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

FEBRUARY.
Lincoln Spring 23
25
Hungerforl

Warwick
.. 16
Durham
Northampton 29
30
Catterick

Epsom Spring ........
Newmarket Craven .... 11
Newmarket First Spring 25

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Manchester
Harpenden
24
Epsom

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Chelmsford 2B
New Forest Lunt 2B
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Worcester (Summer)
Ipswich

LY.
I Nottingham
Winchester
Southampton 2O
Chesterfield
I
IGoodwood

sSIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, lan. 20.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeae, and cloudy weather.
Majesty's ship Industry, from Rio Janeiro—Henry Dun-
can, from St. John's, N.B.
(By MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
—Arrived—Her
GRAVE N V n sday Morning.
19—Blyth, from Faro—liroo Boy, from
PORTSMOUTH, Jan• 19•—. Wind S.
Lagos.
ved, Jan.

from London for Colombo—
Dllia, Wednseday Morning.
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Tic 'TYRANNY OF BAD TEMPER.—The —The bad temper
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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 as well talk of summer
ardours in the midst of a snow-storm 1 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 fiat, 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 peccant 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 ? Amanda, 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
covered with snow more black than white—nor masked by
vineyards, though it may be by vinegar jars ; with a temper
and passions always at explosion point ; without a thought
for others in all this grim selfishness of hers, and with not
a spark of pity in her lurid fires of rage and hate ? Cer-
tainly.not Amanda. She. P''°r 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. Wigsby, 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 sit loosely at the
last, and drop off on the road for others to pick up and
carry.—Dickens's "All the Year Round