ENGLISH MILLIONAIRES.

WE publish below a very curious and suggestive list, com- piled for us from the files of the Illustrated London News. That journal publishes every week a paragraph about Wills under probate which is known to be accurate, is suspected to be official, and is, we believe, as regards considerable fortunes, nearly com- plete. At least we miss but one name, that of Mr. Brassey, which was certainly that of a millionaire. This list is extracted from those paragraphs, and contains, we have every reason to believe, the account of almost every fortune exceeding a quarter of a million personalty which has been transferred by death within the past ten years :- Jan. 17, 1863-John Cattley, Esq, Shabden Park, ChIpsteod, Baltic Aier.-.5260,000.

Feb. 21, 1863-H. T. Hope, Esq., Deepdene, Surrey-5300,000.

March 14, 1863-Richard Green, Esq., Shipowner, Blackmail-5350,000.

April 4, 1863-E.Lloyd, Combs House, Croydon-5600,000.

April 11, 1863-W. Hobson, Esq., Harley Street, Cav. Square-5300,000.

June 20, 1863-The Marquis of Lsnsdowne-C350,000.

July 18, 1863 -Joshua Field, Park Crescent, Portland Place-6250,000.

July 25, 1863-3. C. Schreiber, Esq, Henharst, Kent-3350,000.

Dec. 28, 1863-S. G. Smith, Esq., Sacomb Park, Herta-500,009.

Feb. 27, 1861-11. Parnell, Esq., leleworth-5250,000.

March 5, 1864-H. Huth, Esq., ELarley Street-5500,000.

March 5, 1864-J. B. Oppenheina, London-5250,000.

March 12, 1864-The Duke of Cleveland-£500,000.

March 12, 1864-Sir R. P. Glyn, batestate-5300,000.

March 19, I884-A. Saltmorshe Esq., Bill Hill, Barks-5300,0a April 23, 1864-James Muse, Esq, Upper Grosvenor Street-5300,000.

April 30, 1964-Rev. J. Arkwright, Mark Hall, Essex-5400,000.

May 21, 1864-Sir W. Brown, Richmond Hill, Liverpool-2900,000.

Jane 4, 1864-T. H. Mandalay, Esq., of Lambeth-5250,000.

July 2, 1864-Samuel Brooke, Esq, Banker, Manehester-250,000.

July 9, 1864-John Mayne, Esq., Gloucester Square, Hyde Park-£400,000 July 16, 1864-James Kershaw, Esq., M.P.-5300,000.

Oct. 8, 1864-George Beaufoy, Esq., South Lambeth-5250,000.

Dec. 24, 1864-Hudson Gurney, Keswick Norfolk, and St. James'a-51,100,000.

Jan. 14, 1865-3. Bates, Esq., formerly Boston. U.S., lately Bishopsgate St.-5609,009 Feb. 11, 1865-Duke of Newcastle-5250,001 April 1, 1865-R. Burrow, Esq., Ringwood Hall, Derbyshire-R500,000.

April 8, 1865-Duke of Northtunberland-5500,000.

May 27, 1865--Sir Samuel Canard-£350,000.

June 3, 1865-W. G. Prescott, Esq., Threadneedle Street, Banker-£250,000.

June 24, 1865-Marchioness of Londonderry-5400,000.

July 21, 1865-Richard Thornton, Esq.-52,800,000.

July 29, 1864-0. Fantail, Esq., Isieworth, Brewer-5350,900.

Aug. 19, 1865-Panda R&M, Esq., Connaught Piace-£400,000.

Aug. 28, 1865-F. Williams, Esq., Longhorn Hill, Worcester-£400,000.

Sept. 2, 1865-B.. L. Cleave, Esq., Summerdeld House, Warwickshire-5300,010. Oct.14, 1865—Sir B. Heywood, Manehester and Londott—.8400,000.

Oat. 28. 1865—Rey. Canon Moore-8250,000.

Dee. 16, 1865—E. Wheler Stills, Earl, Banker-8250,000.

Jan. 20, 1866—G. R. Elkington, Birmingham, Eleetropleter—£153,031.

June 2.1886—W. H. Lambton, Esq., °heehaw Prnee-8500,090.

June 23, 1866—F. D. Goldsmid, Esq, M.P.-8400,000.

July 28, 1866—B. Gardner, Chaseley, Manchester-8350,001 Sept. 15, 1866—Don Pedro Gonzales de Candamo, Lima-8800,000.

Oct. 27, 1866—J. Ashbnry, Manchester and London-8400,000. '

Nov. 2,1866—T. J. Eyre, Esq., Bath-8350,000.

Nov. 24. 1866 —Peter Arkwright, Esq.. Willersley—£804000.

Dec. 15, 1846—W. H. Goschen, Esq., Merchant—E500,000.

Dec. 29, 1866—T. A. Gibbs. Esq, Lancaster (Jate-8400,000.

Feb. 9, 1867—Humphrey F. Mildmay, Esq., Shoreham Place, Sevenoaks-2400,00).

Feb. 23, 1867—Rsy. Godfrey Arkwright, Sutton Scarsdale, Dorbyshire-8300,000.

April 6, 1867—J. G. Abbot, Esq., Newcastle, Iron and Brass-founder-8800,000.

April 13, 1867—W. H. Sparrow, Esq, Penn, Staffordshire, Ironmaster, 4c-8600,000.

April, 27, 1867—Alex. Cunningham, Esq., £600,000.

May 4, 1867—Charles Hardy, Esq., Chltham Castle, Kern-8500,000.

May 25, 1867—Hollingworth Magn're, Lombard Street-8100,000.

June 1, 1867—Dowager Countess of Jersey-8300,000.

June 1, 1867—John Gott, Esq., Armley House, Yorkshire-8850,000.

July 13, 1867—R, (Artois Pomfret, Esq., Rye, Sussex-8300,000.

Aug. 10, 1867—W. H. Whitbread, Esq., Southill, Bedfordshire-8250,000.

Sept. 7, 1867—W. Orawshay. Esq., Glyersharn Park, Oxon-22,000,000.

Sept. 21, 1867—Duke of Northumberland-8350,000.

Oct. 26,1867—Lord Aveland-8400,000.

Oct. 26, 1867—John Lewis, Esq., London and Paris, Merchant-6500,000.

Nov. 9, 1867—James Aspinall Turner, late M.P. for Manchester-8330,000.

Jan. 18, 1863—John Ames, Esq., Cleveland.. Lyme Regis, Devon-8503,033.

Feb. 22, 1868—Jos. Straker, Esq., Bsnwell, Northumberland-8250,000.

Feb. 29, 1868—John Vickers, Esq., Victoria Distillery-8353,003.

March 7, 1868—Peter Pantie. Rani, Earl, Merchant-2500,000.

March 14, 1868—Samuel Byres, Esq., Armley, Leeds-81,200,000.

April 18, 1868-5. R. Fydell, Esq., Morcott Hall, Uppingham—£250,000.

May 16, 1868—H. Hoalclaworth, Esq., Glasgow-8400,030.

June 6, 1868-1 Josiah 011iyant, Bowdon, Cheshire, Goldemith—£250,000.

June 13, I868—T. Bridges, Sag., Utter, Peahens, Surrey-8330,003.

July 4, 1868—Marquis of Salisbury-8300,000.

Aug. 8. 1858—Sir B. L. Guinness, the great Dublin Brewer-81,100,000.

Oct. 24, 1868—Earl of Abergavenny-8300,000.

/ Oct. 31, 18418—Eszl of Normanton—£700,000.

Nov. 21, 1868—Robert °Ryerson, Esq, Lloyds-8800,000.

Dec. 5. 1868—E. Marjoribanks, senior partner Coats and Co.-2600,000.

Dec. 12, 1868—W. Fox, Bag , Proctor, 8250,000.

Jan. 2, 1869—Don Cristobal de Marietta, K.G.C., Span. Ord. of Char. 111—.8600,000.

Jan. 9, 1869—Lord Ashburton-8250,000.

Jan. 16, 1869—George Barker, Esq., of Standlake, Berks—£250,000.

Jan. 23, 1809-4. Stainforth Beckett, Req.. Dep. Lied. WE., Yorkshire-4350,000.

Mar, 13, 1869—Miss Sarah Waller, Bromley, Kent—£350,000.

Mar. 27. 1869—Joseph Crossley, Esq., Bromfield, Halifax-4900,000.

May 1, 1869—Charles Bell, Earl., M.P., City-8350,000.

May 1, 1839-11. R. Smith, Lombard Street-8300,000.

May 22, 1869—Lord Loconfleld-8250,0000.

May 29, 1869—Anselmo de Arroyaya, Prince's Gate-8350,000.

May 29, 1809—W. Cook, Esq., Boyden Hall, Kent-8603,000.

Jtms 5, 1869—Sir E. Canard-8300,003 in England, also property in NA. Provinces.

June 5,1889 —Samu el Scott, Esq., Cavendish Square-81,400,003.

July 10, 1869—Peter Maze, Esq., Portland Place-8350,000.

Aug. 14, 1869—Sir J. C. Hobhonse. Lord Broughton-5250,003.

Aug. 21, 1869—W. Stevens in Davidson, Banker, St. James's Street-8400,000.

Sept. 4, 1869-5. Randle, Esq., South Ella, Hull-8250,000.

I Sept. 18, 1869—Bobcat Gosling, Esq., Fleet Street-8700,000.

Sept. 18, 1869—E. Giles, Esq., Stook Exchange-8250,000.

Oct. 16, 1869—W. H. Forman, Esq., Pippbrook House, Dorking-81,000,000.

Oat. 23, 1869-5. Matthew, Esq., Burford Lodge, Boxhill-4850,000.

Nov. 13, 1869—W. Edgar, Esq, Piccadilly-8300,003.

Dec. 25, 11369—Mr. Peabody-8400,000.

Jan. 1, 1870--5!arquie of Westminster-8800,000.

Jan. 8, 1870—J. A. Wigan, Esq., Clare House, East Malting, Kent-8330,000.

Jan. 22, 1870—Lord Foley-8250,000.

Feb. 26, 1870—James Mackillop, Esq., Grosvenor Square-8250,000.

March 5, 1870—Don Gregorio de Heir y reran-8500,000.

March 12, 1870—Thomas Fielden, Esq., Wellfield, Crumpse11-81,300,000.

March 12, 1870—Thomas Parr, Esq., Gruppenhall, Hayes —.8500,000.

March 26, 1870—F. Steiner, Esq., Lancaster—£303,005.

April 9, 1870—Lord Derby-8250,000.

April 16, 1870—H. Warner, Esq., Loughborough, Leiceater—£253,000.

May 14, 1870—Jos. Gibbins, Esq., Honadshill, Worcester-8301,003.

June 18, 1870—.1 Robinson, Esq., Spring Bank, Chesterfield-8300,008, June 25, 1870—Sir E. Antrobus-8300,000.

June 23, 1870—E. Wilson, Esq., Rigmiden Park, Westm meland--£350,000.

July 2, 1870--Sir W. Williams, Tregullow, Corawall—.8300,00J.

July 30, 1870—W. S. Barnside, Esq., Nottingham-8250,000.

Aug. 13, 1870—James Du Prd, Esq, Wilton Park-1253,000.

Oct. 15, 1870—W. Thornton West, Rag, Poynder's Hold, Clapham Park-800,000.

Oct. 22, 1870—John Brocklehnrst, Esq., Min3testiold—£333,030.

Nov. 5, 1870—Miss E. Atherton, Kersall Cell—C400,000.

D00, 10, 1870—Thomas Thornton, Esq., Brixton-8903,000.

Dec. 17, 1870—R. Harvey, Esq., Greenway, Davon—£350,000.

Dec. 21, 1870—Christopher Wilson, Esq.-8250,030.

Jan. 14, 1871—T. Broeklehurst, Esq., The Fence, 11aeclesaeld, Cheater—.8600,030.

Jan. 21, 1871—Lord Hotham-8500,000.

Jan. 28, 1871—El. fin. H. W. Cavendish Scott Bontinck, Id. H. Bentinck-4503,000.

Feb. 4, 1871—B. Bacon Williams, Esq., Crown Coart-4600,000. • March 11, 1871—Baron Nathaniel de Rothechild-81,800,000.

April 29, 1871—Mrs. B. Gould, Mordon House, North Corry, Somerset-4250,000.

May 20, 1871—Mrs. Augusta leers Mary Dixon-4100.000.

May 27, 1871—Rev. J. Williams, Trine. Park, Herta-8500,000.

July 8, 1871—Marquis of Hertford-8500,000.

July a 1871--8ir Oswald Mealy, Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire-8350,000.

Sept. 9, 1871—Giles Loder, Esq., Clarendon Place, Hyde Park Gardens-43,000,000.

Nov. 11, 1871—T. G. Gosling, Esq., Portland Plaoe-4350,003.

Noy. 23,1871—Sir R. Murchison-8250,000.

Dec. 23,1871-3. A. T. Smyth, Esq., Cumberland Terrace, STU Park-400,050.

Dec. 30, 1871—Alfred Rayner, Esq., Cotton Spinner, Manchester-8350,000.

Feb. 28,1872-0. Buxton, Esq., M.2.,..-8250,000.

Feb. 28, 1872—S. D. D. Castillo, ChAteau of Cond6—.8600,000.

Feb. 28, 1872—James Foster, Walthamstow—£308,000.

March 9, 1872—James Lewis, Esq., Greenbank, Oldham-8500,000.

March 16, 1872-1 Pease, Esq., formerly M.P.—.C350,000.

March 18. 1872-3. GIllott, Edgbaeton-8250,030.

April 6, 1872—Lord Lonsdale-8700,000.

April 20, 1872—Henry Harris, Esq., Longwood, BIngley, Yorkehlre-8350,000.

April 20, 1872—R. Dykes, Esq., Ellmorie House, Torquay-8250,000.

April 27, 1872—D. Cave, Esq., Cleve Hill, Gloucestershire-1400,000.

May 4, 1872—J. Kerr, Merchant and Shipowner, Greenook-8333,000.

May 25, 1872—R. B. Byrne, Esq., Brabant Court, and Philpot Lane-8433,000.

May 25, 1872-3. Chadwick, Esq., Manehester—£250,000.

May 23, 1872—W. Moir, Esq., Merchant, Liverpool-8250,000.

June 15, 1872—Sir F. Crossley, M.P.—£800,000.

June 29, 1872—Duke of Bedford-8600,000.

July 27, 1872-3. Peel, Esq., 51P.—£300,000.

Aug. 24, 1872—A. Worthington, Esq., Whitchareh, Salop-8250,000.

Aug. 31, 1872-5. Walker, Esq., New Square, Lincoln's Inn-5500,000.

Ten persons, therefore, have expired in Great Britain within the decade leaving more than a million, fifty-three leaving more than a half million, and a hundred and sixty-one leaving more than a quarter of a million sterling. These fortunes are exclusive altogether of fortunes still more numerous and vast invested in laud, and are, for two reasons which we will explain, very con- siderably understated, both in extent and number. They are understated in extent because the official appraisers are bound when estimating the value of a business to be extremely lenient, and concerns really indestructible, or at all events safe for a generation, are taxed as if they were worth only two or three years' purchase. This is perfectly just, because although Mr. Bass's brewery, or Baron Rothschild's bank, or the Times newspaper may be worth fifty years' purchase to their owners, yet other breweries, banks, and newspapers may be worth only two or three, and the same rule must in fair- ness be applied to all. Moreover, the value of brains employed in any great business is so large a portion of its capital that a rigid estimate is impossible—suppose, for instance, that in 1860 one of the Gurneys had been a splendid financier—or would in an immense number of instances involve pillage so gross that succession duties would be suppressed by popular disgust. The estimate for certain other descriptions of personalty—for example, libraries, is usually lenient, an estimate of auction value rather than of real value, and the totals therefore may be accepted as well within the mark. The number, more- over, is no indication as to the number of such fortunes in existence. Men have been accumulating since history began, but the scale of accumulation has varied exceedingly from age to age. We have no apace for the inquiry just now, but we think we could prove that no private individual in our day, not even the late Baron James Rothschild, ever possessed such a fortune— estimating it by the quantity of wheat it would buy—as one or two of the Roman nobles, while just before the discovery of America great fortunes were in apparent amount ridiculously small. There is strong evidence to prove that Charles V.'s bankers, the Fuggers, whose wealth made them Princes with sovereign rights—their heir is defying Bavaria at this minute to expel him as a Jesuit because he is a mediatised Prince—never had more than a quarter of a million, while in 1750 scarcely any Englishman could have produced half a million, perhaps not one. The new scale, under which a man with less than a million is, among rich men, quite poor, and men can be quoted worth twenty millions, has only been in force twenty years, and most of the new millionaires have not had time to die. We ex- pect, should we be able to repeat this record ten years hence, to find it enormously enlarged, both in scale and number, venturing to predict confidently that it will contain at least a hundred fortunes exceeding a million sterling, the figure which we may in 1872 accept as the lowest at which a mercantile or financial grandee could begin to think that he should by and by be almost a prosperous man. If the account should then, under some new law, include the landed fortunes, it will be swollen out of all knowledge, for no truth about English property is so certain as this,—that no man in England can become wealthy without part of his wealth going to the owners of the soil, and especially to three individuals, the Marquis of Westminster, the Duke of Port- land, and Lord Portman.

With all these allowances, the list we have given is still a curious and almost startling proof of the wealth which is accumu-

lating in these Islands, and which if it does not tempt conquest—think what a British indemnity would be !—may carry us through

long seasons of serious calamity. 'rho well-known names in that list are as few as the plums in a poor man's cake. There are men in the City, no doubt, bankers, and loan dealers, and brokers, men whose interest it is to know the millionaire peerage, who can recognise every name, and can tell you how the money was made, but to the mass of our readers the majority will be as unknown as the lady who this week allowed a fortune of a quarter of a million to be forfeited to the Crown. Seven in ten of them will be known only to a locality, two in ten only to a family circle, and one in ten may be called absolutely unknown. There is one in particular about whom almost any group of educated men would affirm that his very name was impossible, and could not exist. Very few of them outside the Peerage were in any way conspicuous, or suspected by the general public of being more than ordinarily wealthy. They lived quietly, occupied themselves in supervising some large business, and let their fortunes grow. In quiet streets in London, and the great cities, especially of the North, there are hundreds of such men, "rich beyond the dreams of avarice," but leading quiet, unostentatious lives, making no boast of their wealth, spending or saving it as it seems good to them, but in neither case demanding from the community the kind of recognition and deference which on the Continent is accorded to exceptional riches. Clever aristocrats snap up their daughters for their sons sometimes, or their sons for their daughters, but that is nearly the sole privilege or suffering which marks them out from the nick of well-to-do middle- class men. They are very seldom extravagant, except in a quiet way, spending, for instance, enormously on a hobby like fruit- culture—we should like to know the real cost of the peaches annually consumed in England—though they are apt to contract a taste for a practice which is really an odd method of investment, but looks superficially like an extravagance. The millionaires of to- day, like the old Italian nobles, are maniacs for collecting. They fix, often by accident, on some object, and ransack earth in search of it. The present form of this mania is not the Horace-Walpole form, but a new one, that of collecting articles which, besides their other merits, will keep and sell again. A quiet man whose name is unknown three streets off will produce to his intimates a collection of sapphires no crowned head could rival, and which he has bought he scarcely knows why, except that sapphires are beautiful and indestructible, and as " good " as most bonds. Another tells you, without any idea of ostentation, that he has "most of the jade that was in the Winter Palace," say about sixty thousand pounds' worth. A third has plates on his ground floor worth half a plum, while a fourth has a passion for pictures like that of Mr. J. Gillott. Nobody ever hears of these purchases, but if at the other ends of the earth a sale is going on of objects they covet, they hear of it, and somehow the articles make their way to England. The concrete wealth, the "portable property," as one of Dickens' characters calls it, which is in this way shovelled upon our shores every year is almost incredible, as is the growth of the desire for purchasing costly and beautiful things. The dealers who supply them multiply like the millionaires, they wander everywhere—Italy and Japan, for example, are at this moment being searched as it were with microscopes—and they always find a market. Hidden away in plain houses or shops which seem to be full of rubbish are treasures that would have delighted Louis Quatorze. People repeat with a smile the phrase attributed to Blucher and to Platoff that London would be "a splendid place to plunder," but they do not realise to themselves what the amount of plunder would be, or what would be the loss in another great fire, or how high and broad the num of wealth deposited each year in Great Britain is gradually growing. Most of our readers have wandered down the Rue de la Paix in Paris marvelling at the jewellers' shop - fronts. They would marvel a good deal more if they could see the interior of some very quiet shops and very unobtrusive houses, looking as if their owners might be thankful for a profit of three pounds a week. What would a casual country cousin appraise Hatton Garden at in fee- simple, and what would an experienced Amsterdam Jew gem- cutter give for it?

It may be said, indeed always is said by the educated virtuosi who begin to swarm in London, that the millionaires waste money in these purchases, but we doubt if that is the case. Now and then you hear of a rich man who has spent a plum on rubbishy pictures, or still more rubbishy manuscripts, or who will buy jewels by candle-light, and so on ; but as a rule, the millionaires take good care of themselves. They spend a little in acquiring their education, but they have clear brains to help them ; they are jealous of their reputations for business ability, and they learn the values of cameos as they would of grey shirtings, and so are very seldom "done." Sometimes they become marvellously acute. Mr. — is a new man, but just try to pass a forgery on him for a Petitot ; and Mr. — looks very stupid, but the cleverest Jew dealer in Venice will not get out of him sixpence more than its value for the piece of lace which to other eyes is a piece of lace,

but which, when it comes home, Mr. Heywood will verify as matchless. It is the would-be connoisseurs who are "done," not the millionaires. Nor do we perceive that they deprave taste very much, as they are accused of doing. They are shocking archi- tects, no doubt, very often, chiefly because they enjoy the only bit of creative work they can indulge in so much that they grow impatient " of scientific advice ; but taste, as far as we can learn, does not grow worse, but better, as wit- ness the great improvement in furniture, the extinction of costly tawdriness in dress, the inconceivable improvement in glass and porcelain, and the sadden enthusiasm for the Oriental style of colour, a style as remote from the vulgar English taste as the design of a modern dinner-plate is from the willow-pattern. It takes time to cultivate the eyes of a race like ours, which is not taught by its climate to fly from garish brilliancy ; but it is not from this aide that we dread the accumulation of wealth in Britain, but from a very different one. Great wealth now gives so much, so much even of intellectual enjoyment, so much freedom, variety, and pleasure to life, that even the wise and good begin to hunger for it, and to postpone to its acquisition the efforts which alone can advance the world. Money is not the root of evil only by any means, but still which spiritual truth of the few we have,— say, for example, the duty of sympathy,—or which proved political doctrine, or which science, or, to go lower, which proposition in Euclid, would the nation sell for another million sterling a year?