The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS, May 31.—The woollen cloth trade con-
tinues steady, but the tone of business is quiet.
The transactions in the cloth halls this morning
were on a moderate scale, and operations were con-
ducted with caution. There is no new feature in
the manufacturing districts, and employment on
the whole continues tolerably good.
MANCHESTER, 31st.—We have had a considerable
and very general improvement in business this
morning. For cloths not only are the India mer-
chants more active buyers than last week, but
shippers to the Mediterranean and to most of our
foreign markets, as well as home trade houses, have
all been purchasing more or less. In yarns pur-
chases have been made not only for India and the
Mediterranean, but also for Germany and most of
the European markets. The home trade are also
free buyers. Last week the sales of cloth being
chiefly for India, shirtings, jaconets, and madapol-
lams were the fabrics chiefly affected, but to-day
longeloths, T cloths. printers, and domestics (the
latter for a long period so much neglected and
depressed in value), have all been in request, and
are a little improved in price. Shirtings up to 40
Inches, figured cloths, madapollams, and jaconots
for India. are de Lrer ; the first being ld. per piece .
higher than last Tuesday, and the others being pro-
portionably improved ; and the stocks of these
goods being a good deal reduced, and in some cases
cleared off, the manufacturers are placed under con-
tract for three or four weeks forward. Wider
shirtings (from 45 to 54 inches) have advanced
another 6d. per piece since last Tuesday, and makers
arc placed under contract till the end of Autiust.
Yarns suited to India are d, per lb. dearer than
last Tuesday, with a large business. Some con-
siderable orders have also been placed forthe Medi-
terranean at id. per lb. advance. The sales for
Germany have been at the same improvement in
value, as also have cops and warps for the home
trade. The advance has been obtained upon most
kinds of water tw and upon mule yarns as high
as 60's.

ATLANTIC TE'LEG.RAPII COMPANY.

The following report of the directors to an ex-
traordinary general meeting of .shareholders, to be
held on the Bth inst., has just been issued.
" The directors are at length in a position to lay
before an extraordinary general meeting of the
company their views and recommendations as to
the best available means of carrying forward this
important undertaking to a successful and profit-
able termination. They have now, after much diffi-
culty, concluded—subject to the approval of the
shareholders at the present meeting—a provisional
arrangement with her Majesty's Government, the
terms of which it is hoped are such as may, in com-
bination with the auxiliary plans hereafter referred
to, guarantee to the proprietors the successful com-
pletion of the work. This plan the directors hope
will enable them to raise the further capital for the
construction and submersion of one or more new
cables.
" The arrangement provisionally. entered into with
the Government by the directors is as follows :
" Art. 1. A dividend of 8 per cent. per annum, to
be guaranteed for 25 years, upon such portion of a
new capital as shall be called up and expended in
establighing communication with America, not ex-
ceeding in the whole the sum of £600,000, this
guarantee to commence when the cable has been
successfully laid, and to subsist while it is capable
Of:being worked at the rate of 100 words per hour.
" Art. 2. A minimum sum of £20,000 per annum
is to be paid to the company for Government busi-
ness during the time the new cable is capable of
being efficiently worked as above.
" Art. 3. The company to be allowed to expend
£20,000 out of the new
.guaranteed capital in at-
tempts to make the existing cable available for
tipsiness.
"Art. 4. If these aiL2mpts are successful, the
Government will immediately commence to pay a
minimum rent of £14,000 per annum, which rent is
to be increased to £249,060 per annum as above, so
soon as the new cable is brought into sucqessful
' working prder.
0 Art. 5. The existing arrangement of the com-
pany with the Cievernment of the United States is
not to be interfered with. Under that arrangement
the Atlantic Company will be entitled to a minimum
rent of 70,000 dols. per annum, Doar the business of
the American Government, so soon as the commu-
nication is estaLlished with Newfoundland.
"Art. 6. The Atis4tic Telegraph Company are
to transfer to her Majesty's Government that por-
tion of their privileges, wider their agreement with
the New York, Newfoundland, and London • Tele-
graph Company, whereby they derive the Reclusive
right of landing on the shores of Newfouudiand
cables intended to connect Europe with that coun-
try; but the Government will not grant to any
other company or persons the right of landing cables
in Newfoundland so transferred to them unless the
guarantee and contract referred to under articles 1
and 2 shall have proved efficient in g the re-
quisite capital, nor n,ntil by the instrume,ntAlity of
such capital telegraphic communication shall have
been established across the Atlantic ; it being under-
stood that in case of failure either to rniv the capi-
tal or to submerge the cable, with such ,success as to
be enabled to work it at the rate of 100 words per
hour required by Government, the company dial'
permanently revert to its present position in respect
to all its privileges, including its exclusive rights
now existing under the agreement with the New
York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Com-
pany.
" Although the directors cannot inform the share-
holders that her Majesty's Government have granted
them assistance in the terms that have been asked
for, they are yet confident that several valuable ad-
vantages are now conceded, which justify them in
expecting that the necessary capital will be forth-
coming.
"The directors have therefore thought it their
duty to use their utmost endeavours to continue
this company in friendly connection with her Ma-
jesty's Government, and with this view, to utilise
as far as possible the offers of assistance which have
been conceded to them, by origin9ting auxiliary
plans whose object will be to render certain, as far
as possible, the successful submersion and working
of the next cable. The directors consider that when
this has been once accomplished, the terms agreed
to by Government will' prove a valuable protec-
tion to the holders of the new capital against
the evils incident td reckless competition, by secur-
ing to them a minimum return of 8 per cent. for
their money. The guaranteed revenue for the busi-
ness of the Governments of Great Britain and the
United States, exclusive of commercial messages,
will amount to not less than £34,000 per annum ;
thus enabling the company to extend valuable
facilities to the public, without risk to the dividends
of the shareholders.

" The plans contemplated in aid of the Goveru-
ment contract are as follows :
" It is proposed to take out a policy of insurance,
guaranteeing the successful submersion of the cable

whereby, incase of fracture during the paying out,
any portion submerged and lost shall be paid for at
a fixed rate by the underwriters ; this policy to be
open, not only to ordinary underwriters, but to all
who may be willing to accept a share in the risk,
particularly to those who may become subscribers
to the new capital. These would thus become their
own underwriters, and would receive back from
their calls the proportion of premium on the risk
they might assume. There can be no difficulty in
completing such a policy, looking to the greatly in-
creased probability of success arising out of the
knowledge derived from past experience in laying
Atlantic cables. It is further recommended by the
directors that the manufacture and laying of the
next cable should be let by contract, in a form
securing to the company, by means of heavy and
substantial -guarantees, not merely the successful
submersion of the cable, but its perfect manufac-
ture and efficient electrical working for a consider-
able period after it shall have been laid, and in action
between shore and shore. The directors have rea-
son to know that firms of unquestionable respecta-
bility and experience will be ready to come for-
ward and accept a contract on this basis, giving

security for the due and final accomplishment Of
the work. These arrangements will, in the opinion
of the directors, form a basis upon which success
may very sanguinely be looked for, especially
when due consideration is given to the immense
amount of information acquired by the repeated
efforts of the Atlantic Telegraph Company in refer-
ence to the nature and practicability of the route
along which the cable has to be laid, and as to all
the difficulties attendant upon the submergence of
cables in deep water, many of the obstacles to
which have been very much exaggerated.
" Acting upon these views the board propose to
invite the sanction of the sharholders to the issue of
preference shares to an amount not exceedino.
£600,000. It is proposed that these shares shall be 1
£5 each, one-half to be paid up on allotment, and
that they shall be entitled to all the net profits of
the company up to 8 per cent. per annum, the
Government having guaranteed that rate during the
time the cable is in working order, upon the
amount called up and employed. The further
privilege will attach to these shares of dividing
pro rata with the original capital any surplus of
profits that may remaain after the 8 per cent. pre-
ference has been providedifor.
‘• Having regard to securing for the company in
future a very watchful and continuous supervision
of its affairs, it has been unanimously thought de-
sirable by the directors that a reconstruction of
the boardshonld take place at the present extraor-
dinary meeting; and for this purpose the chairman
has been empowered to place before the meeting
the resignation of all the existing directors. It has
been considered tlainatdaare uction of the total num•
ber of members,increase in the working
ineffinceibenfacye-iloitfattheealn.odusdinionpnportion of the board, will
affairs of the company. simplify the conducting, of the
The chairman will submit
a list of names for the approval of the shareholders,
as those of gentlemen whom it would be desirable'
to elect upon the future board.
“As a great deal of onerous and contaistlNn.ot tteualabne,
required when the company is again
viceasnodf this descrip-
tion will be
workingpeet
that conditionsel.
urensrteoasreodntaoblea
to
ex
tion could continue to be rendered gratuitously, as
has heretofore been the case, it is the intention of
the directors to propose that a reasonable remune-
ration be voted to the board after its reconstruction
at this extraordinary meeting; and it is suggested
that the sum of £1,500 per annum will be a proper
amount to appropriate for this purpose, and that the
payment thereof shall be contingent upon the ne-
cessary capital being raised to enable the company
to contract for a new cable.
" It is intended that, so soon after the reconstruc-
tion of the board as the preliminary arrangements
can be made for so doing, a public prospectus shall
be issued, setting forth the position of this enter-
prise, and that immediate and active measures shall
then take place in order to secure the subscription
of the new capital."

TELEGRAPIIIC CO3IIIUNICATION WITII INDIA.—
The Red Sea cable is, probably, by the present time laid
down from Suez to Perim, when only 10a miles will remain
for its completion to Aden. The paying out of the line com-
menced from Suez, and Cosire, on the Egyptian coast—a
distance of 260 miles—was the first station to which it was
carried. Thence it was laid to Suakin, a further distance of
460 miles, where, according to the telegram received a few
days back, it had just been safely landed. The next stage
will be from Suakin to Perim, 540 miles, and at that point
it will doubtless begin to be used for the transmission of our
India and China telegrams. From Suez to Aden constitutes
the first section of the undertaking. The second section will
be from Aden to Kurrachee, where we shall at once be in
communication with every part of India. This will be
proceeded, with as soon as possible, and the cable for the
purpose is already in course of construction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—May 31

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Wm. Howard and his son,
toymen, of Barbican, appeared by arrangement to
hear the decision in the case of the South-Eastern
Railway Company.
It will be remembered that the South. Eastern
Company received a parcel directed to be conveyed
by a luggage train, and delivered at the defendants'
premises, the charge for which, according to the
company's published rates of fares, was ls. 7d. On
delivering the parcel, however, a demand was made
for 2s. 4d., that being the charge according to the
passenger train rates, the company having, for their
own convenience, disobeyed the instructions on the
parcel, directing that it should be conveyed by
" luggage van train," and the consequence was that
defendant disputed the payment, and in the struggle
which ensued to obtain possession of the parcel, the
railway porter, notwithstanding he had a receipt
for the delivery of the parcel in his delivery book,
wishing to take it back with him, had his hand cut
with the cord round the parcel, and it was for that
assault the defendants were summ3ned.

Mr. Reece attended for the company.
Mr. De Jersey, for the defendants, submitted that,
the summons must eventually be dismissed, inas-
much as the assault complained of was not inten-
tional, being the result of an illegal act on the part
of the railway porter. As far as the defendants
were concerned, they acted under a colour of right,
and could not therefore be convicted of the assault.
With regard to the delivery of the parcel, it was
complete, as, by the published rules of the company
they repudiated all responsibility after delivery of
parcels at the door of the consignees.
Mr. Martin (the chief clerk) said that only re-
ferred to large bales of goods.
Mr. De Jersey said in this case the parcel was
taken over the threshold and delivered on the
counter, and by the company's own rules that was
a delivery in every sense of the term, but when it
was backed by the receipt in the carman's delivery
book nothing could be stronger to prove the delivery.
Mr. 4eece said this was not the first dispute the
company had had with the defendant.
Mr. lie Jersey said that on the occasion referred
to the defendant paid the excessive demand.
Defendant said that was the fact, and six months
passed before he was able to get the excess back
from the company.
Sir P. Laurie said he had considered the case,
! which was somewhat involved. In his opinion
there was no complete delivery by the porter. He
swore that he did not release the parcel, but kept
hold of the cord with which it was secured ; but
even if he had not retained his hold he should not
have considered it a delivery, nor that the signing
of the delivery book by Howard, jun., altered the
case. '}'hie ceurt must look at the case by what
was the everyday practice in such matters. When
a porter brought a parcel and tendered his book, it
was on the presumption that his proper demand
for carriage would be paid, and the lien continued
until he gave up the paroQl absolutely. On the
other hand the railway company had no right to
charge Any other rate for carriage than that which
was due according to the train by which the con-
signor directed toe parcel to be conveyed. In this
case the consigner directed the pawl to be sent by
a goods train. The company Was bound to take
notiee .or that direction, and if they chose to send
a parcel by a more expensive mode they had no
right to claim payment beyond a goods train rate.
He thought the company might properly withdraw
the charge of assault on Mr. Howard paying the
goads train carriage of his parcel, but if they did
not adopt his suggestion he was bound to say that
an assault is law had been committed, and he
should fine each defendant is. and costs.
Mr. Reece said, as the alternative involved an
admission from the company that they had made a
wrong charge, he must decline withdrawing the
complaint, and rest satisfied with the conviction of
the defendants for the Assan It.

rr 4, •
The defendants at first s4i4 they should appeal,
but by the advice of Mr. De Jersey they paid the
fines.

THE ALLEGED POISONING AT

RICHMOND.

Yesterday Mr. W. Carter, the coroner for East
Surrey, and the jury previously empannelled to in-
quire into the cause of the death of a lady named
Isabella Bankes, who died, as was alleged, from the
effects of arsenic and antimony, adminlstered to
her in small doses by Dr: Thomas Smethurst, who
stands committed by the magistrates of Richmond
on the charge of having wilfully murdered the said
lady, resumed their investigation at the Sessions
Court, Richmond.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine again attended on behalf
of the friends of the deceased lady.
Mr. W. Odling, a physician, and Professor of
Practical Chymistry at Guy's Hospital, said, he
assisted Dr.-Taylor on the 9th and 10th May, in his
analysis of portions of the viscera of a human person.
He had no doubt that antimony was in it. Anti-
mony was produced from it. He had examined the
fluid in the bottle marked " No. 21," which con-
tained chlorate of potash with arsenic. He had
heard the evidence given by Drs. Julius, Todd,
and Taylor. From his examination of the viscera
the appearances shown were such as would be pro-
duced by poison. If arsenic had been given con-
stantly in small quantities, it would have produced
the appearances he found. The tests applied by
Dr. Taylor to discover mineral poisons were the
most proper that could have been applied. They
were the safest. Reinsch's test consisted of boiling
copper in hydrochloric acid.
Mr. Richard Burwell, F.R.S., and assistant-
surgeon to Charing-cross Hospital, said he resided
at 22, Burlington-street. He made a post mortem
examination of the thole body of the deceased on
the 4th of May. Mr. Palmer assisted him in the
examination, and he had heard the statement of
that gentleman. He agreed with him that there
was no chronic disease of the heart, brain, or lungs.
The inflamed state of the stomach was not of itself
sufficient to account for death. He examined the
intestines and the viscera, in which he found ulcera-
tions. They were marked throughout the whole
extent of the intestines, but it was more striking
in the large intestines and mucous membrane.
There was no perforation, and he should say that
it had existed not less than six days, and not more
than three weeks. The inflammation he could say
nothing about. The mucous membrane was much
softened, broken down, and infused with blood, and
that state of the mucous membrane he considered
to be the cause of death. In his opinion an irri-
tant poison given frequently and in small doses
would cause such an effect. The lower part of the
small intestine was also inflamed, but in a smaller
degree than the larger one.
Mrs. Mary Smith of 4, Rifle-terrace, Bayswater,
said she kept a boarding-house. Miss Isabella
Bankes came to board with her in September last.
A person named Dr. Smethurst and his wife
boarded with her' also. Miss Bankes left on the
29th of November, and on the 12th of December
Dr. Smethurst left. He never returned again to
live there. Mrs. Smethurst remained, and was
about 74 years of age. She saw Dr. Smethurst
about a fortnight after the 12th of December. She
saw his wife on that occasion. She was at present
living with her as a boarder.
Mrs. Mary Ann Grabowska, of 37, Kildare-
terrace, Bayswater, said a young lady named
Isabella Bankes came to lddge with her on the 29th
of November. She knew her as a respectable lady.
Witnes never saw Dr. Smethurst at her house, and
never saw him until he was at the station. The
deceased left on tae 11th of December la:4, and she
never saw her alive after.

Mr. James Spice, parish clerk of St. Mary's
Church, Battersea, was present at the marriage of
two persons calling themselves Thomas Smethurst
and Isabella Bankes. That was on the 9th of
December last. He had seen Thomas Smethurst
in custody at the second examination before this
Court on the 13th of this month. They were
married, and he signed the register in their pre-
sence. The registerproduced was the one he signed.
Mr. F. B. Senior, a solicitor, said a person giving
his name as Dr. Smethurst called on him on the
30th of April last, and asked him if he could go
up the hill to make a will for a lady. In the course
of the interview he showed him the paper writing
marked " II," and said, "That is what the will
is to be." Smethurst said it had been sent down
to him by a friend in London, and the lady wished
to write it herself but he thought it better to have
a professional gentleman to do it. He said he would
come for witness on the following morning, which
f necessary.
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tahnear ea aki teedrht imant ot
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H
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was Sunday,called
.Anvai aboutelsl
as
s nine,ae nn dt
ot' col olocok,
about half-past ten o'clock, and saw
Dr. Smethurst,
who took him into the parlour and said, although
the lady awl himself were living together as maa
and wife, they werenot
married. They then went
upstairs, and on goinr, into the room he saw a lady
in bed. He said, "My dear,
this is the gentleman
that has come to make your will." She handed
him the paper that Dr. Smethurst had shown bim
the day before, and he asked her if that was right,
and whether he might read it to her. She con-
sented, and after he bad read it she said she wished
to leave a brooch to a friend. He copied the will,
making the alteration regarding the brooch. That
paper was then read over to her in Dr. Smethurst
arid Susan Wheatley'.s presence, and Miss Bankes
then signed it. (The will .was here read, which
gave the whole of her personal property to " her
dear and beloved friend Thomas Smethurst, Doctor
of Medicine," and made him her sole executor. It
also left a diamond brooch to i friend 9f hers
re-
siding in Essex,)
Mr, Robert Graham Mclntyre, inspector of police

DAY

at Richmond, took the prisoner Smethurst into I
custody, and found on him a letter marked "K,"
sealed and with a postage stamp upon it. It was
directed to " Mrs. Smethurst, 4, Rifle-terrace,
Queen's-road, Bayswater, London, W." The letter,
which has before appeared in ourc6lhmns, was then
read.

Miss Louisa Bankes, the sister of the deceased, was
then examined, and stated, she did not know what
became of the remains of the jelly she brought to
the deceased after a portion of it had been given to
her by Dr. Smethurst. She did not know whether
any besides the small portion she had spoken to
had been given to her sister. The signature to the
will was that of the deceased. She was entitled
to the interest of £5,000 in the funds for life, and
the entire disposal of a further sum of about £l,BOO,
which at the time of her death was out upon
mortgage, and which she could not obtain for about
two or three months, on account of some law pro-
ceedings.
By the Coroner—During the interviews with Dr.
Smethurst and her sister no remark was ever made
about the property. The letter marked " K," and
found on Dr. Smethurst, addressed to his wife,
was in his handwriting.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said that they were in
possession of letters written by the unfortunate
lady relative to the property, but, inasmuch, as he
was not in a position to prove that they had come
to his knowledge, he had not put them in.
Mr. Inspector M'lntyre produced the certificate
of the first marriage of Dr. Smethurst.
A juror said he wished to know whether Dr.
Smethurst had any opportunity of destroying any
medicines between his first and second apprehension.
Mr. Inspector M'lntyre said that when he first
took Dr. Smethurst into custody he took away a
large number of bottles, and afterwards some more
were taken away.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he feared that he
should not be in a position to prove that, but he
did not think it very material.
Mrs. Cbailoner, the nurse, said she was called to
attend on the deceased on the Monday previous to
her death. Dr. Smethurst was not at home
then, but returned about nine o'clock at night.
Miss Bankes and Dr. Smethurst sat up with her
all night, and during that time she took nothing
from any one but herself, Miss Bankes, or Dr.
Bird. Nothing was taken out of the room during
that time.

The Coroner then said, the nature of this case
was involved in a considerable degree of mystery,
and if the jury required it he would read the whole
of the evidence through, but, if not, he would
merely read such portions as they might desire.
He then recapitulated the chief points of the evi-
dence, commenting upon it, and the probabilities of
the case under consideration, and drew the atten-
tion of the jury to the fact that on Miss Bankes's
death Smethurst would become possessed in law of
all her personal property, and it would be for them
to consider whether that would be a sufficient reason
to induce them to believe that Dr. Smethurst cruelly
murdered her for the sake of becoming possessed of
her money.

The jury then retired, and, on returning into
court, gave a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against
Dr, Thomas Smethurst.

THE DERBY DAY.

(From the Times)

Epsom Downs ! It will be nought but Epsom
Downs to-day. Whether the sun, who is now
nearly due, shall bring in fine weather or foul, dank
weather or dry ; whether he shall smile golden
smiles upon all that vast array of gay apparel that
will in a few quickly passing minutes extend in a
continuous column for 14 miles ; or whether he shall
hide his face behind spongy clouds, close all the
vehicles, and reduce the flaunting pleasure-seekers
to damp close-packed travellers--still Epsom Downs
will be the only safe rendezvous for this Ist of June.
It is an English superstition ; nine-tenths of us care
no more about it in reality than they do about Gog
and Magog; but, like a standing column, it is not
less strong by reason of its hollowness. Of the
swarming tens of thousands, some of whom are even
at this early hour besieging the railway stations, or
packing up their baskets of comestibles, or regret-
lug the non-arrival of the perfidious milliner with
her faithfully promised finery, or taking measures
to satisfy themselves as to the habitual sobriety of
the pestboy to whom they are about to trust their
fortunes. not above One in ten IPIONYO. or eaTes any,
thing 4041 the race which all England is going
forth to see. Some of the noisiest and happiest of the
throng might be puzzled to pick out the winner of
the Derby if he were stabled with a lot of toler-
ably well-bred mules. Yet the humblest of these
' pilgrims of pleasure would be uncomfortable if her
little all-the-year-round practised arts of thrift had
not been varied by this one day of prodigality ; and
so widely spread is the interest as to the event,
which is in itself only the excuse for the great
gathering upon the Downs, that the provincial
journeyman tailor, who would not for the worth of
his master's shop climb a horse or try to balance
himself upon a saddle, will not sleep contented to-
night until he has asked and heard, " What horse
has won the Derby ?" It is our annual holyday,
our version of those Isthmian Games which no
public misfortune stopped, which served as points
of remembrance to reckon years by, and where
divided communities met together to enjoy a com-
mon pleasure, to interchange the courtesies of peace,
and topou r oblivion for the moment over all political
hostilities. We envy not the sour asceticism which
can look with evil eye upon a day of innocent and
wholesome enjoyment, and still less the barbarous
nature which can turn a joyous junketing into an
opportunity for riot or ferocity. Let the aay pass
pleasantly, and good humour pervade the general
merriment.
If people think of the House of Commons to-
day it will be principally to pity those unhappy
clerks of the house who are compelled to remain
to administer the oaths to those pleasure-despising
politicians who may choose this day for initiating
their career as Senators. If London, swarming
forth to its neighbourinc, uplagals, should give a
thought to the Derby Government, it will be pro-
bably in connexion with the Derby Race. The
fortunes of the Downing-street stables are not to
be decided so quickly as those which will hang
upon the hour that will succeed the stroke of
three this afternoon. We shall have hereafter to
mark the achievements of the biped competitors
with more deliberate interest as they fall and
founder, or stretch and live, over Vote-of Censure-
hill, and as they swerve or bolt, or hold their own,
round Reform-corner. It will be a hard race
whenever it is run and whoever wins it. It will
depend a good deal upon jockeyship, and something
upon the nature of the ground. A little more rain
in Piedmont may make the course heavy, or an ill-
tempered favourite may bolt over the ropes and
change the fortunes of the day ; but we may be
sure that amid the acclamations of the multitude
will be heard the shrill sharp cry of a sour little
cynic who, having made a very bad book for him-
self, and being hopeless of winning, whoever may
come in first, will call upon his neighbours to joiu
him in decrying everybody and everything, and
will seek to make it manifest that if he had only
had the good fortune to be born with four legs he
would have distanced the field, and done the trick
in a canter.

These coming events, however, will not bear
very detailed discussion in the presence of the great
business of to-day. Young Coniston, little Plin-
limmon, and the Hon. Altamount Helvellyn are
happy and joyous and thoughtless, and have
thrown their " spelling-books into the fire ;
emancipated by the grace of Lord Malmesbury
from all necessity to write or spell, they can here-
after get their grooms to enter their bets and accept
their engagements by making their marks; they
have not a cloud upon their innocent minds as they
speed to the Downs. The two Emperors have
kindly adjourned that great battle which was so
wantonly threatened, to the disturbance of men's
minds ; and, although Garibaldi has been so unrea-
sonable as to suffer a reverse at a time which ought
to be kept sedulously free from any event which
could require attention, yet, upon the whole, Lord
Derby and his friends can safely follow the example
of the candidates upon Lord Malmesbury's now
recruited list; and meet the members of his new
Parliament on the slopes in front of the Grand
Stand. Time, which has changed all things, but
which when lie raised. up the rail as a rival to the
road only multiplied the concourse of the votaries
of the Derby, has made a greater alteration in the
roles now played by the kingdoms of the earth.
Austria used to boast that while other nations were
warring she conquered kingdoms and carried off
the prize of all their wars amid the song and dance
of marriage feasts. But now Austria is in the
agony of conflict, France is pouring forth her
long-drawn columns to foreign war, Sardinia, is
panting in exhaustion, Germany is putting on
her armour in haste, as if apprehensive of instan
attack, and Russia is moving down her tens of
thousands. Pestilence is shaking her wings for a
swoop upon Italy; the art of changing healthy
youth into festering corruption is the only art in
honour and request ; and hundreds of thousands of
armed men arc hurrying, with quick excitement
and for a purposeless object, to quench their lives
in a great sanguinary battle. Let us thank our
s henie : have the
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happier fortunes, which has laid no such present
duties upon us. V
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ground is strew Al with empty champagne bottles
and ;doter shells, and the shattered trophies of the,
thrOwers. of unnumbered sticks, we may look even
with affection upon these reliquic, if we contrast
them in imaciinatioP With the ghastly remains of