The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-05 00:00:00

BILLIARDS.

The saloon at the New Bentinck Club, Strand,
was numerously attended yesterday (Monday)
evening, to witness a handicap, in which several of
the most celebrated players of the day contended.
The heats were 200 up, and the prize a silver cup.
The opening contest was between
T. Moßms, 40, AND A. BAILLIE, 65.—N0 very
large breaks were made on either side. Baillie,
however, gradually increased his advantage, and
eventually won by 64 points, he having reached
200 to Morris's 136.

W. DUFTON, 40, AND C. HuGuEs4 30.—Hughes,
who made a fine break of 40, soon got in advance
of his opponent., and the game was called at 110 to
68. Dufton then added a dozen, but Hughes again
went well to work, and by a carefully-played break
of 46 his figures stood at 15G to I)uftou's 80.
Hughes, by a small break, ultimately scored 200 to
his opponent's 115, thus winning by 85 p
J. ROBERTS, JUN., 20, AND W. COOK, Jus., 20.
This was considered to be the most interesting heat
of the evening, inasmuch as both players had con-
tended in a match of 1,000 up, level, during the
previous week, on which occasion young Roberts
was the winner. The latter went away with the
lead, and the game was called at 43 to 21 ; Roberts,
from 51, ran together a break of 22, which brought
his figures up to 80, Cook being 45 ; a break of 40,
however, credited to Cook's account put him five in
advance. Roberts, in getting in, made 39, and the
game stood 119 to 85. No very large breaks en-
sued for a time, Roberts still maintaining the lead,
he being 142 to 138. Cook soon made it " 142
all," but unfortunately missed the next stroke,
and Roberts went on to 153 ; the latter after this
made a break of 42, and in the end won by 48
points.

TILE SECOND DRAW.—C. 'Hum'Es, 30, AND A.
BAILLIE, O.—Hughes, by a few well-played breaks,
soon showed in front of his opponent, who only
made 4, whilst Hughes scored 50, the game being
80 to G 9. Baillie played exceedingly game, and
made some capital breaks, composed chiefly of can-
nons ; he ran on to 96 to 81. Hughes, after this,
again went ahead, and in a short time the marker
called the game 166 to 155 ; from these figures
Hughes put together a break of 31 ; this made him
197, when Baillie failed to score, and Hughes won
by 45 points.

JOHN ROBERTS (CHAMPION), OWING 20, AND J.
ROBERTS, JUN., 20.—The former, by a break of 49,
soon paid of the debt of 20, and added 35 towards
the game ; another run of a " score," together with
several minor breaks ,brought his figures to 94 to
60 ; the champion still further increased his advan-
tage; but from 113 Roberts, jun., pliyel a splen-
did break of 88, in which were 27 spot strokes, so
that he won by 55 points, amidst loud applause.

FINAL HEAT.—C. HUGHES, 30, AND J. ROBERTS,
jun., 20.—The play was very open at the com-
mencement of the game, Roberts gaining slightly
from "46 all." Roberts gradually went away until
he stood at 78 to 55 ; then Charley scored to 71,
and shortly- after the game was called at Hughes
112, to Roberts 101 ; the latter then made a break
of 23, and Hughes missing, he went on to 136.
Hughes in his next es::ay made 31, including 11
spot strokes, this raising his score to 151 ; Roberts,
after this, added 33, and llughes scored to 179.
Roberts made it " 179 all ;" by degrees Roberts
reached 198 to 197, when he missed, and Hughes
ran out, thus winning by two points.

LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—THORPENESS, SUFFOLK.—
Jan. 4.—Mr. James Osborne reports that the collier
brig Belle, of Sunderland, bound thence to Ostend,
struck on the Sizewell Bank, on the 2d inst., during
a gale from S. by W.. and soon became a total wreck.
Fortunately nine of the crow were saved by the National
Institution's lifeboat, Ipswich, stationed at this place,
but before her arrival the master had been unhappily
drowned. The lifeboat shipped a great deal of water
in the broken sea on the sand. She is reported to
have behavel remarkably well under these circum-
stances. This valuable boat was contribued to the Life-
boat Society some years since by the inhabitants of Ips-
wich, after which town the boat is named. She has
hitherto been instrumental on five occasions in saving 2G
persons from different wrecked vessels.
VEREND, GURNEY, AND CO.—Mr. William Peek,
junior, a witness in this case on Saturday, writes to state
that the exprocsion attributed to him, to the effect that ho
put in the bill he had filed in Chancery what was most
calculated to prove iu his favour, proceeded from one of
the defendants' counsel. lle also explains that his solici-
tor deemed it butter not to overload the case in Chancery
by including all the grounds of complaint. lie adds that
he was not a member of tile committee to which Dr.
Thom, the prosecutor, belonged.
REMARKABLE MOVEMENT AMONG THE
The Israelite, published in Cincinnati, has a series of arti-
cles upon the Sabbath, which take the ground that a
change of the day is lawful and expedient. The changes
of the last half century the writer, a gentleman living in
New Orleans, declares to have rendered it impossible to
observe properly the seventh day of the week as the Sab-
bath. It might be proper in former times, but so were
other observances which the Israelites have found it
necessary to modify. The commandment to keep the
Shabbat, or Sabbath, holy, the writer declares, does
not instance the particular day of the week. Nor would
it be possible (he remarks), in all parts of the globe,
with the hours of sunset and sunrise changing with every
degree of longitude, to indicate by theta any precise time
which would be always the same holy period. The
Christian world, outnumbering largely the Jews, have
adopted another day, and it is very inconvenient to vary
from their usage. The writer also administers a gentle
reproof to his co-religionists for their former implacable
bitterness and persecution. Jesus, he declares, was a re-
former of the Jewish religion, whom they caused to be
executed; and afterwards they compelled his disciples to
alienate themselves from the Jewish Church. They were
themselves to blame that Christianity is now a faith out-
side of Judaism.
THE POPULAR VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT.—An-
nexed is a table exhibiting the popular vote for President,
cast on the 3d ult., in 33 of the States of the Union
' Floridachose its electors by the Legislature ; Virginia, Mis-
sissippi, and Texas did not vote. By a singular anomaly
_ under our Constitution the people of the territories of In-
- I diana, Dacotah, Montana, Washington, Alaska, Idaho,
4
5 Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, and
5 the District of Columbia, are not allowed to participate in
the election of the national Chief Magistrate. South Ca-
rolina, for the first time, chose its electors by the people ;
whilst Florida assumes the position of the former in being
the only State which chooses its electors by the Legis-
lature. Nebraska voted for the first time. In California,
for the first time, a native-born citizen voted for Presi-
t dent:—

States. Grant. Seymour. Total.
Maine
New Hampshire 37,718 30,571 68,289
Vermont
Massachusetts 136,379 59,408 195787
Rhode Island
Connecticut 49,726 46,381 96,107
New York
New Jersey 79,871 82,725 162,596
Pennsylvania
Delaware 7,615 10,960 18,575
Maryland 30,500 62,275 92,775
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana 27,911 41,358 69,369
Arkansas 32,513 28,496 61,009
Missouri
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia 22146 12,943 85,089
Ohio 280,222 239,032 519,254
Indiana
Illinois 250,293 199,141 449,434
Michigan 128,560 97,068 225,028
Wisconsin
Minnesota
lowa 120,399 74,128 194,523
Nebraska 9,720 3,429 15,158
Kansas 29,703 13,408 43,111
Nevada 8,6-27 6,791 16,218
Oregon 8,926 9,138 18,064
California 54,589 51,081 108,670

Grand total
2,714,195

Grant's plurality... 338,91 G

Another interesting discovery for antiquarians
has been made in America. A fossil horse has been found
in the tertiary deposits of Nebraska, which, although full
grown as the ossification of the various bones proves, is
reported to be only two feet high. This makes 17 species
of fossil horse now known to have lived in America,
although till recently it was believed that none were indi-
genous to the country.

Winter has at length closed all the canals and a
good many of the harbours and navigable rivers of the
United States. In the North-west there has been ex-
tremely cold weather, and the Mississippi and Missouri
and their tributary rivers have beta frozen over for some
time. We have intelligence that in Kansas the thermo-
meter is 15 degrees below zero Fahrenheit ; at St. Louis
14 degrees below; at Omaha, Nebraska, 8 degrees below ;
at Chicago 10 degrees below ; at Quincy, Illinois, 14 de-
grees below; and at Cairo, which stands at the junction
of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, 1 deg.below zero