The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-24 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 15s to £5 lOs Od ; clover,
£5 Os to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, LI 5s to lOs per load.
A moderate demand.

CUMRERLAND —Meadow hay, £3 15s to £5 lOs Od; clover,
£5 Os to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 108 per load,
Supply tolerably good
WiiITECHAPEL,-MCEICIOW hay, £3 18s to £5 7s 6d ; clover,
£5 Os to £6 lOs 03; and straw, £1 6s to £1 lOs per load
Trade inactive.

A PUGILIST COMMITTED FOR SIX MONTHS.—
Yesterday, at the Petty Sessions in Wolverhampton, before
Mr Isaac Spooner, stipendiary, the pugilist, Joe Goss, was
ordered to be imprisonbd six months, with hard labour, for
a gross outrage upon a woman of disrepute in that town.
He committed a great indignity upon her, and after beating
her thrust her upon the fire grate, where happily there was
but little fire.
It will be remembered that the persons convicted
at Liverpool on a charge of enlisting men for service in the
Confederate navy appealed against the verdict to the judges
at Westminster on some points of law. The matter came
before the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, but the
learned bench was not called upon to give judgment, as the
defendants,with the consent of the Attorney-General, agreed
to submit to a fine of £5O each.
LORD HOUGHTON ON SCHOOLS OF ART.—On
Monday, at the annual meeting of the York School
of Art, Lord Houghton, who presided, said it was most im-
portant that those who sought to study art for the general
business f life should form the great portion of the students
at these schools, for it would never do c,r the people of
England to think they were contributing money out cf the
public taxation merely to make painters and artists. He
was very glad to see from the report of last year that a very
large portion of the students were employed in making por-
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celain, glass, cutlery, and in other mechanical adaptations of
art. It was most useful to this country that this should Le
done, because trade without art would always have some-
thing about it of a less noble character than it had when as-
sociated with art. On the subject of the payment of school-
masters he said, as a member of the House of Commons, he
took a different View to the Government, and he did not be.
lieve such a provision could be advantageously carried out.
Whatever rules were established he hoped they would sub-
mit to them cheertully,-and make the best of their position,
even though they did not like it. He saw with satisfaction
that of late years there had been a very general progress in
the artistic skill of the country. Among many proofs of this
he instanced the improvement in the costume of women,
observing that in the manufacturing towns be had been
struck with the neatness, general tltgance, and comfort of
r costume as compared with that which prevailed 30 or 40
years ago. (Applause) The Dean of I urk and ‘,tber
gentlemen addressed the meeting, and a resolution vas
passed that the committee should co-operate with the corn,
mittees of other local schools in placing before the Govern.*
ment the claims of such institutions.

RELIEVING GUARD IN THE ARMY OF THE
POTOMAC.—The correspondent of the .Nets York
limes with the army of the Potomac writes :—" Last Light
the silence and seeming indifference of the pickets was
most unexpectedly broken, and an extraordinary episode
occurred. About ten p.m., as the pickets on the left of
General Hancock's lines, in front of Petersburg., were
od
pre-
paringofrebefloirntfhane
trreyliceafmuseuainllyoen thexpec flktedaant, hthawtheorur' a bo
dy
of a ravine
offered an unusual opportunity, and coolly and quietly
passed along our picket
posts, taking off as they went each
man, and telling them to fall in,' taking in this manner
some 250 prisoners. They would have gone on with the
game, and gobbled up a portion of General Warren's line
also, and it might have proved quite a disaster to the main-
tenance of our lines, but for one of our men discovering the
ruse,
o u
r men had andescapingand giving the alarm. It appears some
of deserted from our lines to the enemy, and
added to their crime by giving full and accurate informa•
tion regarding the strength of our picket line and the time
of their relief,"

A WORD ON HAMLET.—Looking back upon the
records of the great departed actors, and trying to
form come conception of their rendering el this wondrous
creation of Shakspere's—; asking t efore ue in imaginary re-
view the players who have strutted and fretted their hour
upon the stage in Hamlet's sable garments—we shall pro-
bably arrive at the conclusion that David Garrick must
have approached the nearest to the ideal of the character.
Allowance would have to be made for his low stature, and
perhaps for a certain stage-trickiness to which the Roscius
was clearly prone ; but grace and vigour of action, wonder-
ful variety of expression, passion, fire, rapidity, a voico
of great power and compass, and surpassing and over-
ruling intelligence, all these remain—a sum cl attractions
no other player can show forth. Bettcrton, with all his
mejesty of mien and noble elocution, had pliysical disquali-
fications, as had Henderson, in spite of peculiar skill and
attainments. Wilke and Barry, with great personal advan-
tages, were wanting perhaps in solidity and intensity of
emotion—. The gods approve. the, depth end not the tumult
of the soul." And if Kean'a virulence and sullen passiein
were opposed to Hamlet's princely philosophic nat..re,

liemble surely had far more of the Roman than the Dane ;
was too sober when excitement was needed of him, and

:ueEque when he should be Li-loving.— Once a Week

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