The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-28 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHUMBEELIND PLATE.
5 to 2 agst Baktchi Serai (taken freely)
7 to 2 agst Caller Ou (taken)
9to 1 agst Alice (taken)
100 to 8 agst Trust (ir-ken)
100 to 7 agst Sir Roger (taken)
100 to 7 agst Oldtninster (offered)
16 to 1 egst Lady de Trafford (taken)

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Found Again was scratched
for the Northumberland Plate by some one who had not
power, consequently he remains in.

A Specimen of Idiotcy Rampant !

Suoh an extravaganza as we trust may never again be
pet petrated was, under the title of "Mumbo Jumbo,. or ye
Mountains of ye Moon, near ye Gaboon," performed before
the Prince and Princess of Wales and a distinguished
audience, on Thursday week, for the benefit of the Female
School of Art. The following is a veritable specimen of
this sickening piece of folly :
(The Moos appears, in tears.)
Enter the MOON, alone (chants).
I am the Moon, with my silver shoon—
Shoon, not sheen, I mean—and my spoon.
Enter Bouzie OGER (speaks from his cheeks).
Ali I Psha Va I
(Dances and prances with ferocious glances.)
Hum Mum
(Puts his dibs to his rib:).
Ho So II No
(Intones with groans.)
Why am I here ?—oh dear I
Where are you ? there ? or where ?
When are the men ? oh when ?
What is the matter ? and who—who is my hatter 1'
(Dances again with savage disdain.)
Tu, ru, lu, Tu, ru lu,
Tu, ru, lu, Tu, ru, lu.
(The BEE comes forward.)'
(The BEE brings the Pea I 800 it OGER tails on his knee,)
(The BEE can't sing, but Tips his wing.)
(Air, " Where the Bee sucks.")
Mines the money, where the honey,
Fills the flower after shower,
There with swag I fill my bag.
On a thorn I rest forlorn,
Nor wag, nor lag, with my rag and tag.
(With sonorous chorus.)
This piece, says the London _Review in referring to it, is
written by Mr. Charles Cole—a new, fresh, daring, and
original author, and is not the production of a feeble mem-
ber of the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Burlesque
Writers. The Prince and Princess, and the rest of the
visitors, adds our contemporary, are as well as can be ex
peeted

Course of the Exchange.—This Day.

kmsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 12 01 12 0;
Antwerp,, — 25 571 25 62
Brussels — 25 57} 25 62:
Hamburgh — 13 8 13 81
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine '-' 119/ 120/
Vienna ........ — 11 90 12 0
Trieste ... •
Petersburg!: — 311' 32
Berlin . ..... —
48*
48*
CadiMadrid ........
48i 481
z
Leghorn .... Milan . 25 621 25 67f
25 621 25 671
........
pNGaeallapeolreams .0..
.: 22225555
666655521 2222,5555
777600071
Messina
51i 62
Lisbon -
0p0rt0.... . 6
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 172}9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE HOUSE OF
LORDS THIS DoT.—This afternoon her Majesty visited the
House of Lords for the purpose of inspecting Mr Herbert's
great fresco painting in the Peers' Robing Room. Her
Majesty remained for some time contemplating the beauty
of the painting, and previous to her quitting the apart-
ment, she highly complimented the talented artist on the
success of his fine work.

At an extraordinary general meeting of the
shareholders of the London Colonial Bank (Limited), held
to-day, it was unanimously resolved to increase the capital
of the company by the issue of 5,000 new shares of £lOO
each, to be offered pro rata to the holders of the present
issue of 10,000 shares.

ANCIENT HAIR-DOCTORS.—Bat it seems that in
all times ladies and gentlemen losing their hair be-
lieved in the possibility of a remedy, and where there was a
demand there was, of course, a supply. The Ediths and
Rowenas of the Saxons consulted the doctors about their
hair, and so did the Julies and -SU minas of the Romans be•
fore them. The treatment was rather different in those days,
but probably not less successful than that of our time. We
may doubt whether the Lady Rowena put her hair in
curl-papers; we may be sure she went to bed with her
nose lull of sowbread, serenely confident that she knew
how to keep her hair on her head. "In case that a man's
hair fall off, take this same wart (sowbred) and put it into the
nostrels," says Apuleus. He adds, soon afterwards, "It also
is well beneficial for heartache;" possibly he might have said
with equal truth, for " the thousand natural ills that flesh is
heir to." But in any case it is no small thing to know how
year hair may be made to grow, and your heart cured of its
aches by one and the same remedy. But not content with act-
ing upon the hair indirectly through the olfactory nerves and
brain Apuleius and the Leeches occasionally recommend
local applications. They mention especially water-wort. "If
a man's hair fall off," they say take this same wort, pound
it in oil, smear then the hair therewith, it soon becometh
fast." The assertion is rather vague as regards time,
especially when we consider that the Saxons were a patient
people. We are more precise in these days; "a month's
trial will suffice to convince the most sceptical of the infal-
lible virtues of the pommade Philocome ;" and "we need
ask the afflicted to buy no more than ens bottle of the
oil of the Esquimaux chiefs,"--.Dickens's ".41: the Year
Round."

rne Turin journals announce that the fifth anni•
versary of the victories of Solferino and San Martino, which
were gained on the 24th June, 1859, was celebrated by
reviews in all the principal garrison towns of Italy.
THE ACCIDENT AT EGHAM.—The adjourned in-
quest into the death of Mr Esau Trigg was concluded
yesterday at the Vestry Hall, St, Marlin's-in-the-Fields.
The jury, after hearing evidence sufficient to establish the
fact that the deceased died in consequence of injuries re-
ceived during the aocideat at Eghatn, returged a verdict to
that effect.

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BETTING AT MANCHESTER—MoNDAT.
There was a good attendance at the Subscription Rooms
to-day, and some spirited betting on the Northumberland
Plato took place. Sir Roger opened first favourite, 3 to 1
being taken freely, but ho gradually receded, until 100 to 7
was laid against him. Baktchi Serai was in force at sto 2,
and 7 to 2 was the largest offer against Caller Cu. Alice
was in request at 9 to 1, and 100 to 8 was laid on the field
bar three. There was no St. Leger or Derby betting. Clos-
ing prices :