The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-28 00:00:00

FOURTH EDITION

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 o'CLocri.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
NEWMARKET RACES —Tins DAY.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Usher
Lady Abbess

Five ran,

MATCH—Attraction beat Car de Lim.
£5O lIANDICAP PLATE.

Despair 1
Jaffe
.. -

Seven nal.
£5O MAIDEN PLATE.

Capuelne filly
1
Medicia. .
Brother to Guerilla

LATEST LETTING.
CIIESTER. CUP.
100 to'ls agat Gordian Knot (taken)
7to 1 agst Muezzin (taken)
7to 1 agat Change (taken)
9to 1 agat Lord Zetland (taken)
11 to 1 apt Bacchus (taken)
16 to 1 agat Oldmineter (taken)
25 to 1 agat Earl of Surrey (taken)
25 to 1 agat Accident (taken)
25 to 1 agat Greenland (taken)
30 to 1 agst Tippler (taken)
33 to 1 agat Tooi Tool (taken)
50 to 1 agst The Clown (taken)

TIRE DERBY.
2,5 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)

SUICIDE FROM LONDON •BRIDGE.—Last evening
Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry
at the Lamb Tavern, Dorset-street, Ratcliffe, touching the
death of John Andrews, aged 27, who was alleged to have
committed suicide. It appeared from the evidence that do-
ceased was a butler, and had been in the service of Lord
Willoughby de Ereby. On the 6th inst a man answering
his description was seen to jump over the parapet of London-
bridge into the river. NV hen his body was recovered on
Monday there was found in his pocket a letter from Mr.
Archibald Campbell declining to employ Andrews in his
establishment as he had not been under butler to Lord
do Ereby, and had only been a short time in the service of a
Mr. Reed. A verdict was returned " That there was no
evidence as to how the dezeased came into the Thames,
wherein ho was found dead."

ROTTEN Row, as the " Si ght of Sights" in all
London,—From early morn till dewy eve the flow
has a certain complement of visitors, for during certain
hours of the day it is most thronged, and its frequenters feel
it de rtgueur to be seen there. These hours used to be is
the evening, an anteprandial promenade from half-past five
until seven, but some of tho leaders of fashion felt that these
hours were not sufficiently exclusive—that people ftom the
City, horrible vulgarians engaged in the debasing pursuits
of commerct., law, literature, or even trade, might come be-
tween the wind and their nobility, enjoying themselves after
the day's labours were at end. This was to terrific, and
must at once be rectified; so the exclusives changed the
fashionable time to the two hours preceding lunch, between 12
and two, when all the low persons engaged in getting their
daily bread would be confined to their counting-houses,
law courts, chambers, desks, or counters, as the case might
be; and this rule still continues. So thoroughly has it
carried its intention that all the visitors at the "swell time"
might now bo denizens of the Castle of Indolence. They
are all drones, arming whom the presence of a working bee
is never to be found. There you may see the best types of
that great creature the British " swell "—tall, stalwart
strong-limbed, fair-haired, blue-eyed, soft-bearded, not par-
ticularly bright, but covering his natural pleasantness with
an absurd mask of insouciance. There aro lovely girls, and
plain girls who almost approach to prettiness on horseback,
so well are their figures set off by the trim habit, their faces
by the neat chimney-pot hat and becoming half-veil.
Search the world through, and you will find nothing like
these English Amazons, so healthy, yet so delicately formed,
fearless, yet entirely modest, so bright and fresh and happy
in her one healthful and natural recreation in the entire
round of the season's amusements. Here they come in
broad cavalcades, some eight or ten strong, escorted by bus •
bands and lovers, brothers and friends, the fresh summer air
blowing out of them all the heat and dust and gaseous at-
mosphere of hot nights' crammed opera or crowded ballroom,
and bringing back for the nonce the roses into their cheeks
and the light into their eyes—
such roses and such light as
fade only too quickly under the lite they are leading, and are
only renewed by a long course of continual quiet and fresh
air. Ah, MOBBOO I my foreign friend, these young English
ladies constitute our crowning
triumph over your Bois !
You acknowledge it, I know, Often. have I seen you wag
your little beard and grind your teeth in an ecstacy of de-
lighted animation as the cavalcade whirled by you I the
Poole yet have accomplished, and in the coquetry of those
cavalcade in such close-fitting dark-blue habits as none but
chimney-pots and half-veils, which beat the wide-awakes
(once tried, but proved failures) into ilte! Sometimes among
these cavalcades are
to be seen nhildren on ponies—pretty
little girls with their Shetland's leading-rein in charge of
some E teady old family groom; boys, knickerbockered and
gaitered, galloping along by the aide of papa's far- stepping
hunter—all riding fearlessly, and thoroughly at home in
their middles, as only, in Europe at least, we English people
are,—Londol k'oczety,