The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-23 00:00:00

pected a more sportsmanlike view, has taken up the
cause of these game-preserving landlords, repre-
senting them as the poulterers, in this article,
for the nation. Will these should-be sports-
men thank him for the argument. It
is, in a modified sense, true. We know of
some sad tales of game-selling meanness, and we
also know that in multitudes of cases the exa-
cerbated feeling of the keeper towards the poacher
arises far more from his interference with the
gamekeeper's own profits than with his master's
pleasures. But to this argument, otherwise, the
answer is simple. Let those wbo desire to breed
game for the market do so avowedly and as a busi-
ness—let them make proper arrangements to keep
and feed the wild animals within enclosures suit-
able for their protection ; let such properly fenced
in limits have fair protection by law ; they will be
a directly commercial undertaking, and the crea.
tures fed at the cost of the proprietor, and kept like
other fowls, as far as possible, from wandering into
other persons' property will be fairly recognised as
property themselves. Such a preserve would be
very differently regarded from game maintained in
a style which endeavours to combine those incom-
patibles—poultry-yard ease of killing, and, field
sport. We should have no objection to a bill, were
one requisite, to facilitate growing game for the
market. Game for sport ought to need no protec-
tion but trespass laws, and the law of good feeling
between a benevolent landlord and well affected
enantry and peasants.

Out of the "Personal Explanations" which were
made yesterday in the House of Lords by the Earl
of CARNARVON and the Duke Of NEWCASTLE re-

spectively, there have come forth more distinctly
than ever to the recognition of the public at large,
ono or two extremely gratifying facts in respect
to our Colonial Civil Expenditure. Speaking
hastily the other evening, and somewhat .onfuscaly
withal, though in the midst of a really able speech,
the Earl of CARNARTON intimated, as plainly at
least as his words could be understood, that, whereas
the Civil Colonial Estimates were in, 1856,
£320,000, they had expanded so rapidly since
then, that they had swelled at last, in 1862, to the
enormous amount of £937,000. The youg Earl's
statements, however, and not the Civil Colonial
Estimates, were what happened to be (in Mr.
DISRAELI'S phrase) "bloated." His Grace the
Colonial Secretary yesterday, however, took
the Earl's two statements in turn—and, at
the first puncture, how they collapsed ! In-
stead of £356,000 being the Civil Colonial Esti-
mates for 1856—" for £356,000," said the Duke of
NEWCASTLE, " read £122,000." Again, instead of
the total of these estimates in the financial year last
past being, as the Earl intimated, £937,000—f0r
£937,000, quoth the Duke, read £113,000. In each
instance, but especially in the latter instance,
a wonderfully agreeable and consolatory drop
down ! Having explained that his noble
friend had probably erred in his second estimate
(that for 1862), by including in it, among other
items, such sums as Treasury chest, £242,000;
captured negroes—bounty on slaves £55,000 ;
commissions for suppression of the slave trade,
£lO,OOO ; consuls abroad, £167,000 ; services in
China, Japan, and Siam, £86,000 ; North American
boundary commission, £4o,ooo—the Duke of
NEWCASTLE assured the Lords yesterday, and
through them the country, that the truth is these
colonial expenses are steadily and appre-
ciably diminishing'; Fluctuating every now
and then, of course, as they diminish—
but still, upon the whole, undeniably and re-
cognizably diminishing. Enough, in proof of
this being the fact, when it is remarked that
while, as we have already seen, the Colonial
civil estimates were, altogether, in 1856, 122,0001.,
they were in 1857, 185,0001. ; in 1858, 141,0001. ;
in 1859, 183,000/. ; in 1860, 163,0001 ; in 1861,
112,0001., and in 1862, 113,000/. Will not this, of
itself, be sufficient to console Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH,
the Regius Professor of History at the University
of Oxford ? And will it not do something towards
silencing that learned scholar's most unpatriotic
proposition for the dismemberment, virtually, of the
British Empire ?
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DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR SCOTLAND,—
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, with the junior members of the
Royal family, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal
suite, left Windsor yesterday evening at 6 50, by special
train on the Great Western line, under the charge of Mr.
Gooch, locomotive engineer. On arriving at Leamington,
a distance of 90 miles, at 9 25, there would be a stoppage
of ten minutes for refreshment ; the train would arrive at
Bushbury Junction, 1271 miles, at 10 42, and enter upon
the London and North-Western line, arriving at Whit-
more, 155 miles, at 11 34 ; at Preston, 1961 miles, at 12 61
a.m., where the engine would take water; at Kendal Junc-
tion, 2581 miles, at 2 39, where the engine would take
water ; the Royal party then proceeding on the Caledonian

line to Carlisle, where they would arrive at 4 7, distance
3081 miles ; thence to Aboyne, 582 miles, at 1 50. After
remaining at Balmoral one month, the Court will return to
Scotland.

THE GREAT WESTERN .KAILwAY COMPANY'S I
SERVANTS.—Yesterday the 7th annual rural fete in aid of
the Great Western Railway Widow and Orphans' Fund
was held in Englefleld Park, which was kindly granted for
the purpose by Mr. Richard Benyon, M.P. for Berkshire.
The directors of the company caused special trains to be
run from Lendon, Oxford, Ilungerford, Reading, and other
places, to Theale, the nearest station to the park, to which
they were conveyed by omnibuses which were in attendance.
Large numbers of the company's servants attended, and
amusements of various kinds were provided for their benefit.
In the evening there was dancing, there being present
Mathew's quadrille band, the band of the Paddington Rifles,
and that of the Ist Berkshire Volunteers. After having
spent a very pleasant day the visitors were convoyed home
by special train.
THE ORLEANS PRINCES.—The following is an
extract from a letter addressed by an officer of the Guards,
who was present with tae army of General M'Clellan, to a
field-officer of the same corps. It is dated, head-quarters,
seven miles from Richmond, June 8 :—" The French Prin-
ces are here, and we see a good deal of them—in fact, when
our tent went astray I lived in the tent of the Count de
Paris and the Duke de Chartres. They are two of the best
juuog fellows 1 have ever met, and are among the most
active and best of General M'Clellan's staff. The Duke de
Chartres has perhaps been educated more as a soldier than
his brother, but both are thorough good officers. I cannot
speak too highly of them. Under fire they are just as
pleasant and agreeable as at other times. Their uncle, the
Prince de Joinville, we like very much ; he is a superior
man. The officers of this army have a great regard for
them. General M'Clellan told me that he considered the
two Princes as the beat officers on his staff, and that he
could not please the young Duke better than by sending
him out for a long ride at night."
REPRESENTATION OF KIRKCALDY.—The Sheriff
has appointed Friday for the nomination, and Saturday for
the poll, should one be required. Mr. It. S. Aytoun, in his
address, says his political opinions are Liberal, and his de-
sire is to act in conjunction with the Liberal party. He
entirely approves the foreign policy of the Government,
and considers that in the present crisis of events no man is
so ab'e to overcome the difficulties that may arise between
Europe and America as Lord Palmerston. He approves
the measures of defence and for strengthening the navy
which have been adopted, and would support a well-consi-
dered measure of reform. Lord Schomberg Henry Kerr is
to contest the burghs on Liberal Conservative principles,
and has also issued an address.
REPEAL OF THE HOF DUTY.—A great gathering
is to take place in Lord Harry Vane's park, Baltic Abbey,
near Hastings, on Thursday, the 31st inst., in celebration
of the repeal of the excise duty on hops. A dinner will be
given, and in the evening entertainments of all sorts will be
provided. Amongst those who have promised to attend are
Lord Harry Vane, M.P., Viscount Pevensey, M.P., Sir
J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., Sir E. Filmer, Bart., M.P., Sir
Brook Bridges, Bart., M.P., Sir T, M. Wilson, Bart., the
Hon. 11. Brand, M.P., Mr. X T. Bass,
ham, M.P., Mr. Dodson, M.P,, Mr. E. C. Egerton, M.P.
M 1) ,
Mr. P. W. Martin, M,P., M. F. North, 1‘1.,, and Mr.
A, J, 13ereaford Hope, M.P., Mr. Coning_