The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

RACING FIXTI
AP.

Lichfield Spring 8
Newmarket Craven 8
Abergavenny
Thirsk
M.

Ascot Spring
York Spring 7
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury 9
Bath

Ascot Summer 4
Windsor Summer
Manchester Summer
Hampton l3
Odiham l7
Bibury Club lB
JU
Carlisle 2
Newmarket July ......
Pontefract
Reading ••••• 9
Liverpool July Meeting 10
Hungerford
Nottingham l6
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- - - -
AUGUST.
Ripon
Brighton
Brighton Chu) 8 Plymouth . 22
Lewes
Egham
Wolverhampton l3 Lichfield -
Stockton
Oxford ..15 1 Weymouth
Hastings
York August
SEPTEMBER.
Margate
I
Warwick Spring 3 Hendon ,9
Abingdon 5 Monmouth
Leicester
Doncaster
Brecon
OCT BER.
Northampton Autumn. 1 I Newmarket 2d October. 7
Edinburgh
Bedford 3 I Newmarket Houghton . 21
NOVEMBER.

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Liverpool Autumn V 5 I Leamington Hunt
Shrewsbury Autumn... 11

AQUATICS.

OXFORD AND CAMBREDGE BOAT RACE.
PUTNEY, Tuesday, One o'clock.
At a quarter to eleven the Cantabs went out and paddled
to Mortlake, occupying 35 minutes. They rested nearly
half an hour, and then paddled up to Barker's rails and
down to the ship, whence they started with a good tide
and wind for Putney, doing 38 strokes per minute. They
finished at 39 and 40, distressed, having accomplished the
distance in 21 min. 23 sec.
The Oxonians are expected every minute from Mortlake.

Mr. Gladstone on American Finance.

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Mr. GLADSTONE, when speaking on the Budget
last Thursday, paid a high and well-merited com-
pliment to the American people. We have ex-
tracted this portion of his speech, which, we must
do Mr. GLADSTONE the justice to say, is in accord
with all his previous teachings, and a system he
has never ceased to urge on the British nation.
Mr. GLADSTONE holds that the true policy of a
I country is to strengthen its resources in time of peace,
by economising its expenditure, so that the finan-
cier in time of war may have his donkey unloaded,
fresh and ready for any burdens—not an over-
weighted and worn-out ass. As regards the
wisdom of the course there can be little
question with respect to the United States,
but there is much doubt of its feasibility
when applied to Europe. So long as one nation is
ready, on the opportunity offering, to attack and
swallow up another, that other must hold itself in
vigilant preparation to prove a tough morsel. The
policy of such States as Prussia and Austria, the
known gormandising powers of Russia, have bad
a pernicious influence, more . especially the late
policy of Prussia, iu keeping up Europe as an armed
camp. The miseries that a nation inflicts upon its
neighbour by forcing on it the intolerable burdens
of an armed preparation ramify from one to
another till spread over all adjacent countries, from
Behring's Straits to Cape Finisterre. From
this curse America is exempt. She is free
to carry out the policy dictated by com-
mon sense, and she is not likely to adopt
any other. It is not the American system which
deserves praise, for to nature and good fortune the
fact that it can be adopted is due, but the
extraordinary manner in which it has been
carried out. The most experienced financier
in the world may well pause in the midst
of his speech in the greatest of debating
societies to express his astonishment and admira-
tion. " Not," he exclaimed, " that we can expect
a continuance of the same extraordinary and un-
heard-of measures, by which so much has been
already done, for human nature can hardly stand
such a strain." This is the language which will give
the spur tothe American people who delight to amaze,
to overwhelm, to toss up the burden as a plaything,
beneath the weight of which great empires have
tottered and sank, while the world stands by hardly
believing that the weight is genuine, that it is not
some juggler's trick they see. To do what
is
no
other people could or would attempt to do
the strongest incentive ; and these citizens possess a
sympathetic cord which thrills at once through the
would never
dream of trying. E
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and
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what
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politicians
constantly
fall into the mistake, through ignorance of this fact
that American statesmen are discuss-
ing snre°3vitst chimeras, wuile, in truth, they are
posing obsei
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can Times.

SHIPPING IN rELLIGENCE.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

No arrivals.
Sailed.—Triton, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—City of Adelaide, from Adelaide, for London.
Anchored—Passing Cloud, from China ; Lincolnshire,
from Melbourne—both for London.