The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-27 00:00:00

PUNCH AND 7HE GA.ROTTEPS,

Ae admirable a cartoon as we have seen for a I
long while in Punch, adorns the current number of
our London Charivari. The Right Hon. Baronet
the Home Secretary is represented in the affectionate
embrace of one of the garotters. A deadlier grapple
in its way has perhaps never been represented by
an artist's pencil, Poor Sir George Grey looks for
all the world as if he couldn't help it ! His dis-
torted features, peering over the brawny arms
tucked under his chin by the ruffian who has just
adroitly contrived, in burglar's cant, "to put the mug
on him !" The point of the caricature, however, lies
in the exclamation of the garotter's pal, who—on
witnessing the performance and recognizing the
Home Secretary as the intended victim, cries out in
dismay—" Let go, Bill, can't yer —it's our kind
non - interfering Friend, Sir George Grey !! !"
The whole comic cut being headed—(to point the
moral and adorn the tale)—" The Garotter's Friend."
If the satire goes not home to the conscience of the
right hon. baronet, he is certainly made of sterner
stuff than we give him credit for ! Even Lord
Dundreary might acknowledge—looking at the
picture through his eyeglass—that it is one of those
things any fellow might understand. If (to use
the familiar phrase of Lord Bacon) the truth in this
matter of garotting has tot, by John Tenniel's
drawing this week in Punch, been brought home to
Sir George Grey's "business and bosom," it must
at least, we take it, have been brought directly
home to the right hon. baronet's judgment end
windpipe !

The new Montgolfler balloon invented by M.
Godard, the aeronaut, has a capacity of 4,300 metres. The
car is provided with an apparatus which enables the aero-
naut to ascend without either gas or ballast, and to descend
or go higher up at pleasure. This apparatus consists of a
kind of stove formed by three cylinders separated from each
other by insulating substances, whereby all danger of fire
is averted. The flame is completely under the control of
the aerial traveller, and is prevented from rising too high
by a cap of wire gauze. M. Godard asserts that he can in-
flate his balloon in 30 minutes, and load it with from 600
to 800 kilogrammes over and above the weight of his person
and his accessories, and moreover that his balloon may be
pierced with a bombshell without endangering the aero-
naut, who can himself cast projectiles of any kind with im-
punity. Should this new invention succeed this balloon
may be of considerable service in time of war.

The talk of Paris (politics apart, Bien en-
tendu) is the success of Mdlle. Patti at the Italian Opera.
She appeared last night in Lucia, and her success was even
more decisive than on her debut in Sonnambula. There is,
in fact, a perfect Patti furore, and the theatre, which up to
her appearance presented a beggarly account of empty
boxes, is now densely crowded every night. Mario came
out at the French Opera a couple of nights ago as Raoul,
in the Huguenots. His warmest admirers admit that his
voice is not what it used to be, but there was nothing in his
performance to justify the brutal reception of so finished an
artiste. Mario was so distressed at his own failure and at
the ungenerous treatment of the public, that he immedi-
ately threw up his engagement. He was bound for three
months at the rate of £4OO a month. At the Italiens Mdlle.
Patti receives £6O a night.
THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY.—We have on more
than one occasion drawn attention to the pressing need
there exists of enlarging and otherwise improving the
Guildhall Library, so that it might be made fairly available
for those who are desirous of searching into its valuable
contents. We are glad to perceive that there is at last a
prospect of this much-desired end being attained. The
Court of Common Council has ordered that the rooms
over the porch and the upper part of the Comptroller's
office shall be appropriated to the use of the library, at
a cost not exceeding £3,000, and it is hoped that the
works will be commenced early in the ensuing year. By
the proposed plan an entrance to the library in front of the
Guildhall will be obtained. A stone staircase will lead, first
to the museum, and then up another flight to the library,
which will occupy the whole length of the front of the
building. The library will be well lighted from the top, and
well warmed. The visitors to the library, and also the
readers (who are of much greater importance), have largely
increased of late ; and the library may be pronounced in a
flourishing condition, and would be more so but for its
" cabined, cribbed, confined" state. The monster album
from the International Exhibition has been receivei, and
will be fitted up in a few days. Some ancient documents of
great civic interest haverecently beenadded to the museum.
We shall be glad to learn that a commencement of the pro-
posed alterations has been made. Once inaugurated, they
wilt doubtless, under the directions of the chairman (Mr.
D. Smith), and the members of the committee, be vigor-
ously carried out.---City Press.
(JAROTTE ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.—On Monday
night, as a labouring man named Watson was proceeding
homo by the Ramsdale-road, in the outskirts of Scar-
borough, he was joined by a private of the 10th Hussars, a
detachment of which is at present stationed at Scar-
borough. They entered into friendly conversation, and
walked some distance along the road, when suddenly the
soldier seized his companion by the throat, and, after using
him roughly, succeeded in taking from him a silver
watch. It fortunately happened that police sergeant
Lowden was in the neighbourhood, he having for some
time entertained an idea that the locality was one
most favourable to such a crime as the one now re-
corded. He heard the man's cries for help, and hastening
to the spot, he saw the soldier at some distance leaping the
hedge of a field, and at once disappear. Having obtained
of Watson a brief description of the offender, the officer suc-
ceeded in a very short time in obtaining such information
as made the capture of the thief an early certainty. Pro-
ceeding to a low house frequented by the soldier, the police-
officer had the good fortune to overhear his man in conver •
sation with a prostitute, and apparently making with her
some arrangements for the disposal of the stolen watch.
He at once apprehended him and the watch was found upon
him. The prisoner proved to be Private Charles Sturges,
of the 10th Hussars. He has been committed by the magis-
trates for trial at the ensuing assizes at York.—Manchester
Examiner.

Two BROTHERS DROWNED AT HARROWGATE.—
On Monday afternoon Joseph Manby, aged 17, and Benja-
min Manby, aged 14, sons of Mr. Manby, farmer and cab
proprietor, Bakerlane, Ilarrowgate, went to a pond formed
by an exhausted stone quarry, within 40 yards of their
father's house. The water had been frozen over, and several
little boys had already ventured a few feet from the
edge. The young Manbys, after being a few minutes on
the ice, struck into the centre of the pond, when the ice
gave way. They shouted to their sister, who was watch-
ing them from the bank, and she rushed forward to save
them, but in a few steps she found herself nearly up to
the neck in water, and had some difficulty in escaping
with her own life. Her screams, added to those of the
children present attracted her parents and the neighbours
to the spot, and efforts were made to rescue the drowning
youths by means of poles, pitchforks, &c. At length a
raft was rapidly made and launched. By its aid the bodies
were raised to the surface of the water locked in each
other's arms, but before they could be landed the death
grasp was relaxed, and one of the bodies fell into the water
again. It was, however, found in a few minutes and
brought to land and conveyed to the father's house.,
Nearly three-quarters of an hour had elapsed before the
bodies were recovered. Life was of course extinct, and
two fine athletic youths, who less than an hour before had
left their father's house full of life and spirits, lay in that
house cold and lifeless.—Leeds Mercury.
POWERS OF ENDURANCE.—Capt. C. F. Hall has
just been narrating before the American Geographical So-
ciety his recent Arctic experience while in search of traces
of the Franklin expedition, and took the opportunity of
introducing to the society the Esquimaux man whom he
brought away with him—a hardy hunter, who has been
known to stand for three days and nights motionless on the
ice beside a seal hole. Captain Hall described the ability of
the Esquimaux to go without food as striking him as quite
astounding. He has known them do so for weeks. He
heard of an instance in which a party of these intrepid seal-
hunters were floated off from the mainland on a pack of ice,
and could not return for 30 days, during which time they
had not a morsel of food ; yet they survived, although even
their faithful and wonderful dogs succumbed to the pangs
of hunger.
SUICIDE OF A WELL-KNOWN TRAPEZE PER-
FORMER. —Frederick Carini, known to visitors of the Lon-
don Eldorado, Leicester-square, for his ability as a per-
former on the trapeze, has committed suicide under the
following distressing circumstances. It appears that on
the 24th inst., he parted from h's wife at the door of the
LondonEldorado, being at the time in his usual spirits, and
from that time nothing was seen of him. On Tuesday,
however, his body was discovered in the Thames, near
Whitehall, and at once taken to the dead-house at St.
Martin's Church. It is stated that some time ago the
deceased met with an accident while performing, and there
is reason to believe that it has affected his brain. The de-
ceased was a very handsome man, possessed great muscular
strength, and his age was about 33.
ORCHESTRAL PITCH.—The following paragraph,
which appears in a morning paper, doubtless means some-
thing, but to the uninitiated it is a curiosity:--" The French
orchestral pitch, as settled by the commission whose discus-
Sion excited so much attention hero and elsewhere some
couple of years ago, appears to be in progress of adoption
throughout Germany." What is " French orchestral
pitch ?" Is it a new importation, or a production of the
Gallic soil which is to supersede armour in the construc-
tion of vessels of war ? Or have the French orchestras
been " pitch",ing into another, and is the quarrel being
taken up all over Germany ? Or has the "pitch" or or-
chestrale anything to do with the black art? Is it anw
method of playing " pitch and toss P" All the questions
may remain unanswered, and we simply say to the writer
of the paragraph, Ta I to

YHE DOCTOR IN DIFFICULTIES.

(From Fun.)
Doctor Samuel J. was a swell in his day,
But—it shows how earth's estimates vary--
No one now will acknowledge he knew etymology
And we sneer at his dietio-nary.
Oh I but that spelling of Johnson's
Really was very great nonsense,
R•a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Is a very wrong spelling of Johnson's.

Doctor Johnson was then thought the greatest of men,
And he gave himself fine airs and graces ;
But this grand man of letters now meets with his betters,
And is mixed up with second-rate races,

Oh I but that wonderful doctor
Was a very poor spelling concocter ;
R-a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,•--'tis plain,
'Twas not rightly derived by the doctor.

To be clapt on the back of a reindeer, good lack,
For some cute bubble-wager inciter,
To ride a sham race was a very strange case
For a lexicographical writer,
Oh but in ignorance Johnson
This spelling agreed for the nonce on;
R-a-i-n; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Was a hasty mistake of old Johnson.

Johnson, thus made the serf of the ring and the turf,
Quite enough every feeling to shock is 1
It's too bad, I declare, when our Learning's big bear
Has to dance for amusement of jockeys,
Ohl but the idol of Bozzy
Wasn't meant for such work as this, was he ?
It-a. i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Has o'erthrowu the great idol of Bozzy.

That this famed son of Learning a blackleg's been turning,
Is a charge that is proved to the letter,
Wherewith spelling reindeer, of transactions most queer,
He an aider becomes—and a-better.
Oh 1 how disgraceful for Sammy,
The great hand at " lexicogrammy ;"
R-a-i-n; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Has spell-bound the wonderful Sammy.

THE SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE.

(From Fives.)
BOOT THE FIRST.

Oh I smile as you was used to laugh,

Before that splash of dirt
Was cast across your lustrous calf,
To dim it with its squirt.
Your thoughts, perchance, my noble swell,
That mud cannot forget,
But list the tidings which I tell—
" There's lots of blacking yet 1"

BOOT THE SECOND.

Oh! name not that departed shine,
The polish of Japan ;
I'll make you, as to feet, as fine
As any other man,
Regard my brushes how they flash
Reflected in the jet;
And think, whene'er you get a splash,
" There's lots of blacking yet 1"

(Encore verse, while trousers are timed down.)
So smile as you was used to grin,
And at your boot loot; down,
Yes, smile to see your face therein,
Then give the boy his brown.
When dust your upper leather shades,
Or mud its gleam pollutes,
Oh! then remember the Brigades,
Whose cry is, "Clean yer boots I"

MORE GAROTTE AND STREET ROBBERIES.—
(THIS DAY.)—This morning information was received by
the police that between 12 and 1 o'clock, as Mr. Otley, of
Surrey-street, Blackfriars-road, musician in the orchestra
at one of the theatres, was returning home at the conclu-
sion of the performance, he was knocked down by a life pre-
server, and rendered momentarily insensible, when he was
plundered of a gold watch chain (maker, Wallis and Deacon,
No. 12,090), a valuable cornopean and case, and £2 18s.
6d. in money. Mr. Otley, on reaching home, was attended
by Dr. Cotton, but from the injuries inflicted it is feared
some time must elapse before ha will be able to resume his
professional duties. Last evening, shortly before 5 o'clock,
as a gentleman was passing through one of the passages on
the north side of St. Paul's Cathedral which leads into
Paternoster-row, he was felled to the ground by a ruffian
who had concealed himself in a dark recess, and almost at
the same moment some persons came up, and the fellow
took to flight. He was pursued and captured, but it re-
quired the united exertions of several policemen to take
him to the station. His victim was carried bleeding and
insensible to the hospital.

BARON BRAMWELL AND THE GAROTTERS.—Mr.
Baron Bramwell, as will be seen by our report, tried several
persons at the Central Criminal Court yesterday who were
charged with the now prevailing practice of garotting.
His lordship has on more than one occasion expressed his
great antipathy to garotters, and his determination to put
an end to their business as soon as possible whenever an
opportunity presents itself to him in his official capacity.
Yesterday morning the learned judge walked down to his
duties at the Central Criminal Court, followed by a large
black dog, whose appearance was at once calculated to
strike terror into the mind of a garotter meditating an attack
upon the learned judge. The dog appears to be only in
process of active training, as the learned baron turned round
at almost every step to satisfy himself that he was faithfully
and steadily following him. On turning into the Old Bailey
his lordship, seeing the number of person assembled around
the approaches to Newgate, took the middle of the road and
carefully watched his black friend until he had safely con-
fided him to the care of the prison authorities.

The Temps publishes a letter from M. Odilon
Barrot on the subject of the recent acquittal of the woman
Doize at Amiens, on a charge of parricide, after having
been previously found guilty and condemned to hard labour
for life. The learned gentleman thinks that this incident
Proves the necessity of a reform in the manner of conduct-
ing in France the preliminary examinations of accused
persons. Had not the jury, by a lucky contradiction,
granted the prisoner the benefit of extenuating circumstan-
ces, which nothing appeared to justify, the poor woman
must have been executed, as there was apparently no
ground for the exercise of the Imperial clemency, and the
wrong would then have been irremediable, both to the vic-
tim herself and to her family. The learned gentleman
thinks that means ought to be devised for doing justice to
persons condemned by a judicial error, and also to their
families, and ho trusts chat this blot in the existing legisla-
tion will ere long be removed. Mr. 0. Barrot concludes by
proposing to the editor of the Temps that a subscription
should be opened for the benefit of the poor woman Doize,
and puts down his name for 100 fr. The editor states that
subscriptions will be received for that object at the office of
the journal.

THE HOLY WELLS OF WALES.—Before quitting
the subject of Welsh usages, we must not omit to mention
the Holy Wells, which are both numerous and important,
although for one well in use and properlycared for, there are at
least fifty desecrated, filled up, and comparatively unknown.
We always find that the estimation in which they were held
depended on two causes :—First, their medicinal virtues or
properties ; and, second, their character and associations.
Of course, at one time or another, all the healing effects
were based upon a superstitious foundation, and probably
environed with superstitious rites; but it is an encouraging
fact, that all these wells retain the patronage of the sick and
infirm to this day, while those which were celebrated merely
in connection with religion have lost their prestige, and in
nine cases out of ten retain only the legend. First and fore-
most of Welsh wells is that of St. Winifred, at Holywell,
Flintshire, celebrated as much for the exquisite perpen-
dicular building within which it is enshrined, as for the
marvellous properties of the water, proofs of which are
plentiful in the forest of sticks, crutches, and other kinds of
votive offerings which have been deposited in the fretwork
at the roof and pillars. There is really so much that is
curious about this well, that apart from the legend, we
cannot wonder that a large amount of the supernatural
clung to it. The enormous quantity of water that bubbles
up, viz., 100 tons a minute, the colouring of the stones by
the red moss, attributed to the blood of the saint, the sin-
gular fact that although intensely cold, the water never
freezes, are all features worth notice in themselves. It was
invested with other properties in times of yore, as Drayton
gravely informs us that no animal would drown when
thrown into its waters.—Once a Week.

RUSSELL'S LAST.—EarI Russell playing on piano-
forte a Good Times Coming, Boys, the two Emperors of
France and Russia joining in the chorus, " Mediation's
Coming, Boys ; Wait a Little Longer 1" Chorus—" Yes;
We'll Wait a Little Longer I"—Fun.
THE FED ERALS IN VIRGINIA.--The correspondent
of the ZVew York. tribune, writing from Ashby's Gap, de-
scribes the Federal army as quite in an enemy's country,
and says that the troops see it, and spoil the Egyptians ac-
cordingly. Their draughts upon the orchards, henroosts,
corn cribs, and fence rails are astoniphingly heavy. Since
leaving the Potomac he has not heard a single white Virgi-
nian, male or female, profess " loyalty." Under pressure,
when private property is being taken, many profess a tort of
loyal neutrality, but there are no unconditional Unionists.
and the women and children tell the truth without disguise.
At Woodgrove a young woman, who professed to be a
Christian of the Baptist mode, told the correspondent that
she had no aspirations for Heaven if any Yankees were
He asked a gray-headed negro who brought round
inhgeeanndenuo'
horse for him whether he, also, was a rebel
hthtsere.
waiting.
iged to join sjokinnotwhne
,lan got for
atilnastwereoltohuartedhepewoapslewhaatvche
Federal army as teamsters, cocks, servants, laundresses, and
the like, and afterwards, being found in the way, have been
told to go back to their masters,
until the disloyalty of their n the
wages to be retained
asters should be established in
a court of law. "A good m l
coloured people who came
to you have been brought back,"ily said the old man, "and
are worse off than if they had stayed at home; 60 I'm just
watching ncl wolfing," - ,