The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOV, FRIDAY EVENI',G, JUNE 13, 1862,

they were joined by the favourite, who took a slight lead at
the distance, and won a fine race by a length. A bad
third. Town Councillor fourth. The others were beaten off.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; 3-yr-olds to carry 7st
1 llb ; 4-yr-olds, 9st 71b ; 5-yr-olds, lOst llb ; 6-yr-olds
and aged, lOst 31b. Three miles and a distance.
Mr. E. Mill's Knutsford, 4 vrs, 9st 71b (11. Grimahaw) 1
Mr. Osborne's Captain Crow, 3 yrs, 7st 1 llb (Challoner) 2
Mr. Fobert's Retento, 3 yrs, 7st nib (Doyle) 3
Mr. T. S. Dawson's Charlton, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b.. (Bullock) 4
Betting-6 to 4on Knutsford, 7to 2 agst Retento, 4to 1
agst Captain Crow, and 3 to 1 apt Charlton.
Charlton made play with Captain Crow, Knutsford and
Retento lying close up, for the first mile, when the pace
mended, the favourite shortly after going on with a slight
lead, having Captain Crow and Retento side by Fide follow-
ing next, in which order they ran to the lower ground,
*hen Captain Crow rushed to the front, and came round
the bend a neck in advance of Knutsford, which advantage
he retained to the stand, when Grirnshaw made his effort,
and won in the last stride by a head. Three lengths between
the second and third. A bad fourth.

CHELMSFORD RACES, TtnnsDAY.
Rain fell in torrents throughout the day, and although
he racing ardour of the most determined followers of the

sport might have been damped thereby, still the attend-

ante of lovers of the national pastime was large. The
racing was good, and one great essential to the conduct of
sport, punctuality, was observed to the letter, Essex

seems to have had a fillip given to its racing instincts, in-
asmuch as it is proposed to commence the racing season
there with a Spring Meeting, under the auspices of the

Chelmsford Race Stand Company (Limited), with a capital

of £2,000, in 400 shares of X.. 5 each. The (aces of the com-
pany are to be at Chelmsford, and the architect is the
well-known Judge, Mr. J. P. Clark, of Newmarket. The
foll ming are details of the running :
The Chelmsford Handicap of 15 soya each, 10 ft, with 100
added; winner 'extra. Two miles. 22 subs.
Captain Lane's Bre: loader, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Grirashaw)el
Mr. S. Jacobs': Do't. g, 4 yrs, 7st 21b •.'„%-Rofier)' 2
Lord W. Powlett's ghty, 3 yrs, sst.7lb - - - (Clerk) 3
Mr. Richardson'S" e Robin, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Murray) 4
Mr. Ward's Tra • . yrs; sst 131 b (inc. 61b extra)
(Plumb) 5
Betting-5 to 4 . eechloader, 4to 1 each agst Tra-
veller and Flighty, 46 to 1 agst Dorking.

Traveller got off with a slight lead, Flighty and the
favourite second and third ; Dorking and Cock Robin, on

going round the top turn, several lengths in the rear, Going

down the back stretch, Dorking took close order with the
three leaders, the four running abreast to the turn for

home, where Dorking took the lead, with Flighty and
Breechloader close up. Half way up the straight the
favourite went to the front, and won in a canter by two
lengths, the same between the second and third, Cock

Robin a bad fourth, Traveller last, beaten off.
The Maldon Stakes of 5 sous each, with 30 added ; for all
ages; maiden, ceiling, and other allowances; winners
extra. Three-quarters of a mile.

)4r. R. Stephenson's Peneus, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (X4O)
(Daley) 1
Mr. Saunders's Mountain Doe, 2 yrs, sst 71b (S4O)
(Grimahaw) 2
Mr. Hodgman's Sagittarius, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (inc. 31b ex.)
(49)
Capt. R. Rhys's Pretty Horsebreaker, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (£4O)
(Jones) 4
Betting-5 to 4 each agst Peneus and Sagittarius, and 10
to 1 each agst Mountain Doe and Pretty Horsebreaker.
The latter, with Sagittarius, got away in front, the pair
leading until half .way up the straight, where Pretty
Horsebreaker fell into the rear, and Peneus with Mountain
Doe joined Sagittarius, the three coming on abreast u 7 the
hill to the stand enclosure, where Sagittarius was headed,
Pcneus, after a good race, winning by three-quarters of a
length ; Sagittarius was beaten for second place by a heal;
the others beaten off, The winner was bought in for 54
guineas.

The Mark's Hall Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 added, for
2-yi -olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Sst 31b ; the winner to be

sold for 60 sews. Half a mile. 3 subs.
Mr. Flutter's Strawberry Hill, Bst 3lb .. (Long) 1
Mr. Hodgman's Homily filly, Bst 31b ....(G. Fordham) 2
Mr. W. T. Collier's The Abbess, Bst 31b.. (A. Edwards) 3

Betting-5 to 2on Strawberry Hill, who made all the
running, and won in a canter by five lengths; The Abbess
beaten off. The winner was bought by Mr. Mellon for 61
guineas, and goes into Reeves's stable at Epsom.

The County Members' Plate (Handicap) of 50 sous, for all
ages; winnert extra. Half a mile. 25 subs.

THE FLOOD IN THE FENS.

ABANDONMENT OF THE PANELLING.
LYNN, THURSDAY NIGHT.

At length Mr. Haw.lcshaw's new and favourite
plan of making a coffer dam, by means of panels,
has been abandoned, and the old-fashioned but more
substantial plan of piling is to be resorted to. The
greatest alarm has now taken possession of the pub-
lic mind, and the greatest fears are expressed that
the whole of the constructed dam will be carried
away before the tides begin to slack. That this
fear is not altogether without foundation I am ready
to believe, from the very insecure state of the
" shores." By shores Ido not mean the sides of
the cut, but the piles that stretch from the back to
the front walling of the dam, and which are ex-
pected to support the dam against the force of the
tide. These shores consist of deals from 50 to 70
feet long; and, though they are of this extraordi-
nary length, there is no support for them except at
the two ends, and, not being exactly straight, when
there is a heavy pressure on them by the tide, they
may be seen to shake, vibrate, and bend, and it is
feared that they will snap—and,should that be so,
nothing can preserve the dam from certain destruc-
tion.

Yesterday afternoon the steam engine, which has
been lying on the bank useless for the last fort.
night, was brought into requisition, steam being
got up, and its assistance evoked to enable them to
draw the broken piles. These efforts were ineffec-
tual. The panels are all to be ..drawn, and sheet
piling to be drawn down from both sides of the cut.
There is always a fall of five feet of water on one
side of the coffer dam. When the t ide is flowing
the fall is of course on the upper side, and when
the tide is ebbing the fall is on the lower or sea
side. The result of this is, that two very deep
holes have been scoured at the foot of the dam, and
these have, to a certain extent, loosened the foun-
dation of the piles. It does seem almost impossible
that any earth, either loose or in sacks, will be able
to stop near the dam until these holes are filled up.
Today the Middle-Level Commissioners visited
the work and held a meeting at the office, the
chairman, t
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conference between the
, M.P., presiding. There
Middle-
Level Commissioners and the special committees of
the several bodies, but that they learned what the
demand of the local bodies were to be, and deter-
mined not to entertain such demands.
The fears as to the East side being doomed are to
some extent removed, on account of an understand-
ing which we believe has been given, that sooner
than the waters should go over on to Magdalen Fen,
they would cut another hole in the West bank.
This plan would, of course, be satisfactory to the
Magdalen Fen people, but the result would be that
Islington if not Filney would be also laid under
water.
The Mayor of Lynn was making arrangements
to convene a public meeting for the purpose of in-
augurating a public subscription for the small
farmers and occupiers who are sufferers by the in-
undation. Lord Leicester, the lord lieutenant of the
county, would have presided but had been compelled
to leave England for Sweden. Several subscriptions
have already been received by his worship. We
do not see how the raising of a subscription could
affect the liabilities of the Middle-Level Commis-
sioners to pay compensation.

own credit, and to that of other organs of public
opinion, that among all the temptations of this un-
natural struggle you should have so persistently
refrained from giving full rein to the current of
popular opinion, and should have so systematically
moderated the expression of what you must have
been well aware was the national sentiment. It
has been a somewhat hard trial to proud and free
England to stifle her natural feelings, and in stif-

ling them to see her children starve, out of defer-
ence to the unreasoning petulance of a nation sprung
from herself, which has systematically been meeting
our greatest sacrifices with vituperative ingratitude.
But we made those sacrifices and we surrendered our
cherished national pride from love of peace and a
keen sensitiveness of honour. There is a point, how-
ever, in the intercourse of nations where the love of
peace degenerates into poltroonery, and the sensi-
tive feelin g of hononr into self-injurious scrupulosity.
I do not at all say that we have reached that point ;
but a little more delay may bring us into dangerous
proximity to it. Duty and policy alike combine to
show to England and to France the safest and the
noblest way. Tens of thousands here are pining
to see the day which shall dawn upon the first great
step towards allaying the frightful passions of the
combatants, restoring peace to a continent, and
giving free course to the indications of nature and of
Providence. Of course—we all know it, and you
have stated it well—the North will receive the pro-
posal with an outburst of well-affected indignation.
So it treated the demand to•give up the Southern
Commissioners, and yet they were surrendered.
What took place in December, 1861, may easily be
repeated in the summer of 1862. At all events, the
trial should be made, or Europe, by its silence, will
be drifting into complicity with the horrors of the
war. Why, then, do people hesitate to speak out,
when they have sc thoroughly made up their minds ?
A little pressure from without is all that is needed,
and then I believe that the Government would not
be chary in taking a course which they must know
to be just and feel to be popular.

THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF

AMERICA.

PRICE ..4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

Atlantic to buy up Federal securities will probably
for the moment prove amply sufficient to allay all
alarm. Meanwhile, another splendid season in
America and a bad one in Europe may postpone the
final crash and cause universal boastings at the
failure of the envious predictions of British reason ers
We mast, therefore, while we are waiting justifica-
tion by facts, simply be content to act with pi udencc
in our own affairs, and to submit to any amount of
possible contumely for venturing an opinion that
there are such things as physical laws, which even
in America cannot with impunity be permanently
disregat ded.

HANDEL FESTIVAL.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MORTAJYA

CHILD.

The Siecle of yesterday contains a letter from
Rome, of the 7th, in which the writer describes the
particulars of an interview which he has had with
the Mortara child, or rather with his tutor, for
nearly an hour. The writer had heard that the
unfortunate child was at a particular convent in
the city, where once a week he appears as one of
the choristers at the mass, and with some ingenuity
managed to get admission into the cloister where the
child, with five or six others, was taking exercise
after the service. The ether children were dressed
in white, the little Mortara in a black cassock. He
cic.cribes the child, whoisten years and four:months '
old, as thnid, bashful, and almost melancholy, and
having quite the Jewich cast of features. The
writer contrived to get into conversation with the
tutor on the subject of r; fmcoe on the wall, and
being mistaken for an Ita;au,soon succeeded in
turning the conversation on the unpils.

"Who," said I, "is that child siting there upon
the edge of the well p" " Oh, you have oitcrt
heard of him ; it is the little Jew Mortara, taptie.ed
at Bologna." "Indeed !" "Come here, Vgar.''
The child rose slowly, took off his cap, and stood
before us with Lis eyes on the ground. "Has he'
good health ?" " Excellent, although a little deli-
cate. In the three years that he has been here ho
has only had one slight illness." "He has a low
forehead—that is not a priori a sign of intelli-
gence." "Nevertheless he is very intelligent; he
learns all that he likes, and especially Latin, for
which he seems to have a marked inclination." I
did not wish to play in anything the part of a false
brother, therefore I limited myself to putting one
question to the child, while drawing him towards
me and taking him by the hands. " Well," said I,
" are you content to be here ? Are you well ?"
" Yes," said the child. This was all that it was
possible to extract from him. As soon as he could
get away he returned, and re-seated himself with a.
sad expression on the edge of the well, under the
shade of an enormous fig tree. " How is it," said
I to the canon, " that the name of Edgar was given.
to him in baptism ?" "We did not give him that
name—it is the one that he had before being bap-
tised." "And his parents, do they often come to
see him?' " Once, in 1859. The father came with-
out the mother in 1860, but he did not ask to see
him. He entered the church, and we R ere warned