The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-21 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Dee. 20.
The Q seen and Princess Beatrice walked and
drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and
again this morning. Her Majesty and the royal
family took their usual eXercise.„

Princess Louise also drave out.
-I.

The MARCIIIONESS of LONDONDERRY, We are
grieved to learn, has had a relapse of her illness, an i is
at
present considered to be in a dangerous state. Her lady-
ship's family are still with her at Seaham-hall, and the
Duke of Marlborough was sent for on Saturday night.
•

The Prince Edmond de Polignae has arrived at
the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-thti eat, from Paris.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale are expected to arrive at Strawberry Hill, Twick-
enham, on Monday next, from their seat near Evaharal
Worcestershire, on a visit to Frances Countess Waldegrave
and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have been
entertaining a select party at Strathfieldsaye, Hants.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings brae
entertained during the past week, at Donnington Park, the
Earl and Countess of Winchilsea and Lady Constance
Finch Hatton, the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge and Miss
Heneage,Viscount Marsham and Lady Constance Marshal/It
Viscountess Glentworth and Colonel Bgillie, Lord Courte-
nay, Lord Henry Paget, Lord Berkeley Paget, Mr Baldwin,
Mr Wombwell, &c.

The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury returned
to town on Saturday from visiting the Marquis and Mar•
chioness of Bath at Longleat, and left on Monday for Hearn
Court to entertain a Lilect circle during Christmas.
Die Earl and Countess Craven and the Ladies
Craven have arrived at the family residence in Charles.
street, Berkeley square, from Coombe Abbey, the old seat
of the family near Coventry.

The Countess of Jersey and daughter have arrived
in town from a tour of visits.

GENERAL LEE'S ADVICE TO HIS SON.—The
lowing letter will be read with interest. G. W. I urtis
Lee, to whom it is addressed, is now at Richmond on the
personal staff of President Davis, and in command of the
immediate defences of the capital :—" Arlington Douse,
April 5, 1854.—My dear Son,—l am just in the act of leav•
ing home for New Mexico. My fine old regiment has
been ordered to that distant region, and I must hasten 00
to see that they are properly cared for. I have bat little
to add in reply to your letters of March 27, 27, and 28.
Your letters breathe a true spirit of frankness; they have
given myself and your mother great pleasure. You IDOL
study to be frank with the world ; frankness is the
child of honesty and courage. Say just what you
mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted
you mean to do right. If a frend asks a favaur,
you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell hire
plainly why you cannot; you will wrong him and wrong
yourself by equivocation of any kind. Never do a wrong
thing to make a friend or keep one ; the man who requires
you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly
but firmly with all your classmates ; you will find it the
policy which wears best. Above all, do not appear to others
what you are not. If you have any fault to find with any
one tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is
no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking
to be one thing before a man's face and another behind
his back. We should live, act, and say nothing to the
injury of any one. It is not only best as a matter of prin•
ciple, but it is the path to peace and honour. In regard
to duty, let me, in conclusion of this hasty letter, inteae
you that nearly a hundred years ago there was a day of
remarkable gloom and darkness—still known as the dark
day—a day when the light of the sun was clearly
guished, as if by an eclipse. The Legislature of Connecti°
out was in session; and as its members saw the unexpected
and unaccountable darkness coming on, they shared in the
general awe and terror. It was supposed by many that the
last day—the day of judgment—had come. Some one in
the consternation of the hour moved an adjournment. Then
there arose an old Puritan legislator, Davenport, of Stara'
ford, and said that if the last day had come, he desired to be
found at his place doing his duty, and therefore moved that
candles be brought in so that the house could proceed with
its duty. There was quietness in that man's mind—the
quietness of heavenly wisdom, and inflexible willingness to
obey present duty. Duty, then, is the sublimest won th
our language. Do your duty in all things like the old Pu.
ritan. You cannot de more; you should never wish to do
less: Never let me and your mother wear one grey hair for
any lack of duty od your part.—Your affectionate father,
R. E. LEE.

THE SLAVE MARKET OF BOKITARA.—The build 4
ing, which formed a square, contained,
it may be,
from thirty to thirty-five calls. Three wholesale dealers in
this abominable traffic had hired these buildings as a
depot
for the poor wretches, who were partly their own goods and
partly cut& u.otod Lu tthemwo oommieoion brokers for the Tur.
komans. As is well known, the Karaktchi, unable to wait
long, are accustomed to sell their slaves to some Turkoraall
who-has more means at his disposal. The latter brings them
to Bokhara, and is the chief gainer by these transactions, 80
he buys immediately from the producer. In the very first
days of his arrival in the capital he sells all those for whet°
he can fled customers ; the remainder he leaves behind him
in the hands of the Dellal (broker), who is more especiallY
the wholesale dealer. Human beings are sold in Bokhara
and Khiva from the age of three to that of sixty, unless
they possess such defects as cause them to be regarded 68
cripples. According to the precepts of their religion, un-
believers alone can be sold as slaves ; but Bokhara, that L°
nothing more than the semblance of sanctity, evatlell
without scruple such provisions, and makes slaves not only
of the Shiite Persians, who were declared g, unbelievers"
so long ago as 1,500 by the Mollah Schemseddin, but 016°
many professors of the Sunnite tenets themselves, after
they have, by blows and maltreatment, been compelled
to style themselves Shiites. It is only the Jew, wh'9l3l,
they pronounce to be incapable, that is unworthy
becoming a slave, a mode of showing their aversion,
course, anything but disagreeable to the children °:
Israel, for although the Turkoman will make booty '3l'
his property, and strip him of everything, he will not touch
his body. At an earlier period the Hindoes also formed an
exception. More recently, as they flocked by Herat into
Bokhara, the Tekke or Sarik began to lay down new rale°
for their procedure. The unfortunate worshipper of Vishnu
is now first metamorphosed into a Muesulman, then made
Shiite—and not until this double conversion has taken plan®
is the honour conferred upon him of being plundered of all
his property, and being reduced to the condition of a slave'
The slave exposed to sale is, when a male, made the subject
of public examination—the seller is obliged to guaracte:
that he has none of those moral or bodily defects 'whi,.
constitute to his knowledge latent unsoundness—that
to say, where, though they are not discernible to the eY-
they exist in a rudimentary state. To the slave himself tl3e
happiest hour is when he passes out of the hand of the eve
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dealer ; for no treatment, however hard, which awaits 131 ;
with his eventual master can be so oppressive and palaftill
that which he has to pass through whilst he remains a
article of commerce exposed for sale in the shop. The Prl-
varies with the political circumstances of the Turkomans
oi
according as they find (for upon such does the producti°l3
the article depend) greater or less facility for their A1a112,a,„
in the adjoining district. For instrnoe, at the present et'?
the highest price of a man in the maturity of his atreligr
is from 40 to 50 Tilla (about from £2l to £36) ; aftne
victory, when 18,000 Persian soldiers had been made rr 0
Boners at one time, a man was to be had for a sum of tbrc
or four Tillas.— Vaniery's Travels in Central dsia. i 4
THE TROUBLES IN STRIA.—The gentle' no,
allusion to the flight of Joseph Karam to the Lebtul_oo
says :—" During the recent negotiations in the Conferv'tti,
at Constantinople, which led to the revision of the organ
cation of the Lebanon, the attention of the represent
too
of France was called to the position of Joseph gar
of
of
This young man, who had been exiled in consequeCt7oo
the trouble in Syria, was living abroad under cead.l ..afo
the more painful that his resources were absolutely 16Pthat
ficient. It appeared to the Emperor's Government
admitted toth
there was no inconvenience in his being
Lebanon, or even to his being entrusted, under the
. the
thority of Daoud Pasha, with certain functions In_oo
mountain. Either for the reason that difficulties of
raised by one of the Powers which signed the treat
aeY_eit
Paris, or that Joseph Karam did not think fit toi..
functions which would have associated him with ti'
aducar
lai&
nistration of Daoud Pasha, the suggestion of the TlittleCabinet was not adopted. The above facts are but ate,
known, and we believe are of some interest. Such
state of things when, on the 17th Nov. last, Karam,
Hewers'.
having announced his intention to any of his fo
landed alone at Tripoli, in Syria. He gained the m
cachca
during the night, and on the following rnornicg
_rre and
his native village of Huhorta. He went to the
.eo"_.,wlio
asked for the keys of the church where his naotateci,,
anti
had died of grief during his exile, lies barrf
ed,
arrival
then went and knelt at her tomb. The news his Dour
having spread rapidly from village to village, vc,-,Libl
rico, the
.
an immense number of persona had aoserabbluett
the ',COP.'
church. Karam was engaged in
anunder illa6t.
triumph to his house. Karam, who was
once m
to P`...
entered, tore him from his devotiPonrasY,"
as to the irregularity of his positionlt7t ee'p"-e
__ll9l pet.
Outrey, the French consul, a declarationt
hbis
barnijshreeoto
cessities which induced hitn to relit fromouTsietance of Franceo„..
He begged him not to refuse t
himself ready to roeciiar
declaring
an exile, at the same time
and to submit to a ray
,ctio
nice the laws of the country, it his lit:: dearly it _
; d bore him In
judgment—but resolved
ftro.
subseeq_lot
employed.
gular forms of justice b
and we are not aviar
t"
information has been received,vernmen
employed to drive
French
adopted by the
ouree be bitahas
eenthamountain, before tneas-a