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

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S GLOVE.

The Daily. News remarks that the Prince of Wales on
his way homelrom the Derby was politely lifting his hat
to a group of ladies, in acknowledgment of their re-
Teotful greeting, when he dropped one of his gloves.
This was too much for the ladies. Cinderella racing
against the clock, in her agony of mind lest the
fairy godmother's gifts should leave her too soon,
and ishe same heroine's re-transformation into squalor, are
the only parallels we can find to the fuss and perturbation
which came over the beauties of Tootin' when the royal
glove fell. Bland and simpering loyalty gave way to
fierce impulsiveness and muscular competition. A burning
&ogre to possess that bit of warm leather, to put it under
a glass-ease, to label it " Glove worn by his Royal
Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 1870,"
to take it with her when she travelled, to have
it with her when she visited friends, to acquire
a social reputation as its possessor, and to be-
queath it when she died to the Clapham Insti-
tute or the Tooting Museum, stirred the pulse
and fired the blood of every fair athlete. So " a rush was
made, his Royal Highness laughing heartily at the
scramble of the ladies.' - The once popular refrain,
:` Those gloves, those gloves, they never belonged to me,"
which used to be heard unceasingly on the road home
from the Derby, has been revived this June, and at Clap-
ham, by every damsel and matron who tried for and failed
in securing the regal prize.

Four expeditions are going out to observe the
approaching eclipse of the sun, which will be visible
throughout a great part of Southern Europe.

A. New York paper says that a labourer in an
ice-house, down East, was killed by a large lump of ice
falling on his head. Verdict of the jury, Died of hard
drink."
THE. PACIFIC TELEGRAPH CABLE.—Mr. Cyrus
W. Field has appeared before the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee and made a pretty long argument in
favour of his proposed new telegraph cable between Cali-
fornia and China. _

A. table chewing the number of births, marriages,
and deaths which took place in Ireland last year, has been
presented to Parliament. In the twelve months 145,912
births (75,176 males, and 70,736 females) were registered
The deaths numbered 90,039, and there. were 54,736 per-
sons united in wedlock. The population of Ireland in
1861 was 5,798,967.
A NEW ADVERTISEMENT.—Pedestrians in some of
the principal streets of Glasgow have been made aware.
within the past few days, by the appearance of " horse-
man in armour," of the latest! novelty in the way of adver-
tising. This phenomenon is paying a visit to some of the
large towns, to call attention to the quality of the wares of
his employer. Apparently alive to the ridiculous nature
of the situation, and resembling vastly, as he bestrides his
raw-boned Rosinante, the Knight of the Sorrowful
Countenance, he excites immense admiration among the
juvenile population. His armour is all polished to a fine
plumbago black, and he flourishes a well polished lance sup-
porting, a flag with the strange device—not Excelsior—but
"This beautiful polish was produced by —'s patent
black lead."
A MAD DOG.—On Wednesday evening a black
and tan bull terrier dog was seen running along the canal
bank, at Calverley-bridge, coming from the direction of
Leeds. Shortly afterwards the dog was seen among fifteen
fat cows belonging to Mr Ald. D. Yewdall, of Calverley, by
James Watson, farm servant, who was ploughing in the
next field. Watson observed the cattle running about and
the dog biting them. lie got a thick stick out of the hedge
and went up to the dog, which flew at him, but he:" felled "
the ferocious brute with the stick and afterwards killed it
The dog is supposed to be in a rabid state. The cows were
afterwards examined, and seven of them were found to have
boon- bitten,
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Last night Mr. Bedford held
an Awl:test on the body of Robert Dixon, aged 30. It
appeared that deceased was at work at some repairs to
the house of the Marquis of Salisbury, in Arlington-street,
Piccadilly, and was engaged in breaking down the concrete
floor of a room on the second floor, when the part of the
flooring on which he was standing suddenly gave way be-
neath him, and he was precipitated to the bottom of the
premises, falling about'so feet on a heap of rubbish. He
was at once picked up by some of his fellow-workmen and
taken to the hospital, where it was found he had sustained
a fracture of the spine. Paralysis of the lower extremities
ensued from the injury, and after lingering for some time
in great agony, he died on Monday last. A verdict of
" Accidental death " was returned. _

A WEALTHY PILFERER.—A woman in sordid
attire, and apparently between fifty and sixty years of
age, was detected the other morning by a baker in the
Rue de l'Entrepot stealing rolls from his shop, and was
handed over to the police. Her lodgings in the Fau-
bourg St. Penis were afterwards searched, when proofs
were obtained that she had been carrying on a system of
pilfering on an extensive scale. In her rooms were found
22 bottles of perfumery, 21 cakes of soap, 30 pairs of new
boots of different sizes, besides innumerable other arti-
cles of small bulk. This woman, who appears to have
been regularly receiving charity under four different
names, including her own, which is Mutet, had in
her possession, concealed in a cupboard, railway
and other bonds to the amount of £2,880, with £6OO in
-gold.or notes, and 5,!2 in sous. She had been arrested in
August last for stealing a handful of beans in the Saint-
/Laurent market, but at that time property to the amount
of only £2,480 had been found at her domicile, so that she
must have since accumulated the difference of 1x1,400.