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from Cork third, made her own running into the Moors
where she increased her lead at every fence, and jumped
into the open about 200 yards in advance of Broomstick.
She then cantered home with the field widely spread be-
hind her. She finally won by 10 lengths, Greenwich Fair
was a bad third, and the judge placed them all.
Match for 50 sous. 12st each. Three miles.
Mr, Jones's Tyrone, aged (B. Land, jun.) 1
Capt. Dixf,n's The Friar, aged (Mr. Thomas) 2
Betting-7 to 4on Tyrone.
The Friar made running to the hurdles before the water
jump, which he refused and knocked Tyrone over the ropes.
Land was quickly in the saddle again and followed at a dis-
tance of about 100 yards, not approaching his adversary
until he had gone through the enc'osure and came upon
the open; he then gradually caught him, jumped the last
hurdle at his side and won easily by 20 lengths.
A Handicap Plate of 40 soya for all ages. The second re-
ceived £lO. Five furlongs. "A inner to be sold for
£5O.
Lord Coventry's Mousetrap, 4 yrs, 7st 131b..(J. Adams) 1
Mr. Lincoln's Gasconade, 2 yrs, sst 91b.. (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. J. Parkes's West-ender, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b (car. 7st 121 b)
(Custance) 3
Mr. Sadd's Commander, 3 yrs, Gst 81b ........ (States) 4
The following also ran :—Jessie Brown, Vesper, Mar-
cell-as, Warrener, Paresseuse, Maydew, Lord Chanellor,
Crown Diamond, and Strawberry Hill.
Betting—Even on Mousetrap, 4 to 1 agst Gasconade, 7
to 1 agst Paresseuse, and 8 to 1 agst Strawberry Hill.
The race was run after dusk, and.filasconade was restive
at the post. The horses then got off together at the first
attempt, and, as soon as they were near enough to be seen
the two favourites were espied in front. Mousetrap won
easily by a length ; West-ender wa., a length from Gas-
aonaffe,- abd Commander three len4ths from the third.
Maydew was fifth, Jessie Brown sixth, and. Vesper
seventh. The winner was sold to Major Hope Johnstone
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THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.
No. LXXIV. NOVEMBER, 1862.

ADDRESS.

CONTENTS.
I. Christian Individuality.
11. The Austrian Empire in 1862.
111. Poems by A. B. Clough.
IV. Assimilation of Law.
V. France and Scotland.—M. Michel.
VI. Popular Prophetical Literature.
VII. Syria and the Eastern Question.
VIIL St. Clement's Eve.
IX. The American Conflict.
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WORCESTER AUTUMN RACES.--.WEDNESDAY.
The Visitors' Plate of 40 sous (handicap), for all ages.
About a mile.
Mr. J. Turner's Weasle, 6 yrs, 7st 81b (Clements) 1
Mr. W. Nelson's Paresseuse, 3 yrs, Est 31b (J. Plumb) 2
Mr. R. Walker's Colonel Crockett, 4 yrs, ist
(J. Grimshaw) 3
The following also ran :—Zingari, Dominic Sampson,
Southampton, Wild Chieftain, Maydew, Jack-in-the-Box,
and Lufra.
Betting-7 to 2 agst Jack-in-the-Box, 4to 1 agst Colonel
Crockett, 5 to 1 agst Maydew, 7 to 1 agst Weasel, and 8 to
1 each agst Dominie Sampson and Paresseuse.
As soon as the flag was lowered Colonel Crockett took the
lead, with Jack-in-the-Box, Maydew, and Weasel in attend-
ance, and Zingari in the rear. They ran thus to the Severn
side, where Paresseuse joined the leading horses, and became
third in the bend, after rounding which Wild Chieftain and
Southampton dropped astern. Weasel and P aresseuse over-
hauled Colonel Crockett before reaching the railings, and
the favourite was shortly afterwards beaten. A fine race
between the two was decided in favour of Weasel by a head,
Colonel Crockett losing second place by two lengths. About
the same distance from him came Jack-in-the-Box, the next
three being Zingari, Lufra, and Maydew. Wild Chieftain
was last.
The Autumn Flying Stakes, a handicap of 5 soya each,
with 40 added, for all ages; the second saved his stake.
Winners extra. Rather more than half a mile. 45
subs.
Mr. Boll's Pupil, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (G. Noble) 1
Lord Coventry's Zara, `z yrs, sst 121 b .. (J. Grimshaw) 2
Lord Coventry's Mousetrap, 4 yrs, Tat 121 b (J. Adams) 3
Mr. W. S. Cartwright's Trust, 3 yrs, fist 41b, car Est 61b
(Whiteley) 4
Mr. Bruce's Lord of the Manor, 6 yrs, Bst (Custance) 5
The following also ran :—Miss Julia, East Sheen, David
Ann, Leontes, Gazelle, Peahen, Surbiton Hill, Kinsman,
Abernethy, and Don't-come-late.
Betting-4 to 1 agst Pupil, 6to 1 agst Peahen, 100 to 15
agst Lord of the Manor, 7 to 1 agst Miss Julia, 8 to 1 agst
Zara (with whom Lord Coventry declared to win), 10 to 1
each agst Trust and David Ann, and 100 to 8 agst East
Sheen.

The favourite jumped off with the lead, closely followed
by Zara, Miss Julia, and Mousetrap. Very little change
occurred till they reached the distance, where Miss Julia
gave way to Trust and Lord of the Manor. Mousetrap
made an effort to catch the leaders at the stand, but failed,
and Pupil carried on the lead to the end, and won cleverly
by a neck; Mousetrap was a length from Zara, and a head
each separated the next three ; Miss Julia was sixth, and
about a length from her East Sheen, David Ann, and Pea-
hen were seventh, eighth, and ninth.
The Shorts Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added:
T.Y.C., a straight half-wile.
Lord Uxbridge's Mountain Buck, 2 yrs, sst 10lb (Z3O)
(A. Woodhouse) 1
Lord Coventry's Hypermnestra, 2 yrs, sst 71b (car sst 81b)
(£3O) (Prince) 2
Mr. B. Land's Bayard, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b (X3O)
(A. Sadler) 3
Mr. Snewing's Gazelle, 3 yrs, Bst (£61)) .... (J. Parsons) 4
Mr. Walle.ee's Marcellas, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (£3O) (Pearson) 5
Mr. Payne's Perquisite, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (£3O)
(G. Grimshaw) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Mountain Buck, 5 to 2 agat Perqui-
site, and 6 to 1 agst Hypermnestra.
Marcellas was very fractious at the post, but after a
slight delay the flag fell, and Bayard made the running,
with Mountain Buck and Gazelle next, to the distance,
where he was headed by Mountain Buck and Hyperm-
nestra. The favourite won very easily by a length, Ba-
yard being half a length from the second. Perquisite
bolted soon after starting. The winner was bought in at
75 guineas.
The Worcestershire Grand Annual Steeplechase, a han-
dicap of 20 soya each, h ft, and five only if declared,
About dded The second
fourmiles.22saved his
subs,
7
declared. of wstahokme.
Winners
Icowithexitrlao.9 added.
Mr. Markey nas. Wee Nell, aged, list (Knott) 1
Mr. Adams's Piff Pair, aged, lOst 41b .... (11. Holman) 2
Mr. B. Land's Ascot, aged, lOst 41b (B. Land, jun.) 3
Mr. Adams's Bantam, 6 yrs, llst 41b (Mr. Thomas) 4
Mr. Hawkesley's Tumbler, aged, lOst 121 b (Mr. Dixon) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agat Wee Nell, and 3 to 1 each agat Piff
Paff, and Ascot.
Wee Nell made running from start to finish, being fol-
lowed past the stand in going out by Bantam, Ascot, and
Piff Pall in the order named. On rounding the bend she
had a long lead, and Tumbler took second place, with
Ascot next him, but at the stand changed places again,
Tumbler
was second, Bantam third, and Ascot fourth.
Nell went across the Moors at a great pace, and gradually
increased her lead, entering the open at least a hundred
yards in advance of Bantam, who had become second, and
Piff Paff third. Before coming to the water jump in front
of the stand, Bantam made an effort to reach Wee Nell,
but failed; he, however, was the second to clear it, Piff
off and pulled up after
Piff Piff became and was
farvrooumrittehiaafterand Tumbler being. beaten
Paff and Ascot following
peorinj utm.tpwinaga it.
any londdcsroonsstinhge trahaerelwoohros
second,ease
bwyatsewur
lengths, Ascot
won with consummate
of the lengths
a
coming on to the flat of the race..
eix
being
bad third, and Bantam within a head of him.
Match, £l5O, 12st
71b each, four miles. Steeplechase
Course.
Mr. Tustin's Louisa,
aged (pedigree unknown)
Mr. Reading's Apra, (G. Holman) 1
Agamemnon, aged
Betting-2 to 1 on Agamem ******
(Mr. J. Calder) 0
Louisa took a decided lead ar
every stride, the gray swerving andrting, and increased it at
until he made up his mind not o refusing alternately
Mr. Calder persevered with him forenate; the Moors. There
brought him home the reverse way. ew
minutes, and then
cleared her fences in good style. Louisa went well, and
Free Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sovs each,
added. Two miles. Two-thirds of the
with 30 sovs
paid to the second horse and one-third entrance money
to the third. 29
subs.
Mr. Adam Sunbeam, aged, lOst 101 b ***
Mr. W. Hunt's Broomstick, aged, 9st lob; .. Holman) 1
Mr. H. F. Francis's Greenwic Fair, aged, vo-s•t(Anott) 2
(Mr. Wood) 3
Mr. C. Symond's Paddy from Cork, aged, 9st 101 b
C. J. s
adler) 4
Mr. J. Phillips's The Roarer, 6 yrs, 9st 71b
(Mr. A. )
Calders
Mr. Land's Oliver Twist, 6 yrs, lOst 41b (B. Land, jun.) 6
Mr. J. C. Rich's Homburg, aged, 9st 101 b
(Mr. F. Lotan) 7
Betting-5 to 2 each agst Sunbeam and Oliver Twist, and
5 to 1 agst Greenwich Fair.
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there can be free trade between two parties, one of
which is the small class of discoverers and inventors,
and the other the whole mass of society, who are not
inventors at all, and
wphoositwioi
nth, influencewalnlutlhdein
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propriate and turn to profit every discovery in
science that had a practical bearing,of and every y d
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me-
chanical idea that could be embodied in an instru-
ment or a machine. Bei. ween such parties as these
there can be no interchange of ideas and no reci-
procity of interests ; and as there can be no dealings
between them, there can be no freedom of trade in
any sense analogous to that great commercial doc-
trine to which reference has been made. But even
under the present patent laws, as they exist in every
part of the Old and New World, there is already
something approaching to freedom of trade. Every
foreigner can obtain a patent in England on the
same terms as an Englishman, and an Englishman
enjoys a similar right in return. The producers of
ideas, therefore, are in every country in the same re-
lative position nearly as the producers of those com-
modities which are interchanged under free trade—
the non-producers of ideas and the non-producers
of commodities deriving analogous advantages under
the law—the one from the importation of useful in-
ventions, and the other from the importation of the
necessaries and luxuries of life. There is still, how-
ever, another variety of free trade in inventions
which we think is the only one that deserves the
name. Were a patent right granted at the cost
merely of its registration to every applicant, and
continued with equal security during the same
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ieriod as copyright, every new idea—every scheme
of ingenuity or adventure—would be brought be-
fore the public, and elaborated for the use of man.
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possib;e, has induced the Admiralty to devote their
immediate endeavours to find some means to render
this docking of iron ships for cleaning and re-
coating their bottoms as seldom requisite as possible.
Mr. Griffiths has laid before the Admiralty a plan
for sheathing the bottoms of iron ships with Muntz
metal, using a non-conducting material between the
protecting metal and the iron-bottom plates, and
has received an order to sheath a small iron vessel
on this plan as an experiment. The Controller of
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quite useless as men-of-war or Government screw
troopships, and that it was even desirable to get rid
of the very few that then were on the navy list.
Other plans besides those of Mr. Hay and Mr.
Griffiths are also before the Admiralty, all seeking to
attain the same end, although by different means,
several resorting to the process of electro-typing in
preference to applying temperary compositions, or
the ordinary method of protecting wooden ships by
sheets of copper. The two more prominent of these
last are known as the "Besley" and " Walen" pro-
cesses. Both profess to deposit a pure metal, or a
combination of metals, by an alkaline process in lieu
of the old acid process. The Besley process is already
partially adopted.by the Admiralty at Portsmouth,
tanks and batteries now being at work over the
steam factory of Portsmouth dockyard, depositing
a coating of metal on the iron bolts that are to be
used for fastening the armour plates on the sides of
the Royal Alfred and Royal Sovereign. The success
as yet has not been great ; in fact the alkaline pro-
cess as developed by the Besley system is, owing to 1
some cause, slow, and may possibly yet be super-
seded by the original acid bath. The Walen alkaline
process is represented by the floating dock in the
Victoria Docks, and its effectual success there seems
to be placed beyond a doubt. Mr. Walen claims,
as the merits of his invention, that he can rapidly
precipitate a pure metal, or a combination of metals,
upon iron of any uneven form, with a perfectly even,
bright surface, of any thickness, and indestructible
as the metal upon which it is deposited. Mr. Walen,
while proposing very much that is evidently simple
and practicable, and which will doubtless be carried
out with little delay, relative to the preservation of
our iron ships in their construction, goes much
further than this, and advocates the adaptation of
one of the new docks now constructing as a huge
bath, in which an iron ship, when delivered to Go-
vernment by the contractors, might be at once re-
ceived, and coated as far above the water line as
required, by one process, with an imperishable co-
vering of copper or other protective metal. Whether
all or any of these plans should be definitively
adopted by the Admiralty, time and experience can
alone decide.

The Government property on which it is intended
to erect a suitable and commodious hospital for the
exclusive reception of the sick wives and children
of the troops quartered at Chatham garrison has
bean taken possession of by Mr. A. Stump, the
contractor to the War Department. Workmen have
already commenced the excavations for the foun-
dations of the new structure. The hospital will be
erected in an elevated and healthy situation, be-
tween Chatham Barracks and the inner lines, and
will form a continuation of the garrison hospital,
although detached from that building. The main
building will be 150 ft. in length and of propor-
tionate depth. The interior will be fitted up in a
similar manner to Melville Hospital for seamen
and marines at Chatham, which is considered one
of the best institutions of the kind in the kingdom.
The want of a hospital for women and children has
long been felt at Chatham.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Russell G. S. Pasley,
Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Kingcome, Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Pacific; James R. G.
Browne, paymaster, to be Secretary to Rear-Admi-
ral Kingcome; W.E. Pilcher and Robert Glasspole
of the Neptune, Valentine Horne, of the Emerald,
and Charles D. Thomas, of the Scout, promoted
to first-class assist.-engineers ; Henry White (a), of
the Flying Fish, Thomas Murray, of the Indus,
James Croll, of the Arrogant, William B. Owen, of
the Scylla, and Henry Jesse Iles, of the Renard,
promoted to acting first-class assist.-engineers.

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Christopher North. A Memoir of John Wilson, late
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University
of Edinburgh. Compiled from Family Papers
and other sources. By his Daughter, Mrs.
Gordon. 2 Vols. Edmonston and Douglas,
Edinburgh.
The life of a great man, truthfully told, is at all
times agreeable reading, and the character of few
among the literary giants of whom death of late
years has deprived us will better bear examination
in the broad light of day than that of the subject
of the present memoir; and this because his nature,
mental, moral, and physical, was a peculiarly
healthy one. In him there was nothing morbid.
If ever a soand mind in a sound body was possessed
by man it was his. Nature cast him in a colossal
mould. He was throughout life a strong man re-
joicing in his strength, though occasionally, in the
early part of his literary career, he used it "like a
giant," tyrannically. He reminds us in vital power
of one of the Scandinavian heroes. He was a sort
of literary Berserker. When the fit was on him
he wielded the pen like the hammer of Thor,
smiting his adversaries hip and thigh, rejoicing
like the war-horse at the sound of battle, revelling
in carnage like a Goth of old. But this is true
rather of his first efforts, when Blackwood was in
its youth, and its writers had much of youth's in-
temperance and lack of self-control. Much,
also, must be laid to the spirit of the time.
Manners then were coarse. Mud conflicts were
not confined to scavengers. Personality was
considered legitimate in literary warfare. No
man's private character was respected. And
the poisoned arrow of calumny was too often
launched at ,a political opponent. But these
faults Professor Wilson outlived. As he grew in
years so he increased, not alone in knowledge, but
in that better part of wisdom, charity. He then
nobly redeemed his early errors, rendered full
justice to his former foes, and, crowned with years
and honours, died in peace with all men. Nothing
proves more clearly the tolerant spirit with which
he latterly regarded those of an opposite political
creed than his rising almost from a sick bed within
two years of his death, and proceeding to Edin-
burgh to vote for Macaulay. His was a noble
nature, passionate and prompt in utterance, but
free from all taint of malice, His soul was too
great for envy, and he poured forth his thick
thronging fancies with a fervid eloquence which
stirs the reader as with the trumpet's sound.
His prose is indeed composed of " thoughts that
breathe, and words that burn." We prefer it
even to his poetry, inasmuch as, unfettered by
rhyme, he can express in it the exuberance of
his nature with unbounded freedom. His is no
narrow, cold, correct style, but one teeming with
wealth, and resembling the fruitful earth in pro-
digal liberality. The eldest son of a wealthy re-
tired gauze manufacturer, he was born at Paisley,
in 1785, and was remarkable, as a child, for
beauty and talent. After attending a preparatory
school he entered Glasgow College, whence he
removed to Oxford. Here he distinguished him-
self no less by supremacy in all athletic exercises
than for his classical attainments; but this period
of his life appears to have been embittered by an
unhappy love affair, which unsettled his mind,
and, after roaming restlessly about Wales and the
Highlands, he bought a small estate called
Ellerlay, near Windermere, took up his abode
there, and in 1811 married a Miss Penny.
Prior to this he had written " The Isle of Palms"
and other poems, and as his father had left him a
fortune of £50,000, his worldly position was a pros-
perous one. But a reverse took place. His uncle,
in whose hands the property had been entrusted,
lost it all by imprudent speculations, and Wilson
found himself penniless. Nothing daunted, how-
ever, he entered at the bar, but soon found it an
uncongenial calling; and, after contributing some
articles to the Edinburgh Review, then in the zenith
of its fame under Jeffrey, he transferred himself to
Blackwood, of which, up to the close of his life, ho
formed the main support. In 1820 the chair of
Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh
falling vacant, he became a candidate, after a fierce
contest obtained it, and held it till 1851, when his
declining health forced him to resign it. He was
then awarded a Government pension of £3OO a-
year, and in 1854 he expired from a stroke of para-
lysis. Such is a brief sketch of his career, during
the greater part of which he was constantly before
the public as a writer and a teacher, being emi-
nently successful in both,whilst his domestic life was
peculiarly happy. He seems to have been gifted
in no ordinary measure with the faculty of acquir-
ing the love and esteem of those with whom ho
came personally in contact, and we find scattered
through these volumes numerous anecdotes of his
kindness of heart and integrity of aim. Indeed his
letters, of which many, written at all periods of
his life, are given, amply illustrates these points of
his character. He is a rare example, too, in these
modern days, of the union of great physical power
and love of sport, with literary genius. Homer
would have delighted in him. The deer-stealing
Shakspere would have claimed him as a kindred
spirit. Not only was he passionately fond of cock
fighting and angling, but he excelled in leaping,
wrestling, boxing, rowing, and walking. Among
" muscular Christians" he deserves the foremost
place. Still, in private life, he was one of the
kindest and most unassuming of men. To know
him was to love him, and this because he possessed
not merely strength, but a fund of affectionate ten-
derness almost feminine in its delicacy. This phase
of his character is brought out in these volumes
with singular felicity. The pathos of the conclu-
sion is indeed exquisite. His daughter has shown
herself worthy of her illustrious sire, and wherever
the English tongue is spoken, will be hailed with
pleasure this tribute to the memory of " Christo-
pher North."

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No Church. 13y the Author of " High Church,'
and " Owen, a Waif." Hurst and Blackett.
Excellence in quality and variety in subject are
the characteristics of " The Standard Library," of
which this is the latest issue. The author writes
with an earnest purpose, and the work is both
interesting and suggestive.

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