The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

LATEST SCRATCHINGS FOR GOODWOOD.

Goodwood Stakes.—Surney and Life Guardsman.
Goodwood Cup.—Scamander and Brown Bread.

Stewards' Cup.—Warrior, Redan, The Special, Stabber,
Pantaloon, Quirina, Vandervelde, Flying Jib, Il Re Galan-
tuomo, The Duke, and Attache.
Chesterfield Cup.—King Charming, Redan and Mazeppa.
Nursery Stakes.—Python, Brother to the Masson, Odd
Fellow, Young Lord, and Nine Elms.
Lavant and Molecombe Stakes.—Deane and Premiere

Honesty and Greenback are struck out of all their en-
gagements. •

All Count Batthyany's and Captain H. Cooper's horses
are struck out of their Goodwood, Brighton, and Lewes
engagements; and Special and Flying Jib out of the
Stewards' Cup.
Il Ite Galantuomo is disqualified for Stewards' Cup, and
allbets declared off.

Winchester Races, 1867.—The stewards elect are the
Dukes of Beaufort and Hamilton, the Earl of Uxbridge,
and W. G. Craven and T. Charuberlayne, Esqrs.

Princess Thyra, winner of the Cambridgeshire Two
Year Old Handicap at Huntingdon, on Thursday, was sold
to Prince D. Soltykoff for 250 gs.
Rosa Nera, 2 yrs, winner of the Fitzwilliam Stakes on
Thursday, at Huntingdon, was bought by Mr. W. Morris
for 270 gs.
Claymore, winner of the Two Year Old Handicap at
Huntingdon on Friday, was bought in by Mr. Ten Broeck
for 261 gs. _ _

Bishopton, 4 yrs, winner of the Railway Plate at Win-
chester on Tuesday, was bought in by Mr. Yates for
100 gs.
Chicken Hazard, 3 yrs, winner of the City Members'
Plate at Winchester on Tuesday, was sold to Captain
Morgan for 80gs.
W. Hopkins has just left T. Parr, and is open to an en-
gagement as trainer to any noblemen or gentleman.
Tormentor will leave England to-day to run for the
Cup at Deauville on Monday next.
Mr. Heartfield and S. Mordan were reported by
Mr.
M'George for disobedience while at the post for the Oakley
Selling Stakes at Huntingdon on Friday last. The
former was reprimanded by the stewards, but the case in
reference to Mordan will be referred to the stewards of the
Jockey Club at the Goodwood Meeting.
Hermit and The Palmer aro matched for £5OO a side,
h ft, to run the last half of the Rowley mile, in the Second
October meeting. At the same time, their owners betted
£40,000 even between the two horses for the Derby.—
Sporting Gazette.
Arabia, 4 yrs, was sold to lir. lases for 73gs, after

winning the South-Western Stakes at Southampton on
Wednesday.
Lord Portsmouth is now T. French's fourth master.
Mr. Ten Broeck has sold The Star to Sir Joseph Hawley
for a "monkey."
Admiral Rous has named his yearling colt Brother to the
Pieman Puff:
Homely, 3 yrs, winner of the Members' Plate at Cam-
bridge on Tuesday, was bought in by Mr. J. Godding
for 95g5., and Mr. Norton claimed Triumph, who ran
second.

The following are tho Stewards elect for Southampton
races next year : —The Duke of Newcastle, Mr. R. Ten
Broeck, and Sir Bruce Chichester, Bart.
Mr. George Angell has purchased Nukuheva of Mr. J. B.
Morris for £3OO.

Sir Williamson Booth has changed his colours from blue
and amber stripes and black cap to light blue, rose
sleeves.

Mr. Hodgman has sold Vixen to Mr. W. Day, and she
was delivered on Wednesday last.

. YORK RACES.--A meeting of the committee of
the York Races was held last week, at which the con-
tract for the erection of a new stewards' stand in the York
ling, to cost £1,300, was let. Its erection is necessary to
accommodate the increasing patronage bestowed upon the
York meetings by the gentry and nobility of the county.
It is to be divided into convenient boxes, waiting rooms,
and all the usual conveniences, and admirable rccommoda-
tion is to be furnished for the "Fourth Estate." Itis fully
anticipated that it will, when completed, be one of the
finest in the kingdom. The work is to be commenced
immediately after the August races, to be ready for the
year 1867.

Owing to the disturbances in Hyde Park the
bookmakers have during the past week discontinued plying
their vocation beneath the well-known clump of trees. One
of the fraternity, more facetious than grammatical, declared
that, in a Sir Richard Mayne sense, he felt no desire to lay
on the field ; neither did he admire the way in which the
mounted police backed their horses.—Sporting Life.

TURF AGENCY OFFICE,
100, Jermyn-street, St. James's, LONDON.
3/111. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter-
sail's) executes COMMISSIONS (by letter only)
on all the principal races throughout the season, from £1
upwards, on receipt of cash or Post-office Order (payable
at Piccadilly office). COMMISSIONS as usual at starting
prices on the day of a race at all the; principal meetings.
For further particulars and prices, see the advertisement in
The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY and SATUR-
DAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded
on receipt of stamped directed envelope.
N.B.—lt is particularly requested that ALL LETTERS
containing CASH be registered.
The Sporting Life, Aug.2o, 1864.—" We are satisfied that
all intending backers of horses, who may have been for-
merly in doubt whom to trust, will, without fear or hesita-
tion, send their commissions, to any amount, to 100,
Jermyn-street."

_
Destructive Fires.—(This Day.)

This morning, between the hours of 3 and 4 o'clock, a
very alarming fire broke out in the premises occupied by
Mr. Fillett, fancy basket maker, situate in Devons-road,
Bromley-by-Bow. When discovered the flames were
raging with great fury in the front shop. The inmates
fortunately succeeded in effecting their escape in safety.
Conductor Beer arrived in a very short time with the
Royal Society's escape, and was followed by the engines
of the Metropolitan Brigade and three land steamers by
Shand, Mason, and Co. A good supply of the East Lon-
don's Company's water having been procured the firemen
went to work, but they were unable to get the fire extin-
guished until the premises were burnt out. The origin of
tho fire is unknown.

Another fire happened in the premises belonging to Mrs.
Eve, a lodging-house keeper, No. 23, Rupert-street, Hay-
market. It was caused by an explosion of a lamp, and in
an instant the whole of the room was in a general blaze.
At that time the whole of the inmates were in their beds
asleep ; and, having been aroused, they made for the front
windows and screamed loudly for help. Conductors Bar-
nett and 'Wallis promptly attended with two -of the Royal
Society's escapes, and the land steamers by Shand, Mason,
and Co., followed, but the fire was extinguished before the
arrival of the firemen, but not until considerable damage
was done to the building and the contents. The sufferer,
it is understood, was insured.
Another fire took place in the premises of Messrs. Speck
and Fletcher, iron founders, Supps-terrace, Commercial-
road East. Conductor Hardway arrived with the Royal
Society's escape, and several engines followed ; but the
fire could not be extinguished until the roof was burnt
through. The firm, it is stated, was insured.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

LONDON, July 30.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
LIVERPOOL, July 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—David
Malcolmson, from Rangoon.
FALMOUTH, July 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Chefoo
Pohl, from Rangoon.
CLYDE, July 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hammond,
from Trinidad.

CARDIFF, July 28.—Wind S.E.-;;Arrived—Charlotte,
from Quebec.
OFF LryznPooL, July 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—
Richard, from Bombay.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, July 29—Jessie, from Grenada.
Arrived, July 30—Storm Queen, from Antwerp ; Anne
Banfield, from Point de Galle ; Research, from Quebec.

The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion for the six months ending the 30th June have
just been published. From these it appears that the
total declared value of the exports from the United
Kingdom for that period has been £92,837,830, as
compared with £74,128,638 in the corresponding
period of 1865, showing an increase of £18,719,192.
The increase has been most perceptible in coals and
culm, cotton yarn, cotton manufactures, earthen-
ware, haberdashery and milinery, hardwares,
and castings, linen manufactures, silk manufactures,
and woollen and worsted manufactures ; but there
is a falling off in beer and ale, boots and shoes,
machinery, thrown silk, and sheep and lamb's wool.
The shipping accounts exhibit a slight increase
on the tonnage employed in the foreign trade
during the same period, for both the entries in-
wards and the clearances outwards. and the same
may also be said of the coasting trade.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Westminster
Palace Hotel Company the available total was
stated at £6,890, and a dividend was declared at
the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, leaving £1,690
to be carried forward.

From the manufacturing districts, the accounts
generally are of an unsetisfactory character. At
Manchester both cloths and yarns have been at
enhanced prices, and but little business has been
done. In the woollen trade of trade of Leeds,
Bradford, and Huddersfield, there has been little
change of importance. There has been a steady
demand for seasonable goods for home require-
ments at about late rates, and some rather large
parcels have been taken for tne Canadian markets..
In the hosiery and lace departments at Leicester
and Nottingham business has been only moderately
active, and chiefly in good useful goods, while in
the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield,
and Wolverhampton, there has been a slight relief
from the late depression by the receipt of consider-
able orders for cutlery from the United States and
Canada, but several failures have occurred at Bir-
mingham which has in some measure caused a gloom
in the iron trade.
THE ROUND TABLE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—The
reign of Edward 111. is one of the most important in respec
to the history of Windsor, a large part of the existing castle
having been built at that period. The extent of survey of
the Castle in the first year of this reign is a very minute and
important document, lately brought to light. Another
equally important document is the builder's account for the
Round Tower, which was entirely built from the ground inh
the eighteenth year of this reign, and still remains, thotug
much altered in appearance, from the additionalv sTrtiYe
superposed by Mr. Wyatville under George
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times the Round Table; and from other peculiarities
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title of the " Kitchen Tower." The tower and table were
erected in 10 months, the greatest haste being made in
order that the new order of knights might dine at it on St.
George's-day following its erection. Holinshed, in his
" Chronicle," makes much of this round table as a great
stroke of policy for attracting the free knights from all
parts of Europe to take service under the English Crown ;
and the King of France, Philip de Valois, was so jealous of
it that he would not allow the French knights to accept the
invitation, and ordered another round table to be made in
imitation of that of the King of England.—Builder.
CRYSTAL PALACE, ONE SHILLING DAY.—Friday,
July 27.—Admissions on payment, 2,370; ditto by season
tickets, 929—total visitors, 3,299.

SPORTILIG..4 . his Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BiTTING.—THIS DAY.
STEWARDS' CUP.
sto 1 agst Mrs. Stratton (taken)
14 to 1 agst Sultan (taken)
14 to 1 agst Mayonaise filly (taken)
15 to 1 agst Gretna (taken)
15 to 1 agst Norwood (taken)
100 to 6 agst Paris (taken)
20 to 1 agst:Gardevisure (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
2to 1 agst Black Prince (taken)
5 to 2 agst Special (taken)
4to 1 agst Midia colt (taken)
14 to 1 agst Actea (taken)

25 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP.
2to 1 agst Tourmalin (taken)
3to 1 agast Duke (taken freely)
6to 1 agst Moulsey (taken)
Bto 1 agst Cambuscan (offered—take 10
to 1)
14 to 1 agst Janitor (taken and offered)

Ti e American Press.

There are many appeals made to the charity of
the Northern States, on behalf of their "suffering,
brethren" at the South. It is represented that thrd;
are in great distress, many of them in danger of
starvation, and that it would be genuine charity to
assist them. Admitting all this to be true, would it
not be well for the Southern people themselves to do
more for the fulfilment of this object than they
have yet done? There seems to be no difficulty.
in raising money in that section for political ob-
jects, and to enrich political victims. For in-
stance, the contributions to the family of Jeff.
Davis are very large. He is not in danger of
starvation, and while he is well supplied at Fortress
Monroe, thousands of dollars, which would buy bread
for suffering families of ex-Confederate soldiers,
are contributed to the "Davis fund," the object
being to furnish the chief rebel with a splendid
private fortune. A Miss Eyans, the author of a
novel entitled " Beulah," proposes to raise $60,000,
to build a grand mausoleum in memory of the
Confederate dead of Alabama, and she is making
considerable progress in that object. At the same
time the Governor of that State is in the North
seeking to exchange State bonds for provisions
to feed the starving families of the people of his
State. It is said that sixty thousand rations
are issued daily in that State, by the Freed-
men's Bureau, of which fifty-nine are sup-
plied to white people. In Baltimore appeals
have been made for the suffering poor of South
Carolina • and while the citizens of Maryland
are making contributions for that purpose,
eighteen hundred dollars were collected in
Charleston, at a fair given to raise funds for the
purpose of decorating the graves of the Confederate
dead. Throughout the South large sums of money
have been given for the same purpose, and enough
has been spent for flowers and other tokens of
mourning to keep many living persons in the South
from starvation if it had been applied to their
cases, instead of being spent in ovations to defunct
treason. These are things which show that in the
Southern mind charity does not begin at home.
How can the Southern people expect liberal dona-
tions from the North, when they do nothing to re-
lieve their own distress, and spend whatever money
.they can obtain by subscriptions amongst them-
selves for the purpose of making the memory of
treason glorious.
The Philadelphia Inquirer on the Fourth July
says :—" To Philadelphians especially is this day a
hallowed one. Ninety years ago, in the old State
House on Chesnut-street, above Fifth, the Declara-
tion of Independence was signed, and the American
colonies formally severed their connection with
and renounced their allegiance to Great Britain.
The act was one of most momentous importance,
but. the Great Disposer of events and the Ruler of
nations smiled benignly upon the solemn resolu-
tions of our fathers, and American liberty
was achieved and a new Republic born which
was destined to exert its influence through-
out the earth, and teach the slaves of
kings and emperors that freedom is an actual,
living principle, requiring only strong arms, true
hearts, and courage to stand up for the right, to
insure its advancement, and render it as enduring
as the everlasting hills. In the progress which the
United States made the world recognised the fact
to a certain extent, but it was loth to acknowledge
that the Republic was fixed upon a sure foundation.
Foreign powers saw in the system of Southern
slavery an evil which they fondly hoped would
destroy the nation ; and when, in 1861, the Rebel-
lion opened its artillery against the national life
their hopes seemed on the eve of fulfilment, and
they proclaimed that the end was at hand. But
wrong cannot always triumph. With the vic-
tory of justice, law and freedom over treason,
despotism and human slavery, the world was
taught another and second lesson in the
history of our country. From the long and bloody
struggle the American people emerged, crowned
with unfading glory. Slavery perished in the con-
test—treason succumbed to loyalty, and patriotism
once more proved to all men that it is sweeter to
die for one's country that it may live than to sub-
mit tamely, wear the shackles of the despot, and
die ultimately a slave. To-day we are looked upon
as a nation whose right to its position in the great
family cannot be gamsayed. We have established
it beyond all cavil, and henceforth we assume a
stand among the Powers of the earth second to
none. It is proper, then, that we should celebrate
this day with all becoming ceremonies ; and it
will be hereafter delightful for our children and
our children's children to revert' to this memo-
rable Fourth of July, 1866. Added to the illustrious
deeds recalled in the past are the newer glories
of the present ; for how is it possible yet for us to
fully realise that the scenes, the battles, the defeats,
and the final victories of the last four years are not
still existing in the present ? True, they have
passed away, but they live in our memories and
those of our very babes, as though they were being
enacted at this very moment. To-day Pennsylvania
commemorates American Independence, on the spot
where it had its birth in 1776. The old Common-
wealth renders her homage under extraordinary
circumstances. Through the ordeal of a terrible and
devastating war she, in conjunction with her loyal
sisters, has safely passed. Lee met with defeat and
disaster upon her soil, and retired, disheartened, dis-
comfited, to Virginia. The stalwart arms and brave
hearts of our soldiers achieved the overwhelming
triumph at Gettysburg; and Pennsylvania, and
through her the Union, was saved from the ravages
of a merciless and relentless foe. To-day the flags
which Pennsylvania confided to the hands of her
heroic sons are to be returned by them, tattered,
and torn, and faded, and yet wreathed with the
immortelles of victory, and lustrous in the light of
that freedom which dawned on every broad acre
over which they advanced. In the imposing page-
ant of this day will be seen the standards which
were borne through many a perilous fight, standards
riddled with bullets and shot and shell, blackened
amid the smoke and scorched in the fires of battle.
As they pass along our streets, we shall think of
Stone river and Roseucrans ; of Chickamauga. ;
of Lookout Mountain and Hooker, and our
own gallant Geary ; of the march of Sher-
man to the sea, and thence through Scuth and
North Carolina to Washington and
home again.
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in soldiers'graves upon the far plains and in the quiet
valleys of the South. But escorting these emblems
of our nationality to-day are the survivors, who re-
turn to us and to the State the sacred banners en-
trusted to their care during the war. They
deserve
the heartiest plaudits of th • eir countrymen, and
Philadelphia, this morning, will prove that she is
not ungrateful to her defenders and the upholders
of that liberty which
she gave to the Colonies in
1776. Independence-square has been well chosen
for the ceremonies of the day, and as our veterans
assemble within the shadow of that hall where the
Declaration was signed, they will feel with the poet
that they stand, indeed, on hallowed ground. The
associations of the present with those of the past
will render still more impressive the incidents of the
occasion, and the men who rescued the nation from
destruction will, on the sacred spot, swear anew
their fealty to their country and the principles of
universal liberty.