The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-07 00:00:00

" To the clergy of the rural deanery of Chesterfield."

The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers will
present the Freedom of the Company to his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, on Thursday nowt; after which
the Prime Warden will entertain his Royal Highness at a
splendid deleuner.—City .Press.

THE ECCENTRIC WINDHAM FAIRLY ON THE
ROAD AT LAST.—Mr. Windham has indignantly
" cut" the rail, and flung his offended guard's uniform and
door-key into the face of the ungrateful, unappreciating
Great Eastern directors. Ho has again returned to the
road, and on Monday last was legally and formally inducted
into the possession of the Norwich and Cromer stage-coach,
horses, harness, stabling, curry-combs, brushes, pitch-
forks, brooms, buckets, "and all other sundry and divers
utensils." He is his own coachman, and, like the late Sir
Vincent Cotton, on another route, the passengers, gentle
and simple, wiil have the satisfaction of being " tooled"
down the road by a "real gentleman b)rn." We have been
told the length of the stage is some two-and -twenty miles,
passing, for some distance, along the borders of the ex-
patrimonial estate of Fellbrigge Hall. We heard of a
curious incident occurring on the day ho took possession of
the ribbons, The first " inside" he booked happened to be
no less a personage than the Bishop of Norwich, but, when
his lordship learnt who the coachman was, he positively
refused to make good the contract, and immediately
"scratched" himself for the run down. Whether Mr.
Windham may make the matter answer as a commercial
speculation it is not for us to predict, but we think we are
not far wrong when we say that there are plenty of people
in the City who would scarcely expect to make money under
his mercantile superintendence. Be this as it may, if he
has a guard at all like himself we recommend the ride as a
curiosity, as well as a sensation. In sporting circles there
has long been a character known as tho " Eccentric Joey
Jones," who has more wit under his cap and bells than
superficial observers give him credit for. We have seen
Joey dressed a la Richard the Third, hump and all,
mounted on a sorry nag, trotting up Fleet-street in the
middle of the afternoon, followed by mounted .cpursuivant-
at arms,"
a genuino " darkey," costumed as Othello, to the
no small amusement and curiosity of an inquiring public.
Now, if Mr. Windham could get Joey for a guard, he
would have " the right man in the right place," to match.
Passengers need not be afraid of Mr. Windham, as he is
rather timid than otherwise when behind horseflesh. The
Norwich folks are in great good humour at coaching it
with this representative of the highly-respectable Windham
Family.—Era.

SPITEFUL!—" That old Frenchman was right,'' I
muttered Captain Bulstrode ; " there is a great
satisfaction in the misfortunes of others. If Igo to ray
dentist I like to find another wretch in the waiting-room ;
and I like to have my tooth extracted first, and to see him
glare enviously at me as I come out of the torture chamber,
knowing that my troubles are over, while his are to come."
—Miss Bracldon's "Aurora Floyd,"
WHAT IS COWARDICE ?—Very often the cowar-
dice is merely physical and may be got over. Many
very brave officers have, it is said, shown a great nervous-
ness, or rather nervelessness, in going into their first battle,
but afterwards, when grown warm in the combat, they ex-
hibit much coolness, self-possession, and bravery. The
timidityof woman, arising from her education, her softness,
wiikthloaudty
ammonuermhuanr:
her physical weakness, is not to be called cowardice, because
amanya women are often :mentally brave, and, as physicians
nsurgeons tell us, all women as a rule bear pain and
sickness with much more patience and resolution than men
hand, who will start and scream at a
if attacked, quietly
mouse, will, on the other, undergo the most painful opera-
tioni]. shoot a
burglar,