The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-03 00:00:00

THE RECENT CHANNEL RACES.

We are astonished that the British press does not see
the real points of significance in the remarkable victory °I,
the Sappho over the Cambria in the Channel race.
What these races exhibit is, first, the immense superioritY
of the American model of yachts for all qualities of sea‘
going boats, for general seaworthiness and clear speed'
Next, the superior spirit, nautical skill and seamanship °f
American yachtinen and sailors. As to the first of these
points, the Sappho's victories are demonstrations that°
sane sailor could not dispute. In the two races in which
the Cambria went over the course the victory was so ess
and the Sappho was so much ahead that she would std
have been the victor if she had been compelled to in3k°
allowance for time of her opponent's size. In the other ra°,e
of the three her victory was, perhaps, a finer one became
purely intellectual. It was the victory of a spirit ready te_
venture any sea over the sentimental sailor who likes the
" soft and gentle gale " for which the gentleman is the
song "heard a maiden sigh." Is it so stranze after all'
that they do not recognize this on the other side ? They
do not like unpleasant facts. In what contest of inter
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national character, of the many in which we have bested
them, have the English ever handsomely acknowledg,
their defeat ? It was almost worth our while to have the
Harvard boys beaten last year for the sake of the rtero,.4:
example they gave ; but it has had no effect.—New Yor
Herald.

It is now admitted in England that no schooner there
can sail with Mr. Douglas' yatch, the Sappho. Mr. 11-5
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bury will also come to the conclusion by and by t°,,a't
Americans were really able to teach him something ab°"
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yachting. In betting circles long odds would probably b
given that in a fresh wrangle about measurement, o`
tonnage, or the wind or some other fuss and nonsense
which nobody can understand, Mr. Ashbury will find ii
pretext for spreading his sails for Norway instead of IN e
York next July.— New York Times.

WHAT HAS THE PACIFIC ROAD DONE FOR

CALIFORNIA ?

L The effects of new channels of commerce are alwaYs
capable of being accurately estimated before hand. Font
years since, if any one on the Pacific coast had uttereu
any financial prophecy with perfect confidence, it would
have been that the immediate results of the expected ce,T
tinental railroad would be unmixed prosperity to en-
fornia and San Francisco. Another prediction WO
also have been made, though with less confidence-1j
that is, that the increased traffic and travel by land viro° d
have have its usual effect on competing water routes, a°,
that, after a temporary depression, the line of steam,,e,r
San Francisco would prosper as well as the rill'
road. This certainly has been the experience on the
Sound and the Hudson River in similar cord)4l'
tion. It certainly seemed a rational forecast,
that a road which could transfigr a laboure4
for sixty dollars from New York to Sab. Francisco, would
at once cheapen labour on the Pacific colt, and make
productions more profitable. Settlers, too, would tlodoubtedly be attracted by the delicious climate and cheap
lands, or by the new chalices of burin ess, and would fiu
up town and country. All-these reasonable expectations'
however, were doomed to disappointment. Congress, 1
its rich subsidies of land to the Pacific Railroads, enabled
them, in fact, to compete at ruinous rates with the Pacific
Mail steamers. The latter did not apparently nisArt
sufficient popular efforts to turn the new tide of freiglif
and travel, so that at present the great current both
commerce and of :.passenger business passes ' overlails
Undoubtedly in a year or two more this will all clian4
as California itself recovers; but at present. the land
route has won the vice iu competition wi ththe sea. .l.But d'e
effects on California itself are tthe mosttsingular. SO far frog!.
the State prospering under the new order of things, 1'
has not been for years in a worse condition. Business i°
San Francisco is fiat ; town lo:s:.-areNdow'S.trade his slug.
glish,:and a multitude of:unemplOyed labourerstrave been
besieging the city.ka.uthorities of help and work. The
explanation 'seems tiobe:that'the ra briligs what till
economists call " thedistributing
West in competition withYthat of the. ,Pacifiecoast,•oo
the wastefulness.'and'extravagance of the latterthaveLte
chance against the econo mytof the former. That is, b
alss tfitthe Centraci
exchangers,retailers, ankti wholesal e dealers of Chicago
supply inner California . and Nevada with goods mute
cheaper than the San • F‘ranciscans can do it, and 113 Y
beaten them out of the field. Thisudeaves trade duilr
the city, and everpthing suffers in consequence. Produce;
too, from the interior near the railroad, goes eastwe7,
instead of to the ca pital. Too many labourers leave
crowded the city, and wages have not yet adjusted thetw
selves. The whole State is in a condition of healtllY:.
transition. When it is over, she will resume more than
her old prosperity.--/Vew York Times.

Several diplomatic changes are intimated as 11.1*();
bable. Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, who is gettin'
better, is again designated as the probable Minister t°
Vienna in the place of the Duke de Grammont. It
again reported, too, that M. Prevost-Paradol will P!
appointed Minister at Washington. M. de Barthelegua
will probably be appointed Minister at Brussels,- fee
Viscount de la Gueronniere, who goes to Madrid.

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