The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

coTTIT NEWS.

FIFTY-FOUR MEN CAPTURED IN
MANCHESTER " LIST" HOUSES.

On 'Mond# elothrg,, alYout nine o'clock,' Captain
Palin, the chief constable; Mr. Superintendent Gee.'ef'
the A division, and a number of Mikes- ift.plain clothes;
proceeded to Thomas-street, warrants haling phfiottsfy
been obtained against eight of the betting houses iV the.
locality. The officers divided themselves intcrcompanies,.
and the several houses were entered simultaneously.
Altogether 54 persons were taken into custody on a
charge of gariibiiag.
liarilioloineW (inky, a beer retailer who was fined
£lOO a fe* ‘ieetig ago' at the: CAv Poliee-court, for per-

miffing sainblipg hodse in the fotni of "hazard,"
had, as the Polies subsegizently ipatited, teceived intelli-
sent'.e- of the; contemplated dfteent,- etc o# h house

beteg e4eied,the office where the betting is tramatfed
was found "clef.!.l.ed'.'' thig liiii the case at the house
of William Simister, a beef feittilei, iho 4as said to be
in possession of equally reliable fftfoini'alfon". Irf the
remaining six houses, betting books, lists, dm., add
various sums of money; the highest amount being
£69 -}ss, were secured by the police; the company,
which mainly consisted of working men, allowing them-
selves to be taken to the police-station, withouf offering
arty tesistnee.

NCiie Of de Mett Ttere actually engaged in gambling
at the time ji apri.'ehrisien, 41theigh the coMpany was
surrounded, in some instaikes, 67 dice, dontinees, &c.
Up to a late hour last night the police Thire bltsied in
taking bail for the prisoners, which was accepted &we,
seated. They will all be brought np at the City Police-
court this morning on a charge of -gambling.
The six betting-house keepers in custody are—James
Kane, beer retailer ; John Dennerly, licensed victualler ;

a3o Horsley, licensed victualler ; Harablett Roberts,
licensed vhitii.alll6l—tn of Thomas-street; Thomas For-
rest, beer retailer, Oat:street ;, and James Coupe,
licensed-victualler, Turner-street.

PRIZE-FIGHT IN ANCIENT TIMES, d A
BELL'S LIFE IN THE 'YEAR 260 B.C.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Slitt,---,-The contest between Pollux and Amyeus,
by as describedrheoctitus in his 22d idyll, is so
singillarly like the late fight for the champion-
ships iSit fEirik the follovving extract from Mr.
Banks's literal translation will amuse and interest
those who tire not aireacl;• didriaiittecl With it.
The idyll in question describes the .dttital of
the Argonauts in Jason's ship at the shores d the
Bebriciansi-and their landing. Castor and Pollux,
going in quest of water, meet the gigantic
Amycus, and a quarrel ensues :

Mrtreed from Idyll xsii. of Theocritus.)
"And here a of overwhelming size would sit and
take the air, terrible Lo rot baring his cars
bruised with hard thumps, and his bilge ciuso and broad
back were arched and rounded with iron LksTs like a
forged colossus. And on his strong arms the miscleg
stood out at the surface of the shoulder, like round
stones which the river torrent has polished by rolling in
its vast eddies; but over his back and neck was hung a.
lion's skin, fastened on by the paws, and him the prize:
man rollux first bespoke ;•
" foll:-'-"%anye xont stranger,. whoever you are ; who
are the mortals to WEort.i. this cetintry belongs ?

. .
And they quickly gathered:together id did stale of the
plane trees, at the blast of the trumpet, theikeys
long-haired- Bebricians. In like manner, too, Caster,
pre-eminent in fight, went and summoned from the
Magnesian ship all the heroes. Now they; when in
fact they had, fortified their hands with coils of ox-hide,
and bed rolled great thongs around their arms, proceeded
to engase in the midst, breathing slaughter one against
the othef. ticket: On a great struggle arose to them,
as they were iiigeih which of the two should get
the glare of the sun at his haele. But by skill
you over-reached a great hero, CT to!ltt±, and all the
countenance of Aniycas was being stitkli vf:th rays,
Then he, in sooth, enraged at heart, was. adtetiting,
forward; taking aim with his hands ; when the bOll of
Tyndarns hit the tip of his chin as he came on, and he
was roused more than before, and dealt his blows at
random, and =kept rushing on with groat force, bending
over the earth, and the Bebricians began to shout ;
but on fib§ other side the heroes were cheering on
strong, Pollux, though fearful lest haply in a
nthow spot, a man resembling Tityns should bear
down and-sAlluie hid. Alt, in-trittli, the son of Jove,
on his part, emuitig Usti i,htla hint in one place and
another, kept wounding him With both hands in turn,-
and was checking from his onsladglii the son .of Nep-
tune, overbearing though he was. and ha ctooxt reeling
with blows, and- spat out gory blood, and then all the
chiefs raised a shout together when they saw grievous
wounds about his mouth and jaws, and his eyes were
straitened tar room on his swollen visage.
" Him, indeed, the Prince Pollux disturbed by making
felets with hie fists on every side ; but when, at length,
he pereeited that he was distressed, he drove his fist
above the tyrkiale of life nose right down his brow, and
stripped off all his 14efiencl to the bone. But he, having
been stri-ken,. measured his length an his back among the
green grass. Hereupon a fierce fight arose again when he
had righted himself, and they Were hurting one another
by blows with the hard uestus. But the ruler of the
Bebricians, for his part, war directing his fists against the
chest and outside the neck of his fei, While Pollux, the
invincible, was disfiguring all the other's visage with
unseemly blows, and his flesh (i e., that of Amycus) was
sinking through sweat, and, from being huge, be lead
become on a sudden a little man; but the other, as he
tasted toil, was bearing limbs ever stronger, and still
improving in healthy colour.

i‘ Now, how at last the son of Jore overthrew the
athlete declare, thou goddess, for thou knowest, and 1,
the interpreter of others, will speak as much as thou
desltest; HMI is queeable to thyself. In truth, Amyeus,
on his, Batt b6ing desitotts fa do. some gteat deed, seized
with his left hand the left .haud of Pollux, bending.
slantwise with a lunge, and itith the other hand
Making. his assault, raised hk lfrfold fist from his
right side, and he would have hit and injured the
King of the AniyelmaUs, but he in turn came dp
secretly from under with his head, and then with his
strong hand struck him under the lett temple and fell
on his shoulder. Then the dark blood poured out
rapidly from his gaping temple ; and with his left hand
he struck his .mouth, and the thickset teeth rattled, while
he kept n3alnilttg Ws face with'erer sharper blows, until
he had sinvhed his cheeks ; but then all on the.ground
he fell senseless, and lifted up both hands at once as
renouncing the victory, for he was nigh unto death. •
"To him, then, thou wast victor, hexer Pollux ;
thou didst nothing madly violent."
I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
WALTER SEVERN.
Council-office, Whitehall, April 20.

The Queen held a court VEYOrtday. afteitbde of
Buckingham_ p*te.
Le Commander .T.argioni, Envoy Extraordn&.+,
Miffietef 'Pletlipotentiarx from the King of the TWO
Sicilies, had ffn aylieEtpc 2f tli.2 QUein, and delivered
his letters of recali. Flis EiVelleney was:introduced by
Lord John Russell,,the QueeeT Pirtneipa) Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, ana,e6iidtteto by
_Lietaellant"
General the Hon. Sir Edward CuSt, her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
Loid John Anssell had an audience of the Queen.
Her Majeitl was attended by Lord Harris and Lieut.-
Colonel F. avendisif, the I..;rd and PrOom in Waiting.
Professor Owen bad the lt:6ioui' of delivering the
first of a series of leetures on Natural Vi.sio.r.y at Buck-
ingham Palace before the Prince Consort, Priike Alfred,
Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louise',
Prince Arthur, Prince :Leopold, and the ladies and
gentlemen in attendance.

The Princess Augustus ofiSaxe-Coburg and the Duke
de ILontpensier visited the Queen.
Prince Leopold took a carriage drive.