance against Southern slave-
holders, are now madly crying for servile war and the hor-
rors of slave insurrection. They still have a lingering hope
that they may hear th&wails of Southern mothers and daugh-
ters in the grasp of the black men, and no sound would so
rejoice their hearts. Surely all this is a picture of too ghastly
a character to be long permitted! We are not given to pro-
phesying the vengeance of God, for He deals His own ven-
geance, consulting no man. But that this state of affairs
provokes His curse instead of His blessing who can doubt ?
Whether He will turn the hearts of these people, and restore
mercy, and justice, and civilization, and humanity to their
souls, or whether He will permit them to continue the work
of ruia to themselves and their country, no man can tell.
Enough for us that we labour to reform those our erring
countrymen who are relapsing into barbarism, while the
truest cause for rejoicing that the hour affords is in the mea-
sure of success that has attended our efforts and the good
prospect that the crisis is past and the nation is becoming
wiser and better. In the future of wisdom and sound sense
there is hope that we may yet do something for the black
doom
man which will save him from the hopeless slavery or tl
ex-
termination to which the Abolitionists would him.

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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE.

Mr. Kinglake, says the limes, in view of certain
persons and things, loses his reason ; he is inflamed
by the sight of them as a turkey-cock by a red cloak ;ho
spreads out his periods, swells his sentences,
fans out his
feathery invectives, splints angry sounds all ever the
courtly pages, and gobbles forth fiery phrases full of sound
and fury signifying nothing.
Louis
who,
Napoleon nl a
ties,
nevertbe be te
mentionn o
himire o f the Berlin
humorists,by
name, but
always talk of himvaguely as Him, and the other day began
to gratify their spleen against the supposed influence of the
French Empress by according her the same demoniacal
pre-eminence, as SEE.

The receipts of the French theatres, concerts, and
other places of public amusement, during the month of
January, amounted to 2,071,681 fr., being an increase of
328,606 fr. over the month of December,

In the ladies' gallery what a fluttering of fans.
" That dear Armstrong, from what horrors has he
not saved us !" Such enthusiasm never found its
way into the Commons House, since, in answer to a
motion made by Lord Cochrane, and seconded by
Sir Francis Burdett, to inquire into the disgraceful
manning of the navy, Croker answered, refuted, put
down the two querulous members by an indignant
denial, end by reading the despatch just received
announcing the capture of the Chesapeake by the
Shannon. Tell it not in Gath, but the sapient
House of Commons received this English " bun-
combe" as a valid argument, and scoffed at Coch-
rane, and believed in Croker and his Admiralty.
In their true colours, black enough do they appear
by taking up a volume of James's " Naval History,"
and the number of the men and the state of the
crews sent to fight men as good as ourselves may
there be read. Indeed, Sir, there was one act of the
Croker Admiralty which quite equalled the Arm-
strong fiasco. Not being cunning in geography or
topography—consequently firmly believing that
lakes Ontario, Erie, and other inland American
waters were salt—Croker's Admiralty sent over iron
tanks to put on board of ourimen-of-war:on those
lakes. These tanks were assessed as costing about
£5OO a peace, after carriage, &c., across the Atlan-
tic and through Canada, and when they arrived it
seemed to strike the commanders of out ships that
the easiest way of procuring fresh water was by
throwing a bucket overboard and hauling it in by
dint of a rope; so they declined lumbering their
ships with iron tanks. Is there one jot more reason
in this Armstrong affair ? An engineer persuades
a credulous Minister-at-War that the only guns for
our service are breech-loaders; whereupon the
Minister at War become a true believer, bites all
brother ministers, who turn equally rabid with
Armstrong mania. Without sufficient trial, and
with an exclusion of competition, enormous
outlays are made to uphold this breech- ,
load engineer. He makes a dead failure ;1
yet, so strong is Armstrong, that he is allowed
to back out of the principles which originally
made him an object of attention, and procured
him the honour of knighthood; and he is now al-
lowed to make muzzle-loading guns, which he com-
menced by abjuring, against Whitworth, who al-
ways considered breech-loaders a farce.—l am, Sir,
yours, &c.,
(From the New York Journal of Commerce) I Feb. 7. SCLOPETRUM.

The nomination of candidates for the representa-
tion of Cambridge took place yesterday morning in
front of a temporary hustings erected before the
Town-hall. Mr. Alderman Henry Smith, mayor,
presided.
Mr. C. BALLS proceeded to nominate Mr. Francis
Sharp Powell. The motion was seconded by Mr.
D. Adams. _ _ _

y.
Mr. Alderman E. RICE next proposed Mr. il
Fawcett, the motion being seconded by Mr. MAC-
MILLAN.

Mr. POWELL then addressed the electors at con-
siderable length. The foreign policy of the coun-
try he denounced as in many respects a meddling
and impertinent policy. As a proof of this he re-
ferred to the recently published despatch on the
Roman question. Owing to the course pursued by
Earl Russell we have been told by Napoleon to
mind our own business, and have received a well-
merited snub from the Pope. He considered we
ought not to interfere in the American question,
bat he must add, also, that he-defied any person
to say that he had uttered one word in favour
of the maintenance of slavery, for he believed that
its abolition would raise the negro in the scale of
civilisation and humanity. With regard to the
public finances, he said that last year no less than
seventy-one millions and a half of money had been
spent, and in order to maintain that they had a
bloated system of taxation, the most important part
of which was the income-tax. He should specially
direct his attention to the reduction of that tax. He
should oppose any augmentation of the Maynooth
grant and the unconditional abolition of Church-
rates, though he was oped to entertain any proposal
to compromise the latter question. He should up-
hold the spread of education among the working
classes, and of the principles of the Church of Eng-
land in public and private life, and all social matters.
Mr. FAWCETT, who followed, said, after allusion '
to local matters, that he was in favour of and would
support the present Administration generally, and
that, though that support would not be unqualified,
he would especially uphold the foreign policy of
Lord Palmerston. Mr. Fawcett treated with ridi-
cule " the snub of the Pope " and the interference of
the Emperor of the French. He desired a reduction
of the income-tax ; was not opposed to the Church
of England. He would have every one placed in
unison, so far as civil and educational privileges
were concerned. One seat might decide the fate of
the Administration, and so all England was looking
to this contest ; but he had come in and spoilt the
" nice little arrangement" made in favour of what
was called " Conservative reaction" In conclusion,
Mr. Fawcett announced, as Mr. Powell on his own
part had done before him, his thorough belief in his
success.
The MAYOR having called for a show of hands, it
was declared to be in favour of Mr. Fawcett. The '
poll will take place to-day.

REPRESENTATION OF HARWICH.--In anticipation
of an early dissolution of Parliament, Mr, Michael
Wills, of Mecklenburgh-square, has issued an address to
the electors, announcing hls intention to contest the
borough of Harwich. It appears from. Mr. Wills' address
that he is in favour of a £lO county franchise, and the
abolition of church rates. He approves the general policy
of the present Government, but considers the national ex-
ponditure excessive ; and he would support a reduction of
the tea, sugar, and tobacco duties, and a revision of the
income tax. The borough, it may be remembered, is at
present entirely in the hands of the Conservatives.
REPRESENTATION OF BANDON.—Mr. John King-
ston Sullivan, solicitor, has addressed the electors of the
borough of Bandon Bridge. The representation is also
sought by the Hon. W. Bernard, brother of the deceased
member, and brother of the Earl of Bandon.
REPEAL OF THE MALT DllTY.—Encouraged by
the success which attended the agitation carried on
by the late Hop Duty Repeal Association, the leading
farmers and agriculturists of the county of Kent have
formed a society to obtain the repeal of the malt duty. A
public meeting, to which the several farmers' clubs and
agricultural associations throughout the kingdom have been
invited to send deputations, will be held in London on
Monday next, and it has also been resolved to open a cen-
tral otice in the metropolis for the business of the society,