The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-11 00:00:00

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.
Congress met to-day, but adjourned ag.►in, no
quorum being present.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 11.
The Cunard (extra) steamer Tripoli, from New
York, arrived here at 11.13 p.m., with 94 passen-
gers, 22 of whom she landed, with her despatches,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 11.30 p.m. All
well.

Mx Majesty the Queen has been pleased to
a ppove of Mr. Penick Gibson, of 12, Canning-place,
liverrool, and late of Islay, Peru, as Peruvian Consul at
the art of Liverpool.
PROPOSED INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE VICEROY
OP INDIA AND Sawa ALI. —T he Bombay Gazelle states,
that it has be en arranged that the Viceroy and Shore Ali
Klan should have a meeting at Pe hewer. "There/dome
to be already a good understanding (it adds) between the
Ameer and the government of India, and we anticipate
the best results from the interview that is about to take
place. If the Black Mountain problem should be sans-
fintmily solved. and lasting friendly relations be °dab.
Laded with Afghanistan, ' Sir John Lawrence will le ive
India with no little prestige. MS frontier policy —Vie
policy of ` masterly inactivity,' which has been so much
ridiculed and denounced—has been a strong point a ;sin 4
him. Sir William Mansfield, it seems, is to accompany
the Viceroy to Peshawur."
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND THE INDIAN
Payee.--A contemporary, which ought to know, hears
"that the foo:th rule, prohibiting officers of government
to edit news, &pert is about to be withdrawn. All that
will in future be insisted upon is the thorough fulfilment
of official duties, but no interference will take place in
the manner in which an officer chooses to employ
his leisure hours. The rumour is almost too good
to be true, and it would be strange if the
government had at once grown wise on this point.
With the notorious fact staring it in the face that
all officials of merit write for the papers, it still shelters
itself under the pretence that they do not edit any. What-
ever mistakes the government may occasionally commit,
it is undeniable that the official is the class in this country
which is, on the whole, the most intelligent and the moat
educated, and which can afford to be the most liberal and
honest. It is, therefore, inexplicable why government
should prefer to see its best measures misconstrued, rather
than avail itself of the press as a means of enlightening,_ or
asking for the support and the suggestions of the pubic.
We hear in connection with this subject, that it is seriously
contemplated fasten an official journal." —news ef /midis,
Oct. 17.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—Visitors during
the week ending Nov. 7, 1868 :—On Monday, Tuesday,
and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 12,166 ; on
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (addiesion del.), from
10 cm. till 4 p.m.‘l,6Bl—Total, 13,836. Average ax -
responding of o-
responding week in former years, 9,603. Total from the
opening of the museum, 7,882.806.
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ULM Xi=WM OP If warms. •
'Ead's yew" kettreasised a aid Amax in
t of its leafing Ides: . The firklet and
17 drabs it ended. That poor eareasked
who had stowed into is years was
excitemeist, obi weightier Turf cares.
tban'aiany " feat men" know in a • lifetime, has
laid down his sitearrioad.. He malady twenty-
Iniy, and lit bed !littered sway two fine
fussily set ates. Betting* said to he the touchstone
of the Englishman's linearity, but with the
Marquis, a craving for the odds bad really besome
a disease. He worshipped chance with all the ardour
of a fanatic. His wits were, he considered, worth
to hkst in the bettitig Ting at least 20,0001. a-year,
and
.he .ternestinsis threaded his , way throughthe minim of trials and public running
with all the aegaaty of a wizard. Me public coups
went often so brilliant, that it was hardly to be
wendired at that he believed in his own destiny,
end his power to break the ring. He oared little
whether the draining or other improvements on
his Donington estate were stopped, if he only got
fresh supplies for another Newmarket cam-
paign. The ring, on the other hand, had
marled him for their own, and never left
hint. They would cluster beneath the &Jokey
Club balcony at Epsom, holding up their
hands to claim his attention, aid catching at his
replies like a lock of hungry hawks. There ho
would stand smiling at the wild tumult below,
wearing his hat jauntily on one side, a red lower
in his button-hole, and his colours round his
neck, and cool and calm while " the talent" mule
his horse a "hot favourite" at once, and a few
slipped back to the ring to follow his lead. For a
time he was a whet Cocker; but he fell at last
in the mural strife, and the men who bad
" drawn" him most copiously were among those
who ret their faces most sternly against him
when he wished to see the Heath once more.

The Marquis's taste for the turf was not an
hereditary one. His father's heart was with
hound and born. -He loved to halloo " the red
rectal" over the rides far better than watching
the Leger horses close up round the Red-house
turn. The men of the Midlands still speak of him
as quite a representative sportsman with Will
Goodall and the "Sir Harry," whom they lost so
early. He would hardly have stepped aside to
ice a race; but a scarcity of foxes in Charnwood
Forest, or finding himself above twelve stone on
the scales, would have sorely vexed his soul. His
UM cared for none of these things. Still he could
not bear to see the Quern without a master, and he
stepped boldly into the breach when Mr. Clowes re-
signed in '66. He wore the horn at his saddle bow
for conformity's sake, but be never blew it, and he
let the field go its own way, and hunted the
country on no system. A bit of a gallop, a check,
and then trotting off to sift a favourite gorse for
a fresh fox, jumped much more with his humour
than an old-fashioned hunting-run, where hounds
had to puzzle it out. Often, when his hounds had
reached the meet, ten or twelve miles away, he
was hardly out of bed, and he would
turn up "on wheels," and occasionally
from London by special train, and give
Wilson the word to draw, when half the field had
gene home. No wonder that caricatures were
drawn, and squibs flew gaily about, and that even
Leicestershire said it would rather be bled in the
purse-vein than have the country hunted gratis in
such fashion. Satirical verses failed to sour him.
Ho took the sting out of their tail by reprinting
them at his own private press, and posted them
far and wide. On the last day of his mastership
be slipped quietly away to the station, and when
they looked for him to give him a parting cheer
he had been well nigh gone an hour.
'I be honour of being "the man who belongs to"
the Duke, or The Earl, or Little Lecturer, was
no burden to him. He took quite naturally to
the turf from the first, enfolded under the wing
of Danebury. In 1862 not six people at New-
market knew who the slim lad was on the grey
cob ; bet the ring soon saw that ho was a veritable
Eampshire ambassador when ho put down the
mcney so unflinchingly on a Danbury pot. To
Join Day's suggestion that in his position he was
morally bound to have a nice yearling or tie,' of
his own, he leant no ungracious ear. When the
rivalry round the Hampton-court and Middle-
/ ask rings almost foamed into madness, and 2,530
guineas and 2,000 guineas were among the yearling
prices of one afternoon, he was never tern pted beyond
1,60 guineas for King Charles, and 1,300 guineas
for Robespierre. The former would have boon
do cr at t 0 guineas, and the latter won well in the
colours of another. His two best horses, The
Duke (ZOO guineas) and The Earl (450 guineas)
were among his cheapest purchases. The late
Alfred Day first wore his colours on Garotter in
the Althorp Park Stakes at Northampton, and
Sam Rogers won a maiden plate on that colt a
few weeks afterwards. The first great victory for
the "red and white hoops" was the Combridge-
shire of 1864, with Acworth, which had been
esteemed a dear two thousand purchase. Gradu-
ally his stable swelled to upwards of thirty, and
about 70,6001. were the spoils of six seasons.
Catalogue was a great put of his lordship's. and
ho did not care how much he backed her for in a
selling sweepstakes, and how dearly he redeemed
her. A cycle of barrenness followed one of pro-
furecn, and Mr. Psidwick graciously allowed hint,
in 186 t, to have Kangaroo at, it was said,
12,0001., and he never won as many halfpence,
while Tie Duke was useless, from influenza, till
half the season was over. In 1860, which pro-
duced him a One Thousand Guinea winner in
Repulse, and a Goodwood Cup ono in The Duke,
the stable was once more at a dead lock for a
Cesarewitch home, but Little Lecturer, a foal from
the Recliners) sale, carried set. 31b.. and won, it
wee said, 40,0001. for the Donnington party.
A winter's reflection convinced his lordship that
Hermit could never win the Derby, and 103,0091.
was the price he paid for his thoughts. People
wile once wont to tell, almost below their breath,
that " Davis, the Leviathan," had been known to
pay away 60,6001. on the Derby. The present ago
is capul to of gloater efforts, as before the Monday
the bankers and solicitors had consulted, and the
whole of the Marquis's losing. were found for
him. Thus panic was averted front " The Corner,"
hut the fair lands of Loudoun passed from his hand.
At Ascot his lucky star rose once snore. Lady Eliza-
beth and Lecturer were both in form, and his lord-
ship kept backing them, and piling on the winnings
apa:n by a sort of geometric progression, gambling
till to had won nearly half " his ain again." It
was now the turn for reverses. His
lordship rather fancied The Earl, bat
the stable overruled him in favour of Lady
Elizabeth. The flying filly came back with
a sadly chequered fame a bad fifth for the Middle
Park Plate, and yet the victress in one of the molt
woneerful of modern matches at 91b. with the
three-year-old Julius.
Tie Marquis bad now fallen back again to
nearly the same " agony point " in fins:mess when
ho saw the " all-rose" handed home for the Derby.
A weary winter followed, and he was so driven
from pillar to poet by money troubles and turf
creditors that he lost him interest in turf matters
and his head for calculations with it. The irritable
Lady Elisabeth wasted to a shadow in her
halting ; and how The Earl was scratched,
and then became the hero of the Perishing,
and the Ascot visitors, and how the few words
that were dropped York proved the pee-
curler of hie doom, sire all dark pal-
sages of turf politics, and not sway forgotten. We
saw the last of The Earl when he was bought in as
stout as a burgomaster for 3,900 guineas at Tat-
tereall's, and then he departed to Finden with
a leg, upon whose chances of standing a pre-