The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-17 00:00:00

GOLBORNE PARK SFAKES.

The Golborno Park Stakes of 10 sovs each, li ft, with 51
aided (if three run), for two y ar of Is; colts Bst, 10.0
fillies and geldings Bst 71b ; winn,:rs once 31b, twice blb
extra ; maidens having started three tittles and 'lever
having received 20 sovs foe beim second allowel 31b, if
fly.: times 51b) ; ss:cond to save his stake ; Qolbourna
Course (about half a mile).
Lady Croorne 1
Rosa Pauline
Whinyard
Mrs. Pow er

Enarr or THE PUBLIC JOIFILN ALB,

Commenting on the further despatches from Abyssinia,
the Times 4leclares that the capture of Magdala was the
lictory of science over untrainea-aittlaminstructed valouto.
rho Abyssinians. were, in natural gifts of courage and
strength, no contemptible foes. But they did not possess
the arms of precision and power which multiply indefi-
nitely the fighting force of an army, and they were
equally deficient in the lessons of discipline which enable
a general to make the most of the materials under his com-
mand. There has been a dramatic completeness, the Times
continues, about the Ah3-ssinian Expedition which must
long make it a favourite episode of history. We entered
upon it with reluctance, and now that it has been attended
'with perfect success we may remember with satisfaction
cur profound disinclination to undertake it. We could
rot avoid the obligation, and we have discharged it. If
the single idea of the duty we owed to our fellow-citizens
and the emissaries the Crown impelled us to the expedi-
tion, some equaliy irresistible force seems to have driven
Theodore to his destruction. It was the old conflict, so
often renewed, and always with the same result, between
civilisation and barbarism, the nice adaptation of means
to emls and the aimless and profuse eNpenditure of untu-
tored strength. Theodore was a representative of the
Ea 4 in all its passion, its abrupt intensity, its igno•
ranee of mechanical advantages. Sir Robert Napier-.-
methodical from beginning to end, preparing with deli-
beration for all the possible chances of the campaign, yet
at the fitting moment rejecting every appliance which
could impede the fighting efficiency of his army, massing
Lis men in due proportion at each point, yet so that they
should be brought together when each had done its part
in the preparation for the general encounter, never
unready, never impulsive, arranging beforehand every suc-
cessive step, but quick to seize any opportunity of swift
action, or to remedy the mischance of any broken link
in the chain of events represented the perfection
of Western discipline and science. It was in per
feet consistency with the contrast thus presented—
it • may almost be said that it was an inevitable
development of the drama played out in Abyssinia—that
Theodore flung aside all the advantages the natural
position of his stronghold gave him, and risked and lost
his fortune. in an open fight, We cannot boast of the
result. It could not have been otherwise. Put civilisa-
tion face to face with barbarism, training iu front of law-
lessness, order against capricious tyranny, and there can
be but one sequel. But the issue may enforce anew the
lesson that, since the crushing of a barbaric Power is thus
inevitable, we ought to be careful above all things lest our
dealings with any such should compel us again to engage
in a contest in which our antagonist must so elrtainly be
crashed that we have not even an unmixed satisfaction in
victory-.