The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-23 00:00:00

A.F.

Sir F. Johnstone's Sister to Vedette, by Vol tigeur, 3 yrs,
sst 121 b (Butler) 1
Count Batthyany's Mount Palatine, 4 yrs, Bst llb
(Morris) 2
Mr. R. Kirby's Treasure Trove, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
(Osborne) 3
The following also ran : —Archimedes, Ainsley, Alcune,
Helter-skelter, Vigorous, and Porter's Knot.

Betting-5 to 2 agst Archimedes, 4to 1 agst Mount
Palatine, 5 to 1 each agst Treasure Trove and Sister to
Vedette, and Bto 1 agst any other. Won in the last stride
by a head.

Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 3-
yr-olds and upwards. R.M.

Mr Mackenzie's My Lovo, by Weatherbit, 3 yrs, Bst 31b
(Fordham) 1
Captain Haasll's c by Promised Land—Rupert's dam,
3 yrs, Bst
Mr Barns's c by Oulston—Water Lily, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b
(IL Covey) 3

Water Caro and Easby also ran.

Butting-7 to 4 agst My Love, 3to 1 agst Water Cure,
and 5 to 1 agst Rupert's dam colt. Won easily by two
longths. Captain Machell claimed the winner.

Sweepstakes of 200 Boys each, h ft, for 2-yr-old colts. 4 Bst
101 b each. Last 7 furlongs of R.M.
. _

Duko of Newcastle's Paco, by Caterer, Bst 101 b
(Daley) w.o.
Match ; last half of Rid.; 200 sows, h ft.

Sir F. Johnstone's Michael de Basco, 2 yrs, 9st...lteceived.
Lord Glasgow's Sister to First Flight, 2 yrs, Bst 41b...Paid.

THE HOLBORN VALLEY IMPROVEMENT.

The Improvement Committee of the Corporation
of the City of London made an official inspection
on Monday of the gigantic works which are now
being pushed forward under their auspices, and at
enormous cost, for bridging over the valley between
Newgate-street and Holborn, and for the formation
of several lateral streets and thoroughfares, designed
to facilitate and accommodate the traffic in that
part of the City, and especially in connection with
the new meat and poultry market now in course of
erection by the corporation on the site of ancient
Smithfield. The committee went from Guildhall for
the express purpose, accompanied by their chairman,
Mr. Deputy Fry, and Mr. Haywood, the engineer.
The works now in progress consist of a
stately and substantial viaduct across the
Holborn Valley, between Hatton-garden and
the Western end of Newgate-street, and two side
streets connecting the upper part with the lower or
Farringdon-street level. Both of these side streets
are on the north side of the present line of Holborn
and Skinner-street, Snow-hill. By an act of last
session, power is given to make a new street from a
point of Holborn-hill opposite to Hatton-garden,
passing at the back of St. Andrew's Church into
Shoe-lane, which will be widened as far as Stone-
cutter-street. Thence a new line of street, 50ft.
wide, and with easy gradients, will be formed to the
eastern end of Fleet-street, near to its junction with
Farringdon-street. The viaduct will be 80ft. wide,
and will commence at the western end of Newgate-
street, from which point it will be carried in a
straight line to the western side of Farringdon-street,
occupying nearly the whole of the space which now
or recently formed Skinner-street, Snow-hill, as
well as a large portion of the sites of the houses
on that line of thoroughfare. It will also in-
clude a part of the churchyard of St. Sepulchre,
at the top of Snow-hill. From Farringdon-
street westward it will be carried by a gentle
curve to the end of Hatton-garden, occupying
the sites of the houses which formerly stood on
the southern side of Holborn-hill, the largest part of
the present roadway there, and a portion of the
churchyard of St. Andrew's, Holborn. From New-
gate-street to the entrance to St. Sepulchre'sChurch
the gradient will be so easy as to be hardly percep-
tible, and at that point the Eastern Approach-street
from Farringdon-road will join the viaduct at its
northern side. From St. Sepulchre's Church to
Farringdon-street the gradient will be 1 in 153, and
from Farringdon-street to Hatton-garden 1 in 143.
For all purposes of traffic, therefore, the viaduct
may be said to be level.

Farringdon-street will be crossed by a cast iron
bridge of an ornamental character, consisting of a
centre and two side arches, supported by piers of
polished granite. At each corner of the bridge
there will be flights of steps to enable foot passengers
to pass between the upper and lower levels. They
will be well lighted and ventilated, and the space
beneath will be disposed in shops and warehouses,
while the floors above will be eligible for offices
or for general commercial purposes. An attempt
has been made to render the bridge a more
ornamental structure of cast iron than any
in the metropolis. Beneath each footway of the
viaduct there will be vaultage for the accommoda-
tion of the houses on either side of the roadway ;
outside the vaults there will be a subway for the gas
and water pipes, and over the space between each
subway, forming the centre of the viaduct, the
roadway will be carried on a series of arches. The
subways will be about llf feet high on an average,
by 7ft. wide.
Shoe-lane, which at its northern end is now but
14ft. wide at ono spot, is to be made 30ft. wide, and
the viaduct will be carried over it by a girder bridge.
This lane is to be continued northwards, with a
width of 301 t., until it merges in an entirely new
thoroughfare called the Western Approach-street,
which will start by a junction with the viaduct at
Hatton-garden, and proceed in a north-easterly
direction toFarringdon-road. There the new street
leading to Smithfield-market and the two streets
will therefore form together one straight line of
thoroughfare 60ft. wide, giving direct access to the
new meat and poultry market and to the north-
east of London. This new street will be very
commodious as far as it goes, but unfortunately
it will lodge all the traffic in Long-lane, Bar-
bican, and Chiswell-street. As a remedy to that
inconvenience, Mr. Heywood, the engineer, has re-
commended that the whole of those the roughfares
be widened to at least 50 or 60 feet. The Eastern
Approach-street will begin at Farringdon-road,
about 130 feet north of the point where that tho-
roughfare will bo crossed by the viaduct. I t will
be cirried nearly parallel with the viaduct for some
distance eastwards, and will join it with a gentle
curve by the side of St. Sepulchre's Church. This
street will form a junction with King-street, and
will therefore give another line of access to the new
market. The lower end of it will take the place of
the thoroughfare known as Snow-hill, the whole of
which will be absorbed in its formation, or by the
buildings to be erected on either side of it. The
whole of the works were designed by Mr. William
Haywood, and he is now engaged in carrying them
out under the auspices of the Improvement Com-
mittee of the Corporation of London. Messrs. Hill
and Keddell are the contractors for the viaduct
works, one of the side streets, and the circus, and
the whole of the bridge, excepting the iron work,
which is being done by Messrs. Cacltrane and Co.,
of Woodside Ironworks, near Dudley.

The memor►al of the merchants and bankers of
London to the Lord Mayor Elect with regard to the
arrangements for the procession on the 9th of November
was presented yesterday ; and the subject having been
considered by the Ceremonial Committee, it was intimated
that the procession will be curtailed so as to prevent as far
as possible all incouveuieuce iu the public streets.

My Dear—, I really do not know whether
I am writing to the living or the dead, to a con-
firmed bachelor, to a happy Benedict, or to a
*Arnow
at the Paris Exhibition. All your fault, clear
friend—since I left Aden not a line ! Well, I will
not bully you too much, as you might retort the
same argument on me, the only difference being
that you know where I am, and I only guess where
you are. Never mind—at the eve of a serious crisis
we must not forget our friends, so that even should
the worst happen they might keep our memory as
a pleasing thought. I suppose that from the papers
you must from time to time have seen something
about our adventurous mission, its rise and fall, and
lastly, all its elements being consigned to Carcere
duro! The summary of our career in this country
is easily made. First period of sunshine, bask-
ing in the smiles of Royalty, from January
28, 1866, to the 15th of May of the same
year. On that day great fiasco ! From honoured
guests we were turned into prisoners, insulted,
seized by the executioners' myrmidons, our swords,
bite,-sett—espa---violently wrenched frozw-us, our
uniforms torn, we were dragged along the audience
hall in that humiliating position before all the
officers of Theodore's army. From that day the
second period begins, all of darkness and of anxiety,
always worse and worse.

After a few days respite and quiet, semi-prisoners
at Gaze from the day of our seizure to the end of
May, for a couple of weeks were pretty free at
Gaffat.

On the 25th of that month, second confiscation
of our arms and property (the latter afterwards re-
stored) ; trial and confinement in a black tent near
the King's house at Debra Tabor. I was, however,
allowed to return to Gaffat on account of typhus
and cholera prevailing there. 3d of July, Mr. Ro-
senthal and myself seized at Gaffat by the King,
brought to Debra Tabor, tried, sent into a dark
house, where we were obliged to have candles
lighted all day. sth July, sent to Magdallah, arrived
at the fortress on the 12th of the same month, tra-
velling without bedding or change of clothes through
the rainy season. Four days afterwards chained by
the leg like rabid camels all in ene small room.
Afterwards Rassam got a house, Pridieux and my-
self a small shed unfit for even an Irish pig, still
better than the previous omnibus system. Since
then, more than a year ago, we have remained in
state quo, the irons gradually wearing away every
muscle of our inferior extremities, and long confine-
ment ruining our health and weakening our brain.
Moreover, left alone, we managed to make our-
selves more comfortable. In November last
Pridieux and myself built a better hut, Cameron
also a small and modest one, it is true ; Rassam as
good a house as can be found in Abyssinia. Stern
and Rosenthal live in the first house assigned to me
—Pereus and Pietro (an Italian) have small huts
for the daytime, at night in " the kitchen." All we
wish is to be able to remain as we are until
" Thomas Atkin" comes.

Our chains are no fun, however—heavy, disagree-
able things. Rassam being, as the natives say, the
" master of the dollars," managed to get some
lighter ones put on, a kind of patent ring, invented
by our former head gaoler; but what can poor
fellows like Pridieux and myself expect ? " Master
of salts," a house in common, used also as a dispen-
sary, heavy fetters, contempt and impertinence, are
all the natives bestow upon the poor white men.
Dull times, no books, seldom papers, nothing but our
own selves to snarl at, but Theodore to curse. Bad
food, horrid beds, tyranny and bullying from every
one. Dear friend, pity the European captives of
Theodorus. But enough about ourselves—a few
words about our " kind dear host." We have not
brought him good luck—he is going down so fast
that he must collapse shortly into a mere brigand—
why he is one already ! No country, no people, no
friends, he lives by plunder, and passes the time tor-
turing or killing, not his enemies—he seldom can get
bold of them now—but his friends and his soldiers.
He seems to have adopted a new system of religion
and medicine ; he sacrifices daily some hundred vic-
tims, to whatdivinity I cannot say, unless it is some-
thing like the furies he worships; and to cure the
excitement of his nervous system, the cries of those
be burns alive are the only solace he can find. When
we arrived he imposed upon us by his sweet tongue;
we saw only the wild beast at rest, in its drowsy
state ; we thought him good, the rebels bad, and
that virtue and goodness would at last prevail over
rebellion and mutiny. But the mask soon fell; even
at Gaze we saw the six feet long hippopotamus whip
tearing to pieces the delicate skin of an Abyssinian
lady, and her corpse removed on a small mat trick-
ling with her blood—but this was nothing. Gondar
disappeared in flames, kindled by the " father of
his people ;" so that the rebels on the surrounding
height might see far and distant the glare of the
doomed city ; priests, women, and a few wretches
supposed to be rebels were added as fuel; so that
the fire should not go out by want of materials.
Chief after chief were chained, tortured, and
crowded together in small huts ; day after day new
murders, new tortures, until one morning he enjoyed
the sight of 670 of his soldiers butchered on a mere
suspicion of their intention of their desiring to run
away.
This was, however, too much; even the greatest
scoundrels around him got frightened, desertion of
all the men from the few provinces until then stil
faithful to him took place the next morning, Bo that
the diner that day off 670 corpses cost him the re-
mainder of his kingdom—rather a heavy bill of fare.
In this country there is no rule, no more sovereign
—anarchy alone rules supreme, peasants murder
soldiers, soldiers peasants, and Theodorus both. The
Galla are in the field, Wakshum Gobazo is knock-
ing about, anxious to have a shy at Thcodorus, but
afraid of his own soldiers. This cannot last very
long. The peasants kill their cows and leave the
soil to take care of itself ; they stand in arms and
defend, in their way, their property. For us it is
bad enough ; little chance we have if our people do
not come soon. Theodorus on his last legs does not
stand on trifles. What cares he now about the
Queen of England, of her friendship ? Re wants
blood, nothing else ; of black he ought to be satiated,
next he will try what the white man's is like ; in-
deed he has nearly began, as a few days ago he killed
the six remaining servants of the five Europeans who
last January tried to escape—ono of these servants
was a native of Massowah, so you see lie is getting
on. Our only hope is that, reduced as he is, he will
not venture here, having to cross 80 miles of country
all in arms against him. Specially if Gobaze, his
blood enemy, is in the neighbourhood. These two
must come to a clash some day : for our sake the
sooner the betaer, though as far as liberty is con-
cerned it matters little. We would not be allowed
to leave the country : only an army can do that.
No one in this country believes in the white man any
inure, and unless they get a practical lesson diplo-
macy will be of no avail. Still, iu Gobaze's hands
our lives are safe. If Theodorus comes here after
say, in that case era pro nobis
the rains, I can only
—good bye. Seud me all the news and extracts of
the Indian papers about our affairs. I should like
to see their opinions.—Believe me yours affection-
ately, (Signed) 11. BLANC.

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL ATHLETIC SPORTS.—The
annual sports in connection with Westminster School com-
menced yesterday at Vincent-square, Westminster, and
will be concluded to-day. There was a very large attend-
ance of the friends of the boys, and tho various contests
set down on the card were watched with eager interest.

Lord Ly ttleton presided at the eighth annual
meeting of the South Siaffordshire Educational As-
sociation for the Promotion of Adult Education,
held. at Walsall on Monday afternoon, and in the
evening his lordship distributed the prizes and cer-
tificates to the successful night school candidates.
The Earl of IlAnnownv moved the following re-
solution :—" That this association, while regarding
the condition of education amongst factory opera-
tives as attributable to parental neglect, yet looks
upon the introduction of Cie Factory Acts into this
district as likely to prove a most valuable stimulus
to the progress of sound el, inontary education."
The new acts, which were to come into force very
shortly, would affect the interests and habits of all.
classes of the population very ma'Lerially, whether
employers or employed, whether parents or children.
Hitherto it had been the complaint that it was no
use to build schools, for if in some cases the people
availe I themselves of them, the children spent so
little time in them that what they learnt there was
of little benefit to them in after life. There had
been a struggle between the interests of education.
and the interests of labour, and these acts were an
attempt to conciliate the two interests. Hitherto
there had been a difficulty in inducing parents to
make a sacrifice of their children's earnings for the
more distant advantage of having their children
educated. Now the new act said that children should
not be allowed to undertake employment unless they
had received, or were receiving a certain amount
of education ; and it also said to employers that
they should not, unless under heavy penalties, em-
ploy children unless they had received a certain
amount of education. These acts would make a,
great change in the question of education, arid,
in fact, in society generally, as was the case in Lan-
cashire when the acts were first introduced there.
W hen the acts were first introduced there, parents
said they could not do without .thu, wages, of their
children, and employers said they must have the as-
sistance of the children, or the several branches of
manufacture carried on there must stop. These
difficulties were, after some time, overcome; and
now there was but one chorus of general satisfaction
on the improved condition of all classes in that dis-
trict. They were aware that the Black Country
district required improvement, for, unhappily, they
saw abundant proofs of it when they looked at the
proceedings of the quarter sessions at Stafford and
elsewhere. They knew what men wore unless they
were trained and educated—they know that they
were but little better than animals, though animals
of a higher kind. Education had not been carried
on to that extent to which it ought to have beera.
The children had been taken from the school-rooms
and plunged into the darkness of the mine, before
their minds were educated or improved, or their
characters disciplined. And as they sowed, so they
must reap ; but they hoped that the present was the
beginning of better days, and that this district,
though black in its outward aspects, would not be
marked with a black spot on the moral map. A
great deal, however, would have to be done to meet
this new system. New schools would have to be
built, which would require great exertions ; applica-
tions should be made to the Privy Council, and
exertions would have to be made by all classes, in-
eluding even the working classes, who would find it
to their advantage to aid their children to obtain the
advantages of the new legislation. It would be said,
perhaps,.that this legislation, dealing as it did with
children, did not specially fall within the province
of the society as dealing with adult education ; but
the child was the father of the man, and if they edu-
cated the children the adults would soon rise into a
higher sphere.

THE FRAUD ON THE MIDLAND
RAILWAY COMPANY.

At the Guildhall Police-court yesterday, William
Eustace, of No. 4, Maida-hill, Paddington, and
George Cowen Little, surrendered to their bail be-
fore Mr. Alderman W. Lawrence to answer the
charge of having stolen three bales of carpet which
had been wrongly delivered to them by a carman
belonging to the Midland Railway Company.
On the 25th of March last three trusses of carpets
w ere sent from Bradford to Messrs. Easten and Co.,
warehousemen, carrying on an extensive business at
No. 2, Fell-street, Wood-street, City, and Nos. 2
and 3, Hart-street, The clerk who made out the
way-bill for the carman wrote the address " Easter
and Co., Addle-street." The carman could not find
the name and 'address, and therefore made inquiry,
and was told that Eustace and Co. had just moved
from Addle-street to No. T, Phillip-lane, and no
doubt that was the firm intended. The carman
went there, and said he had some goods for Easter
and Co., and asked if that was the place ; and
Little, who was in the warehouse, said, " Yes, it is
all right ;" and told him to bring them in. Ho
delivered them, and Little signed the way-
bill. Shortly afterwards Messrs. Easten and
Co. applied to the company for the carpet, and
Mr. Relf, the manager, called at Zustace and Co.'s,
No. 7, Phillip-lane, and saw Little. He asked for
Mr. Eustace, and Little said he was at Manchester,
and would not be home till the following Saturday.
He then asked to see J. C. Little, the person who
had signed the way-bill, and the prisoner never said
that he was Little, but said that Little would be
there at that time. Subsequently Little showed Mr.
Relf a letter from Eustace, dated Manchester, in
which he said that the goods had been sent to
Hastings and partly sold before he discovered they
were not his, and that therefore the railway com-
pany must send him in an invoice, and he would pay
it. The Midland Railway Company, however, re-
fused to make a debt of it, and summoned Eustace
and Little to this court. Little appeared, and was
several times remanded on bail, but Eustace never
appeared, and at last a warrant was issued in Juno
last for his apprehension, and Little was allowed to
be out on bail until Eustace was apprehended. On
the 16th instant Hann captured him, and he was
remanded on bail until yesterday, when the two
accused surrendered in discharge of their recog-
nisances.

The defendants were formally committed for
stealing the carpet, value £4O, the property of the
Midland Railway Company and also for conspiring
together to defraud the same company of the same.

THE GREAT RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF
ENGLAND —On Monday afternoon W. Lang, of Mid-
dlesborough, and J. Brighton, of Norwich, ran ten miles
at the Hackney-wick grounds for the valuable champion
cup and .£25 a side. The conditions are that the winner
should hold the cup for twelve months against all corners,
and Mr. Baum's liberal prize has frequently changed hands,
Lang on a previous occasion winning the trophy from
Fleet. Brighton then challenged Lang, and hence the
race of yesterday. About 1,000 persons assembled to wit-
ness the running of two such noted pedestrians, and the
start was made shortly after four o'clock, Lang being the
favourite at slight odds, both men coming to the scratch in
first-rate condition. Brighton went away with the lead
and maintained it to the 16th lap, when they passed and
repassed each other for nearly two more rounds. Brighton
then went ahead again, and continued loading to the last
lap (68th). Lang then rushing ahead, and spurting up the
hill in the back str3tch, went iu a winner by nearly a score
yards. The first five miles occupied 27 min. 15 sec., and
the whole distance 56 min. 40 sec.
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