The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEINIBEEI 24, 1867.

SHARE LldT.—This Day.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.--Thi3 Day.

AIARLBOIZOUGH-STREE P.

A BAD RECOLLECTION.—John IVhitson, a rough-
looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
as follows :

Mr. James Gray, licensed victualler, 18, Wind-
mill-street, said that on the previous evening the
prisoner came into his house and immediately set to
insulting his daughter, making most offensive re-
marks to her. He told the prisoner, who had fre-
quently annoyed him, but was never served in his
house, to leave, when he refused to do so, and dared
him to put him out. At last he put the prisoner
ont, when he tried to pull one or two letters off the
doors, to break the plate-glass, and then to kick the
doors in, and made several attempts to strike him iu
the face. Some constables then caine up, and he
gave the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner said he had a bad recollection, He
only just remembered going into the house, and
that the landlord struck him and put him out.
Mr. Gray denied striking the prisoner.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner had insulted the
complainant's daughter, and was one of the danger-
ous men licensed victuallers had to contend with
from time to time. He would have to pay 40s.

EXECUTION OF FREDERICK RAKER AT

IVISCHESIEIf..-(7HIS DAY.)

This unhappy wretch suffered the extreme penalty
of the law this morning at eight o'clock, for the
murder of Fanny Adams, at Alton, Hants, on the
24th of August last. The wretched man was
visited early this morning by the chaplain, the un-
der-sheriff, the surgeon of the County Prison,
and the officials, when they proceeded to the
pinioning-room, and from thence ascended
the gallows, and, iu a few minute:l, he was
launched into eternity, after very severe
struggling. It is satisfactory to state that he
has made a confession. \' arious rumours were cur-
rent that the prisoner was reserved and refused his
meals; and, again, that he was excited and paced
the cell with rapid and restless steps. We have autho-
rity to state that all such reports are unfounded, and
that, on the contrary, he was respectful and attentive
to all who were engaged in attending upon him,
and that in no instance had he manifested any un-
becoming conduct. We might say that Sir John
Mellor, the judge, in passing sentence in another
case since the time of Baker, has spoken very
strongly of the plea of "homicidal mania" which
has been got up of late years, and warns jurors
against being unduly influenced by it.

THE BRIM( DRAMA.

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The principles of the British Drama are now
triumphant. No longer is Tragedy or Comedy
based on Grecian model, even in France. Voltaire,
who, not a century past, eulogised Home as the
founder of a pure dramatic literature in opposition
to the barbarism of the Elizabethan era in this
country, is now but rarely recalled to memory by
the representation of his once famous tragedies on
a French stage. Even Corneille and Racine, with
their studied beauty of language, and Moliere, with
his poignant wit, are losing their hold upon their
countrymen ; whilst Home is almost as much known
in this island for captivity in Doon Castle as for
authorship. " Douglas," with its notorious "My
name is Norval," is rapidly fading into oblivion,
and " the barbarism of the Elizabethan era" is the
basis of modern production.

To what is this success to be ascribed ? Is the
once yclept Barbarous superior to the Classic? We
say not so, for they possess their beauties, their
realities, and their failings. The Greek stage was
but the means of declamation before an audience,
whose number could be told by thousands, and for
so vast an area the actor had to be artificially en-
larged and his voice strengthened. He was elevated
on outrageous sandals, bore a manufactured heal
upon his own, his shoulders were padded upward;,
and he spoke through a trumpet concealed in his
unreal chest. The actor was a prisoner in such
outward covering ; in fact, for action, scarcely supe-
rior to a dummy. No contest, no struggle, was
possible between him and others. Their stuffed-out
arms could hardly have brandished a sword or
wielded a lance. They could not sink from the
thrust of poniard without endangering the loss
of a head, and thus, when they had to
expire, were compelled to retire and groan
away their lives out of sight of the audience.
There could be no variation in the tenour of his dis-
course, for there could be no correspondent change
in his moulded countenance. All was light or
shade, still or fierce, in accordance with the charac-
ter of his features, and hence the plot was simple
(a unity if you will), in order to secure uniformity
of dialogue. The actor himself was unreal—the
sole reality was the scene, with regularly built
edifices in front, Nature's scenery at back, and
the heavens for canopy—the uniformity of time
and place was absolute. To these all inn:lsis-
tencies had to give way, and these coill-in.:l \vial
uniformity of plot (coincident on the captivity of
the actors) formed the famous unities—which warn
something more than beauties, for they were also
necessities.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA. OFFICE, 23d December, 1867.
THE SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA.
A_ in COUNCIL hereby GIVES NOTICE that the
Rate of Interest of FOUR PER CENT. on East India
Bonds, will cease and determine on tho Ist January, 1869,
and that from and after that date, such Bonds will carry
Interest at the rate of Three Pounds per Cent. per annum.
CLINTON.

1' 1.1 RD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

LONDON GAZETTE.-THIS EVENING.

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At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 20th
day of December, 1867. Present, the Queen's Most Excel-
lent Majesty iu Council. This day Sir Francis Bond Head,
Bart., was by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place
at the Board accordingly.
WAlt OFFICE, PALL MALL, DEC. 21.
39th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Chas. T. Van
Straubenzee, K.C.8., from the 47th Regiment, to be
Colonel, vice General Sir Richard Lluellyn, K.C.8., de-

ceased.
47th Regiment of Foot—Major-General John Patton to be
Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Chas. T. Van Strau-
benzee, K.C.8., transferred to the 89th Regiment.
Royal Horse Guards—Henry Lane Fox to be Cornet.
7th Hussars—Cornet Hamilton Beville to be Lieutenant ;
Graham Hamond to be Cornet
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Alexander Bell has been per-
mitted to resign his commission.
Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant tho Hon. Edward Legge
to be Captain ; Ensign Henry Aldenburg-Bentinck to
be Lieutenant ; Ensign the Hon. Lewis Dawney to be
Lieutenant ; the Hon. Ronald Campbell to be Ensign ;
Henry Charles Duncombe to be Ensign ; Lieutenant the
Hon. Frederick Arthur Wellesley to be Adjutant.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign the Hon. Paul Methuen to
be Lieutenant; Sir William Cumming, Bart., to be En-
sign.
2d Foot—Ensign Bernard Beale to be Lieutenant ; Ensign
Nicholas Bosanquet to be Lieutenant.
sth Foot—Lieutenant Charles Broad to be Adjutant.
10th Foot —Staff Surgeon George Slaughter to be' Sur-

geon.
15th Foot —Major Henry Grierson to be Lieutenant-
Colonel ; Captain Frederick Lock to be Major; Lieut.
John Grant to be Captain; Ensign George Daiatry to be
Lieutenant; Charles Thorne, Gent., to be Ensign.
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet. Edward Townshend to be

Ensign.
17th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Burr to be Instructor of

Musketry.
19th Foot—Staff Assistant Surgeon George Atkinson,
M. 8., to be Assistant Surgeon.
31st Foot—Lieutenant Francis Davies Butler to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign Robert Phillips to be Lieutenant ; Gentle-
man Cadet Francis Dawson to be Ensign.
34th Foot—Captain Arthur Tufnell to be Captain.
36th Foot—Lieutenant William Small to be Adjutant.
41st not—Captain George Miller to be Captain ; Ensign
James Sevier to be Lieutenant; Arthur McCauslan d,
Gent., to be Ensign.
56th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Lever has been per-
mitted to retire froni the Service by the sale of hie

Commission.
59th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Lane to be Lieutenant ;
Ensign John Stoyte to be Lieutenant; Bennett Lucas,
Gent., to be Ensign.
60th F,Jot—Ensigu Crawford Allan to be Lieutenant ;
Francis Ward. Gent., to be Ensign;
Glst Foot—Captain George Ross to be Captain.
63th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas ()hominy to be Captain.
68th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Brooke Rhodes to be
Lieutenant.
71st Foot—Algernon Dawson to ho Ensign.
77th Foot—Ensign Francis Dawson to be Ensign.
8 th Foot—Lieutenant. Alfred Howard to be Lieutenant.
90th Foot—Captain John Caulfoild to be Captain.
96th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Church to be Captain ;
Ensign Charles Willoughby to be Lieutenant; Ensign
Arthur Wix to be Ensign ; Benjamin Pollard to be
Ensign.
102 d Foot—Staff Assistant Surgeon Thos. Kirkwood to
be Assistant Surgeon.
103 d Foot—Lieutenant George Henry Bridges to be Cap-

tain.
106th Foot—Lieutenant Mowbray Lettson Elliot to be In-
structor of Musketry.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel
Alexander Macdonell, C. 8., to be seconded on appoint-
ment to the Command of a Brigade in India.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Egbert William
Cooper to be Captain ; Ensign George Roe to be Lieu-

tenant.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Anthony Thomas
Wilkinson to be Instructor of Musketry.
Commissariat Department—Deputy Assistant-Commissary
General Walter Umfreville Green to be Assistant-Com-
missary General.
Medical Department—Surgeon Frederick Douglas, M.D.,
to be Staff-Surgeon ; Assistant-Surgeon Gough Ashton,
M. 8., to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon • Assistant-Surgeon
Charles Edward Wikeley to he Staff Assistant-Surgeon.