The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOPS.

My Taney
Attractions
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Prescri'Aion

Six ran.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE,

DONCASTER RACES-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL)
THE MUNICIPAL STAKES.

Biondina -
Siberia . .
Plutus

Four ran.

The Prince and Princess of Wales in
Denmark,

COPENHAGEN, Thursday,
It would be difficult to state off-hand what it is
that gives to the streets of Copenhagen an aspect
different from that of almost every other Conti-
nental city, and yet the visitor walking or driving

,hrough them will be struck with innumerable ob.

ects as he passes along. To begin' with, there can

be no such thing as street bbys in Copenhagen, for
flowers bloom in exposed places which in London
would be scalped in the course of one afternoon.

The Kongen's Nyetoro, or King's New Market, is
the central point of the city; from this 12 of tho

principal streets diverge, and in the middle of the
Toro stands an equestrian statue, round the base of
which are beds of blooming flowers which, after
such showers as those of the last few days, shed
a perfectly delicious fragrance. Beyond a very
slight railing, altogether of an ornamental charac-
ter, there is nothing apparently to hinder any inhabi-
tant from collecting the materials for a bouquet ;
not a policeman is in sight, not even a gardener with
gold-laced hat: Apropos of policemen, it will no
doubt be interesting to mention that the peculiar-
shaped casque which attracted so much notice
when lately issued to the force in London exists in
its integrity here in Denmark, with this exception,
that the peaks back and front are of hard shining
leather, and they exhibit no plaques of bronze or
silver with the divisional numbers, but have such
distinguishing marks as are considered necessary
embroidered on the felt itself. Whether the helmet
originated in Denmark or in England is not
clearly stated ; perhaps, as was said by an author
when taxed with a direct plagiarism from Shak-
spare, " the same idea occurred to two men of
genius." Thorwaldsen's Museum is a point to which
every one of course will direct his steps, and hero
again something out of the ordinary course will be
seen. To the museum externally a shape and
colour are given designedly suggestive of an Egyp-
tian monument. The windows and doors all par-
IL row towards the top, but the moat remarkable
feature is the series of paintings on a huge black
ground that forms a belt round the exterior of the
building. Groups of figures of the heroic size and
dressed in modern garments, almost without ex.
caption of the dull brick-red or yellow ochre lines,
are skilfully drawn in every attitude expressive of
interest and delight at the arrival of Thorwaldsen

and his works. The population seem to have put off
in boats to obtain a better view, and one unhappy
woman has fallen overboard in the confusion. This
aquatic procession and the greetings extended to
Thorwaldsen occupy one side of the museum. Oa
the other walls the masterpieces of the great sculp-
tor aro represented as in the act of being landed from
a ship and carried to this building to be preserved,
the idea, doubtless, having been suggested by the
Egyptian hieroglyphics exhibiting the mode in
which the Pyramids were constructed. The incom-
prehensible point is that any artist competent to de-
lineate figures so well in an anatomical point of
view should have selected such repulsive colcurs for
his work ; they probably are to be accounted for by
a,little pardonable vanity on the part of the Danish
artist who was the first to discover how to make de-
corations in coloured stucco. As regards the contents
of the Museum the guide-books furnish abundant
information, but visitors should by no means con•
eider that they have acquainted themselves with all
that is worth seeing there till they have examined
the private collection of pictures, which, perhaps,
because they are modern, or because it is assumed
that statuary only ought to be admired upon that
spot, are passed over with a slighting notice. Thor.
waldsen, the son of the poor ship-carpenter from
Iceland, who by his own achievements raised hims
self to such an eminence that ho was buried with the
highest honours the State could bestow, made the
acquaintance, while a student at Rome, of number-
less men of genius like himself, most of whom het
afterwards distanced in the race of life. Being in
his turn enabled to become an encourager of art, he
appears to have selected those paintings which
yielded him the most gratification, regardless of the
school to which they belonged, or of the names
which might be appended to them. The collection
affords a very good insight into the character and
tastes of this great Danish artist, and to some exit
tent explains the secret of the power which, with a
very different and more unsympathetic material, his
own productions have exercised in every country.
N o one coming to Copenhagen should miss seeing
,here pictures.

A communication from the Hegne says :—" The
King has received letters notifying the accession of
the Emperor of Mexico to the throne. It was M.
Arrangoiz, the Mexican Minister in London, who
delivered those letters to his Majesty. The last
accounts from Java are not favourable. The sugar
crop has almost entirely failed, and there will also
be a considerable falling off in the production of
coffee."

The Chaplaincy of the Ironmongers' Company
has been conferred upon the Rev. Henry Martyn Baker,
Theological Associate of King's College, London, late
curate of Newport, Monmouthshire.
Earl Fitzwilliam has presented the Rev. Chria-,
topher Grenside, M.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge,
formerly British Chaplain at Archangel and at Mosccg, to
the incumbency of Old Mahon, Yorkshire.
CASE OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.—At the J udges'
Chambers yesterday Mr Chitty applied on the part of
Frederick Insoll, a prisoner in Hereford Gaol, to put in bail
to prosecute an appeal at the Quarter Sessions, under extra-
ordinary circumstances. Insoll was a bankrupt, and a
tenant of a Mr Maseilelei ; ho removed his goods away from
the place, and was summoned before justices in Petty Ses-
sions at Ledbury, and committed under the Act of the 11th
of George 11,, passed in 1735, for two months, for fraudu-
lently depriving the landlord of his rent by cistress. He
stated, that he was a bankrupt and protected ;
rn which the
justices held that he had no goods to distrain upon. and
committed him. for two months, although the Act stated
that an offender should be committed for six months to
hard labour. The comtulttnent was made on the 11th of
August, and on the 3dlh of AugustShee, an application was made
on his behalf to Mr Justice
on the ground that
the commitment was Lad. His lordship, however, refused
tointerfere, and the facts wore brought under his notice
on an application to put in bail to prosecute an appeal.
Mr Butterworth, on the other side, contended that the
application seas made too late, and under the Act in ques;
two the order having been executed, and the time more.tha
half expired, it could not be granted. Mr Chitty Fatcl an
application had been made to the justices a few dsya sin