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But in this instance you have a most noble cause to fight
for—l mean. the protection of the weak by the
strong. This is the cause that you will fight
for, and nobly will you and the rest of the army
do your duty. You will be led by Lord Raglan, a man
who was on the right hand of the Duke of Wellington, a
man who knows how to lead you to glory as well as you
know how to fight to attain it. One thing I desire to
impress upon you, and that is to be good comrades to
our gallant allies, the French. I say "gallant' most
truly, for they were once our foes ; now you are to fight
side by side with them, and I would rather fight along
with them than with any soldiers in the world, because
they will never desert you. Your conduct, Highlanders,
under my command, has been like that of every British
regiment, and I never saw a British regiment that would
not fight. I will answer for it that you will. There is
one thing which I would urge on you. We, soldiers, are
well provided for by our country, but the unfortunate in-
habitants of the country where war is carried on are
ever in a state of misery. Let no man's hand be turned
against the people of the country, but protect the weak
against the strong. Colonel Ainslie, I wish you and
these Highlanders every success, as well as the army
generally. If lam not with you, my heart is with you,
and it beats to that impulse which may be felt now by
every British soldier who has to fight in the good cause
of the Queen and glorious England."
The soldiers then gave Sir Harry three times three
cheers, after which the people vociferously applauded
the military as they marched by.

ROYAL ARSENAL.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 24.
Lieutenant-General Lord Raglan, G.C.B. ; Captain
Sir Thomas Hastings, C. 8., Storekeeper of the Ord-
nance ; and Colonel lion. L. Maule, Surveyor-General,
arrived at the Royal Arsenal; and were received by the
heads of the departments, who accompanied these mem-
b-rs of the Board of Ordnance during their inspection
of the works in progress and the stores on band for all
branches of her Majesty's services.
Some idea may be formed of the resources of the works
in the Royal Arsenal when it is stated that Mr. Ander-
son's admirable self-acting machine for making Mint 4
balls by compression is m tking these bails in a perfect
state ready for use to the extent of three tons' weight
per day.
The whole of the workmen employed in the Royal
Arsenal and a great number of extra men and boys re-
cently put on, work from daylight till dark, with only
half an hour for dinner, and they must take their break-
fast before they come to work in the morning.
76,000 rounds of ball cartridges lett the Royal Ar-
senal on Wednesday for Southampton,*for the use of the
Guards, and an order has been received to have
6,000,000 ball cartridges ready packed for the EAst
within the next fortnight. Upwards of 100 boys have
been taken on to work, and every building in the labo-
ratory being occupied in preparing the munitions of
war, tents have been put up in the square to give in-
creased accommodation.

T4,i-t.-416

In Piccadilly, a street of palaces, are two lofty walls, as
architectural, gloomy, and grand as walls can be made, hiding
from the gaze of the profane two edifices grander than the
rest. They belong to different members of one family, and
may any day lapse to one owner. A contemporary lately
assured us that, as a town mansion, one of these was without
a rival on this side the Alps ; but, if that rival is to be found,
it is probably the other of' the two. Not a day passes but
tens of thousands wonder as they pass by what grandeur,
what state, what ease, what happiness there is within those
walls ; and many of them, doubtless, contrast their own hum-
ble toils and cankering cares with the condition of the man who
enjoys the revenue and the attendance of a potentate, with-
out a Parliament to meet, an army to employ, or a populace
to shun. They speculate as the Abyssinian peasant in John-
son's story might have speculated about the occupants
of the Happy Valley, and the inexhaustible fund of hap-
piness it contained. What is known helps to raise
the range of that speculation. The Duke whose grandeur
is veiled by the westernmost and newest of the screens
we have mentioned has also a palace in the provinces,
beyond compare for its magnificence, for the treasures it con-
tains, for the beauty of its situation and artificial grounds,
and for the princely magnificence of its establishment. Every-
thing about him is great. A steward of his became Speaker
of the House of Commons, and a peer of the realm ; while
his gardener has been knighted, and occupies a distinguished
position in the world of art. A species of viceroy manages
his Irish estates. The Duke has been Ambassador at St.
Petersburg, and has entertained at his country house the man
who now menaces the peace of the world. 'He has done every-
thing that is expensive and grand. Ho gives concerts and.
patronises art. Wherever he goes his name is announced with
becoming awe. Rumour does justice to his income, and base
groundllucrs calculate how much he has to spend a-week, how
much a-day, how much au hour, as if he spent his money as
regularly as the sun does a day's work of his orbit. But all
this leaves untouched the more interesting question how such
a man spends his time, and {what it is to have say, 200,000/.
a-year absolutely at one's disposal, and, as it happens in this
case, without any one to claim a voice in its expenditure.
Fortunately or unfortunately for these splendid illus one
and interesting inquiries, every now and then something
comes out that reveals this grand inner life, hidden behind
softy screens of fine brickwork, under mountains of Palladian
architecture, and in wildernesses of fairy landscape. We need
not even wait till the undertaker, the auctioneer, or the con-
tractor throws open the gates, and shows us the secrets of
ducal existence. Our own broad sheet has occasionally a tale
to tell of these things, and iu yesterday's paper there was one
of a sort to satisfy much curios:ty, and appease many envious
longings after earthlxgreatness. The Duke of Devonshire, it
stems, has a very grand butler--a duke among butlers—and
many a small householder, who koops the key of his wine-
cellar in his pocket, and himself gives out the allowance for
a dinner, thinks within himself how agreeable •it would
be if one could afford to leave all this trouble to just
such a butler as the duke's, But Mr. Wilkinson, it
seems, relieved his master to a greater extent than
our small householder would imagine. He had the
purchasing and the choice of the wine, and, of
course, the selection of the wine merchants. This
license he had for all his master's establishments, both town
and country, within the moderate limits of 1,500/. a year.
The Duke is a temperate and abstemious man ; the Caven-
dishes are all so, and his friends are probably after his own
taste in this respect. Then, as for extraordinary occasions,
even a Duke's banquets can be numbered in the year. Yet
here is an annual incumbrauce on the ducal revenue to the
amount of 1,5001. at the disposal of a servant ; yet not quite
absolutely, for to keep that servant in order another servant
was necessary. The Duke has an auditor, and that 'auditor,
in overhauling the accounts of the butler, discovered that.
like a certain chief butler three thousand years ago, and
butlers ever since, Mr. Wilkinson was liable to error. In
fact, this gentleman had sold his master to a firm of wine-
merchants, and, as appears from a document produced in the
Rolls' Court, had promised to get all the Duke's wine from
them, ou condition of a loan to himself, followed, as it fur-
ther appears, by other advances, to the amount, in all, of
about 670/. The wine-merchants' share in this transaction
we dare say nothing about. They are not ashamed of it, for
they produce the contract in court, and proclaim to all the
world that they accommodated the butler with a large loan,
renewable from time to time, as the condition of his master's
custom. They wi'l probably tell us that this is a thing of
every-day occurrence, and that all butlers, cooks, and coach-
men sell their masters to the tradesmen employed in their
several departments. We shall be told that to protest against
the custom is to shut up shop altogether. This, then, is a
bit of that grandeur all men covet, and to obtain which for
themselves, or their children, or their remote posterity, so
many toil night and day, and make themselves miserable.
How delightful to be a duke and to be compelled to spend
1,5001. a-year in wine, to keep a gentleman to buy it, and
another gentleman over him to see that, in buying the wine,
he does not sell his master ! Why, how much of that wine is
actually consumed by the duke and his friends. Supposing
the whole annual supply to find its way to the ducal cellars,
who are the real consumers ? One wine with another, and
one day with another, this could not be less thin 500 dozen,
or 16 bottles a-day ! Who that knows the duke's habits can
think that the average consumption of his Grace's table ?
Which is the real servant in such a household ? But the
master is worse than the servant. He is a prisoner of State.
There are iron chains, and there are silken chains, and there are
golden chains; and 50,000/. a-year is but a golden chain that
ties a man till he can hardly walk from one room to another,
or order his horse, or go to bed, withont.the leave of his
guards. The owner of a large establishment will often fly
from it to some out-of-the-way place, where he may forget
that he is a Duke and remember that he is a man. Or, if
this be impossible, if his guards aro too vigilant, he will re-
tire into some corner of his own dreary house, and betake
himself to some small occupation that may bring his condition
as near as possible down to that of a journeyman doing a day's
work for a day's pay. Give him a bit of garden to dig, or a
box to mend, or a pamphlet to write, and he will be happy for
a while. That pleasant dream over, the incubus of his life will
return, and is once more a Duke, ant] a servant of servants.
Who has the real enjoyment of such wealth ? The archi-
tect enjoys the outside of the house, and the upholsterer
takes his pleasul e within ; the libraiian revels among
the books, and the gardener follows his fancy in the
' garden; the master of the horse delights in the stable, and
the ook is great in the kitchen. All enjoy themselves, ex-
, cept the ostensible head. Way, the very Duke who was
plaintiff in the case above mentioned is reported to say that
llc can only afford to live at Chatsworth one month in the

year. He is fortunate to be able to live there one month, so
many houses are there in the country, and even i town,

that are shut against their owners. We now see how it is ;
but stories to the same effect might be repeated for ever. It
is said of another nobleman, whose town house has lately
changed hands, that when his afihirs were placed in the hands
of a friend it was found the butcher's bill had not been paid
for eighteen years, every year of which had rivetted more
closely his Grace's chains to his butcher and his cook. Now,
many years ago, at another noble mansion not far from Pic-
cadilly, it was found that the cook had a secret storeroom of
his own, communicating with the kitchen, fall of its spoils;

and the investigation brought to light a system of robbery
to the amount of 6001. a-year. With all this experience, and
the certainty of unpleasant disclosures some time or other, the
great man will still be waited ou by gentlemen ; he will still
have his valet a fop, his footmen giants, his cook a despot,
a- d all his other servants the most hazardous of their class.
After all, he has not what he wants, and what he has paid
for. He cannot do what he likes, or get good attendance.
One millionnaire declares that he was better waited on when
he was a boy at college, with the eighth share of a scout, than
now when he has an exclusive right to the attentions of half-a-
dozen gentlemen and thirty servants. Yet there seems no
help. Wealth is a choice of evils. If the master looks after
his servants, it takes all his time, and he is a slave to appear-
ance ; if he leaves them alone, they will rob and neglect him.
Yet, to check the extravagance of butlers and cooks, to de-
tect the depredations of gardeners, to chastise the insolence
of footmen, and to protect the morals of servant girls, is but
a poor occupation for a man with all the world before him,
and with 200,000/. a year. What is a Duke to do ? We shall
not pretend to answer. Let the Duke answer it himself.
Our only object just now is to let those who are not Dukes
or millionnaires see that wealth and position have their draw-
backs, and that 20,0001. a year, or even 200,000/., 'does not
exempt a man from responsibilities and troubles.—Times.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Feb. 23.

ROLLS' COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE V. LAFOREST.

This suit came before the Court on a motion for an in-
junction, by the Duke of Devonshire, to prevent the de-
fendants, who are wine merchants, from proceeding with
any action at law against him relative to certain wines
which had been ordered by his butler, but which had not
been delivered, The alleged facts of the case are as fol-
low :—ln 1852 the Duke ofDevonshire employed his butler,
a man named Wilkinson, to select and buy wines for him,
subject to the approval and under the superintendence of
the Duke's auditor, Mr. Currey ; and in that year Wilkin-
son gave orders to the defendants to send in such wines as
appeared necessary. Subsequently Wilkinson, having
fallen into some pecuniary difficulty, entered into a kind
of contract with the defendants, that if they would ad-
vance him a sum of 3001. he would always deal with them,
and secure them orders from the Duke of Devonshire to
the amount of 1,5001. a-year. Such contract was em-
bodied in the following letter from Wilkinson to the de
fondants :

" June 30, 1852.
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triryts for
seats, h i l
establishments " Gentlemen,—Being authorised by his Grace the Duke of
andi wfinoers
his
and
Devonshire ttso
in e.-eLoct
nandodup,nivme also
hereby agree to purchase wines and spirits of you for his
grace to the amount of 1,51)0/. per annum, as you accommo-
date me with a loan of 3001., at ss. per cent., ou my accept-
atwe, renewable from time to time ; all wines and spirits to
be invoiced direct from you to the duke ; also all my other
business in wines and spirits I agree (in consideration) to
throw into your hand, the whole to be subject to a moderate
commission.---I am, &c."

The defendants subsegeently had advanced Wilkinson
further sums, amounting in all to about 670!. In March,
1853, it appears that Wilkinson was interdicted from giving
any further orders, and wrote to the defendants to that •
effect; but, neverthelem, in Nov., 1853, a contract was en-
tered into between Wilkinson and the defendants, under
which wise to the amount of 2,3171. was to be sent in to
the Duke's residences in London, Chatsworth, and Chis-
wick. Some of this wine was sent in, but some was not.
When it became known that Wilkinson was in iiitliculties,
and some suspicions had been excited about the orders
which had been given, the matter was entered into by Mr.
Currey, and upon his advice the Duke refused to receive the
wine which had not been delivered, or to acknowledge the
order which Wilkinson had given. Upon this the defendants
threatened to brine their action for the recovery of the
amount alleged to be due for the wine, and the Duke moves
for the present injunction to prevent them from doing so,
and to have the contract between Wilkinson and the defen-
dants declared ineffective as against the Duke, inasmuch
as it was entered into when the defendants knew Wilkinson
was interdicted from giving any orders or entering upon
such a contract. This was the plaintiff's case, and the
answer of the defendants to the same was, that their agree-
ment with Wilkinson, and their lending him money, was
a common ordinary occurrence, and daily practised; that
they supplied the very best wines at fair prices, and that
they were ready and willing to deliver the wines at the
time stipulated.
The Master of the Rolls granted the injunction as prayed,
but limited it to all wine. ordered since June, 1852, and
not delivered to the plaintiff.
Mr. R. Palmer and Mr. Currey appeared for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Young for the defendants.

ACCURACY IN PRINTING.—It appears, by calculation
made by the printer of Stevens's edition of Shakspeare,
that every octavo page of that work, text and notes,
contains 2,680 distinct pieces of metal, which Amount to
42,880 in each sheet of 16 pages, the misplacing of one
of which would inevitably cause a blunder. With this
curious fact before us, the accurate state of our printing
in general is to be admired, and errata ought more freely
pardoned than the fastidious mint*
to be ness el the
insect oyo of certain critics hag ;,thrwad.