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Sporting Intelligence.

DONCASTER RACES. --TUESD &Y.

The Fitzwilliam Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs each, witb
50 added. The second to save his stake. One mile.
20 subs.

Mr. Ridley's Preston, 3 yrs, bat 121 b (I at 1
Mr. Gill's Bourgeois, 6 yrs, B.t (Alderoft) 2
Lord Zetland's Skirmisher, 2 yrs, 6st...(Withington) 3

The following also ran :—Mary, The Rajah, Barezina,
Corin' Uzella, Duet, Coal Black Rose, Martinet, Gorts
chakoff, and Lady Malcolm.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Martinet, 6to 1 agst. Brurgeois,
7 to 1 agst Gortsehakoff, 8 to 1 each agat sti irmisher anti
Lady Malcolm, 10 to 1 eanh agat Pieston, Du't,
Conn.

Won by three-quarters of a length ; a !lead betwe(-n
the second and third ; Martinet was an indifferent fourth ;
Berezina was fifth, Duet sixth, and Uzella next.

Oa setting-to Skirmisher "savaged" Bourge3is, and
once laid hold of Aldcroft's arm. Neither gorse nor
rider was hurt.

The Glasgow Stakes of 30 soya each, 20 ft, for 2-yr-old
colts ; Bst 716 each. Red house in. 8 subs.
Lord Milton's Ignoramus, Bst 71b Manion) 1
Lord Glasgow's Physalis colt, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 2
Capt. Christie's Atnati, Bst 71b (Wells) 3
Betting-6 and 7tol on Ignoramus, who led from
start to finish, and won by 10 lengths. Amati was
pulled up and walked in.
Tha Champagne Stakes of 50 sows each, h ft, for 2.yr-
olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b. The second to
save his stake. Red-hoase in. 29 subs.
Sir R. W. Bnlkeley's Tasmania, 83t 51b......(H01me5) 1
Mr. E. Parr's Lambourne, Bst 71b (Kendall) 2
Sir C. Monck's Vanity, Bst .51b (Charlton) 3
The following also ran :—lmperieuse, Goldfinch, King
of the Forest, South-Western, and Anton.
Betting-6 to son Goldfinch, 9to 2 aget Lambourne,
5 to 1 agst Imperieuse, 8 to 1 agst King of the Forest.
Goldfitich.led to the half distance, where Tasmania,
who had been lying fourth and fifth, came out, and at
last won by a neck ; . a head between the second and
third ; a neck between the third and fourth. Goldfinch
was beaten about three-quarters of a length from Im-
perieusa. Toe other three were tailed off.
The Great Yorkshire Handicap, of 25 soya each, 15 ft,
and 5 only if declared, &c., with 100 added. The
second to receive 50 sovs out of the sakes. Certain

pens.lt es. St. Leger Course. 82 subs, 56 of whom
pay 5 sovs each.
Lord Chesterfield's Typee, 6 yrs, Bst 121b...(Flatman) 1
Mr. Lewis's Pantomime, 6 yr=, Est Bib ....(Sn4wden) 2
Mr. J. Osborne's Yorkshire Grey, 4 yrs, 7st 31b
(Bearpark) 3
The following also ran :---Lady Tattoo, Prince of
Orange, Mr. Sykes, Hungerford, Saraband, Alembic,
Stork, Vandal, Bolton, Marchioness, Preston, Gaudy,
colt by Orlando—Clarissa.

Batting-4 to 1 each agst Prince of Orange and Pan-
tomime, 12 to 1 each agst Lady Tatton, Typee, and
Vandal, 14 to 1 agst Gaudy, 16 to 1 agst Saraband, 20
to 1 each agst Alembic, Clarissa colt, and Stork.
Pantomime led to about the distance. where he was
joinEd by Lady Tatton. Half-way up Typee came out,
and won easily by a neck ; a head between the second
and third ; half a length between the third and fourth ;
and a head between the fourth and fifth.
The

•Filly Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft ; for two-yr-olds

fillies, 83t 71b each ; Red House in. (13 subs.)
W. I'Anson's Blink Bonny . (['Anson) 1
Wcntworth's Beatrice (Nat) 2

..(Vella) 3

Captain Christie's Equity
Won iu a canter by eight lengths.
The Revisal Plate of 100 save, in specie, for all ages,

&c. Red House in.
Mr. Dawson's Sneeze, 2 yrs, Est Blb (Bullock) 1
Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, 3 yrs, 9st 81b (Wells) 2
Mr. C. Peck's Bashi-Bazouk, 2 yrs, 7st (Charlton) 3
The following also ran :—Black Tommy, Codrington,
Strathacen, King of Argos.
Sneeze won by neck, a head separating Fisherman
and Bashi' Bazouk. _ _ _

Tne Selling Stakes of 5 wvs eacb, with 40. added ; two
year olds, 7st ; three, 9st ; four, gat 131 b ; five, 10.. t
3ib ; six and aged, lOst slb • mares and geldings
allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 100 sows ; if
for 75 says, allowed 31b ; 50, 81b ; 40, 141 b ; T.Y.C.
Mr. Nichol's, Riokledon,. 2 yrs (401.)...(Withington) 1
Mr. J. Osborne'N Walhalla, 2 yrs, (401.)...(Challoner) 2
Captain Christie's, The Abbot, 2 yrs, (MO (Pritchard) 3
The following also ran:—Rotterdam, Young Napo-
leon, aqd sister to Nancy. Won by three lengths.
The Doncaster Blate (handicap) of 70 says ; for three
year olds and upwards ; the winner of any handicap
after the publication of the weights to carry 51b extra.
One mile.

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DUBLIN, TUESDAY V. —it.. 1
THE ENCUM3ERED ESTATES COUR .-' OO _
There are some well-timed remarks in t%l.Freer-g• S
man's Journal reipecting the great changes in
Chancery procedure which have taken place within
the last few years, and the further, reforms which
are likely to be the result of the labonot of the
select committee which at during the late Parlia-
mentary session. - All these changes are regarded
as vast improvements upon the old system as it
flourished in the time of the Etdotp, the Aim-
nerses, and their successors, up to a comparatively
recent period. In addition to the report on the
Chancery bills, the committee reported on the
Encumbered Estates Court, and no serious fault
is found with their recommendations, save upon
one rather material point, namely, the tribunal to
be substituted for the present Commission, which
though not exactly defined, may be .readily con-
jectured :

- "The Court of Chancery is indirectly suggested, but
whether the House of Commons will adopt that tribunal
is not quite certain. In that body there is a strong feel-
ing in favour of the Encumbered Estates Court, and the
lawyers will find some diffieulty in persuading it to break
up a tribunal which ha- ‘„,r.c more good and nemmitted
fewer 71110a1.:e-s r.han any other judicisl b tdy ever Con.
stituted in any coun;ry. it may be advisable to take
away from the Coninssioners the right of final appeal
in certain crises and vest it in au independent tribunal ;
but to dissolve them altogether, and to institute a new
process of disposing of land, ascertaining claims, and
distributing the fund, is most dangerous. When an
institution works well on the whole, it is wiser to im-
prove than abolish it because a few thousands a year
might be saved. This is the plea or pretence for die-
solution, but we have no doubt whatever that for every
pound alleged to be saved by the change 100 will be
lost to the public. No possible reform in the Court of
Chancery cab render it as cheap, simple, and expediti-
ous a medium of transferring property as the Encum-
bered Estates Court. The public regard the contem-
plated change with jealousy and suspicion, and if the
Souse of Commons fairly reflects public feeling it will
be slow to accept an untried substitute and consult the
wishes of lawyers rather than the wood of the commueii I
We have already alluded to the value of reforms in the
Court of Chancery and the extension of business that
followed them. It would be well not to embarrass and
choke it with an accumulation cf new businew for which
its procedure is unsuited. There can be no real economy
in the change. A commissioner's salary may be saved,
and a clerk here and there cut off ; bat expenses will
assuredly be multiplied and deductions made from the
proceeds of sales which inheritors and creditors little
dream of. Let well enough alone' is a sound maxim.
Apropos of the tribunal about to be abolished,
one of the Galway papers (the Western, Star) chro-
nicles the following as one instance out of many
changes which have marked the progress of what
has been called the Irish social revolution :
" The operations of the Encumbered Estates Court in
Ireland have, for the most part, been highly beneficial to
the country. It has frequently been our province to
notice the chyle-es of ownership occasioned by the Bales
in Henrietta-street, end to trace the effects of these trans-
actions on the immediate occupiers of the land. It is not
for us to draw a comparison between the conduct of one
landlord and that of another. We wish merely on the
present occasion to notice the mode in which an English
gentleman of position and capital has attempted to solve
the great problem how to improve Ireland and the Irish.
Mr. James C. !Tarter, of Eroughton-hall, Lancashire,
purchased in 1852 an estate of some 1,500 acres, lying
for about three miles along the verge of the Shannon,
and contiguous to the bridge of Banagher. The estate
of Esker was at this time in a deplorable condition.
Like other properties in the county of Galway, it had
been under the management of the courts, and little or
no indulgence could be extended to the tenantry, who
were for the most part living in poverty and ignorance.
Mr. Barter paid for the estate a sum of 11,0001., and
he has since expended in improvements about 4,0081.
more. On taking possession Mr. Harter directed that
no one should be evicted, though the property was cut
up into small tenements, several detached and irregular
holdings belonging to one tenant. The farms were all
remodelled, and encouragement, in the shape of sub-
stantial aid, given to every tenant to improve his resi-
dence and offices: Parties who saw this property 20
years ago would scarcely recognise it now, so great a
change has been effected in four short years. The
swamps and morasses have been converted into excel-
lent land, and the callows are so much improved as to
he worth treble their former value. One field, formerly
let for 251. a year, now brings 701. The tenantry are
exceedingly comfortable, and have themselves become
imbued with the spirit of improvement."

THE LATE ACCIDENT.
Captain Hamilton, of the 2(1 Battalion of the
Grenadier Guards, now stationed in Dublin, who
was severely injured on the 28th of last month, by
a fall from a horse, is progressing rapidly towards
perfect recovery under the care of the regimental
surgeon, Mr. Wardrop,

THE ISLE OF SERPENTS.

(From the Constitutionnel,)

The treaty of Paris, it is true, gave to the Otto-
man Porte the islands of the Danube,_ but the Isle
of Serpents does not form a pare of them, and. its
situation on the coast of Bessarabia, which is a pro-
vince of the Russian empire, appears to make it in
the opinion of the Russians a part of the Imperial
territory. Admitting, however, that this islet
stands outside the limits of Bessarabia, Russia, after
the rectification of the frontier which is about to
be made by the international commission, will, it
is said, consent to abide by the decision of the
Powers who signed the treaty of Paris as to re-
taining or giving it up. Such, at least, is the lan-
guage attributed to the Russian Government.
We do not gtfarantee its strict exactitude, but it
appears to us to be plausible and to merit
examination. Frankly speaking, we do not
see in all this any of the threatening proceed-
ings which certain foreign journals have discovered.
In. general, Russia appears to have executed in
perfect good faith all the provisions of the treaty
which she has accepted. S.,e has renounced the
possession of a fleet in the Black Sea ; has sub-
mitted toiler formidable arsenal of Sebastopol being
transformed into a commercial port • has aban-
doned her fortified positions on the Danube, and
has relinquished all exclusive control over the na-
vigation of any part of that river. And yet, when
she has consented to all these sacrifices, a cry of
alarm israised because she has placed her foot on the
Isle of 6erpents! Certainly this is a fine compensa-
tion, and a strong starting point for projects of do-
mination at Constantinople, which could not be
realised when she possessed twenty line-of-battle
ships and a fortress impregnable except to such au
army as entered Sebastopol The occupation of
the Isle of Serpents does not appear to us to be of
such importance. It signifies rather that the Rus-
sians are not disposed to yield anything more than
what may be absolutely exacted from them, and
that they will not abandon, without at least mak-
ing au effort of discussion, a portion of territory
the cession of which they think is not categorically
prescribed by the treaty. It is a custom to say that
an unsuccessful pleader has 24 hours to curse his
judges. Is it therefore astonishing that the Rus-
sians show some hesitation in making a cession
which, in their opinion, they may not be positively
obliged to make ? No one is ever eager to put an
interpretation on a treaty which is unfavourable to
himself.

It is attributed to the Russians as a crime, the
endeavour to extenuate in the eyes of the neigh-
bouring population the consequences of the taking
of Sebastopol. It would really be extraordinary
if they had done otherwise, particularly with a
people who were recently accused 'of having Te
Deums sun.. after defeats. Should it not, on the
contrary, be found quite natural that the Russian
authorities should endeavour to conceal the amount
of conce,sions which the fate of arms has compelled
them to make ? What duty obliges them to dimi-
nish their prestige ? Should we gain much by it,
and did we moreover make it one of the conditions
of peace ? Justice should bo rendered to every
one, and more particularly to those who have been
conquered in au honourable contest. The Russians
certainly have some right to pride themselves on
having so long resisted the ardour of such troops
as the besieging army was composed of. Let us
therefore allow the Russians to put the best face
they can on the affair in the eyes of the people
who have hitherto regarded them as invincible ;
lot them, as they have a right to do, pride them-
selves on the bravery they have displayed ; let
them dispute, if they think proper, over the rem-
nants of the domination which they exercised in
the Black Sea before the war ; but do not let us
swell beyond measure the importance of such inci-
dents. United with our allies, we have no reason
to fear that Russia will ever realise the famous
testament of Peter the Great. Constantinople and
the States of the Sultan will remain intact.
No alarm is felt in Turkey at the acts complained
of. Thu enlightened men of that country well
know that the discussion about the Isle of Serpents
has nothing serious in it, and they feel entire coif-
' Eidetic° in Franco and her allies. All the noise
to it
that has been made about the affair cannot, in our
opinion, be better described than by applying
the title of one of Shakspere's plays, " Much ado
about :Nothing."

A letter fr.;in Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, says :
" Prince Peter Karageorgewitch, son of the'Prince of
Servia, arrived here on the 9di from Karlesbad, and left
on the 11th for Belgrade, whither his father, who is now
at 161 baths of Brestowaiz, is also about to proceed.
return of the prince will be followed by a change of
ministry. M. Aztt Nenatioviz, the prevent Minister
et Finance, is to be named Pre,ilent of the Council. The
Senate, which is composed of 20 members, is now en•
ga.;ed in the examination of a'bili which will introduce a
land sax into 'Servia, and which will probably be pub-
lished by the new Miws iy. The present revenues o
Servia only arise from a otrect perional tax of five t bat
lers and front the customs duties, and are insufficient to r
thb expenses."