One of the deaths to which I have referred—that of Sir Blundell Maple—will hit the turf even harder than it hits the world of polities, an the turf has sustained an equally heavy if not a heavier loss in the death of Prince Dimitri Soltykoff, who was laid to rest at Kensal Green yesterday with the rites of the Greek Church. The two distinguished sportsmen were alike consistently unsuccessful in their efforts to win the Derby; but they both had a splendid series of victories to their account. Sic John Maple's turf career began comparatively late, for his father, the founder of the famous Tottenham Court Rod firm of furniture makers, was not easily to be convinced that it was possible for his son to combine success in_ business with devotion to horse-racing. Sir John managed, however, to do it, for the marvellous growth of Maple and Son was certainly due in a large measure to the junior partner, who made money exiough Out of it to spend hundreds of thousand on charity in addition to all that his horses cost him. He gave a hundred thousand to. University College Hospital, which adjoins his shop, and which his been magnificently re-built by means of his charity.
Lord Rosebery's Speeches:
Lord Rosebery has been addressing a great meeting in South London this week on the fiscal question; but. his opponents
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