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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

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SCENE OF OMAR PACHA'S CAMPAIGI4.--;
diate spot where Omar Pacha is now °IT:
anciently viewed as the border land betw—i;,,ine
and Asia, the Phasis being the frotier
he
indeed, one of the most primitive of all t,
within the records—or, rather, within the -ts
transcends in
of the human race; for it far
posed antiquity, as an inhabited reg,ion, thell
old 1%. noce
profane chronicles of men. Here was
old even when the Argonauts are represented vi

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°4 thither the first voyages, nearly two thousand
Ibefore Christianity. Here Pompey, in a great
e defeated the Iberians as the allies of Mithri-
' , after having driven them out of Gouria, the
rn Georgia. The descendants, or more correctly,
successors of, those Iberians now form the militia
`aledern. and far more powerful Mithridates, and
mustered to check an equally able assailant, who
_ against their master's dominions from the oppo-
Lurection.
lig
Oices POWERS OF FAcE.,---When Garrick was
Preville, the celebrated French actor, invited
1 his villa, and, being in a gay humour, he pro-
,to go in one of the hired coaches that regularly
„°etween Paris and Versailles, on which road
"e s villa was situated. When they got in,
ordered the coachman to drive on ; but the
answered that he would as soon as he zot his
-ent of four passengers. A caprice immediately
Garrick : he determined to give his brother
,a specimen of his art. While the coachman
attentively looking out for passengers, Garrick
at at the door, went round the coach, and by
iderful command of countenance, palmed him-
the coachman as a stranger. This he did
Al was admitted each time into the coach as a
'enger, to the astonishment and admiration
le. Garrick whipped out a third time, and,
-ressed himself to the coachman, who said in
tone, " that he had already got his comple-
and would have driven off without him had
311 e called out that, as the stranger appeared
fery little man, they would accommodate the
and make room for him.

OF THE GREEKS.—The Faraniotes dress
Inch fashions, and ride on English saddles.
. a purified Greek ; they know French, and
A. languages ; they resemble other European
their wives are ladies who get their gowns
iris. In a hundred years there will be no
'kars. Now the Greek race is, so to say,
it° two nations, of which one is imperceptibly
away into the other ; the future is for the
. _

Between the Palikars and the Farani-

nearer to the latter, are the islanders ; they
seamen or traders, generally both at once.
Ar the red cap,. with a particular fold, a short
and the immense Turkish trowsers. It is a
observing, that the so-called national cos-
he Greeks is borrowed either from the Turks
nans. King Otho, to show his patriotism
the himself popular, put on, on feast-days, the
a small nation of Slays ; and the sailors of
distinguish themselves from the barbarians
adorn themselves with a Turkish costume.
1, of whatever condition or whatever origin,
beard and wear the moustache ; they let the
when in mourning. Dandies, who wear
in the European fashion, are thought ill of
Citizens. The Palikars think it good taste to
seir waists immoderately. It is the men that

/S : and as the Greek race is thin and nervous,
' as the Turk is heavy and powerful, when you
People assembled in an open space, you can
Yourself amonc, the wasps of Aristophanes.—

and the Greeks.
STOOPS TO CONQUER.—When Goldsmith's
" She Stoops to Conquer," was to be brought
the stage, he was at a loss what name to give
le very last moment, and then, in great haste,
. it " She Stoops to Conquer ; or, the Mistake
irt." Sir Joshua Reynolds, who disliked this
a play, offered a much better, saying, " You
to call it the ' Belle's Stratagem,' and if you
will damn it." However, Goldsmith chose
it himself as above ; and Mrs. Cowley has
iven the " Belle's Stratagem" to one of her
.53. Goldsmith was in great anxiety about its
• He was much distressed in his finances at
and all his hopes hung on the event, and at
finer preceding the representation of his play his
. became so parched and dry from the agitation
mind, that he was unable to swallow a single
The actors themselves had great doubts of
;5 ; but, contrary to their expectations, the
received with great applause, Sir Joshua
and a large party of friends going for the
supporting it, if necessary. The dinner
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