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

THE SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE.

(From Fun)
1300 T 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 I 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.)
6o smile as you was used to grin,
And at your boot look 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 I then remember the Brigades,
Whose cry is, "Clean yer boots 1"

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 he 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 TIE 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 ono occasion expressed his
groat 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 Newftate, 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 Temp publishes a letter from M. Oditon
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 he trusts that this blot in the existing legisls
tion will ere long bo 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 Doixe,
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 HOLT 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 ar e at
least fifty desecrated, filled up, and comparatively unknown.
We always find that the estimation in which they were held
depended on two causes their medicinal virtues or
properties; and, second, their character and associations.
Of course, at one time or another, all the healing effects
ere 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 HolysVelli
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. Tho 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 I" Chorus—" Yes;
We'll Wait a Little Longer l"—Fun.

THE FED ERALS IN VIRGINIA.--The correspondent
of the New York Iribune, 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 astonishing,l37 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 ,ort of
loyal neutrality, but there are no unconditional Unionists,
and the women and children tell the truth without disguise.
who professed to be a
At Woodgrove a young, woman,
told the correspondent that
Christian of the Baptist mode,
she had no aspirations for Heaven if any Yankees were
there. He asked a gray-headed negro who brought round
his horse for him whether he, also, was a rebel, and got for
answer that he was watching and waiting. it is known
that coloured people have been encouraged to join the
Federal army as teamsters, cooks, servants, laundresses, and
the like, and afterwards, being found in the way,have been
wages to be retained
rststuld be established in
go
disloyaltybaok to their
of
theirm ams masters, tuonitdilttohe
a court of law. " A good many coloured
to you have been brought back," people who came
said
are worse off than if they had the old man, "and
stayed at home; so I'm just
watChilag and wAiting,”