The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1861.

SPURTING INTELLIGENCE.

YORK RACES—YESTERDAY. •
The Colt Sapling Stakes of 50 soya each, 30 ft, for 2-yr•olds,
Bst 71b each. T.Y.C. Eight subs.
Mr. J. Osborne's Zetland, Bst 71b (J. Osborne) w. o.
The Great Yorkshire Stakes of 10 sous each, with 100 sous
added for the second horse ; for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ;
fillies, Sst 21b. 11 mile. 90 subs.
Mr. J. Fobert ns Oldminster, Sat 71b (Fordham) 1
Dh s. Osbaldeston's Camerino, Bst 71b.... (H Grimshaw) 2
Lord Glasgow's b e by West Australian, Sst 71b (Aldcroft) 4
3
Mr. Hedley's Dictator, Bst 71b (J. Osborne)
The following also ran :—Vergiss-mein-nicht, Squire
Peirse, The Drake, Charing Cross, Lopcatcher, and York

minster.
Betting-5 to 2 each Oldminster and Dictator, 6to 1 agst
Clarissa colt, 7 to 1 agst Camerino, 8 to 1 agst Squire Peirse,
and 10 to 1 agst The Drake.
After a couple of failures Camerino, over-pulling Grim-
shaw, rushed to the front, and with the Clarissa colt and
Charing Cross in close company, made strong running, the
others lying close up, with the exception of Vergiss
nicht, Drake, and Dictator. In this order they entered the
old course, when Oldminster ran by his horses and went on
with a commanding lead, Camerino going on second,
Clarissa colt third, Charing Cross fourth, and Squire Peirse
next ; Dictator at the same time began to improve his posi-
tion, and followed on, some two or three lengths in advance
of the ruck. As they approached Dringhouses, Clarissa
colt was passed by Charing Cross and Squire Peirse, who
followed closely in the track of the leaders; but on reach-
ing the T.Y.C. post they were in trouble, and Dictator ran
past them, followed by Vergiss-mien-nicht, the others, out-
paced, presenting an extended tail. On entering the
straight Oldminster, with Camerino at his g rths, drew
away some lengths from the Clarrissa colt and Dictator,
the pair running a close race to the stand, where Grim-
shaw made his effort, but failed to fairly get to his head,
and was beaten after a game struggle by a neck, six lengths
separating the second and third, and half a length be-
tween third and fourth, Charing Cross fifth, Squire Peirse
sixth, Vergiss-mein-nicht, Lopcatcher, Yorkmiuster, and
The Drake forming the rear division.
Eighth AskeProduce Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-
olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b. Certain allowances.

T.Y.C. 8 subs.
Mr. J. Oliver's Hurricane, Bst llb
Lord Zetland's Piccador, Bst 71b ...... (J. Osborne) 2
Mr. J. Osborne's Lord Albert, Bst 41b (Challoner) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Piccador, and 2to 1 agst Hurricane.
Piccador made play at a strong pace to the distance,
where he gave way to Hurricane and Lord Albert, who car-
ried on the running to the stand, where the three closed and
ran a fine race home, Hurricane winning very cleverly by
half a length, the favourite obtaining second honours in the

last stride by a short head.
The Tyro Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added, for 2-yr,
olds; optional selling weights. T.Y.C. 6 subs.
Mr. J. Woffinden's Blacklock, Bst (£3O) .. (E. Harrison) 1
Mr. Nicholson's Miss Pennell, 7st 101 b (£3O) (Charlton) 2
Mr. T. S. Dawson's Fife, Bst (£3O) (Bullock) 3
Mr. Culshaw's Birdlime, Bst (£3O) (J. Snowden) 4
Mr. G. .Iluddock's Rose of Raby, 7st 101 b
(30)
(Challoner 5
Betting-7 to 4 agst Rose of Raby, 3to 1 agst Fife, 4to 1
agst Birdlime, 6 to 1 each apt Blacklock and Miss Pennell.
Rose of Raby, in company with Fife on her whip hand,
made the running, clo.ely followed by Blackrock, Miss Pen-
nell, and Birdlime to the half distance, where the favourite
was beaten, leaving Fife with the lead, which he held to the
stand, where Miss Pennell and Blackrock headed him and
came on together, and after the semblance of a race, Harri-
son headed Blackrock an easy winner by three parts of a
length. Fife finished a bad third, Birdlime was fourth, and
the favourite last. The winner was sold to Mr. J. Daley
for 40 guineas.
The York Cup, value 200 sovs, by subscription of 10 sovs
each, with 100 added. Weight for age, with winning
penalties and maiden allowances. The second received
20 sovs out of the stakes. Two miles over the Old
Course. 24 subs.
Mr. A. Nicholl's The Wizard, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (Osborne) w.o.
The Nursery Handicap Plate of 100 sovs, for 2-yr-olds.

T.Y.C.
Mr. T. Valentine's Q.E.D., Bst 71b (G. Fordham) 1
Mr. Prince's Letty Long, 7st 71b (H. Grimshaw) 2
Colonel Towneley's Imperatrice, Bst 71b.. (J. Snowden) 3
The following also ran :—Flytrap, Coppall, Beverley, Miss
Mary, Kate Price, Hernani, and Fantasia.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Q.E.D., 3to 1 agst Letty Long, 7to
1 agst Flytrap, 8 to 1 agst Fantasia, and 10 to 1 agst Impe-
ratrice.
Some considerable delay was occasioned through Letty
Long, Imperatrice, and Fantasia breaking away; but at last
an admirable start was effected. Letty Long, in company
with Fantasia, Q.E. D., Imperatrice, Flytrap, and Beverley,
made the running to the turn into the straight, where Im-
peratrice, coming up in the centre, caused the favourite to
go round his horses, and Letty Long on the rails, which
enabled her to get in front ; but, after running a few strides,
she was joined by Q.E.D. and Letty Long, between which
three a close and exciting race ensued, the favourite at last
winning by a head, a neck separating the second and third;
Flytrap was fourth, Hernani fifth, Kate Price sixth, and
Miss Mary next.
The Gimcrack Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for
2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; winners extra ;
the second received 25 sovs out of the stakes, and the third
saved his stakes. One mile. 31 subs.
Mr. Gordon's Johnny Armstrong, Bst 71b....(Aldcroft) 1
Baron Niviere's Genealogie, Bst2lb .... (H. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. T. Valentine's Carisbrook, Bst 71b.. (G. Fordham) 3
The following also ran :—Scandal, Watchfire, King of
Kars, and Bolero.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Carisbrook, 3to 1 agst Genealogie,
9to 2 agst Johnny Armstrong, 8 to 1 agst Bolero, and 10
to 1 agst Watchfire.
The favourite jumped away with a clear lead, followed
by Johnny Armstrong, Scandal, King of Kars, and Genea-
logie, to half-way in the distance, where Scandal was disposed
of, and the leaders came on together to the stand, when
King of Kars was beaten, and Johnny Armstrong came on
with a slight lead, closely pressed by the French mare, who
got to his head at the stewards' stand, but was unable to
improve her position, and was beaten, after a good race, by
a head ; half a length between the second and third. King
of Kars was fourth, Scandal fifth, the others beaten off.
The Members' Plate of 50 sovs, weight for age, with
maiden ;and selling allowances. Ono mile.
Mr. Jackson's Princess Maid, 3 yrs, sst 111 b (£3O)
(Buck) 1
Mr. G. Ruddock's Johnny Bright, 3 yrs, Est (£3O)
(Daley) 2
Mr. Grimshaw's Annie de Clare, 3 yrs, sst 71b (£3O)
(Noble) 3
Mr. J. Osborne's Frost-bit, 3 yrs, Est (L3O) Whiteley) 4
Betting—Even on Frost-bit, 3to 1 agst Johnny Bright,
and 4 to 1 agst Princess Maud.
The Princess made all the running, and won by four
lengths ; bad third. The winner was bought by Mr. Daw-
son for 94 guineas.
The Consolation Scramble of 50 soya, added to a Handi-
cap Stakes of 5 sovs each. T.Y.C. 8 subs.
Mr. Smith's Sheffield, 5 yrs, Bst 91b (Smethurst) 1
Mr. C. Peck, jun.'s Bernice, 3 yrs, 7st 7113 (Grimshaw) 2
Mr. J. Osborne's Lord Albert, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (Whiteley) 3
Col. Towneley's Repartee, 2 yrs, Est 41b (Hardcastle) 4
Mr. R. Calders's The Monlvie, 4 yrs, Bst 0
Betting-5 to 2 agst Bernice, 4to 1 agst Repartee, 6to 1
agst The Moulvie, 7 to 1 each agst Sheffield and Lord Albert.
The favourite, waited on by Sheffield, Repartee, and Lord
Albert, made running to the distance, where she was headed
by Sheffield, who won cleverly by half a length. Bernice
best Lord Albert by a length for second place, and there was
a neck between the third and fourth.

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE
MENTS.
Aug. 24, at 11 35 a.m., Confidence, out of Welter Hand
Cap at Warwick. After 6 p.m., Redpole, out of all engage-
ments in Mr. B, Land's name ; Sweetbread, out of Great
Ebor Handicap.
Aug. 26, at 9 a.m., Stockade, out of Great Ebor Handi-
cap ; Flirtation, out of Lichfield and Derby engagements;
Worcester and Middleton Maid, out of Ipswich engage-
ments ; Pastime, out of Suffold Handicap, Ipswich; Evan•
geline, out of Nursery Stakes, Ipswich ; Sycophant, out o
Ipswich engagements. At 10 45 a.m., Paste, out of Grea
Yorkshire and Cleveland Handicaps, Doncaster. At 1 30
p.m., all Lord Coventry's horses, out of York engagements ;
Flitch, out of Staffordshire Stakes at Lichfield. At 2 p.m.,
all Mr. Payne's horses, except Voltella, out of York en-
gagements; at 2 25 p.m., Betts and Brownie, out of Great
Ebor Handicap ; at 3 10 p.m., Wildman, out of Great Ebor
Handicap ; Lady Chesterfield, out of York engagements ;
Romany Eye, out of Convivial Stakes ; at 4 22 p.m., Ceck
Robin, out of Ipswich Nursery ; at 4 40 p.m., all Mr. Jas.
Smith's and Mr. Sydney Smith's horses, and Paresseuse,
Reverie, and Roving Boy, out of York engagements.
Aug. 27, at 9 a.m., Miss Eleanor, Necromancer, and Ross.
more, out of Plymouth engagements ; at 1 15 p.m., Norton.
out of Suffolk Handicap, Ipswich ; at 3 35 p.m., Evenhand.
Maggiore, Chiffonniere, Olive Branch, and Santa Claus, oul
of York August engagements, 1861; after 8 p.m., Cashio
out of Ebor Handicap and Great Yorkshire Stakes, York.
Aug. 28, at 1 25 p.m., Dictator, out of North of England
Biennial at York; at 2 55 p.m., all Capt. Christies's horses
out of Lichfield engagements. -
Aug. 29, at 9 a.m., Seven Dials, out of Doncaster St.
Leger.
Aug. 30, at 9 a.m., Jingling Johnny, out of Staffordshire
Stakes, Lichfield.
his

PLYMOUTH, DM" ONPORT, AND CORNWALL
RACES.—THURSDAY,
The Plymouth Plate (Handicap) of 60 sow. One mile.

Mr. Sadler's The Gift, 5 yrs, 7st
Mr. Brayley's Clotilde, 3 yrs, 6st 71b
Capt. Currie's Watersprite, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Lambourn) 3
Clotilde led to the distance, when Gift came forward and
won in a canter by four lengths.
The earriSoll Stakes of 5 sop; each, with 30 added ; three-

yr-olds, lOst 41b ; four, llsylb ; five, llst 81b ; six and
aged, llst 121 b ; mares and geldings showed 31b. Two
•,

miles.
Col. Holloway's, R.M., Sir. Geoffrey Captain Keene) 1
Captain Beaumont's, R.E., Peacock (Mr. Elwyn) 2
Mr. Morris's, R.M., Metal
- -

The winner made all the running, and won by thirty
lengths. The Metal mare bolted at the first turn, and from
thence was out of the race.

The United Service Plate (Handicap) of 5 soya each, with

30 added. Once round and a iistance.

Mr. Starky's The Brownie, 3 yrs, lOst.. (Cowley) 1
Lord Portsmouth's Vinegar Hill, 3 yrs, lOst 101 b
(Mr. Scobell) 2
Mr. J. Riddell's Ulysses, aged, 9st 101 b (Owner) 3
Lord Palmerton's Orbit, 3 yrs, 9st 41b .... (J. Goiter) 0
Mr. Brayley's Clotilde c, 3 yrs, 9st 81b.. (Mr. Edwards) 0

Ulysses and Clotilde alternately led to three parts of the
distance, when they were both passed by Vinegar Hill and
the Brownie, with whom lay the issue of the race. The
latter won in a canter by four lengths, two dividing the se-
cond and third. The other two were several lengths bathe
rear.

The Saltram Stakes of 15 sovs each, ft, and only 3if
declared, &c., with 80 added. About two miles.
Mr. J. Clark's Don Cossack, 5 yrs, Gst (Cannon) 1
Lord Portsmouth's Buccaneer, 4 yrs, 9st.. .. (J. Goater) 2
Captain Currie's Grillade, aged, 6st 21b (Pearson) 3
Mr. E. Brayley's Sycophant, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Taylor) 4
Grillade led at score, and kept up tie pace, with Syco-
phant in close attendance, to the bottom turn, where both
were passed by Don Cossack and Buccaneer. The latter
was beaten by the weight, and Don Cossack won by three
lengths ; bad third.
The Lary Plate (Handicap) of 5 sovs each, with 25 added.

:Cannon'

Three quarters of a mile.
Mr. J. R. Riddell's Hypocrite, 3 yrs, Cut.
Lord Palmerston's Orbit, 3 yrs, 6st
Captain Currie's Grillade, aged, 7st
Mr. G. Debenham's Dapple, 4 yrs, Est (Debenham) 4
Grillade led right through to the distance, when Hypo-
crite and Orbit came to the front and afforded a good race
to the distance, the former, however, winning by a length ;
three lengths between second and third.
The Ladies' Plate of 25 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 3
sovs each Optional selling weights, &c. Half a mile.
Captain 4g's British Grenadier, 4 3 rs, Bst 131 b gal)
(J. Goater) 1
Mr. Brayley's Ring, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (L5O) (Taylor) 2
Mr. A. Sadler's Wander, 6 yrs, 9st (£3O) (A. Sadler) 3
Won by a length and a half; half a length between
second and third. The winner was sold for 79 guineas.

tion of property was apprehended. The only
danger to be feared was from the falling of the
walls, which necessitated the police blocking up
both ends of the street and closing it for traffic.
There was an immense crowd, but the arrange-
ments made by Mr. Superintendent White, of the
H. division of police, who had a strong body of the
force in attendance, secured order, and much as-
sisted the;firemen in their arduous operations. The
volunteer fire brigade of Mr. Hodges, of the Lam-
beth distillery, were On the spot in full force. .
The loss of property is computed at £30,000,
which will fall on several offices.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
AUGUST 16.
There are two kinds of news which military men
can learn from newspapers—that which is gleaned
by analysis of the contents, the value of which de-
pends on the materials and the skill of the operator ;
and direct intelligence, the worth of which is in
proportion to its correctness. To tell a general that
a work is well built is like acquainting him that
Troy was strong. To tell him that such a regiment
is in such a place, trivial as it seems, may be of
immense use to him if he knows how the divisions
and brigades of his enemy are composed. A fort
differs from an earthworth as much, "as an iron-
plated frigate from the Trojan horse. But in its
way the horse may be made the ruin of Troy. If
A,Fere,to stag, tb,alajottflontaip,ekso many uns,F
and that thy bo-re on such and such points, rmight
lead my military friend into a fatal error, if I did
not inform him that there was a ditch with 12 feet
of water in it outside. If the position of the ma-
gazines were indicated to an investing force, it
would be worth much more than the knowledge of
the calibres of the guns, which are soon ascertained
by tangible proofs. There are hundreds of points
of this kind on which ignorance requires to be in-
formed as to worth and uselessness. It is necessary
to say so, because an outcry has come from the
South, I hear, against me for communicating to the
enemy—i.e., the North—intelligence which I was
enabled to acquire in my capacity as a neutral. Now,
let me say, that though I was a neutral I was the
special correspondent of a newspaper published a
long way off, and that I distinctly stated to every
officer whose command I visited, on both sides, that I
was going to publish so much of what I saw as ap-
peared to me likely to interest the readers of the
journal I represented. I went so far as to say to more
than one, " Mind ! what I write will come back in a
month or six weeks." I saw everything, but I was
far from publishing everything. I did more than could
have been expected from me, for I did not enter upon
details, which would have been far more injurious
to the Southerners than the general statements I
made in reference to the condition and position of
their men and batteries. When I set out to visit the
South from Washington hostilities had not corn..
menced, but I felt they were coming, and it appeared
to me desirable to visit the South before the hot
weather physically set in, and, above all, before the
hotter weather pol itically which I apprehended came
upon me. It was obvious that, with the coasts
blockaded and mails cut off, it would have been of
little use for your correspondent to have been in the
South, unless he had adopted the ingenious expe-
dient of the representative of one of your contem-
poraries, and published his letters in a local paper
before he sent them to London. I made my tour in
the South as a neutral, but those who met me will
do me the justice to admit that I never concealed
my opinions, or simulated those which I did not feel,
as my letters afterwards could have shown. I may
claim for myself the credit of having spoken boldly
and openly to all men—more than once or twice to
the disturbance of the agreeable social relations
which I held with men who were socially all I could
wish, and whose kindness and courtesy—nay, more,
whose actual friendship, I shall always remember.
And all that time I was undergoing- the savage
censure of the Northern papers because I went to
the South at all, and saw with my own eyes what
they could not see, and did not take all their myths
as gospel! Very soon after I arrived at Washing-
ton I was invited to the house of a Cabinet Minister,
when I met a very energetic officer of the naval
department, who asked me point blank, " In what
state are their works at Memphis and Randolph P"
I replied, " I cannot answer you, sir. I visited the
works as a neutral, and, as the correspondent of a
neutral newspaper in a foreign country, I have com-
municated all I think proper to state on the sub-
ject." Now, at that very moment my letter was on
its way to the Times, but, though I made use of con-
siderable detail in describing General Pillow's works,
I abstained from much which was learnt in confi-
dence, just as I refrained in the very same letter
from stating many matters relating to Cairo. For
instance, General Pillow told me in confidence he
had ordered a chain cable from New Orleans to
stretch across the Mississippi so as to bring up any
steamers under his batteries, and possibly to sink
them, but, as I did not see the cable, I did not
think it right to mention the circumstance, any
more than I did Mr. Benjamin's views as to the
law of blockade, Mr. Jeffersons Davis's private re-
marks, or the little matters which are made known
to the man, and not to the newspaper correspon-
dent. Now, it must be remembered that all I
wrote to England from the South was new ; it was
intelligence no Northern papers could give; it was
notorious that I intended to send it to England.
At that time direct intelligence flooded the land
with light from the North, and any man could
learn how many regiments had arrived at Wash-
ington, how many guns had been put in position or
in the field, as clearly as he knew what Mrs. Lin-
coln said when she was buying a set of china in
New York, or of what pattern the said set was.
For. all the American world I preserved unbroken
silence as to what I saw in the South; till my
letters came back no one knew what I had seen.
If any living man can prove that before I left
New York I had expressed anything but wonder at
the apathy and calm which existed there when my
visit took place, or that before I visited the South,
or when I was there, I ever said a word in appro-
bation of slavery, or expressed any opinion on
either side in opposition to that which appears rather
as a record of impressions than as an opinion from
day to day as I passed through the country; then I
submit to the necessary loss of the confidence you
have placed in me and which you have obtained
for me in this country. This is no light matter.
The character of a newspaper correspondent may
not be of so much worth in America to himself or
to the journal he represents that so much type
should be used in its vindication, but I am sure you
will feel it is due to the paper I represent, and to
him who here represents it, to say so much in reply
to scandalous accusations and to imputations dis-
graceful only to those who use them, which have
been freely used against me. If, as I had occasion
to say once before, General Beauregard, General
Lawton, Colonel Hardee, General Hebert, General
Bragg, Mr. -Walker (the Secretary of War
for the Confederate States), General Pillow, on the
one side, or General Prentiss, General M,Dowell,
General Scott, or Mr. Secretary Cameron, on the
other, can accuse me of breach of faith, it will be
time for me to show I have never betrayed any
confidence or forfeited the claims to trustworthi-
ness which the correspondents of the Times have
gained in the Crimea, India, and Italy. I had no
theories to maintain, no prejudices to justify. I
neither believed that the United States represented
the perfection of government, or that it was the
coup manque of mankind in self-government. I did
not think that slavery was the unforgivable sin,
or that it was the reproduction of the system under
which the Fathers of the Primaeval World ad-
ministered their patriarchial rules. As things
seemed to me, so I sought to describe them. The
husk might be too thick for me to penetrate, but at
least I could say what, as it appeared to me, were
its colour, shape, substance, and nature. Because
New York burst into a frenzy 'when Sumter was