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3 THE STANDARD, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1878. SPORTHsO INTELLIGENCE. THE OLD BELGIAN GALLERY. DINNER OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WOAKS. FRANCE AND THE CRISIS.

The Bear, the hist of whom did well in the Hunters' Race at Croydon, and will toke a lot of boating next Friday. Boyne Wtor hw not yet shown an ability to stay the distance but has been bncked as though he can do it. and His Lordship must be deemed dangerous, occor. 'ing to the stories in circulation of what he can do at home. however, think that the race will fall to CITIZEN or BOYNE WATER, The Liverpool Spring Cup may be assigned to WrocHZLSEA Or It GLADtATOKE.

ft is by no means a certainty that racing will he sble to take pca at Lincoln to morrow, a during this afternoon a heavy snow storm visited tho cathedral city and st the time of despatching thi message there fully two inchas of snow lying on the course, and, as the wind is still in a cold quarter, it is not at all improbable but that it will free- during tho Should the meotiny n't be interfered with by weather the prwnt gathering promises to be one of the best ever held on the Carholino. My srlectioni afar Trial Stak'S. Caramel or RedoDBT. Tathwell Plato. Taujuca or Witchery.

100' Plate. Cannon Ball or Wandicrkb. Batthyany Stakes. Plevna or LobpLknno. Hurdle Race.

Shkldbakjb. Doddington Hunters' Raee. Dauntless or Cocaoo. March 2. ASMODEUS.

"discretion is the better part of valour." 1 believe that to be exceedingly true if yon will only tnke It in ibis conjunction, that valour is often the better part of discretion (cheers), and that it is by a just use and a just tempering of those two qualities that the real strength of a country is to be ascertained (hear, hear). There is no use in being discreet if you are not valiant, and no use in being valiant if you are not discreet. But 1 hope and tnibt that in this country there is that consciousness of our real strength, and at the same time the desire not needlessly, and not in a doubtful cause, to put forth that strength in which resides the real power of the country. We should Bhrink from no sacrifice which might be required to maintain the honour and the interests of the country (loud cheer). On the other hand, we are not prompt either to take offence nemllesely, or unwisely to urgo the country into disput which may be arranged without any of national honour or interest.

I hope we may appeal, as we do frequently ppeal. and not in vain, to our fellow-countrymen, and especially to our fellow-legislators, that so long as they place their trust in ub, they will trust us sufficiently to believe that this is the guiding principle of our policy, and not to be, on the one hand, urging us, as though we ought not to take steps consistent with the country's interest and honour, lest we might embark in a difficult and dangerous enterprise and, on the other hand, not to insist upon codling attention to every diffioult )oint, the dotting of every the crossing of every in every difficult point which arises (hear, hear), rendering thus more difficult what must always be a most difficult task that of steering the country in the circumstances in which we ore at present placed (cheers). I am bound to say we have received the most kind and the most generous support from Parliament. My hon. and galiaut friend has referred to the Vote of Credit.

We had to ask for a Vote of Credit of six millions, and I need not say when we asked for it there was difference of opinion in var oos parts of the House upon the various questions which arose, and 1 need not say, further, that a large and overwhelming majority were in favour of giving us that which we asked and even amongst those who had sc.uples in granting what ws demanded there was a general expression that not merely six millions hut sixty millions would be forthcoming if the House were but satisfied that it w.is really needed. I venture to say, speaking as I do from a knowledge of the financial resources and condition of the country and of the temper of Parliament, that the House and the country would shrink from no exertion which might be necessary to support the national interests or honour (cheers), I return thanks for her Majesty's Ministers, and I know that this toast is received, as I have said, in no mere party sense. My hon. and gallant friend the chairman sits, to our great advantage, on the Ministerial side of the House but I am well assured that if the Ministry of the day were opposed to my hon. and gallant friend in party politics he would still welcome that Ministry and support it as the representative of this greAt country (hear, hear).

Let me venture, if he will not think me impertinent, to call his attention to one little sin of which even he has been guilty. At this delicate moment, when the eves of the world are upon everything which we do, and when the smallest transaction is apt to be magnified and misconstrued, what baa my hon. and gallant friend chosen to do? I think it was only last night that he actually asked the Houbo of Commons to allow him to introduce a Bill procuring and obtaining for the Metropolitan Board of Works possession of Cleopatra's Needle langhter). Now. I need not point out to this assembly in the present critical state of things, with the eye of all the world turned upon the Turkish Empire, and especially upon that which was the first point of "British interests" namely, the position of Egypt, how suoh on act of my hon.

and gallant friend on the part of the Board of Works offers a field for misconstruction. I don't know whether our hospitable chairman is versed in the law, but if he is not he will no doubt be aware that in old times possession of property, and eKpecially of landed property, was given by seist or the delivery of some small article typical of the laud or property which was given over. I do not know whether my bon. and gallant friend takes possesion of the soil of Egypt through the medium of Cleopatra's Needle (laughter), but I wish to take this first public opportunity of clearing her Majesty's Government, at all event, from any responsibility, in consequence of that transaction, of any designs upon Egypt (renewed laughter). I may Bay, in the name of all my colleagues, that I hope it may be for many years our privilege to attend the annual banquet of the Metropolitan Board of Works (loud cheers and laughter).

Mr. I'M'" ma of the Metropolitan Board, then proposed "The Houses of Lords and Commons," coupling with the toast the names of the Duke of Wellington and the Bight Hon. the Speaker. The Duke of Welunoton said he was very much gratified to be associated with one of the members of our tripartite Constitution. The House of Lords had but oue desire to be useful to the country, and its best reward was the satisfaction it gave to her Majesty's subjects.

It must must not be supposed becauae the House of Lords made but little noise that therefore it was but of little use. He wai sure that even in this dead time of the year the eloquent way in which it had asked questions and given answers must have caused society very great satisfaction (laughter). He begged to thank them for the honour whioh had been done to the toast. The who, on rising, was loudly cheered, said. On the part of the House of Commons, I have the very high honour of thanking you for this toast.

It Is, of course, peculiarly gratifying to me to find by my reception that the House of Commons continues to be, wliat it always has been, the popular assembly of this country. I have no doubt that every man here present, and probably every man throughout the world at large, is interested st the present crisis in the relations of this country with the rest of Europe. I might have attempted to say a few words on that subject, but if I had it is not impossible that some of you might go away with the idea that I was, on the one hand, either a Russian," or on the other a "Turk," whereas I am neither more norlesB than a simple Englishman (cheers). Therefore I will content myself with endorsing the sentiment which has fallen from the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he said that if the honour or the interests of this country should require it, the liberality of Parliament vtotdd not be wanting (hear, hear). The Chancellor of the Exchequer also alluded to a matter which attracted my attention two days ago, thongh I do not know that it is a subiect altogether fit to introduce to this assembly.

He spoke of our worthy chairman of this hospitable board presenting himself to the House of Commons the other day and asking for a Bill to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to put Cleopatra's Needle upon the Thames Embankment. Now, when that incident occurred it seemed to me somewhat strange that the Metropolitan Board of Works should have to come as a suppliant to Parliament simply to put one stone upon another (hear, hear). It strikes me that London has some cause to complain of Parliament, that sufficient powers have not been given to London to enable it to carry on the work of local self-government (hear, hear). I mention this little circumstance merely as an illustration, for it certainly seems tome passing strange that in this, the wealthiest city in the world, when the citizens desire to put a monument in a particular place, they must eome as suppliants to Parliament (hear, hear). I must warn my hon.

and ga hint friend who has charge of this bill that he will huvo very considerable trouble in pasAing it, because every hon. member who has a fancy for a particular site will probably enter upon warm and protracted debates, and we shall find that this Simple question of the erection of C'eopatra's Neeile may become one of the notable questions of the session. We shall have over again a battle of the sites." I mention this subject merely from a strong feeling that Parliament behaves ia rather a niggard spirit with the local authorities of London (hear, hear). When I speak of London, I mean London at large. We have this table two chief magistrates, and I am glad to find that thoy assemble here together (hear, hear).

One 1b the chief magistrate of an ancient city, and the other is the chief magistrate of what I may call a vry growing suburb (laughter). I really feel very Btronjrly that Parliament has tome reason almost to be ashamed of placing the Metropolitan Board of Works in the position of having to come as a suppliant for the reasou I have mentioned, but I trust that by some contrivance, before the elose of the session, wo shall rescue Cleopatra's Neodle from the floating coffin in which it is now placed opposite the Houses of Parliament (cheers). The GhaiemaN then proposed "The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex." Tho Lord Maiob and Mr. Sheriff Nottaoe severally acknowledged. hh The Duke of Cambridge, in proposing "The Metropolitan Board of Works," said be had heard that new duties had been imposed upon the Metropolitan Board of Works, and he was amaxetl how they got through all th varied duties which were previously imposod upon them.

He hoped that in the performance of these responsible duties they would take the greatest care of the pockets of the ratepayers (cheers aud laughter). The Chairman, in responding to the toast, said his Royal Highness, when he was replying to the toast The Army ana Navy," alluded to the nocessity there was of a sufficient sum being placed at his disposal to render the services of the army cient. There was the same necessity for the Metropolitan Board of Works to have funds at its disposal to carry out its municipal duties. He said the rate for lost year was in the pound, and the rate for this year would bo about the same, and this included the expenditure for street iinprovements for the last year, and also included the expenditure connected with the Artisans' Dwellings Aet, and th sums that were payable daring the year towards abolishing the tolls over the Thames. In conclusion, the hon.

gentleman proposed The Chairmen of Committees of the Metropolitan Board of Works." Mr. Dalton responded. The remaining toast was The Officers of the Metropolitan Board of Works." Sir Joseph Bazalgbtte, C.B., in responding, alluded to the project of building a new bridge across the Thames below London Bridge, with only one span, which, he said, scienco would now enable them to accomplish. Pabixamewtaby Bobikess. In tho House of Lords to-day Earl Granville will ak the First Lord of the Treasury what are the intentions of her Majesty's Government with regard to Dover Harbour.

The Earl of Wniorn-cliffe will ask what reply has been given to the memorfid recommending the establishment of a museum of oast from the anti uc. In the House of Commons tho ue'oate on tho forgeries in the Dublin petitions against the Sunday Closing Bdl will be resumed. Sir C. 1 dike will ask a question about the abolition of slavery In Cuba. Sir C.

Russell will make an inquiry relating to the frauds committed by forged marks upon china, Sir C. Dilke will put several questions about the insurrection in TheBaaly, and Mr. Courtney will ask for some particulars about the Treaty of San Stefano. Mr. Jame- will inquire for any recent despatches with respect tohe state of affairs in Bosnia and on the Dalmatian frontier.

Mr. Baxter will seek information about the state of Crete. The Mutiny Bills will be proceeded with in Committee, followed by the Civil Service Estimates in Committee of Supply. The Paris ExuuBmoN, On Saturday morninu the twin screw steamer Folkestone was launched from the shipyard of Eaile's Shipbuilding and Emdneeiing Company (Limited), Hull, for the South-ijastern Railway Company. She is a handsomely modelled fo- and aft schooner-rigged steamer ISO feet long between perpendicular, 25 feet beam, and 12 feet depth ot hold, her gross register tonnage being 406 tons.

She has been built under special survey to class 100 A at Lloyd's, and iu accordance with Hoard of Trade regulations for assenger service. Her engines, which have also been made by Earles Company, are compound surface condensing of 110 N.H.P. collectively each engine has two cylinders inches and 39 inches diameter and 24 inches stroke, fitted with all the most modern improvements. This ship will be a very useful addition to the South-Eastern Railway Companya fleet of steamers during the ensuing summor to relieve the pressure of traffic caused by the Paris Exhibition, as she has, besides good passenger accommodation, ample hold space for boggsge and light goods. The building of this ship was only commenced on Npv.

15, 1877, and it is expocted she will be oompleted within a mouth and at once commence the eon ice between Folkestone and Boulogne. THE GREAT WALKING MATCH. The great walking match that commenced on Monday last at the Agricultural Hall, at one o'clock a.m., was brought to a conclusion on Saturday evening, when, oi ten minutes post eight, O'Leary, the American long distance champion, left the track after walking 520 miles, the greatest distance ever walked in the time Vangban, of Chester, winning second prize after walking 500 miles; and Brown third prize after walking 477 milca. The present match was promoted by Sir John Ast.ley, who guaranteed a silver belt value 100L and a money pru of 5J0L to the first man, 1007. to the second, and 50.

the third, the conditions being that each competitor, should make the bet of bis way on foot, either wallurih' ot running, whoever accomplished the greatest distance beins declared the winner. The start took plaoe ou Mondav 1 at one o'clock iu the morning, and the hour for tho liniib, was appointed at half-past ten on Saturday. Of the eighteen men who started thoao only whose performances render them worthy of noti" are O'Leary, wh (inishod first with 520 miles to his score Vaughnn, wha came in second, having gone 500 miles exactly Blower Brown, third, who walked and ran i77 miles 2 laps Leorire Ide, of Woolwich who went 405 miles 4 laps J. Smith, 394 miles 6 laps, fifth; and W. Corkey sixth, with 335 tmlos 2 laps.

Both (J'Leay end Vaughan retired to rest on FrBay mght about midnhjht, PLeary having a lead of 14 miles. jughan vi oa the first to return, as at 37 minutes psst two o'clock he stopped once again on the track, looking very jaded, and commenced walking very stiffly at first. A three e'clook, however, he was followed by O'Leary, who, like Vaughan, commenced waUifng very sti'Hy. O'Leary never again left tho track, save for a couple of minutes omie or twice to change his boots, till ten minutes past eight in the evening, when be lf.f having won the a-iratest walking match on record. At three o'clock in the morning the respective distances walked by each competitor wre O'Leary 457 miles, and Vaughan 443.

It soon boons a apparent that Vaughan would be quite incapable of de creasing this lead. At times Vaughan ran, and botwooa five and six o'clock increased his speed to sb miles an hour, but all in vain. O'Leary maintained one steady pace) throughout the day of close uion four miles nn hour, and gradually increased his lead, eventually wiuninc by 20 miles. At ten o'clock in the morning O'Leary had walked 483 miles to Vaughan's 459, by on o'clock 493 to Vaughan's 469, and by three o'clock 500 mile to Vauzbans 477: O'Learv hi hfnl I miles exactly at 47 minntes 7 eecondn pant two o'clock, being 56 minutes better time than the same distance hsj ever been walked iu before. By six o'clock O'Leary hadl 512 miles to Vaughan's 49Sd, and by eight o'clock 520 to Vaughan's 500.

At this time there must havt- boon nearly 0,000 persons present in the ball shouting selves hoane, O'Leary, though a foreigner, receiving quit 1 as much applause as his opponents, while the reserved where half a guinea was charged for adTnitr9ton, was whor Vaua led by several hundreds of persons, amongst many members of both Houses of Parliament, tad retired at 38 minutes past seven, and it waa soon rumoured that he did not intend reappearing aain. O'Leary had already equalled the beet time on record for a sir days' walk, and conse'juent'y, after walking round twice more, he very wisely retired also at ten minutes past eight o'clock, the hand playing "rco the conunt-ring hero comes," the tune apparently working up the already too much excited spectators to a state bordcrinir on fronvv. LFor some time, however, the police, with considerable difficulty, restrained thorn. Blower Brown, G. ids, U.

smith, persevered ou, having all done really good per formanoeii, while they wore joined by some others who, having really dons nothing worth noticing, evidently desired to show themselves off before the multitude i person present. At last, at half-past eight, the mob broka through the Imrners, and all was over. Ihe hand playi-cl iirw oavo me yueen vigorously as a police gave the still broader hint of At last the kugo multitude was dura walking match was oer. go, while the i rout the gas. and the great O'Leary walked 117 miles on bis first; day, 83 on his second, 88 on his third, 6 on his fonrtli, 83 on his fifth, and 63 on his sixth and last day.

Vaughan walked 102 miles on hfs first day, 62 miles on his second, S6 miles on his third, 90 on his fourth, 81 on his ti Mi, and 59 on his sixth and last day. Considering that this is Vaughan's first attempt to walk the dis'once his performance Is really a more wonderful one than O'Loary's, the latter being a man of great cxperionoe, and having the ad vantage of the ablo advhe of Mr. Magoo, his tminer, and Mr. Smith, of Chicsgo. The fact in, tha generality of so Called English trainers are not suflicwmtly educated men to undertake the management of a man in so long a walk as six days.

Vaughsn really lost the match in allowing O'Leary to get 15 miles ahead the very first day. There waa no doubt at starting about O'Loary's staying powers. That had been proved over and over again. Vangbon should have tried to keep level, and to have trusted to his better speed to win at the In fact, Vaughan's mistake this time is exactly similar to ten's mistake in his walk with O'Leary lost year allowing O'Leary early in the race to obtain a lead he could never afterwards recover, O'Leary suffered considerably on the lart day. caught a chill which affected his limbs, his legs beinir very much swollen, llis general health is, however, good, and he is not se much fatigued as after his walk with Wetton.

O'Leary was not in good training when ha started, having only just arrived from America. His performance is, however, a most wonderful oue, and as on exhibition of pluclr, and power of endurance ia almost unequalled, O'Leary la 32 years of age, is a naturalised American, weighs lOst. and is 5ft. Sjin. in height.

He is a most temperate man, ucver taking spirits, and as a rule one pint of ale only in ordinary times, but none whatever when walking a match. On visiting yesterday afternoon he seemed very well, the swelling in hi legs having nearly gone down. Hlsj feet were a little blistered, snd he was using sandpaper to reduce the thickened skin that had collected in some places. He expect to be able to go out to-day for a walk FOOTBALL. ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP.

WANDERERS KOYAL EXMNKEKS. The final tie for this Association Challenge Cup was played on Saturday last between the Royal Engineers anil Wanderers. Kenniagton Oval was the renOrvous, and, the weather being Uno, titers were about three thousand spectators present. The Wanderers wou the toss and elected to dtiftNod the western goal. Hedley kicked off.

The early prooeedlmri were pretty evan ontfl Waco aud Kenrick, hy a splendid piece oi comhlned play, obtained the first goal for the Wanderers. The Engf neurs were not long before they retaliated, oa qnlok'y after-wards tho ball was well thrown In hy Morris from touch, and out of loose scrimmage a goal was kicked for thom. Matters having been thni equalised the game became even more editing titan it had been up to this point. At length a second pool was obtained for the Vi ander ers. Half-time having; arrived and ends been changed, the Engineers strove hard to oneo more bring the seora levL A goal was kicked byUedley for thenj, hut was dis-allowed on the plea of off-side.

Thl. however, would not have affected the result, as soon afterwards, by a magniOcont piece of play by Kenrick and Heron, th former kicked a third goal for the Wanderers. Nothing farther happened HB the col) of time," when the Wanderers were deelarad victors by Uuva goals to one. As the Wanderers have now won three years ia they retain entire pesaosslrm of the. Cup.

Thg idayeri were Royal Engineers. R. S. cdlcy (captain), B. Ilaiues, If.

Lindsay, K. O. Bond, H. Barnet, 0, Ruck. J.

H. Cowan, aud W. J. Morris (backs), c. B.

Mayne and T. Hcnth (half-hacks), L. B. Friend (goal). Wanderers.

Woliaston (captain), H. Heron, J. Kenrick, 0. B. Denton.

Ware, I. wrue, F. T. Green, and A. P.

Klnnatrd (half-hnckBL A. H. Stratford and W. Lindsay (backs), J. Kirkpatrick (goal).

The Loss of the Kaffir, The inquiry into the loss of the Union Company's steamer Kamr resnltorL of announced by telegraph from Madeira, in the smtpension of the captain's acrtificate for nine months. The defenoa was to the etfoct that the ship wns in her usual course, and quite, if not more, than three miles from the shore, and that the rock she struck upon wss submerged one hitherto unknown, and not marked on any of the Admiralty charts. The Court hold that there was not a sufficient look-out kept, and the ship was much nearer than three mile from the shore, and probably leas than two. Thoy also expressed nn opinion that after tha accident, tho captain did all in his power to save life. Reuter, Teb Gun Club.

There was a nnmerous attendance on Saturday, whan twenty one members shot for 3. Handicap at seven birds each. Mr. Freke, 25 yards, Mr. P.

Gambier, 25i, and Mr. Cavendish, 284 ywrda, tied for the first prise, 50., by killing six out of seven each, and in shooting off Mr. Froko killed two mora and wou the second money, 13., being secured by Mr, r.bier, with one kill less. The winners of the Sweep spikes were the Duke of Hamilton, Captain Vo LeiRhton, Mr.O. Clark, Mr.

George, and Mr. Cavendish- The at Thorn-don Hall. Tho firo at Thonnion Hall, tho residence of Lord Petre, which was briefly reported in The Standard of Saturday, continued to rage till about four o'clock on the morning of that day, having first been discovered at half-past three on Friday afternoon. The whole of the domestic part of the build, ing was entirely gutted and destroyed, only the bare walls, which were of unusual thickness, being left ing. A large quantity of furniture, antique and modern, sculpture, and other valuable property, was oonsumed, but the chief pio tures.

by Vandyke, Holixdn, iainnboniugh, and other celehratod painters were saved, together with collections of china and object of virtu. The fit-tors were underlaid with layers of compressed mshon, which caused, thom to burn with ungovernable fury. The ohaneL comprising the right wing, superbly furnished and ducorated with paintings, Including one of tha ativity, brought from Rome, and the stabling, forming the left wing, wnrejprtsserved, chiefly through the efforts of the soldiers from aaley Harrison, who, tm.ler the dtreo tion of a number of officers, banked them up from th central portion of tha bvuUing by walls of turf dng from, the park. The mansion, a very extensive one, was Imilt by the ninth Boron Petre somewhat more than a century ago, from designs by Paioe, and under his superintendence. It was com nosed of white brick of a special manufacture, and consisted of a centre and two wings conn by oiroolar oorridors.

The principal apartments were tbo hall, 40 feet square, supported ov IS columns i saloon. 60 feet by 30 feet drawing-room. 38 feet by 23 feot ball-ronm, dining-room, library, and king's-room, tho hitter having been occupie'l by George 1IL at a period wbon he held bis Court at Vhorndon Hall. A former mansion which stood in Thorndon Fork was also burnt to the ground when John, tho last heir of the opulent house of ifaLewis, and a daughter of Sir Robert Loveil, perished in the flames on their wedding night. The building just destroyed wag heavily insured, Humgajuan Wines.

The Wine Flagon System sea orucle in the Titnet, Jon. 18 and 33, 1873- It orisreafad ta by Mas Gmjfr, lne merd.a i brr Va.cstv the yueoa, menmer of the jury of the International Jtxniiv tion, at Vienna, 'ih- wine llaon li an ornunestsl oeranter, holdino Hail an imperial (tallon of wine. It prpte. tod by Bft air-tiehi alopper, nwerrlnir the wine for a nw or two whlUt In ue without ria of being In JUd. The (ittrtowitr1 thussni.pl lsnoa-unjrrstoodto be of the best value ln tta -plication to hlthn, MiuclD-'ae--' Carlnwlti win Sftnt iiiu.cr 1) at As.

tt dozen is now i also in flagon, a si stem v. njch nearly one-half jf tha pries is saved of tbr Identical in. when oottlu4, X4.rtug London (irrthin roar mile radius from Charhrgs,) gar tv.t eten'1 nm' 1uo1 umttaen u' fiajfon being sent at once, and the Sraak mad ii a 0,1 flrst Order on extra charge nnsfcssner So i lurL i which becomes the property of the a'-TuscBu'ent heiirti t-i or on future orders, the a i JCUS that the empty Raxoua are exchange! Ur full mAvniMiu ilipp) is continued. The receipt for the mnjej para iu consist of six tickets, oua of Whhdl Uturit he ol imrrt to the potter fur every flagon of wine dellvarwL umera to he directed to Max Oregor and 7, moing-lan, wj Loudon. lAiuiarisKMXNT.

Tins 'Wine Flaoon System." The public living without London, or in any itlstantpart of the klnadom. wul be supplied with the Tarlowtu" oo the wine flajp.m svgtcm by our rtisdrlct agenu on the following terms, vfx: Jtach order must err tend to nnr Magnus (cipml a doxan of wlneX the price of, which will bo Including the delivery, and fc respectively lor the tlnpom Iltrict Atftnt are appointed oh lltwral terms la tcrj town within the 1'niUtl Kingdom. -ApHkxmus to lie ad- dremod to Max Greger awl 7, Mincing-lane, London. AltYSilXISEJtEST. THE LINCOLN AND LIVERPOOL MEETINGS.

With the week in which is included the 25th of March the close time imposed upon flat racing expires, and ou the Carlhome at Lincoln to day the legitimate season will be opened with rare ftourih of trumpets. The Prince of Wales will bo of Mr. Chaplin's party at lankney prior to his (loyal Highness going on to Crox-teth, where Lord Sefton will rnte tun him for the Grand National. Already a very large uamlier of borse have arrived at Lincoln, and to-day's train will briiifc about a considerable augmentation. Tt may be that the complement of Btarters for the Lincolnshire Handicap willnot be so strong as for the last year or two but for the minor a.

fairs there should be good fields, and from the number of animals talked about for the Brocklby Stakes, the two-yr-old racing will be interesting. Without further preface I may proceed to a discussion of the chief item in Messrs. Ford's broadsheet, and for the Lincolnshire Handicap I append a list of the PROBABLE STARTERS AND JOCKEYS. ViTiaigretto Ambergris lasaell Carvsr. J.

Ooater Rossi ter Sidonfa Adamite Kismet Blankney Hultolk Doulrion Cincinnatus Trommel by Mega dure Jeza- Luke. Fogan. Tomlinson. H. Covey.

Barrett. J. Jarvts. F. Jeffery.

W. Macdoaald. Watts. Gallon. 1 F.

Archer Lady Ronald Caniembert. Morris. Touchet Kaleidoscope Cradle Chevron Twine the Constable. Glover. Hopkins.

Newhouse. bcl Howey Plalden Dodge. Lyceum Morrell. The Ghost Huitalds. Juan Morgan.

I.uckpenny Veedon. Barker. W. Johnston. Lemaire.

by Jove-Spec Miss RoreL. Antienl Pistol Ithona HeminlnffS. Ambergris will be tho representative of the ton wehrht. but for Lord Downe's gigantic son of Hermit I have Tittle fancy, and prefer his stable companion, Quicksilver, who should run pretty well, for rumour has it that when tried she acquitted herself very satisfactorily with others of iloss's horses and Blankney and Bay At Jul. who were borrowed to take part in the spin.

Tassel, who was fauciel as Boon as the handicap appeared, has held bis own in the market pretty tirmly throughout the piece, though he has lost the hcrth of first favourite owing to the extensive investments upon Sidonia, Upon severid occasions Tassel has demonstrated himself to be a really good horse, and that was grand form he exhibited in the Prince of Wales's Handicap over the Rowley mile lost year. In this event he gave no leas than 241b to Spiegelscidff and 1 71b to Belphcebe, the lat of whom a few days later proved equal to winning the One 'I housnnd Guineas, and subsequently did other things, which attested to the excellence of Tassel, who in bis gallops moves so freely and well as to imprei most of the Newmarket people with the idea that he will win next Wednesday, though an animal that is almost equally fancied at head-quarters is Sidonia, As a two-yr-old sjdonia's doings were moderate, and his performance behind Covenanter on the Berkshire Heath last summer was not suggestive of his being the smart colt he was claimed to be in the autumn, when be beat Cerberus and Jester so handsomely in a private trial as to make the Warren House people most confident about him for the Cambridgeshire. The market movements in connection with Sidonia for the Lincoln event have been somewhat errario, but ut length there is no gainsaying tho fact of his standing in the position of a genuine favourite, and on Saturday 9 to 2 was readily appropriated about the son of King Tom. That he is a delicate horse to train there can be little doubt, and it is owing to this that John Dawson has hod to deal so tenderly with him in giving tho colt the final touches of his Lincoln preparation. Last week ho was in-diiLed with rest for two succeeding days, but on'lhursday, Friday, and Saturday he did good gallops, and if he only runs up to the form he exhibited in private last year his conqueror will take much rinding.

With Thunderstone in the stable, and occasionally employed to lead Sidonia in his work, no mistake ought to be made, and it is possible for him to start an unprecedented favourite, for he is a strong public fancy, and is generally believed to be a really good horse. Heath House will be represented by Rosy Cross, but it is very likely that the beautiful daughter of Rosicrueian will not be ridden by F. Archer, for the accident sustained by his brother William by the fall of Sal van ie at Cheltenham on Friday has terminated fatally. If the crack jockey do.s not ride, the rilly will be entrusted to the handling of Morbey, but whoever rides ber she is bound to run well, for her performance in the Cambridgeshire was radically wrong, as was proved by what she afterwards accomplished with Avontes, Gladia, and othera in the Free Handicap. Those identified with her have backed Rosy Cross heavily, and, according to all accounts, she has had a good preparatiou for the race, and if she fails to win it she must be regarded as Ukely to play a prominent port in either the City and Suburban or the Chester Cup, for from the way in which she ran in the Cesarewitch it is evident that she has the gift of stamina and fair speed.

I'ndtr a very respectable weight Lady Ronald ran fast in the Lincoln Handicap last year, and a mile is just about her cut, though with 8st to carry she handicapped right up toher best doings, and she will have to run up to them to be able to join in such society as that of Tassel, Sidonia, and Touchet. The last of these enjoys to the fidl the confidence of Lord Roeebery and his friends, and the sou of iora i.yon lias been supported to a manner that would indicate a belief in his capabilities to compensate for the disappointment experienced hut year, when he started a strong favourite, but was unable to finish nearer than fourth. Touchet was oertainly one of the disappointing racehorses of the season, for it was known prior to the Lincoln Handicap that he had been tried almost good enough no win a Derby. Julius Caesar, however, gave him too muoh weight in the City and Suburban to make him possessed of a chance in the big race at Epsom, and at Ascot ho was well beaten, though 1 do not think he was anything like up to the mark at the time. Nor was he in really racing trim when he beat Post Haste in their match for a monkey" and a hogshead of claret at Newmarket, in the autumn.

He has done exceedingly well during the spring, and the recent good fortune experienced by Lord Rosebery may be followed up by a Lincoln Hantlicap victory with Touchet, who will be tne mount of Coustuble. Jennings's stable will le represented by Camem-bert and Miss Hovel, the latter of whom was, I hear, oidy just beaten in the trial, but for neither the mare nor the old horse have I any fancy; but Kaleidoscope is one whose claims must not be passed over lightly. The Kussley representative has evidently done something out of tho common at home, or Sign Manual and Tetrarch would not have been scratched, and doubtless Robert Peak has ascertained that the son of Speculum is in the same form he was on that day when ho ran third to Petrarch and Julius Cwsar for the Two Thousand Ovtinea. Tho Russley trainer gave a lot of money for Kaleidoscope when he wassold with others of LordDupplin's horses, but some of the Epsom people say that at the time of his leaving Surrey he was a roarer, and if this should really be the case ho con have little chance of pulling through. 1 folly expect to see Kaleidoscope run well up to the distance post, and this is where Twine the Plaiden may have had enough of it, for a mile is the full length of the Malton mare's tether.

According to the work that Twine the Plaiden lias been doing no animal should be delivered fitter at the poet than the daughter of Old Orange Girl, who has bad Chaloner for her jockey in her recent gallops at home, though -dbe will have the mount on ber in the race. In addition to Twine the Plaiden the North country people may furnish representatives in Adamite and the colt by Mogsdor xuVd. and of these Adamite was on Saturday bockod to win a lot of money, and no seoret was mode of it that on the York race-course the four-year-old son of Adamos had earlier in the week settled Muscatel and others in a private trial, Adamite is doubtless a very useful house, but 1 apprehend ho will fail to get the mile under his weight, and though Chevron, who is to be ridden by Newhouse, carries the money bags of a clever party, he is just a little uncertain. The reports from Newmarket concerning Chevron represent him as beins; most unruly on the Heath, but in a general way he is quiet enough in company, and It is only when asked to gallop by himself that no shows a little ebullition of temper. Ithona, too, is just a trifle fretful and nervous, and though she was beaten in her trial, the outcome of the spin she had with Ueser, Advance, Matador and others, is said to be equivalent to putting Hesper in the race at something like 8t 71b, with which weight tho horse would have a great chance.

Ithona is the property of the luke of Beaufort, whose colours have not been seen for some time, and her victory would be immensely popular. Should she run up to her private trial she may possibly win, and it is sotnetbiug to know that she wiU be ridden out for a place. The Ghost astonished Lord Kesteven and his friends wbon he was tried with Covenanter and others in the neighbourhood of Seven Barrows last week, and though he is just the sort of horse that might win the Lincoln Handicap, he is rather on uncertain gentleman, and I prefer to look elsewhere for the winner. Juan, trained in the some neighbourhood as Ghost, carries Lis owner's monev and with regard to Kismet it may be mentioned that the veteran is said to have done so well this spring as to make her owner somewhat confident of victory, though I hardly think that tho horse is good enough to pull through. Blankney will run, but 1 am not hopeful of teeing Mr.

Savile's colours carried very prominently, while the form of Doublon hardly entitles him to sorious thought. Trommel niny do battle for Aloo Taylor's stable, but 1 do not fancy that he has a winning obonce. ('incinnatus w.is a high class selling plater last year, and the way in which Captain Paget backed him at Tottersairs on Saturday would indicate that the horse had made muoh improvement. On public form he seems to have just as good a chance as Quicksilver, but, as already intimated, I am not in love with the tbrce-yr-olds. Cradle won the Koyal Hunt Cup so easily last year that he has a fair chance of repeating the Footstep victory, and it is something in his favour that he will be ridden by Hopkins, who was on the back of Lord Wilton's mare twelve months ago.

To cut the story short, however, I think that those best worth consideration are Touchet, Tassel, Sidonia, and Twine the Plaiden, and of these I think that TASSEL and TOUCHET may be left to fight out the issue. To-day's events may be discussed in the overnight telegram from the scene of action, and passing ou to Tuesday's affairs 1 may say in connection with the Brockleby Stakes that the youngsters enjoying the best characters are Amdjulla. by Scottish Chief Lady Dot. and DkvoTke, by Hermit Kalipyge, the latter of whom will carry the popular colours of Chaplin. The Elbham Hurdle-race may be won by Shrl-drake or 1 1 urn; ft, and in the Blankney Plate Manoo his a good chance.

The Full Orv Steeple-chase may be secured by Gamut, and the Lincoln Cup may be taken by Zekbtoa or Raohan. After the Lincoln meeting has been concluded racing men will take their departure for Liverpool, where there will be capital sport on Thursday and Friday, the added money for tho two days amounting to 4150L, while that at Lincoln is 3300. An awkward race to deal with in the Aintrec programme is he Grand National Steeple chase, for which there will not be a large field, nnr is the contest iteelf fraught with much interest. The following may constitute the. PROBABLE 8TARTERS AND JOCKEYS.

Pride of dare. Kil- Mr. G. Moore Miss Ijjtrie Uts The Bear Sultana J. Cannon.

R. Anson. R. Marah. Mr.W- Bcaaloy.

Tools. Liberator Mr. T. Reosler Hoyne Shuns! Hunt alerieu J. Adams Levitt Jewitt Gregory Hunt LttfcTenee.

Tattoo JGtynne or W. I Conavan. Fontorablon Waddlugtou. It seems likely that the Irbrh people will be represented by Pride of Kildaie. Rossanmore, Sultana, Tattoo, and the Liberator, the last of whom has not born sold to a London bookmaker, as was reported at the end of the week, and it is even now hinted that his running is not a certainty.

At one time last week liberator stood at 4 to 1, though on Saturday a point longer odds was betted, and for a moment 7 to 1 could have been procured about him. Prido of Kildare did bo well behind Martha at San-down Park that she is bound to Vie even though in tho some stable as the Liberator but I do not fancy either Rossanmore or Tattoo, and of the English horses those most to be starred are Citkon, Boyno Water, and On a memorable occasion when a poet, not, perhaps, destined to be immortal, rend to Charles Lamb a scene from his work, that gentle critic heard in silence, and exclaimed at the end, There ore some -worse things than that in Shakespeare and many better." It is much in the same spirit of good-humoured tolerance that the lover of pictures must virit, if ho visits at all, the exhibition which opens this week at the Belgian Gallery, in Old Bond street, where he will undoubtedly see much that is of very secondary merit, but where he may also discover not a few pictures which would hold their own very well, for delicate expressiveness and Bharpness of execution, against those that are wont to be exhibited by the lesser among our organised societies. The exhibition takes place, it is an- nouncod, for the benefit of the artists, which means, we dr. who arrange the exhibition, and that none is to be sold for their own proht. The therofore) uot Rn exbibitioa of Bpecu.

ationi morc or ieM successful and intelligent, of mer- chants in works of art, takes rank, in a certain sense, with those galleries wholly organished by the artists who eontribute to them. It is very noticeable that in almost every minor exblbi tion of foreign art landscapes have but a small place The foreign artist, who works for the parlour wall, is generally, more or less, a painter of ytwrt sometimes a painter of portraits sometimes of dramatic scenes but more habi-tunlly of little cabinet pictures whose aim It is to pourtray something that is piquant in the experience of daily life, or something picturesque and artistically disorderly in costume or in furniture. At the Belgian Gallery no single landscape calls for commendation or notice. The few landscapes that are there are not cryingly had are not offensive in a gallery, whatever they might be in a room. The large dramatio picture, "TheBridge of Sighs by the late M.

Van Lerins, is, alas not impressive. But among the fancy subjects, the tableaux de genre, there are a fair number conceived not without ability and executed wka skill. Of purely domestic subjects, one only is worthy of any considerable praise, and that one, by C. Mucke, "The Fisherman's Return ''(No. 82), we may praise alike for its troth to homely yet refined sentiment, and for its truth to a very pleasant scheme of coloming and decora-iiun.

The theme has nothing novel in it a Dutch fisherman, who, though young, is a husband and a father, returns to the wcloome of bis kin tho scene some humble seaboard cottage, with its simple furniture, it blue-tiled stove, its sober curtains that are drawn over the great family bed. But the fisher is attractive, the girl-wife attractive, and the child uot amiss and though, to come to technical matters, there is little patient realisation of texture among the numerous accessories, the grouping and the tone of all these are pleasant and the inanagoment of light whether it be that which falls along the back ground from some invisible door, or that which brightens the metal of the kettle and of the ornaments of the bend dross is good. In its humble way, the pleasant little picture recalls the success which attended the elder Dutchmen in scenes tuch as the present, and seems to indicate that tho sensitiveness which was so much theirs is also partly their descendants'. A clever little picture the best of those that are modelled not so much on the practice of the elder Dutchmen as on that of certain fashionable French artists of our day is No. 43, La Pupille da Suisse," by A.

Lambron. For something of the dainty finish with which the very placards posted on church door are painted Do Nittia is responsible the kind of observation here shown, appreciative of comedy mostly when touched with coarseness, many French painters have recently become selebrated for. The old beadle is embracing the (firl the pupille greatly to his own satisfaction, and the expression is appropriate and cleverly seied. The visitor smiles and turns aside. M.

Haffaelli, who paints In the Antiquity Gallery" (No. 36), and others who resemble him, should remember that rivalry with the art of Meissonier is not attained imply by painting small. The expressiveness is lacking to too many of bis imitators. The Choice Bottle" of Schill, for instance, and the Seeking Plunder" of Velpln, will come in for this reminder, A large and somewhat important picture of the comedy of low life is No. 145, by A.

Grison, "The Cooks at Fault." Among the water colours we note with reluctance that an artist singled out for praise by Mr. Raskin only two or three years ago is hardly fulfilling the promise given, not only by the great writer's encouragement bat by his own faithful work. The best piece of pure water colour, very frank and free, is the figure subject by Caroselli, which deserves a better title than ''Forty Winks," the trivial one assigned to it. Many of our more famous living artists in water colour might take a lesson from the simplicity of method and the easy expressiveness exhibited in this work. GLOBE THEATRE.

If there be any humour in a pieca which Mr. Toole takes in hand he inevitably succeeds in extracting it to the uttermost, and in the now polyglot sketoh by which he has supplemented Mr. IT. J. Byron's successful comic drama A Fool and his Monty there is provided an excellent opportunity for the peculiar skill of this most popular of comedians.

The hero of A National Question is a certain Mr. Mixture, who has a lovely ward, a remarkable capacity for languages, and an unquenchable propensity for making puns. When Mr. Mixture sees his ward, he straightway adores her bat she has various other guardians ti various other guardians indeed, in fact, 1 for they are respectively Irish, in tha person of The O'Brien, Scotch, as represented by The Mac Haggis, and Dutch in the solemn Remblance of Herr Dumph and it is to gain the consent of his companions in the responsibility that Mixture devotes his energies. To each he speaks in the more or less seductive and soothing accents of his native land, and for each he provide a national dish, though this delicate attention is defeated by an indignant cook, who to irritate her master and offend his guests places Irish stew before the Scotchman, vexes the soul of the Irishman by the presentation of sauerkraut, and bewilders the Dutchman by setting before him a smoking haggis, Mr.

Mixture is moreover a remarkably eccentrio dancer, and gives proof of his excellence in a quadrille; and he also takes part in a very amusing and cleverly arranged medley of songs, introducing airs of all descriptions in the most incongruously harmonious manner. Messrs, Collette, Bradbury, Misses Hewitt and Ella Johnstone aid Mr. Toole in his highly successful endeavours to make A National Question diverting. A Fool and his Money has securely established its popularity, which indeed seems to increase as "Chawles" developos fresh humours, and the whole programme is received with the heartiest laughter. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

(TB0H OUB OWN COBRKSF02TDZXT.) CAMBRIDGE, March 23. he Proposed Professorship op Angi-Saxon. The Vice Chancellor baa given notice that the trust funds placed by the late Rev. Dr. Bosworth, Rawlinonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford in tho hands of trustees, with the view of founding a Professorship of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge, having been transferred to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University, there is now established in the University an Anglo-Saxon Professorship under the name of the Ehrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon and that the election to this professorship will take place at Clare College Lodge, on Wednesday, the 15th day of May next, at 2.30 p.m.

Th stipend of the professor will bo not less than 500. year. The person to be elected professor must be at the time of his election a graduate of one of the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, or Dublin. The electors are the Vice Chancellor, the Rawlinaonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, the ft! aster of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the Master of Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge, the Begins I'rofessor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, the Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, and the Professor of Sanskrit in tho University of Cambridge. Candidates are requested to send their names to the Vice Chanoellor and to the other electors before Wednesday, the 1st day of May.

The Home fob Lost and Starving Doos. The seventeenth annual general meeting of the members and friends of the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs at Battersea was held, on Saturday, iu the rooms of Royal Socioty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Jermyn-street, the Rev. G. T. Driffield presiding.

The report of Mr. Scoborio, the manager of the institution, who has suoceeded to the post left vacant by the death of the late Mr. James Johnson, stated that during the past twelve months 4200 stray dogs had been either restored to their owners or provided with new homes, this being an increase of 500 over the previous corresponding period. In the same time 14 new kennel, each capable of receiving about 30 dogs, had been built, and many improvements had been made in the airing yards, thus enabling them to give shelter to the large numbers of animals seized by the police under the order of the Chief Commissioner, Members of every class of society, many of them subscribers to kennel clubs, had inspected the promises and expressed their satisaction at them. Although since 1867 there had been 93,000 animals brought to them by the police they had not to the present detected one case of rabies.

Many hundreds of suspected dogs had been kept alive, apart from the fellows, upon prepared food, but the result had always shown them to be free from that virulent disease. A legacy of 800. bequeathed them by Dr. GQson had been received and api lied to the reduction of the mortgage debt, which now stood at 1200., and to clear off this they made an appeal for increased pecuniary suport. The income from all sources, exclusive of the legacy above mentioned, amounted to 1828., of which 1456.

was realised by the sale of dogs. The expenses in the same time bad been 25179., including an item of 580. fornew buildings, kc, the balance in band at the close rf 205. as against 653. a year previous.

On the motion of Mr. Colam, seconded by Mr. Parkinson, the report wns adopted, and the meeting was brought to a dose by cordial votes of thanks to the Committee and the Chairman. The Wabwickshirk Miners. The representatives of the employers and employed met at Nuneaton on Saturday evening and settled the question of the proposed reduction.

Ihe demand of the employers was for a drop of sixpence per day, but the workmen expressed their willingness to accede to a redaotion of half that an ount. The matter was fully discussed, and eventually a reduction of fourpenoe per day in the wages of pickmen wa agreed to, the other workmen to be reduced in proportion. Education ih France, Gerhant, Eko-lawd. Paris, Eonlopie, Amiens, Bonn, Heidelberg, Neuwied, Ilanover Thorough knowledge of French and German traaraatoed. Pupils may study In oue country only, or go from one to another at any time as parents desire.

erma moderate. Wo extra charges. Ages 8 to IU. oee page oi swam, or wrue mr prospecMia to j. Hays- man.

Anal o-a ro Bon one: lege, Finch ley-road, London. Putn accompaufed to runs, Amiens, esc, juarcn ju. ilADVEHTIUKalEaT.1 Colonel Sir James M'Garel Hogg, K.C.B., M.P., Chairman of the Board of Works, entertained that body and a large number of guests some 200 in namber at a banquet given on Saturday evening, in Willis's Booms, in pursuance the annual custom which has obtained since he has held the position of chairman of that body. Amongst those present were Hon F. Stanley, M.P., the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Marquis of Hertford, Viscount Halifax, Lord Penrhyn, Mr.

Alderman and Sheriff Xottage, Sir C. Adderley, M.P., Mr. Childers, M.P., Lord W. F. Seymour.

Lord E. Cecil, M.P., the Lord Mayor, Lord Sudeley, Lord J. Manners, M.P., the Speaker, Earl of Redesdale, Marquis of Exeter, Lord O. Cavendish, M.P., Sir S. North-cote, M.P., Lord Hampton, Lord C.

J. Hamilton, M.P., Lord Gordon, Lord F. Conyngham, M.P., Lord C. Beresford, M.P., Sir J. Hay, M.P., Mr.

Alderman and Sheriff Staples, Mr. Mowbray, M.P., Mr. Sclater-Booth, M.P., the Hon. S. Ponsonby-Faue, the Hon.

A. F. Egerton, M. Sir J. C.

Lawrence, M.P., SiT T. Chambers, M.P., Sir O. Bowyer, M.P., Sir T. E. May, Mr.

Raikes, M.P., Mr. Rod well, M.P., the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. AVilliams Wynn, M.P., Mr. SamUtU, Mr. Onslow, M.P., Mr.

Forsyth, M.F., Sir C. Russell, M.P., Sir F. Colonel Tyrwhitt, Mr. Alderman Cotton, M.P., Mr. Mudford, Mr.

L. Lawaon, Mr. Dalton, Sir J. Btalgette, ie. 1 Sir J.

M'GarklHogo, the Chairman, gave the usual loyal toasts in due course, and they wee honoured with the greatest cordiality. In proposing the toast of "'The Army, Navy, and Reserve Forces, the Chairman referred to the recent war, and said that Turkey, though humbled and crushed, bad not been dishonou red, and though peace had been procbamed, the slate of affairs abroad was still to be regarded with apprehension, and therefore it was incumbent on this country to see the army and navy in the highest possible state of efficiency, and there was little fear that as regarded the army that state would not be achieved while the Koyal Duke on his ritrht had the administration of affairs, for he was giving tho country the benefit of his experience derived both from war and peace (cheers). The Duke of Caubridge, whose name was coupled with the toast, and who was warmly cheered, siud I am at all times gratified when my name is coupled with that of the army, over whioh I have the honour to preside, and all the more so when that toast is received in the manner in which it hue been by so large and inSuential a body of distinguished members of Parliament and others who are assembled at this hospitable board. 1 feel that it would be indecorous and improper on my part if, on an occasion such as this, I should attempt in any way to criticise the circumstances of the present day, beyond stating this fact, that it seems to me that we have a proof before us now of the great advantage that it is at all times in a great Empire to have the services maintained in a very efficient state hear, hear). Whether I address those who are impressed with the idea that we should have war, or those who entertain the idea that we should have peace, I feel persuaded myself that the interests of both are best served by the perfect efficiency of the services (cheers).

As it is with individuals, so it is with great Empires or States. A strong man is ablo to defend and take care of himself, but a weak man cannot. So a strong State, which has efficient services to perform any duties which may be required of them, is always in a much better condition as regards itn neighbours than those whose services are inefficient and weak. Though it is quite true that it not at all times easy to maintain those services at the fullest strength of their establishments, it is at the same time essential that all those points which are necessary if an emergency should arise should be kept up to the highest possible standard. To do so I am perfectly aware that the liberality of the country is required.

It is often stated that the efficiency of the services depends upon those who have the management of them. To a great extent I admit that, and as far (is I am personally concerned 1 am fully prepared to take my sharo of that responsibility; but I think it right to state here, particularly as 1 see myself surrounded by bo many memiiers of Parliament, that it is really more for them than for us to say what the state of those servieos xhall be for, without the means supplied by those who have thut important duty, it is utterly impossible to maintain those fvervice in an efficient btate. Therefore, though it is true that it is not always acceptable or agreeable to have to give a long account of what is needed in the shape of supplies, without those supplies are handsomely kept up it is impossible for those in authority to maintain the efficiency of the services (hear, hear). As regards the present condition of the army, I have so often spoken on that point that I really feel a difficulty in saying anything that I have not already said but 1 may be ermitted to repeat that our services have been going through a transition state, and that we have still not arrived at that point of perfection which we should like to be in. But though we may not be perfect, I think we are still in a very satisfactory state, and I think it is a great misfortune that we should be so severely critised, as we often are when we are told, for instance, that there is nothing good, that everything connected with our institution is faulty (hear).

I venture to think that, other armies may be found to have quite as many faults as our own. Though we try to imitate all good points about tbem, there is a great deal which it is very difficult to imitate where the institutions of tho countries are so divergent from our own (hear, hear). The main difference, of course, consists in this, that there is no other country except the Un ted States of America no European country where conscription does not exist to the fullest extent. In this country we have no conscription, and I do not believe, though there are somo who think that institution should be established here, that it would suit xbe feelings of the country (hear, hear), and, therefore, I for one do not advocate that system. But, at a consequence, I cannot deny that our system must be materially more expensive for conscription is very much cheaper than voluntary enlistment.

We have to go into tho labour market and get what we require atsuoh a rate as will command it, while in other countries military expenditure is very much reduced from the fact of conscription existing. Another consequence is, that we cannot expect to have a very large army and navy, or certainly not a largo army but I think, if we can have an efficient and good army, it is well worth paying for (hear, hear). I venture to hope that, as far as our means will admit, the army over which I have the honour to preside will bo found to be as efficient as it ever was in former times and mainly for this reason, that the fec-ling of loyalty and devotion whioh existed then exists, I believe, even more strongly now (hear, hear), and the feeling of the nation will ever be reflected in the services (hear, hear). If the hearts of the people are in the right place, that feeling is sure to be reflected in the army, aud I feci assured, that should there be any call upon the services, either of the army or navy, they will be found equal to the occasion (cheers). I am gratified to be able to make that statement on every opportunity which is afforded me, and more particularly so on an occasion so important as the present.

I am gratified at the compliment paid to the army and to myself, and I thank you very much (cheers), HKjM Admiral Sir JOHN Hat, M.P., said he spoke under the influence of peace Estimates and of the Vote of Credit, The former showed that the navy was, so far as its officers and men were concerned, in the highest state of discipline, loyalty, and devotion; while the latter showed thut the services the navy might he called upon to perform required more ship, for we were now in the position of having plenty of men ana no ships to put thom in. That matter, however, was now being rectified, for we were buying shins from all nations ready made in this country, and that they would be well manned and commanded he felt oertoin. If the navy were called upon to protect the country, to defend its lines of commerce, or to protect the base of operations of the army, it would not foil to do all the country required (cheers). Major Munho said a few words on behalf of the volunteers. Mr.

C. M. Roche, a member of the Metropolitan Board, proposed "Her Majesty's Ministers," coupled with the name of The Changellob of the Exchequer, who, in responding, said I can assure you that there are few duties which I approach with greater pleasure, but at the same time with a greater sense of my inability to perform it properly, than that of returning thanks for the toast which you have just drunk. The health of her Majesty's Ministers is one whioh you have received, as has been truly and eloquently said by the proposer, not at all in a party and I think he went on to say not even in a political sense. I agree with him in saying that such a toast ought not to be proposed to a meeting like the present, and on an occasion like the present, in a party sense, but I do not agree with him if he meant literally to say that it should not be proposed in a political sense (hear).

For I am thankful to say that in this country the bodies who represent the great interests of tho country are not only capable, but are willing to take their part in the political system of the Empire, irrespective of the mere struggles of party warfare and it is in that, I venture to think, that the great strength of this country resides. I think it is one of the groit elements of the strength of England that we find amongst us numbers of raon who are ready to devote large portions of their time, their strength, and their ability, not to the prosecution of seltiih ends or of individual interests, but to the promotion of the political interests of their country in its largest sense (cheers). Of courxo we know thut there are countiies in which the greatest energies of men are directed to other pursuits which have little to do with the commonwealth. We know also that, amongst those who struggle for the first places in the administration of those countries, there are men who have no interests hut selfish interests at heart but I am thankful to think that this is not the case In England and that there is here an unselfishness and readiness to devote themselves for the public good, which animate the men who take part in such bodies as this whioh I have now the honour of addressing (cheers). I have now the honour of returning thanks for the toast of "Her Majesty's and I cannot help, in performing that duty, noticing one or two things whioh have already been said in tho course of the evening, in particular, 1 could not Help boing struck by some very eloquent and judicious remarks of his Royal Highness the Lommander in Chief, who spoke with just pride a prido which is by no means exasperated of the strength and patriotism of the navil and military forces of this country, and be remarked that if etlect was to be given to the courage and skill in the force which he represents, it couldonly be by the assistance el the Houses of Lords and Commons.

I oould not but think as his Hoya! Highness made the remark, having the Toast list before me. that The Ministers of the Crown," and my own unfortunate self, the Chancellor of the Kxctiequer, were set forth and deliberately chosen as the links which were to connect the Houses of Parliament, who are to furnish the means, with the Army and the Navy," who aie to make use of the means so furnished and it occurred to me that we were placed in a position of great responsibility in consequence of the appeal thus made lo us by his Koynl Highness. Now, I may venture to say this though it ia perhaps anticipating the toast which is to come afterwards, on behalf of tho House of Commons at least, to promise that the most ready and liberal support will always be' given to the military and naval forces of this country, upon two conditions one is that the House of Commons sh dl be satisfied that the use which will be mode of the supplies which they may be good enough to vote shall be a proper and an eificient use, and that there will be no waste in the adminiKtration of tho money; and tho other is that, the policy which it is given to support is a policy in which they can ooinoide (hour, hoar). While I stand in the position which I do between two toasts, one representing the honour of tho country, and the other the wisdom of the country, I cannot but feel reminded of an old proverb which is very current amongst us, which is sometimes misused, but which to my thinking is both a sound proverb, and one which shows its soundness by its capability of being reversed. It ia often said that OrROM OX7B OWN CORRESPONDENT.

PARIS, Stjntuy. The horizon to-day is blaoker than ever. The Solent and aggressive tone adopted towards England by the official Journal de St. PeUrsboitrg viewed as calculated to increase the irritation hich the proceedings of the Russian Government have caused among every class of Englishmen. If ft teletmiphic report of its remarks ho correct, te Journal de St.

Peterabovrtj asserts that if the Prospect of peace be disturbed, the fault lies not with Russia, but with England that Russia, who given the world such striking proofs of her Peaceful spirit, would only be too glad to recall her Jrc-ops, but that England perversely opposes their "eing embarked. The organ of Prince Gortschakoff then proceeds to tell England that she has really no business to interfere "Is the time not come when Fnrfand should be asked hat she really means, since neither Kgypt nor the Suez Canal are in any danger? Is ir that she wants to humiliate uaia, nnd try and make the world believe that she is all Powerful, an I that her will must be law 1 The passage, however, which has created most npreesion here is the following, which is regarded 48 foreshadowing a demand on the part of the Russian Government for the removal of our fleets from the Straits The question for all Cabinets just now is whether any Power, for the mere gratification of her anumv feor, hns the right to raise obstacles to the conclusion of pence whuh all nation ardently desire. Kither England Jill have to rumove from the Straits at the bidding of urope, or else the peace of the world will be at the mercy England." There is no denying that such language from a occupying an official position is calculated to justify the most serious apprehensions. It may, however, be reasonably doubted whether Prince Qortgchakotf, who cannot but be aware of the iew taken by Europe of the encroachments of Russia, would venture in any official document to wow the onus of the existing difficulties 0,1 the English Government, whose action has ered if anything on the side of too much circumduction. There is one Power in Europe beside England whose interests are affected by the creation of a "great Bulgaria," and that is France: there is another Power whose very existence 18 endangered by tho Russian scheme of plunder, ud that is Austria.

It is said here that the tousaian Government is not satisfied at the attitude of France. In the lobbies of the Chamber tt Versailles to-dny it was currently reported that prince Orloff had privately mentioned to M. jVaddington his regret at finding that the French Government seemed indirectly to approve of the Policy of England, and added that he feared that in "onsequence of this "attitude" the Czarewitch oulu have to abandon his intention of paying a 7isit to the Exhibition. The article of the Journal fc St. PeUrsbourg, to which I have adverted above, as also the obiect of much comment and in short the general feeling seemed to be that war between England and Russia is only too probable.

On the strength of a telegram announcing that the Duke of Chartres had arrived at on his way to Bucharest, ingenious Persons built up a neat little story that he was Ound for San Stefano, with a view of putting hnsolf forward as a candidate for the throne of Pplyftria. I disbelieve this on two grounds, 'irst, there is not to be any throne rf Bulgaria," and as the ruler of that Artificial Principality must needs be a docile "totrumeut in the hands of Russia, it follows Bli Russia would not approve of a French Prince hose soldierly aptitudes and well-known independence of character would lead him to shake off the tifctnmels that the very Russified organisation of the country would impose upon him. The second Reason for my disbelief is that the trip of the Duke (' Chartres is susceptible of a far more natural planation. His Royal Highness is, above all things, a soldier. Though still a comparatively yung man, there are few who have seen so much He received his baptism of fire under 'ictor Emmanuel in the Italian campaign of 1859 -he took a leading part and achieved much distinc-tion in the War of Secession in the United States "-under an assumed namo he fought with gallantry against the Germans in Normandy nd on the Loire in 1870-71 He is now a cavalry Jolonel, and the reason for his visiting the battle fjelds where the fate of the Ottoman Empire was Wided appears sufficiently obvious to render it necessary to ascribe to him the strange idea of Visliing to exchange his position in the French rmy for the doubtful honours of a dependant on he goodwill and pleasure of the Czar.

The Ddbats points out that the Treaty of San efano formally settles the question of the Straits jthout any recourse to the authority of Europe. tt The Straits," says the diplomatic instrument, will remain open in time of war and peace to the jrehant ships of neutrals. The Porte can no jger establish a fictitious blockade in the Black ea." 8uch is the text of Article 24. Not a word aid about Europe. It is not probable England subscribe to these conditions.

The status qw pich excludes war vessels from the Straits will no ager possess the same importance as formerly if ht Treaty comes into operation. The Russians "1 have at their disposal the Montenegrin ports in he Adriatic and the Bulgarian station of Kavala in heEgean they will hasten to bring their fleet out the Baltic, where the winter keeps it idle half the year, and they will send it towards JrJ Mediterranean. Hence the right of Russian hi pa of war to leave the Black Sea will become of Jondary interest the question will be displaced. Dthats concludes from this that the maintenance of the status quo concerning war vessels iB not concession to England, and that if England JCftpts Article 24 she will find her maritime power WjMcL That Article, in fact, would lead to vh prohibition of any kind of blockade in the iclc Sea, for there would always be a contest as whether the blockade was real or fictitious. The Station ought to have been reserved for tho Pgress to discuss, but it is not.

The Russian Turkish Plenipotentiaries appear to have decided definitively at San Stefano and. what is more, by Jhe Last Article of tho Treaty the Porte prohibits Jolf the right to raise any objection in the face Europe. In fact, the whole Treaty, as far Russia and Turkey are concerned, may 's said to have already come into operation. Rlance at the San Stefano Treaty will show that divides European Turkey into three pieces east, Juth, and west. That to the east is composed of ient Thrace that to the south comprises jbania, Epirus, and Thessaly while the western is formed by Bosnia and Herzegovina.

By J1 creation of the new Principality of Bulgaria, j.hich covers all the territory comprised between fKean Sea, from Vranja to Varna, from Rustchnk Kavala, ancient Thrace has no longer any communication by land with the two other pieces, hose communications are also cut by the extension Servia and Montenegro. The Ripubliqut Franqaise says there can be 0 doubt that this redistribution of the map Eastern Europe has been inspired by the possi-jtfy of pushing up to Constantinople the troopB, who will form the vanguard of jnidavism and the Russian armies in the Balkan of facilitating the annexation of tuia r-yirus, ana umwii Greece uy or giving Austria the desire to occupy Austria tlie desure to uia and Herzegovina. The moment has lae this plan for the complete dismemberment of European Turkey, but it is evident that San Stefano Treaty foresees, and even prepares way for that contingency. The Rtyublique tSHfaj-te proceeds to remark that if the clauses on jfa point be maintained intact by the Congress, 'u'garia will sonn extend first of all to Adrianople, then to ConBUntinople. It also thinks that the rngdom of Greece will try to withdraw its northern ontier as far as Montenegro and Bulgaria, Will be induced to lay hands on Bosnia and frzegovina No doubt she feels herself gravely ruatened by the Treaty of San Stefano.

Her 'rntica position in Transylvania formerly jrbled her to descend into the plain of Wallaohia, iT to menace the flank of the Russians in the and the Turks in the north. She loses this by the installation of Russia at the Tenths of the Danube, and bv the of protector suzerain which the latter Power assumes rds Rouraania. Servia was formerly, so speak, the vassal of the Austrian h.m- She is now under tha absolute depend- of the Czar. Finally, so long as BoBnia, ich -n projects into the Austrian lrontiers or uroana hv paimatia, was effectively occupied and defended Oh Turks, Austria had no reason to feel uneasy Uftt Biilu hut. fri-rlnv nlm niou vooll four tnr her Tty, for she knows that if she does not take ia, that province, whose direct communications Prea remainder of the Ottoman Empire are sup-ulei Sc' naturaUy absorbed by the Slav Worn Here lieB one danger to Austria, but it woi 1 notWn? compared with the danger she nd 88 6ave wfty 'ne to rectify Consolidate her southern frontier.

The XuePrangaue, in conclusion, reminds Austria t'cin tnusfc nt forget that a century ago she par-tnU the nrst Partition of Poland under lot Con(tin8J 4110 smc tat epoch she has eed to become weaker and weaker TATTERS ALL'S attjbtj a v. The subscription mom wts "jM'nsd 011 Katurdsy afteroorin chiefly lor the purpose fit comparing wasers upon the Lincoln and Liverpool MwtingB, bnt the majority of the business having been transacted tn the City the atten lance was comparatively small at the West-end rendezvous. Several Influential members had not, however, congregated for not Mug, and a few large wagflrs were accrpted alout two or three outsiders for the Cariinlme race, the feature of the business being supplied in the bookln of 5000 to 46 to the colt by Jove Spec, while Cla-cinnatus was aupported lo win a large stake at 50 1. The ouly animal mentioned for the Grand National was Liberator, about whom to 1 was Itooked to small niony, and the two lu must request for the City and Suburban were Speculator and Rosy Cross. Prices LIKCOLN HAMJICAP.

9 to 2aKitidonia (t. A I 13 to lagstCradle ft.) 9 1 Kaleidoscope (t.) 50 1 Camembvrt (o. 100 7 Rosy Cress (t. after 0 sol 0.) 1000 20 Cincinnati (t. t) 100 7 Ithona (t.) 1CO0 10 Fpec colt (t.) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.

5 to 1 sgst Liburatorft) CITY AN1) SPBCRbAN. 1000 to 60agstSpecultor(t.) I 2000 to 70agatRosv Cross (L) 28 1 Sidonia (t) 40 1 Vemeuil (t.) 33 1 Snail (t.) BETTING TN LONDON Sattodat. Business was brisk iu the City uu Saturday, whnn no the leading division of the Lincoln Handicap candid nuuid attention, but several ontsblers wore introduced was better goods than on the previous day. ah at the waa asked for, but st their respective flgunis Tassel, Kali and Toachet wtre comparatively (inlet. Rosy Cross did did to 2 85 so Bstisfactorily as could have been deaired, the chief ause being that a family bereavement Is likelv to keep F.

Archer out of the saddle. Boyne Water was decidedly a better favourite for money for tho Grand National than Liberator, as at one time 7 to 1 was on offer against tbo last named, but after fifty iind been eutrusted to mm on one hand be gradually improved his position, while Citizen travelled well, as did also Ills Lordship. Quotations LINCOLN HANDICAP. 9 to 2ogstSidonia (t. 38 to lagstOhost (U 40 1 Lady Ronald (t.

A 40 1 Doublon (t.) 60 I Oamembort (t. 60 I Qnieksflver (t.) 100 15 Tassel (t. Jc 19 2 Kaleidoscope ft.) 19 2 Touchet (o.) 100 8 Twine the f'laulen (t.) 100 7 Rosy Cross (t.) 100 7 Chevron ft,) 100 7 Ithona (L) 18 1 Cradle (.) 25 1 Adamite (t) 00 1 Suffolk Lad (L) 60 1 Luikpenny (o.) 100 1 Miss Rovol CKAND NATfONAL. 6 to lagstBorne Water (t. 100 to llagstBear (t.) 100 9 Pride of Kildare (t.) 100 6-Jackal (t.) 6 1 8 1 Citizen (t.

8 1 His Lordship (t.) CITY AND SimrRBAN. 8 to lacstrioida (U fe 20 to la-ratCbcTrou (t.) 14 1 Potrarch (t.) 20 1 Belphoebe 20 1 Rob Roy (o.) LINCOLN MEETTNO. PnoortAMin ron To-dat. 2 0 The Trial Stakes. Oue mile.

a Cammed, aired t. woodbrkura 4 aoeTi loots. 3rra a d. loTannl, 4 Dnnrobtn, 3y MODI. I Qnlefe-dlver, 3 jt Teteconibe, 3y (100'.) iNoretnaii, 3y Bonnd to tfln, 3 yrs (1001.) pd Scotch Cable.

3 O00I,) I 3 yrs (1001.1 a fti.iuc- a- la vai.t-o, A ilOBULB-BACB I LATE. hunPea Two miles, over eight Astorof 'lal. 4 yrs Royal 0k 6 yr Tancred, 6 yrs Strike, 5 yrs Don Giovanni. 4 yw a Princess Bon Bon. 4 Little Ba.ra.-e.

6 yn Vaniuard 6 yrs Drumhead, 5 71s a fllieldralc. 4 VM Tilier, yr Pigj. 4 jrs HZ uipj: oyis 3 0 The Batthvant Stakes (Handicap). About six fiirlonirt- dlialslili 8 2 Merry Thought a 7 0 Prlnoosa Ron- 7 Lord Lennox ,3 4 yrs Bon, yrs it 3 Bonly BoUy, 3 7 II Futioml 5 yrs a A 10 PcIIktiks, 4 vrs 6 1 3y 7 Fanny Day. 4 a 6 9 Plevua, 3 yrs 13 Camera, 3 yrs 7 3 Esthetics, 3 ys a 6 9 lliukunt, 3 yi Paid Paramatta, 6 7 3 Monts Carlo, 4 6 8 Bryonia, 3 yrs Paid Nirar, 4 a 7 2 Ham Bluff.

6y 3 30 The Tathwill Plate. Half a mile, straight. Moonshine M0OI.) a Wltohery hy WUberforoo by Queen Mes- Thirsnby Ti-ront, MXH.) sMisir- MissPaUy KMianj a Babylonian MOOt.) by AUitnttons Taurio iloOf.) a Maiiialhil flOOf.) Quoen Eathsi a Peulmw) OOOi. a Virginia (leo; a May IL-0M 4 10 The Ilatk (Handicap). About five furlrmci.

itxalIu. a 8 6 Caramai, aged 7 0 Bum pi. ivy 0 dirt. 3 vrs 8 0 Golden Spur. Ol inker ard 6 12 IroetIruw.3 7 11 Woo.l.uot, 4y a7 0 Ont.nr.n Ball, 4 mb II W.rrl..rl., 3y a 7 9 Wanderer, fiyr a 6 11 Orthon, 4 yri 10 Illy Tie Miner a 7 8 Pardon.

6 yw a 8 9 TlUnUt. 4 vr -Alice. 3 yrs 7 7 by Lord C1U 6 8 Sweet William, a 5 8 Lord Latrn. 3 yr den -Affinity, 4 yw 5 7 Su-ocoTj yrs 4 yrs a 6 6 Hudfl.ras, 3 yrs Dr. Grand flaneur, 7 5 Chrrry.

4 )ts 6 6 Heanii, 3 jti ared a 7 4 IbelMrood 6 4 Don Gloiamd, Dr. Mandarin, 6 yn fUnxcr, ajed 4 yrs 1 Dr. Banokn, 3 yrs i N-'dora, a yrs 4 40 The DODDIKCTON HuXTKBa' HlTP.Dr.E-EACE. About two miles and a nail, nveajtwu hurdlea fiunflower (h bj, 6 Pa.vton. 5 ttb IViok Rnhhi.

4 yrs Royal Tom, 5 yrs The CaianU i.aiuut. agwl I "rim-eta. 4 yrs The Cuckoo, 5 yrs DiLuntkwx, 4 yrs Flying LTN'OOLX, 8ui The foIlowlnB horses hare arrived Alice colt, An Amhntciade, Aiuathyst rally (3 yn), Anriea, Bluac-i: church. Boudoir, llonby Betty. lUhylonUn, Bel Htiien I Ulr (2 ym), Bridget, Caramel.

Cincinnatus, Cnri luv. Cannon Ball, CalllUtr. Cairngorm, CHtvriTurt, dun's pedigree unknown. Devotee. Dunrobin.

TVul. Kttie Deans, Fiuulss, Freebooter, Florentine, Gourm Harry Bluff, Hazlenut, Iuglewood Ranger, Kismet. Lord I La Gitana, May, Mantalini, Marksman, MUsEovtO, MepMsto, Mdllu de In WW inun, Pli-ma, Princess Kon-Kon. Pardon, Pedtcrco. ttone.

ttrryal. PsdrtUlit, Suleiman, fit. Andrews, side Titf.nin, Taurica, Vcrtumua filly. Virginia, Woodbr WiuTior Wundurer. Witchery, ExriCiTED.

Highland Loddlo, Jam Pljg, Macadam, and several others in the morning. Most of tho hunter are urtluod hi the neighbourhood. SELECTIONS FOK THE WEEK, LINCOLN. rms Hajidicjlf. "BporUman" ftTjrllant) Tassol or Bell's Life" (IllfvwJ Sidnnia or TtuiM "Snnrtlnj-mort TiRkjI: "Era" PrV.nehiitonel Hoar Crow, at Lr Tou Qe Taaiel- "PIcM Tawel or WadloWg rwirewentatWo: Ln aad Water (Pronpertrl Sidoula or Tuuchot Vimrtlnit Life Aiwnrl iUTTHVA.N'v bTAKEa.

"SporUnian' Plonia or Bryonia "Ball's Life" Plavna or Bryonia; "Sportlnt Ilaxtilnut ur Mi'iry Thought; Kra "Fanny Oeyar Bryonia; Field" Merry Thought or Lord Lennox "Ijind and water Hazelnut "flikirrina- Lord Lennox or Farneee (Sunday Times Murry Thought or Panny Day. VARBoaotroH Plat. "Sporting an" Mrdora or Cannon Ball; "Bell's -portlru Wood.juest or Wanilerer; "Era" Pardon or Mmlora; Field "-Mwbva or Wod-guett Land and or Cannon Ball "Spnrtlnit; Life WoodQuest or Wanderer; "Sunday XUnoo Wooduueut ur Cannon Ball Br HirnoLS! iLica Plats. Sportsman Tl Zinaaro or Hhsldrate Bell's life "Sheldrake 'RitortiiiK Oazetto Jl Zlnjari or Era Royal Oak II. or AMioital Field" Sheldrake "Land and Water "-Koyal Oak II.

or 3portltii LU" Koyal Oak IL or BheJdriko "Sunday Times Shokbak or Royal Oak IL DoonmcToK HufrrSRS' HtrRDi 8jx.rtj.niiu "-Cuckoo orFlriuiSoolchman Beu'i Lifa" Oaakoo Sporting Ha-totte" "Era 'Flying "Land and Field "-Flying Scotchman or Flviii Llf -Fining Hmitrliina.il- Bund. Scotchman. Trial Stars Mportaroan Woorlhrid; nr "Bell's Llfo Woodhndco or RedouU. KportUC laHtO "-RedouK or Bocnd to Win: woodhrhhte or Punrohin; Field iuickallver SiKirtfog Life Caramel or Oonrolda, LTvTiRPOOL. ORANn National.

"Snortanjjui iVIgilant) Cittnen or Bnyna Water; "Bell's Llfo (Kleyil-Uherator Gazette" (Orusorl Pride of Kildare or Ltlwralor, JtmKal or Boyne Writer: "Hold" Boyne Water or Bear; "Lruul and ywst M'usjnswi lanBrator; "Hporumj Llfo (Augur) Lihtttator; Sunday Tirana (VaUiinnt) Liberal Bl'iusii auorwuan lj ula Life" Hesper or Wtnehilaea "Snort? re or Picealltlt; "Bell's rOJtotte" II Oladlstore; ladlatotw ur Win. "Land and Water "-Piccalilli or Redoubt; Snorting Llftr II Oladiatore or Wlnchllioa Sunday Times AHyre or Win-nhflsna Prisce or Walm'b Cor "Sporteman" Hesper: Snorting Gazette" Twine the Plaiden or Cradle: "Land and Water" Caramel or Instantly Sixirting Life" Wadlotr selected Sunday Kra BSBpsr or rtoraniu TUuaa" Twine The Fisheries. The weather on tho Tay has been most delightful, snd although there has been an utter absence of rain the drought has not reduced the river so much as might have been anticipated, there being sufficient water yet fo? successful angling. The net takes, however, have fallen off at all station, the greater part of the fish are heavy and make somewhat up in individual weight for the lack of numbers. On the Looh the work's eleven salmon from 191b.

to 271b. Mr. H. Corrie, Edinburgh, hod eight salmon from 131b. to 2Slb.

Mr. T. S. Llanuay, Liverpool, had seven salmon from 151b to 321b. Mr.

C. V. L. Forbes, Aberfoldy, had six salmon from 191b, to 291b. Mr.

Lloyd, London, had four aalmon from 121b. to 211b. Mx. Blair, Glasgow, two salmon of lb. and 321b.

Mr. Pinkoov, London, two salmon of 2Glb. and 211b, Mr. W. Maudenley, London, bad two salmon of 271b.

and 341b. Mr. Sowerby had one sulmon of snd Mr. E. James, London, had one salmon of 21lb.

At the west, or Killin end. from 13th to lbth Mr. Sutherland, Edinburgh, had ten salmon of 161b. to 281b. Sir Molyneaux Nepean bod nine salmon of 191b.

to 3611). Mr. Shaw, Edinburgh, had six salmon of 121b. to 231b. Mx.

Carr, Leek, Staffordshire, had four salmon of 141b. to 2Zlb. Mr. Syme, Edinburgh, had four salmon from 161b. Mr.

I'hUip, Stirling, had two salmon of Klb.and Mr.Spiera, of Glasgow, bad two salmon of 161b. and 1 fib. Mr. Hewitt, lilosgow, had one salmon of Mr. Mar.in, Glasgow, one salmon of and Mr.

Moses, London, had one salmon of 1 lb. At from llth lo 14th, Mr. Thomas Gooslay had eight salmon from l'llb to and Mr. J. li.

GouBlay four salmon from 161b. to 1 31b. The total thus killed on the loch was 115 ttahnon of the gross weight of 24581b. On the River lay salmon have likewise been bad in fair number Lord Stormont and others getting 6sh. The Earn is now too low for sport, but a few days ago many fish up to 241b.

ench were had a few kelta are still left in the river. On the Teith several salmon ranging from 151b, to 271b. have been killed. Lochs Ven-nacher and Archray have boen yielding fair sjiort. On the former looh salmon from 101b.

to 191b, have been caught by anglers, and on tho latter from 141b, to 20lb. The 1'weod hasl een showing some average angling Major Colauhoun, Major i 'aton, aud others were among the captors, 'Ihe Spoy has been out of order and swollen considerably, which will tend to wash out the kclts. The angling on the le does uot appear to have been noteworthy, the waters being low and bright, and tho fish consequently shy. The frosts and north-easterly winds hare prejudicially influenced the angling in tho Blockwater, county Cork. First price of salmon at Mallow Is.

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