The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tfus DAY.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
2to 1 agst Primate (taken)
3to 1 agst Miss Haworth (taken)
sto las Red Earl (taken)
12 to 1 agst Missile (taken)
12 to 1 agst Lady Durham (taken)
14 to 1 agst Honesty (taken)
Caithness scratehe3.

Germany and America.

England and America are united to the German
Fatherland by closer ties than those of the common
brotherhood of the human race. The vast com-
mercial, intercourse which this century has deve-
loped has drawn them together in a more than
ordinary community of interests. But, above and
beyond these, there is a close affinity of race —a
cousinship of these three great nations—and much
that is common in the genius, and thoughts, and
feelings of the peoples. England and Germany
were cousins from time immemorial. Americans
are principally of Saxon blood, but the German
element in the race has been reinforced in the United
States by the immigration and commingling of
millions of our cousins from the old German
Fatherland. In this great crisis of the destiny of
the world, we cannot think of these affinities with-
out strong emotion. How much that is great and
good in the world do we owe to Germany and to
England, and how vast are our expectations for the
future of the United States ! In America a great
crisis has just gone by—in Germany a great crisis
has just begun. And these crises are not so unlike
as the superficial might suppose. Omitting for the
present the Italian question, which is an unfortu-
nate outside complication, the present struggle in
Germany has many points of similarity to that which
.has happily closed in America. Prussia has defied
law and justice for unholy ends, as did the Southern
States fer the barbarous institution of Slavery. In
doing this the rulers have gone contrary to the
wishes of-the people as did the Southern leaders.
But the German war will make the Prussians prac-
tically unanimous, as the American war did the
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out. The American war was a rebellion of several
States against the constitution and common law of
the nation—the German wards no less the rebellion
of a mighty offender, against the laws which bound
him to the German nation. It is very true that the
organic laws of the German Confederation are very
imperfect, and that the American is a much closer
union ; but, nevertheless, there are definite laws
having their foundations in the strictest justice, and
these laws have been defied by Prussia. The
Southern leaders not only defied the laws, but they
seized Federal property—they took forcible posses-
sion of Federal forts—they overran neighbouring
states with military forces before the Federal Go-
vernment had time to act, and the Prussians in
Germany have, in all these respects, followed pre-
cisely in their footsteps. Prussian, like Southern
audacity, has secured vast advantages at the very
commencement of the war—it remains to be seen
whether the parallel of final defeat will hold equally
true. In this respect we cannot venture a predic-
tion. The outside complications are so numerous
that a general war seems inevitable. As the cir-
cumstances vary, our hopes, and fears, and sym-
pathies must, in some degree, change, but as far
as the present is an internal German war, our sym-
pathies are, and must necessarily continue to be,
wholly on the side of Federal law and justice.—
Anglo-Americ an Times.