The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-27 00:00:00

THE TWO THOUSAND.

Vedette's lame ! Such is the assertion of every other
person one meets in Newmarket. The same was said of
Fazzoletto last, so I do not attach much credit to the
report. Alticroft teas engaged to ride Vedette, but now
it is asserted that Lord Glasgow bas determined to run
one of his " duffers," and to claim the services of Ald-
croft. My confidence in Vedette is not, however,
shaken ; that he will run well and honestly I ails fully
convinced. He did work enough this morning to satisfy
his backers. Tnat he walked somewhat giogetly when
he was first brought out I readily admit, but when he
took a rousing gallop with Lord of the Hills his alleged
lameness wai • int apparent. Between Vedette and
Kent I see a " divided duty." lam " fond " of
Vedette on account of Skirmisher's running, and
I am partial to Kent on account of his (Kent's)
good looks. Were I a professed betting man,
I do not think I should know how to choose between
the two horses. Kent beat Schiedam easily enough,
but it is also asserted that Drumour beat Schiedam in
private even more easily. Mr. Howard, however, has
not yet arrived at the end of the long lane of ill luck,
and will, I am afraid, be compelled to wait later in the
season before he finds a turning.
The movements with regard to Loyola and Beeswax
Colt I do not pretend to understand, but I shall not be
surprised to see Loyola resume his old price in the bet-
ting. I will at once boldly assert my opinion that I
deem Loyola's Clearwe!l running a mimtake. I certainly
shall not be " tickled with the straw " of Lord Clifden.

Anton is said to be vastly improved in his two-year-
old form, and so he ought to be to justify the large
outlays which have been made in his favour. Sydney
bas been described to me as a mean-looking devil, and
I am inclined to regard his reported trial with Ellington
and Tester as unworthy of consideration. Of the out-
siders, my only fancy is for TCREIT and LAMBOIIIIIIB,
but the winner will, I expect, be either

A dozen of toes° wonderful Por,raits have now
made their appearance. And they appear, by their
marvellous beauty as works of Art, and stilt more
by their marvellous truthfulness and exactitude as
copies of Nature, to demand from us some more
than usually emphatic expression of our very sin-
cere and unaffected admiration. It is their meed.
It is their They are—we repeat—wonderful.
They are literally like Shadows in the Glass cf
Twelve of our "Living. Celebrities." The actual
reflections of the bodily appearance of these twelve
eminent rut n— o a line, to a shade, to a hair. In-
teresting now that they are still moving and
breathing among us. How interesting when, in
the course of nature, they shill have passed away
—and their effigies shall be scanned by posterity,
and not merely by their cantemporwies !
Nancy looking over a collection of Mann and
Polyblank Photographs of the age, not of Viet-ria,
but of Anne or Eliz efeth. Examining in succes-
sion shadows in the glass "from the very life," of
pale little lameter Pope ; of re-wigged and be-
scented Congreve ; of Swift, with a face all a-flame
with passion a..d genius; and Addison, with his
flushed more by wine thrill by emot on ! Or better
still, turtling over prints taken by the sunbeam, irons
tt_ie actually " refieete 1 features" of burly Ben; of
bearded Raleigh, with his cap a- wry and a feather in
it ;of Baco looking wisdom out of his astute eyes ;
of Sidney, the smooth-checked hero of the boudoir
and the tattle-field ; and "best leautiful "of all,
the glorious c iuntenance, the veritable eyes, brow,
mouth, mou,tache, even the dimple of laughter
near the lies of handsome Will Sliakspei-e ! Fancy
that. Nell—after times may 10.,k back to soiree of
these faces with a kindred interel as to fiithful
limnings of men eminent in their way in the Age
of Victoria. We don't pay any one of these gentle-
men the preposterous compliment of likening them
iu any way to Popes or Shakeperes. But we do
assert that these photographic portraits of them are
deeply and peculiarly interesting now that they
themselves are " Living Celebrities," and that they
will be still snore wonderfully interesting when in
the course of events they shall, alas ! have b,come
every one of them "Dead Celebrities !" They havo
already done their best thernselve3 to immortalise
their " Names." The Messrs. Maull and Poly--
blank have now in tern dons their best to perpe-
tuate their "Features." How attractive (even
during their lifeome) the acres has been rendered
by the very diversity of the collection, the subjects
chosen for it sufficiently indicate in the mere enu-
meration. Here is the envier of his time—Pro-
fessor Richard Owen, a pn-fect master of Anatomy.
Here is Babington Macaulay, the Tacitus and Gib-
l'on of uur generation. Here is England's, the
World's Engineer Robert Stephenson. Hero
John Ro,buck, the "Dissenting Minister " of the
House of Commons. Here is Edward Baily, the
Sculptor of Eve, who through that Eve has
given us a glimpse of Paradise. Here is Samuel
Warren, the Watcher by the Deathbed in that
weird " Diary of a Physician"—the keen and
caustic Satirist of ' Tea Thousand aYe Ir." Here
is the learned Master of the Mint, Professor Gra-
ham. Here Edward Ward, one of the most youthful,
one of the most gifted, and one of the most popular
of our Royal Academicians. Here is the wise and
witty Lord Chief Justice of England, John Lord
Cituipbit. Here George Cruiksuank, the Hogarth
of the Etching Needle, the Prince of Caricaturist.
Here (the latest of these all but miraculous sun-
pictur,s) Rowland Hill, the Author of the Penny
Postage, 'and, therefore as such, Everybody's
Benefactor. Twelve undoubted "Living Celebri-
ties." The very men themselves looking out
upon us vividly and life-like from the paper under
our hand—as vividly as they might look in upon ua
from the threshold—framed in the doorway. We
long to see added to the list of " Living Celebri-
ties " in this really exquisite collection of Photo-
graphic Portraits—great names like those, for ex-
ample of Charles Dickens, and Bulwer Lytton, and.
Alfred Tennyson, and Henry Brougham, and
Wrlliam Thackeray. We await their appearance—
and while doing so, we wish cordial success to the
enterprise, the ingenious and remarkable enterprise
of the Messrs. Maull and Poly blank.