The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-26 00:00:00

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. ,_._........-_„.......-........---
1865. 1864. 1865 1864
£ 6
Belfast and N. Counties 991 90/ ;2,2.5 2.018
Belfast and County Down.... 49 49 921 783
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,404 2,396
Bristol and Exeter 1214 121/ 8,074 7,552
Caledonian, Scottish Central 410380 41021 228;710773 227:055411
Cambrian
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 314 - 517 -
Cockermouth and Workin
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 374 357
Cork, Blaeltrock, & Passage 6l (1 4 220 553
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall B5l 654 1,891 2.027
Deeside l7 17 577 532
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 83 1,921 2.044
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,320 2.284
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 914 3,586 3,751
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &o 5O 5) 3,611 3.414
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E. Union
Great Northern 404 365 33,534 33,411
Great North of Scotland 99 99 1,491 3.263
Gt. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7l/ 711 441 965
9t.Southn. & Westn.arind.) 387/ 3874 9,471 8.356
Great Western l2BO 1236 76,090 76,413
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,956 1,6.,8
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 46,926 46.818
Limerick and Ennis
Limerick and Foynes 26/ 2 111 114
Llanelly 46/ 4 704 730
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 5 2,190 2,140
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 2671 25,691 23,876
London, Chatham, & Dover; (134 127 1 11,328 13.116
all Metiopolitan Extension jl2 114 i 2,7 0 2,50)
Do. Kent (,oast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
51an.,Sheffield,& Linoolnsh
Ranch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9/ 91 1,623 1,487
sfaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6721 611 51,234 44,574
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind- 2601 2601 5.102 4,732
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,999 2,; OS
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12911 11601 75,285 72,73
North London 9 9 3,596 3,337
North Staffordshire 258 258 8,233 8.044
Pembroke and Tenby ll4 21/ 179 172
Rhymnev l9l 191 1,136 948
Scottish Worth-Eastern l3B 138 6,990 6,685
Somerset and Dorset 6B 66 1,134 988
South Devon 9B 794 4.911 4,707
South-Eastern
Taff Vale
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 5.3 442
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,870 1,536
Nrhaven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 654 693
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 974 1,159
W hitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 879 987
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Austrian B2B

Bahia and San Francisco 76/
Belgian Eastern Junction 26i
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9

Dutch Rhenish .. lOBl
Eastern of France

Eastern Bengal ........ 110
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Central of Belgium 295
Great Indian Peninsula 590
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa dalicant GS)
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 728
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. 4B}
Paris, Lyons, & lilediterru 1967
Paris and Orleans 1616
Recife and San Francisco. &c 774
Scinde . 105
Do. Punjab, &c 253
South Austrian, &c ......
Southern of France 623
Victoria
Welland. 25
West & N-Wn. of France

828 33,361 35,053
761 422 327
261 335 319
1851 5,975 3,609
189 7,334 4,4
1081 7,568 7,321
1428 74,560 67,333
110 1,927 1,567
1066 - --
1335 26 110 20,557
295 7,018 5,999
5531 15,743 6,766
134 5,713 4,726
79 683 687
315 12,500 9,806
448 7,256 6,8%8
650 19,724 18 638

91 1.,786 2,380
728 61,722 69,114

_ -
44 3,334 1,477
181 5 1 431
1784 138,041 135,5043
1614 70,885 61,444
774 861 f,24
105 1,12) 1,690
32 888 153
1527 77,931 51,658
770 32,146 31,358
196 11,249 9.477
25 3,154 525
91 00,112 :6,528

TIIE Loss OF THE GENERAL SCREW STEAMER
DERWENT.—Yesterday an inquiry, directed by the
Board of Trade, was resumed and concluded at Greenwich
before Mr. Train, the magistrate, and Captains Harris and
Baker, nautical assessors, respecting the loss of the Der-
went iron screw steamship, on a small island between Bene-
yenta and South Bless, Hebrides. Tho court found that
the chief officer was to blame for continuing to run the
steamer at her usual speed in thick weather, in not having
a proper look-out, and in omitting to call the captain, and?
suspended his certificate for three months.

The first witness called was Mrs. Mary Ashley, who said
she was the wife of Mr. John Ashley, builder, of 30, Graf-
ton-street, Fitzroy-square. She knew both prisoners. Sho
saw the male prisoner on May 4th, when he took a bedroom.
He was accompanied by another man. He took the bedroom
that day, but she did not see anything of him for a fortnight,
when he called and said there would be letters left there,
and asked her to take great care of them. The prisoner
wrote his name and address, and she asked him for the name
of the party who was with him. The prisoner wrote the
name of "Rhubulet and Co., 13, Princes-road, Chelsea."
He wrote also the name of " Durrant," which he said was
his friend's name. He told her he would call again in a
few days, and she was to take great care of the letters. He
called a few days after, and there were then a number of
letters-20, or perhaps more—addressed to Rhubulet and
Co., agents. She gave them to the prisoner. She saw that
they were nearly all foreign letters. There were a great
many of the letters registered. He told her when the letters
arrived there would be sometimes money or valuable pro-
perty in them. She told him her husband did not allow
her to sign for anything. lie wished her to sign for them.
She told this to the postman, who told her that if she signed
for Rhubulet and Co. the prisoner must sign for them ; and
she told the prisoner what the postman had said, and made
him sign for thorn, and he made no objection. Registered
letters arrived frequently after that, and the prisoner signed
for them all. The prisoner brought the female prisoner
about last Thursday week. He told her the day before he
would bring his wife the following day, and she was to give
her up the letters that came for him when she called for
them, and ho would sign the paper for the registered
letters. Witness produced a list of registered letters on
which the male prisoner had written his signature several
times, and the female was to insert against each signature
the number of letters she received. There were 25 letters
in all signed for, and there were still three signatures left
blank. The female prisoner received the letters on the last
three occasions, namely, the 19th, 21st, and 22d of August,
and received eight letters. Witness said they were all
letters from abroad, and all addressed to Wm. Rhubulet and
Co., agents, 20, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square. Therelwas
no business done there, and, with one exception, nothing
but letters were left there, and then a parcel containing
samples of wine was taken from 15, Gracechurch-street,
which her husband refused to take in. Witness had never
heard the name of Jordan mentioned. Several gentlemen
called to see the prisoners, who appeared to be foreigners.
They did not appear to know the prisoner. The prisoner
never slept in the room. There was a bed and bedding
there, but the prisoner said he did not want to occupy it as
a bedroom.
The prisoner said there was no bed there.

Witness continued—The prisoner said he would want
the room from ten till four, as he would have a great deal
of writing to do. When he went, however, he did not
stop more than five minutes, and she never saw him write,
except to sign the paper for the letters.

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an apartment ; he said he should not want to occupy it,
but should only want it to receive letters. He did not
object to the bed in the room. Witness understood him to
be a sort of ship agent, but did not give his card. The
prisoner wrote down two references, but witness had not
got them with him. The prisoner wrote down his own
name, C. 11. Rigden. Re did not recollect the names of
the references. Ono was in Rupert-street, and the other
in Princes-street, Soho. The prisoner asked him if he
would object to a small plate on the doorpost, to which
witness at first demurred, but finally consented, and a
plate was put on the doorpost, with the name of C. H.
Rigden on it. The prisoner told him there would be some
letters, and perhaps a good many, and he would ask for
them. In two or three days letters began to arrive—seven
or eight in the morning, and about the same in the oven-
inc. Some were addressed "C. H. Rigden," and some
"C. H. Rigden and Co., agents." Witness know all the
letters were foreign, and appeared to come from all parts
of the Continent. They continued to arrive up to the
previous day, the prisoner sometimes calling alone, and
sometimes with the female prisoner. At first the prisoner
called every day, but afterwards the letters were not quite
so numerous, and he called every other day. He came
with the female prisoner about a fortnight after ho en-
gaged the rooms and introduced her as his wife, and
said she was to receive the letters. When the prisoner
first called about the room he was accompanied by a man
who spoke English and seemed to interpret for the male
prisoner, who appeared not to be able to speak English, and
the prisoner described him as his clerk. Witness gave
some letters to the female prisoner. There had been 17
registered letters and 94 unregistered, and also four parcels,
which were delivered by a railway porter. two of which
appeared to contain money. They came from abroad, but
he could not say where. He gave one of the parcels to the
male prisoner, but he did not recollect about the others.
They signed for them, and he had the receipts at home.
When the prisoners called for the letters, witness should
say they did not remain more than three minutes. No writ-
ing was done at the "office." Neither of the prisoners
ever went up. Witness thought there were two gentlemen
who called for Mr. Rigden. One lie saw himself, and he was
a foreigner. They called about 11 o'clock in the morning
for the letters, and when there were so many they called
about six in the evening. When the female prisoner called
for the letters, about the 12th of August, she said the other
prisoner had gone to France and would be away a few
days. Witness had not seen him since the 12th. Witness
did not know the purport of any of the letters, but he un-
derstood the prisoner was a shipping agent.
Theodore Foulger, detective sergeant, said he was engaged
with other officers in investigating the case. On the pre-
vious day he saw the prisoner leave No. 41, Whisldn-street,
Clerkenwell. He was with Jenkinson and two other officers,
and told prisoner they were police-officers, and were going
to arrest him for having defrauded several gentlemen in
I various parts of the Continent, and particularly for having
defrauded M. Valerio Castelbrini of 100 f., by sending letters
to him representing that he Lad property of value to
remit. The prisoner appeared not to understand him, and
he took him back to No. 41, Whiskin-street, and searched
the place. Ho found a quantity of papers, and among them
was a letter he produced, addressed to " Messrs. Rhubulet
and Co., Grafton-street," and one to " C. 11. Rigden and
Co., Gray's Inn-road." lie also found various other letters
addressed to the same parties, one of which contained
400 postage stamps, addressed to " Messrs. Rhubulet and
Co., Grafton-street." They were foreign postage stamps,
and represented about £4. The letter was from Jaen, in
Spain. Witness found various letters from abroad, and
directed to the various names in which the prisoner had
been going. He also found a Madrid Directory, and he
believed about 15,000 letters had been sent abroad. He
found a number of letters with the name of " Gordon and
Co." When he got back to Whiskin-street he apprehended
the female prisoner. She said she w: = the male zioner's

" Staindrop who, from her silver bowers,
Salutes proud Baby's battled towers."
Here the rector, the Rev. J. F. Hodgson, gave an
interesting description of the building. He said
that it was erected by the almost extinct family of
the Nenlles, in which they worshipped, and where
the more illustrious of them had been buried. The
chancel had been of early English work, and he
suspected that it was 10 feet longer than the nave.
Possibly the north transept was of the date of 1195.
Staindrop was a place of some importance in the
reign of King Canute. It was the head of a shire,
and might be regarded as having then been a kind
of little king among the villages around it. With
its numerous additions Staindrop afforded a remark-
able instance of a north country church, small at
first, but extending gradually in all directions—
east, west, north, and south.

The " squint" windows overlooking the altar,

from which you could see what went on in the
church without entering it, were noticed as very
curious.

The Neville monuments in this church are of
great interest, and were briefly described by Mr.
J. R. Planche. There is a splendid alabaster altar-
tomb to Ralph Neville, the first Earl of Westmore-
land, who is represented in armour, with a lion a•t
his feet ; and on either side there are effigies of his
two wives,—Margaret, daughter of Hugh, Earl of
Stafford, and Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt,—
by whom he had 23 children. At the feet of all
three are small and mutilated figures of kneeling
monks. Another tomb, of wood, is erected in
memory of Henry, fifth Earl of Westmoreland,
and his three wives, the figures of his eight children
being placed in niches round the tomb. The inscrip-
tion is, " All you that come to this church to praye,
say a paternoster and a crede for to have mercy of
us and all our progeny." In the centre of the
chancel is a magnificent tomb in white marble, by
Westmacott, in memory of the eldest brother of
the present duke, who wears his coronet, is half
recumbent.

From Staindrop it is only a short drive through
the park to the seat of the President, the Duke of
Cleveland,—Raby Castle,—which is reckoned the
most perfect of the northern castles now existing.
The visitors were received in the hall by the Duke
and Duchess, and immediately passed by a fine oak
staircase, lately added, into the Baron's Hall, where,
when the Nevilles were in their full pride and of
power, the knights who held of them assembled :
" Seven hundred knights, retainers all
Of Neville, at their master's call,
Together sat in Raby's Hall."

In this noble hall, so full of historical associations,
a bountiful dinner was provided, and after their
long journey the visitors—some 200 of them—
were ready to do full justice to the venison
and famous venison pasties, the grouse and
the other good things with which the table was
loaded. The Marquis and Marchioness of Nor-
manby, Lord Houghton, and other distinguished
visitors, were staying at the castle, and with the
Duke and Duchess were unwearied in their atten-

tions. When hunger and thirst were appeased, Mr.
J. R. Planche, in the name of the Association,
thanked the Duke and Duchess for their most hos-
pitable reception, and their health was drank amid
such cheers as can hardly have rung within the old
hall since the days of the Nevilles. In reply, the
Duke expressed the great gratification which he had
experienced in receiving the Association, and his
wishes that this visit might be agreeably remembered
by the members.

Reassembling in the lower hall, the visitors lis-
tened to a paper read by the Rev. Mr. Hodgson on
the architectural features and some of the historical
associations connected with the castle. Raby, he
said, pointing by its name to a Danish origin, was
first mentioned in connection with King Canute,
who, after making his celebrated pilgrimage over
Garmondsway Moor to the shrine of St. Cuthbert,
there offered it, with Staindrop and the rest of Stain-
dropshire, to the saint. Bishop Flambard wrested
the rich gift from the monastics, but restored it
again on his deathbed. It continued in the peaceful
possession of the monks till 1131. In that year
they granted it for an annual rent of £4 to Dolphin,
son of Ughtred, of the blood royal of Northumber-
land. Whoever the original founder might have
been, Dolphin's descendant, Robert filius Maldred,
was, at all events, Dominus de Raby, when early
in the 13th century he married Isabel
Neville, by the death of her brother the last
of that line, and sole heiress of that great Saxon
house of Buhner, Lords of Brancepeth, and Sheriff
Hutton. From their son Geoffrey, who assumed
his mother's surname, the history of the Nevilles
might be said to date. To his descendant, John Lord
Neville, they owed the present castle of Raby. It
was reported of this Lord John Neville (said Dug-
dale) that he was some time employed against the
Turks, and that being Lieutenant of Aquitaine he
reduced that province to quiet, which had been
wasted by the wars with the Turks, and that in his
service in those parts he won and had rendered to
him 83 walled towns, castles, and forts. It was
during the latter part of his life that the reconstruc-
tion of Raby was gradually proceeded with. Bishop

The Rev. Prebendary SCARTR, M.A., described a
Roman altar which had been found in the capital of
a column in the church at Gainford, on the river
Tees, about two miles above Piersbridge, an ancient
Roman station on the line of Watling-street. The
church had been restored in the course of last year,
and built into the south-east pier of the tower arch
was found an inscribed stone, a portion of which
had been rounded to form the capital of the column.
One side was perfect, and contained the figure of a
Roman eagle with a wreath in the beak. The altar
was dedicated to the Doly-chene Jupiter, the Jove
of Metallurgy, and dedicated by a Roman officer,
for himself and his family, or his company of sol-
diers, at the command of the god himself. This
latter expression was pointed out as a formulary
common to altars dedicated to this divinity. The
date of the altar was probably A.D. 153 ; this could
be nearly ascertained from the names of the con-
suls which were just discernible towards the end of
the inscription. Five altars dedicated to the Doly-
chene Jupiter had been found in this country, and
in all parts of it where ironstone is abundant. An
altar found abroad, well known to archologists,
contained an explanation of the title " Doly-
chenus," applied to Jupiter as presiding over the
countries where iron was produced, and the locali-
ties in which these altars had been founded in Britain
quite confirmed the statement. The rev. gentleman
made observations on the care taken by the Romans
to develope the resources of the countries they con-
quered, and pointed out that, as many traces were
left of the Roman lead mines in England, so, no
doubt, traces of iron workings might be discovered
if looked for carefully, and concluded with an allu-
sion to the great necessity of preserving with all
possible care the inscribed stones found, since they
were corroborative and illustrative of the accounts
of written history.

Holiday Makers.

(From the Correspondent of the Times).

KISSINGEN, Aug. 23.

I have seen Kissingen. I went up to the summit
of the Bodenlaube, one of the conical hills surround-
ing the town, made conspicuous by the scattered
fragments of an old feudal castle. The ascent has
nothing of the difficulties and dangers of the Matter-
horn. • It may be achieved in something like 20
minutes, and is made over easy steps and along
smooth paths, across rich meadows, in the shape of
young woods, with comfortable seats at short inter-
vals for the accommodation of short-winded inva-
lids. At the entrance of the ruins on this side, towards
the town, there is a " restauration," bearing the
name of " Rubezahl," the name of that cunning
hobgoblin who plays such a variety of pranks in the
legions of the Giant Mountains. On the other side
the top is reached through a long row of "stations,"
little chapels or shrines—a via crucis to the Calvary,
or Holy Mount--erected in poor emulation of the
famous sub-Alpine sanctuaries of Oropa, Orta, and
Varallo. In such juxta-position do you always find
the Heavenly Powers and the Prince of Darkness in
these unsophisticated old Roman Catholic countries
—a taper invariably lighted in honour of the arch-
fiend in antagonism to the oil lamps burning at the
foot of the Archangel. "We never know where we
may come to in the end, and it is always well to
have a friend in all quarters."
From the heights of the Bodenlaube you see the
whole of Kissingen—a miserable village within the
recollection of living men, now a city of palatial
hotels; a place visited by about 160 invalids in 1816,
crowded with its yearly 6,000 at the present day.
Round the town a range of sweet and smooth, well
rounded, well wooded hills ; outside this circle a
wide, sweeping, undulating country, again shut in
by easy sloping mountains—a shell within a shell,
a kettle within a kettle. The inner circle constitutes
the little valley of the Saale, a sluggish stream that
winds round Kissingen and is apt to stagnate on its
meadows ; for, with all its health-giving powers,
Kissingen has a damp, somewhat gloomy climate,
not very inviting in any but the hottest summer
months. •

Notwithstanding its high renown and its rapid
increase in later years, Kissingen has still much of
the primitiveness of a genuine watering-place. People
come here for their health, or come not all. Dr.
Granville, the illustrator of all German and Eng-
lish spas, never fails to pitch his tent at Kissingen
every summer, giving it the preference over all
other Kurorts for the marvellous powers of the
Racoczy, Pandor, and Max Brunnen, the salt and
carbonic acid baths at the saline, by which sufferers
from dyspepsia and all other organic complaints are
made whole, and go back with a new liver, or one,
at any rate, as good as new.
It is pleasant to come once in a while across
things called by their own true names. Kissingen
is called a watering-place, and answers its appella-
tion most thoroughly. It is no such racketty place
of dissipation as Wiesbaden, Homburg, or other
rival establishments. The fashionable hour for a
promenade here is between 6 and 8 in the morning.
Nay, so outrageously early people are we here that
in the garden near the
the band, before settling
Springs and the Kursaal at 6, makes the round of all
the hotels, sounding the reveille, and rousing the
sluggards. The solemn strains of their wind in-
struments were serenading me under my windows
this morning, in the grey of earliest dawn, at
half-past 4. It was heavenly music in that still
hour, I must say, though murderous to sweet slum-

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no one can say ; but the Kursaal-garden is all
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music, more quaffing of 'the Racoczy waters, more
sauntering up and down, more swarming of motley
groups. At Bit is night, and night is for rest and
sleep, in spite of the little theatre, the
conjuring
tricks by a successor of Bosco, and other entertain-
tainments by no means extensively patronised. The
great treat of Kissengen consists in some stray Em-
press, Queen, or Grand Duchess driven to the spot
by some of those complaints Royal flesh is heir to,
like other flesh. Sometimes a whole galaxy of such
stars shine above this Franconian horizon ; and we
hear of the gracious affability and primitive con-
descension with which their High blightinesses and
TransParenciesir
,splendours partly subdued by
the assumptionhf 'Pecognito nanr.s and titles, "hold
their courts in the open air or under the Kursaal
colonnades, and greet their friends, and even stran-
gers, with utter disregard of etiquette." Such of these
exalted ladies as graced Kissingen this year are all off
by this time. The season is drawing to a close, and
was by no means one of the most brilliant. The
English colony, as I said, hardly ever exceeds 300,
though it boasts of a fine newly-built and lately-
opened church, a church, as well as a doctor, ex-
clusively addicted to its service.
With all these attractions and the loveliness of
the environs, lam afraid that Kissingen is entitled
to that appellation of a " dull place," which is given
it in the guide-books. The people here avow it ; you
would say they rather glory in it. " The fact is we
do not gamble here," they tell you, " and we en-
courage no bad characters of any description."
There is no doubt but Kissingen contrived in the
worst of times to keep up its character for respec-
tability. Previous to 1848 it had its rouge-et-noir
and roulette tables as well as the most sinful of its
neighbours. No Kursaal had been built at that
time, and the gambling went on at some of the
lower rooms at the Kurhaus ; but they were so uni-
versally tabooed that I am assured none but the
couriers and lacqueys of the great famili#s went
there to stake their ill-gotten florins. In the famous
years of revolution 1848-49 a crusade was preached
against the Tapis-vert throughout Germany, and
one of the first ads of the National Versanomlung,
or Parliament, of the German Empire, which met
in St Paul's Church at Frankfort, was to suppress
all the gaming tables, prescribing a practice which
was thought to throw so much discredit on the
country. The decree of the national representatives
met with various receptions in different States. The
doughty Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg called all
his army of 366 men under arms, and prepared for
a desperate resistance. This was under the very
nose of the 900 Professors of the Frankfort Assem-
bly, and was not to be tolerated. A battalion of
Austrians, acting in the capacity of Imperial Ger-
man troops, were marched upon Homburg, where
they found the tables deserted—not by terror of the
law or of its executors, but merely owing to the
Rumoresfuge circumspection of tourists, who were
that year kept away from all their favourite resorts.
It is stated—l know not on what grounds—that the
officers of that Austrian contingent, taking pity on
the desolate croupier, sat down to those very tables
which they had been sent to demolish, and kept up
the games which would have died a natural death
without them.

Whatever may be the truth of that anecdote, the
real upshot was that the German Empire and its
Parliament went down, and the croupier's tables
were reared up once more. Wiesbaden, Homburg,
Baden-Baden breathed again, and their visitors
were again at their tracks everywhere--everywhere
except at Kissingen. The good King, Louis of
Bavaria, then reigning was a man whose principles
were sound, however questionable may have been
his taste in other matters. The revolution had done
that ono good in his estimation, that it had shut up
public gaming-houses. He was resolved that much
should not be undone, and when the former pro-
prietor of the Games at Kissingen, M. Bolzano, ap-
plied for the exercise of his rights, grounded on some
former lease, the King referred to the Act of the
Imperial Parliament, and declared it to be a law
throughout his dominions. The point was disputed
by the disappointed croupier, and the lawsuit was
carried on for years, and tried at a variety of tri-
bunals, till it came at last before the supreme
federal Court at Bremen, where it was decided that
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had never been since repealed, it had certainly the
power of law, and was binding on all such members
of the Band as chose to abide by it." King Louis
and his successors chose to bow down to its enact-
ments, and we have no gambling at Kissingen.
Their Serene Highnesses of Nassau, Homburg, and
Baden, preferred to drive a coach and four through
that mere cobweb of a decree, and florins and
napoleons continue to jingle on their Kursaal tables.
There is not an arrant va-tout of them all, whom
you will not hear in the rare lucid intervals between
the fits of his gambling passion, declare that " it is
a flagrant shame and a glaring scandal to throw
open such temptation as these games of hazard prove
to many of the mere idlers at a watering-place."
Medical men in vain protest that " in the midst of
the excitement of play it is impossible to effect a
cure, which relies above all things on perfect quiet
and the avoidance of all violent emotions." All in,
'rain. The measures which the great Powers of
Austria and Prussia, and the State of Bavaria, found
it so easy to adopt, are said to be impracticable in
the smaller duchies and grand duchies. They plead
the right of the lessees, they promise a breakdown
of the system at the end of a few years. They make
hay while the sun shines, nevertheless ; and Kis-
singen, good, respectable Kissingen, learns at its
expense how dearly one must pay for the luxury of
being more conscientious, more consistent, and, in.
fact, more honest than one's neighbours.

Mr. H. C. E. Childers, M.P., hitherto the Finan-
cial Lord of the Admiralty, has been appointed Financial
Secretary of the Treasury, in the room of Mr. Frederick
Peel. Mr. Childers has already entered upon his new
duties, and has appointed Mr. R. E. Welby, of tho Trea-
sury, to be his private secretary. Mr. W. C. Anderson has
been appointed auditor of the Civil List, in succession to
the late Mr. Arbuthnot.

WILL OF . TIIE LATE MR. JOHN CASSELL.—Tho
will of the late Mr. John Cassell, publisher, La
Belle Sauvage-yard, Ludgate-hill, residing at Avenue-
road, Regent's Park, was proved in London by his widow,
Mrs. Mary Cassell, the sole executrix, the trustees ap-
pointed being Thomas D. Galpin and George Smith. The
personal property was sworn under £25,000. The testator
died 2d April last, having executed his will on 22d March
preceding, and a codicil the day following. lie directs that
his real estates shall be sold and invested with the per-
sonalty ; bequeaths to his wife £l,OOO a year, and leaves
her all his furniture, plate, library, wines, carriages, ece.,
giving her his authority and consent to continue the in-
vestment of his capital in the business carried on by the
firms of Cassell, Peter, and Galpin, and of Cassell, Smith,
and Co., but without any interference therein, the trustees
to receive and invest all the surplus income and profits due
to his estate, arising therefrom, for a period of 21 years, or
until the death of his relict, or the marriage of his daugh-
ter, leaving to his said daughter in the meantime an
annuity, increasing with her age from £lOO to £5OO a
year whilst unmarried, but on her marrying then to re-
ceive the interest for her life, and at her decease to be
divided among her children. An annuity is left to hit
mother, which at her decease will devolve to his sisters.—
City Press.