The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-03 00:00:00

LORD NELSON AND LADY HAMILTON.

We see a spare form now ; a weary, anxious look ; a
small-topped head ; a mouth that shuts up tightly, and
forms with itself and chin the smallest part by far of a
long thin face that, to be symmetrical, should be dividtd
nearly into three. This man has no right arm, and his
breast is covered with gold and jewelled stars. There is
no need to call out his name, and announce him as Horatio
Nelson. Everyone here and elsewhere knows him; and
everyone knows, also, who it is that is so closely at his
side. Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton—nursemaid, artists'
model, beauty, ambassador's wife—spite of the black wrong
it is to many, is near him now, as he and she longed for
her to be for ever, and we see the neck she hung on, and
the furrowed cheek she has so often kissed. She is so
lovely, it is impossible to wonder that Nelson chose her.
She is—simply and irresistibly—delicious. .Her face
laughs out beauty and love and joy altogether; her bright
hair lies about it in soft loose waves; she has sweet child-
like features ; ripe lips, a thorough challenge for kissing ;
clear-arched brows, long eye-lashes, and cheeks the very
tint of a sun-touched peach, She is Fosee now, it is true ;
that may make her look more winning. She has assumed
one of those attitudes in which she exhibits herself for the
entertainment of company (as some ladies sing a song, or
gentlemen are prevailed upon to make a speech) ; and the
Countessei Vere de Vere look coldly on her, and whisper
to one another that as it was her metier to do this once,
when she was the miynonne of George Romney's studio, it
is no wonder she is so skilful still. But she is not hin-
dered by the taunt. Wisely enough, she knows there is
no harm in having lent her beauty to be painted ; possibly
and with what deep and poisonous remorse—she thinks
that if that were the only stain upon her, she could
laugh in all these aristocratic faces, loudly and triumph-
antly indeed! But no reflex of this casts a blemish (or a
glory !) on her loveliness. She is a Bacchante ; wanton,
sportive, brilliant, and caressing as a witch ; and now she
is a Magdalene, and all her smiles are gone, and her melt-
ing eyes are raised to heaven, and her lips quiver and are
parted with a prayer. She is to die some day at white-
cuffed Calais, neglected and wretchedly poor ; has she a
thought of this, now she has poems written in her honour,
and she has this grave sailor sitting at her side? She
might feel the shadow overhanging her; but if she does,
she braves the death for the taste of this glad mirth alit?
glitter ;.and she loves her maimed and helpless sailor; and
he ;loves her; and his love strengthens for her deft help-
ing; and—the end is what was threatened from the
bezinning.—The New Monthly for January, 1370.

MINING ACCIDENT IN AMERICA.

A sad disaster has occurred at Stockton through the
ground giving way over a disused mine. Able* of houses
fell in so quickly that the inmates could not escape. Ten
persons are buried in the ruins, and are certainly dead.
The mine afterwards took fire, and it was thought the
buried persons would be burned. The cause of the acci-
dent was working the colliery too near the surface under
the houses, as there was oitly twenty feet enact) when
they caved in.

A telegram from Dundee on Thursday night stated
that that evening, during a terrible gale at Montrose, at the
entrance to the river Esk, a schooner, Hermes, was totally
lost, all her crew, six in number, being drowned, although
two lifeboats were „put and every effort was made to save
them. The rocket apparatus was also used unsuccessfully.

Two men, named Andres? Lynn, a hewer, and
James Moody, a putter, at West Cramlington Colliery,
were killed by a fall of stone on Thursday morning. The
fall took place not many yards from where the forme
was working, and whilst they were in the act of clearing
away the fall, a second block of stone came away and
crushed them to death.

THE WORD it Homonx."—A correspondent of the
Builder, alluding to the recent discussions on the etymo-
logy of the word Holborn, says that the prefix Hod really
means a hole or hollow, as in the name of Holbeck and
Holbrook, places where a small stream runs through a
hollow. Holborn is thus mentioned in Domesday Book,
the old Norman survey of England, compiled by order of
William the Conqueror. It is there recofded that "the
Xing n.% two cottiers at Holeburne, who pay twenty
pence a year."

All apprehensions of danger to the dockyard and
other Government establishments at Chatham, and
to a population of some 60,000 people living in the
locality, from the great powder magazines at IJpnor
Castle will soon be at an end. But one more cargo
of powder has to be removed, then the deteriorated
powder in the magazine will be taken away to be
remanufactured, and the building will become
harmless. It is understood that no dangerous
amount of any kind of explosive substance will
henceforth be kept in any magazine at Chatham.
The powder taken from Upnor is conveyed to the
magazines at Purfleet, but it will not remain there,
but be distributed among the various powder ma-
gazines in different parts of the country, so that
London will not be in any greater peril from the
Purfleet stores of powder than it has been hitherto.

Orders have been received at Woolwich for the
Bth Battery Ist Brigade Royal Artillery, recently
returned to head-quarters from Barbadoes, under
the command of Captain C. Smart, Royal Artillery,
to be broken up. When this is accomplished a de-
tachment of 19 non-commissioned officers and men
of the battery will leave Woolwich for Sheerness to
join the 7th Battery Ist Brigade Royal Artillery,
under the command of Captain M. E. C. Stocker,
on their arrival at that station.

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