The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-09 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

DACCA MUSLIM.

The attention of the public is directed to these elegant frabrics, which, for surpass-
ing fineness and beauty, have been the admiration of the world since the days of Impe-
rial Rome, when, as we are informed by Dr. Taylor in his " Topography of Dacca," they
were exported under the name of the " serice vestes," and were highly prized by the
Roman ladies in the days of the highest luxury and refinement to which the empire
attained.
13aboo Sooroopchand Doss has always on hand a large stock, varying in price from
the cheap but elegant gowmpiece of twelve yards at Rs. 3 . 8, to the ' webs of woven
wind," " abroan," and the "shubnern," or morning dew, at Rs. 100 the piece of ten
yards. These latter are so fine that the whole piece can be with ease passed through a
wedding-ring, and, when spread on the grass in the early morning, are so undistinguish
able from dew, that it is reported that a cow eat a whole web while grazing without dis-
covering it. The Emperor Akbar rebuked his sister for indelicacy in appearing before
him clothed in only seven folds of this texture.
Orders will also be received for the beautiful Dacca scarfs, embroidered on Cashmere
and Nett, in floss silk, so much prized as presents by friends "at home."

Now this is the very height of poetical puffing. Messrs. JAY, whose
Sponsalia " daily ties your eyes and taxes your temper;
whose " Pelissier paletot " and " Raglan overcoat" stare at you on
every scrubby bit of boarding, on every wall of Chancery property ;
4. How shall I spend my morning? Why, visit Mechi's," Ace ;
Do you bruise your oats?" with all the doggrel of MOSES and the
flash gentility of HYAMS, are miserable impostors, and their produc-
tions arrant vulgarity to Baboo Sooroopchand Doss and the poetry of
his putt " The webs of woven wind,"—can anything be more beautiful
and perfectly descriptive of an exquisite muslin ? Then, so like the
early morning dew upon the grass, that it is reported a cow once while
grazing eat a whole web without being aware of it ! Here is another
exquisite simile, verified by an assertion so bold and yet so astute,
that it must have originated only in the vivid Oriental brain of Baboo
Sooroopehand Doss. The heavier intellects of Regent-street could
never have conceived anything so light and digestible. BARRY'S
Revalenta Arabica "is nothing to it. Let our advertisers beware, or
their Eastern brethren will completely eclipse them. If Baboo would
Only come to London, he would cause "An Alarming Sacrifice" and
' Laukrupt Stock " to be pasted up in half the haberdashers' windows.

757

The Sound Dues at present form twenty per cent. of the revenuo
of Denmark, and having been paid so long by all the nations of Eu•
rope, and formally guaranteed to her by the Congress of Vienna, cannot
well be abrogated without some compensation to that rower. The Danes
themselves offer to compound for a certain sum of money paid down.
But the English Government prefers to retain the toll, having it paid
at the ports instead of in the middle of the Sound. We agree with the
Times in thinking the Danish proposal the wiser of the two, and we
hope it may yet be accepted. In the meantime there is a third power
in question—namely, America—which boldly declares she will no
longer pay them at all, under any circumstances. What is this likely
to end in ? If an American ship tried to force her way through the
strait without paying, would the Danes fire on her? If so, it would
never suit America to go to war with a distant country like Denmark
for such a cause as this. The Danes are sturdy antagonists by sea,
and it would cost the Americans more than the point is worth to carry
it by force.