The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 'I HURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1862.

IHE PROPOS I D EXIIIBI7 lONS OF SPAIN
AND 2U HKEI, /N 1863.

Sir,—Exhibitions, National and International, are now
an "'lnstitution," and their value in promoting material
and social progress very generally recognised. The direct
pecuniary result of the latter hitherto realised in England
and France cannot fairly be taken as a test of their import-
ance, as these depend on contingencies which do not affect
the object for which such Exhibitions were established.
The whole syettmi is of course as yet in its infancy, for
three trials only, one in France and two in England,do not
afford sufficient reliable evidence on this secondary point,
but the experience thus far gained supplies most valuable
material for better organisation hereafter.
My present object, however,is not to discuss this question,
but to inquire whether similar Exhibitions might not rea-
sonably be introduced into other countries less favour-
ably situated than France and England. To some extent
the one held at Florence last year illustrates what I
mean. It was modestly called a National Exhibition,
but there were many articles admitted of foreign origin,
which assisted to give interest to a display the more credi-
table that it was improvised ill a country in which native
talent and enterprise were, until lately, repressed rather
than encouraged.

A similar National Exhibition for Spain is for the first
tine announced, to be held at Madrid in 1863, at the ex-
pense and risk of the Government of that country. As in
Italy, hot-ever, there are reasons why a distinctly Inter-
national character cannot, perhaps, be given to this Exhi.
bition. The funds for purposes of national improNement at
the disposal of the Government are very limited, and the
physical impediments to easy communication with the rest
of Europe still fornaidable, although a network of railways
is already in rapid process of development. There are also
decal difficulties to be removed or diminished, before native
producers can be stimulated to depend solely on their own
resources, and to witness without alarm the introduction of
foreign products even by way of sample.
But why should this be ? Of all European countries,
Spain is the richest in the sources of natural wealth Of
this, its. history from the earliest times affords abundant
evidence, but, after the discovery of South America, its na-
tive mines were abandoned for the more easily acquired
riches of the New World.

To what extent the mines of the old country are now
worked, I must confess my ignorance, but we all know
that many valuable mineral samples were to be found in
the Spanish Department of our recent Exhibition. Indeed,
the extent and variety of articles deposited there under
classes 1,3, 4, 19, 20, 21, and 25, as compared with those
exhibited in 1851 and 1855, afford the most decided evidence
that, but for the difficulties before alluded to, Spain ought
to take a more prominent commercial position than it does
in the rank of European nations.
Now, it is because I think this, that I wish to suggest to
the promoters of the ensuing Spanish Exposition that they
would be taking a step in the right direction were they at
once to announce that, though it is ostensibly intended to
be national, yet they would cheerfully receive and give space
and prominence to the contributions of foreign producers,
provided the expenses were borne by such exhibitors, for
the Government of that country cannot afford to incur so
formidable a pecuniary responsibility as the liberal measure
I have ventured to indicate would involve. I have reason
to believe that the increased intelligence of the mercantile
and other interests of Spain would rather hail as a new
source of experience and enterprise, than repel as a danger-
ous innovation, such an opportunity of, comparing, on their
ow 4 soil, the joint products of other countries and their
own.

Assuming the adoption of this suggestion, there is one I
facility which the Spanish Government could, and no doubt
would, afford to foreign exhibitors, and that is, freedom
from Custom• house annoyances, for which purpose similar
regulations to those which were introduced by the authori-
ties of that department in England and France on occasion
of the International Exhibitions, and which have worked
so well might be established.
But it will no doubt be asked on what ground has Spain
a right to expect that an invitation, such as that for which
I plead, will be responded to? I answer, that self-interest
will probably be the main inducement on the part of fo-
reignars to send articles for exhibition. Although it is
known that many who have already tried the experiment
have sustained heavy pecuniary losses, it is also true that
others have been large gainers by it. To many exhibitors
it was no experiment, as they were prepared, on patriotic
principles, to submit to a personal sacrifice. While some
had reason to feel disappointment, the sales actually effected
by others in the extensive orders taken from the samples
therein shown had been so considerable as not only to re-
coup them the original outlay, but to encourage them to
seize every opportunity that may hereafter be offered of
attempting similar speculations.
From causes already suggested, many foreign goods
have never been seen in Spain, and it is not, therefore, an
improbable supposition that a new market for the mutually
profitable exchange of foreign for native products, on a
larger, scale than, has hitherto been obtained, will be opened
up. It may then and in due time, as in 1855 in France, in-
duce Spanish consumers to inquire whether the time has
not arrived when they may hope to enjoy similar advan-
tages to those which the recent commercial treaties of
France, England, and Belgium, have conferred.
It is scarcely necessary for me to add that the foregoing
considerations are almost equally applicable to the National
Turkish Exhibition, just announced to be held at Constan-
tinople daring the spring of next year.

Altogether, then, I de hope that the suggestion I have
now made will be seriously entertained and adopted, in
which case I have no doubt that commissions will be at
once appointed, here and elsewhere, to initiate and faci-
litate the measures necessary to give it full effect.—l am,
&c., THOS. WINKWORTH.
Gresham Club, Nov. 17th, 1862.

ENGLAND, THE TIGRESS.

(From the New York Herald.)

Another insult to the citizens of this mighty and glorious
republic, another outrage from perfidious Albion, as she is
well called by noble and gallant France, the home of free-
dom and civilisation. Our blood would boil over if it were
worth while, on perusing the despatches brought by the last
mails, but we have concluded to treat the miserable islanders
with the contempt they merit. Yet American citizens should
comprehend the depth of brutality and cowardice to which
England has descended, in her hatred for this great and
mighty country, which she has plunged into war through
her diabolical machinations, at the accursed bidding of her
fiend-like aristocracy.
ENGLAND HAS REFUSED TO JOIN FRANCE IN ASKING TJS

TO LEAVE OFF FIGHTING.
Do you hear that, men of America? Do you hear that
heroes of a hundred fights ? Do you hear that, you five acres
of freemen who stood to listen to the spirit-stirring elo-
quence of the Irish warrior who dwells among you. Eng-
land, appealed to by France to intercede between us and
the rebels whom we are going to crush and in 90 days anni-
hilate from off the face of the earth, refuses I And well
she may refuse, the dastardly, bloodthirsty tigress. When
the leopards in her foul shield became lions we not,knw
led
nor care by what solemn lie the fools called heralds
0s
juggled
one beast into the other at the bidding of the knaves called
kings, but it was not the lion but the savage yetcrouch-
ing tiger that should have been the type of England.yea,
the Anglican tigress howls because France desires to spiaerie.
no ...a+ hinnfinharl. .h.. L..-..1.-"'"° "v
alons, and that the utmost amount of woe and misery may
f
be inflicted upon those whom she hates because they lovereedom. Had she her base will, we should go on fighting
till doomsday. She will make any sacrifice rather than
help on a pacification, and as Robert Cobden, the member
for Birmingham, recently told a vile mob at Rochford in
Essex, the aristocracy are feeding the starving operatives
with venison and turtle rather than their sufferings should
bring the war to an end. We know the tigress, and when
the time shall serve we may add a few new stripes to those
upon her all-fired back. Meantime, we have to put down
her emissaries the rebels, whom she pays with the gold
wrung from the wretched Irish and Indians.
But she was right, in another respect, for concluding not
to interfere. We wonder for our part that one of nature's
noblemen, like Louis Napoleon, the descendant of Char-
lemagne,
Charles the Twelfth, and other real kings (what-
ever their faults may have been), could have contaminated
his hand by offering it to a female of the House of Gulph.
However, he can afford to condescend. But it showed a
becoming humility in the servile courtiers of St. James's,
and specially in the feeble toady and sycophant Palmer-
ston, not to pretend to share in the mission of the Em-
peror, but humbly to beg him to take his own cours3. It
was a compliment, indeed, that the greatest sovereign in
Europe should ask a miserable Government like that of
England to join with him and the godlike ruler of Russia
in any work, but Palmerston knew his place better than to
accept such a compliment. That buffoon associated with
Louis and Alexander I Fie upou't, give us a civet cat, and
take away the apothecary, as Shakespeare says. No, we
are glad that Pam had that virtue of humility, though it is
only a footman's virtue at the best.
Well it is for England that she spared us the crowning
outrage of joining in this petition that we should not utterly
crush the rebels. Well for her Indian fleet in the Pool,
well for her proud docks at Manchester, for her steel ma-
nufactories in the Clyde, for the 'thousand furnaces that
nightly illuminate Salisbury Plain. We are no boasters,
andsens epeorfhahpusmitoisurthane fault
gentlemanly habits pre-
vent their giving due utterance to the praises deserved by
themselves, or to the menaces which should curb the pride
d their of
quietAm e ricans
that their exquisite
of other nations. But for once we will speak out, and in
the name of America say that had the despicable old beast
and tigress, England, dared to thrust her contaminating
hand into this fray, her doom had come sooner than her

rotten system will otherwise bring it. We have a score of
armies in the field, and any one of them would have
marched from Gravesend to Glasgow, or from Land's End
to Lowestoft, more easily than iedefeats the rebels who,
misguided as they are, have something American in them.
Yes, it was well for the bloated old gaunt haggard
tigress that she sneaked and skulked away from the Em..
peror's call.

But we will never forgive her, never. This last atrocity,
this endeavour to prolong the war which she initiated by
means of her aristocracy, and which she is feeding with
her accursed gold—this wrong shall be written in letters
of blood and fire upon the banners of the Union, and when
that writing is wiped out, the rotten old wretched England
shall be wiped out too. But let us first and finally exter-
minate the rebellion, and then the Eagle, with one wild
waving of her immortal wings, with one astounding cry
from her resistless beak, will have leisure for a stoop upon
the Tigress, England. 'We calculate that tigerskin will be
at a discount that afternoon.—Punch. '

SPOR7 ING INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY MEETING--WEDNESDAY.

The severe frost passed away this morning, and all
doubts respecting the postponement of the meeting were
early set at rest. The course, which had been covered with
straw over night to protect it from the weather, was cleared,
and seven competitors " put in an appearance" at twelve
o'clock, the time appointed for the opening event. A pro-
tracted delay, however, threw the officials behind time, the
Anglesey Nursery not being run until nearly an hour
beyond the time fixed. The unfortunate delay occasioned
endless confusion throughout the day, and notwithstanding
every effort to gain time the races did not conclude until
three-quarters an hour after the fixture for tho last race.
Below will be found a full return of the day's sport.

A Handicap •Sweepstakes of 5 sow; each, for all ages
Winners extra. About three furlongs and a quarter,
straight run in. 10 subs.
Lord Stamford's Hesper, 4 yrs, 9st 21b.... (A. Edwards) 1
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Fravola, 5 yrs, 9st 101 b (Challoner) 2
Capt. Christie's Miss Julia, aged, 9st 61b (G. Fordham) 3
Mr. Hodgman's Don't Come Too Late, 2 yrs, sst 71b
(A. Woodhouse) 4
Lord Stamford's Neilgherry, 2 yrs, Est 61b (Loates) 5
Mr. Goatees Antipodes, 2 yrs, Est 41b . (J. Grimshaw) 6
Mr .G. Bryan's Fantastic, 2 yrs, 7st 71b (T . French) 7
Betting-3 to 1 agst Hesper, 7to 2 agat Miss Julia, 4to
1 agst Fravola, 100 to 15 agat Fantastic, 100 to 8 agst An-
tipodes and Neilgherry, 100 to 7 agst Don't Coma Late.
A considerable delay ensued at the start, which, however,
eventually was a good one. Hesper, Fravola, and Miss
Julia apparently with their heads in a line held a slight
lead of the other four to the half distance, where Hesper,
who, if anything, had maintained a trifling advantage of his
two companions, rushed to the front and increasing his lead
won cleverly by half a length, a length and a half between
second and third, and a head separated the third and fourth.
The Anglesey Nursery Handicap Plate of 40 sovs, for two-
yr-olds ; winners extra. About five furlongs. 13 subs.
Mr. G. Angell's Mountain Maid filly, Est Sib, car 6st 91b

Mr. Astley's Quicksand, 6st 21b . ....... (J 1
. Gr (T. French)shaw 2
Mr. T. CliffsAntar, 7st 41b ......... H.
T imaylor) 3
Tho following also ran :—Poland, Maubourquet, Jerrold,
Declaration, Jack o' Newbury, Truant, and Jack's Alive.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Quicksand, sto 2 agst Mountain
Maid filly, and 8 to 1 agst any other.
Declaration, in close company with Quicksand, Mountain
Maid filly, and Antar, lay in front until approaching the
aebfiynish, and won by a length. the Mountain Maid filly,
straight, where Quicksand ran in front of Declaration, but
whowa s shortly
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Antar defeated Declaration by four lengths, and Jack's
Alive was fifth; the last two being Poland and Jerrold.
The Short's Handicap Selling Race of 3 sovs each, with
25 added ; for 2-yr-olds and upwards; the winner to be
sold for 30 sous; winners extra. About half a mile. 9

subs.
Lord Chesterfield's Disdain, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (T. French) 1
Mr. Hodgman's Sheerness, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
(James Nightingall) 2
(Clement) 3
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Commander, and Strawberry Hill.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Sheerness, 4to 1 agst Disdain, 6to
1 agst Strawberry Hill, 7 to 1 agst Olive Branch, 8 to 1
agst Commander, 10 to I agst Mousetrap, 100 to 8 agst
Dunoon.

Another tedious delay ensued at the start, which was not
effected until an hoiii and a quarter beyond the appointed
time. Tiptoe was first off, followed by Commander, Mouse-
trap, and Sheerness, until getting into the straight, where
Tiptoe ran wide, and Disdain closed with Sheerness. At the
distance these two had quitted the rest, and Lord Chester.
field's filly getting up in the last dozen strides, won a capital
race by a neck; three lengths between second and third, end
the next three, Close together, were Dunoon, Tiptoe, and•
Mire Branch. Strawberry Hill was pulled up opposite the
enclosure. The winner was bought in for 76 guineas.
The Shrewsbury Cup Handicap, value 200 sovs, added to a
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, winners extra. About
two miles. 35 subs.
Mr. T. Hughes's Earl of Surrey, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
(J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Coates's Flirtation, 4 yrs, 7st 51b ..... (Clement) 2
Mr. Mundy's Watchfire, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (Whiteley) 3

The following also ran :—Atherstone, Dulcibella, Bal-
ham, Optimist; Lady Ripon, Shepherdess, Haddington,
Alchymist, Silkstone, Warminster, Soothsayer, Tommy
Jones, and West End.

Betting-100 to 30 agst Atherstone, 9 to 2 agst Watch-
fire, 5 to 1 agst Optimist, 7 to 1 each agst Dulcibella and
Earl of Surrey, 8 to 1 agst Balham, 100 to 8 each agst
Soothsayer and Warminster, 100 to 7 agst Tommy Jones,
and 100 to 6 agst West End.

They were evenly started after a trifling breaking away,
Soothsayer rushed to the front at a merry pace, his fol-
lowers on passing the stand being the Earl of Surrey, Dul-
cibella, and Alchymist; the three last being Shepherdess,
Atherstone, and Optimist. Going along the opposite side
of the course West End joined Soothsayer, and at the same
time Watchfire, Optimist, and Atherstone went up to the
leading division. Soothsayer coitinued in front to the dis-
tance, where he was beaten, and the heavy weights at the
same point being in distress, Flirtation, Earl of Surrey, acct
Watchfire were left in front. Approaching the Stand en-
closure Jemmy Grimshaw let out Earl of Surrey, who in
an instant shot to the front, and never being afterwards
reached, won in a canter by three lengths, a length between
second and third ; Lady Ripon was fourth, West End fifth,
Optimist sixth, and Silkstone seventh. Mileibella and
Shepherdess were next, and Alchymist, Tommy Jones, and
Balham were pulled up at the enclosure.
The Enville Hall Stakes Handicap of 10 sous each, with 50
added by the Earl of Stamford, for 3-yr-olds and up-
wards. Winners extra. Half a mile. 14 subs.
Mr. Bruce's Peignoir, 3 yrs, Ost 91b (Hunter) 1
Lord Stamford's Hesper,.4 yrs, 9st llb (inclu. 71b
(extra
A. Edwards 2
Capt. Christie's Miss Julia, aged, Bst 121 b (G. Fordham) 3
The following also ran :—Zora, Lady Louisa, Grey Hen
colt, Vigil, Leontes, and Titmouse.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Ilesper, sto 1 agst Miss Julia, 6to
1 agst the Grey Ben colt, 8 to 1 agst Peignoir, 10 to 1 agst
any other.

They were capitally started, but Peignoir and Hespor
soon showed slightly in advance and had the race to them-
., r eignoir, Without having been headed,
winning by a length ; tbree lengths between second and
third. Vigil was fourth, Zora fifth, and Titmouse last.
The Stewards Cup (Handicap) of 5 soya each, with 30
added; for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Certain penalties

and allowances. One mile. 33 subs.
Mr. Law's Incitatus, 3 yrs, Est 61b (carried 6st 71b)
(Wheatley) 1
Lord Chesterfield's Baron Munchausen, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b
(S. Rogers) 2
Mr. Walker's. Colonel Crockett, 4 yrs, Est 121 b
(J. Grimahaw) 3
The following also ran :—Slingsby, Michel Grove,
Duplicity, Pinkepoe, Otho, Tom Sayers, and Donne
Canne.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Baron Munchausen, 3to 1 agst
Michel Grove, 5 to 1 agst Incitatus, 6 to 1 agst Otho.
Duplicity, the instant the flag fell, rushed to the front,
and held strong lead to the half•mile post, when Baron
Munchausen took up the running. At the distance, how-
ever, he was challenged by Incitatus, who won cleverly,
by a length ; Colonel Crockett, who formed one of the
front rank throughout, finished four lengths in the rear
of Lord Chesterfield's horse. Michel Grove fell and
stunned French, who, however, was not seriously injured.
A Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages; winners extra.

About six furlongs. 14 subs.

Mr. G. Bryan's Welland, 3 yrs, Bst ...
. (Challoner) 1
Capt. Christie's Spicebox, 5 yrs, Set 711..
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(G. Fordham) 2
The following also ran :—Queen of Trumps, Caliban,
Flash-in-the-Pan, Lord of the Manor, Maid of the Mist,
Lapidary, Miss Hawthorn, Spite, and Antidote.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Welland, 5 to 1 agst Spicebox, 6 to
1 agst Antidote, 8 to 1 agst Lord of the Manor.
Welland was first off, but after going 100 yards Maid of
the Mist took up the running ; at the half-distance Wel-
land again went ahead, and being subsequently joined by
Spicebox and Lord of the Manor au interesting race en-,
sued, which resulted in the victory of Welland by half a
length ; a neck divided the second and third ; Antidote
was fourth.
for 2-yr-olds, of 10 soya each, 5 ft,
The Salopian Stakes,
with 25 added ; colts, 9st ; fillies, Bst 101 b ; winners
extra. About six furlongs. 7 subs.
Lord Stamford's Barchettina. Oat 31b Sib extra)
(A. Edwards) 1
Mr, Astley's Quicksand, Bst 101 b ............. (Drew) 2
Mr. Handley's Declaration, 9st 51b (inc 51b extra)
(H. Grimshaw) 3
Betting-. 3 to 1 OA Barchettina, who made all the ruzpi

ning, and won by a length and half; a neck separated the
second and third.
The racing was not concluded until 4.15 p.m.

DISOBEDIENT JOCKEYS.—Yesterday (Wednesday) J.
Plumb, J. Gritnshaw, and James Nightingall were taken
before the Stewards at Shrewsbury for disobeying the
starter's orders in the Shorts Handicap Selling Race run
at that meeting, and fined £5 each. Lord Stamford at the
same time informed them that if they repeated similar un-
ruly conduct they would each be suspended from riding for
six months.