The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-29 00:00:00

KELSO MEETING—Ocr, 19.
The Roxburgh Handicap. One mile and a half.

Age st lb
Costa
Early Purl
Newchurch .. 4 8 9

Ago Bt lb
Finesse
Skipjack 6 7 5
Sir Roger 3 7 5

Blondin 4 8 7
Borealis 4 8 7

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Huntsman's
Daughter •.... 4 6 13
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Tooi Tooi
Glondusk
Miss Pickles 3 6 12
Land of the West 3 6 12
Macbeth 3 6 4
tdioap. Two miles.
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Old Orange Girl 4 8 3
Donne Canne 5 8 2
Avenger 4 8 0
King Charming
Alice

The Border Han%
Age at lb
Costa ...
Elrly Purl
Blondin 4 8 6
Borealis 4 8 3
Dunne Caune
Alice
Finesse
Weights published on the
Forfeits to be declared to Mel
on the 4th of October.

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Age et lb
Sir Roger
Glendusk
Huntsman's

Daughter
Land of the West 3 6 10
Miss Pickles
Macbeth

27th of September, at 10 a.m.
isers. Weatherby only, at noon,

MUSIC HALL CELEBRITIES.—Look at the bill—
" Mr and Mrs -Loppits, the charming duettists,
Signor and Signora Pulloni, the versatile dramatic operatic
couple; JO3 Barnes, the comic; Gus Davis, the funny little
man; Mademoiselle Pettitoe, the charming ballerina and
transformation dancer ; Paddy Fannagan, the characteristic
Irishman ; and stunning Joe Pollock, the pet of Twopenny
Town." The mud-bespattered brougham that you see
waiting at the door about half-past nine belongs to air and
Mrs Loppits, the charming duettists. lam surprised that
the proprietor does not mention the brougham in the bind, for
it is almost as charming as Mr and Mrs Loppits themselves.
Ladies and gentlemen proceeding to the body of the hall, two-
pence, pause to gaze upon it with admiration. Gentlemen
whose means are inadequate to the body of the hall, two-
pence, are content to remain outside and pat Mr and Mrs
Loppits' horse, by the kind permission of Mr and Mrs
Loppits' coachman, a grave and dignified person, who ap-
pears to ignore the music hall, and to try to look as if his
connection with Mr and Mrs Loppits did not extead be-
yond the legitimate duty of driving their brougham. I
should mention that Mr and Mrs Loppits' horse is a tall
aristocratic looking animal, with a Roman nose, and is
known to some irreverent grooms in the adjoining mews as
Julius Cee3ar. . • . Mr and Mrs Loppits are charming duet-
tists undoubtedly. They generally enact lovers; Mrs Loppits,
strong-minded, in a low-bodied pink cress; Mr Loppits,
weak minded and bashful, in a fluffy white hat and bed-cur-
tain trousers. Mr Loppits' assumption of bashfulness, by
putting his forefinger in his mouth and shaking himself
laterally, is much esteemed. The steadiness of the chorus
which comes in at the end of the dialogue, as if Mr and
Mrs Loppits had been wound up for it, is else greatly ad-
mired. Mr and Mrs Loppits "oblige again" three times,
and then depart down the body of the hall with two carpest,
bags, followed by admiring eyes until they disappear to enter
their brougham. The greatest favourite, and deservedly so,
is "Joe Barnes, the comic." Mr Barnes comes o
little white hat with a little black band rounclt andn wienaa
a very short tartan jacket. The humour which he expressesrs
by cocking his hat on the front of his head, the back of his
head, the side of his head, and by pulling it right over his
eyes, are as various as the chords of the human
heart. His heart may be said to sweep the whole lyre of
the comic muse. Mr Joe Barnes's favourite songs are
Naughty Jemima Brown, The Barber's Wife, and Fickle
False Matilda. All three point morals. . . . Paddy Fan-
nagan's song of the Irish wake is highly characteristic.
Paddy Fannagan comes on in a bob-tailed frieza coat, and
a hat without a brim or a crown—the national costume of
Ireland—and puts his shillelagh on the floor, saying that it
represents the body of the deceased Patrick 0' Whack . • .
The performance of Mademoiselle Pettitoe, the charming
ballerina and transformation dancer, are described in the
bills as " pleasing," which, however, is a weak expression.
They may be said to be highly sensational. Mademoiselle
Pettitoe comes on first of all as a Scotch fish-gill, dances in
a manner characteristic of Scotia, and runs off to return the
next minute as an Trish colleen, with a jig; then a dusky
daughter of Egypt; and in rapid and breathless succession,
as a female representative of Spain, Italy, Poland, and other
picturesque countries, until she reduces her costume to that
scant condition which leaves nothing beyond the assump-
tion of the God of Love. When Mademoiselle Pettitoe
dances violently in this character, with nothing on to speak
of but a bow and arrow, there is always a feverish expecta-
tion mingled with souse apprehension that she will inconti-
nently appear next, without going off, as the God of Love's
mother.—Dickens' "1411 else Year Round."
DEER STALKING ON DEESIDE.—The Hon. George
S. Duff, on Monday last, was out in the Alton.
Ower forest, and had a most successful stalk—bringing down
three splendid stags, weighing each from 15 to 16 stones,
clean. On Wednesday, on Cairn Vaich, he brought down
another stag of 16 stones, possessed of a very elegant head;
while on Thursday the hon. gentleman was out deer stalk-
ing on Morven, killing one stag of upwards of 16 stones
weight. On Friday and Saturday a similar success attended
him, on the former day bringing down a fine stag in the
woods proximate to Mar Lodge, and on the latter another on
the Glenchristie hills, making a total for the week of seven
grand stags. Mr Amehurst, brother to Viscount Holmes-
dale, was out deer stalking on Wednesday last in Cordovon
forest, bringing down two splendid stags, one of which had
a very handsome royal head, and the other a flashy one of
eight tines. On Monday last Viscount Holmesdale, M.P ,
had a most successful stalk,when one stag full to his rifle. The
head was a very rare specimen of what is termed in technical
phraseology of deer stalking the real caber-feigh, Last week
the noble Earl of Fife had grand eport at Mar Lodge, entirely
eclipsing anything that has been done in Mar forest this
season. On Wednesday his lordship went out deer stalking
and brought down two splendid stage, one of which
weighed the enormous avoirdupois of 18st 81b, clean; the
oth:r weighed 15st 101 b. On the following day he was even
more successful, killing three noble monarchs of the forest,
two of which possessed gorgeous royal heads, and weighed
respectively, clean, 181st, 17st 21b, and 16st 61b.
Oo
Friday again the noble earl was out deer stalking, when
two ether stags fell successively to him, weighing last 101 b,
and 15st 61b respectively. This makes a grand total of
seven stags in three days, two of them royal, and other
two of the heaviest weight shot in Mar forest this season,—
Dundee Adees tiser.
The Munich journals state that the young King
of Bavaria has attached the composer Richard Wagner to
his court, and conferred on him a pension of 10,000 f. a-year.