The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

BARCELONA.

When, last year, I first visited Turin, I perceived that I
wee in the Paris of Italy; here it struck me that Barcelona
• _

is the Paris of Span. There is quite a French air about the
Place. One of the nearest narrow side streets was crowded
with people, there were no end of shops in it, with various
goods—cloaks, mentillas, fans, bright-coloured ribands, al-
luring to the eyes and attracting purchasers; there I wan-
dered about wherever chance led me. As I pursued my
w°3', I found the aide and hack streets still more nar-
row, the houses apparently more adverse to light ; windows
did not seem in request; the walls were thick, and there
were awnings over the courts. I now reached a small square;
a trumpet was sounding, and people were crowding together.
Some jugglers, equipped in knitted vests, with party-
coloured swimming small-clothes, and carrying with them
the implements of their profession, were preparing to exhibit
on a carpet spread
wish to avoid the middle of the street. A little dark-
over the pavement, for they seemed to
eyed child, a mignon of the Spanish land, danced and
played the ta-,bourine, let itself be tumbled head over
heels, and made a kind of lump of, by its half-naked
papa. In order to see better what was going on, I had
ascend°l a few steps of the entrance to an old dwelling,
with a single large window in the Moorish style; two
horse-shoe-formed arches were supported by slender
marble pillars; behind me was a door half open. I looked
in, and saw a great geranium hedge growing round a dry
dusty fountain. An enormous vine shaded one halt the
place, which seemed deserted and left to decay; the wooden
shutters hung as if ready to fall from the one hinge which
supported each in their loose frames ; within, all appeared
as if nothing dwelt there but bats in the twilight gloom.
I proceeded farther on, and entered a street, still narrow,
and swarming
with still more people than those I had
already traversed. It was a street that led to a'church.
Here, hid away among high houses, stands the Cathedral
of Barcelona: without any effect, without any magnifi-
cence, it night easily be passed by unheeded; as, like
many remarkable personages, one requires to have one's
attention drawn to them in order to observe them. The
crowd pressed on me, and carried me through the little gate
into the open arcade, which, with some others, formed the
approaches to the cathedral, and enclosed a grove of orange
trees, planted where once had stood a mosque. Even now
water was splashing in the large marble basins, wherein
the Musselmen used to wash their faces before and after
prayers.

The little bronze statue here, of a kntht on horseback,
is charming; it stands alone on a metal reed out in the
basin, and the water sparkles behind and before the horse.
Close by, gold fishes are swimming among juicy aquatic
plants; and behind high gratings geese are also floating
about. I ought perhaps to have said swans, but one anus
stick to the truth, if one wishes to be original as a writer sz:.
traysls.

When he is visiting Valencia, our traveller recounts
to us the legend of the Cid t ho, like "Douglas

dead," won a battle after his death, and here the
imaginative character of his musings is testified in
the following extract.—
And now stands, with its enormous square stones and
jagged wall, the old gate through which the dead rode on
that night of dread and destruction to the Moors. I stood
ih the shade of that gate, and was thinking of the hero and
his war horse, when, strangely enough, quite a different
vision was recalled to my: mind. Just as I stood there
came a boy, shouting in his glee, riding the most miserable
nag I had ever seen ; the animal was literally skin and bone,
and looked the picture of hunger: my thoughts naturally
wandered from the Cid's noble war-horse to Dora Quixate's
Rosinante ! Both still equally live in the world of poetry
and romance ; and there, the names of Babieca and Rosi
nante will always survive.

We commend these pleasant pages to tha attention
of the reader, who will require to exert but a slight
effort of fancy to find himself " In Spain" when he
has once opened the book.

My Indian Journal. By Colonel Walter Campbell,
author of " Tne Old Forest Ranger." Oao vol.
Pp. 477. Edmonston and Douglas.
" I have read somewhere," says Col. Campbell
" that any one who has seen a little of the world,
and taken notes of what he has seen, need only
publish these notes to produce an amusing if not an
instructive book." Assuredly, if the " any ono"
alluded to possessed the keen powers of observa-
tion end the happy facilities of description of "the
old forest ranger," the amusement and instruction
to be derived from these notes would be a matter of
certainty. We learn from the preface to this volume
some interesting particulars respecting its prede-
cessor. "The Old Forest Ranger," it appears could
find no publisher willing to stand godfather to it.
The author was therefore induced to bring it oat at
his own expense. It succeeded so well as speedily to
go through three editions ; and now having, as he
says, "rested on his oars ever since," the author is
induced again to solicit public attention, and again
for a similarly truthful record of the results of his
personal experience. The Indian Journal now before
us is,we are told,mainly compiled from travel-stained
MS., volumes which have lain " undisturbed for the
last three decades," containing the journal and notes
of a subaltern in a marching regiment. To these
are added descriptions of wild animals, and the dif-
ferent modes of hunting them, compiled from notes
taken from time to time during a five years' resi-
dence in India. The narrative compiled from these
authentic reminiscences is full of interest and vicis-
situde. Some of the hunting exploits are of en-
thralling interest. Colonel Campbell is evidently a
daring sportsman, as every tiger and bison that
came across his path can testify. As an illustration
of these anecdotes let us take the following ac-
count of

HUNTING THE TIGER WITH ELEPHANTS.
In parts of the country where good sbikaris" were not
to be obtained, I used to find tigers by fastening a bullock
near some ravine or thicket known to be frequented by them;
the poor animal was generally carried off in the course of
the night; and nothing further was necessary than to
follow up the trail of the tiger to some neighbouring cuvei,
where we were sure to find him lying gorged. Tigers are
also found whea returning at daybreak from their nightly
prowl, by men stationed up us trees, who hem them into the
first cover they enter. In whatever manner a tiger is
found, the great point to insure success, is to procure plenty
of hands from the nearest village, and effectually to surround
the place, so as to prevent his stealing away before the
elephant arrives. If he becomes restless, as he is apt to do
when not gorged with food, a shout is generally sufficient
to prevent his breaking cover; for, with all his ferocity,
the tiger is a cowardly animal, and much averse to show-
ing himself by daylight.
Having found our tiger, we must, before proceeding to
action, devote a few words to that most useful auxiliary—
the elephant, A really good sporting elephant is invalu-
able. He beats for his game like a pointer; and carries
his rider in safety over the most dangerous ground, and
through the thickest covers, which he searches inch by
inch, with a degree of patience and sagacity that makes
instinct almost amount to reason, Trees that oppose his
progress are levelled by his head, or torn down with his
trunk; his stupendous weight forces itself through every
obstacle; and at the word of command, the sagacious brute
picks up stones and hands them to his driver to throw into
the thicker parts of the cover.
On finding the tiger, the elephant gives warning of his
proximity, by throwing up his trunk and trumpeting; and
if well trained, should remain perfectly steady, ready to
obey every command of his " mahout."
The worst fault an elephant can have, is a propensity to
charge the tiger. In doing so, the violence of his motion is
apt to unseat the riders, rendering it impossible to take aim ;
and what is still worse, ho generally throws himself upon
his knees at the moment of attack, pitching the men out of
the howdah by the violence of the shock. This bad habit
is usually caused by the driver encouraging his elephant to
trample upon a tiger taken killed, and thereby rendering
the animal ferocious. Nothing is required of an elephant
but to remain perfectly steady when a tiger is found ; and
the best way of training him to do so, is to make him stand
quietly over the tiger after he is killed, without allowing
him to touch it ; while the driver encourages him by his
voice, and rewards him with balls of sugar dipped in the
blood of the animal. Some elephants are so steady, as to
allow a tiger to rush up to their heads without flinching;
bat there are few that are not more or less alarmed by a de-
termined charge. A veteran gains confidence, and is at
length made perfect by the coolness of his driver, and the
good shooting of his owner; but those which aro ill-entered
turn round and often run away at the first roar of a tiger ;
and even the best and most practised are often rendered
useless, and become irrecoverably timid, by wounds received
in a successful charge.
I have had occason to use nervous, timid elephants, and
they are bad enough ; but I would rat her ride a determined
runaway than a savage brute who insists on killing the
tiger himself. It is, no doubt, a severe trial to the nerves
to find yourself hurried away by a huge ungovernable mon-
ster, with the prospect of being either smashed against a
tree, or rolled into u ravine; but this is nothing to the risk
you incur on a fighting elephant, of being pitched into the
jaws of an enraged tiger, or pounded to a jelly under the
elephant's knees.
On a really good elephant the sportsman is exposed to
little danger; less perhaps than in most Indian field-sports.
He is raised from 10 to 12 feet off the ground, on a com-
fortable seat, from whence he can fire in all directions, and
ho must be a bad shot indeed if he fails to stop a tiger in
his charge. But even supposing that he does miss—which
he has no business to do—and allows a savage tiger to
spring upon the elephant, still the man is seldom the object
of attack, and he ought to be able to blow the brute's
brains out before he does much mischief. Tigers generally
spring at the elephant's head, rarely making any attempts
to reach the howdah. Instances of their doing so have
occurred, but they are very rare.
Many similar descriptions we might readily
quote. The lovers of adventure will find ample
amusement in the spirited reminiscences of Col.
Campbell. Some of the animals, the tiger, the
bison, the ibex, and others, are the subjects of
beautiful illustrations by Noel Paton and Wolf.

DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE AND
INDUSTRY.—The following list of manufactories
show that our people are realty making some progress to-
wards independence. In this list are not included the cotton
and woollen mills dotted here and there in all the States, or
she iron establishments, or the Government works making
arms, powder, &c, :—Hat manufactory, Statesville, North
Carolina—stocking factory at Columbia, South Carolina—
stocking factory at Danville, Virginia—bonnet frame fac-
tory at Newberry, South Carolina—cotton card factory at
Greenwood, South Carolina—cotton card factory at Fayette-
ville, North Carolina—cotton card factory at Columbia,
Georgia—cotton card factory at Danville, irginia (two)—
cotton card factory at Selma, Alabama—cutlery, knives and
forks, at Raleigh, North Carolina—cotton batting factory at
Charlotte, North 'Carolina—corn-broom factory at David-
son's College, North Carolina—match factory at Danville,
Virginia—blanket manufactory at Montgomery, Alabama—
knitting-needles at Columbia, South Carolina—glass manu-
factory at Richmond, Virginia—glass manufactory at
Columbus, Georgia—glass manufactory at Savannah,
Georgia—button manufactory at Columbus, Georgia--
powder manufactory at Mecklenburg, North Carolina—
several copperas mines extensively worked in Rutherford
county, North Carolina—one copperas mine in Chesterfield,
South Carolina. We have no doubt there are many other
establishments than the above.—Riehmend Examiner.
RELEASE OF PRISONERS AT BOKHARA.—A de-
spatch received in St. Petersburg announces that
four foreigners (three Italians and one Frenchman) toge-
ther with 13 Russians, have been released by the Emir of
Bukhara, after having been imprisoned for a year. When
the imprisonment of the four persons became known is
January last, the Italian Government immediately sent an
agent, M. Bonhomme, to do what he could in the matter.
Provided with letters from the Sultan, the Viceroy of Egypt,
and other .Mahommedan sovereigns, M. Bonhomme pro-
posed to travel to Bokhara through India, but was dis-
suaded by the Viceroy, as his death would have been in-
sured by so doing, on account of the Emir regarding all
Europeans as Englishmen, and entertaining a mortal hatred
to them. M. Bonhomme then travelled through Persia to
Russia ; but even in Russia he was advised not to make the
venture, and thus he could only forward his letters through
the officials. The letters, however, remained unanswered,
as the Emir is not partial to such means of communica-
tion, and had only sent one answer to four letters from
he Russian commandant at Orenburg. Notwithstand-
ing all these difficulties, the prisoners are now liberated,
And M. BLALhomine has returned from Italy to St, Peters-
burg,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S ETLEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, AUGUST 23.
Herr von Bismark had a long conference with
Count Reelaberg yesterday.
The statement of some foreign journals that a
project for Federal reform., drawn up by Kerr von
Bismark, would b© the subject for negotiations, is,
in well•informed circles, considered unfounded.

ALEXANDRIA. AUG, 22.

The differences between the American consul and
the Egyptian Government have been settled, and
the former has resumed his relations with the Go-

vernment.
Nubar Pacha has arrived here, and left inutile
diately for Cairo.

FRANCE.

A Paris correspondent of the Independance of
Brussels says :—" I have hitherto refrained from
alluding to the projected marriage of Prince Hum•
bert with the Princess Anna Murat. The hand of
the Princess has been officially demanded in Paris
by the Marquis Pepoli, who is himself the son of a
Princess Marat. The initiative taken in this matter
by King Victor Emmanuel's Government is gene-
rally considered judicious, as this marriage will
draw closer the bonds which unite new Italy to the
only great Power from which it can reasonably
expect the final development of its unity. The
negotiations for this marriage explain the intimacy
with which M. Nigra has been received at the
Tuileries. The future Queen is some few years older
than the Prince, but that is a matter of little im-
portance in the case of a political alliance.''.

"The interview at Kissinger]," says the Inde•
pendance, "begins to bear its fruit : the diploma-
tic relations between the Courts of St. Petersburg
and Vienna are about to be re•established on their
former footing. Count de Stackelberg is expected
at Vienna, and Count Revertera is on the point of
proceeding to his pest in Russia. The choice of
these diplomatists shows the value which the two
Courts attach to the restoration of their good un-
derstanding. Count de Stackelberg is a great fa-
vourite at Vienna, and Count Revertera, who has
married a rich Russian heiress, will be well received
at St. Petersburg.

BOURSE, Aug. 22.—The arrival of the English
funds with a fall of has tended to impart dullness
to the market, but without causing any material
decline in prices, Threes, being now at 661 r. 40c.
Mobilier, which opened at 1,023 fr. 75c., receded to
1,017 r. 50e., and have since recovered to 1,020 fr.
The Railway Market has varied but little from
Saturday 's quotations. The market became heavy
towards the close, and prices receded, to leave off
es follows :

II per Cents. 94 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 35

Italian Loan 67 90
Do. end month 67 75
Ditto Threes, —
New Mexican
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes 49 50
Home Debt
Deferred

Credit Mobilie- - -1910
Do, end m0nth....1011 25

Bank ;Shares

3360

Credit Foncier 1`220
Roman — --

RAILWAre.

Orleand 11106,1,•911
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Low hard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
8" .. 890 --
980 .. 986 25
928 75 .. 930 --
640 641 25
521 25 525
491 25 492 25
337 50 .. 348 75
430 433 75
542 50 .. 541 25
412 50 .. 413 25
606 25 .. 503 75
330 227 50

S PAIN.

The Spanish journals remark with satisfaction
on the manner in which King Don Francis has been
received in France :—" We desire," says the Diane
of Barcelona, " that the journey of the King of
Spain in France, while strengthening the bonds of
friendship which unite the two reigning families,
should contribute equally to the union of the two
nations, and lead to a sincere intimacy, based on
the interests, respect, and independence of the two
nations. If at a later period troubles should arise
in Europe, let us not rush into a policy of adven-
tures, nor undertake premature and useless sacri-
fices. Spain must hold herself in readiness, in order
that if she has one day to struggle for oue of her
most important interests, she may be fortified by
alliances on which she can reckon." What the in-
terest alluded to is not stated, but probably the
recovery of Gibraltar is meant.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
(From the limes' Correspondent)

HA➢iBURG, August 19.
However hard the terms of the peace, which is
❑ow in progress of negotiation at Vienna, may fall
upon the Danes, it may be questioned whether the
condition of the conquered people will at any time
be worse than is at this present moment that of their
"liberated" fellow-subjects, the Schleswig-Hol-
steiners. Moral evils are, for rational beings, the
most unendurable, and the very worst is uncer-
tainty. Now, of one thing done are the people of
the Duchies perfectly sure, and that is, that
whoever else may be destined to settle the affairs
of their country, they will themselves be the last
to have anything to do with the matter. To
consult the wishes of a people as to their national
tendencies and the disposal of their sovereign
rights is, under all circumstances, an almost
impracticable undertaking, but it becomes an
especially hard task when the nation which is thus
to fix its own destinies happens to have no settled
constitutional form upon which its choice may be
based, when, in the general breaking up of the
links of sooial order, political passions have been for
some time allowed to run riot, and when the country
is at the same time trodden down by an overbearing
soldiery and overrun by needy and noisy demagogues.
We may be willing to admit that in Holstein,
and in a part of Schleswig, the people considered
themselves, and were Germans, and that, on the
ground of the repulsion and affinity of race, they
aspired to be separated from Danmark and united
to Germany. The troops of the Confederacy and
those of Prussia and Austria have fulfilled that
wish ; so thoroughly fulfilled it, that the vote of
the pure Danes and that of Danish loyalists and
sympathisers must go for nothing. Schleswig.
Holstein, and even Lauenburg, must become Ger-
man ; they are German.
What of it ? Now that it is settled that these
people belong to Germany, is it also deeded that
they belong to themselves, that they are their own
masters, and are, for once at least, to exercise their
inalienable sovereignty over their own destinies ?
Alas! the Germans came to bring to their Schics•
wig Holstein brethren not peace but a sword. They
bring their jealousies and squabbles, their whole
system of pedantic chicane and feudal confusion to
bear on the question, and will muddle it and befog
it till the luckless people of the Duchies be fain to
accept any compromise, and submit to any decia,
sion, out of sheer bewilderment and weariness of
mind.

The first arrangement at which the German
Powers seem to have arrived is the very one that
can best prolong the complications under which the
Schieswig-Holstiners are labouring; they hava hit
upon the scheme of a "Provisional Government."
Sow all who are familiar with any of the European
changes that have occurred since the beginning of
this century are well aware that all the scourges of
war, plague and famine, are nothing for a country
in comparison with a pro interim rule;
it is tanta-
mount to a rapid dissolution of the past, by men free
from all responsibility as to reconstruction for the
of the lieu.
future; it is grounded on an assumption
trality of people who have an object to carry, andpursue it untrammelled by legal bounCo, undis.
turbed by a sense of duty or a qualm of principle.
A provisional government generally contrives to
achieve what revolution or war stopped short of.
The Governments of Prussia And Austria dare
cot claim the Duchies as their own by righ
Of conquest, neither are they wiiiing that any one
should dispose of them but themselves. Indeed, in