The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-19 00:00:00

CASTLE DOUGLAS AND DUMFRIES.

The traffic receipts for the half year ending July
31 amount to £8,997, as against £8,218 in the cor-
responding half of last year, and after paying de-
benture interest; working expenses, and other claims,
the balance was £4,537, out of which the directors
recommend a dividend of 5 per cent. on the prefer-
ence stock, absorbing £1,693, and of 4s. 6d. per
share on the ordinary £lO shares, which would absorb
£2,689. The company had been amalgamated with
the Glasgow and South Western Company, and
the directors believed that the union would prove
beneficial to both companies and the public.

LEARNED PHILOLOGISTS.—The statement recently
made in the newspapers that Prince Lucien Bona-
parte, the eminent linguist who resides in this country,
would conduct the proceedings at the Welsh Eisteddfod
now taking place at Aberystwith, turns out to have been
incorrect. At the meeting on Tuesday it was stated that
the cause of the absence of the Prince was indisposition,
and that his Imperial Highness was at that moment lying
at Torquay in a very precarious state ; but there were
others present who stoutly averred that the Prince had
made no promise whatever to be present, and that the
council simply gave out the announcement with a view to
increasing the number of visitors. It appears that last
June the Prince allowed himself to be nominated
one of the adjudicators on the principal (£100) prize offered
for competition, and that from this circumstance arose the
announcement of his intention to preside at the meeting.
The following is the letter from the Prince on the occasion
of his accepting the invitation to adjudicate :-16London,
June
find all
nn
the Welsh
22, 1865.---I have perused with considerable atten-
tionessaysrnoroonortiheessw'
eCiatkigiinnthoefirtahregEumngenlitssh,
Nation, and
and not by any
linguistical sce'ans coming
up
to the standard of mo-
dernreluctantly, to decliennece; I felt myself obliged, hOwever
the established prize. elcomi mending either of them for
the whole of Brito 13ritannicatvise's'
not been able to read
essay
writing, but, as far as I can judgefro;nOwthing to its bad
the intelligible
I find no reason for not applying parts,g to it, as well, the
exclusion from the prize.—L. L. BONAPAD.TE."
of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, so well known fo • his peaking
magni-
ficent library of books on European dialects, we observe
that a Scotch doctor of medicine of the name of 'Watson re-
cently died at Rome, leaving a collection of works, all
bearing upon the dialects
of Eastern Europe, which
sub-
ject he had long made his special study. The Pope,ll the library,hear-
ing that Mr. Watson's family desired to sell
purchased it, and distributed the books among the different
public libraries of Rome, including the Vatican.
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actions.