The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

spOILTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

NEWMARKET RACES—MIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
HANDICAP—CESARE WITCH COURSE.
Signalman
Raglan
Ramrod
.. 3
Five ran.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.

Ca; ♦REW ITCH.
7to 2 agst Mail Train
6to 1 agst Gratitude
Bto 1 agst Calista colt
10 to 1 ngst Thalestris
100 to 6 cast Lady Hylda
25 to 1 agst Charmian
33 to 1 cgst Cathedral
All ctf,,red

SCRAI CIIINGS.

Sweepstakes of 50 Sow—Scarlet Runner, Alcyone, and
Isca.

Hurstbourne Stakes—Rosa Lee, Keepsake, Star, and
Van Dunck.
Sweepstakes of 300 Sars—llouri.
Octet, Produce Stakes—Princess of Wales.

Cesarewitch—Stockowner, Edward the Confessor, Canis-
brook, Accident, Scamander, Fantail, Summerside, The
Giant, Bandage, and Retainer.

CITY BETTING,—Tnis DAY.
CESAREWITCII.
7 to 2 agst Mail Train (taken)
6to 1 agst Gratitude (taken)
8 to 1 agst Calista colt
10 to 1 agst Thalestris (taken)
100 to 6 aget Lady Hylda (taken)
20 to 1 agst Cathedral (offered)
20 to 1 agst Suspicion (offered)
20 to 1 aget Charmian (offered, 25 to 1 taken)
33 to 1 agst Planet (offered)
33 to 1 agst Beatrix (offered)
40 to 1 agat Blackdown (taken)
60 to 1 agst Beaver.(offered)
60 to 1 agat Alabama (offered)
60 to 1 agat Brewer (taken and offered)
100 to 1 aget Dr Syntax (offered)
100 to 1 agst Lady Frances (offered)
100 to 1 agst Roly_Poly (offered)
100 to 1 agst Myrtle (offered)

SFORTING NOTES.

THE CESAREWITCII.

The races of last week threw no light on the great event
to be decided to-morrow, with the exception of Mail Train
and Gratitude meeting with increased support, and the
firmness of Lady Hylda in the market after her easy defeat
of East Lancashire in the Guineas. There will, in all pro-
bability, be about 30 horses face the starter, to be selected
from the following :

Horse. age at lb Trainer.
Blackdown
Vermont .. , 3 8 4 T. Carter
Despair
Accident..
Bollman 6 7 9 T. Clay
Donne Canna
Hollyfox
The Brewer .. a 7. 0 Private
Lady Hylcla
King Charming
Charming Woman
Raglan
Tattoo 6 6 10 W. Day

Mail Train 3 6 10 W. Day
Beaver ........
Crisis

Myrtle
Valiant
Planet 3 6 7 W. Goater
Suspicion ..

Beatrix
Highflyer's dam colt
Cathedral
Calista colt 3 6 4 J. Hayhoe
Nemo 3 6 3 T. Cliff
Thalestris
Gratitude
Lady Frances filly
Wandering Minstrel
Auricula 3 5 10 J. Scott
Roly-poly ..
Alabama
Charmian
Battaglia

Speculation
Blaekdown, who won the Goodwood Stakes as a three-
year-old, heads the list, and if in anything like form
is certainly not out of the fray ; but he does not look
as if he was wanted on the present occasion.
His stable companion, Dr. Syntax, may also
help to swell the field, but the opposition which set in
against him last week seems to have settled his chance.
Vermout and Miner are also probable starters. The latter
may run to assist his stable companion, but he has not the
ghost of a chance,as he is a greatly overrated horse. Despair,
5 years, Tat 121 b, is certainly not out of the race, and might
run into a "situation.' Weatherbow will represent Sir
Joseph Hawley, but his previous performances have been
so moderate, that I am disinclined to place much confidence
in him. The old Brewer has been supported for the out-
side chance both by the public and his owner, in the expec-
tation that he may turn oat another Flash in the Pan.
Those who trust him will find out their mistake when the
numbers are hoisted. Ten Broeck has three engaged—viz.,
Canzonette, Myrtle, and Charmian. He is always to be
feared for this race, and whichever he selects will be near
winning, if not the aceual winner. The money market
points to Charmian as likely to carry his colours. Mail Train
is the Simon Pure of William Day's lot, and the money
has been piled on as if the race was all over but shouting.
No trainer makes fewer m'stakes. With such tackle in the
stable to try his horses, he ought not to be left out
in any lot to beat the field. The Calista colt will repre-
sent Baron Rothschild. No horse could be better, or
more fit, and with such horses as Hipolyta and Evelina
in the stable to try him with, he ought to hold
safe all the three-year-olds. At all events the public are
certain to get a good honest run for their money, which is
more than can be said of nearly all the others enraged.
Gratitude, a brown filly by Newminster, out of Charity, by
Melbourne, has never yet won a race, although she ran five
times last year. She was once highly thought of for the
Oaks, but disappointed her party. She is now in fine con-
dition, and if she cannot win with only fist on her back she
ought to be turned out of tra'ning and put in a cab.
Thalestris is one of the best bred horses in the race, and
after her defeat of Early Purl, quite a rush was made to
get on. That she can stay the distance admits of no
doubt. The money is on, and she is sure to take a promi-
nent part in the encounter. Crisis has too much weight,
and Planet will be more at home over a shorter course. Sus-
picion has been under a cloud for some time, but has now
resumed a more healthy appearance in the quotations. His
running with Red Cap and Magnum Bonnm at Lewes was
no mean performance, and if he only goes fit to the post, it
will give the favourites all their work to beat him. Cathe-
dral is the hope of John Osborne's stable, and is said to be
better than the Miner at even weights. He is about
the best place investment of anything in the
race, as the favourites seldom run into a place
if they cannot win. My final impression is
that the race will lay between GRATITUDE, MAIL
TRAIN, CALISTA COLT, SUSPICION, and THALESTRIS
and, in endeavouring to forestall the judge in his decision,
I shall place
MAIL TRAIN or GRATITUDE 1
CALISTA COLT .. 2
SUSPICION , • .

The Select Stakes will be secured by Cambuscan, and the
Beaufort Stakes by Sir Roger. Longdown ought to win
the Prendergast, and Fille de l'Air or Mail Train the
Derby.
A FRESH MAN.

TATTERSALLS'—SATURDAY,
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
4to 1 aget Mail Train (offered) (9 to 2 taken
freely)
6to 1 agst Gratitude (taken)
100 to 12 agst Calista colt (cffered) (9 to 1 taken)
9to 1 agst Thalestris (taken)
1000 to 55 agst Suspicion (wanted)
18 to 1 agat Lady ilylda (offered)
25 to 1 agst Cathedral (taken)
25 to 1 agat Planet (offer, d)
33 to 1 agst Charmiau (taken)
33 to 1 agst The Beatrix (taken)
1000 to 20 agst A.ckworth (taken)
50 to 1 agst Blackdown (taken)
66 to 1 agst Dr. Syntax (offered)
1000 to 15 agst The Brewer (taken)
CAHBRIDGESIIIILE.
100 to 6 agst Prince Plausible (taken)
100 to 6 egg Muezzin (taken)
100 to 6 agst Gratitude (taken)
25 to 1 agat Bayard (taken)
25 to 1 agat Brick (offered)
1000 to 35 agat Planet (taken)

WRECKS.—During the past week 35 wrecks have
been reported, making a total for the presenc year of 1,351

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

NEWMARKET RACES—Tars DAY.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS.

Jessie
Mirage 1
Six ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. T.Y.C.
17 abalathus ... ...
.... .... 1
Turcos
Banter
3

Five ran.
£5O HANDICAP PLATE. TWO-YEAR-OLD.
Pantaloon
1
Edinburgh
2
Fifteen ran.

LATEST BITTING.
CRSAREWITCH.
10 to 3 apt Mail Train (taken)
lo 1 agst Gratitude (taken)
10 to 1 agst Charmian (taken freely)
9to 1 agst Thalestris (taken)
20 tq 1 agst Planet (taken)
25 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken)

The Match between Mace and Coburn,

The following letter appears in a contemporary:—..'• Sir,
—As Mace has published letters in the sporting journal.,
in which he reflects upon myself, and as you are considered
the daily organ of fair sporting, I trust to your impartiality
for the favour of inserting this reply. Mace says that
Mr Brunton never found a shilling.' A truthful state-
ment of facts will be the best answer to this. I was ap-
pointed to receive all moneys to be staked on Mace's behalf,
and the proof of my having done so is that I still hold the
receipts for the money placed in the hands of the stake-
holder. It is not to be supposed, nor have I ever asserted,
that I found him the £633, but I did my best towards it.
The sporting gentlemen placed their money in my hands,
which I duly forwarded to Bell's Life; and since his letter
I have asked several who they were 'standing' money
with, and their answer has uniformly been, ' With you,
Brunton.' If I did not actually put the £5OO down for
him, it was deposited and raised by and through me. I am
sorry to expose chat which should have been secret, but in
my own defence I must remind Mace that when a forfeit
was imminent, and when only £lOO a-side had been posted,
I went and made good the £5O on my own responsibility and
risk, not knowing if the match had fallen through whether
I should got back a farthing. Is this not finding money ?
Again, another peril assailed the progress of the match, and
sooner than that it should be off, one of Mace's best friends
advanced £45 beyond the £5O he had already given, at my
moat urgent appeal. Is not this finding' or getting' the
money ? In the list that gentleman will be found for £95
instead of £5O, These are facts that Mace, or his scribes,
cannot gainsay.

" And, now, as to the Dublin affair. My leaving him
without a shilling is simply false. Mace told me that he
had plenty of money to get him to the ring tide; be that as
it may, I paid the hotel bill, amounting to £l2 Hs. Gi.,
out of which £ll 2s. 31, was for himself, Milner, and Mr
Montague (Mace's secretary). To say that I loft him
without a shilling is ungrateful as well as untrue, as I lent,
or as I suppose it will prove, gave him £5. When Milner
came to the choice of the referee, I certainly would not give
the veto out of my hands, having a due regard to those who
had found the stakes, and intrusted them in my hands. I
named the representative of Bell's Life for referee, and, of
course, I objected to a Mr Bowler, whom I did not know,
who was not present, and when I askel to see him he was
not forthcoming.

" No possibility of the match coming c ff, I then said that I
had done with the affair, having a proper regard to those
gentlemen who had found the money on the understanding
that it was for a fair, straightforward contest, and so I left.
I did not leave Mace penniless, as I have proved. It was
from no wish of mine that he showed in public or ran races
with bygone champions. I went from place to place, and
did my best to bring off the m:.tch. I expended LS 10s.
beyond £25 I took with me to forward Mace's interest.
This I do not regret, but I think it wrong that truth
should be perverted,

"Mace says I ' did not find a shilling.' I repeat I hold
the vouchers for the whole of the stakes down at Bell' s
Life; and if any of those gentlemen who have found the
mont.,y, with myself, do not receive their own again, it will
be no fault of " Your obedient servant,

"BARRY T. BRUNTON'
"Beech-street, Barbican, Oct. 8."

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Oct. 10.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 9.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Vesuvius, from Halifax—her Majesty's ship
Speedy, for Jersey.
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 9.—Wind N.E. —Arrived —Traneat
!antic, from Sydney—Moderate, from Colombo, Sailed—.
Beaute, for Barcelona.

OFF POUTLAND, Oct. 9.—Arrived—St, Dunstan, from
London for Adelaide.

OFF THE START, Oat. 9.—Arrived—Young Lelsanon,
from China.

BRISTOL, Oct. 9.--Wind E.— Arrived—Alonzo, from
Havannah.

GLOUCESTER, Oat. 9.—Wind N. E .—Arrived—Eliza,
from H avannah,

FALMOUTH, Oct. 9.—Wind N.E,—Arrived—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Urgent, from Quebec, and proceeded for
Portsmouth.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PORTSMOUTH, Monday Morning.
Her Majesty's troopship Urgent has arrived from Quebec
with the Scots Fusilier Guards on board, who disembark
and proceed to town to-day.
Orr MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrives, Oct. 9—Prince, from Jersey—Cogrette, from
Gothenburg—Carmine, from Taganrog—Fairy Queen and
Foanziska, from Archangel—Glance, trom Restock—Hero,
from St. Brieux.

Arrived, Oct. 10—Newbottle, Sicily, and PinceEs Vic-
toria, from Riga—Erwartung, Bertha, and Pilgrim, from.
Arohangol—Young Lochinvar, from Foo-chow-zoo—li ems-
kabet, from Nyland—Ann Forster, from Bremerhaven—.
Mentor, from Worcum—Riga, from Gothenburg—Pride of
Ipswich, from Antwerp—Sieve, from Cronstadt—lienrik,
from Obkarahamn.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, Oct. 9—Guiditta, for Naples—Anne Wilson, for
Genoa, both from Shields—D wina, for Nageaki—Triumph,
for Cuba—both from London.

THE LIFEBOAT ENGRAVING.—The proprietors
of the Illustrated London News, with the eame
disposition they have shown on former occasions to aid ha
promoting the great and truly benevolent objects of the
National Lifeboat Institution, are about to publish, wish the
number of that journal for the 15th instant, a large coloured
engraving, from an eriginal and special drawing in water
colours, by Edward Duncan, Esq , Member of the Society of
Painters in Water Colours, the subject being " The Lifeboat
off Tynemouth Bar," As this admirable coloured illustra-
tion is one of the finest pictures of the lifeboat of the insti-
tution ever issued, we trust that it will receive a very large
circulation, and thus be a permanent memorial of the noble
work which is performed in every storm by the gallant fel-
lows who are ever ready to man our lifeboats.

MISS BATEMAN.—Another week of brilliantly
and overflowing houses, says the Liverpool Chronicle,
bas proved conclusively the firm hold this young lady has
gained upon the admiration and esteem of the Liverpool
public. Such audiences, either in point of numbers or posi-
tion among our citizens, are rarely, if ever, seen in the
Theatre Royal; and we congratulate Mr Copeland on
his managerial tact in securing such a powerful magnet
as "Leah" has proved. It is much to be regretted that
Miss Bateman's stay is necessarily so brief; could it
have been prolonged for a month the time would
scarcely have proved sufficient to permit the eager multi-
tude, who thronged around the doors of the theatre, an
opportunity to witness this, the great tragic impersonation
of cur century. A convincing proof of the truth and
beauty of Miss Bateman's acting is the fact that a second
visit but gives her auditors some now charm to discover,
and that the eff_rzt of her tender pathos is rather heightened
than subdued by repetition. Gifted, beautiful, and entirely
worthy the respect and admiration she everywhere receives,
we but express the sentiments of all who have seen her whoa
we claim for Miss Bateman the very highest position on the
British stage.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TEMPLE.—In addition
to the renovation and beautifying the interior of
the Temple Church, which has just been completed, the
beuchers of the Inner Temple are making great improve-
ments; the interior and exterior of the hall and library ere
being redecorated, and the first-named building ventilated
on an improved principle. An immenso stack of buildings,
faced with white stone, Las been erected on the vacant
ground bO3 ond Crt,wn-ofiee. row, facing the Temple-gar-
dens and Fig-tree-court. The buildings aro very extenbive,
and are intended fur chambers; there are three entrances
from Crown office-row. City Ftvss.
PACKETS FUR ITALY.—Henceforward a Packet
of Printed Papers, or a Packet eippPliactatetironns,oaf dtelareesperdsottio
Ipteasltinmgaiyt, pbreovriedgeidsttehreadp' onosLagteh,etoagether with a tegistration
fee of 61, be paid in advance.—By command of the Post-
master. General.
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4 LTJJE GREAT BENEDICTINE MONASTERY of
Monte CASsino is ItUB to its glorious literary tradi.
tions. Ia Ecriptot luta was the Oxford University Press of
the middle ages, and turned out the most beautiful copies
of Virgil, Horace, and Livy, as well as of the Missal and
Breviary. The :no- 4ra now engaged iu printing a new
edition o: "D viva Commeia" from a IdS, cf the
it;ut-tta.th ccniuty i:rtogYtd iu ruar library.

The Prince and Princess of Wailes in

Sweden.

(From time limes' Special Correspondent.)
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 3.

Yesterday the Prince and Princess of -Wales, with
the principal members of their suite, attended Di-
vine servile in the English chapel, a building of
very unprepossessing exterior, but within furnished
in all respects suitably. The congregation, for a
foreign city, was considerable, and the great majo-
rity of those present appeared to be regular church-
goers. Hundreds of spectators, however, waiting to
see their Royal Highnesses as they came and went,
stood in the avenue which leads from the Place of
Charles XIII,, the principal boulevard in Stock•
holm, to the gardens in front of the two plain
houses that have been adapted internally to the
purposes of a religious edifice. For the practice, no
dJubt, due canonical and political authority can be
pleaded, but to the ear of an English layman there
always seems to be an omission—a friend's name
wanting, as it were—when upon the Continent, in
a Church of Engiand assembly, the prayer for the
Queen of England and her family is not offered up.
Nothing can be more proper than to show respect
for local authority—but in desiring and in acknow-
lodging good government abroad there is no impro-
priety, to say the least, in desiring and acknow.
ledging good government at home. In many fo-
reign countries the right of assembling for public
worship is, or has been in times past, only extended
to Englishmen because they are
.Englishmen, and
the omission in every such case of the prayer in
question is the more marked because Divine ser-
vice is usually held in the house of the British am-
bassador, and therefore of the English Sovereign
for the time being. In these days of synodical
judgments and attempted revival of Church disci-
pline the point is one which the episcopal bench
might very fairly consider. In Stockholm a new
English church is on the point of being erected,
which will not merely be more commodious
internally, but will possess some claims to
architectural beauty. Having accomplished—what
is necessarily a work of much difficulty abroad—
the procuring of funds for such an undertaking, it
is to be hoped that the chaplain will not rela < his
admirable efforts, but will remember that in the pre-
sent day good church music is becoming as essential
a feature of the English service as worthy shrines
at which to assemble.

I❑ the course of the afternoon their Royal High-
nesses paid a visit to the Freemason Orphan Asylum,
in which Prince Oscar,who is at the head, not merely
of charitable effort, but of progress of every kind in
Sweden, takes the deepest interest. Attended by
the members of their suite they afterwards drove in
open carriages for some time in the vicinity of
Stockholm, dining in the evening with the Royal
family at the palace. To day was devoted altogether
to the second elk shooting expedition, which, just as
light was failing and expectations were dying away,
was crowned with success. The hunting party did
not get back to town till late, when the prince pro-
ceeded at once to Ulriksdal. To-morrow morning,
at 10 o'clock, the special train which is to convey
their Royal Highnesses with the members of their
suite to Gottenburg, en route for Copenhagen, will
start from the terminus here. The distance, up-
wards of 200 miles, is ordinarily accomplished in
something under 11 hours, being an increase in
espe.dition of 21 hours from the time when the line
was opened a couple of years ago. In the case of
this special train it is expected that an additional
3} hours will be saved, thus accomplishing the land
portion of ,the journey in eight hoar's. Two remark-
able features of the Swedish lines, which are under
Government control, is that they keep time at the
different statioLs to half a mir,u'e or so, and that a
list of all the places at which the train is appointed
to stop, with a reliable table of the amount of delay
in each case, is leg,iTy printed and hung up in all
f:e compartments of the carriages composing the
train. Passengers and guards are thereby saved the
fuss and worry of questions at every station; and
persons given to the enjoyment of the good things of
this life can settle beforehand in their own minds
at which buffet they will leisurely descend, what
refreshments it will be possible to obtain within the
given interval, and may avoid that distressing
spectacle so often witnessed at English railway re-
freshment rooms, where the good man, struggling
with a bowl of scalding soup or coffee, is divided
between the wish to pay his money and ge► value
for it, and the necessity of complying with the
urgent summons of the bell.

The Royal yacht and the miniature squadron by
which she is accompanied are already lying at Gut-
tenberg, so that the Prince will embark at once
upon his arrival there. Prince Oscar will accom-
pany their Royal Highnesses in the special train,
as will also Mr Hamilton and Mr Heneage of the
British Legation. After the embarkation, there will
probably be a delay of a couple of hours for dinner,
bat it is expected that, except in the case of very
bad weather, the yacht will put to sea the same
night.
And now that the Royal visit is on the eve of
ending, a simple act of justice must be performed
towards the Swedish Court and the Swedish nation.
Tnis is to express, as far as it can be done in words,
the gratitude, amounting to enthusiasm, which the
members of the Royal party one and all feel at the
reception they have experienced in this country.
The visit was not one preearranged long beforehand,
cr in which even an immediate acceptance of the
invitation cud be returned. The strictly private
nature of the stay in Denmark of their Riyal High-
nesses at first induced a doubt whether in extend-
ing their journey as far as Sweden there might not
be something out of character with the family ex-
cursion originally planned. And after it had been
decided to proceed to Stockholm, there still re-
mained a question whether at so advanced a season
of the year it would be judicious for her Royal
Highness to undertake the voyage. Under all these
circumstances of hesitation and delicacy, the King
proved the kindes;. and most considerate of
hosts. He left it to the Prince and Princess to
name tue time most convenient to themselves, as
well as to fix the duration of their stay, and prac-
tically business of every kind has been relinquished
by his Majesty in favour of the single object of
contributing to the gratification of his guests, and
making their time pass as enjoyably as possible.
It has been the fashion to speak of the Court of
Sweden as a French Court, and naturally many of
the ideas and associations brought by Bernadotte to
the north of Europe have survived him. "After
the French," says the proverb, " the Swedes are the
most charming people in Europe." But to the French
grace of manner they have added the northern sin-
cerity, and whatever may have been the case in
bygone generations there can be no doubt that in
the present day it is the aim of the Swedish policy
to lay the foundation of a sure and cordial alliance
with England. With this object in view every
possible opportunity is taken of paying court to
Englishmen. The desire may be traced in a thou-
sand ways—not merely in the welcome and atten,•
tions lavished upon the Prince and Princess of
Wales, gratifying as these must be to the British
nation, but in special acts of politeness shown to
Englishmen and particularly to members of the
British Legation; especially also in the anxiety
manifested that exact accounts of everything con-
nected with the royal visit should bo forwarded to
England. The mercantile world may say, that after
all these are empty compliments, and that they
would prefer solid commercial advantages. The
Swedish Curt,to the full extent of its power, has
shown itself anxious to meet their views also.
Agaiest the opposition of a strong Protectionist
party, and notwithstanding the fact that in a
c;untry of limited population and wealth, a com-
mensurate quickening of consumption can hardly
be
expected from diminished rates of duty, liberal
revisions and reduction of the tariffs have been
made, and unless the Board of Trade, as at present
constituted, should prove too strong for the rest of
the Ministry, further advances in the same
direction may be looked for. 'Within the
last cuplo of months even, a new law,
conceived in a very liberal spirit towards foreigners,'
received the sanction of the King, and has been
promulgated with reference to the trade and in-
dustry of the kingdom. The railways will
naturally prove most cffi(.ient inaruments in milk.

ing the countries known to each other and establish-
ing a community of interests. For years past
Sweden has possessed a very efficient system of in-
ternal water communication, some of Le line of
steamers yielding as high a dividend as 20 per cent.
and the majority producing a clear 10 per cent. to
the proprietors, Bat of course when steamers
could not run, the system of posting on defective
roads operated as a practical barrier against
travelling, and even the usually unimpeachable
Murray is astray as to so many facts in his
last edition that the country hitherto has been
to all intents and purposes unknown. Two
months hence, when the railway is completed
from Malmoe to Stockholm, the case will be
very different. There will be no more difficulty
then in crossing over Sweden than there is at pre-
sent in getting through Denmark, while a sea
voyage from Lubeck to Malmoe will occupy pres
cisely the same time as to Copenhagen. This will
be a very important consideration where English
capital is flowing largely in the channel that it has
begun to form for itself in developing the dormant
mineral wealth of Sweden. Quite recently an
English company has entered upon a survey of the
Swedish mines, with the object of commencing ope-
rations extensively, and an English bank has been
established in Sweden. These are indications that
when the circumstances became known persons will
not be wanting to take advantage of the present
state of feeling in Sweden, which, politically and
socially, is one of the great facts of the day.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

VICTORIAN.

It appears from the report of the railway departs
meat of the Board of Land and Works in Victoria
that on Nov. 25, 1862, an accident occurred on the
Melbourne and Murray River line at North Mel-
bourne, occasioned by the train to Sandhurst run.
ring into the train to Williamstown; several per-
sons were injured, some severely, but none fatally.
The claims for compensation amounted to £5,318,
including the cost of legal proceedings, The expen-
diture on construction at the end of 1862 charged
against the loan amounted to /7,246,798, but to
this was added £332,140, being expenditure on
construction at that date, cut of the consolidated
revenue, upon which no interest was pay-
able, making the total expenditure £7,578,938.
The capital then authorised to be funded
for construction was £8,368,100, the annual
interest upon which, when the whole of the deben-
tures were issued, would be £501,405. The gross
revenue of 1862 was double that of 1861 ; the open-
ing of extensions in 1862 to some extent accounted
for the increase. The net revenue had increased
from £59,781 in 1861 to £147,789 in 1862. The
percentage of working expenses upon revenue had
been reduced from 65 per cent in 1861 to 54 per
cent in 1862, a result showing that the increased net
income had more than kept pace with the extension
of the lines. The revenue on the Victorian railways
for the year 1862 amounted to £320,308, or to 10s.
per train mile, and the expenditure to £172,520, or
5s 51d per train mile, leaving a balance of £147,789.
The report for the year 1863 described the diffi-
culties experienced in letting the contracts for the
works to responsible contractors, the practice hav-
ing been to let the works at the lowest tender. For
the first time since those lines were opened it
was shown that the revenue from goods was Equal
to that for passengers. Though the train mileage
of the year was more than double that of 1861, yet
the accession of traffic caused by the extension of
the lines had increased the revenue per train mile
25 per cent., or from Bs. 3-1(1. in 1861 to 10s. 411. in
1863. The cost of working expenses per train mile
during those years having remained with little
variation at an average of 53. 41d., the per centage
of working expenses to revenue had decreased from
651 per cent. in 1861 to 501 per cent. in 1863. The
passenger revenue for 1863 on each of the lines was
double that of 1861, while on the Murray and Bal-
larat lines the goods revenue of 1863 was
five times that of 1861. The loss upon the
Williamstown traffic, which in 1861 was £7,920,
was reduced in 1863 to £3lO, there having been
an increase in the passenger traffic of £4,780, and
in goods traffic of £2,000, and a reduction in
the expenses of £B3O, making together an improve-
ment of £,7610. The total revenue for the year
1863 earned by 39 stations on the Government lines
for traffic amounted to £463,666, of which £182,235
was earned at the Melb,,uree station, £223,868 at
eight other terminal stations, and £57,563 at 30
intermediate stations. The expenses at those sta-
tions were £26,065, £30,701, and .C 17,695 respec-
tively. Thus the whole earnings of 30 intermediate
stations were little mere than one-tenth of the whole
revenue, while they absorbed nearly one-fourth of
the station expenses. The construction expenditure
cut of the loan to the 31st of December, 1863
amounted to £7,964,600, and of this £230,000 was
estimated by the engineer in chief as expended on
plant and works of the Echuca line. The
natiocal debt therefore on lines open in
1863 was £7,734,000, and the net revenue
shown for that year was £229,400, or 8
per cent. on the amount expended on construc-
tion. The Hon. J. M. Grant, commissioner of rail-
ways,observes that the expenditure on construction
to
out of the consolidated revenue, amounting
£341,800, though not bearing interest, was yet a
portion of the capital cost of construction, and the
net revenue of £229,400, if taken upon a capital
of £8,075,800, would show a reduced rate of 2.24
per cent., instead of the 3 per cent. The statement
of the cost of construction of the Victorian railways
including interest to the end of 1863, showed a
total of £9,708,122—the amount of interest being
£1,402,149. The total receipts on revenue account
for the year 1863 were £464,694, or 10s. 4.67 d. per
train mile, and the expenditure £235,292, or ss.
3d., leaving a balance of £229,402.