The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-08 00:00:00

THE BOLD ESTATES.

It is not often that the most wealthy individuals
can discover favourable opportunities for becoming
members of the territorial aristocracy by a single
purchase. Extensive domains are jealously pre-
served by the families in which they have remained
during successive generations. They will struggle
against the most pressing difficulties rather than
relinquish their hold on the soil, more especially
where the estate is a compact one, " lying within
a ring fence," as it is usually termed, without out
farms. When such a property is brought to the
hammer it is usually heavily encumbered, and much
trouble and some risk is incurred in seeing that
all the charges are liquidated, and the title tendered
unexceptionable.
The Bold estates, however, now offered for sale
by the eminent firm of Messrs. Clowes and Flower-
dew, of Norwich, may be regarded as an extraor-
dinary exception to the general rule ; indeed, such
a chance seldom occurs for the beneficial in-
vestment of one-third of a million sterling.
The property lies in the best part of South
Lancashire, within four miles of Warrington,
12 of Liverpool and 18 of Manchester. There is a
mansion standing in an extensive and beautiful
park, and surrounded by well arranged farms, and
a considerable quantity of coal and other valuable
minerals in which the district abounds, the whole
lying nearly in a ring fence. The most remark-
able feature of the case is, that the estate is wholly
unencumbered, and that the proprietor is willing
to permit a moiety of thepurchase-money to remain
as a charge on the estate.
It is to be sold in a single lot, the minimum or
'upset price being 332,000/. It must, of course, be
anticipated that there will be a considerable advance
thereon, but when that sum has bean tendered,
there can be no reserve. It must change hands.
The sale is to take place on the 29th of July, and
capitalists should avail themselves of the interval
for ascertaining the full extent of advantages such
as are rarely offered for public competition.

SURGEONS FOR THE ABLUY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Perhaps some of your Parliamentary
readers will ask General Peel if the recommenda-
tions of the Royal Commission, to inquire into the
state:of the medical department of our army, are
ever going to be carried out. his now more than
a year since that commission concluded its labours,
and nothing having hitherto been done, the report
now is, that the warrant has been thrown out
altogether in the Treasury.
The Director-General has evidently great diffi-
culty in procuring recruits for his department, or
he never would have recourse to advertising, which,
to say tha least, is infra dig., and also holding out
the inducement of the minimum pay of assistant-
surgeons, being the. magnificent sum of 10s. a-day,
minus income tax, mess and baud subscriptions,
expenses of uniform, outfit,
At present there are many well-educated sur-
geons who are only waiting the appearance of this
warrant to enter the service, and considering the
great demand for medical men for our troops in
India at present, there should surely be no un-
necessary delay iu bringing it out. —I remain, your
obedient servant, M. D.