The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-04 00:00:00

HOT SPRINGS OF' GER3IANY.

(From Dr. Granville's Spas of Germany.)
We obtained admission at the " Eeu d'Or," (Zum
Goldenen Schilde), not without some trouble, and there
I awaited, after the usual ablutions and refreshments,
the very early hour of the morning at which all the
world, in these unsophisticated retreats of invalids, is up
and stirring. Scarcely had the sound of a musical hand.
not far from our hotel, announced that the daily bustle
at the principal hot spring called the Sprudel, was just
ommencing, when I hurried towards the most extraor-
dinary phenomenon of nature, with all the impatience of
one who is eager to satisfy himself by ocular demon-
stration of the truth of what seemed almost fabulous in
description. And yet, at th,e sight of that celebrated
fountain—to which the curling vapours that hovered
over its colonnaded temple d irected me without a guide
or a question—l felt that all t lie descriptions Ih td read
of it had failed to convey the iimpression I received. The
sadden view of the violent, loi ;ty, constant, and prodigal
up-pourings of hot-water out of the bowels of the earth,
foaming in the midst of its cl Duds of vapour, within 45
degrees of the boiling point, on the very margin of a
cold, placid, and sluggish sire; im, the Tepl, riveted me
to the spot fur some momen ts. Although pressed on
all sides by the increaE log throng of water-
drinkers, my attention was wholly absorbed by this
striking object. I stood con templating it for a few mi-
nutes, as if imagining that th a next moment would reveal
the secret of this natural magic. But the crowd of
eager individuals who sur, rounded it, keeping at a
respectful distance from its scorching spray, seemed to
look for health in the spring, without ever thinking of
the two great agents combined, heat and water, from
which they were about to of itain it.
What is it that imparts to this mysterious current
that violent impulse which makes it spring from the
bosom of the earth, with a n upright jet, of eight or
nine feet elevation from the aperture in the rocky crust
underneath the building raised over it; and which at
times even propels it, witl 1 convulsive and vehement
throbs, more than one foot al )ove the height of the spec-
tator, who stands on a raised floor, five feet higher than
the lowest level of the sour. ? A central fire ! One
must see the Sprudel to be a convert to that doctrine.
In times of darkness and au perstition, man would have
fallen prostrate before, and adored, this unquiet and
relentless agent, which fills the atmosphere with hot
vapours, and impetuously r merruns all the bounds by
which art has vainly atten ipted to restrain its endless
throes. _

The eagerness with whi ch the different people at
Carlsbad, of both sexes, rush towards the Sprudel
at six o'clock in
ithe mon ring, to partake of its salu-
tary waters, is an nterestii ig sight. In its appearance
the motley throng is q tuite theatrical, and the
many shaped and
many • coloured costumes worn
by them for a living illustration of geography.
The multitudinous faces of which that throng consists—
their divers mode of drinkii ig the hot mineral fluid—the
various effects produced b 3 it on their countenances—
the accumulation or sum to tel of individual cases of dis-
ease concentrated under one roof, among which the
eyes of a medical man. qu iickly detects not a few dis-
orders that are destroying their victim, and proclaim
how vainly the Sprudel is I sad recourse to for a cure, or
even a prolongation of life ;—all these things I saw and
felt at my first visit to the Sprudel, more than I had yet
done at any of the other sp as in Germany.
It is the despondent, dejected, misanthropic, fidgety,
pusillanimous, irritable, out ;rageous, morose, sulky, weak-
minded, whimsical, and oft en despairing hypochondriac
—for he is all these, and f 3ach in turn, made so by con-
tinued indigestion, by ob. itinate and unremitting gout,
by affection of the nerves of sympathy, and of the gas-
tric region, and by other active causes, that Carlsbad
seems pre-eminently to far .our. Hence it is, that the
living picture which every morning presents itself at the
Sprudel, exhibits a large number of these unfortunate
beings than I have seen c ongregated anywhere else, ex-
cept in the Hypodrome o F Constantinople, among the
sallow and deathly Teriak ys.

CHATSWORTH.—Th le grand conservatory is
now being glazed. It is se, 'posed it will be finished this
month. The Duke of Devc iil shire is expected here at the
close of this week.
A NEW PLEA FOR. A , PICKPOCKET.—If in a
crowd you happen to feel a Ilan d which happens not to be
your own, creeping into yo ur ' back pocket and striving to
extract its contents, you able apt: ly turn round, don't you, and
to Mr. William Soltan, an El iglish medical gentleman of
roar out, " Stop thief?" Tb ,la ' ,s a bad method. Just listen
the Faubourg Poissoniere ,and he will tell you what you
bad better do or, such an o ccusion. "On the 13th July,"
says the Doctor, " I was i n the Champs Elysees, looking
at a mountebank at the mo mer,t be was warning the public
against the enterprises of i sickpockets, and saying, ' Don't
put your eyes, but put you r hands into your pockets.' I
thought the advice good, and followed it, when I found
that a strange hand had / ;ot before mine into my great
coat pocket; into which I ; isually put my silk handkerchief
rolled up into a ball, in e rder to afford the least possible
chance to such industri( ,us gentlemen as the one now
standing before ye. Wi. about making any noise, I was
content softly to expel the , prying hand, and turned about
three quarters just to ascertain whom it belonged to. I
said nothing more about it , but lost not sight of the gentle.
man, who, mistaking my c omposure, must have taken me
for a mighty great simple ;ton. But the moment I met a
police-man I told him n iy story, and, approaching the
gentleman, tapped his she iulder, and said, ' Will you have
the goodness to follow me to the police-office, as I wish to
know your name, and wh. it you were just now doing in my
pocket ?' My man was wofully disturbed, and, when we
had stationed him betwee n four fusiliers, he attempted to
escape ; fortunately I amt so bad runner, and I apprehended
him once more." The prisoner is a very pretty little
_ =lmisassosommiromin,„ I cording to his account it ;is Mr. Soltan's jealously which
which has created young man, twenty-four years old, named Arnould. Ac-
A " CURIOUS COINCIDENCE." —A circum-
i
stance has lately come to our knowledge,
a great deal of talk in the quarter of the country in which it has occurred. Our readers will, no doubt, recollect the ?tor hay drawn upon him th is vile affair, the lady whose arm
I eye to follow and look s ,t her rather closely. Unluckily
! the doctor had under his arm having enticed him with her
and the tribunal sentences him to
particulars connected
!years 41 gaol for theft,
marZoch, Aberlour, was charged with the murder of' a p
with the case, tried at our Circuit fascinating M. I krnould, he has already been two
Court in October last, when John Stewart,
farmer, Clash- -
son of •the name of Middleton, from Belrinnes. He was,er I THE SAMSON S ;TEAM-BOAT.— This vessel,
to imprisonment in Banff gaol for eighteen ' day afternoon last (as
_iis to enjoy five years of : curveillance.—Paris Print.
it will b.e remembered,. convicted of culpable homicide, ant! ; which was nearly destroyed by fire off Gravesend on Sun-
sentencedstated in The Sun of Monday),
two black cows, of the Aberdeenshire I lies in deep weer off R osberville Pier, and it is expected
to the unhappy prisoner, have lately given :it will be a work of som e days before her remains can be
breed,
r months.ee d,
belonging
NNew,
w ,
birth to two pure white calves, which is the more remark. (rot up. She is the pi .operty of the Thames Steam-boat
able from the circumstance ce9f their reputed papa also I Towing Company, of a' bout one hundred tons burden, and
being of the " inky hue." This " curious coincidence" I forty-horse power, 'I 'he fire we understand to haie
has been taken up by the old women and country gossip: I originated in consequence of some old ropes and chips,
i which had been placed
aaslleag
having ignited. The ,on the top of the boilers to dry,
ceedrthaairndicnadsiecait:oenxoefi
tit::
gorwenaetre'sonitriecnecnecei;n and
be- having
I
damage is estimated at several I
half in consequence.—Aberdeen Constitutional. I hundred pounds. i