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116 SUPPL . last para from the unresisting Rayah, than to have so publicly dishonoured a maiden of their race. * * * The contest was not confined to the defile or mountain, it raged with all the bitter ness of intense hatred alike in the towns and -villages. The Haiducs, having made themselves masters of all the passes leading to Constanti nople, for a time intercepted every communication with the government. Meanwhile, a Haiduc, one of the comrades of Tzerni George, known by the name of Milo, and a fanatic Papa of Leskovatz, in Upper Moesia, tarried everything before them. Success gained them recruits, and in a few days Pacha Mustapha found himself beseiged in his fortress at Nissa by an infuriated horde of Rayahs, amounting, it is said, to upwards of fifteen thousand. When it was too late the Pacha restored the Helena of the Sclavonians to her people ; the details of the miseries she had suffered, her dishonour, her forcible recantation of the creed of her fathers, only tended the more to exasperate the insurgents, who now massacred every Mahometan that fell into their hands. The Pacha, as a last resource, solicited the mediation of the high dignitaries of the Greek Church, whom he won over to his interests by the sacrifice of a large portion of his ill-gotten treasures. He also sent. rich presents and an embassy in the person of the Greek Bishop of Nissa to Michaeli, the son of Prince Milosh, who at this time governed Servia, request ing him to intercede with the infuriated people. Relying on the promises made by the Pacha to the clergy of the Greek Church assembled at INissa, that their grievances should be redressed, threatened with excommunication, dreading the invasion of their country by Prince Michaeli, who declared he would unite his army with that of Turkey, the greater number of the insurgent peasants sullenly and reluctantly returned to their homes. The Mahometan is ever treacherous in his dealings with the Rayah ; and the perfidious Mustapha of Nissa having united his forces with those of Hussein, the Pacha of Widin, commenced those barbarous butcheries, from the details of which the soul of every man possessing a spark of humanity sickens with horror. It is recorded, that during this razzia the whole country leading from Nissa to Sofia was laid waste, and more than a hundred villages burned to the ground. At the same time the ravages of Jacoub Pacha, at the head of a vast horde of Mussulman-Bosnians and Arnouts, almost surpass belief ; their depredations were confined to Upper Moesia, extending from Nissa to the plains of Macedonia. The towns of Vrania and Lescovatz were sacked, and every valuable belonging to the Christians carried off; the churches were burnt, the clergy shot or dis persed, and the unhappy woman who was unable to fly for protection to the Haiduc of the mountain was treated with the most revolting barbarity ; and, as if fate had willed that there should be no refuge for the Rayah but the fastnesses of the Haiduc, the heartless Prince of Servia closed his frontiers against the fugitives, who were shot if they attempted to pass into Servia. A little conciliation on the part of these bar barous Pachas might have allayed the irritation of the people, exhorted as they were to obedience by the high dignitaries of the Greek Church, and dreading excommunication ; at the same time, the Sultan and his government would have been saved much humiliation and danger. The predatory hordes of Bosnia and Albania, in toxicated with success, and, now that the valleys and defiles leading to their respective countries were deserted, having nothing to fear from the Rayah insurgents, prepared to carry off on pack horses to their own homes the immense booty MENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. they had acquired. But the eye of a vengeful people never sleeps; they were intercepted by bands of Haiducs, Ouskoks, and Klepts, who united to the peasants, now desperate, massacred every soul that fell into their hands to the amount of several thousands, and so great was the booty, including weapons and ammunition, that the spoil of the Arnout is still a proverb, and the victory the subject of many a spirit-stirring piesma among the Sclavonian bards and story-tellers. Encouraged by success, the insurrection may be said to have only now commenced, several towns and isolated forts successively fell into the hands of the insurgents. Sofia and Nissa, to gether with many other important towns in Bul garia, were again besieged, and even Stamboul was not secure, since the revolt had now spread into Macedonia, Thessaly, and Candia ; and it may with truth be said, that the fate of the Ottoman Porte trembled in the balance, while the humiliated sovereign, to preserve his rule, saw himself obliged to seek the mediation of the Patriarch of Constantinople, and also that of the Russian Ambassador. The mediators between the Sovereign and his people, in effecting a re conciliation, were aided by the industrious habits of the Bulgarian tribes, whose love for home and smiling fields prevailed over the excitement of glorious war, and they were again induced, by many promises of ameliorating their social con dition, to give up the contest.—Spencer's Travels in European Turkey. LITERARY EXTRACTS. WORSE THAN NATURE INTENDED.—Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.---Addison. THE USED KEY.-" The failure of the mind in old age," says Sir Benjamin Brodie, " is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate ; contentment brings indolence ; indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of diseases induced by intellectual vacancy." STONEHENGE.—These stones have not been quarried at all, being boulders collected from the Downs. It is supposed by eminent geologists that they belong to the tertiary formation, and that the strata in which they were embedded have been swept away by some great catastrophe. The outer circle probably contained thirty upright stones, of which seventeen are standing ; and the number of their lintels in their original position is about seven or eight. Of the five large trilithons, only two are now complete.---Notes and Queries. 31111031MED'S DISLIKE TO ONIONS.--. Mahommed never would eat these strong-smelling vegetables, on account of his converse with the angels, even as modern " spiritualists " refuse to smoke tobacco ; at the same time he allowed his followers to do so, ex cept when appearing in his presence, entering a mosque, or joining in public prayers. The pious Moslem still eats his onions with these limitations. Some sects, however, as the Wahhabis, considering them abominable, avoid them on all occasions.— Burton's Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah. WHIG AND TonY.—Whig, or Whaig ' is the Scotch for Whey, which became a sobriquet of drovers, and a representative of bandits. It was first applied as a nick-name to those who attempted to resist the oppressions practised against Scotland. Tory came from " toory, ' in Irish " give me," and like the " per dioses" of Spain, was applied to beggars and then to outlaws. It became the sobriquet of those who resisted the oppressions of Ireland. In both cases the contemptuous appellation was accepted with pride by those to whom it was applied ; in both cases it re presentedin the origin justice and integrity.---Familiar Words by D. Urquhart. COMFORT FOR THE HOMELY WOMAN.—" Beauty, " says Lord Kaimes, "is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of a wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure, agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection without the ebriety oe spr io o of love, is a much safer choic e ' At lose their influence like beau* 01 0 :4 forty, nay fifty years, a virtuoto agreeable wife charms her fir liore The comparison of love to respect—that the fiercer it b urll9 a tinguished." ,bet e s o 4 l tir 4 [SrPT° I3 " Row, BROTHERS, ROVV." - ,-,„51 . " - t ''.j V Moore's undying " Cunadian o em t u'df 4 4 wrote on the fifth day of his de s , t hree i t oy rence, from Kingston. ThirtYure of s t i t i' wrote this song, I had the Pleu s ho de e f4 the original manuscript,which he as ti,i c c i , He had pencilled the lines nea r ,.., l / 1 , 114 work, in the blank page of a ""`" t ontr I be in his canoe, from whence lI,S 6 ,25 4 41 night. The sight of the origiuna 011ie; 0 lines, recalling youthful day Poet,°`— ' r produced a great effect on the e ds o ili touching manner to his P assim i iiii t ;4l life.---Weld's Vacation , Ibur* ~ 011 r esit le, CURIOUS RUSSIAN CVSTO3I* is a 40,0. nle and the following Sunday, there b r, t•'0 4 ;,,,, tq in the Summer Gardens, n•p ° I/ oef , t w , o ef l brides. The Rnssian tradesto,pe ;$ il l 0 . 1' , - pose their marriageable daug ll "; tDP,',,ge t ' it ) them, or, as they term it, to g".l . ii .v ir,the A the lime trees of the princiPS o fl P ;p ll . .' oir; rows of gaily-dressed girls, paf;# ll 4lle l till' the pipes of an organ. Behind Ou i ,,' fo-,.,' , maker, and the third row th e c i o ik,fl!';, 1 female relatives. Through this. oo o 6 'tit:b l iti °. tors and the wife-seeking ns PieTu'' s.f, 0' latter notice any face tha t »lir, matchmaker belonging to if' ~the?c* till a late hour. gi; S C_ A•e fl 4, l' i ' 1 A LEGEND OF WINCI{EST"-_,ow t he - e O l chamber, with the adjoinil4,,M, illoirl,det, school-room, the stone " b ut e s . 0 01 11 :(1 ; dows still remaining b uy I 0 VI fr do, scarely more than 90 bog s ' . a .l i t „.01, 0, the western wall, is a red l i erou'O` e i I tre d tradition was, that it was %j j et o i $ (111 0, 131 0 t, by, when two scholars, b r° o o" . pr e&- whom a savage prefect e% e ber, e °P St i until one night the elder 10t of t i1 e t e 3, t ,,..0 determined upon the destlijr_ip 0, t. e he l l armed with a dagger, st' ll- sle e iker„:ll ' fierce, into the unconscious., ; or, cis i i i was made, and as the b i • o th i ','ee 1 ", i ill light upon the bed, the sgre#lo,' re r oe ro i ° , it livid features of his own ;pert, til e lq r ; iri compelled to change his'` ; bs $0 11 0 "Ws ' pressor. So ran the sto rt fitle ° ' 1 bably of some baronet, a " / 'olli • 0 1 ~ is now, a blood-red hu lla 0 1 1 1 , ifc' ° tio College. T eo Al 4A i Were, b iel" e i' e f i ll PORTRAIT OF Sartr.. - ;" P ~,o r ;, fol',.,Vi down the signalement of feet PlotewosTiel nearly the result :_Fi ve c hioll s tte r 6ce l ', piercing, complexion Pa le ' •recl ' the - e'i( in adding mouth middle'sloot t u i si cleV. have given a descriptiou,t4 this is l' t el,/ Bureau des Passports. ki. ,' or oto r o p fir o o i cv, p,entleman ; that of V.if t l e aro s u e w ifeti,° ll o' When you behold that littl e eJ: ins i;itird: is impossible to suspectgiere is Iiis, 0 0:01:? ble of converting it. 3-I.aheati.,,,is e11',.,.' Juvenal, of Pindar, oftail les ; ' his V' ii' th 100 11 .4 and biting; his poetrY,iing.s for 13 , t , e t , you away. Wh en lie 0 w hoa is il uP 4 prot smile contracts his liPs":b e n lle,_ e 0 0 ;01 1, i i dart forth lightnings-- w hen tal , _... 0 ,1 1 _ i ts d inir;ilitti j o os ri nv , osi l ee : oo 4 otr a to e: re ci , : j r i t t :l e ocli,e of : 1 , butgo f e t p h o a e w rperrofprofound sublime. u i d s P a bruP ' Wi 41 'i, His gesture is q uick, , ct o isot s esse hi, , but it is always in Per' shiel I,?',.. o itilu,', 01 as he has to express. ~r ia ti oi! 10 4 , 1! 0 5 ., degree the surprisin:!niasvitho:ll:oo,llslB y I very verge, of delir lu t his, sit treivoot o ot Dv as a I o 111 . self-possession . all his v n ; da iii t more than once I saw „ se „ s sioo d,',P. i reiVij after he resumed the ai ntgeg erit„,„l, o l j o i l sure than ingennitY. •• i s i ..o oo °P j fou je ,l2,l o l WELLINGToN AND whi r the tab o o vil. this evening to Goethel, 0 ti l e Goe •. t 'al' 0 1 lington, who wa , i room. y.estlerstydi7unitihsYss:.7.o,tobtrotallec 0,0 I