The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-29 00:00:00

motives.

I admit that horses famed for running long die.
tances are scarce, because the game is so seldom
played. The heroes of old were generally small
horses. The celebrated Gimcrack, in 1765, stood
13 hands 3 inches. Latterly we have bred more
for size and strength. From the days of Rubens,
Castrel, and Selim (1810), we have looked for speed
to win the valuable one-mile sweepstakes ; but size
and strength will be served when great Weights are
to be carried. In 1824 the speedy
and magnificent
Salt= beat the stout Centaur on the Round Course
at 12st. and list. 91b. ; but the same year Centaur
turned the tables on him at 9st. 31b. and 9st. on the
Beacon Course,and had the big one extended at the
turn of the lands.

Mahratta, a large, Powerful horse, which could
not get six furlongs at light weights in good com-
pany, could carry me, riding 17st., four miles under
11 minutes. He afterwards turned out a very stout
hunter. This convinces me that a great- framed
racehorse Which would be beaten 500 yards in four
miles by a clear winded small horse, carrying Ist.
71b. each,
Would reverse the case to the same amount
at 16st,, When the little one could not act under the
weight. Therefore, by gaining great size and
strength we have adapted the Anglo-Arabian to
carry heavy men across the country, and at the head
of their regiments ; this is the national view of the
subject. It may be difficult to procure such horses,
because foreign agents will give £6OO for any tho-
roughbred horse up to 14st. which can bend his
knees, to supply Royal and Imperial stables on the
Continent.

As the price of young stock depends in great
measure on the amount of prizes in prospectu, every
withdrawal of public money affects their value,
The present Royal plates (insignificant as they ap-
pear) are boons to the breeder, and afford amusement
to our country friends. Their abolition would be a
drop of water to the Revenue, which derives a
great income from the turf. Calculate the sum of
money which the Treasury receives in eight days
from the dense crowds at Ascot and Epsom.
Nobody imagines that in an assembly of sensible
and thoroughbred gentlemen Mr. Percy Wyndham's
motion will find support.*

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
13, Berkeley-square, June 27. H. I. Rovs.

* Our correspondent has shown only his customary fore-
sight in all matters, relating,
however remotely, to the
Turf. Mr Percy Wyndham's motion, as will be seen by
our Parliamentary Report, found no support.

//.

Naval and Military Intelligent*-

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Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., the newly- appNated
commandant of the garrison a Woolwich, on Monday held
his first inspection. The troops assembled in review order
at 10 o'clock a.m. on the common, in the following order:_
Three troops of Royal Horse Artillery and two field batter-
ries, in command of Col. W. Middleton, C. 8.; the 13th Bri-
gade Royal Artillery and the Woolwich division Marine
Light Infantry, in command of Col. Mitchell; and two bat-
teries of 40 pounder guns, in command of Col. A. G. Austen.
Gen. Warde was attendee by Brigadier-Major Hey, Capt.
Nangle, Deputy-Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen. of the garri-
son; Capt. Williams, A.D.C., and other officers composing
the staff, who after going through a careful inspection of the
line retired to the front, when the troops marched past in
open columns of batteries. After this they were put through
sundry field movements, of which the General was pleased
to express his repeated approbation. The inspection termi-
nated at 1 o'clock.
The Fourth Annual Military Rifle Match, open to all
officers and men of the British army, took place at Alder-
shot, at the butts beneath Caenr's Camp, last week, on Mon-
day, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The prizes were the Army
Stakes, for non-commissioned officers end men—the Cham-
pion's Prize, for the six best six shots at the Army Stakes
—the Ladies' Pu-so, for officers—the Marksmen's Prize,
for non-commissioned officers and men qualified as marks-
men during the present ennteal course, and marksmen of
last year of companies not yet exercised—the Veteran Stakes,
for non-commissioned officers and men of not less than 15
years' service—the Carbine Stakes—the Challe,nge Prize
Cup, presented by the Sonth-Western Railway Company--
the File Firing Stakes, the Volley Stakes, the Non-Com-
missioned Officers Prizes, and the Rifle Derby. There were
also pool targets open to all comers. The shooting exhibited
a 'parked improvement on that of former years. Among the
visitors on the ground during the last day were Lieut.- Gen.
Sir J. L. Pennefather, K.C.B.—Capt. Bogle A.D.C,—
Major-Gen. Russell, C.B.—Lieut.-Col. Colville, Brigade-
Major 2d Brigade--Col. Lowe, C. 8., Ist battalion 6th Re-
giment—Lieut.-Col. Jones, 73d Regiment., and many other
officers of the Staff and Division, in whose presence the
prizes were handed to the successful competitors by Capt.
Twynam, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, at the
close of the proceedings.
In accordance with instructions received at Chatham from
the Admiralty, the War Department transport Marlborough
shipped at Upnsr Castle on Monday the powder and shell
for the screw steam frigate Dauntless, 31, 580 horse power,
Capt. J. Strange, which is to be attached to the Channel
fleet. The Dauntless has undergone a most extensive repair,
both to her hull and machinery, since she has been lying in
the Medway. She was originally intended to be stationed
in the Humber for the Coastguard service, but from subse-
quent orders received at Chatham, it is intended that she
shall join the Channel fleet. Her full complement of officers
and men will be at once made up, the latter taken from the
steam reserve.

The officials in charge of the Chatham steam reserve have
received orders from the Admiralty for the necessary stores
for,'keeping the engines and machinery in order to be sup-
plied to the vessels lately composing the Anglo-Chinese
squadron, under the command of Capt. Sherard Osborn,
C.B.—namely, the Tin-Sin, the Pekin, and the China,
which are now at moorings at the Lapwell, near the entrance
to Chatham harbour.

The Edinburgh, 60, 200 horse power, late Coastguard
ship at Queensferry, has been entirely dismantled, and had
her stores returned into the dockyard. She has been dis-
masted prior to being placed in the third division of the
Chatham steam reserve.

The Assurance, 4, 300 horse power, Commander Wool-
combe, screw despatch vessel, having sprung her foremast
during her run round from the westward to the Nore, has
had her defects made good at Sheerness dockyard, and is
now moored in the Medway awaiting orders from the Ad-
miralty.

In order to complete the screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400
horse power, which is ordered for immediate commission,
instructions have been received at Chatham dockyard from
the Admiralty, directing the joiners employed on that
vessel to be paid exertion money. :An Admiralty order was
likewise received at Chatham dockyard yesterday, directing
the workmen in the sawing department to be employed for
three months on task and job work.

An order has been received at Chatham from the Admi-
ralty, directing a list to be immediately forwarded to their
lordships of those shipwright apprentices and engineer stu-
dents who are considered eligible, and who may be desirous
of competing for admission into the newly-established
School of Naval Architecture, South Kensington.
The ships of war on the Australian station ar the date of
the last advices were the Harrier, 17, Capt. Sullivan (ordered
home)—the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins—the Eclipse, 4,
Capt. Mayne—the Curagoa, 23, Commodore Wiseman—
the Esk, 21, Capt. Hamilton—and the Falcon, 17, Capt.
Parkin. All these vessels were at New Zealand.
Mr Slade, private secretary to Captain W. H. Stewart,
C. 8., superintendent of Chatham dockyard,has been super-
annuated on a pension of £515 per annum, after upwards
of 50 years' service.

The following appointments have been made at the Ad.
minify: —Geo. J. Starr, paymaster, additional, to tho Irre-
sistible—Edwin A. Smith, paymaster, additional, to the
Blenheim—George P. Rickcord and W. Pinhorn, paymas-
ters, additional, to the St. George—Wm. C. P. Grant, pay-
master, to the Trafalgar—Patrick O'Connor, paymaster, to
the Impregnable— Henry N, Scaife, paymaster, t, the St.
George—W. H, J. Brown, paymaster, to the President—
and Thoma. Forder, clerk, to the Victory, as supernume-
rary—Cornelius Fox, master, additional to the Fisgard—J.
W. INl`Kenzie, promoted to en; neer, supernumerary, to
the Asia—E. IL Hewing, master's assistant, supernume-
rary, to the Edgar—James W.Valance, clerk to the Royal
Adelaide, as supernumerary—William H. Kay, assistant •
clerk, to the Canopus--and A. Ward, nominated to a naval
cadetship.

The Grand Duke of Oldenburg and the

Duchies,

FRANKFORT-ON.THE-MAINE, June 26.
The following is the test of the declaration msde
at the Federal Diet by the representative of Olden-
burg, embodying t le Grand Duke's claim to the
Duchies of Schleswig end Holstein :
"The high Federal Assembly has already been
officially made acquainted through the representa-
tive of the Germanic Diet at the London Conference
with the declaration delivered by the Russian repre.
sentative at the sitting of the Conference upon the
2d inst. This statement was that his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia, to facilitate as greatly as pose
Bible the restoration of peace, had ceded to his Royal
Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg the right of
succession falling to his Majesty as the chief of the
1 elder Gottorp line, by the abrogation of the London
Treaty of 1852, and specially reserved in such event
by the Warsaw protocol of 1851, His Majesty the
Emperor Alexander has recently confirmed this decla-
ration in an autograph letter addressed to the Grand
Duke from Kissengen on the 19th inst., a copy of
which the Government of the Grand Duke has the
honour to hand herewith to the high Federal Diet.
"After mature consideration of the present state
of the Schleswig-Holstein question and of the true
interests of the entire German Fatherland, his
Royal Highness the Grand Duke thoroughly ap-
preciates the lofty motives of his 'Majesty the
Emperor of Russia with regard to the obstacles to
a lasting restoration of peace, and thankfully ace
cepts the cession of the rights of succession to the
Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig, accruing to the
chief of the elder Gottorp line after the abandon-
ment of the London Treaty.
"The Government of the Grand Duke, while
hastening to make this notification to the high
Federal Assembly, intends to neglect nothing tend-
ing to establish the rights of succession thus ceded
of his Royal Highness, as first representative of a
younger Gottorp line, descended from Duke Peter
Frederick Lous of Oldenburg, to the Duchy of
Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig, inseparably
conneoted by hereditary right with the same,
"It has hitherto been unnecessary for the Go-
vernment of the Grand Duke to enter protest
against the claims to succession laid before the
Federal Diet by another branch of the Schleswig-
Holstein House immediately after the death of King
Frederick VII. of Denmark, and thE- entire extinc-
tion thereby of the male branch of the Danish line.
It has abstained from so doing solely in the interests
of Germany and of the Duchies themselves. Equally
in the same interests the Government of the Grand
Duke will in future consider it its duty to defend
the right of the various branches of the Gottorp line,
to the succession in preference to any other, sine.s
this right, freed from the obligations of the \'Vars•eve
protocol and London treaty is no longer opposed to a
separation of the Duchies from Denmark, but passing
to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg
by the Imperial Act of cession is called on to render
possible the complete independence of the Duchies,
under a German Federal Prince and a rcstoration,
of peace with Denmark.

The Government of the Grand Duke reserves an
explanation of the relations to the successio❑ in
Schleswig-Holstein for the establishment of the
rights of succession ceded to his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke, and herewith enters its protest
against any result being decided upon by the high
Federal Assembly with regard to the claims to the
succession submitted to it by his Highness Duke
Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonder burg.
Augustenburg.'

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COLLARD'S CONCERT ROOMS,
16, Grosvenor-street, Grosveno -square.
THIS DAY, Miss KATE GORDON'S Second MATINEE
MUSICALE.

AYL ITALIAN OPEIL A,
Covent-aarden.
The n-bility, sentry, subscribers, and the public are respect-
fn 'wormed that the :Season will close on :Saturday,

July 30.
Vine will in this week be five opera nights, viz. Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and ti aturday.
Extra IS ight
TO-MORROW EVENING (Thursday), June 30, will be
perferrned. Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, in four acts, LE
rROPH ETE. Fides, Madame Didiee, her nrst aT pe ‘rance
in that character this season ; Bertha, Madame Rudersdorff ;
Count Oberthal, Signor Tarrliafiro ; Zaccaria, Signor Capp oni ;
Mathisen, Polonini ; Giona, Signor Neri-Baraldi ;
and Jean of Leyden, Signor Tamberlik, his first appearance
in that character this season.
Conductor, Mr. Costa.
The Grand Skytin,q, Scene and incidental Divertisserr eat
will be supported by 313 le. Salvoni, lldlee. Carmine, Mdlle.
:Navarre, end 31. Desplaces. _ .