The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-04 00:00:00

LORD ULSWATER.

"It was one of Lord Ulswatsr's peculiarities to ride out
alone. Even in London he rarely permitted the attend-
ance of a groom. In the country, never. Servants,' he
had once said at his club, the Eleusis, in one of those
talkative moods to which even reticent men are now and
then liable—' servants are spies. Old Q. said so, and Old
Q. knew the world—or, at least, the worst part of it.,
Laxington had laughed, and had moved an exception in
favour of yacht-stewards, as a necessary evil ; and
Chirper had declared himself spy-proof, as having no
secrets, or power to keep them to himself if he had. But
Lord Ulswater had been serious. He liked to ride alone ;
he did so now.

"He rode a fine horse, bay with black points, a mettled
creature fit for the park, and accustomed to the park, but
very hot-tempered and troublesome for country hack-
work, and that chafed a good deal at being held back, as
it had been since its master left the sea-wall. But that
master rode on indifferent to his steed's fretful humour
though the froth that clung to the bridle, and flecked the,
horse's glossy neck, and the way in which the brute
tossed its head and champed at the bit, proved its restless
impatience. Presently, annoyed by the flint-stones of
the rough-road, or snatching at some pretext for alarm
such as the rustling and chuckling scream of a black-bird
in the holly hedge above, the bright bay broke out into
rebellion. Not quite suddenly. The first signs of in-
subordination were a swerve and a plunge, and then, after
a short interval, the snorting brute flung up his heels,
tore at the curb, plunged again and again, more and more
furiously, reared arrow-straight, and in his gathering
rage fought, and foamed, and flung, reckless as the wild
horse that seeks to dislodge his captor from the saddle.
" It was a pretty sight, though afearful one, too, to sensi-
tive persons, had such been there to watch that hot bay
thorough-bred twist and writhe his supple muscular body
like a fish, rearing, lashing out savagely, back-jumping,
and throwing himself into attitudes seldom to be seen but
in the rough-rider's department of a riding-shool, and
some of which Rosa Bonheur would have been glad to
transfer to canvas. But there were no such sympathetic
spectators there, no one at all save Bendigo Bill, stealing
along beneath the hedgerow ; and even he, with all the
glow of his hatred firing his blood, could not help utter-
ing a surly snarl of unwilling admiration. What a chap
that is ! The devil throttle him ! I wish he'd break his
neck—but he won't. I've seen fellows ride out in
Australia, and I thought I knew what it was ; but I never
did see such a man as this in my life.'
"And, indeed, no stockrider, used to chase and be
chased by half-wild bulls over miles of bush-leaps in the
wildest part of New South Wales—none of those centaurs
of the antipodes, horse-compelling as they are, could have
seemed more absolutely part and parcel of his mad
plunging steed than did Lord Ulswater. He was not
vain of his riding, did not hunt above a dozen times in
the season, and never deigned to 'show off' as some men
delight to do. But the bay might as well have tried to
shake off his saddle as to unseat its occupant. Lord
Ulswater backed the brute as Alexander backed
Bucephalus.' " Chambers's Journal.

A remittance of £1,767 14s. has been received by
the mail from Guayaquil, on account of the divi-
dends on the debt of Ecuador.
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METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSIIIRR-
scIuARE, CITY.--:The aggregate number of patients re-
lieved during the week ending March 30 was—Medical,
887 ; surgical, 668 ; total, 1,555 ; of whisk 705 were new
cases.

THE TI CHBORNE SUCCESSION.—So many erroneous
paragraphs are appearing from day to day in the public
papers relating to the Tichborne baronetcy and estates, and
to the individual who represents himself as the rightful
heir to them, that we think it well to lay before our
readers the following facts, which are indisputable :—ln
1854 Mr. Roger Tichborne, a young man 23 years of age,
who had been travelling in South America, sailed from Rio
do Janeiro in a small Liverpool vessel called the Bella,
bound for Jamaica. The Bella was never heard of again. In
due time the underwriters paid the insurances on her; and
Mr. Tichborne's will was proved in the usual manner at
Doctor's-commons. His father, Sir James Tichborne, died,
and was succeeded by his second son, Sir Alfred,who married
a sister of Lord Arundel of Wardour, and died about two
years ago, leaving his wife pregnant of a son, the present
baronet. But Mr. Roger Tichborne's mother, the Dowager
Lady Tichborne, refused to believe thather eldest son was
dead, there being no positive proof of his decease, and ex-
pressed from the first her conviction that he would some
day turn up again. On the death of her second son Lady
Tichborne offered a reward of £l,OOO to anybody who would
find Sir Roger for her, and the present claimant of the title
is the result of that advertisement. Mr. Roger Tichborne
left England on excellent terms with his family, by
whom he was much beloved ; the soi-disane " Sir Roger'
has carefully kept aloof from all his relations except
the Dowager Lady Tichborne ; and the various mem-
bers of the family who have succeeded in obtaining
interviews with him unanimously declare that neither
in height, voice, figure, manner, nor education does he in
any way resemble their long lost relative, nor has the
in any instance been able to recognise any one of them.
It was to be expected that on the 25th of March, being
rent day, "Sir Roger" would have taken legal steps to
assert his rights; but as yet he has made no sign beyond
visiting the Tichborne property, and protesting that he is
the real heir. Before sailing for South America, Mr.
Tichborne served for a few years in the 6th Dragoons, and
his former colonel, General Richmond Jones, whe resides
at Leamington, could easily prove whether he is the per-
son he represents himself to be. But to General Jones
" Sir Roger" has as yet made no appeal.
PAROCHIAL INDUSTRY.---Thia morning, about
half-past nine, during the rain, one of the water-carts of
the parish of St. Clement's Danes was assisting the ele-
ments to lay the dust in Wellington-street.
THE DESTITUTE FROM POPLAR.—This morning a large meeting of the "destitute" of Poplar took placne
in
Trafalgar-square. The men proceeded to the place of
meeting, headed by a band of music, a large banner, and
an American flag, and most of them listened to the dif-
ferent addresses smoking their pipes.
Another triple birth has taken place in the West
of England. A donation of £3 from the Queen has been
received by the poor mother, a Mrs. Chope, of Bideford.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.—Between one
and two o'clock yesterday afternoon the Prince of Wales
and their Majesties the King and Queen of Denmark, at-
tended by some members of their suite, visited St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital. They were received by Mr. Paget,
the senior surgeon of the hospital, and by Mr. Foster
White, the treasurer, and spent an hour and a half in the
different wards. The Royal party before leaving expressed
themselves highly gratified at the means which had been
adopted to secure the comfort of so large a number of the
sick poor.
FREE AS EYRE.—WeII done, old Shropshire !
Well done, Market Drayton ! Quite right to ring the bells
when the sensible Salopian magistrates apprised Mr. Peter
Taylor that he might go back to town and inform Mr.
Beales (M.A.), Mr. Shammyrumstuff, and their tail, that
there was no evidence on which Governor Eyre could pro-
perly be committed. That "individual," as the Star—in-
tending to be awfully severe—called him, bas floored the
Jamaica Committee as completely as he floored the
Jamaica rebellion. English good sense is seldom appealed
to in vain. We really cannot murder a man for saving a
colony. It may be, theoretically, proper to kill him, but
the fact that Jamaica no v- belongs to the Queen of Eng-
land, and not to the "brown-skinned, canting, disre-
putable agitator," Gordon, is a fact which somewhat
overrides theories. It is to be lamented that excessive
punishment was awarded to some of Gordon's dupes ; but,
on the other hand, English ladies and children were saved
from worse than Ca wnpore atrocities. So that, on the
whole, Englishmen are very well satisfied that Peter Taylor,
Beales (M.A.), and Shammyrumstuff, are out in the cold.
A word of recognition of Mr. Giffard's masterly demolition
of the case for the prosecution, and as warm a word of re-
cognition of Mr. Stephen's most gentlemanly discharge of
his professional duty. " The matter cannot rest where it
does," rematks the Star ; and we agree. Some manifesta-
tion of English Sympathy with a persecuted officer must
be made. Meantime, why not return Mr. Eyro for Middle-
sex r—Puticit.