The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

At BALMORAL CASTLE, Oct. 6.
)
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
and attended by Lady Churchill, drove out Yes"
terday.

Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince
Leopold, drove to the Lynn of Quoich.
Prince Arthur and Prince Christian went oat
deer stalking, accompanied by Mr. Gathoree
Hardy.

HAYDN'S INDEX OF BIOGRAPHY.

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An extraordinary book is now announced, under
the above title, by the Messrs. Moxon and Co.,
as preparing for immediate publication. It le.""
judging from the specimen pages that have fallen
into our hands—so precisely the very kind of re-
ference .book we have for years been vainly longing
for, that we eagerly welcome an 1 here gladly one
the announcement of its speedy appearance. Ae*
cording to its editor's prefatory explanation as to
its origin, the root-idea of it appears to be traceable
to his finding among the papers of the late Joseph
Haydn a plan for a Dictionary of Biographh
to all appearance intended by that labori-
ous and industrious lexicographer to be re'
garded as a companion volume to his great stall'
dard book of reference, The Dictionary of Dates•
" Long prior to the discovery of this design," says
the Editor, Mr. J. Bertrand Payne, " I had formed
a strong wish to compile such a work, because,
during some years experience as a journalist, I had
keenly felt its need." Hence the enormous labour
he must, thereupon, have resolutely undertaken.
For, otherwise—without a conscientious determi-
nation to shirk no toil iu this herculean ta3k of
compiling an Universal Index of Biography worthy
of being regarded as a companion to Haydn s
Dictionary of Dates—no book of the kind could ever
by any possibility have been produced. If only--
as we take for granted, they must be, emanating s°
they do from a house of the high repute of the
Messrs. Moxon and Company—if only the specimen
pages already issued may be regarded as fair and
average exemplars of the manner in which the
work has been done throughout, the subscribers t°

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it are not merely secured from all risk of disaP'
pointment, but may even now by anticipation be
heartily congratulated. The Thirteenth Edition
of the far-famed " Dictionary of Dates"-'
an edition which has only just now bee°
issued from the press, and to which we ab°l/
take the earliest possible opportunity of directing
attention—affords at once a favourable idea of what
is likely to be the general appearance and character
of the Index of Biography now announced as forth'
coming. A handsome library volume of from 80°
to 1,000 pages, double columned, and in exquisitoli
clear typography, will place within the reach of all
who are willing to possess it a comprehensive bin'
graphical handbook from the Creation to the pre;
sent time, more especially designed for the use (/'
the Statesman, the Historian, and the Journalist.

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND TE,S
NEW MEAT AND POUL2ItY MARKET'S.

Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon a deputation
of licensed victuallers, residing in Smithfield, Long'
lane, Smithfield-bars, Charterhouse-square, Sre''
consisting of Mr. W. S. Richardson, Mr. Breretonf
Messrs. Kerschner, Woodcock, Palmer, Hobbs:
Peacock, Hammond, Mayo, Porter, Darter, and
several others, attended by Mr. J. Lardner, the
Chairman of the Smithfield Markets Appropriation
Committee, waited upon the members of the Mar"
kets Improvement Committee of the Corporation,
at the Guildhall, for the purpose of laying before
them a memorial relative to the injury likely to he
sustained by them by the proposed letting of the
four towers of the new market as houses for the sale
of spirituous liquors as well as refreshments.
The names of the licensed victuallers present
having been called over as signed to their memo'
rial, and answered to by them,
HENRY L. TAYLOR, Esq. (the Chaircsan of the
Committee), desired the memorial to be read, which
was done.

Mr. JOSEPII LARDNER then said that the meroc:,
rialists had heard but three weeks previously tit tit
it was the intention of the Corporation Committee
for Markets Improvements to let the four corner
towers of the New Metropolitan Meat and Poultry
Markets as licensed hotels for the sale of spirits a°
well as refreshments, which would be a great injury
to them in their business, as well as restricting the
limits of the site for shops, &c. They had no ob•
jection to such hotels being opened as beer-houses'
nor to their being used as places for refreshment te
parties attending the market; but they felt to°t
acutely that after they had been subjected to the
long and serious expense of waiting for twelve or
thirteen years for the opening of the market-planeet
for the improvement of the neighbourhood, and CI
an increase of trade in consequence, in some sruaho
degree, to recoup them for such losses, diet t-
opening of the hotels, to be used as licensed howl
would be to them a source of deep and permaneli
injury, and most grievous to the prospects of their
respective families and trades. They hoped, there'
fore, that the Committee would take their case iut°
consideration, and revoke any such decision if suet
bad already been come to by them.
The Chairman of the Committee (Mr. 11.
TAYLOR) said that he, in common with the other
members thereof, felt deeply for the position it/
which the memorialists were placed. Nevertheless
it should be stated that they, as the members of the
Markets Improvement Committee of the Corpora-
tion, were simply desirous of carrying out the it"
tentions of the Legislature in the Smithfield Mar-
ket Act of 1860, which, in its ninth clause, Pl 9;
vided that the Mayor, Aldermen, and Comlll°l3
were not only authorised to erect a market-house
and market-place, but that they should also O'
struct "such houses, shops, stalls, standings, sheag;
buildings, works, and conveniences for the purposes
of the said markets and the accommodation of Per
sons resorting thereto, as they the Mayor, Alder,-
men, and Commons may think necessary, all which
said market-houses and market-places shall b
deemed public markets." He wished to kl3°ig
if any of the gentlemen present had anything further
to say.
Mr. RICHARDSON wished to ask the Committee
whether, in the event of such hotels or houses
being licensed, the occupiers of them would be Per-
mitted to dispose of their licensed articles after the
market was closed for the transaction of the bust-
ness of the day ?
The CHAIRMAN..--Certainly not; the houses 11
have.,-to, close when the market is closed.
Mr. IticHAßDsoN.—That, sir, is a grand point'
and the answer is very satisfactory.
he
The CHAIRMAN was glad to hear that, as t
no
Corporation did not like the idea of losing 12,0'
a year income.

The memorialists then thanked the Chairl
and the Committee for their courtesy, and retired'
Mr. THOMAS RUDKIN, the chairman of the g 3,./.;
kets Committee, was ex officio present during the
proceedings.

A PRIZE FIGHT INTERRUPTED.---YeSterdaY /11°0
men, named James M'Neary and John Flint, alias Bonei,
were brought before the Nottingham county magistrat"
at the Shire-hall charged with being engaged in a PriS
fight. Evidence was not gone into. The following are,
;
however, the facts of the case :—On Monday mornhigf,b;
tween 6 and 7 o'clock, Police-sergeant Allwood and P014,:r
constable Porter were on duty in Thorney-wood-lane, line;
Nottingham, and when near a place known as the "
vil's Corner" they came upon a group of persons who ligio
formed a ring, in which the prisoners were fighting. °cl
the appearance of the officers the crowd decamped, s'o,
proceeded to Mapperley-hills, where the fight Was ra
sumed. The police followed, guided by the noise,
Sergeant Allwood, while concealed behind a hedge, 6:pr
the fight continued for a short time, when:he and the otw-
officer attempted to apprehend the prisoners. After a chleoo
they succeeded in capturing M'Neary, who resisted stoe''';
Flint was afterwards apprehended in Nottingham undei
rti
warrant. The magistrates remanded the prisoners
Saturday.