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

HAYDN'S INDEX OF BIOGRAPHY.

An extraordinary book is now announced, under
the above title, by the Messrs. Moxou and Co.,
as preparing for immediate publication. It is'
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 and here gladly echo
the announcement of its speedy appearance. Ae•
cording to its editor's profatory explanation as to
its origin, the root-idea of it appears to bo traceable
to his finding among the papers of the late Joseph
Haydn a plan for a Dictionary of Biographif
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," earl
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 bad
keenly felt its need." Hence the enormous labour
he must, thereupon, have resolutely undertaken.
For, otherwise—without a conscientious deternn"
nation to shirk no toil in this herculean task Of
compiling an Universal Index of Biography worthy
of being regarded as a companion to Haydn 'o
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 a°
they do from a house of the high repute of the
Messrs. Moxon and Company—if only the specimeni
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°
it are not merely secured from all risk of disar
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 been
issued from the press, and to which we sha',
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:
coining. A handsome library volume of from 800
to 1,000 pages, double columned, and in exquisitely
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 01"
the Statesman, the Historian, and the Journalist.

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND 711
NEW MEAT AND POULT RY MARKETS.

Yesterday (WednesJay) afternoon a deputation
of licensed victuallers, residing in Smithfield, Long-
lane, Smithfield-bars, Charterhouse-square,
consisting of Mr. W. S. Richardson, Mr. Breretoot
Messrs. Kerschner, Woodcock, Palmer, Robbof,
Peacock, Hammond, Mayo, Porter, Darter, sad
several others, attended by Mr. J. Lardner, the
Chairman of the Smithfield Markets Appropriation
Committee, waited upon the members of the Met"
kets Improvement Committee of the Corporations
at the Guildhall, for the purpose of laying before
them a memorial relative to the injury likely to be
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 maw?
rial, and answered to by them,
lIENRY L. TAYLOR, Esq. (the Chairman of the
Committee), desired the memorial to be read, which
was done.

Mr. JOSEPH LARDNER then said that the mers°l
rialists had heard but three weeks previouslyibt
it was the-intention of the Corporation Committee
for Markets Improvements to let the four corset
towers of the New Metropolitan Meat and Pou
Markets as licensed hotels for the sale of spirits
well as refreshments, which would be a great
to them in their business, as well as restricting the
limits of the site for shops, &c. They had no elr
jection to such hotels being opened as beer-housesl
nor to their being used as places for refreshmentto
parties attending the market ; but they felt Ines
acutely that after they had been subjected to the
long and serious expense of waiting for twelve °r
thirteen years for the opening of the market-place°;
for the improvement of the neighbourhood, and
an increase of trade in consequence, in some small
degree, to recoup them for such losses, that the
opening of the hotels, to be used as licensed housl
would be to them a source of deep and perrnatielj.
injury, and most grievous to the prospects of the',
respective families and trades. They hoped, there'
fore, that the Committee would take their case into
consideration, and revoke any such decision if sae'
had already been come to by them.
The Chairman of the Committee (Mr. a fj:
TAYLOR) said that he, in common with the other
members thereof, felt deeply for the position ill
which the memorialists were placed. Neverthele°
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 ltv
tentions of the Legislature in the Smithfield gar
ket Act of 1860, which, in its ninth clause, 1311:r0
vided that the Mayor, Aldermen, and Corarael3
were not only authorised to erect a market-boas°
and market-place, but that they should also celY
struct "such houses, shops, stalls, standings, shect:,:o
buildings, works, and conveniences for the purpo.",
of the said markets and the accommodation of Per
sons resorting thereto, as they the Mayor, Ald.e.t;
men, and Commons may think necessary, all wilt,.
said market-houses and market-places shall be
deemed public markets." He wished to ko°
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 house°
being licensed, the occupiers of them would be Per
naitted to dispose of their licensed articles after
market was closed for the transaction of the bLl5l‘
ness of the day ?
The CHAIRMAN.--Certainly not; the houses will
have
-to close when the market is closed.
Mr. RICHARDSON.—That, sir, is a grand Point'
and the answer is very satisfactory.
The CHAIRMAN was glad to hear that, as the
Ao
Corporation did not like the idea of losing £2,000
a year income. •

The memorialists then thanked the ChairZl
and the Committee for their courtesy, and retired'
Mr. THOMAS RUDKIN, the chairman of the 313,f;
kets Committee, was ex o
fficio present during t"
proceedings.

A PRIZE FIGHT INTERRUPTED.---YeSterdal tWa,,
men, named James M'Neary and John Flint, alias 'Bona,
were brought before the Nottingham county
magistrate 3
1:
at the Shire-hall charged with being engaged. in a .16,
fight. Evidence was not gone into. The following °1.4
however, the facts of the case :—On Monday morning, 113,-
tween 6 and 7 o'clock, Police-sergeant Allwood and Police;constable Porter were on duty in Thorney-wood-lane,
Nottingham, and when near a place known as the "n
vil's Cotner"
they came upon a group of persons who il
oa
formed a ring, in which the prisoners were fighting- a
the appearance of the officers the crowd decamped,
proceeded to Mapperley-hills, where the fight Was rd
sumed. The police followed, guided by the noise, n:vi
Sergeant Allwood, while concealed behind a hedge,
the fight continued for a short time, when:he and the gibe
se
officer attempted to apprehend the prisoners. After a ell,
they succeeded in capturing M'Neary, who resisted stout]
Flint was afterwards apprehended in Nottingham uude'ti
warrant. The magistrates remanded the prisoners 1111 i
Saturday.