The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

PROFESSOR MAX MULLER.

Professor Max Muller last evening delivered a lecture
at the Royal Institution, on the Migration of Fables, and
traced them through the various nations and languages of
the world back to the early Indian traditions. He began
with the familiar adage, "Do not count your chickens
before they are hatched," and traced it back to Persia,
in the year 550 of the Christian era. The lecture was
numerously attended, the Dean of Westminster being
among the audience..

..EHE GIBRALTAR TRISONE Rs. —N OWE; his been
received from Madrid yesterday that an emmissary of the
Spanish Government has found traces of the Gibraltar
prisoners. They are well and cared for, their release
being only a question of money.

A new comet was discovered on Saturday night
by Dr. Winuacke of Carlsrube, as announced by Mr. Hind,
our great astronomer.

My. Syrae, the well-known surgeon, the Lancet
says is at present suffering from another paralytio seizure.
But slight hopes are eutertoinetl of his recovery,

arickat match, we learn by tel from abfi-
stantinople, umas played on Wednesday 1 tretween the
officers of the Mediterranean, fleet and the Constanti-
nople Cricket Club, at the Valley of Sweet Waters, on
the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. The officers won by
64 runs.

A number of clergymen have announced their
secession from the Evangelical Alliance, because the Rev.
T. R. Birks, who is a member of that body, holds what
are deemed unsound views upon the subject of future
punishment, and the Council decline to excommunicate
him.

The six year old daughter of a farmer at Haworth
had her hand blown to pieces by the accidental discharge
of her father's gun. So soon as the little heroine had got
over the first feeling of terror, she exclaimed without a
tear, " I'm fain it were no' but me that were hurt." Am-
putation was afterwards performed, and she is now doing
well.

The family of the Lord Chancellor has been
thrown into mourning by the death at Surbiton, of Lord
I Hatherley's niece. The deceased lady, Mrs. Sarah
Boger, was the eldest daughter of his lordship's younger
brother, the late Mr. Western Wood, M.P., for the City
of London, and married August 22, 1857, IVilliam Shad-
forth
Boger, Esq.
Canon Hornby has written to the Bishop of Man-
chester to know if his lordship disapproves of the office of
guardian for a clergyman. The bishop replies that he
1
has been a guardian of the poor himself, and in that
Capacity he hopes he did the poor some service. The ,
'simple quesMon for a clergyman to consider is whether 1
such duties interfere with these of a spiritual fature.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING.
RECKLESS SPORT.

How many aching hearts, asks the Telegraph, are
there to-day in London—hearts which ache because
their owners stand self-convicted of bitter folly in trusting
hundreds and thousands of pounds to the accident of a
race ? We read with pity and incredulity the old legends of
Rome, which tell us that Romulus and Remus scanned the
heavens in order to rule the destinies of their nascent
city in conformity with the flight of vultures. Is it one
whit less childish to stake honour, happiness, the future
comfort of a home, the education of children, upon the
speed of a racehorse or the honesty of a jockey?
We shall, of course, preach in vain to hardened
gamblers, or to men who find it suit their health and
taste to circulate from pleasant racecourse to racecourse,
and pick up money from idiots, in preference to earning
their daily bread by the sweat of their brow. But will
the "supply of idiots never cease ? We do not blame
betting men for taking to the metallic pencil ; but we do
blame gentlemen for flinging away the blessings which
have been lavished upon them, in so unworthy a pur-
suit 4as the hopeless attempt to pick out winners. No
arguments that we can employ are likely to arrest them ;
but long after this Epsom week has passed away, and the
settlement which follows it has 'been. forgotten, may the
names of Kingcraft and Gamos ring in their ears, and
warn them, if they still persevere in backing horses ex-
travagantly, that, besides poverty, disgrace, and dis-
honour, " that way madness lies."