The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-30 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Under the title of " Who's to Win Him ?" a
slight comedietta, obviously based by Mr. T.
J. Williams on a French foundation, has been
brought to serve as a lively prelude to the ela-
borate pantomime with which Mr. E. T. Smith
has astonished his juvenile patrons. The prelimi-
nary trifle agreeably employs the feminine force
of the company, and conveys a suggestive moral
in showing how maidenly reserve is much more
likely to secure a lover than the obtrusive
claims put forward by four village belles
who set their caps at a young officer in a
country village. The pantomime, which his been
produced in a very costly fashion, is now in the
height of its prosperous career, and is remarkable
for the rapid manner in which the spectator is
dazzled by a succession of brilliant tableaux. The
importation of the " Parisian Carnival Quadrille"
is by no means hazardous as an experiment, for
the quaintness of the dance so cleverly performed
by Mdlle. Finett e does not in the slightest de-
gree pass the boundary of decorum. Miss
Goodhall especially distinguishes herself in the
introductory portion, and with Miss Furtado,
Miss Caroline Parkes, and Miss Sidney, the
amplest justice is rendered to the operatic parodies
introduced. The harlequinade is full of spirit,
and the activity of the Clown, Mr. Forrest,
with the graceful dancing of Miss Esther Austin,
the Harlequin a la Watteau, and the fun
and flexibility of the rest of the nume-
rous troupe of pantomimists engaged, sustain un-
flaggingly the amusement of the audience. Mr. E.
T. Smith, with his usual energy, is preparing fresh
novelties to strengthen the favourable impression
produced by his pantomime, and early in the
month of February a new actor of European
birth and of American reputation will make his
first appearance in England in an Anglicised
version of the German drama of " Narcisse." Mr.
E. T. Smith has also arranged with Mr. H. J.
Byron for the immediate production of " The Lan-
cashire Lass," which, with all those " sensational"
effects which created so much excitement when the
piece was produced at Liverpool a few months back,
will be forthwith transferred to the Lyceum stage.

CITY AMATEUR MUSICAL SOCIETY.—The ball of
this society took place on the 23d, and proved to be a bril-
liant success. The new and handsome suite of rooms of
the Freemasons' Tavern, at which the ball was given, are
scarcely to be excelled in fitness for an entertain m ent of
this description. Supper was served in tasteful and lavish
style In the elegant drawing room of the establishment.
The usual toasts were duly honoured. Coote ant Tinney's
quadrille band performed an admirable selection of music
in the Grand Hall, to which the members and their friends
danced with zest for several hours. The whole of the
arrangements were pronounced to be unexceptionable.
STEEL FROM CLEVELAND IRON.—The occurrence
of sulphur and phosphorus in Cleveland pig iron has
hitherto prevented its being used for conversion into Bes-
semer steel. For the latter purpose only the pig iron ob-
tained from the purest spathic and hematite ores has been
employed; and the increasing demand for steel has led to
some apprehension lest the iron trade of Clevelan d should
eventually suffer front the competition of the Bessemer
steel manufticturers, unless some practical and economical
method could be discovered whereby the north country
pig iron could be converted into steel. During the past
year a considerable number of experimenters have been
attempting to solve this important problem, and at length
it would seem there is a fair prospect of success. At the
last meeting of the Middlesborough iron trade samples o
steel made from Cleveland iron were exhibited by Messrs.
Fox, Head, and Co. These appeared of superior quality,
and excited great interest, as it was stated that by the new
process steel rails could be manufactured at from £9 to
£lO per ton, or at about £3 per ton under the price of
Bessemer steel rails. Should these anticipations be well
founded it. is certain that a great impetus will be given to
the iron trade of this locality.

A person living at Headeld, near Bristol, has a
cuckoo in a cage. It was caught last summer soon after it
left its nest. It eats bread, potatoes, meat, cheese, &c.
AN OLD LADY'S llolnD. —Last week an old
widow lady, named Evans, died at Swansea, at the house
of her daughter. She had for many years previous to her
death live l in a little cottage by herself. After her
death a charwoman, who was cleaning the cottage, dis-
covered, concealed in an old-fashioned night-stool,
£1,606 10s. in gold. As there was no will, the next of
kin proceeded immediately to London to prove his title to
he treasure.

OFFICIAL LIQ UIDATOR S.—Yesterday a notice
was promulgated at the Rolls Chambers, headed " Official
Liquidators' Remuneration," stating that no application
would be entertained for remuneration to official liquida-
tors during the present sitting unless made and the evi-
dence in support of it left with the chief clerk•on or before
the 11th 31. arch next.

SHARE LlST.—This Day.

ORDINARY SHATVAS AND STOCKS.

Railways. Paid.! Closing i Business
i price. I done.

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COLONIAL GOVINMENT SECURITIE.

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and 15 Oct., 1900
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Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876
Do. 5 P.C. 1888 to 1895
New Zealand, 6 p. cent
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Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c.
sterling, 1875
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1868.

THE CONSERVATIVE REFORM BILL.

PRUSSIA.

NEW COURT.
OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES.

POACHING 1N FRANCE.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
STABBING A SAILOR.
James Morelli was indicted with stabbing James
Endell.

The two men were sailors, and the quarrel, in
which both took part, took place in the vicinity of
the Sailors' Home.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and he was
sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.

THE ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF

Gustav Victor, a German, was charged with
obtaining money from the Prussian Ambassador in
London by false pretences ; and also for libel. On
the Bth of January the prisoner Victor came
to the Embassy and said he had a scer,l
to tell, but that he was in a destitute condi
tion. Baron Schmithals was communicated with,
and when the prisoner caliel again on the 10th of
January he said that a conspiracy was in progress,
and that a man named Emerick was going to
Berlin to assassinate the King of Prussia, and he
had Orsini bombs in his possession. -Every time
Victor came he asked for money. Victor was told
that if. his information was correct he would receive
an adequate reward.
The whole story was a tissue of . falsehoods, and
the prisoner was given into custody, and after being
examined at Bow-street was fully committed for
trial. • •

The jury returned a verdict of "guilty of libel,"
and the other charge was withdrawn.. Sentence
deferred.

James Foxwell was to-day tried, before the Com-
mon Sergeant, charged with collecting various sums
of money under false pretences. The prisoner, it
was alleged by the prosecution, taking advantage
of his temporary connection with the City Press
newspaper, went round to different gentlemen re-
siding in the ward of Vintry, and represented to
them that it was proposed to collect subscriptions
in aid of the sufferers by the explosion at Clerken-
well, on the 13th of December, to be called the
City Press Fund. The prisoner went to a gentleman
named Gilbert, and told him he was a reporter
for the City Press, and then informed him that
various gentlemen had given subscriptions. The
prisoner showed a list of subscribers, and then he
(Mr. Gilbert) gave him a sum of money, believing
it was to go to the fund the prisoner had represented.
fie next called upon Mr. Green and Mr. Ponder,
and made similar statements, and from each of
whom he received money. Mr. Collingridge, the
proprietor of the City Press, said the prisoner was
only casually engaged on one. occasion to report
a meeting of the ward of Vintry, and
was not what he had represented himself,
a reporter engaged on the City Press. With re-
srect to the fund of which the prisoner talked about
he (Mr. Collingridge) know nothing whatever. No
such fund was ever in contemplation in the City
Press office, and the whole of the representations
of the prisoner were false.

The matter was brought under the attention of
the Lord Mayor by Mr. Collingridge and M. De
Jersey, who denied that any person was engaged
to collect funds for the Clerkenwell sufferers. The
prisoner, however, after this wrote to the Lord
Mayor, but the result of the matter was that the
prisoner was taken into custody charged with ob-
taining money under false pretences, and fully
committed for trial.

Mr. Pater, in his defence, contended that there
was no fraud whatever on the part of the prisoner,
but the most that could be made of the matter was
that there had been some misunderstanding on the
part of those gentlemen who had contributed the
money, as the prisoner never represented that he
was collecting for the City Press Fund, but that he
was a reporter for the City Press, and that as he
had reported the proceedings of the Vintry Ward-
mote meeting he thought it would be a good oppor-
tunity of collecting a fund to be devoted to
the sufferers by the Clerkenwell explosion.
The prisoner collected, he said, about £7, but
it was not handed over to any, person, but, on the
contrary, had been spent by the prisoner, upon
whoa), when taken into custody, only sixpence was
found.

The Common Sergeant said the whole question
for the jury was whether there had been any false
representation in the matter. They had heard what
had been said by the prisoner's counsel, and also the
evidence given by the witnesses, and now they
would have to say was there any ground for the
charge of fraud against the prisoner.
The jury were deliberating on their verdict when
it was intimated to the Court that there was a wit-
ness who had not been called. This person was
the ward beadle, who, on getting into the witness-
box, stated that the prisoner had also told him that
he was collecting for the City Press, and that the
moneys, as they were collected, were paid over to
Mr. Collingridge as treasurer, and that when the
sum rose to £2O it would be paid over by chat gen-
tleman to the Clerkenwell Relief Fund.

The jury found a verdict of guilty, and he was
sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.

We English have a notion that we are the most
sporting nation in Europe, and possibly, so far as
this is shown in the arlour with which a consider-
able section of the community follows the hounds
or tramps over the stubble, the estimate is not an
unfair one. But what is to be said of the fact that
there are on the other side of the Channel, in the
empire of France alone, no less than between six
and seven hundred thousand persons privileged
to kill game, the majority of whom exercise this
right ; and that there is, moreover, an enormous
number of unauthorised individuals the detesta-
tion of landowners all the world over—the " betel
noires" of the " proprietaire foncier," in other
words, poachers? Although France is very fairly
stocked with game, in which definition Frenchmen
are almost willing to include every bird on the
wing, and every four-footed creature that rans
wild, there are nevertheless such a number of pri-
vileged persons to assist in their destruction that
some of them often find a difficulty in bringing
,down even one bird per head during a day's
shooting. The consequence is they are now be-
ginning to exclaim in earnest against the poachers,
who, if they leave the robins and the sparrows
unmolested, do not reserve the pheasants for
licensed guns. An appeal has just been published
in the Paris newspapers calling on licensed sports-
men to combine together and procure the enactment
of more stringent game laws, to which it is said the
Corps Legislatif, being composed for the chief part
of landed proprietors, will readily give its consent.
This combination is urged on the ground that the
poacher not only interferes with the recreation of
the privileged sportsman, but picks his pocket as
well. Young partridges, which in days before rail-
ways were general, used to fetch only half a franc
each, now realise two francs and a half ; and hares
that used to be sold for a couple of francs, now
bring at the sales of game by auction at La Vallee,
the Paris game market, as much as eight and nine
francs each. One result of this great increase in
the value of game at Paris is that the annual
right of shooting over certain farms in the de-
partment of the Seine and Marne, which are leased
to tenants at 6,0001. a year, is disposed of by the
proprietor for no less than 10,000 f. Societies for
the protection of game are common throughout
France, and the central one, in the department of
the Seine, is presided over by the Marquis de Nico-
lai, the terror of the poaching fraternity, and espe-
cially of the children of the " braconniers," who
are quieted when unruly by threats that Nicolai
will take them away. These societies give re-
wards varying in amount from 50f. to 100 f. for
the detecfion and conviction of poachers; still
they are found inadequate to cope with the evil,
and hence the agitation now on foot.—Pall Mall
Gazette.

The armour-plated iron ship Defence, 18, Capt.
Charles 11. May, was towed on Tuesday from the upper
division in Ilamoaze to the sailing moorings of the dock-
yard, Derinort,

SPORTING OPINIONS.

(From the Sporting Life.)

The expectant racing community are to a certain
extent no longer " waiting for the verdict" of the
Spring handicappers, and it must be confessed that
they are now provided with ample material for di-
gestion and reflection. Billiards, which have en-
, grossed so much attention daring the vacation, have
fairly gone to the wall, and as all successful British
undertakings either open or close with a banquet,
the Victoria Club on Monday night entertained Mr.
Perry at a dinner, and afterwards made the pro-
moter of the billiard tournaments a handsome pie-
sentation. That this compliment was thoroughly
merited no one will question who has observed the
energy, courtesy, and tact of the gentleman who has
voluntarily taken upon himself the onerous duties
of Clerk of the Cloth and handicapper. Thus in a
few days the scene will be changed, awl bookmakers
and backers will plunge into that boisterous sea of
speculation which marks the a west of gentle
Spring. Indeed, even now the reporters whose
businc6s it is to chronicle the betting will find them-
selves suddenly troubled with an accumulation of
work in compiling the long lists of the odds which
way be expected to emanate daily from the Clubs
and Tattersall',. Opinions are, as usual, still diverse
as to the precise merits of the three-year-old cracks,
and some enlightening movements will now soon be
anticipated as the various candidates progress in the
work of preparation. No little conversation had
been created by Sir Joseph Hal% ley's commissioner
coming first to the fore, and on Saturday last in-
vesting in hundreds on both Rosicrucian and Green
Sleeve for the Derby, and almost in the same
breath making what must be regarded in the light
of a decided demonstration against Lady Elizabeth,
seeing that the big bet he laid decidedly shook the
firmness of the Queen of Danebury. The bets which
the commissioner accepted were 6,000 to 400 about
Rosicrucian and 6,000 to 500 about Green Sleeve,
supplementing this with an outlay of 1,800 to 300
against Lady Elizabeth. These three transactions
have a right to render the supporters of the cherry
jacket especially satisfied with the spring prospects,
and for ample reasons. In the first place they de-
cidedly confirm the statements of the present health
and improvement of the two cracks, Rosicrucian
and Green Sleeve, and argue the unabated confi-
dence of the pillars of the Kingselere establishment.
We may also imply, from these three significant
bets, that Sir Joseph Hawley, one of the shrewdest
judges on the Turf, still holds the opinion he has
maintained for a considerable period, that he has
another Derby at his disposal with Rosicrucian and
Green Sleeve—that he has no fear of Lady Eliza-
beth, and, having beaten her once, believes that
when next they meet his colours will still be tri-
umphant.