The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-06 00:00:00

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ANCIENT DWARFS.—History has preserved the
name of Conopas, who belonged to Julia, the
daughter of Augustus ; he was two feet nine inches high.
She had also a freedmaid called Andromeda, of the same
diminutive proportions. Marc Antony had a dwarf below
two feet, whom, by way of irony, he called Sisyphus.
Augustus exhibited in his plays a certain Lucius, who, as
Seutonius relates, was born of honest parents, was less than
two feet in height, weighed 17 pounds, and had a very strong
voice. Augustus caused his statue to be made, and so little
did he consider expense that the apples of the eyes were
represented by precious stones. This statue, formerly in
the cabinet of the kings of France, represented an ill-
proportioned, ricketty abortion, with nothing of the air
of a little adolescent, as natural dwarfs usually have. He
might be supposed to be about 30 years old. Tiberius
admitted a dwarf to his table, and allowed him to ask the
boldest questions, which he, taking advantage of, hastened
the punishment of more than one state criminal. Domi-
tian assembled such a number of these little creatures that
he formed them into a troop of miniature gladiators.
Pliny says, "Marcus Varus repotted that Marius Maximus
and Marcus Tullius wore but two cubits, or 2ft. llin. high,
and yet they were both gentlemen and knights of Rome ;
and, in truth, we ourselves have seen their bodies, as they
lie embalmed, which testify the same thing." The taste for
dwarfs continued to the reign of Alexander Severus ; but
that prince expelled the whole race, male and female, from
his court, upon which the fashion of rearing them for traf-
fic soon ceased throughout the empire.—Dublin University
Magazine..
M. Louis Blanc has addressed a letter to the
London daily newspapers, informing the public that ho
does not approve of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln.—

he Queen. •
TThere was an influx of £61,000 in bar gold at the
Bank yesterday.

The Anglo-Austrian Bank will be prepared to
pay, on and after May 9,6 s. sd. per share, being a
total payment for interest and dividend at the rate
of 8i per cent. per annum for the year 1864.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Tuesday, the 9th May, a special settling
day in the shares of the Darjeeling Company
(Limited), which are to be marked in the daily
lists. The committee have also ordered the shares
of Bolckon, Vaughan, and Co. (Limited), and of
the London and Lisbon Cork Wood Company
(Limited), to be officially quoted, the former in the
daily and the latter in the twice a-week lists.
ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF PAUPERS IN ST.
GEORGE'S WORKHOUSE.—At the usual weekly
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meeting of the directors and governors of the poor of the
parish of St. George, Hanover-square, on Wednesday, two
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f April a late inmate, named JohnlTe Hussey,wrote t the
President of the Poor-law Board complaining the
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duct of the nurse and of the taskmaster
towards him as a
sick pauper at Mount-street workhouse. On coming to
the doctor, that gentleman ordered him out of the estab-
lishment, ho not being cured at the time. About the same
time another pauper, named Thomas Fennell, also wrote
to the Poor-law Board as to what occurred to one of the
other inmates named Robert John Levy. On a particular
Tuesday night the taskmaster and trampmsster came to
that person's ward demanding him to get up, as they
wanted him to sit up all night with a pauper in the sick
ward. He refused, alleging that he had had no notice of
it, and been hard working all day. The two officials then,
without more ado, were stated to have dragged him out of
bed in a shameful manner on to the floor, then through the
ward, intending to take him down stairs along the pas-
sages and across the yard to the tramp cell. He also pre-
ferred other charges to the same effect. The subject had
been very carefully investigated by the directors, and the
statements in the two letters were considered by them to
be wholly without foundation. The following resolution
was unanimously agreed to after some discussion :—" That
the directors and governors of the poor entirely exonerate
the officers implicated in the charges brought against them
by John Hussey and Robert John Levy, as cohtained in
their letters to the Poor-law Board, there being no truth
whatever in the same. The directors are fully satisfied
with the conduct of the officers of the establishment gene-
rally." The officials complained of were then called in
and informed of the decision of the board.