The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-28 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

CROYDON RACES-THIS DAY,
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
STEWARDS' PLATE.

Flyfisher
vim.. 1
R.M.D 2
Simpleton
3

Thirteen ran.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'—YESTERDAY.
CROYDON STEEPLECHASE.
2to 1 agst L'Africain (taken)
7to 1 agst Benazet (offered-8 to 1 taken)
Bto 1 ngst Laura (taken)

DEIIIIY. •
10 to 1 agst Sttnlent (taken)
22 to 1 agst Redan (taken)
25 to 1 agst Janitor (taken)
30 to 1 agst Bribery colt (taken)
30 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken)
40 to 1 agst Stabber (taken freely)
50 to 1 agst Maravedis (taken)
50 to 1 agst Midsummer colt (taken)
66 to 1 agst Raven (taken)
66 to 1 agst Tom King (taken)
66 to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (taken)
66 to 1 agst Westwick (taken)

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This clay.

LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with
rain.

CLYDE, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Hibernia, for
New York.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—Cavalier,
from Baumgastner, for Sulina, with lost of sails, bul-
warks, kc.

OFF SCILLY, Nov. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Golden
City, from London for Melbourne.

MILEORD, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nimrod,
from Cardiff for Rio Grande, with loss of boat; bulwarks,
sails, &c.

OFr D U 1,4 VEIN zoo, Nv-r. 94 —Wind &EL-Arrived:7
Davostou, from Callao.

DUNDEE, Nov. 27.--Wind N.E.—Arrived—Freemason,
from Quebec.

BROMIELAW, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hibernia,
screw steamer, from New York.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—W. Amber-
with, from Cardiff for Kong Kong, with damage, and
leaky.

BRISTOL, Nov. 27.—Wind S.—Arrived—Pride, from
Rio Janeiro.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Red
Jacket, for Melbourne.

TnooN, Nov. 27.—Wind N.E.—Put back—Mary Jane,
for Thomas, leaky.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 27—Undaunted, from Lisbon.
Arrived, Nov. 28—Ariel, from Bremen ; Johanna Maria,
from Hongkong; William and Henry, from Caen.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed, Nov. 27—Italian, screw steamer, from London,
for Valencia.

Passed, Nov. 28 —Eliza, schooner, from the west, for
London.

Anchored—John Ifelhuish, from London, for Madras.

The Gains and Losses of the South.

We are glad to see (says the New York, Times) the growth
of a more hopeful spirit in the South, as to its future
prospects and condition. We have given articles in this
vein from the journals of Richmond, New Orleans, Charles-
ton and other cities. Tho country papers of the South are
getting to be no less hopeful than those of the cities. The
Charlottesville Chronicle says:--

"We are going to be richer and more prosperous than
we ever were. We are going to be populous, going to
have great cities, going to grow alive with all the forms
of industry. With wealth will come knowledge and cul-
ture, literature, science, at L Such are the prospective
gains of the South under the new order of things. As to its
losses, says the Chronicle :

" Our loss is a matter of sentiment—it is that of our dis-
tinctiveness as a race. Virginia—the South—has lost its
individuality. What became of the Etruscan town of
Veii after; it was taken by M. Furious Camillus ?
What became of the Samnites ? They were incorporated
in the Roman State—and they became Romans themselves
—but Etruscans and Samnites no more. Perhaps their
destiny was more brilliant as members of a united Italy,
subdued in that unity by the power of Rome, than if they
had maintained their autonomy, and perished like Sparta
and Athens. Wo shall be assimilated to the North, as
Etruria was to Rome, and shall be free American citizens,
as Italy came to constitute Rome."

The South never had any "distinctiveness as a race"'
to lose, if we except the distinctiveness of its negro race,
which is not the thing referred to. The white population
were of the same origin and stock, of the same faith and
language, of the samo fundamental characteristics, as the
population of the other parts of the country. The climate
of the farther Southern States and the institution of
slavery had wrought, through the course of time, certain
differences, but they were not even skin deep, and some
of them are already beginning to disappear under the new
state of things. The historical analogy attempted by the
Chronicle will not hold water.

The Ct.ronicle sees only one chance to remedy the mor-
tifying loss of " distinctiveness as a race" by Southern
people. " The South must become powerful, and power
may yet make her the peer of the North. The seat of empire
was transferred from Rome to Constantinople." To this
mode of achieving greatness we do not object provided it
be honorably pursued. The true sources of power arepopu-
lation, intelligence, and wealth, and for these every Stats
and community should be rivals.

MR. SEWARD'S SENSATIONS WHEN ATTACKED BY
THE ASSASSIN.—A correspondent of the Spectator says
that Mr. Seward and his son have each told, at the
request of friends, the story of their sensations at the
time of the attempted assassination :—" Mr. Fredmick
Seward said that on stepping from his bedroom
into the passage and seeing the assassin he merely
wondered what he was doing there, and called him to
account. On his resisting the fellow's attempt to press
into Mr. Seward's room, he (the assassin) drew a revolver,
which he presented at Mr. Frederick Seward's head.
What followed, it must be remembered, took place in a
few seconds. Mr. Frederick Seward's first thought was,
That's a navy revolver.' The man pulled the trigger,
but it only snapped, and his intended victim thought,
That cap missed fire.' His next sensation was that of
confusion, and being upon the floor, resting upon his right
arm, which, like his father's jaw, was barely recovered
from a bad fracture—the tasassin had fulled him to the
floor with the butt of the pistol—he put his hand to his
head, and finding a hole there, he thought, 'That cap did
not miss fire, after all.' Then he became insensible, and
remained so for two days and more. His first indication
of returning consciousness was the question, Have you
got the ball out ?' alter which he fell off again into a
comatose condition, which was of long continuance. On
the very afternoon of the day when Mr. Lincoln was
assassinated Mr. Frederick Seward, who was Assistant..
Secretary of State, had asked his father what preparation
should be made for the presentation of Sir Frederick
Bruce, which was to take place the next day. Mr.
Seward gave him the points of a reply to be made to
Sir Frederick, and he laid the outline of his speech upon
the President's table, and, as I have previously informed
my arieinuou wrote out the
reply, adopting Mr. Seward's suggestions, and thus pre-
paring that reception of the British Minister by President
Johnson which was regarded at the time by the people to
whose representative it was addressed as so friendly, and
fair, and dignified. Mr. Frederick Seward's first inquiry
after he came fully to his senses, which was a long time
after the assassination, was, 'Has Sir Frederick Bruce
been presented ?" He thought that only one night had
passed, since he knew not what had happened to him, and
his mind took up matters just where it had left them.
Mr. Seward's mental experience during his supposed
assassination was in its nature so like that of his son
that it raises the question whether this absence of con-
sternation and observation of minute particulars is not
common in circumstances of unexpected and not fully
apprehended peril. Mr. Seward was lying upon his side,
close to the edge of his bed, with his head resting in a
frame which had been made to give him ease, and to pro-
tect his broken jaw from pressure. He was trying to
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thought was, What a handsome man !' (Payne was a
fine-looking fellow.) Thee came a sensation as of rain
striking him smartly upon one side of his face and neck,
then quickly the same upon the other side, but he felt
no severe pain. This was the assassin's knife. The
blood spouted, he thought, My time has come,' and,
falling from the bed to the floor, fainted. His first sensa-
tion of returning consciousness was that he was drinking
tea, and that it tasted good.' Mrs. Seward was giving
him tea with a spoon. He heard low voices around him,
asking and replying as to whether it would be possible for
him to recover. He could not speak, but his eyes showed
his consciousness, and that he desired to speak. They
brought him a porcelain tablet, on which he managed to
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from that moment he has slowly but steadily recovered
health and strength."
'lke Burnett House, the leading hotel in Cincin-
natti, was sold lately for $500,000.