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Miss Robertson, &c. Concluding with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS: Mr. A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. • THIS EVENING, at 7, OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs George Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs L Murray. At 8, THE NIGHTINGALE: Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, Miss Furtado. Mrs Alfred Mellon, Miss Eliza John stone, Mrs Caulfield, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr G. Belmore and Mrs Leigh Murray.. LYCEUM THEATRE. Tins EVENING, at 7, CORRUPT PRACTICES. After which, CHILPERIC: 'Messrs M. Mar us, (I Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, and M. llerve ; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Ro m:ir.eni, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Mull. ROYAL PRINCESS S THEATRE TIII3 EVENING. at 7. AFTER DARK: Mr Vining. Followed by THE STET E 1 S OF LONDON: Mr Vining; Messrs Philips, Ashley, Stuart; Rignold, Taylor, Lseson, Eburne ; Mesthnies Barnett, Stoker, Brewor. 11.0YAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress.Mrs:Swanborough THIS EVENING, at 7.:;0. A'SIONG TIIE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And INO. Concluding with THY CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 8; Saturday Mox nings at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s. enRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZJOLOGIOAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, Mi. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. la. Box-office open fromll to 4. k.?,.,1 , 1 -7 . A , Tilt i 3 - P' 6l3 'NUR , 4 . 4!3,--/,,,,,,,--1 , LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 1870. Sul JOSEPH lIAwLEY has astonished the sporting world by a sweeping proposal of turf reform. The baronet has entered as a fellow-labourer in a cause which already numbers many willing, . but despairing advocates. For years "past the press and the public have been shocked by the doings in connection with the " national sport," and have vainly called for a change. But hitherto there have been no signs that the period during which an oppressed people has been delivered into the hands of a gang of swindlers is coming to an end. Quito tho reverse; the practices which have made horse-racing in many quarters one of the most disastrous of amusements have attained unpre cedented proportions during the last few years. Nor is such a result to be wondered at, for horseracing may be rendered undoubtedly one of the safest and most convenient instruments of roguery that ever was designed ; and whilst the Jockey Club in the first in stance, and Parliamentin the second, allow the profes sionals the quiet and easy enjoyment of their trade, it is just as rational to expect self-reformation amongst thieves as among the lower class of turfites. It will be wise, too, not to be over sanguine that Sir JOSEPH HAWLEY will secure what the public voice has so long vainly demanded. Last year ho proposed a salutary change in the Jockey Club rules touching two-year-old racing, and was con strained to put up with a miserable compromise. One thing, however, is certain. If Sir JOSEP H HAWLEY cannot induce the Jockey Club to adopt his scheme, the intervention of the Legislature will be the only remaining resource. The baronet is one of the few remaining inrfites who possess station and character. lle is one of the largest stud owners, the winner of four Derbies, and of great popularity, which a late untoward event has not diminished. The rejection of his proposals will be tantamount to a formal declaration that horse racing is a profession among whose members rogues may be numbered. Sir jOSEPII . S suggestions are calculated to be very beneficial. If they do not eradicate turf swindling, they cannot fail to greatly diminish its extent and moderate its flagrancy. They will not realise the common wish in some quarters that racing were classed with bull-baiting and prize-fighting, and reformed off the face of the earth ; but they are prac cal, and compatible with the continuance and pros perity of a sport which seems to be so very dear and indispensable to a large proportion of the com munity. The baronet, in the first place, will ask the Jockey Club at Newmarket early in the year to appoint a committee to inquire into the state of the turf. To this committee he will submit his series of reforms. The most important of the list, and one to which not the shadow of a logical objection can be taken, is the proposal that no bets shall be paid upon a horse which does not start. If this proviso alone be adopted, a fell blow will be struck at the odious system of " milking." At present nothing is more common than to enter a horse for a race, to force it into a favourable position in the betting, to bet against its chance while the public is confidingly supporting the animal, and then to withdraw it altogether from the race. Under the present system the public loses its money upon a horse which was never intended to run. To back one's own horse to win is risky ; to back one's own horse to lose is obviously a sure means of gain, and hence its popu larity. If no bet were payable unless the horse started, this source of profit would be cut off. It is true, indeed, that actually starting animals which are not intended to win is far from un common ; but this is a somewhat more hazardous and less favourite expedient. Next in importance are the proposals directed against handicaps and two-year-old racing. Upon the former, the branch of racing which affords the greatest facilities for dishonesty, Sir JOSEPH would impose some salutary restrictions. He urges that no public rewards should be given in handicaps, and that no horse under four years be allowed to compete for such a race. This latter proviso will shut out those " dark " three-year-olds which are now smuggled into the list of weights at an impost much below their merits, and which accordingly often carry away prizes for which they com pete at an unfair advantage. A young horse of promise is kept out of public sight, handicapped at a light weight, and wins easily. Nothing is more com mon now ; but once restrict handicaps to horses of four years and upwards, and it will be extremely difficult to get in an animal whose merits are wholly unknown. Beyond these stipulations, the baronet would have no flat race whatever contended for between the 15th of November and the 25th of March, and no two-year-olds allowed to run before the Ist of September. Thus two-year old racing would be confined to two and a half months of the year—a salutary measure which must do much both to prevent the cruelty of severely tasking young animals beyond their strength, and to put a stop to the trickery of which the short races are so productive. Of these and certain other suggestions to be found in the list, it is saffi cient to say that whilst they aro well calculated to reform the " system of simple gambling," which th e "national sport" now is, they aro also calculated to arouse prejudices and alarm interests of groat influence in the Jockey Club. It would La rash indeed to speculate on the success of such a scheme. But if it do not succeed, the plea for the intervention of Parliament is complete, and no considerations about improving the breed of THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVESING, JANUARY 29, 1870 horses, or other such fictitious arguments, ought to ba allowed to stand in the way. THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S address to his• consti tuents at Exeter in all probability closes the series of Ministerial speeches before the meeting 'of Par liament. The leading impression to be derived from the aggregate of this Government oratory is a negative one. The Ministers, Cabinet and subordinate, who have favoured their constituents with " extra- Parliamentary utterances," have been very successful in keeping back what it would not be prudent to reveal. There has been no indiscretion. Seldom, indeed, has the House of Commons assembled with a more indistinct notion of what the business of the session will really be. We know that there is to be a Land Bill which will not subvert the " rights of property;" there will be an Education Bill, of which Mr. FOUSTER expects much and Sir JOHN COLE-. RIDGE next to nothing; the Ballot will be intro duced some time before the next general election ; the grog shops will be brought into order somehow; married women will receive a little of the attention for which they have so long waited; and there will be another try at getting rid S of University Tests. Really, the members of the Government who have enlightened the nation have managed matters very well. With the exception of a hint at the nature of the Education Bill, they have not divulged the least clue to the character of the mea sures to be submitted next session, and the different speakers are contradictory as to the probable date by which certain of the coming changes will be completed. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S speech is marked by even greater reticence than those of his predecessors, and yet it is not without interest. He vigorously pounded the Opposition journals and speakers on the dockyard question; but those unfor tunates so sadly blundered in their unhappy attack upon the Government, and received such severe treatment in consequence, that it may be merciful to leave them in peace. Admiral ELLIOT'S effusions in the Standard were the tze plus ultra of political igno rance and imprudence. Tho replies of Mr. CHILDERS and Mr. OTWAY dispose of the question. It really is a matter of fact that the Conservative Administra tion discharged more dockyard men than their suc cessors, and therefore the charge brought against the present Ministry is highly unjust. Tho manoeuvre attempted by certain minor members of the party in respect of the dockyards can be compared for impru dence only with Mr. STAVELEY HILL'S talk about reciprocity, and the famous attack upon Mr. BRIGHT, by Mr. GARTH, Q.C., M.P. for Guildford. Such weak procedures only display a lamentable lack of substantial policy. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL gave the Exeter electors the usual jubilant review of the past session. Of this we can only say that as another session is com mencing, we shall probably, to cur extreme comfort, hear no more of the great things which the Liberals did in 1860. Sir JOHN opposed his great brother lawyer, Sir ROITNDELL PALMER, on the subject of married women's property rights ; and his open declaration respecting the present barbaric state of the law gives rise to the hope that an injustice will soon bo remedied, and that women will be allowed the full control of their own inheritance or earnings. Past proceedings in Parliament have decided that it should be so ; with this, as with many other questions, all that remains is to find an opportunity to get through the routine work of passing a measure. The declaration on University Tests, too, va sans dire. Sir JOHN was very angry with the Lords for rejecting his bill last year, and he makes no secret of his satisfaction that their lordships must suffer the scorpions of 1870 for having withstood the whips of 1860. The Upper House contemptuously threw out a permissive measure last session. This year, or next at latest, they „will be I confronted with a bill which will provide no option on the part of the colleges. Lastly, the SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S statement on education is another item of testimony that the League scheme is not the scheme of the Government. The utmost the Birmingham school can hope for is a compromise which will give them a fair share of power in the towns. It is clear that. the Government thinks education without school fees to be thoroughly incompatible with justice to the existing organisation. TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION IN LONG-ACRE. THIS DAY. The most extensive fire that has occurred in the neigh bourhood of Long-acre for some considerable time past happened this morning (Saturday), about 3 o'clock, and in a comparatively brief space of time laid in ruins property of great value. The premises in which the disaster occurred were seve ral floors high, of cousiderale depth, and abutted upon a row of tenements in an exceedingly narrow thoroughfare, termed Nottingham-court, in which over 100 persons re sided. The lower part of the main building, which had a frontage in Castle-street, was tenanted by Messrs. J. and G. Bell, the potato merchants, of Covent Garden Market, and the other part as a coach body repairing and painting shops. Police-constable 384, of the C division, it ap pears, in passing along his beat, noticed smoke pouring out of the side windows of that part of the building belonging to the Messrs. Bell. lie at once gave an alarm by springing his rattle, and sent off for proper assistance, but in less than ten minutes over 5,000 baskets became ignited, as well as 500 sacks of potatoes. It then became apparent that a conflagration, and one of no small magnitude, was inevitable, and it seemed ques tionable whether any of the houses in Nottingham-court would be able to escape the ravages of the flames. To give a:description of the fearful scene that took place, even before au engine had time to arrive, would be itrpossible ; suffice it to say, that men, women, and children, upon finding that the back of their houses were in flames, either jumped out of window or ran in a state bordering upon frenzy into the street, and had to wade nearly knee deep through the water. With all possible expedition the engines from Chandos street, Holborn, Farringdon-street, and the more dis tant depots arrived, under the command of Mr. Bridges and Mr. Palmer, the chief officers of the City and West end districts. Mr. Superintendent Swanton was also early in arriving with the London Salvage Corps. Not a moment's delay tookplace before the firemen and the Lon don Salvage Corps went to work, and copious streams of the opposing element were thrown by four of Shand and Mason's land steamers upon the flames, but in spite of which they continued to travel, and when the roof fell in, which was within half an hour after the first discovery, the fire rose at least 30 feet into the air, illuminating the whole of the metropolis and bringing out in grand relief not only the steeples of the west-end churches, the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, but also the venerable cathedral of St. Paul's. At the same time several of the poor creatures' houses in Nottingham-court were blazing away with full vigour, and had it not been for the services rendered by Mr. Superintendent Thomson and In spectors Brennan and Arnett, it is quite probable that some of the poor people would have lost _their lives in their endeavour to save their humble pro perty. Carts, vans, and wagonettes could be seen in the midst of the flames, but no ono was able to remove one of them, and they quickly succumbed beneath, leaving nothing behind them but the iron tires and axletrees, and even they were reduced to misshapen masses. Eventu ally the firemen and Salvage Corps managed to get the flames subdued. The whole of the premises of Messrs. Bell are gutted; two houses in Nottingham-court are burned out, and several others are seriously injured. The origin of the fire is unknown. The clipper barque Acton, Captain Parker, one of the White Cross line of packets, trading between Lon don and Natal, owned by Messrs. Pothonier, Tilsley, and Co., of London, has just arrived from Mauritius, after an unprecedented passage of 69 days to the entrance of the Channel. She left Mauritius on lith November, passed St Helena on 13th December, and arrived at Scilly on the 22d January, having been detained six days outside through contrary winds. it is not expected that the Convocation of the pro viuee of Canterbury mill meet for the despatch of business on Wednesday, February 9th, according to arrangement but that it will be adjourned for two or three weeks in con sequence of the illness of the Archbishop. Some difficulty seems to be experienced in finding It bishop for the vacant see of Sierra Leone. Dr. Massing to whom it was offered, has refused it, and, So it is said, have other clergymen. It is worth £9OO a year £5OO a year as colonial chaplain, and £4OO from tho Colonial Bishoprics Fund. It is stated that the directors of the reconstructed European Lifo Assurance Mee have determided that, in the case of Government employds, where the guarantee premium does not exceed £1 per cent. per annum, if a policy for the amount of the guarantee be effected, they will make the guarantee without cost. Blackwodd for February. (NEW NUMBEE-JUST OUT.) A more than usually brilliant and interesting number of Maga is the one just oat for Feb ruary. Cornelius O'Dowd is himself again, to the delight of us all, and discourses, among other things, upon a matter iu regard to which he himself is great amongst the great— namely, Chess, in re " Gambits." A fourth instalment is given of each of tha two serial stories now running, as it were, neck and neck, in Blackwood, to wit, " Earl's Dene" and " John." Colonel llatnley (is it not ?) contributes a second portion of his sparkling record of " The Opening of the Suez Canal." There are two solid " padding" articles among the contents of the number, one on " University Tests," the other ou " Democracy beyond the Seas." The " political" is a slasher— under the suggestively cut and thrust title of "The Coming Session." Added to this, there are two rather remarkable supplementary papers of merely a page or so each of them—one a letter, the other a Postscript. The Letter, being ad Iressed to Maga by the noble author of the Comedy of "Walpole," is a graceful and unanswerable vindi cation of his " Employment [in that play] of Rhymed Verse in English Comedy." The Post. script—finishing up the February number of Black wood—is on eto "Lord Byron and his Calumniators." Brief though it is, it is more of a slasher even than the "political" already referred to. The writer, however, in one of his incidental allusions makes an absurd slip of the pen—absurd, that is to say, to all readers well "up" in Dickens—where he says that Mrs. Stowe's elaborate eulogy ofTruth (in her new and nasty book) reminds him of " Mr. Chadband's discourse in ' Bleak House,' on the same subject, delivered over the unhappy Tom All-Alone' " meaning Jo from "Tom- All-Alone's." TOIYN TALK. (From the Western Mail of this Morning.) FRIDAY EVENING. As more than a whole twelvemonth has now elapsed since the present Ministry was inducted into office, the frequenters of clubland are tempted to consider how far the members of the Administration have realised the ex pectations raised on their formation into a Government. A year is a tolerably good test to be applied to the capabili. ties of any 84 of Administrators. And how far (it is reason able to ask at this moment) have her Majesty's present advisers borne the application to them of that crucial test —a six months' session followed by the six months of a long vacation ? As a dispassionate observer, I cannot hesitate to assert at once that, judged by their increasing unpopularity, several of them have failed egregiously. Lord Clarendon, it is true, has gone on at a steady jog -trot, and occupies pretty much the same position in public regard that he occupied a year ago. Mr. Gladstone's capacity for work has only been more conspicuously demonstrated than ever, since he assumed the supremely responsible post of First Lord of the Treasury. Mr. Bright —re. garded as a leading horse in the Government team after kicking over the traces two or three times, and once getting the bit fairly between his teeth, has latterly not only shown himself to be a little less skittish and restive than of old, but has very recently given evidence of his being, at last, tolerably well broken into harness, and ready even when there is up-hill work to be done, to press for ward, well into the collar, with the steadiest old ministerial hack amongst them all. Having said this, I have really said everything in the way t f commendation. Fur—look at the rest of them ! lies Lord Hatherley, for example, justified by his labours as a law reformer his selection, in preference to the most brilliant and the most popu lar man upon the whole bench (meaning the Lord Chief Justice cf England), as the Lord High Chancellor? Has Lord de Grey and Ripon relieved himself, iu any way from the charge of being nothing else than a nonentity ? Has Lord Kimberley contrived by any means to give good reason for the retention of his preposterous office, meaning the office of Lord Privy Seal? Has the awfully increasing pauperism-1 won't say of England, but of London alone— given the smallest token of abatement under the benign regime of Mr. Goschen, at the Poor-law Board ? Has Mr. Cardwell worked a single wonder of any kind--has he won for himself anything else than un popularity—since he became Secretary of State at the head of the War Department ? Then, as to the Indian Secre tars ship, it surely would be difficult to define the particular advantage accruing to our Asiatic possessions from the combined labours of the Duke of Argyll and Mr. Grant- Duff, his Grace's under-secretary. According to Mr. Ber nal Osborne's complimentary epilogue, only the other dry at Dublin, during the private theatricals before the Lord Lieutonaut, a particular charm—of course—has been added to the graceful hospitalities at Stravvberrry Hill and at the Secretary's lodge in Phoeuix-park, by Frances Countess Waldegravo. Not a doubt of it! but, as to any beneficial influence exercised by her husband, Mr. Cleichester i l l oi tescue, towards the mitigation of the horrors el Fenianism, or towards the diminution of the number of agrarian outrages —how about that ? No one, ag du, disputes the conciliatory geniality of Lord Granville as Go vernment leader in the House of Peers; but who is there who would venture to assert that there is anything like con fidence reposed in the soundness or in the vigour of his policy as Colonial Secretary ? As for Mr. Lowe, he may yet happily be enabled, it is true, to cover all his sins as a financier with the condoning efficacy of that immense windfall of a surplus of X 6,000,000, which the Ministerial optimists are just now prophesying he will produce, like another conjuring trick, out of his annual Badget. But, even that grand coup, if it comes (as, pray Heaven, it may), will never redeem the forestalling of the year's in come by means of his last budget from the charge of trickery, any more than the promised surplus will re lieve the Chancellor of the Ex.cliequer from the person al odium earned by him all last session, as the gratuitously impertinent snubber of even the least aggressive and the most courteous of deputations. Another Cabinet Minister or two I have yet to specify. There is, for ex ample, one whose sole claim to the Home Secretaryship, a year ago, among profane outsiders, appeared to be the cir cumstance of his patronymic having been changed three times. That being about the sum and substance of what any one had to tell about Mr. Bruce immediately on the announcement that he and nobody else had been elected by Mr. Gladstcne for the delicately -responsible office of Secretary of State for the Home Department. His inter ference with the cab regulations of the metropolis I re ferred to last week as simply vexatious, while his auto cratic acts in regard to the Convict Department are, in two or three instances, startling enough to set at defiance anything at all in the shape of precedent. Officers but of yesterday Ave been promoted over the heads of other officers of long standing and of the ripest experience -the promotion, in one instance, being all the more remarkable because of its having been decided upon in direct defiance of the deliberate recommendation submitted to the Secre tary of State by the Board of Directors. As Postmaster- General, the Marquis of Hartington will have the glory of inaugurating in his time the sonduct of the telegraphic system by the servants of the Crown—the chief merit of this important change apportainiug by right kewever, to Mr. Scndamore. Instead of expansion, contraction is the main object apparently aimed at by Mr. Childers, as First Lord of the Admiralty. Hence the throb of labour has been dying down into silence, here and there in the vast and complicated system of the dockyards of England. The word that has gone out from our administrators is, that everything must be sacrificed to economy, even (shall I ay it ?) efficiency ! This is the retrospect which-will have to be lightly touched in couleur de rose by the Hon. Captain Egerton and Sir Charles Dilke, the mover and seconder of the Ad dress in the House of Commons. Happily, the past can always be slurred over at these times, in the very natural eagearness evidenced to sketch, in yet more roseate colours, the opening vista of the future. The selection thus made in the House of Commons of the mover and seconder of the Address is regarded by every one as eminently judicious. There is just now on view at 62, Cheapside, the exqui site Allegorical Picture, by which Sir Noel Paton won from her Majesty the accolade of his knighthood. It a master piece that would have captivated the admiration of 01l John Bunyan. For it is the sublimating at a single glance, in ono inimitable work of art, of the whole scheme of his " Pilgrim's Progress. Christian is here ssen at the las t gasp, on his knees, his hands clasped, the good fight fought, the valley of the shadow of death just traversed—touched by the holy angel, half-skeleton, half beatific vision—his dying eyes looking beyond the veil, above the tomb (with the celestial light shining full upon them), into the super natural glory ol the Heavenly Jerusalem. The painting is altogether a resplendent avid 'nee of Sir Noel Patoa's genius as an artist and as a poetical dreamer. It is a viable prayer. Wherever the picture hangs, the place becomes at once a sanctuary. Not an inch of the canvas but de serves an almost microscopic examination. The mere details of the composition are, many of them, simply marvellous. The nimbus round the head of the Angel of Death, the rusted aria' ur of the Knight, the jewelled inoese with the head of the Redeemer in it, th 3 spider and its broken cot web, the fluttering butterfly suspended in mid-air, the lily and the seeded weeds beside it, the trembling and emaciated hands of the Christian warrior,hut above all, his breathless enraptured face, lit up with the glory of the heaven that opens to his view—all these are really wond, rful in the mere manipulation of them. The effect of the work as a w1.,1e is sue!, as entitles the producer of it to our fullest admiration. No wonder the Queen expressed her's by knighting him. Eighteen hundred guineas have been declined very recently for this picture by its present pos sessors. Under their auspices the work (the title of which, by the way, is Mors Janua Vitce) is being engraved in the highest style of the now almost obsolete art of line engraving. . . Touching still upon matters of art, let me repeat to you an anecdote I lit upon only the other day i B)1713 in re ference to Mr. Story' admirably life-like memorial statue of George Peabody, now adorning the precincts of the Royal Exchange hero in Loudon. Up to the time of its production the artist and the philantropist had never met. Prior to the very first sitting being given the sculptor pre pared a cough clay model of a figure—the raw material, as it were, out of which the likeness was immediately after wards to be worked inform and features. This rough clay model was, as usual, covered over loosely with a damp cloth. On Mr. Peabody's entering the room, after a little conversation with the sculptor, the latter suggested that his visitor should go and sit down just exactly in any way he himself pleased. On his settling himself comfortaDly in his chair, the cloth was removed from the rough draft of the model. • The attitudes were simply identical! And, on Mr. Story's directing his sitters attention to the coin cidence, Mr. Peabody added—what renders the incident doubly interesting, while it tends to enhance the value of the statue as a memorirl—that the pose of the figure was his own usual and favourite attitude when seated. Referring to memorials—having myself but freshly re turned from a survey of the two most wonderful tombs in the whole world, ono ancient, in fact a sump, the other modern, and in one word matchless; the former the tomb of Cecilia Metella, on the Appian ay, at Rome ; the la ter the gorgeous and glorious tomb of Napoleon the Great, under the dome of the lnvalidel, at Paris-1 cannot but ask with a sort of impatience, when, at what remot,3 period of the future, it may be at all likely that the old Duke's monumental tomb will be finished at St. Paul's ? Is its completion relegated to the Greek Kalends, or to what the yokel in one of Richard Jones's farces called, periphrastically, next-never-come-tide. A curious fact is rather vividly recalled to mind by the magnificent collection of old and modern Masters now on view at the Royal Academy—to wit, the frequency of replicas in regard to famous masterpieces. Two instances alone I need here specify— the "Blue Boy" of Gains borough, and Sir Joshua Reynolds' idealised portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the "Tragic Muse," the latter of which is among the treasures of the Dulwich Gallery, the replica of it, here sent to the Royal Academy, being the property of the Marquis of Westminster. A generation has passed by since the late Dr. Paris brought out (anonymously) his charming schoolboy treatise, entitled "Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest." Latterly, it would almost seem as if the fashion were among our learnel professors to reverse this alto gether—science in earnest making philosophy in sport. To the late Sir David Brewster the world was indebted for both of those singularly beautiful and ingenious toys, the kaleidoscope and the stereoscope. Children big and little have now reason to thank Sir Charles Wheatstone for another toy, equally beautiful and ingenious—moaning the chameleon top, a sort of pirouetting rainbow, a very marvel of revolving magnificence. POLICE (Ni ELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS, &c.—Thomas Pattican, cab proprietor of Torrington-mews, Edgware-road, ap peared before Mr. Knox to answer the complaint of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of working a horse in an unfit state. When the case was put before the magistrate evidence was given that the horse driven by the defendant was very lame, and the case was adjourned until the 4th Feb. on the understanding that the defendant was to keep the horse till that time that its condition might then be seen. Young, officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that he bad ascertained that the defendant had sold the horse to be worked in a van. Mr. Arthur Cherry, the Government veterinary surgeon, said that was quite contrary to the understanding at the time, and to the nia . ;istrato's instructions. Mr. Knox fined the defendant 40s. and costa. Mr. James Dean, foreman to a contractor, of North Wharf, Paddington, was summoned for working a horse iu an unfit state. The evidence of an officer showed that the hcrse was an undersized one, was being used in a dust cart, and that it had several sores on its shoulders and back. The defendant said he was not aware of the condition of the horse, it having escaped his attention, having about 100 horses in tho stables. It should not be' sent out again. Mr. Knox said it was a case of culpable negligence, and fined the defendant 40s. and costs: WESTMINSTER. SAFE ROBBERS.—A young man giving, the name of Edward Sullivan, was placed at the bar charged with loitering about Wellington-square, Chelsea, for an unlaw ful purpose. John Greenacre, 333 B said that at seven o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner and another man loitering about Wellington-square. He missed the prisoner for a few minutes, and then saw him get over some railings from the area of a house. Seeing him, they went towards the enclosure of the square. Witness laid hold of prisoner and asked his companion to come with hi,n to the station when he replied, "not for me,' and ran away. James Lovett, 27 B, said that on seam:hitt:l the inclosure near where the prisoner went he found a bundle, contain ing pork, soap, bacon, butter, cheese, and other things. Mr. Selfe—Nava you found an owner? Policeman -Only for some of the things. Mr. Selfe then remanded the prisoner until next Friday THAMES. FEVER DENS IN POPLAR. - Mr. Charles Young, solici tor, applied to 11r. Paget for ten summonses against James Richards, the owner of as many houses in Comm( dore court, High-street, Poplar, for permitting a fearful nuisance to exist on his premises, which were unfit for human habitations. Mr. Paget said be had heard enough to justify him in granting the summonses. The houses ought to be closed, lime-washed and repaired, and the cesspools put in order. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 28.—The market for shipping yarns is firm, and spinners are well engaged, many of them for a month forward ; but the amount of business transacted to-day has been small. Home trade yarns are also steady, at Tuesday's rates ; but very little business has been done. The cloth. market is firm, but buyers do not appear anxious for business ; while, on the other hand, producers, in consequence of their ample engagements, are by no means disposed to press sales. In cases where offers are made they are generally below the quota tions of manufacturers, but these are not accepted, and the transactions of the day have been small. It is only for small lots for immediate delivery that buyers appear willing to pay full rates, or in cases where a default on the part of a contractor obliges purchases to be made against him. LEICESTER, 28th.—The trade of the past week has been very unsatisfactory. There is next to nothing doing in any branch, and so far the im provement anticipated in the new year, as regards the staple or hosiery trade, has ended in disappoint ment. The wool market has been very quiet, and not much wool has changed hands. Prices, how ever, continue firm for all kinds, and the firmness of the East India wool sales now on at Liverpool will tend to strengthen the price of skin wools,which are used largely in this district. In lambs' wool hosiery and underclothing there is no improvement of importance, the orders to hand being of a most retail character. A fair number of orders have come to band for both plain and striped cotton goods, and the fancy cotton hosiery season promises to be busy. Owing to the firm and advancing state of the cotton market, the manufacture of plain cot ton hosiery at Hinckley and the district bas consi derably improved, and bands are well employed. There is no decided change in the elastic-web trade. The orders to hand are, nevertheless, of a satisfac tory character, taking into account the generally depressed state of trade. Cords and braids are in good inquiry. The shoe trade has experienced a quiet demand, though there is a slight improvement in the inquiry for suitable goods of good makes. A fair spring trade is confidently anticipated. Mate rials are unaltered in price. ADVEItTISEMENT. 1 - Consumption, and all new ous, bilious, stomach, and. 173: complaints in every stage aro only aggravated and acealerated by drugs of eve y description, but perfe tly curable by Du BARRY'S health -restoring Rev:tient°. Arabic's Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia.), cough, asthma, consumption, h bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, go.,t, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, Irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, ite We quote a few: -The Pope's health restored by Du :carry's Food. Care No. 63,413 -"Rome, July 21, 1316. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's ltevalenta A rabies Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the Gazette du Midi, July 2'. Cure No 46,a0. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafr”e. Cure N 0.1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies, ord-Lieutenant of t.terford. of in :fly a dyspepsia. -No 4',83 . "Fit ty years' indescrib able z:,, ,, ,0uy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, co • stipation, flatu'ency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Alaria Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authorits; Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached In tins, at is id; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb ts Gd ; slb tls; 12 lb 225: 24 lbs 4 s.—also U BAnav's lt DNALEN TA BASICA CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 7e Gd, for ,8 cups at 6s, for 2-8 cups at 3cts, for 576 cups at 5 - ti3 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 5s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.— BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, liegent-street, London; and A, (Irocers and Chemists. TIIE POWDER EXPLOSION AT BRYNMAWR. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Evan Havard and Catherine Ann Leek, the two young persons who lost their lives by the explosion of powder which took place in Brynmawr, under circumstances already reported, was concluded on Thursday. Among the witnesses was a police officer, Sergeant Joseph, who said he was at the police-station when the explosion took place. Since that occurrence •he had made inquiries as to persons who deal in gunpowder in Brynmawr, and found there were from ten to twelve dealing in it; he had searched some of their places, and in none of them did he find any more than 2001bs. Mr. David Watkins, the owner of the premises upon which the explosion took place, said he had three warehouses besides the shop, which were situated in Well-street, leading out of Worcester-street. His shop was situated on the corner of Worcester-street. The . warehouse next the road on the right was the powder-house. Both were destroyed by the explosion. He did not know how that explosion occurred. He was in the shop when it happened. It was always a rule not to take a candle near the powder-house, and only to visit it by daylight. Some times as much as 5001 b. would go out in one day. One man alone took about 5001 b. at the beginning of the month, It was very often the case for the lad to go for half a quarter of a barrel of powder. Witness saw some lightning after the explosion, but not before. He noticed Evan Havard going out that night, but took no particular notice of him. He could go through the house to the powder-house. lie must have gone out with the intention of going for the keys. It was at the end of December that he (witness) had powder in. Edward Morgan, the next witness examined, was visited by the coroner, he being too ill to leave his bed. • He had seen boys taking candles to the powder-house at all times. On going to work about a month or six weeks ago, about six in the evening, he met the boy that was killed coming out of the powder-house with a candle. Wit ness had told Thomas Morgan and his wife many times that they should be blown up some time or other. He had noticed a light in the powder-house about twelve months ago. When he saw the light he said "Mika! what are you doing hero with a candle ?" Then he lost the light at once ; it was blown out. He had seen persons carrying a lighted candle from one warehouse to another across the street. The jury, after some deliberation, returned the following verdict :—" That Evan Havard was accidentally killed by an ex plosion of gunpowder, in a store belonging to Mr. David Watkins, but how the explosion occurred there is no evi dence before the jury. They also find that Catherine A nn Leek was accidentally kill e d by the effects of the explosion. They further find that the law, as at present existing in regard to the keeping of powder in populous places, is lax and inefficient, and requires amendment ; and that the con sumption of powder in this town is from ten to fifteen tons a month, and the quantities habitually kept by dealers are greatly in excess of the amount allowed by the Act of Par liament; that it is desirable that all dealers in powder should be required to be licensed by some competent authority, and be subject to the supeivision of the take ; and that some provision for the establishment of a powder magazine in populous pladas in tho mining districts is urgently required. That these resolutions be represented to the Home Secretary, and also to the Local Board of Health, and that the latter be requested to exert them selves to keep their attention directed to the subject, and obtain an amendment of the law." THE NEW TELEGRAPH SYSTEM-. The actual handing over to the Government of the various telegraph companies of Great Britain is now taking place, and the numerous signs and rumours of the great changes affecting this most important system will culminate on the sth of Feb ruary in the discarding of all the old tele graphic operations, and the introduction of an entirely new and, let us hope, advantageous nlllime. The fact of all the greatest inventions of science having burst s 4 on the civilised world at a very recent date, comparatively speaking, has given rise to a feeling that we ought to be quite satisfied with what we have got, and think ourselveS lucky that we are not worse off than we are. If a railway passenger alludes with a growl to the slow speed of the train, which is carrying him along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, some old lady or gentleman is sure to remind him of the old coaching days, and the ten miles an hour of the " Tally-ho." In the same way, if an important letter miscarries in its transmssion through the post, we are told that the system is far better than that of sending a mes senger on horseback, as our ancestors did; and when a telegram takes from morning to night to get from London to Paris the consolation is offered that a letter would not have been delivered in that time. All this is a stand-still theory. We have, thanks to genius and energy, splendid systems by which science promc,tes our comfort and our welfare; and the same genius and energy which originated them, can surely make thom perfect in their operation. We shall have no occasion to boast of our conquest of steam, if it is not made use of to an appreciable extent; of the complicated arrangements of the post-office, if letters miscarry or have their delivery delayed ; or of the handling of the telegraphs by the Government, if some, at least, of the abuses connected with them, which we have hitherto submitted to, be not speedily and thoroughly remedied. From what we hear of the new tariff of charg es, our expectations of a considerable reduction of expense in telegraphing will be justified by the result. We shall be able to send a message consisting of twenty words, excluding the name and address of the sender and receiver, for one shilling, from any one part of the United King dom to another. Further, this message will be delivered free of charge at any place within one mile of the office to which it is sent. This will be no small concession, and will do away to a great extent with that payment of " porterage " which has always caused the receiver to incur expense as well as the sender. Thus the sixpenny rate in London will prove to have been no cheaper in the end than the new one. Having gained, then, a great advantage, that of telegraphy, telegraphic communication on matters of business or plea sure with those at a distance of many miles from us, at the least possible cost we can reasonably expect, we must next consider whether this beneficial arrangement is ren dered thoroughly available by an increase in the tele graph stations all over the country where messages are received, and from which they are despatched. In this point lie the majority of the innovations which we now welcome. Stated shortly, the simple plan is this : every post-town in the kingdom shall have a telegraph office; that is, every post-office where letters are stamped and money-orders given, shah have the wires extended to it, and be open for the purpose of receiving and transmitting messages. A vast change will thus be effected in rural districts. The telegraph posts and wires will now be seen along many a country road, and the people of our smaller towns, instead of submitting to pay a horse -messenger one shilling per mile for bringing a telegram from the nearest office of the company, will receive the counnnnication perfectly free, provided that they live within a mile of the post-office. Country tradesmen have hitherto laboured under a disad vantage in. competing with those of the larger towns; whilst the latter have frequently been enabled by means of the telegraph to effect sales or purchases at the right moment, or to proceed to any place on business at an opportune time, the form er h ave been forced to be content with transacting their bargains by the slower medium of the. post. Then again there is a numerous class of country families who have only been kept from this means of correspondence by the excessive sums they have had to pay for carriage. The five shillings thus paid for the delivery of a message to a person residing five miles from any telegraph office, will now suffice to pay for five separate messages to be delivered free at any remote corner of the three kingdoms. It is clear, therefore, that these gains to the public in the way of increased facilities for telegraphing aro not merely an idea, but a positive and substantial fact. The Government will also do its utmost, we are told, to provide for promptitude, secrosy, and the general order of the whole system. The members of the staff which will be employed will be under stricter control than the officials of the companies used to be. No preference or favour will be shewn to any individual whatever, and all messages will be despatched in regular rotation as they aro received. How this rotation can be observed in cases where a number of telegrams are deposited in pillar-boxes it is difficult to tell, but it is to be supposed that persons who trust their messages to a letter box are not in any very extraordinary hurry about the delivery of them. The details of the numerous arrangements include other points of lesser Interest, though some of them will no doubt prove of more or less general importance. Th e Greenwich mean time will be sent every d a y with the exception of Sunday to each station at 10 a.m., and every clock in the place will by this means be able to indicate the correct time. In Ireland, of course, Dublin time will be the standard. • The hours during whirls the offices will be ellen will pro bably be from S a.m to S pan., but there will be exceptions in favour of messages fur the press, &c. When excep tional circumstances cause a run of work on any particular station, prompt measures will be taken to pro vide a sufficient number of clerks, and to give every atten tion to the extra amount of service demanded by the public. One other feathre of the system is that payment for messages can be made in stamps. For instance, forms will be issued with shilling stamps attached, and these forms will contain spaces for each word written, so that it will be easy to tell at a glance the num ber of words. So, under tile new arrangement we have the prospect of benefiting considerably by a reduction of expense, and the widely-extended means of making use of the incalculable advantages of the science of telegraphy. Nearly every nook and corner throughout the land will be within easy reach of the magic wires ; a great and important change is effected, and from it, as far as we can see at present, au undoubted benefit will acirue to the people of Great Britain. • Vgii4cW= „ • itri , Dlll itAt HER 11IAjES7T. OSBORNE, Jan. 28. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds yes terday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice walked and drove in the grounds this morn ing. LATEST INTELL LUNGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ~_.~. AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK„ Tan. 28. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1211 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 121. i ; the lowest, 1211, Sterling Exchange on. London - 109. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5l. 44 " 1885 115!. " 1867 ll4l. 10-40 46 112 k. Illinois 1371. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum —Standard White 3lc. Flour, extra state, $5.10c. to $5.70c. Corn, old mixed, sl.6c. According to Messrs. Moffatt Davidis and Co.'s report, the receipts of cotton at all ports for the week have been 1.04,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 174,000 bales. Shipments to England, 60,000 bales; to France, 11,000 ; and to the Conti nent 14,000 bales; and since the Ist of Septem ber, 925,000 bales. Stock, 490,000 bales. Mid dling upland, 11 3-16 cost and freight per steamer. Paws, Jau. 29. M. 01lirier has issued a circular, dated yesterday, to the Procurators-General, at the conclusion of which are the following words :—" You will allow the expression of all shades of opinion, and leave to the good sense of the people the preservation of public order, but you will prrsecute all outrages against the .Emperor, and also all instigation to mimes or rnisdemeanour. You will not allow any newspaper to be hawked in the streets, nor any meetings to be held of a nature to disturb the public peace. FRANCE. iouns>•, Jan. 28.—Three o'clock—The mallict closed as follows :—.- 4i per Cent. 3 per Cent - 5 End of mouth._ 73 90 Austrian Fives Credit Mobilier ... 210 Ottoman Loan Transatlantic 2OO Do. Debt 44 -40 Credit Poucier ...1785 Spanish Threes Paris Gas 1672 50 Home Debt — Suez Canal 340 Deferred ... --• RAIL WAYS, Cash. Orleans ... 980 - Western Northern ... 11321 Strasburg • • Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6UB Sardinian Austrian 775 Lombard 495 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 47 BILLIARDS. JOHN ROBERTS (THE CHAMPION) v. T. MORRIS. Considerable interest naturally attached to the last match the champion played in London before the grand contest for the championship, and therefore the great attendance present at Mr. Philipp's rooms, at the Arms, St. George's-road, Southwark, was not to be wondered at, when last night(Friday)John Roberts played against Tom Morris for .k:25 a-side, giving the last named 300 points in 1,000. Play commenced a few minutes after eight o'clock - the appointed time-with Morris breaking the balls ; but Roberts was the first to lead off with a break of 13. which he followed up with another of 20. To these, when Morris had done nothing but make a 2 and a 3, and his whole score 8, the champion succeeded with 13 and 22, until game was called. " Morris 308, Roberts 82." Here the former 'pulled himself together, and run up a very nice 28, followed a few strokes afterwards by 24 and 29, but he then, the score being Morris 95, Roberts 90, left the balls, so that . Roberts was enabled to get the spot stroke, which he used 12 times before losing position, but still did not leave off scoring until he had scored 96 by some very fine play. Two 11's and an 18 carried Morris on to 437 against 219. Here Morris put on 14, and small breaks succeeded until from 226 the champion went on with a difficult 21. Morris followed with 17, and Roberts' with 15. The score was now_Morris, 476 ; Roberts, 262 ; an d from this point the former ran on to 501, with a capital break of 25, but as the champion succeeded with a careful 35, it was but of little good to him. However, on Roberts breaking down, he wont on with 17 more, then g i v i ng a miss in baulk, Roberts added four and then Morris wont in with 35, in which were five "spot' hazards, and, Roberts failing to score, with 34. He was now 593, and then the champion added 28, and made his total 332. Ten added by the latter and 11 by Morris still left the players tolerably equal us at starting. Here, how ever, the champion made a great start, and, from 347, ran up to 380 with an excellent 33, in which were eight 'spots," while he followed with 17-Morris meanwhile failing to score. An additional 16 raised Roberts's total score to 415, against Morris's 619, and brought him to within nearly 200 of his opponent. After Morris had added 13, Roberts went on with 15 and 19, until he attained to 419, when Morris got in and ran up 16, followed by 18, after Roberts had an innings and failed to score. A dozen and 17 in succession enabled the last-mentioned player to reach 484; but 11, 9, and 12 also helped Morris to pass into his eighth hundred, and the marker to call the game at Morris, 710; Roberts, 484 When the latter got to 500, and at ten o'clock an interval took place, though the champion's break was not finished. I'he latter, however, failOcl to add to his previous score, when the game was resumed, but Morris also breaking down, he afterwards added half a dozen. Subsequently he went on with 24, and Morris succeeded with 11, but then, breaking down at a spot hazard the latter allowed the champion a great opening, of which be availed himself very fully, until he had run up a somewhat lucky 60, though the hazards and cannons made dur ing its manipulation were very delicately executed, and at intervals loudly applauded. Morris now added 14 and 30-the latter a capital break-and, after Rob, its had scored 19, went on with 21, breaking down at last at a screw pocket hazard. Twenty three was Roberts's next effort, his hazard striking therein being much appreciated, and Morris succeeded with 13. Double this number the champion scored at his next innings, and then for s , me time small breaks succeeded. Roberts then made 17, and got as far as 708 ; but Morris next played an excellent break of 45, and reached to 866. Another 17 helped the Champion on to 732, but from 871 Morris added 21, and got to 892. The cham pion was now 735, but half a dozen "spot" hazards helped him to run . up 23 before he next left off scor ing. Morris then added 11, and afterwards a lucky double-middle pocket enabled Roberts to put to gether a break of 41. Morris now failed to score, so ttoberts was in a position to put on 26 more, and then this game was called, " Roberts 826, Morris 903." Thir teen by the latter was capped by 16 by the champion, and then Morris added 20, making bis game 9-12 to Roberts's 813. The latter then made 7, but followed that score up, as his opponent failed to make any addition to his total, with a break of 68 -perhaps the best performance of the evening, and one which was greatly appreciated by the comp a ny present, who testified their approbation of the ability displayed in its execution by a good deal of cheer. ing at its finish. Morris then made a dozen, the cham p:on 11, cud the former 15-- next giving a miss. The champion failed to score, and Morris went on with an un iiniblied break of 31, and concluded the game, winning by 70 points at a quarter to twelve. The match was played on a table of Messrs. Cox and Vernon, and was carefully marked by Mr. Lamb. [ADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Pills and Ointmeat.— tiny. ranch. d Populai ity.—The wonderful cures affected by he a unequall, d romedies in all parts of the world have on for ttjetu their present favour. 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