The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

GREAT WESTERN.
The half-yearly meeting of the amalgamated
companies was held yesterday at the Paddington
Station ; Mr. R. Potter, the chairman, presided.
Mr. C. A. Saunders, the Secretary, having read
the notice convening the meeting, the report was
taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the
cacti of the
report, said he was happy on that ion to meet
so full an assembly of shareholders. This was the
first meeting of the company since the passing of
the Amalgamation Act of last session, an act which
bad absorbed the two separate companies—the West
Midland and the South Wales. 'I he ordinary capi-
tal of the Great Western Railway Company now
exceeded £41,000,000, and the amount of line in
operation was 1,100 miles. The first act was passed
for making a railway from Bristol to join the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway near London in the
year 1835, with a share capital of £2,500,000, and
a debenture capital of £835,000, making a total
capital of £3,300,000. The line was opened in the
year 1840, and in the course of two or three years
became, like all the other great railway trunk con-
cerns in this country, a decided success. Dividends
were paid in this company of 8 per cent., and in
other companies of 10, 12, and even 14 per cent.
The consequence of that was a great rush of capital
into the construction of new railways. In the ses-
sions of 1845 and 1846 there was a general attempt
all over England enormously to extend the railway
communication of the country. It would have been
quite impossible for the directors of any of the large
undertakings at that time to act upon the policy
which they were now prepared to act—a policy of
rest, because, if they had so acted, he had no doubt
that in the case of the Great Western system of rail-
ways there would have been two or three distinct
trunk lines promoted between the West of England
and London, and in all probability they would have
been made. At that time he was a shareholder in
this company, and if they referred to a railway
map of the autumn of 1846 they would find that
the Great Western Rail way Company as it came
out of Parliament in that yoar was very much the
same concern as it was that day. The Oxford,
Worcester, and \Volverhamton Railway Act had
been passed in the previous session, The South
Wales Railway Act had been passed in the pre-
Nious session in a more extended form even than it
now assumed, because there was a large Wench of
that railway from Newport to Hereford which very
much corresponded with the present Newport sec-
tion of the West Midland Railway. And, with the
exception of the Shrewsbury lines and one or two
small branches, the Great Western of 1846 was, to
all intents and purposes, the identical concern that
it now was in September, 1863. During the period
that had elapsed from 1846 to 1863, a period of 17
years, the growth of the Great Western Railway
had been solid, but somewhat over rapid; and it
was, in point of fact, the rapidity with which these
extensions had been made which was at the bot-
tom of the depreciation of their ordinary stock. The
present year was a period of consolidation and rest.
He believed the word "rest" originated with his ,
friend Mr. Brown, but it would have been impos-
sible to act upon it had it not been for the amalga-

mation which had been consummated in this ses-
sion. It was the amalgamation especially with
the West Midland Railway Company, which
enabled them to form agreements with the London
and North Western and the Midland, which made
the policy of rest safe and solid for the future. They
did not mean by " rest" stagnation, but they meant
that the great railway companies of this country
would no longer allow themselves to be played one
against the other, in making lines which in them-
selves were not remunerative, and floating those
lines on the railway companies whose district they
intersected. There was ample room for legitimate
railway construction in this country, but they were
all agreed upon this, that the ordinary shareholders
in such railway must bz,, paid at the risk of those
capitalists who associated themselves together,
and not at the cost of established companies. (Hear,
hear.) The policy of rest upon which they were act-
ing was a policy eminently beneficial to the public,
because those agreements would give to the public a
complete interchange of passengers and goods through
traffic over all these lines which they utilised for the
public benefit, and when they brought into full ope-
ration the agreements which they had formed with
their neighbours the public would admit that great
convenience had resulted from that policy. The
hoard of the Great Western Railway was a recon-
structed board, and consisted of 28 members, to be
reduced ultimately to 24. Of the present directors
of the Great Western Railway there was only one
gentleman who was a director in the session of 1845
and 1846 ; there were only two gentlemen who were
directors in 1849, the period at which the first mis-
fortunes NI upon the ordinary shareholders of the
company, and when they first began to realise the
results of the over-excitement of 1845 and 1845 ; and
there were out of the 28 present directors, including
many recent additions to the board, only 12 of those
who had sat even for two or three years. The re-
mainder of the directors had either been recently sent
to the board by the shareholders, or been added to
the board by the amalgamation. There was an ale.
solute identity of interest between the ordinary share-
holders of the Great Western Railway and the ordi-
nary shareholders of the South Wales and the West
Midland. The proprietor of £5,000 or £lO,OOO of the
ordinary stock of the West Midland was to all intents
and purposes as much interested in the (raffle of the
-whole concern as the ordinary proprietor of Great
Western stock. It was very important that they
should all feel that they had an absolute identity of
interest ; the result of the amalgamation being that
out of the £41,000,000 of the capital of the Great
Western Company the proprietors held upwards of
£12,500,000 of ordinary stock, the rest being,
kl some form or other, preferential and debenture
stock. With a newly-constructed board, consisting
of so large a number as 28, they all felt that they
must to some extent divide the labour among them-
selves without dividing the responsibility; and
_ .

therefore they had already divided the board into
Committees so as to supervise and superintend the
departments of the company, so as to bring the per-
sonal supervision of each individual director on the
whole of the concern. They were enabled to make
these arrangements owing to the intended resigna-
tion of Mr. Saunders, their secretary and general
superintendent of the concern from the first forma-
tion and opening
of the railway. When the Great
Western Railwa
Y consisted of one main trunk line
running from Bristol to London, without compli-
cated arrangements With other companies, it was not
an unreasonable thing that Mr. Saunders should
have been appointed by the directors of those days
secretary and general superintendent as well. But
as Mr. Saunders was now about to retire, they did
not intend again to fill up the place of general su-
perintendent. (Hear.) They int •
enaed to keep the
offices of secretary and general superintendent of
traffic distinct, as they
ought to be in all large com-
panies. The board had come to the unanimous re-
solution that it was for the interests of the company,
and that it would promote the economy and Effi-
ciency of the administration if they would grant the
retiring pension of £1,250 a-year. (Hear, and Nn.)
In doing this they did not commit themselves, or
commit the proprietors, to the principle of any re-
tiring pensions to their servants. They wished it
to be understood by all the officers and servants of
this company that they did not consider there was
any legal or moral obligation on their part to make
them a retiring allowance or pension. In 1856,
he retired from the direction of the Great
Western Railway Cotnpany, and published an
address which might be read in the public
journals of the time; and he retired because he
thought the position of one officer occupying the
offices of general superintendent and secretary was
anomalous. ThO question was formally brought
before the shareholders, and they formally, and by
an overwhelming majority, decided that Mr. Saun-
ders should continue in that position. Now that
was a position of great authority, giving Mr. Saun-
ders, or giving any man who occupied it—even a
man whose intellectual power was less than that of
Mr. Saunders—a thorough and complete insight
into all the transactions of the company, and it was
of the greatest importance to their interests that
they should for the next two .or three years have

the benefit of Mr. Saunders's experience and
memory upon any question upon which alone he
was able to inform them. He did not think they
would have had unanimity in such a bond as that
of the Great Western Railway Company, unless

there were strong reasons for it. .iLA them do it
handsomely, and let them have the benefit of Mr.
Saunders' memory and experience upon matters
which would continually occur. He beseeched them
to do it gracefully and do it unanimously. He
would not have undertaken the position which by
the favour of his colleagues he occupied that day,
unless he had the most complete confidence in the
future of the company. (Hear, hear.) He believed
that every year the margin available for dividend
upon the ordinary stock would increase. With re-
gard to the South Wales revenue accounts, he be-
lieved there had been some little disappointment
among the ordinary shareholders of that company
at the reduction of their dividend from 3 to 3 par
cent. The explanation of that was a thoroughly
satisfactory one. In the charge for debenture in-
terest for the seven months in the South Wales re-
venue account there was a sum of £l,lOO in ex-
cess of the proper charge for the seven months. The
whole of the sums paid in the month of July had
been included ; whereas, for the actual period of
seven months, £l,OOO less was paid or payable.
There was besides an old claim which had been
running, arising out of some dispute with the con-
tractor, and a portion of it was interest which had
accrued during the time the settlement had been
in abeyance. That amount for interest was £5,500,
and the whole of that wes charged to the half-
year; the consequence of which was that the
dividend of the South Wales without these ex-
ceptional charges would have exceeded
Nvith
respect
3e-1-sppeeert
cent. instead of being 3 per cent.
to the West Midland ordinary proprietors, the
shareholders of the Worcester and Hereford Rail-
way would be glad to hear that the traffic upon
that line had more than earned the guarantee of
(Hear, hear.) It was no
41petor dciesngtnibsye I:thtofoao. fact that, in the process of re-
constructing the board, and in the discussions and
agitations which had attended it, they had some-
what impaired the board's authority. If they wished
the concern to be well administered, they must give
the board authority when they saw they had earn-
estly set their minds to doing what they could.
With confidence they would have authority, and
with authority they would have credit, and then
they should be able, with some satisfaction to
themselves and with benefit to the long-suffering
ordinary proprietors of the company, to bring about
a state of things which would give them at no dis-
tant date something like a more adequate return for
the risks which they ran when they conceived the
project of making a railway from Bristol to join the
London And Birmingham Railway in London.
Mr. FEKTON, deputy chairman, seconded the mo-
tion for the vloption of the report.

A very long and noisy discussion ensued ; the
observations were chiefly directed to the opposition
against allowing a retiring pension to Mr. Saun-
ders, although the chairman and other members of
the new board repeatedly urged the expediency and
other reasons for sanctioning the recommendation
of the directors in that respect.
Mr. ADAMS took the most prominent part in
opposing the measure, and indulged in personal
observations for a considerable time. He contended
that the sum available for dividend was chiefly de-
rived from the increased receipts of July being
£72,000 more than those for the month of January.
Seven months were included in the present ac-
counts. He protested asainst the legality of the
election of the directors _representing the Great
Western interests on the amalomated Board.
Mr. Malins, Mr. Salisbury, Mr. Baxter, Mr. De-
lahunty, and other shareholders conte.7ded that the
meeting should support the proposition of the new
Board, on the ground that it was wise and politic
to do so. _ _ _

Mr. Sergeant GASELEE and other shareholder:
were opposed to the measure.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE and the Hon. Mr.
PONSONBY, former chairman of the company, ex-
plained that the allegations to the effect that Mr.
Saunders had ruled the former Board were without
foundation, for although they consulted Mr. Saun-
ders on various matters, they adopted their own
opinions,bu t they gave Mr. Saunders the credit of car-
rying out the instructions of the Board in the most
zealous and faithful manner, although those instruc-
tions might not be in accordance with his views. He
had rendered long and faithful services to the corn•
pany, and they considered him fully entitled to the
proposed retiring allowance.
The report was at length adopted.
The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution to the effect
that the office of general superintendent of the rail-
way be abolished, as recommened in the directors'
report, and also that they be authorised to pay to
Mr. Saunders a retiring pension of £1,250 per an-
num after his intended resignation of the offices held
by him.
Mr. FENTON seconded the motion, and explained
it was expedient and politic to pass the resolution.
Mr. ADAMS proposed as an amendment that the
question be deferred to the next half-yearly meeting.
On a show of hands the amendment was rejected,
and the original motion was carried.
Mr. ADAMS demanded a poll, but withdrew it at
the request of the chairman.
A dividend at the rate of 1.:1 14s 3d per cent. for
the seven months ending the 31st of July, payable
on the Ist of October next, on the consolidated stock
of the company was then declared.
On the motion of Mr. BROWN, the allowance to
the directors was fixed at £6,000 a year ; and a divi-
dend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum was de-
clared on the South Wales stock for the seven
months, also a dividend of 5s per cent. on the Ox-
ford stock of the West Midland Company, and also
the usual dividends on the preference shares.
On the motion of Mr. MALINS, Mr. Harper, Mr.
Stiles, and Mr. Bowen were appointed auditors,
with an allowance of £2OO a year each.
The meeting was then made special, and the agree-
ments with the Ely Valley and other railway com-
panies were agreed to, and the directors were autho-
rised to raise for the Birkenhead Railway, in con-
junction with the directors of the North Western
Company, the preference stock for the purposes of
that company and other matters specified in the
directors' report. _ _

A vote of thanks to the chairman cencluded the
proceedings.

THE ACCIDENT AT LLANDAFF.—The inquest on the
bodies of two of the three men who were killed by
tha quarry accident at Llandaff, as already reported in The
Sun, was held on 'Wednesday last. The witnesses were
summoned to that place. which is about four miles from
Cardiff, at 11 o'clock in the morning, but, in consequence of
the absence of the coroner, they were obliged to disperse.
In the course of the afternoon they again assembled, this
time at Cant in, near Cardiff, when another difficulty arose,
for the body of one of th© men had been removed by his
relatives to Bridgend without the consent of the coroner,
and it is supposed it was interred there the same after-
noon, as every preparation had been made for the purpose.
However, an inquest was held on the two remaining bodies,
and the evidence of Mr. Fisher, the engineer and superin-
tendent of the Taff Vale Railway Company, to whom the
quarry belonged, was to the effect that the design of the
staging and machinery at the quarry was suitable for the
work to be there performed. He had examined the con-
struction of the longitudinal staging, and it appeared to have
been put together in a workmanlike manner, and sufficient
for any load it might have to bear. In the fracture of the
utialmueNnibtterint
he there
awe
irge no indications
oof decay or sap, therefore
fhe va,
the
satisfied the accident was not owing to any
one, theref the might
bolts
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used have beenfo rfastening
some
importantnmaterials.
etheri a la.
latentln his
supports.jti ihgd,defect
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foreman of the works. and the foreman of the carpenters
who constructed the works gave also in evidence their
opinion as to the general stability and excellence of con-
struction of the supports. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental Death."
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The disheartened by ill-health need not be inconsolable till
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and pills are composed of the finest balsams, which purify,
regulate, and strengthen the animal economy. Everyone
may confidently recommend these remedies to their friends
afflicted by bad health; they will free them from disease,
and confer on them the greatest gird man can desire. Both
external and internal maladies have succumbed to the per-
severing use of Holloway's ointment and pills, when the
duration of some and the euruciatiDg pain* a others had
defivri 9rdiLary meaeures,

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

-4,
(Front the 61 vecial, Correspondent of the, Tiine>.)
CRACOW, Sept. 14.
Lelewel's defeat appears to have been a most
disastrous affair. It was reported here, a few days
after the affair that though LAewel had been either
dangerously wounded or killed the detachment had
not been destroyed, that the chief command bad
been given to Gregowicz (who led the Poles at the
little affair of Szklary, close to Cracow, fought on
Easter Sunday), and that it still held its ground.
The sad truth is that not only Lelewel himself but
also two-thirds of his officers fell in the battle, and
that the detachment in general, after much hard
fighting, was dispersed with great loss of life. The
bands of insurgents which enter Russian territory
from Galicia meet, if they pass the frontier, under
evidently unfavourable circumstances, with the fate
of Jordan's and Wysocki's detachments, and are
beaten back forthwith. If, however, they are very
determined, and are very well led—for numbers
seem to have little to do with the matter, and Pro-
vidence in this war has not always been on the side
of the grosbattalions —they fight their way into the
country, and then, at last, the gros battalions really
tell upon them. Jezioranski, after gaining a vic-
tory, with undisciplined but most devoted troops,
at greater odds than the English army had to con-
tend with at Inkermann, had the opportunity of
withdrawing into Galicia without getting cut to
pieces, arid availed himself of it. But Lelewel, like
Langiewicz, after his last march from Goscza
against the Russians, had gone too far into the
country to be able to retire quietly; nor, indeed,
was he of a retiring disposition. His band met
with much the same end as that of Langiewicz, ex-
cept that Langiewicz gained every one of his last
three battles, and at the last of all put the enemy
to flight. Lelewel, however, like Langiewicz,
was kept fighting for three days in succession, and
after third found himself hemmed in by greatly
superior numbers. Had he on this last occasion
beaten the Russians, as Langiewicz beat them at
Grochowiska, his men must have fallen asleep,
perhaps even died of exhaustion the day after-
wards. The poor fellows had not only to combat
the Russians, but also to resist the inevitable de-
mands of nature, and it is not wonderful that they
at last succumbed. On the 3d, immediately after
his entryfrom Galicia, Lelewel defeated theßussians
in fair fight, though it will of course be said that
they retreated for strategic reasons. Probably they
would not have retreated had they been victorious,
but at the same time it may have formed part of
their plan to let the celebrated leader, if they could
not overcome him in a first engagement, penetrate
into the very heart of their position. However
this may have been, on the 4th and sth, when the
Poles were congratulating themselves on the admi-
rable success with which their daring an seemingly
invincible chief had taken his 800 new men across
the frontier, and were speculating hopefully as to
the numbers of the united forces under his command,
on both those days Lelewel was struggling to escape
from the Russian web, in which he was already entan-
gled, and on the 6th he was fighting a hopeless bat-
tle for his life. Lelewel was one of the last of those
officers who joined the insurrection at the very
beginning, and he may have been conscious that,
with the exception of Langiewicz, he had rendered
greater services to it than any other leader. He
fell sword in hand, receiving two bullets in
the body almost at the same time, and died a
death which was not only glorious but happy
and enviable as compared with the death that
has befallen so many of his fellow labourers
in the same field ; such as Cieszkowski,
wounded, and afterwards slaughtered as he lay
upon his sick bed ; Padlewski, taken prisoner and
shot ; Frankowski horribly wounded and left for
dead, then recalled to life, imprisoned for weeks in
the Warsaw citidal, and ultimately shot; and the
unhappy Sierakowski, wounded, captured, half-
cured in the hospital of `Vilna, and then dragged
a the scaffold to be hanged like a criminal.
loss of the greater part of Lelewel's detach-
ment an.i nearly all its arms is probably not such a
great blow .4.0 the insurrection as the loss of Lelewel
himself. Other"chiefs as good as he will no doubt
arise; but they cannot all at once gain the prestige
which attached to his :lame, and which inspired such
confidence to his followers and such fear to his ad-
versaries that with a very sn:ell body of men—if
they had only eaten a little and slept a little the
day before—he could cut his way thrOugh almost
any number of Russians. I am told, but have no
particular reason for believing, that on the morning
of the 6th Lelewel had 1,400 men under his com-
mand, and that the force immediately opposed to
him included one regiment of infantry, several squad-
rons of cavalry, and six pieces of artillery. However
many troops may have been present on the Russian
side, I au:' perfectly sure that my informant did not
count them. The public here seem to expect the
newspapers to speak out without hesitation as to the
number of combater,'
ts engaged in battles of all kinds
and the expectation of
the public on this point is
seldom disappointed. The truth is, nevertheless,
that the insurgents are seldom able to form any just
numerical estimate of the forces otsmosed to them,
and their calculations often vary accortf.'ng
to their
own particular temperaments. One large-e 3
ad man
sees a whole army where his comrades see only a
regiment. On the other hand, a man who is
anxious to avoid all exaggeration will sometimes
reckon the number of troops with which his detach-
ment has been actually engaged; without taking
any account of those held in reserve. Thus I have
heard the same force estimated at 500 and 5,000
strong.
It seems certain, however, that in this last battle
of Lelewel's cannon was employed. It is remakable
how little use the Russians have hitherto made of
their artillery. They have seldom brought guns into
action at all (for fear, as the Poles will have it, of
losing them), and have never done much damage
with them. I am assured that scarcely half a dozen
men have been touched by cannon shot since the
beginning of the insurrection.
Among the officers who fell in the action of the 6th
was a Hungarian gentleman named Nyarri. Nyarri
was at Kabylanka with Jezioranski, to whom he
acted as aide-de-camp ; and before Radziwilow with
Wysocki, who had appointed him to a command in
the cavalry, In Nyarri the insurgents have lost one
of their bravest and most brilliant cavalry officers,
and a man who fought as earnestly for Poland asif
Poland and not Hungary were his native land.
On the very day that the news reached Galicia of
Lelewel's defeat and death Waligorski crossed the
frontier and entered the Lublin palatinate at the
head of a large detachment. Why the Curiatii sys-
tem of fighting is deliberately and systematically
adopted by the Poles cannot well be explained. One
band enters, a second follows as soon as the first has
been destroyed, while a third hesitates about sup-
porting the second, and perhaps finds it judicious in
the end not to go in at all. May Waligorski fare bet-
ter than his predecessor, and Waligorski's successor
better than Waligorski himself is likely to do !

IMMENSE WASTE OF PETROLEUM AT HOTTER-
DAM.—A correspondent of the Grocer writes from
Rotterdam on the 15th inst. :—" During the last few days
the holders and speculators in petroleum have been thrown
into a state of the utmost consternation and excitement—
amounting almost to a panic—by the announcement—which
turns out to be perfectly true—that the surface of the water
in the river and canals is covered with petroleum, that
must have escaped by leakage. During the months of
May, June, and July, large quantities of this commodity
were imported here, and duly stored in the bonded ware-
houses of this city, without showing the least sign of leak-
age of the casks. But it is now ascertained that there must
have been a frightful quantity escaped, for not only are the
rivers and canals covered with it—as above stated—but it
has penetrated into the wells, and impregnated the water in
them with a most disagreeable and unpleasant taste. Not
only is there no good water to be had for drinking, but the
populace expect a general conflagration of the city from the
incautious application of a lighted candle, or even a match
falling into the water anywhere. Every holder of petroleum
is naturally afraid that his stock has severely suffered from
the leakage. The price of the article has already risen 20
per cant. in consequence, and a further advance is confi-
dently expected, as it is now well ascertained that the leak-
age amounts to 40, 50, and in some cases even GO per cent.,
which will entail a severe loss on the holders. An exami-
nation has been made, but though not pet completed, enough
has boon ascertained to show that the liquid sunk deeply
into the ground underneath the warehouses where the casks
were stored, and then spread out in a lateral or horizontal
direction till it escaped into the Water, OA the surface of
Which it is still seen llgatiuz,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DONCASTER RACES-FRIDAY.

The Don Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, fur 3-yr• olds ; coifs,
Set 10Ib; fillies, Bst 71b. List mile. 10 subs.

(Cowley) 1
Count F. de Lagrang,e's Jarrucoton (A. Watkins) 2
Betting-9 to 4on Tom Fool, who waited upon Jamie°.
n . ...
I\toinntEo:t.hl3erahYalles Tor Fool
.f; distance, then went to the front, and won in
a canter by a length.
Match, 300 soya, h ft, Sst 101 b each, Red house in.
Lord Glasgow's Brown Bees colt (Aldcroft) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Beloochee (Wells) 2
Betting-4 to lon Lord Glasgow's colt. The pair can-
tered to the bend, where the actual race commenced, the
favourite having a slight lead, which he kept to the end,
and won easily by half a length,

The'Town Plate (handicap) of 100 B3VS for 3.yr-olds and
upwards. Red house in.
Colonel Towneley's Hubert, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Buck) 1
Mr. Watt's Newmarket, 3 yrs, 7st (Loate3) 2
Mr. J. Osborne's Maid of the Mist, aged, Oat 101 b
(Carroll) 3
The following also ran :—Waterwitch, Black Lily,
Entremet, Calabria, Stockowner, Cadiz, Creole, Sauterelle,
Queen Elizabeth, Manrico, Cistercian, Weatherspy, Mar-
mion, Littlecote, Merry Maid, Michael Scott, and Man-
chester.

Betting-6 to 4 each agst Waterwitch and Merry Maid,
7 to 1 agst Queen Elizabeth, 10 to 1 each agst Littlecote and
Manrico, 12 to 1 agst Cadiz, 100 to 8 agst Black Lily, 100
to 7 each agst Creole and Newmarket, 100 to 6 each agst
Hubert and Entremet, and 20 to 1 agst Marmion.
Hubert, next to the rails, got away in front, and with
Queen Elizabeth, Cadiz, Merry Maid, IVaterwitch, and
Maid of the Mist, made strong running to the distance,
where he had all his followers beaten, with the exception of
Maid of the Mist and Newmarket. At the stand the latter
joined the Maid, and headed her in the next stride, but
failed to reach the leader, who won very easily by a length ;
three lengths between the second and third ; Michael Scott
was a bad fourth, Sauterelle fifth, Manrico sixth, Merry
Maid seventh, and Cadiz next ; Littlecote, Queen Elizabeth,
and Marmion were the last three.
The Doncaster Cup, value 300 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and up-
wards; weight for age, winning penalties and maiden
allowances. About 2 miles 5 furlongs.
Mr. It. C. Naylor's Maccaroni, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (in. 71b ex.)
(Challoner) 1
Mr. T, Valentine's Queen Bertha, 3 yrs, ist llb (in. 31b ex)
(H. Covey) 2
Capt. Lane's Blue Mantle, 3 yrs, 7st .... (J. Grimshaw) 3
Mr. H. Goater ns Golden Pledge, 3 yrs, 7st (T. French) 4
Lord Glasgow's Rapid Rhone, 3 yrs, ist 7st 1Ib)
(Doyle) 5
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Drummer Boy, 4 yrs, 7st .. (Perry) 6
Betting-2 to lon Maccaroni, 6to 1 agst Queen Bertha,
8 to 1 agst Rapid Rhone, 12 to 1 agst Golden Pledge, and
100 to 7 agst Blue Mantle.
Golden Pledge made the running at a strong pace, fol-
lowed in Indian file by Drummer Boy, the favourite, Blue
Mantle, Queen Bertha, and Rapid Rhone, in which order
they came past the stand. On approaching the hill the pace
slackened and the lot got upon closer terms, Drummer Boy
taking up the running for the purpose of leading the favou-
rite, Golden Pledge going on second, Blue Mantle and Mac-
caroni, side by side, being next, with Queen Bertha and
Rapid Rhone lying up. In this way they ran to the Red-
house, where Queen Bertha became third, with Maccaroni
in her rear, and on reaching the bend Golden Pledge and
Blue Mantle dropped away beaten, and were joined by
Drummer Boy, which left Maccaroni with a slight lead
of Queen Bertha. The pair finished an interesting race
home, the Derby winner landing his owner's colours in
clever style by
a length and a half ; a bad third.
The Doncaster Stakes of 10 soya each, with 100 added, for
3-yr-olds; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 31b ; certain winners
extra; second received 50 sovs out of the stakes. Last

11 mile. 48 subs. .
Lord St. Vincent's Lord Clifden, 9st 31b (inc. 101 b extra)
(Osborne) 1
Mr. I'Anson's Borealis Bst 31b
Mr. Hudson's National' Guard, Set 71b...... (Snowden) 3
Col. Towneley's Newchurch, Bst 31b ........ (Ashman) 4
Fiancee also ran.
Betting-2 to lon Lord Clifden, sto 2 agst Borealis, and
12 to 1 agst any other.
Borealis cut out the work, attended by Newchurch, Fi-
ancee, and National Guard, with the favourite lying up.
On rounding the Red-house turn Lord Clifden ran through
his horses, and at the distance took a decided lead, winning
in a canter by half a length ; a bad third. Fiancee was
beaten off and did not pass the post.
The Scurry Stakes of 5 SDVS each, with 50 added, for 2-yr-
olds and upwards; weight for age, with selling allow-
ances. Red-house in.
Mr. Jackson's Prescription, 2 yrs, sst 111 b
(J(£G 50)
. rirnshaw) 1
Mr. J. Osborne's Orphene, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (£5O) (Carroll) 2
Mr. Chmacellor's Salvioni, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (£5O) (Mordan) 3
Lady Derby, Cosette, Marmion, and Jack's Alive also
ran.
Betting---2 to 1 agst Salvioni, 7to 2 agst Orphene, 4to 1
agst Lady Derby, 6 to 1 agst Marmion, and S to 1 agst Co. Bette.
Nermion, Salvioni, Orphene, and Lady Derby ran in
front to the distance, where Lady Derby and Salvioni were
beaten; Prescription then joined the leader, and the pair
finished a close race home, Prescription winning cleverly by
half a length; Salvioni was a bad third. The.winner was
sold to M m
Mr. Morley, and goes into Basha's stable.
ATihre.
CN.ulrvseizeil:inlagt of 200 soya, for 2-yr-olds. Last mile.
he
am,s Harvest Mell, ist 121 b
(Snowden) .1
Mr. Merry's Crisis, Gat 91b.. (Cove;) 2
Lord Westmoreland's Annington, Gst 71b (Morris) 3
The following also ran :—Lady of Coverham, Lady.
Hylda, Regina, Dr. 'Woke, Antoinette, Lady Mary, Over-
cast, Moulsey, Orphan, Lady de Trafford, Kapuada, Chaly-
beate, Bittern, Greville, Gazehound, Oneida, Alice Leigh,
Crisis, in company with Alice
and Eleanor.
at Alice Leigh, 6 to 1 agst A
,g'S to 1 agst Harvest Mell, --urant,ton,
9 to 1 agst
to the distance,
7Atrißotrel•tintaiengtgstte—,E9lletoaon2toora 1 each agst Gazehound and Lady Of
Annneinrace home,
Coverham, and 20 togiNllfoceulalic,sheya,gasntdLAadnynil:lgatroynand Bt ittern..
Some half-dozen unsuccessful attempts preceded the actual
chance of reach-
st
Leigh,art ; whenoe
ht ho
ue
nil;
where Crisis drew slightly in advance of Harvest Men.
The pair rau together to halfway up the distance, where
'go
Harvest
1 ellnl
front,A nnntghteo n othersdre w
winning at last by
a n
Lady gtna
wa.risudg,:bdtwiatrinid eelvyersphraedad:
was a bad third;
ing the leaders, who fin:chic.
_wady de Trafford fourth, Ilylda and Antoinette fol-
- succeeded by Lady Mary
lowing next'
widely spread, Chalybeate and Eleanor b •
others wei:e being
ffoolrlwo

,c 4 of 60 sous each, h ft, for 3-out
-old
the second received 100 sovs out
the last two.
eachLe;ger Ours% 32 subs.
Mr. Boyco'd Fall,taionn Bell (VT. Boyce) 1
Mr. W. I'Anson s, _ 37 (Challoner) 2
Baron Rothschild s u_an.ace.
The
ot fillies l Fti chaser; Park
-St has
kit i
ellaoSiba Stake
.
.. (Osborne) 3
Mr. It. E. Wilnen's Bohemia
Sir J. llawley's Columba
(Ashman) 5
Amelia also ran.
Betting—Even on Fantail, 4 to 1 agat Donny Bell, and
6 to 1 agst any other.
The favourite wade Play, followed by Amelia, Canace,
Bell to the road, where Amelia dropped back,
was taken
by Bonny Bell, who finished a
close race home
andan and
hßeorn
platny ©
with Fantail, the latter winning by halt a
length ; a bad third.
A. Sweepstakes of 200 sous
each, h ft, for 3-yr-olds ; colts,
Sat 101 b ;fillies, Sat 616. St.
..., ,eger course. Five subs.
Lord Glasgow's Rapid Rhone (Aldcroft) w.o.
Match, 300 so.", h ft. Red house in.
Lord Glastr,ows Miss Whip f received
Sir J. llawleY's Miami f .

LORD Ct 'Fp" AND MACARONI.—It is more that pro-
bable that these two celebrated horses will again test their
racing merits againtit each other. Lord St. Vincent has
thrown out a challenge to run the Derby winner, for either
distance of a mile and a half or two
miles, over either the Doncaster or York Course.
£l,OOO or £lO,OOO, a

A SAVING OP A MILLION ON A PUBLIC IMPROVE-
MENT.—The necessity of opening out an improved
line ofthoree
thoroughfare from Oxford-street to Shoreditch, and
so avoiding the dangers and delays of a journey through
the crowded streets of the City has long been perceived ;
and among the plans for public improvements of Mr. Mar-
rable, the late superintending architect to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, was one to make an improved and direct
street from Oxford street by way of Hart-street, Liquor-
pond 'street, Clerkenwell-green, and St. John's-square, to
Old-street, St. Luke's, and on to the Eastern Counties
Railway Station at Shoreditch ; but the cost, estimated at
£1,099,550 nett, has hitherto, and will continue to prevent
its being Carried
out. Just at the present time a most
favourable opportunity offers itself for commencing the im-
provement of another line of thoroughfare in the same direc-
tion, but at an immense saving of money. Elm-street,lead-
ing out of Gray's•inn-road to Mount-pleasant, and thence
to Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell, is a narrow-street in which
two vehicles can scarcely pass, and on the greater part of
the foot-pavement it is impossible for two pedestrians to pass
without one of them having to step on the carriageway to
the danger of life,
the traffic from omnibuses, heavy wag-
gone, cabs, and other vehicles being so great. The south
side of this street is separated from a narrow court by 11
houses. At the present time six out of these 11 houses,
which are freehold are announced for sale by public auc-
tion, end as their annual rental amounts to £250 their cost
may be pretty nearly estimated. The removal of these six
houses, and of the remaining five, would make a fine wide
thoroughfare, very convenient for the great traffic passing
through it, but it might also form the commencement of
an improved line of thoroughfare between the east and west
ends of the metropolis, as to the eastward there is already a
direct line of streets leading from it to the City-road,and to
the westward. It would require but the removal of a
dozen houses or so, to extend Little James-street to East-
street, and East-street to Great Russell-street, leading to
the corner of Tottenleam-court•road and Oxford-street,and
the carrying out of this improvement, instead of the first-
mentioned, would effect D. saying of upwards of £1,000,000.
kros.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TlMES.—Cardinal Wiseman has delivered an ex-
cellent lecture on " Self-enitu re" before the members
of the Hartley Institution at Southampton. Amidst
the present superfluity of lecturers, most of them
showing and communicating book information only,
this lecture stands out and has a character of its
own, as obviously giving the experience of
an eminent man upon a question which
touches everybody's interest and curiosity—the
important question how he is to make the most
of himself. The Cardinal evidently let us a
little into his own personal history, into his own
work of intellectual self discipline. He is certainly
one of the men of the day : he has attained a high
position, he is a man of varied and wide powers, a
literary man, a scientific man, a linguist, a man of
the world, an ecclesiastical leader, an orator. All
this makes a considerable whole. And this, too, of
itself is another of the Cardinal's powers—that he
has contrived to make a whole of himself. He has
not separated into parts and fragments, or gone eff at
a tangent upon this or that favourite point. He has
evidently a horror of this tendency in human nature;
it is one of his great cautions. " The moment a fa-
vourite thought begins to haunt the mind, when it
returns again and again with new vigour, and
the mind takes a pleasure in gazing upon it, it
should be checked without a moment's hesita-
tion, and cut away." Cardinal Wiseman has not
been run away with by this tendency, but has subor-
dinated all his great gifts to the attainment of an
effective position, enabling him to wield a great
authority and influence, and establishing him as the
representative of a powerful communion. A lecture
from such a man on "self-culture," which evidently
gives his own experience of the process of self-direc-
tion and self-management, the rules which he found
necessary to impose on himself, and the checks he
put upon his thoughts, or the stimulus and force he
applied to them, according as the case might be—an
explanation of such a process and work of inward for-
mation from so successful and eminent a man, and
one of the workers of the day in his own way and
calling, raises a real interest and commands atten-
tion. 'Anybody who wants to make the most of him-
self, and thinks the Cardinal, as he undoubtedly
is, a good authority on the subject, will be curious
to know his Eminence's rule and methods. Even if
he discards his Eminence as an authority on religi-
ons questions, he will admit his great weight upon
this important practical subject. The rules, then,
which Cardinal Wiseman gives for the individual's
management of himself, control of his own thoughts
an.d imagination, and guidance of them into proper
channels, are excellent, and evidently come with the
stamp of reality and experience upon them: They
are entirely free from pretence, and are as simple,
as plain, and as stern as rules can be. They allow
of no subterfuge, but are real lessons of discipline.
The lecturer begins with drawing a most eivid
picture of that perpetual stream and current of
thought in the human mind which is the subject
matter of disciplinarian treatment,—its electric
versatility and slipperiness, its indomitab:e flow,
its vivacity, and its susceptibility to every call and
image, and liability to slide into endless barren in-
consecutiveness. How is this current to be arrested
then, and turned into fixed channels ? How is
this quick element of thought to be mastered, made
to go in one direction, stopped in others, fixed on
one point out of a thousand, made to rest upon it ?
The Cardinal replies that a force is to be applied to
it, and that it is the force of the will. He takes
the subject into various departments, and shows how
the highest and most successful Self-culture cannot
be carried on without the constant use of this force,
either as checking or. propelling. It is a very true
penetrating lesson. We must, however, remark,
to begin with—and it is a remark the truth of which
we are sure the Cardinal will admit without any
reluctance—that the lecture's standard on this sub-
ject is a very high one—too high, we fear, for the
mass. This is a lecture which is addressed to the
few, not to the many, though it was delivered to a
crowd. How many of that crowd, we should like
to know, would follow the Cardinal's rules for one
single day without a weariness which would leave
them yawning for a fortnight afterwards ? How
many could follow them for one day, or one morn-
ing? A mind here and there, that knows its own
strength, is aspiring, and has resolved to attain a
position and make itself felt, will feel its chords
struck by a master hand when the Cardinal lays
down his laws of Self-culture. Such a mind will
intuitively see the truth of his rules, and their hear-
ing upon the proposed result, and will estimate the
amount of the ordeal, and not think it too great a
sacrifice for the prize. But it must be frankly con-
fessed that to the ordinary human mind there is
nothing so hateful as this control of thought—this
dissevering thought from this, fixing it upon that,
making it rest and, in short, do whatever is wanted.
It is an odious process to nineteen-twentieths of the
human race. They can by a great effort, and when
circumstances compel them, apply this control—
when, for once in a life, a trade has to be learnt, or
a language learnt, or when some momentary act
has to be done. But as for their sustaining as a
constant every-day work this rigid mental discip-
line, which requires this most slippery element of
thought to be fastened in a succession of vices all the
day long for life, they would as soon make up their
minds at once to live in the stocks. It is impossible
for anybody to go through such work as this, ex-
cept he has, together with great strength of will,
an overpowering motive for it, either a religious
or a secular one—a determination to gain some
great object either for himself or for society or a
community. Create a motive strong enough,
whether it be a great position for the individual
or some vast improvement for mankind which
kindles a permanent zeal, and it is astonishing
what a yoke persons will submit themselves to.
But to quiet persons, who are content to live and
die like their neighbours, the Cardinal's picture of
Self-culture is rather terrific. This constant wrest-
ing, twisting, bending, and griping of that electric
material called the human mind is formidable.
Among the instruments of torture found in the
Tower in Elizabeth's reign" was a cell called Little
Ease.' It was of so small dimensions and so con-
structed that the prisoner could neither stand, walk,
sit, or lie down at full length." The rigorous con-
finement of the mind within the grooves of con-
stant successive acts of attention would be a per-
petual " little ease" to certainly the largest and
perhaps not the least worthy part of mankind ; and
they will be, we are afraid, very indifferent pupils
of the Cardinal, and attain but to an inferior form
of Self-culture. There is another remark that we
will make on the Cardinal's scheme of Self-culture,
besides the complimentary one we have just made
on its high standard. The lecturer's scheme per-
haps hardly makes allowance enough for the advan-
tageous pursuit of particular ideas by persons whose
natural genius leads them into particular regions of
thought. It is true such persons are not perfect
wholes ; but there is a kind of erratic and eccentric
type of thought which though it makes the indi-
viduals one-side 3, is a benefit to the community, by
the magnificent products of these divergent sub-
terranean passages in the great mine of in-
tellect, A great deal of the highest inspiration in
art, poetry, and philosophy has something akin to
the erratic. .The Cardinal looks upon particular
ideas laying hold upon minds too exclusively as
only an illegitimate " indulgence" in fancy, and as
the source of " monomanias.' It may be this, and
often has been ; but yet if we were to try to make
everybody an harmonious whole, to construct him
with proper proportions, and to forbid solitary
flights and fancies, we should be cutting off one of
the richest sources of the elevation of human nature,
and the expansion of human literature and
philosophy.
HERALD.--Though the season may be dull, and
news rare, there is no need just now for ingenious
reporters to invent, as they are said to do, those
marvellou s stories of showers of frogs, big hailstones,
and little fishes, to enliven during the autumn the
columns of journals which are half-starved for want
of intelligence. There is another kind of shower
to occupy us ; it rains diplomatic dispatches. In

Poldnd daring the last two months men hare been

fighting, bleeding, and ..dyiniTl;l London and
Paris, in Vienna and St. Petersburg, during the
last two months men have been writing long letters
about Poland. If we supposed that all this
diplomacy had had, or could have had, any
result at all, any tendency to mitigate the horrors
of this bloody civil war, we should regard this cor-
respondence in another light altogether. But we
know that it has done no good, and it is quite clear
that it never could have done any good. It would
have been far otherwise if the letters of the elcquent
spokesmen of the Three Powers had been understood
to herald an active intervention on their part in the
affairs of Poland in case of the non-compliance of
the Russian Government with their demands. In
that case either Russia would have yielded without
further parley, or she would have resisted, and the
war would have assumed European proportions, to
the immediate relief of the insurgents now in arms.
As the Powers had no intention of going to war
this voluminous correspondence was but a waste of
ink and paper St the best. Worse than this, it has
given the Russian Government an opportunity of
administering a rebuff to the would-he triumvirate
which must be felt as a national humiliation by
France, England, and Austria. Russia has, in fact,
told the Powers that they would do well to mind
their own business, and leave her to settle her own
affairs in the manner she thinks best. The answers
of Prince Gortechilkoff to the firot eolieetiye repro-

sentations of the other diplomatists were dispatched
about the middle of July. It took them more than
a fortnight to get over this letter, which was of a
trenchant and rather uncompromising character.
Russia admitted the necessity of reforms, and pro-
posed to carry out in her own way, and at her own
time, the engagements of 1815. Meanwhile she was
intent on the "pacification" of Poland, which means
the putting down of the rebellion. She declined the
proposed conference, and refused to agree to the
armistice. At the beginning of August Lord Rus-
sell and M. Drouyn de Lhuys sent their answers.
The reply of Count Rechberg was dispatched on
Aug. 12. Austria had to make answer to a separate
proposal addressed to her for a convention of the
Three Powers engaged in the partition of Poland.
Count Rechberg very properly declined to accede to
this. In other respects the dispatches are so much
alike that they were evidently concerted. Each of
them insists on the right of the Powers which
were parties to the Treaty of Vienna to consult on
the right interpretration of the stipulations of that
treaty. They cannot do this with any effect so long
as Russia declines to confer with them, Each of
the despatches dwells on the propriety of concilia-
ting the Polish people by the immediate grant of
reforms. The difference between them and Russia
is, that they consider that these reforms should be
promulgated at once, while Russia holds that the
insurrection must be put down first. M. Drouyn
de Lhuys puts the matter more pointedly than Lord
Russell, and makes wider and more controvertible
statements. He loses in strength of argument i:sst
as much as he gains in vigour of style. Thus he
says that the "agitation" in Poland is not revolu-
tionary; that the entire Polish nation is connected
with the insurrection; and that a wide system of
concessions would satisfy all. He has stultified his
cause by a series of reckless assertions which will
be very easily confuted by Prince Gortschakoff. M.
Drouyn de Lhuys goes further, and to save his re-
putation, and probably to escape the criticisms of
the French journals, ventures upon something like
a threat. " The Cabinet of St. Petersburg," he
says, "in claiming absolute independence for its
resolutions, leaves us entire liberty in our own
judgment and conduct. We will avail ourselves of
this liberty of action." This is the kind of way in
which children talk to one another when they are
angry. Lord Russell was foolish in rendering so
much useless advice, when he did not intend to fol-
low it up by deeds. M. Drouyn de Lhuys is more
foolish in darkly hinting at the coercion of Russia,
when he knew that nothing of the sort will be
undertaken. The despatches of the three Foreign
Ministers conclude with the same intimation that
Russia, for having declined to act on their advice,
is to be held responsible for the continuance of
troubles in Poland. This involves the assumption
that if she had followed that advice those troubles
would have been at an end. They must be san-
guine men if they believe this. The Poles do not
care about " autonomy," they want complete inde-
pendence. The position of Russia is very easily
understood. How can reforms be granted to a
people that declines altogether to be governed by
Russia P The reply of Prince Gortschakoff, sent
to Baron Brunnow on the 7th of this month, is so
complete an extinguisher for Lord Russell, that he
will want a period somewhat longer than his usual
holiday to recruit his strength this autumn. The
Russian first disarms and then tranfixes his oppo-
nent with dexterity which would be ludicrous could
we only divert our minds from the terrible business
which is the occasion of all this correspondence, and
of which we do not choose to lose sight. Prince
Gortschakoff observes that in his last letter he made
certain overtures which were dictated by his polite
desire to arrive at an understanding. He has read
Lord Russell's observations in reply, and has to
regret that these overtures do not seem to have
attained the end which he proposed. The parties
have changed places, Lord Russell being now the
recusant and incorrigible, Prince Gortschakoff the
conciliatory and humane, the latter follows up the
advantage. As it is apparent that a continued dis-
cussion would only further establish the divergence
of their views, " it would be too contrary," he says,
"to our conciliatory disposition for us to prolong
it." But now comes the unkindest cut of all. "We
believe," he continues, " that in this we are not act-
ing at variance with the sentiments of the Principal
Secretary of State of her Britannic Majesty." Lord
Russell, more than any one, is tired of the business,
and wishes he had never entered it. He has taken
up a hot coal, and wants to drop it. Prince Gorts-
chakoff will considerately allow him to unclose his
fingers. He then proceeds to pour balm over his
wounded feelings. After all, they are agreed on
essential points, " at least, in intention." Lord Rus-
sell does not always express his meaning. He de-
sires the tranquillity of Poland and the repose of
Europe. "We entirely share in this desire, and
all that depends upon us shall be done to realise it."
Prince Gortschakoff then expatiates on the good and
beneficent intentions of his august master. Lord
Russell has been let off this time, but he would do
well, he is told, to be a little more careful in future.
He talks of responsibility, and all nations have a
responsibility in their mutual relations. The Em-
peror of Russia has constantly respected the prin-
ciples of public right and international courtesy.
" He has the right to expect and to claim the same
respect on the part of the other powers. To use an
expression of Mr. Seward's, we should say that it
would take Lord Russell some time to " digest"
this note, which is rather a tough morsel. We. do
not think he will care much about prolonging
the correspondence.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)

The will of Field Marshal the Hight Hon. Colin Campbell,
Lord Clyde, G.C.8., K. 5,1., D.C.L., was proved in her
Majesty's Court of Probate on the 7th inst. The executors
and trustees are thus described :—" Major-General Henry
Eyre, 98th, now commanding Governor, Chatham; Lieut.-
Colonel Archibald Alison, C. 8., formerly my military
secretary while Commander-in-Chief in India, and now
Assistant Adjutant-General, headquarters, London; Col.
William Montagu Scott M'Murdo, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to
the Queen ; and Lieutenant General Duncan Alexander
Cameron C. 8., 42nd, now commanding her Majesty's troops
in New Zealand." The will and two codicils are dated
May 23, 1863, and a third codicil July last, signed "Clyde,
F.M." There are many legacies to officers and personal
friends. To Sir William Mansfield he leaves the sword
presented to him by the city of London, together with the
domment conferring upon him the freedom of the City, and
that Sir William (whom he wished to have appointed as an
executor had not his official duties prevented him from act-
ing) should be consulted as to, what papers, if any, should
be made public; and, should any memoir of himself (Lord
Clyde) appear, which he would rather did not, it should be
limited to Hart's " Army List," and be simply the recital
of the services of a plain soldier. His lordship's personal
property was sworn under £70,000. To his sister, Miss
Alicia Campbell, his lordship leaves an annuity of £l,OOO,
and divides his real estate and the residue of his personal
estate between her and General Eyre, leaving also to the
general and his family many specific bequests. Lord Clyde
died Aug. 14, 1863, at the Government-house, Chatham,
aged 71,

The will of Major-General William Dunn, R.A., of
Inglewood House, Kintbury, terks, was proved in the
London Court under £140,000, the executors and trustees
nominated being Mrs. Margaret Duncan Dunn, the relict,
and William Hew Dunn, Esq., the son (who, being in
his minority, a power is reserved). The will is dated
August, 1860. There are the following charitable be-
quests :—To the Royal Berks Hospital, St. Mary's Hos-
pital, Paddington, Field-lane Refuge, the Society for Pro-
moting Christian Knowledge, Leeds Infirmary, Society
called "London Beyond the Borders," to each is bequeathed
the sum of £lOO ; and to the poor of Kintbury, Berks, and
the poor of Chapel Town, Leeds, legaeies of £so—free of
legacy duty.

A Miss Bateman, who has obtained some cele-
brity as an actress, will shortly appear at the Adelphi.
THE KINGDOM OF LILLIPUT.—The reigning
Sovereign of Anhalt-Dessau-Rothee, who has ac-
quired all the territory of the duchy of Anhalt-Bernberg
in consequence of the late duke dying without male issue,
has issued a proclamation announcing his accession. The
duchy of Anhalt-Dessau-Kothen-Bernberg contains about
150 square kilometres, with a population of about 170,000
souls, and supplies a contingent of about 2,000 men to the
federal army. The whole dukedom is completely surrounded
by the Prussian territory, and will, in all probability, be
absorbed by that kingdom at some future day. The Daces
remarks that among the many illustrious scions of the
House of Anhalt was the Empress Catherine of Russia.
The present duke is 70 years of ago, and is now in the 46th
year of his reign.
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