The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-07 00:00:00

HOLBORN AMPHITHEATRE.

After great improvements in the way of re-decoration,
alteration of mechanical arrangement, and engagement of
fresh artistes, the Holborn Amphitheatre has opened the
season with great promise. The building .which encloses
the arena is much more attractive than formerly; the
company is one of a very high order, and the collection of
horses, selected in great part from Herr Carry's stock,
leaves nothing to be desired. Mr. Alfred Bradbury is
again` conspicuous with his well known feats, which are
received with as much favour as ever. His leap on the
back of a horse running at full speed is really very fine.
Mr. A. Bradbury also shines in a picturesque series of
equestrian feats as "Le Matelot." Mr. James Lee's per-
formance is one of admirable daring. His somersaults on
the back of a cantering horse deserve all the applause
they receive. Nor are the ladies of the arena, though few
in number, deficient in skill. Mdlle. Magni and Mdlle.
Montero ride with skill and grace ; and Mdlle. Beatrice
Chiarini, an Italian girl, merits special praise, on account
of her youth and the skill of her performance. Her somer-
sault in the air, whilst leaping over a riband, is exceedingly
good. Those who admire acrobats will find abundant enter-
tainment ; Monsieur Bravazzi is great upon the trapeze,
and the Hicken family appear in an entertainment which
is " classical " in its way, but belongs to an order of per-
formance for which we have little liking. The brothers
Lavator Lee perform gymnastic contortions whilst play-
ing the violin ; their entertainment is not new in character,
but is very clever of its kind—indeed no item in the pro-
gramme so much pleases the audience. The clowns are
numerous, and at least not below the average standard of
ability. M. Preece, the Frenoh comique, gave pleasure
by his proficiency as a musician, playing the violin whilst
climbing a ladder, which he maintains in a perpendicular
position by the oscillation of his body. Lastly, there is a
performing elephant, who is certainly not to be surpassed
by any member of his species. The performance is, on the
whole , extremely satisfactory. It is especially attrac-
tive to our foreign visitors, as it involves no difficulties of
language.

The Limerick Chronicle is gratified to know that
steps have at last been taken for a general collection
among the members of the Irish Church in the different
parishes of that city for the Sustentation Fund.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.—Mr. Green-
wood, the principal of Owen's College, Manchester, in
opening the session of the evening classes of that institu-
tion on Wednesday night, criticised Mr. Lowe's proposal
to throw open Civil Service appointments to compaitive
examination. He believed the results of the proposal, so
far as elementary education is concerned, would be bene-
ficial, but expressed his fear that the uniformity of exami-
nation which must necessarily be established would force
the higher education of the country into a uniformity
most disastrous for the culture either of literature or
science.

MISS RYE'S EMIGRANTS.--ABSP, Rye has returned
from Canada during the last few days, and has had an in-
terview with the Liverpool Industrial Schools Committee.
She said that she had not the slightest difficulty in dispos-
ing of the last batch of children, and, although she had left
ten at the depot in Canada, yet they were so very young as
to be suitable only for adoption, not for service. The ap-
plicants for children to be adopted were comparatively few.
Very young children were not so easily disposed of as girls
of nine and ten years old and upwards. For the latter the
demand was great and increasing. She had now fully
two hundred applications for young girls, not all from
Canada this 'time, for a great many of them were froia
the United States. On her last voyage but one she took
nine girls to the Mississippi district, and she had recently
received a letter saying that they had given such great
satisfaction that she would have fifty applicants for each
child she could take to that district. From Vicksburg
she had forty applications, Lexington twenty, and
ten from Danville, Kentucky. If she had twenty times
the power and strength of carrying on the work, she would
be able to find homes for the children. The bulk of those
with whom they are placed for service were respectable
families engaged in farming land, and she thought that
kind of life the most advantageous for such children to be
put to. When the children had been there 12 months she
intended to ask for photographs of some of them and bring
them to England to those interested in the children, and
she felt sure they would scarcely know them again, they
looked so well and were dressed so differently. She would
be glad to take as many more as the guardians could send
from Liverpool, and also from other workhouses, though
she did not desire to have any under nine years old, owing
partly to the season of the year, and the greater difficulty
of disposing of such young children. She wished that a
similar agency could be organised for sending out young
orphan boys, for there was just as wide a field and as great
a demand for them as for irls,

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