The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OP TEE GREAT EASTERN.

The Great Eastern arrived at Liverpool to-day
from New York.

LITERATURE.

The Dramatic, wick
Equeartan, and Mama,

Fund Almanac fot 1863. By J. W. Anson.
This is the seventh year of this useful little pub-
lication which has a special claim on all lovers of
dramatic art, from the worthy purpose to which the
proceeds are devoted. The profits are given to the
Dramatic Sick Fund, and specially laid aside for the
interment of those unfortunate members of this pre-
carions profession who may have died friendless in
hospitals or unions. It was probably from
the fulfilment of this benevolent purpose that
this little almanac became the means of intro-
ducing the Necropolis Company to the leading
members of the dramatic profession, who are
indebted to to it for the gift of the
land on which the College now stands. The most
noticeable feature in this little work is the summary
of greit events of the drama, which extends over
a period of 2,300 years, reaching from the death of
Sheridan Knowles, in 1862, to the first celebration
of the Olympic games in Greece. The names of
London, provincial, colonial, and American theatres
and managers are given, with all other information
likely to be useful to the pablic or the profession.

COLONIAL AID FOR LANCASHIRE.—The Provin-
vincial Government of Canterbury, New Zealand,
have appropriated a sum of £lO,OOO for granting free pas-
sages to that province to female domestic servants of good
character, and single men and married couples having a
knowledge of farm and labouring work, to be selected from
the cotton districts. The arrangements for carrying out
the object, it is understood, are to be entrusted to her Ma-
jesty's Emigration Commissioners.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Jan. 15. -The cot-
ton market has assumed a quieter tone to-day; neverthe-
less, the sales reach fully 10,000 bales, one half on specula-
tion and for export. Yesterday's advance has been well
maintained.
Mn. EDWIN JAMES.—The New York correspon-
dent of the Standard, writing upon Jan. 2, says :
In the Supreme Court to-day Mary Ann James succeeded
in getting a decree of divorce from Edwin James, the cele-
brated lawyer. Sbe can marry again, but he cannot,
although most husbands under similar circumstances do
get married, and the law does not touch them. Mr. James
to-day is not the husband of the late Mrs. James. If she
is single he is too, in common sense point of view, although
the law says he is not.
JUGGED HARE.—The following is an instance,
says the Medical Times and Gazette, showing how
our profession is exposed to ridicule through the exagge-
rations of chemists and sanitarians, who argue a priori,
.
forgetting that, in all that pertains to human life, experi-
ence is the only safe guide. It is said that Dr. the
food analyst for Birmingham, summoned a game dealer be-
fore the magistrates on the ground that he had in his shop
hares which were putrid and unfit for food, and which were
therefore condemned and ordered to be destroyed. When
the defendant came before the bench 14 days afterwards
the doctor is said to have deposed that " all meat that had
undergone any process of decomposition was very unwhole-
sofne and poisonous. He did not think fire destroyed the
poison of decomposition nor hid the taste of it." At this
point we are told a professional cook was called in, who
produced a saucepan boiling hot, filled with jugged hare,
and requested Dr. Hid to taste whether it was good. Dr.
Hill did so, and replied, "It appears to me very good, but
rather highly seasoned ; I should not object to eat it my-
-self." Great was the laughter when it was shown that this
was one of the hares which had been pronounced by this
eminent chemit4 as unfit for food 14 days previously. The
reporters, attorneys, witnesses, and spectators hereupon
adjourned to lunch off the hare, which was placed at their
disposal ; and, on the resumption of business, Professor
W. Sands Cox, of Queen's College, deposed solemnly that
" hare is not goo I to eat till it does smell, fire destroys the
smell : hung game is wholesome." Solvuntur risutabulx.
The magistrate evidently repented in his soul that he had
ordered the other hares to be destroyed, Every rational
stomach will feel that things are coming to an alarming
pass, when a dish of jugged hare shall come under the ban
of the pseudo-sanitarian.

THE REPRESENTATION OF WEST SOMERSET.—
Mr. 'Moody has just issued his address to the electors
of West Somerset announcing
his resignation of his seat in
the House of Commons. Mr. Moody says--" After what
has fallen from me at the late large meetings of the consti- I
tueney the subject of this address will take no one by sur-
prise. In announcing my early resignation of the trust
with which you have so long honoured me, I address you
with mingled feelings of
gratitude and regret—grateful for
tt e large amount of favour and indulgence which you have
grantod me, and grieved that the tie which has for so many
years united us must now be severed. Advancing years
have br ught with them an increa•ing inability fitly to dis-
charge my required duties, and in justice to your interests,
as well as to myself, it, becomes me to withdraw fiem the
responsibility of being any
longer one of your representa-
tives in Parliament, The present time seems most oppor-
tune for my retirement
--as, on the one hand, no questions
of great importance are pending, so that I cannot be said to
relinquish my duties at a critical moment ; and, on the other
' hand, this freedom from grave political discussions permits
you calmly to exercise your privilege as electors without
undue agitation and excitement ; and the election will take
place at a time when you are not occupied in those busy
scenes of agricultur4 employment in which, if deferred for
a few months,by the renewed bounty of a gracious Provi-
dence, I h pe you will be again successfully engaged." MO
W. H. P. G. Langton, of Hatch Park, who formerly repfe-
ed the division, has announced his intention of offering
himself is the Conservative interest; and Mr. li.alph _e:
Ville Urenville, the present high sh'eriff
of the county,
spoken of by the Liberals as likely to be his opponent.