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TEE DANUBE AND BLACK SEA
RAIL WAY.

executed the movements for a first investment of the
place of Ancona.
The remainder of the narrative consists of au
account of the siege operations against Ancona.
As the fall of that town was chiefly owing to the
brilliant naval attack conducted by Admiral Per-
sano, and described in his official despatch, which
has already appeared, we omit this portion of Gen.
Fanti's account. The conclusion is as follows:---

KUSTENDJIE, OCT. 4, 1860.
We have to-day witnebsed an event of no small
importance to Turkey. We have inaugurated the
Black
first railway in the empire. The Danube and
Black Sea line has ceased to he a projoct, and has
entered the realm of accomplished facts. The geo-
Ronomtahne
or:::
geo-
graphy of the spot is probably but little known,
to most of your readers, but if they will turn to the
map they will find that the Danube, about 200
miles above its mouths, approaches closely to the
errorasndand
Sea, the distance between Tchernavoda on
Kustendjieinvestigated on tbhye
Roman
mßlackan Sea
en-
gineers
being rather less than 40 miles. To connect these
two places by a canal was a plan favoured by
fifteen hundred years ago. The idea was
revived five years since, but abandoned on solid en-
gineering grounds—doubtless the same which
suggested themselves of old. The strategic im-
portance of the locality did not escape Roman pe-
netration, and Trajan's wall, the line of which the
eye distinctly traces, formed a rammoti,
for ancient -
Dacia against the Scythian hordes.'W!.•.,:,
, ...
A canal being impossible, the railway of which
we celebrate the completion has been constructed.
The morning is delicious, a clear sky, a brilliant
sun, and a cool breeze. What can we desire more
for our opening day ?
All Kustendjie is gathered on the
line and harbour. At the station the train stands
of
ready to depart. Ethim Pacha the Minister
Commerce, is there to represent the Sultan. He
is accompanied by M. D'Eliffe and two other mem-
bers of the Board of Pudic Works at Constanti-
nople. The directors and officers of the company
muster in force, under Mr. Price, the vice-chair-
man ; and some hundred gentlemen from Galati,
Bucharest, and Constantinople complete the as-
semblage.
Before the train starts, however, a religious rite
has to be performed. A reverend moullah ap-
proaches, and invokes the blessing of Allah on the
Christian enterprise. Two innocent lambs are
slaughtered, and their blood sprinkled on the rails
before the engine. Ethim Pacha addresses a few
words to the multitude, declares the line form-
ally, opened, and the first train on the first railway
in Turkey leaves the first station. The country
between Kustendjie and Tchernavoda is not inte-
resting, but two facts are worthy of notice. First,
the change which is being effected in the face of
the country by the immigration of the Tartars of
the Crimea. During the past ten months upwards
of one hundred thousand have renounced the bene-
fi

" With the place there fell into cur power 154
pieces of artillery, among which were two field
batteries, with all their equipment of chariots, &c.,
and ammunition, 180 horses, 100 oxen, 250,000
miriagrams of flour, 25,000 rations of forage, provi-
sions of all kinds, two steamers, two trabaccoli
(coasting vessels), coal stores, clothing, arms, and
4,125,000 f.
" The fall of Ancona terminatea this short cam-
paign, but no less glorious for your Majesty's army.
In 18 days we won the places of Pesaro, Urbino,
Perugia, Spoleto, San Lao, and Ancona. There fell
into our hand 28 field pieces, 160 pieces of wall
artillery, 20,000 muskets, more than 500 horses,
and from 17,000 to 18,000 prisoners, with all the
enemy's generals.
I could not at this moment precisely tell the
enemy's losses in dead and wounded, but I reckon
them at about 1,000. Our own were—for the 4th
corps, 27 officers, 267 men ; for the sth, 22 officers,
263 men ; altogether 578. This is a trifling num-
, ber, if we consider the great results we obtained,
and the obstinate valour with which our adversaries
fought. It is due to the admirable ardour and daring
which your Majesty's troops showed in every occur-
rence ; their valour rendered this struggle ex-
tremely short.
" The strictest discipline, a hearty self-denial,
and a friendly behaviour towards the population
shown everywhere by our brave soldiers during
their long and rapid marches, make me proud of
the honour which your Majesty did me in trusting
me with the command over them.

" It is my duty to point out to your Majesty the
intelligent and active co-operation of the generals
and of all officers of every rank and branch of the
service to the good success of the campaign ; like-
wise the provident and regular exertions of the
military administration, and the charitable and
attentive cares of the sanitary corps.
" I shall present to your Majesty for the well-
deserved those who among so many brave men had
the best opportunity of distinguishing themselves,

" M. FANTI,
" The Commander-General of the Army of Om-

pation of the Marches of Umbria.
" Ancona, Oct. 1."

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND, K.G.

cent rule of the Czar and sought refuge under the
stern despotism of Turkey. About 40,000 have been
located in the line of the railway, near Medjidieh,
where a colony of their compatriots was established
soon after the Russian war. They are moderately
industrious, and are rapidly bringing into cultiva-
tion a large breadth of land untouched for centuries.
The other fact I would mention is the extensive
tract of land reclaimed by the works of the com-
pany. It was hardly credited by enr fellow-pas-
sengers that the firm and level plain, covered with
vegetation and browsed by numerous herds, which
the railway traverses for some twenty miles, was
but three years ago the bed of a series of lakes fed
by the flood waters of the Danube, and of a depth
varying from 1 to 12 feet. The works by which
this result has been accomplished have been severely
tested, the Danube having risen higher this year
than any time for a century past ; they have, how-
ever, passed the ordeal uninjured. The necessity
for expensive cuttings has been thus avoided.
Arrived at Tchernavoda, the excursionists in-
spected the warehouses erected by the company, and
capable of containing 80,000 or 90,000 quarters of
grain. All necessary appliances for landing the
grain from the Danube, and loading it into trucks,
whence it may be shipped direct at Kustendjie, are
in progress.
After two hours spent at Tchernavoda the party
returned to Kustendjie, the run being accomplished
in about two hours. In the evening 120 persons
sat down to a most capital dinner, supplied by that
well known Oriental potentate, King Misseri, of
Pera. Ample justice was done to the repast, and
the toasts usual on such occasions followed.
__

It is with great regret that we announce the
death of the Duke of Richmond, K.G. That esti •

mable nobleman expired at 20 minutes before 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the family mansion
in Portland-place. For some months past the
Duke's health hes occasioned much anxiety to the
members of the family. In August last he pro-
ceeded to Gordon-castle, but was unable to par-
ticipate in the sports of his friends, and the hopes
that were entertained that change of air would
prove beneficial were not realised. The lamented
Duke returned from Scotland about a fortnight
ago, in a still weaker state, and has since been gra-
dually sinking. We believe he died from dropsy.
The deceased Charles Gordon Lennox, Duke of
Richmond, Earl of March, and Baron of Settring-
ton, all in the county of York, in the Peerage of
England ; Duke of Lennox, in the county of Dum-
barton ; Earl of Darnley, in the coanty of Ren-
frew; and Baron Methuen of Torbolton, in the
county of Ayr, in the Peerage of Scotland ; and also
duke d'Aubigny in the peerage of France (the se-
cond Duke having inherited that dukedom from his
grandmother, who received that title from Louis
XIV. in 1683), was eldest son of Charles, fourth
Duke, by Lady Charlotte Gordon, eldest daughter
of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon, and was born
in Whitehall-gardens, 3d of August, 1791, so that
his Grace was in his 70th year. The lamented de-
ceased married 10th April, 1817, Lady Caroline
Paget, eldest daughter of the late Field-Marshal
the Marquis of Anglesea, by his first marriage with
Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers, third daughter of
George, fourth Earl of Jersey, by whom, who sur-
vives her devoted husband, the Duke leaves sur-
ving issue Charles Henry, Earl of March, M.P. for
West Sussx (now Duke of Richmond) ; Lord
Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P. for Chichester; Lord
Alexander Gordon Lennox ; Lord George Gordon
Lennox, M.P. for Lymington ; Lady Caroline
Amelia, married to the Earl of Bessborough; Lady
Augusta Catherine, married to his Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar ; and Lady
Cecilia Catherine, married to Lord Bingham. The
late duke succeeded to the dukedom on the 28th of
August, 1819, on the death of his father, who died
from the effects of a bite of a dog in Canada, of
which dependency he was Governor-General.
At an early age the deceased nobleman adopted
the army for his future career, and entered the 52d
Regiment as ensign. He joined the army in Por-
tugal, in July 1810, as Aide-de-Camp and assistant
military secretary to the Duke of Wellington, with
whom he remained until the close of the war in 1814,
and was present in all the skirmishes, affairs, general
actions and sieges which took place during that
period, among which were the battles of Busaco
and Fuentes d'Onor, storming of Ciudad Rodrigo,
storming of Badajoz, battles of Salamanca, Vittoria,
and the Pyrenees, the first storming of San Sebas-
tian, action at Vera, and battle of Orthes. At the
last-mentioned battle, having left in Jan., 1814, the
Duke of Wellington's Staff in order to obtain a
practical knowledge of regimental duty in the field,
he served with the Ist battalion of his regiment,
the 52d Light Infantry, on which occasion he was
severely wounded in the chest by a musket ball,
which was never extracted. he was sent home
with duplicate despatches of the battle of Sala-
manca,and the capture of Astorga by the Spaniards ;
and with the despatches of Vera, and the entrance
of the army into France. During the campaign in
the Netherlands he was Aide-de-Camp to the Prince
of Orange (the late King of the Netherlands), and
was present at the battles of Quatre Bras and
Waterloo. After the Prince of Orange was wounded
at Waterloo he joined the Duke of Wellington's
Staff as Aide-de-Camp, and remained with the
illustrious Duke during the rest of the campaign.
The late Duke, for his military services, had re-
ceived the silver war medal and eight clasps, for
Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz,
Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, and Orthes. The
Duke was mainly instrumental in obtaining that
decoration for the officers and men who had parti-
cipated in the series of victories during the Penin-
sular war from 1806 to the spring of 1814, by his
energetic advocacy of their claims in the House of
Lords. On the Ist of June, 1847, her Majesty
granted the silver war medal under a General
Order, which gave great satisfaction to those gal-
lant veterans whose claims had been for many years
forgotten.
The late Duke was, with the ex
Marquis of Exeter, the senior Knight c
the Garter,
ofin 1828. He
having received that illustrious order
Rotulorum of
was Lord-Lieutenant and Custo
sof Sussex
Sussex ; Vice-Admiral of the coast
ery
and Light In-
nel of the Royal Sussex Alt
Militia (which his Grace
fantry battalions of the 1819) Aide-de-
had held from December,
steward of Chichester ;
High
Camp to the Queen
h 1 College, Aberdeen, and
f lonfvehrins essC
maternalastle.
uOnenlei,nhthee-
-16 years before sup-
ported eption of the
Chancellor of Marisc a
inhe-
riting the large estateso
k
sumed the n
last Duke of ordon, eas
h. ame of Gor-
don by Royal letters patent for =self and all his
then surviving issue.
In politics of late years he was a supporter of the
Earl of Derby and the Conservative party, and was
Hereditary Constable
a determined opponent to the repeal of the corn
the Reform Bill, and held the
office of Post-
master-General in Earl Grey's Admi • •
laws. His grace had, however,
Administration, and
formed one of the members of the
Cabinet
from
1830 to 1834. He also gave his support to Lord
On the
Melbourne's Government.
Earl of Derby's
accession to office in Mar h 18
52 the Duke of Rich-
mond was solicited to take office, but declined. The
late duke was a most useful
member on the com-
mittees of the House of Lords, and for many years
devoted much of his • time to the public service.
The deceased nobleman was a zealous agricultu-
rist, and was one of the founders
of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of
England, of which society he
was a trustee. Both
on his large domains in Sussex
and in Scotland he was beloved by his tenants as
one of the best of landlords. His grace was a warm
supporter of the turf, the annual races at Goodwood
Park affording scope for the display of his generous
hospitality. By his honourable bearing and frank
manners on all occasions he had endeared himself
to a large circle of friends, who will long cherish
his memory.
The Earl of March, his successor in the dukedom
and patrimonial estates, was born on the 27th Fe-
bruary, 1818, and married on the 28th Novembzl
1843, Frances Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr.
in
F. Greville. The present duke was formerly
the late Duke
in the army, and was aide-de-camp t 0,48,48 re-
of Wellington and Viscount hording& icl.o J 4

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Ethim—
Pacha warmly complimented the direc-
tors of the company on the quiet but energetic way
in which the operations had been conducted, and
Mr. Consul-General Green, in proposing " Success
to the Danube and Black Sea Company," pithily
remarked " that they had got hold of the latch-key
of the Danube." _ _

One word on the undertaking in its commercial
aspect.
The construction of a good port as:Kustendjie is
part of the project. The works are in progress ;
and, although not far advanced, the protection af-
forded is not despicable. It is stated that next year
will see the completion of the covering mole. Com-
pared with the Sulina, and taking Constantinople
as the base, the Kustendjie route saves about 280
miles of sea river ; but what is of infinitely of
greater importance, the Delta and the mouths are
" abolished." What shippers will give to save the
passage to Galatz by the Salina let them declare.
The company assert that they will divert over their
line a most formidable slice of the trade of the
Danube. Time alone will prove the justice of their
previsions ; but at least the idea is " imperial."
For passengers the route will certainly be the
best. London to Constantinople in little more than
six days, with only 24 hours of sea in all, is not
otherwise to accomplished.
It is but justice to record the warm tribute paid
by Mr. Hornby, judge of the Consular Court, to the
manner in which the engineers, Messrs. Liddell
and Gordon, with the assistance of their able sub-
ordinates, Messrs. Barkley, have conducted the
the works—a tribute in which all present most
heartily concurred.
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