The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

RACING SWEEPS.

71licnoLL's grand- pro-
ject for the "GREAT YORKSHIRE 'II"I:EI•STAKES."
173 Prizes in each Sweep. The Race will be run at York, Augait
the 25th. _

DlYid e,l

First Second Th.rd among Amomr
.IttbscriLerS. Horse. Her=e. Horse. starters. non-ditto.
L. F. X. X. .C. X.
6,00) at 5 0.. 10,000 .. 5,000 .. 5,000 .. 5,000 .. 5,000 '
►.OOO at I e .. 2,000 .. 1,000 .. 1,031 .. 1,000 .. 1,000
6,000 at 010 .. 1,000 .. 500 .. .s':o .. 500 .. 500
4,000 at 0 a.. 500 . 250 .. 240 .. 250 .. 251)
Early application for the remaining Shares is necessary Cor-
respondence addressed, and Money Orders made payable to " Richard
Niclicals and Junes Parkinson, Temple-square, Aylesbury." Bank
notes had Letter be transmitted by halves. All letters should con-
tain two stamps—one for the scrip, the other for a list of the fortu-
nate numbers, which will be forwarded to absent su.'scribers the day
after the draw. rrizes paid any time alter the race.
The Allotment will take place on the 21st, 22d, and 23d of this
month.

STOWE.
(From the Times.)
During the past week the British public has been ad-
mitted to a spectacle of a painfully interesting and
gravely historical import. One of the most splendid
abodes of our almost regal aristocracy has thrown open
its portals to an endless succession of visitors, who from
morning to night have flowed in an uninterrupted
stream from room to room, and floor to floor—not to
enjoy the hospitality of the lord, or to, congratulate him
on his countless treasures of art, but to see an ancient
family ruined, their palace marked for destruction, and
its contents scattered to the four winds of Heaven. We
are only saying what is notorious, and what, therefore,
it is neither a novelty nor a cruelty to repeat, that the
Most Noble and Puissant Prince, his Grace the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, is at this moment an
absolutely ruined and destitute man. Our ad-
vertising columns have introduced to the public the
long list of estates, properties, and interests which
are no longer his, and will not revert to his
heirs. The last crash of this mighty ruin is that
which now sounds. Stows is no more. This morn-
ing the tumultuous invasion of sight-seers will once
again be endured, and to-morrow the auctioneer will
begin his work. Under the lofty arch which crowns the
long avenue from Buckingham, and opens the first view
of the magnificent Collodion facade, has lately passed a
daily cavalcade which, except in its utter absence of
style, might remind one of the road to Epsom
on the Derby day. One might imagine a great country
picnic had suddenly gathered at Stowe. Fven stalls
were there. From the branch of a noble beech hung
a huge pair of scales ou which venison was weighed. In
the distance were fallen trees, timber waggons, and ex-
tempore sawpits. The enormous edifice was a human
hive. Every window showed the crowd within passing
to and fro. But once admitted—once standing under
the Pantheon-like:vault of the central saloon, and glanc-
ing right and left at the endless vistas of gorgeous apart-
ments, then one indeed realized the sacrilege was going
on. In the state dining-room were set out 60,000 ex
of gold and silver plate; one was involuntarily reminded
of the weight, for the scales were at work there also,
and men were weighing and noting down lot after lot.
On a table twenty yards long and on a dozen sideboards
stood forests of vases, candelabra, epergnes, groups,
goblets, tankards, and every other form and variety of
plate, from the elabOrate designs of Italian artists to the
simple elegance of the old English school, and the pre-
tentious richness of the last generation. Among fifty
other pieces of historic value, the gifts of Royal per-
sonages and distinguished men, stood a vase, formed
from snuffboxes presented by the cities and corpora-
tions in Ireland in 1779, the mace of the old corporation
of Buckingham, purchased by the Buckingham Con-
servatives and presented to the Duke as an everlasting
possession ; and the Chandos Testimonial, for which the
gentry and yeomanry of the county lately subscribed, we
believe 1,500/. . . . "Put thy house in order,
for thou shalt surely die." Cmsar died with grace. The
obsequies of Stowe have been marshalled with befitting
pomp. On what treasures of art will the sun set this
day never to rise again on a similar array within those
walls I The quantity is beyond conception, and if the
taste is not always the most refined, it is because the
vastness of the accumulation and the accidents of
its history forbade a more fastidious rule. The
Duke of Buckingham is the representative, not of one,
but of many families. It is a mighty wreck of ages
that has been accumulated in this place, swollen indeed,
and somewhat overwhelmed by recent additions, but still
full of historical, national, and poetical associations.
The galleries of family portraits and collections of family
memorials seem to connect all the great men and all the
great achievements of modern Europe with the names of
Chandos, Temple, Cobham, Nugent, and Grenville. It
is not our purpose to speak of that which money has
collected, and may collect again. Such things are only
scattered for a fresh reunion elsewhere, under new and
more favourable auspices. But the heirlooms of
many great families, the records of many great events,
and the memorials of many great persons, all sponta-
neously collected into one great whole, constitute a sin•
gular and most significant fact, the obliteration of which
we can only compare to the overthrow of a nation or
a throne. And everything is to be sold. The fatal
ticket is everywhere seen. The portrait of Charles
Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, the first founder of
the family, by Holbein, is now lot 51, in the
21st day's sale. That every other ancestor should
go to the haininer, whether by Van Dyk, or Lely, or
Eueller, or Gainsborough, or Reynolds, follows of
course. But there is one item of which no preparation
can remove the shock. The Chandos family is de,cended
from Frances Brandon, eldest daughter of the above
Charles Brandon, by Mary. daughter of Henry VII.,
and Queen Dowager of France. Some time since cer-
tain savages or dilettanti at Bury exhumed that Mary
Brandon from her grave and took from her head a lock
of silken hair, which thus constitutes a visible link be-
tween the present Duke of Buckingham and the throne
of these realms, to which he has a reversionary claim.
That lock of silken hair, in its glass case, is now to be
sold to the highest bidder. What can we say more to
show the extent of the devastation ? It is a most de-
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an event of peace we have known nothing more serious
and lamentable. In the midst of fertile lands and an
industrious people, in the heart of a country where it is
thought virtuous to work, to save, and to thrive, a man
of the highest rank, and of a property not unequal to
his title, has flung all away by extravagance and folly,
and reduced his honours to the tinsel of a pauper and
the baubles of a fool. Were it only weakness, that
might ask our contempt. But there is more than weak-
ness here. It is notorious that the Duke, by the use of
a passionate and overpowering persuasion, has induced
his amiable son, now in his 25th year, to cut off the en-
tail of all the property in which his Grace
was interested. This is not the place to discuss the
general question of entail, or to inquire whether
public benefits may not spring from a private ruin.
That may or may not be; but it is beyond our present
thoughts. A particular act, the act of a public man, an
hereditary ruler, and the conservator of a noble house,
is what we are now called upon to review. The Duke
of Buckingham has persuaded his son to sign away his
birthright, and to divide it among creditors who had no
sort of claim upon the son's reversion, whatever they
might have upon upon the father's interest. There are
doubtless circumstances in which it is reasonable that
the son should cut off an entail. In the present case
there was neither reason nor excuse. A ducal house is
overthrown to atone for one man's wilful folly, and to
give expensive tradesmen and extortionate money-
lenders better security than they contemplated when
first they sold their goods and lent their money.

Co URT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, SATURDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Mghuess the Prince Albert,
accompanied by their Serene Highnesses Prince and
Princess Hohenlohe Langenburg, walked this morning
in the grounds at Osborne; and the younger members
of the Royal Family and of the family of the Hohenlohe
Langenburg, accompanied their Serene Highnesses.
At the Court held at one o'clock yesterday at Obborae,
the Hon. A. Buller was sworn in and received the honour
of Knighthood, on his appointment as one of the Judges
in India.
The royal dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses
Prince and Princess Holienlohe, Prince Victor Hohen-
lohe, Princess Eiiza of Hohenlohe, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, and Sir George Coupon
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir George Cooper),
and their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Hohenlohe Langenburg, accompanied by the Prince
Victor, and Princesses Eliza and Adelaide, crossed from
Gosport in the Fairy royal yacht yesterday afternoon,
and reached Osborne soon after four o'clock, P.M.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has taken
a house in East Cowes Park for some weeks.

The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left
town on Saturday for Stowe, and afterwards proceeded
to Nuncharn Park, Oxford.

At the Privy Council held at Osborne, Isle of Wight,
on Friday, some reports of Committees of the Lords of
the Privy Council were submitted to the Queen in
Council, and were approved of.
Viscount Morpeth left town on Saturday for Osborne,
Isle of Wight.
Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, and Mrs. Ban-
croft, left town for Scotland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood left town on Saturday, on a visit to the Hon.
Charles and Lady Catherine Cavendish, at Latimer, Bucks.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the ser-
mon was preached by, tlig_Rev.D. Perkins. At the daily
service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore,
the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the communion
service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was

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