The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-20 00:00:00

In O'Gattnt Stakes.

Age st lb
Reserve .. 4 6 10
Newfoundland .. 4 6 7
The Major.. .. 3 6 4
Anglo-Saxon .. 3 6 4
Wild Huntress .. 3 6 4
Daniel o' Rourke—
Highflyer's dam 3 6 2
Cervus .. 3 6 0
Victoria Cross .. 3 510
Belle of the Vale .. 3 5 7

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Jan. 20.—Wind this day at noon—Sonth-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Industry, from Rio Janeiro—Henry Dun-
can, from St. John's, N.B.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GB.A.VESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Jan. 19—Blyth, from Faro—Kroo Boy, from
Lagos.

DEAL, 'Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Heather Bell, from London for Colombo—
Cameo, from Sunderland for Bombay.

THE WELSH BURNS I—A movement has been se,
on foot for the purpose of providing an annuity for " Tal-
hairn," well known throughout the principality as " the
Burns of Wales," whose health has failed him.
TYRANNY OF BAD TEMPER.—The bad temper
of a house is emphatically the master and the tyrant
of that house : the criss-cross-row dominates the whole
series. Who that is tied up by the neck to a bad temper,
can boast of freedom ? You might a 5 well talk of summer
ardours in the midst of a snow-storm When madam has
a headache, or a fit of the spleen, because of some trumpery
disappointment, the whole house clanks in chains turned up
to sol in alt ; when master's digestion is awry, because
Greenwich fishes are uncomfortable dream-fellows, the
chains clank G flat, an octave lower, with a running
accompaniment of double notes, tied in the bass; even
little miss, when petulant and saucy, and sorely
needing the divine application of bread and water, has the
power to clash the links together, and make old wise papa
himself, and mamma, tender, grave, and good, dance a
muzurka obligate, striking their fetters instead of their heels.
Temper is, indeed, a diligent chain-maker, forging fetters as
fast as the shot-tower rains down shot when the heated metal
is shaken through the holes. There is no freedom for any one
where there is bad temper; not for
the _
peasant chain-maker
himself, bound by his own links to dissatisfaction and
despair ; nor for those who live within reach of his fingers
so deft at padlocking up all the liberties that come within
the circle of his passionate sullenness. Whom do we study
to please in the family ?
--naanda, sweet and smiling,
whose chains are only love and gentleness, who is always
ready to sacrifice herself for the good of others, whose
wildest fit of passion is as little to be feared as the assault
of a white mouse? Or Drusilla, irritable and bilious, with
a soul like a volcano, and that not covered with snow—or
o e
covered with snow more black than white—nor masked by
vineyards, though it may be by vinegar jars ; with a temper
and
point ; without a thought
for
teas of hers, and with not
a spark of pity in her lurid fires of rage and hate ? Cer-
othr passionss in all alway
thisa
grim a t
h
oosu
tainly,not Amanda. She, p, or love, gets loaded with all the
burdens :—oh I Amanda will go ; Amanda will do it ;
Amanda will sew on my buttons ; Amanda will entertain
Mrs. Wigsby—we all hate Mrs. Iv
igsby, cross old thing,
and fly out of the drawing-room windows when we hear
her little cough in the porch ; Amanda will ask mamma
for a holiday, and even beard papa with a draper's bill.
Amanda will do anything, and consequently has every-
thing to do; but Drusilla walks through life scot-free;
with only half her duties strapped to her shoulders, and
shaking those'so vehemently that they sits loosely at the
last, and drop off on the road for others to pick up and
carry.—Dickens'] "All the Year Round
FATAL OCCURRENCES ON THE RlVER.—Yester-
day morning as a man named Glover was guiding a barge
through one of the arches of Blaekfriars Bridge, he sud-
denly called to another man on board to take charge of the
craft, fell backwards on the head sheets, and when taken
up was found to be quite dead. The cause of death has
not yet been ascertained. About the same time a lighter-
man named Tucker, while plying his avocation, was
knocked overboard in consequence of his barge coming in
contact with a coal lighter, and was drowned.
TILE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP. —We hear
that a meeting of Great Eastern creditors took place
on Saturday, but beyond deciding to abandon the lottery
scheme nothing definite was determined. Arrangements
are being very promptly made to return the money already
subscribed, and Mr. Stoess's connection with the lottery is
a guarantee that no time will be lost in winding the affair
up.—Liverpool
THE HORSE- BREAKEIL—Those who remember
her beautiful seat, nerve, and hands, both in Rotten-
row and with the Queen's bounds, will be grieved to hoar
of the death of the celebrated Miss Gilbert. Some years
ago she had a very severe accident in the park; but although
she gradually recovered from its effects, she was never quite
the same again. She was among the very best of Mr.
Rarcy's pupils ; and her portrait, representing her by the
side of a horse which she had just " put down," formed
the subject of a pleasant picture by Sir Edwin Landseer, in
the Rua Academy, some four or five years ago. Except,
perhaps, on very rough ground, when Mrs. Pitt was her
superior, Mr. Davis thought he had seen no lady rider
equal to her.-11/ustaated ,London News,