The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-18 00:00:00

MILTON.

War led Taraban two mileq, and Knight of St. Michael
took Grand Cross a mile and three-quartf!rs fast. Skysail
was out early, and went over a mile and a half at a
rattling pace.

A SPORTING BARBER.

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Wo extract the following amusing sketch, "which treats
of Mr. Daniel Essom and other matters," from the current
number of Baily's Magazine

Progress, like poverty, meets with strange bedfellows.
The person who daily takes Heatherthorp by the nose, and
keeps its locks fashionably trimmed is a curious admixture
of sport andsarnest. "Mr. Daniel Essom, Hairdresser anq
Hatter. Schools contracted for," variously known :As
" Mr. Essom," " Friend Daniel," and " Little Dan," is, a
marvel. He is a barber of the conventional type, in se far
as he is brisk, dapper, oily, pragmatical—but London
training on Yorkshire breeding has giVen him a mind of
his own and the pluck to enunciate his opinions without
fear or favour. He loves a bit of racing ; revels in the
study of a complicated handicap; has strong views on,
breeding; bets; and—but I must not enumerate his othor
characteristics in this sentence. By dint of attending t:Le3
Fleet-street forums an entire season, when he was a Vary
young man, ho picked up radicalism, learnt to talk politi-
cs! economy, and to rail against Church-rates.
things to shake hands with each other—Racing and Radi-
calism ; but in Daniel Essoin's regards they were equal
and their community produced au eccentric result. He did
not sing with Captain Macheath
"How happy could I be with either,
Were t'other dear charmer away."
But he most certainly lived out the sentiment. His short
has always been the Tattersalls' of Heatherthorp (or, -As
he would put it, thinking of Manchester), its Post OPAcs
Hotel, thither flocking a racing clientele on the look-orA for
good things, the parochially disaffected, the hungeretw and
thir,ters after political emancipation, and the puttera-dows,
of Church-rates.

Many an amused hour have I passed in little Dan's shop,
To watch the varied play of feature as the sporting-po
tical hairdresser dismissed ono interest, on the instant, to
espouse another, was in itself a liberal physiognomioni
education. One of his sturdiest friends was old Barjor ar
and yet the two opposites (the poles could not be wide,
asunder) seldom parted comprny without breaking a la_nce,
on the subject of racing. When Sir Harry Sursingle's
bay colt Lightning (by Meteor out of Electricity)
landed the Derby—Sir Harry is Tory member for the
Riding of which Heatherthorp is a not unimportant
parliamentary morsel—the vicar, who, it was subsequently
whispered, smelt a rat, was quietly got out of the way
" to visit a distant parishioner," and a celebrated society .of
change ringers bidden to Heatherthorp to startle hill and
dale with clanging, if not musical, news of the colt's vic-
tory. The grey steeple of St. Martin's-the-Less fairly
shook again as the ringers, specially primed for the occa-
sion, "rang a peal of grandsire trebles consisting of 1867
changes"—for so the jolly clamour was described in the
succeeding Saturday's "Bell" -and the "grandsire trebles'
were at their very loudest, when Nathan Barjona entered
the shop of Mr. Daniel Essom. He was on his way to
"Meeting." The hairdresser, I should say, had devoted
the greater part of the afternoon to sherry and—Light-
ning.
"Daniel," said Nathan, "I'll trouble thee to shave me,
if"—looking the operator's unusually bland and rosy visage
curiously over—" thy feelings will permit thee."
" D—, that is, never mind my feelings, Mr. Barjona,"
brusquely replied Daniel, somewhat nettled at the quiet
tone of sarcasm adopted by the querist, "I can shave, sir,"
—tying a cloth rather roughly round his patient's throat
- " I can shave, sir ; and what is more, I have a nerve of
iron—of i-ron, sir"—giving the cloth an addition d twist.
" Doubtless" replied the Quaker, who was nearly chok-
ing, " the muscles resemble tke m,tal in question, but un-
less thou desirest to be guilty of strangulation exercise
more care."

" Oh ! it's all r*glit," rejoined Dan.
lle commenced the saoonaceous process. Presently the
dl.luele was resumed.
" Art thou aware of the meaning of this unseemly cla-
mour at the steeple-house ?"

,4
" Has the parson been made a bishop ?"

" Not that I know of."
"Is —do b-be less lavish of thy lather, Daniel—is the
vicar about to journey to another portion of the vineyard,
where the grapes hang in thicker clusters ?"
"Can't say," replied Daniel, shortly, beginning to strop
a razor with exemplary fury. "
"Thou art strangely obtuse this evening, friend Daniel.
"Nell, then," observed Daniel, speaking with great de-
liberation, as he proceeded to scrape his pertinacious in-
terrogator's chin,
"you remember, I dare say, that your
principal objection to the rates last year was—pray don't
speak, or I shall cut you—was about the money paid to
the bellringers. You properly contended that it was an
illegal outlay, or, if legal, not fairly earned. Very good ;
the ringers are afraid you may repeat your objection at the
next vestry meeting, and they have met to ring off arrears.
They don't expect to get through till midnight ! You re-
side near the church—"
The Quaker could stand it no longer, but hastily wiping
his face rushed from the shop.
" I think I had him there," soliloquised Dan,
as he
watched Nathan on his way to Meeting. " The old codger
is sound enough on 801110 points; but ho never will under-
stand what it is to land asoto 1 chance. Lightning, my
boy, I never fancied your owner; but you're a beauty!"

LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, MAT 16.

•
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. C. A.
Weber as Consul at Demerara, in British Guiana, and of
Mr. Thomas Williams as Cussul at Nassau, in New Pro-
♦idence, for his Majesty the King of Prussia.
\VAR-OFFICE, PALL-'HALL, MAY 17.

MILITARY STORE DEPIRTMENT.—Deputy Assistant Su-
perintendent of Stores Charles Hale liumbold to be Assis-
tant Superintendent of Stores, vice Manford, placed upon
the retired list.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Robert Tol-
er Gerard, Bart., Lieutenant-Colonel of the Lancashire
Hussars Yeomanry Catalry, to be one of her Majesty's
Aides-de-Camp, for the service of her Yeomanry Force,
with the rank of Colonel in that Force.

COURSE OF EXaLANU.s.--Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17}
Ditto 3 Mouths. 11 19f
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 37f
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 12*
Ditto 3 Months. 25 35
Marseilles
Frankforl on the Maine 119*
Vienna — 13 2i
Trieste — 13 5
21

11 18

25 421
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25 40
25 424

120
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retorsburgn
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Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
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Oporto

27 15
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Cambridge Gas and the Great Northern Railway
Bills were read a second time. _ _ _

The Moulton Gas, the Milford Harbour, the Manchester
Corporation Ward, and the Holborn Valley Improvement
Bills were read a thud time and passed.

PETITIONS.

A. petition was presented from the people of Maidenhead,
praying that no alteration should be made in the Common
Prayer used in the churches.
THE CONDEMNED PRISONERS IN IRELAND.
Lord LIFFORD rose to lay upon the table of the house
a petition, which he had given notice of, from the people
of Glasnevin, in Ireland, praying that a memorial
might be presented to her Majesty praying
that the unfortunate persons now under sentence
of death in Ireland for political offences might
have their sentences commuted. The petition emanated,
said the noble lord, from those who had taken up arms
to protect the cause of peace and order; and though they
deeply regretted that those mon should so have offended,
yet they earnestly prayed that her Majesty would exercise
her royal clemency. Although aware of the heinous
crime these men had been guilty of, he could not but point
out to their lordships that this outbreak was quite different
from any other that had occurred in that country. It was
an attempt against a throne that had been established 700
years —it was against a country which had the most mag-
nificent army and navy, and this by a people who had no such
advantages. T heir conduct had been quite different ; they had
visited the houses of the gentry and had been quite cour-
teous in their demeanour, they had committed no outrage ;
some had been mere swindlers, some had been dupes, and
some enthusiasts. His lordship then alluded to the speech
of Burke, and stated that though he was misguided they
were noble words, and if capital punishment was visited
on him he would be translated into a martyr.
_ _

The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
FORTIFICATIONS BILL.

Lord LONGFORD moved the second reading of this
bill, and it Wai agreed to.
The house then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
--Blyth and Tyne Railway, Loudon and South-Western
Railway, Prescot Gas, Rixton and Warburton Bridge and
Tyne Improvement.