The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-22 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.—Moraiy.
Match—Last half of Ab. M., 150, h ft.

Prince D. Soltykoff's Coup d'Eclat, byLoamington, 2 yrs,
7st 41b (Butler) 1
Lord Wilton's Parma, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Challoner) 2

Betting-6 to lon Coup d'Eclat, who made all tho run-
ning, and won cleverly by a length.

Maiden Plate of 50 sous, for two year olds; colts, Bst 101 b;
fillies and geldings, Bst 71b. Bretby Stakes Course.
Mr. I. Woolcott's Wild Blood, by Wild Dayrell, Bst 31b
(X 200) (Fordham) 1
Mr. Chaplin's Schiedam, Bst 101 b (300) (Custance) 2
Mr. Price's Bellona colt, Bst 31b (X2oo)__ (Hibbard) 3

Gouvornanto, Wellow, and Carbino filly also ran.

Betting—Even on Wild Blood, 3 to 1 agst Schiedam, and
5 to 1 agst any other. Won very easily by a couple of
lengths.

Handicap Plato of 200 sots each, for two year olds and
three year olds. Brotby Stakes Course. 62 subs.

Count Baithyany's Cheltenham, by Leamington, 3 yrs,
Bst 41b (Morris) f 1
Duke of Newcastle's Speculum, 2 yrs, 7st 111 b (IL Covey) f 2
The following also ran : —Tibthorpo, Gloiro do Dijon,
Grand Cross, Marquis of Worcester, Parma, Easby, Nyanza,
Sister to Vedette, Coup d'Eclat, Benetolence, Handsome
Jack, Choral, Queen of Darkness, and St. Angola.
Betting-5 to 1 each agst St. Angola and Coup d'Eclat, 6
to 1 agst Sister to Vedette and Easby, 100 to 15 agst Specu-
lum, and 9to 1 Cheltenham. They left the post at the
first attempt, and came on nearly in a line to the T.Y.C.
post, where they split, the running being taken up by
St. Angela, closely attended by Speculum, Cheltenham,
Gloiro de Dijon, Choral, Sister to Vedette, and Easby to
the " Bushes hill." Hero the two latter were in difficul-
ties, and half-way down the hill were hopelessly beaten.
When fairly in the bottom the issue was loft with the three
placed, who drew away from their followers as they en-
tered the rails and finished an exciting race home, St. An-
gela being first by a neck. Speculum and Cheltenham
finished with a dead heat for second. On returning to the
scale Morris made an objection to the winner on the ground
of a jostle, which was subsequently investigated by the
stewards, who disqualified her, and, in consequence of the
next two finishing with a dead heat, they were ordered to
run the race off.

Deciding Ileat—Betting--6 to 5 on. on Speculum. They
lay together to half-way iu tho cords, wheio the race com-
menced is earnest, Cheltenham, who always appeared to
have a trifle the best of it, winning a splendid race by a
short head.

Selling Handicap Sweopstakcs of 10 sows each, for three
year olds and upwards. T.Y.C.

Mr. Prices Gretna, by Stockwell, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
(French) w.o.
Match, 200 sovs, h ft; Prince D. Soltykoff's Bounceaway,
Bst 101 b, agst Duke of Newcastle's Pericles, 3 yrs, Bst
81b, both 3 yrs olds. T.Y.O.
Prince D. Soltykoff's Bounceaway, by Zuydor Zee
(Mann) 1
Duke of Newcastle's Pericles (Daley) 0

Betting-5 to 4on Bounceaway, who jumped away with
a slight lead, which she retained throughout, and won by
three parts of a length.
Match, 100 sovs., 25 ft ; Prince D. Soltykoff's Cater agst
Admiral Rous's Puff, both 2-yr-olds ; Bst 71b each.
T.Y.C.

Admiral Rous's Puff, by Marsyas
Prince D. Soltykoff's Cater Paid
Sweepstakes of 10 stirs each ; threo yoar olds, Bst ; four
year olds, Bst 101 b; five year olds and upwards, 9st 11b.
Bretby Course. Stakes.

Duko of Nowcastle's Grand Duke, by The Groat Un-
known, 3 yrs
(11. Covey) 1
Mr C. Brewer's Musa, 3 yrs
(Challonor) 2
- • - -

Betting-5 to 2on Grand Duke, who made the principal
part of the running, and won very cleverly by half a
length.

100 sovs ; three year olds, 7st 111 b ; four year olds, Bst
101 b; five, six, and aged, Bst 13th ; maiden four year
olds allowed 71b; five year olds and upwards, 141 b.
Jul.
Mr. Fleming's Van Amburgh, by Van Galen, 3 yrs, 7st
111 b
Marquis of Hastings's Challenge, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (Cannon) 2
Count F. do Lagrange's Longchamps, 3 yrs, Tat 111 b
(Challoner) 3
Lord Glasgow's br c by Y. Melbourne, dam by Tedding-
ton—Maid of Masham, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (Parry) 4
Betting—Even on Challenge, 9 to 4 agst Longchamps,
and 3 to 1 agst Van Amburgh.
Won in a canter by a couple of lengths.
Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20ft, for two year olds ;
colts, Bst 81b ; fillies, Bst Gib ; winners extra ; from the
turn of the Lands in. 59 subs.
Sir J. Hawley's Rosicrucian, by Beadsman (French) 1
~.....
Duke of Hamilton's Leonie (21b extra) (Edwards) 2
Baron Roth•child'a King Alfred (Daley) 3
Duke of Beaufort's f. by Young Melbourne—Bab at the
Bowster ............................................. (Fordham) 0
Lord Glasgow's ch c by Tom Bowline—Makeshift
(Custance) 0
Marquis of Hastings's Naivete .....................(Cannon) 0
Count F. de Lagrange's Ouragan (21b extra) (Mann) 0
Sir F. Johnstone's Bel Giorno • (Parry) 0
Count F. do Lagrange's Rabican (21b extra) (Challoner). 0
Betting-100 to 40 on Rosicrucian, 6to 1 agst Lame,
10 to 1 each agst Bel Giorno and Rabican.
King Alfred held a clear lead immediately they quitted
the starter, having Rosicrucian, Leonie, and the Make-
shift colt on his right, to these succeeded Rabican, Bel
Giorno, and the Bab at the Bowster filly. In those posi-
tions they ran to the commencement of the rails, where
Lord Glasgow's colt declined, Bel Giorno at the same time
having headed Rabican now took his place at the quarters
of Leonia, the four running nearly abreast to half-way in
the distance. _Here French sent the favourite to the front
and won a good race by three-quarters of a length ; a
head separated the second and third, 80l Giorno was
fourth, close up, Rabican fifth, Bab at the Bowstor filly
sixth, Naivete seventh, Ouragan eighth, and Lord Ulas•
gow's colt next.
Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for three year olds and up-
wards. Cambridgeshire Course.

Mr. Goodis in's Saccharometer, by Swdatmeat, aged, Bst
9th...................................................... (Custance) 1
Mr. Chaplin's Vespasian, 4 yrs, Bst (Cannon) 2
Mr. R. Kirby's Little TreaStliO, 3 yrs, 6st (Platt) 3
The following also ran :—Lord Ronald, Artesian, Feu
Follet, Repulse, King Victor, Silenus, Montgoubert, Maid
of Usk, Porter's Knot, Ravioli, The Priest, Violout, Leap
Year, Dulcimer, Valorous, Lady Tredegar, Water Curo,
Ganywede, Distaff, and Coalition filly.
Betting-8 to 1 agst each Lord Ronald and Saccharo-
Dieter, 10 to 1 agst Montgoubert and Ganyinede, 12 to
1 agst Vespasian, 100 to 6 each agst King Victor, Silenus,
and Violent, 100 to 7 agst Lady Tredogar, an l 20 to 1 agst
Little Treasure. Won cleverly by two lengths.
Match-5,000 sots, 500 ft, R.M., Mr. Sutton's Lord Lyon,
agst Mr. Coventry's Viridis—Off by consent.

BULLION PRODUCT OF THE MINES ON THE COM-
STOCK LODE FOR 1866 AND TILE FIRST HALF or 1867.—Mr.
F. 13. Smith, Deputy Assessor of Internal Roveutto fur the
Virginia (Nevada) District, has boon at groat pains in going
over all the figures for the period named, and has fur-
nished the following statement • to the Territorial
Enterprise, which, that paper says, can be relied
on as perfectly correct. The amount of bullion assayed
in Storey county from January 1 to Juno 30, 1866, was
$6,292,002, coin—in currency, $7,903,759; from July 1
year, 57,875,700, coin—in
to December 31 of the same
currency, $10,169,175. On this, the amount of tax paid
the General Government was $99,766.73. For 1867, from
January 1 to June 30, the amount of bullion assayed in
this countywas $8,500,377, coin —in currency, 810,890,050 ;
the internal revenue on which amounts to $54,450.25.
This statement shows a most astonishing and gratifying
increase iu the yield of the mines on. the great Com-
stock lode.—San Francisco alining and /Wlo* Press.

The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Anglo-American Times :
Sir, —ln a great cause men of d'fferent mental
characteristics may be often found in harmonious
co-operation. There is a difference in the United
States in the characteristics of the Northern and
Southern mind. This difference, however, did not
prevent co-operation in the struggle for indepen-
dence, in the framing of the Federal Constitution,
and in the making of the American nation. Co-
operation was not prevented by any difference of
race, climate, temperament, training, or religion.
The one real element of discord was prejudice—
the offspring of slavery.
Before the civil war the North was distinguished
for its love of material prosperity, the South for its
love of power. Hence the former became timid,
the latter bold. The South dictated, the North
yielded, and there was co-operation.
The habit became strong of command on the
part of the South, and of obedience on the part of
the North. To change this habit was no easy task,
though it was more difficult for the South to abate
its undue claims than for the North to rise to the
assertion of its rights. Reluctantly the South is
yielding up its prejudices. This once accomplished
the co-operation of Northerner and Southerner will
be as cordial as if they had been born on the same
side of Mason and Dixon's line. A number of
illustrations from life might be adduced to show
this. I will mention some of them. In the life of
William Wirt a striking exemplification is furnished.
He was a native of Maryland, and by the appoint-
ment of President Monroe, Attorney-General of the
United States. A profound lawyer, a powerful
orator, an able statesman, a distinguished scholar,
and a devout man, he visited New England, and
gave the following important testimony respecting
Southern prejudice :—" Now, after all this, you
will not be much surprised to learn that
I think the people of Boston amongst the
most agreeable people in the United States.
I suppose their kindness to me might have
some effect on my judgment ; but, divesting
myself, of this as much as possible, I say
they are warm-hearted—as kind, as frank, as truly
hospitable as the Virginians themselves. In truth,
they are Virginians in all the essentials of character.
They speak and pronounce as we do, and their sen-
timents are very much in the same strain. Their
literary improvement as a mass is much superior to
ours. I expected to find them cold, shy, and sus-
picious. I found them, on the contrary, open,
playful, generous. They have no foreign mixture
among them, but are the native population, the
original English and their descendants. In this, too,
they resemble the people of Virginia, and, I think,
are identical with them. They are, in Republican
principle and integrity, among the soundest, if not
the very soundest, of the people of the United States.
Would to Heaven the people of Virginia and Mas-
sachusetts knew each other better I What a host
of absurd and repulsive prejudices would that know-
ledge put to flight ! How would it tend to consoli-
date the Union, threatened as it is with so many
agents of dissolution ! My heart is set on bringing
about this knowledge. How shall I effect it ? If
I write I shall be known and be supposed to have
been bought with a little kindness and flattery. * *
* * I believe the prejudices are all on our side.
The people of the North resent what they suppose
to be the injustice of Southern opinion. Let them
have reason to believe that we regard them with
respect and kindness, and they will not be slow to
give us theirs. I found it so in my own person.
And so I believe it will be found by every man of
sense in the South who visits them. What a fool I
have been to join in these vulgar prejudices against
the Yankees ! We judged them by their pedlars.
It would be as just if they were to judge us by our
black-legs.
The cordial co-operation of Southerners with
Northerners, when prejudices had been removed,
was illustrated in the anti-slavery movement. The
first person nominated by the anti-slavery party
for the Presidency was Jas. G. Birney, of Alabama.
Having emancipated his slaves he attempted to
establish an anti-slavery paper in Kentucky, but
was obliged to flee for his life. He became travel-
ling secretary of the Anti-slavery Society, was a
delegate from America to the World's Anti-slavery
Convention, and published in England a book,
" The American Churches the Bulwarks of Ame-
rican Slavery." He was highly valued for his anti-
slavery work, for his kind, judicious, and benevolent
spirit, and for his noble example. Many an hour
have I pleaded with the Americans to elect him
President. He would have been an honour to the
office, and would have saved America from her
troubles. Two of his sons were officers in the
Federal army, and one of them is said to have in-
vented the Greek fire used in the attack on Charles-
ton. Judge Gritnke, of South Carolina, emanci-
pated his slaves, and the two Misses Griinke, his
daughters, did much by their lectures and writings
in the North to arouse the women to an anti-slavery
effort. One of them became the wife of Theodore
D. Weld, distinguished as a lecturer and writer in
the anti-slavery movement. The Rev. Dr. Allan,
of Alabama, emancipated his slaves. His son, the
Rev. W. T. Allan, with myself, were at the same
time engaged as travelling lecturers of the Illinois
State Anti-slavery Society. He magnified his office,
and would often hold his audience spell-bound two
hours at a time, while he instructed their minds and
enlisted their sympathies on the great question of
emancipation. The Rev. Edward Smith, a Virgi-
nian, was an anti-slavery Wesleyan. He was ex-
ceeded in zeal by none. At a conference I attended
he gave an account of his excluding a member from
the church for voting for a slaveholding President.
An action was brought against him at a court of
law, but the judge decided that the member had
resisted the object of the Anti-slavery Church,
which aimed to abolish slavery, and justified Mr.
Smith. The Rev. Dr. Brisbane, of South Carolina,
emancipated his slaves, and then became editor in
the North of an anti-slavery newspaper. As a
Baptist he did much to leaven the Baptist Churches
with anti-slavery principles. When I was in Ohio
I was his guest, and preached for him. Two of his
sons were in the Federal army, and he was dppointed
to some office by President Lincoln. The Rev. Dr.
Nelson, the author of the " Cause and Cure
of Infidelity," emancipated his slaves. He was
driven by Lynch law from Missouri. A Virginian
by birth he settled in the West, and was greatly
beloved for his leadership in the Anti-slavery re-
form. Dr. Baily, a Virginian, was the editor of the
National Era, an Anti-slavery newspaper, published
at Washington,. in which " Uncle Toni's Cabin"
was first given to the world in weekly chapters. The
Rev. Mr. Dickey, a Kentuckian, was a zealous ad-
vocate of emancilyation. Ile was a member of the
Illinois Anti-slavery Committee, and first published
that climax of cruelty of Mr. Lewis, a slaveholder,
who bound a living slave on a meat-block in pre-
sence of his slaves, and hewing him in pieces with
an axe threw all the pal is into the fire, to strike
terror into the other slaves!. Miss Mattie Griffiths,
of Kentucky, emancipated hcr slaves, and devoted
her accomplished pen to emant.iPation• The Rev.
John Fec, a Kentuckian, the son of n slaveholder,
laboured devotedly in Kentucky. He was a good
writer and an able preacher. 1 xboured with
him, and taught his people some of the Northern
Anti-slavery hymns. Arthur Helper, whose book,
" The Impending Crisis," prevented the .6th Con-
gress during eight weeks from proceeding to busi-
ness, was a North Carolinian. Governor Cole,. who
had been Secretary to Thomas Jefferson, and was'
elected Governor of Illinois, to defend the Anti-
slavery ordinance of the North-West, was a Virgi-
ginian ; but., passing by a host of others that I
should be glad to mention, I wish to name a few of
the Southern men who were officers in the Federal

These facts show how hearty and thorough is the
co-operation of Northerners and Southerners when
prejudice is banished from the mind. Virginia is
said to be the mother of Presidents. It has also
been the mother of a large number of anti-slavery
reformers. I will just add that in the Western
States of America there are settlements distinguished
for their anti-slavery vigour and zeal. Sometimes
the entire county, as Putnam county, Illinois, is
pervaded with this spirit. It will be found that
these settlements were formed by self-expatriated
Southerners, who from their abhorrence of slavery
left the South ; and as they broke up the ground
and planted the first seed in their new possessions,
took care to create a public opinion which should
be the best defence against the aggressions of the
slaveholders. They are well represented by John
Van Trompe, of Ohio, in -44 1342de Tam's Cabin,"
who, it will be remembered, was a Kentuckian.

THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS ON THE

INVASION OF ROME.

The Bishop of Orleans has just published, as a
postscript to his letter to Signor Rattazzi, a most.
powerful statement as to the duty which compels
the Emperor not to violate his public engagements
to the Pope, to France, and to Europe. Mgr. Du-
panloup sets forth facts which prove the complicity
of the Italian Government in the Garibaldian in-
vasion of the Roman territory, and he contrasts
Italian treachery with the fidelity of the Roman
people. He speaks of an organized treachery, such
as never yet has been seen, and which seems
incredible of revolutionary audacity and insolence
—of the weakness and complicity of the Italian
Government—of its forgetfulness of honour—of
the violation of its sworn faith—of the insult
offered to all that men hold sacred—of the contempt
finally shown towards France. Such, he says, is
the spectacle which Italy at this moment presents.
The fugitive bands, he continues, received on
the frontier by the soldiers of Victor Emmanuel,
are becoming more numerous. At Nerni, and at
Terni, they are armed, they are paid, and allowed
again to cross the frontier. Italian bersaglieri, dis-
guised in red shirts, are among them. They are
led by Piedmontese officers : and, in the meantime,
your journals renew their desperate efforts to
kindle insurrection in Italy, in the Papal provinces,
and especially in Rome. At Turin, the Garibaldian
correspondent of the Djbats writes that the Gazette
du Potpie has opened a subscription to give 100
francs to every man who will join the bands. And
then on the morrow you speak of the irresistible
national movement, and on the necessity of flying
to the succour of the Holy Father; the impudent
falsehoods of Chambery are renewed ; France has
alrealy once been deceived ; and it is hoped to de-
ceive her again. What does M. Rattazzi care for
the honour of France and of its Government? The
invasion will take place, and we shall see if M. La
Marmora will be content to be the rival of the sin-
gular hero who boasted of having dispersed the
Papal hordes, and will slay, as at Castelfidardo, if
they resist, the 3,000 men who protect the Roman
provinces. It is of such a day as that the Diritto
speaks about this very morning, when it says : it
will be the day of our greatest glory. _

And yet the Emperor has declared, has sworn
to France, to Italy, to the Holy Father, to Europe
—I recite the words of these declarations textually,
that: The Temporal Power cannot be destroyed:
The Pope must be his own master at home :
" The Prince who led back the Holy Father to the
Vatican wills that the supreme Head of the Church
should be respected in all his rights as temporal
sovereign." Never will France sacrifice him. The
maintenance of the Papal position is written on
our flag. It is an essential condition of his spiritual
independence. The Emperor has meditated on this
before God ; and his well-known wisdom, energy,
and loyalty will never be wanting either to religion
or to the country. " All our acts, all our declara-
tions agree in attesting our firm and constant will
to maintain the Pope in possession of that part of
his states which the presence of our flag has
secured to him. Abandon Rome ! Forget the
policy followed by France for centuries ! No, that
is not possible.
After quoting in such a pointed manner the
wcrds of the Emperor, and the official declarations
of his Government, and pointing out what duty
and honour demands, the Bishop of Orleans says
that if Italy invades the Papal provinces under any
pretext whatsoever, a dispatch—but this time not
equivocal, as was that former one of the Due de
Gramont—must on the instant be despatched from
Paris. Of vain protests after accomplished there
have already been too many; there must be no
more; nobody is deceived by them. France may
rise up and say to its Government : You have de-
ceived me. The Legislative Body may say : You
have deceived me. The Pope and the Church and
the Catholic Powers in their turn may say : You
have deceived us. Yes, if the temporal power of
the Pope succumbs we are responsible ; it will be
Italy's crime, but ours also. Such will be the
sentence of inexorable history. One thing only
has to be done : M. Rattazzi must be told that he
cannot go to Rome unless he first passes over our
bodies. Otherwise we are dishonoured. The Pope
overthrown, Piedmont at Rome, the Papacy wan-
dering and fugitive, or, in spite of the falsehoods
which are to be practised on us, a subject and
prisoner of Victor Emmanuel ; our occupation of
eighteen years annihilated, the temporal policy of
France trodden under foot, and all our words, all
our declarations, all our promises, all that we have
said so often and so solemnly to France, to Italy,
to the Pope, to Europe, repudiated and cast to the
winds ; our greatest national, social, hnd religious
interests delivered up and betrayed ; and, finally,
the just maledictions of the Catholic world, and
the execration of the future upon such a work and
upon us. Were we to believe that we have here,
in the presence of such indignities, no other right,
no other duty, no other honour than to look on at
what is doing, and, finally, to say with Pilate, "I
wash my hands of it." Were Italy, alas, able to
inflict such an indignity on our country, I confess
that I would for a moment blush at being a French-
man ; and whoever thinks otherwise I declare he
has no French blood in his veins. Do not be asto-
nished at the warmth of my words; for I am
speaking "of that which," the Emperor himself
has declared, "men have most at heart, of that
which is most sacred."
Let it besides be well known, the Catholic con-
science is here inexorable ; and from the day when
the Pope is overthrown, an unceasing reaction
will set in against the Italian Revolution through-
out the entire Christian world. Not long since
in noble language, the Emperor spoke o-f
dark
spots on the horizon and of passing reverses. here
the darkness is too profound, and the reverse would
not be passing. The misfortunes of the Pope
would cast too funereal a shadow over our star.
INo, the fall of the Pope cannot become the pendant
to the fall of Maximilian !

• CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day. —Yester-
cloy the admission on payment were 4,226 do. by season
W, 4,369—total visitors, 8,595.

The will of Robert Walker, of Springfield Mount,
Leeds, was proved in the Court of Wakefield, under
£40,000 personalty, by the affirmation of Hem/.
Walker and Edward Walker, the sons, and George
Tatham, the son-in-law. Tho will is dated April
28, 1864, and a codicil Nov. 2, 1865 ; and the tes-
tator died Aug. 4, 1867. He has made a liberal pro-
vision for his family and orphan grandchildren. To
his daughter-in-law, Mary Walker, widow of his
late son Joseph, he leaves the interest of £G,OOO
during widowhood. He has bequeathed the. house
he occupied and other property to the three daugh-
ters of his son-in-law, George Tatham. He has
left his housekeeper, Jane Millar, £2OO, and
legacies to all his servants, in and out` door. All
147a,-- ..: be free of duty. Thereare the follow-
ing charitable bequests the Leeds Dispensary
and the Rawden School, York, each £lOO ; Ack,
worth School, Leeds Benevolent Society., Ler,,is.
House of Recovery, British and Foreign Isible
Society, and the London Peace Society, each £5O ;
and to the Eye and Ear Infirmary, zao. The
residue is to be divided into three parts—one third
among the children of his deceased son William,
one third to his son Henry, and the remaining third
to his son Edward.

The will of Chas. Moore, Esq., of Liverpool, and
of Claughton, merchant, was proved at, Chester,
and the personalty in England sworn under £30,000.
The executors and trustees nominated are the Re.r.
John Lewis Moore, D.D., of Trinity College, Dub-
lin, the brother ; Wm. Henry Holt, of Liverpool ;
and Mary Louisa Moore, the testator's sister. The
guardians appointed to his son and daughter, Chas.
and Dfary, are Mrs. Moore, Miss Moore, and the
Rev. John L. Moore ; and the guardians of all his
other children are his wife and her brother, Robert
St. George, of Crossmoline, Mayo, Dublin. The
testator executed his will March 30, 1864, and a
codicil Sept. 4, 1865 ; and died April 8, 1867, at
Woodchurch-road, Oxton, Cheshire. He has left
his freehold and landed estates in the United King-
dom and in America to his eldest son, Chas. Moore ;
and he has directed that his personal estate should
be divided into 35 parts, which he leaves to his wife
and children in certain specified portions.
The late Mrs. Lydia Wells, of Chelmsford, who
died in August last, and whose will was proved on
the 17th ult., has bequeathed to the Essex and
Herts Benevolent Society £lOO ; Essex Congrega-
tional Union, £150; the Association of Bible Women,
London, £5O ; Girls' and Infant British Schools,
Chelmsford, each 19gs ; the Chelmsford Benevolent
Society, and Lying-in Charity, each £lO ; and £2OO
towards the building of the proposed new ~,cliouls in
connection with the new London-road Independent
chapel at Chelmsford.

RAILW&Y IN fEL LIGE N 0 F.

DEMERARA.

The report of the directors states that the lamented
death of their manager, Mr. Martin, the discovery
that some of the bridges required to be renewed, the
consequent laying of new sleepers, and reballasting
the line, which, when once commenced, it was neces-
sary to carry further than was originally contem-
plated, and the fact that all those repairs had to be
carried out under the direction of a gentleman who
had only recently arrived in the colony would have
been at any time no ordinary difficulty ; and it un-
fortunately happened that this extra outlay had
been incurred when a drought of greater severity
than had visited the colony for more than a quarter
of a century had most materially diminished the re-
turns ; those circumstances, however, might be
deemed quite exceptional. The last reports from the
colony stated that the railway was in admirable work-
ing order, that travelling on the line was much more
smooth than formerly; that the wear and tear, both of
permanent way and rolling stock, were very greatly
reduced; and that the return of favourable seasons en-
couraged the hope that a large increase of traffic
would now take place. Of the extra expenditure
above alluded to about one-half was included in the
revenue account for the half-year ending 31st De-
cember, 1866, and the directors had charged 1-3 d
of the further portion against the half-year ending
30th of June last, intending to charge the remain-
ing two-thirds against the current and subsequent
half-year. The balance available for dividend was
£5,947, of which the preference dividend would
absorb £4,025, and a dividend at the rate of 2f per
cont. per annum on the original stock £1,689, mak-
ing together £5,714, leaving a balance of £233. On
capital account it appeared that £257,361 had been
expended. The revenue account for the half-year
ending the 30th of Juae showed that £12,494 had
been received, and £7,741 expended, leaving a
balance of £4,7,53, out of which £263 was deducted
for interest on advances, leaving a balance of £4,491.