The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

LEAMINGTON STARES.

Monitress .

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Moose
Regalia
3
• RACING STAKES.

Jano Shore....
Practitioner..,
Canthaiides..

1.

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Five ra i) .

TATTE &SALLC —Last Evening,
LEAMINGTON bTAKES.
sto 1 agz,:t I: gal's (taken)
ST. LEGER.
6to son Lord Lyon (t :ken)
100 to 30 834 &vernal:3 (taken)
14 to 1 agst RUSCC (ta 1:en)
14 to 1 agst Strathconan (taken)
25 to ragst Westwick (taken)
25 to 1 agst Knight of the Crescent (taken)
40 to 1 agst Rapid Rhone (offered)
66 to 1 agst Honiton

RACING FIXT
SEPT]

RES FOR 1866.

AIBEFt.

Warwick September 4
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Brecon l7
Canterbury
Richmond

Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 25
Newmarket Ist October 25
Walsall
Lanark 2B

OCT

Northampton 2
Lothians' Racing Club 3
Ryl. Cal. Hunt and Kolso 8
Bedford 4
NOY]
Lincoln
Liverpool

Nowmarket2d October... 8
H3reford • .... 18
Newmarket Houghton-. 22

MBE R.
I Shrewsbury
Leamington Hunt l9

IRISH RACING FIXTURES.
SEPTEMBER.

Curragh 4, 51 6
OCTOBER.

Curragh
41•••• folios 16, 17 18
FRENCH RACING FIXTURES.
SEPTEMBER.;
Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7 Paris (Autumn) 23, 30
Chantilly

TURF AGENOY OFFICE,
100, jERMYN-SMEET, ST. JAM L3NDON.
W. SYDNEY SM[TH (Melnb
inform er of Tatter-
sall's) begs to the racing public he will
execute COMMISSIONS (by letter only) on all the prin-
cipal races throughout the year. For further particulars
and prices see advertisement in The Sportsman newspaper
every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY.
Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded on receipt
of stamped directed envelope.
Post-office Orders to be made payable at the Pir(adnly
or St. James's-street offices, and cheques to be crossed the
"London and Westminster Bank."

Pionelngs of tin Pa "adelph Convention,

In the fit.)t accounts which reviled us of the
meeting of the Philadelphia Convention, we saw
little of a hopeful chara:;:!.. The t?le-
grams informed us that Fernando Wood, Clement
L. Vallandigham, and George 11. Pendleton
were among the delegat' ; and this was gra=te
enough to rouse our suspicion that the Convention
was simply a great meeting of the foreino:As sit:ta
of the late rebellion, who, defeated in a bad cause
and not yet reconciled to the consequences of de-.
feat, had met to oppose in secret councils the
Government they had failed to destroy by open
warfare. But subsequent dc:leatchca infoi_ned vs
that these objectionable men have retired from the
Convention in deference to populir f —ling, and
that Major-General John H. A. Dix, one of the
heron of the war, was elected to pre--ide over the
deliberations of the Convention. This was a hope..
ful sign indeed. General Dix was commander of
the department of New York at the time of the
great riot in July, 1863, and all through the war
he showed his loyal'y, his devotion to Vs eountry,
his hatred of seces..sion, and his faithfolue .5 to the
Union. The fact that such a man as Gene tai D'x,
who enjoyed the confidence of all parti..iarke, was
called on take the chair of the Convention, showed
that the delegates were there not to make war upon
Republicans, but by conciliation and moderation
to pour oil upon the troubled waters, and to en-
deavour to restore the Union by mutual conee7sion
and goodwill.
The Philadelphia Convention has adjourned, and
its work is before the world. Who can question
that work ? Who can come forward now and say
that there is one single word in the resolutions of
that body which doca not breathe the fide spirit of
patriotism. We have very care:o'fy stue'ed the
whole document, which begins with an expre,sion
of thankfulness to Almighty God for the rota a
of peace to our afflicted and beloved land. It de-
clare 3 that the war just closed has maint.:.in d tile
authority of the Constitution ; it hos pre •••z7el the
Government and the Union, and that the Cors i
tut:on of the United States is the sup-eme law of
the lend. It lays dowa the law in the most unrr's-
takable manner that the Union's perpetual; that
no State cr Convention of State has the r:ght to
withdraw from the Union, or to exclude, through
their action in Congress or o:lierw. -2, any State or
Status from the Union. It clienfolly and hnnd-
somely re ?o2,nis a that it abolish, d slay( -y for L-ier,
declares that there is neither purpose nor desire on
the part of the. South that it should sve: be re-
established, and admits that the enfranchised claws
in all the Sta' es should receive, in common with all
their inhabitants, equal prot2ction ia eveiy r;ght
of prson and property. Eually, It; repudiates the
rebel debt, and holds the debt of the nation :o be
sacred and inviolable, and proclaims a firm purpose
to discharge all other national obl'gations, and
maintain unimpaired and unimpeache I the faith of
the It-public.
In the tenth and last article the Convention gives
its cordial and F.ncere support to President JOHN-
SON, who, it maintains, "in his great office has
" proved stedfast in his devotion to the Constita-
" tion, the laws, and interests of his country."

Nothing can be fairer than all
masleVeat:iluhiol:wnhg.o.
Washing-
ton, could he have lived to witness tb:st,
IPvishihlawdeelfilituia,thweoirulcduubuatvrey smuupspto '-
may be a difference of opinion supportainocing. it. Therejn
candid and
patriotic Americans regard'ng Pres.dentehnsonls
recent position, but none can doubt his honesty, his
sterling patriotism, his devotion to the 131:•3t interests
of his countkl. For our own prr; we cannot doubt
such words as those utter: l by
the Ph'ladelph;a
Convention. If the South meant repudiation of
rebellion, secession, slavery, and all the evils wb:ch
follow in their train, then we are with the South, for
then there ehall bo no more a South nor a North
so far as political ac::on is cone-2mM. Massa-
chusetts and South Carolina, so long d'vorced, sba' t
be wedded once aga;n, and the era of Peace and
Good-will shall be inaugurated in the lir":-.)tern Re-
public
which shall last forever and forever.—. Angl-
o Times.

STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT ON THE
a oyeosofit.e.crdn afternoon,
habout n T
nleo.,:clboetcwke,eirnalicSAeh3ieliEro_SuTS:areedelt:
Pier and London-bl:dge. One of the Woolwich and
Wdteesnrtdtehuen Compny's steamers ran into a small boat con-
tainilg two men. The boat was completely stove in, end
the mon thrown into the i:ver. Ono of them disappeared
immediately, and the other d. :`ted with the tido under one
of the paddle-wheels of the stamer, neither of them being
afterwards seen, notwithst..nding every effoi., on the part
of the crew and passengers of the stNlmboat.
THE DANGERS OF PETROLEUM AS STEAM FUEL.
—lt is acluowledged that the only mode of economically
buining petroleum as a seani fuel is to convei the l;qvid
into g.ss, either alone or in-cornbivaron w:th steam. and
use the gas to heat the orate-. Tho expei:ments, both fa
this count .y and Amer:c m, have shown that to employ the
l'quid fuel it regni •es considerable cAre :a the ai.•..,ugernent
of special tanks and tube; and i.t rov:ding safety guards
in the fora of gauze (Ha/Annals, clock valve-, and waitz
trap', to prevent the occasional `Lick' rush of flame,dwbwith
a p,i';;ally.filled tube is subject to. Tb'9, combined
Is
the fact that when petroleum is used it costs
aleast ba'f
tan
t much as coal, and that, when coal oil is used
one ton of oi',
a dozen tons of coal are requ;red to produce
coal, slut ns
effectuallytfn ofoilwill only l
prevent
the y the
introduction
or coal oil as a sub-litute for coax,ex( for expel:mental
purposes, where cost and danger are of no consideration.—
work o
of f
11) i
petroleum
tons
ieotu
of
Mining .Tottnll.
recentlysaid
.that
adver-
tisedtho for sale, are about to 'possession of an
merchant and successful yachts-
man.• uinent Glasgow sugar
noaseillneEatßll e°sStEaNteEsAoTflithEespnlokaTsEesSo.:7l-Atolrtethyeilsl
diaietisTcl,l..o price is Said to bo about £lBo,ooo.—Greenock

Railway and other Companies.

REDDITCH.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held on Thursday at Itedditch ; Mr. J. Osborne in
the chair.

The report stated that the deed of transfer of
this undertaking to the Midland Railway Company
had been duly executed by both companies, and
that the transfer would be very shortly completed.
The Midland Company had intimated their readi-
ness to pay the balance of the purchase money under,
the contract early in November next. The ordi-
nary dividend of £4 per cent. per annum would be
paid immediately by the Midland Company.
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re-
port, which was seconded by Mr. S. THOMAS, and
carried unanimously.
A dividend at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum
was then declared, and the proceedings terminated.