The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-30 00:00:00

RISE OF THE NOBLE sorsE OF PHIPPS,

The
recent demise of the lamented first Marquis
of Normanby has recalled to mind the extraordi-
nary rapidity of the rise of the illustrious family,
of which his eldest son, late by courtesy Earl of
Mulgrave, is now, as third marquis, the chief. Ac-
cording to the received account, the founder of the
family was Sir William Phipps, Knt., who, in the
reign of James IL, acquired a considerable fortune
by discovering among the rocks near the bank of
Bahama, on the north side of Hispaniola, a Spanish
plate ship which had been under water forty-four
years. Out of this, by the help of the diving bell,
which he invented, he took in gold and silver to the
amount of £300,000 sterling, and with a fidelity
equal to his enterprise, brought it all to London
and divided it between himself and the rest of the
adventurers.

THE PIG-FACED LADY !—As described in Captain
Gronow's Recollections.—Among the many absurd
reports and ridiculous stories current in former days, I
know of none more absurd or more ridiculous than the
general belief of every body in London, during the wint r
of 1814, in the existence of a lady with a pig's face. This
interesting specimen of porcine physiognomy was said to
be the daughter of a great lady residing in Grosvenor-
square, It was tun-loured that during the illuminations
which took place to celebrate the peace, when a great crowd
had assembled in Piccadilly and St. James's-street, and
when carriages could not move on very rapidly, horresco
referens ! an enormous
pig's snout had been seen protrud-
ma mob cried out, "The pig-faced
iwnhgiefrhomwearefapsaheisoinnag. fashionable bonnet in one of the landaus
lady I—the pig-faced lady I Stop the carriage—stop the
carriage I" The coachman, wishing to save his bacon,
whipped his horses, and drove through the crowd at a tre-
mendous pace ; but it was said that the coach had been
seen to set down its monstrous load in Grosvenor-
square. Another report was also current. Sir Wil-
liam Elliot, a youthful baronet, calling one day
to pay hie respects to the great lady in Gros-
venor-square, was ushered into a drawing-room, where
he found a person fashionably dressed, who, on turning to-
wards him, displayed a hideous pig's face. Sir William, a
timid young gentleman, could not refrain from uttering a
shout of horror, and rushed to the door in a manner the
reverse of polite; when the infuriated lady or animal utter-
ing a series of grunts, rushed at the unfortunate baronet as
he was retreating, and indicted a severe wound on the bask
a7ashamed to repeat this absurd
the surgeon, in St. Audiey-
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of
fhisne''kWilliam's This highly probable story concluded by
stating that Sir wound was a severe one, and had
sabtteoerenye dressed
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personsawlraons now alive can remember the
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speak. The shops were full of caricat urea of the pig-faced
lady, in a poke bonnet and large veil, with A pig in a
poke' written underneath the print. Another sketch re-
presented Sir William Elliot's tnisadventuro, and was en-
titled, "Beware the pig-stye !'"
A CURIOUS WOUND.—Dr. Champeanx, a surgeon
in
the French navy, was consulted in 1827 by a
cavalry officer, M. Elophe, about a small sore which he
had had in the nape of the neck since June, 1815. This
sore would sometimes heal, and remain closed for about a
week or so; but at the end of that tare it would again be-
come painful, then open and suppurate as before, and so
on. M. Elophe had belonged to the Old Guard, and at the
battle of Waterloo charged the British cuirassiers, but v as
hit on the breast by a fragment of a howitzer shell, and fell
ins,amible from his horse. He was just coming to himself
again, when the grenadiers, driven back by the lancers,
passed over him; and the latter, seeing ho was not dead,
wounded him in several places with their lances; one of
these wounds was inflicted on his neck. Repulsed in their
turn, the lancers passed over him again, and the grena-
diers, seeing him attempting to get up, carried him to the
rear, where his wounds were dressed. Since then he had
always been afflicted with this fistulous sore. On probing
it, Dr. Champeaux felt something hard at the bottom, and
soon discovered from the sound that it must be a metallic
fragment, most probably of a lance. The extraction was
resolved upon and succeeded; the extraneous body extracted
was found to be one of the thin brass scales which cover
the straps of a helmet or grenadier's cap, and which had
been violently forced into the wound by the lance, 'phis
inconvenient guest had remained in for 11 years; the
wound got well, and M. Elophe only died this year, and
therefore survived the battle 48 years, and the operation 36.
THE FRENCH PEOPLE.—In character and genius
the French show the evidences of the three powerful
races who have constituted the nation—traits which some-
times seem contradictory, and which only those closely
familiar with the French people can understand. In their

brilliant martial character, their love of display and effect

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their sudden enthusiasm and as easy discouragement, their
readiness to be ruled by military leaders, their fondness for

ornament and art, their gaiety, fl..klen ess, and amorousness,
they are thorough Felts such as their ancestors have been

in all ages : bu•. in the sober devoutness of a large mass of
the people, in their seriousness, in their personal sensitive-

nese and personal independence, in their spirit of sceptical
inquiry and the thoroughness of their scientific research,
they are Teutons, while their wonderful talent for organsa-
tion and their tendency to centralisation are Roman. Still,
with all this, and much more which might ingeniously be
worked out of inherited qu_tl ties, one feels we no more de-
scribe the great French nation than a man of genius is de-
scribed by picturing his forefathers. The French race
with its genius, its science, its grandeur, its faults which
are the scorn of mankind, its misfortunes which afflict the
world, its magnificent past, its uncertain present; and mys-
terious future—is a unity—a new and living force entering
into the life of mankind, and henceforth as distinct as any
of the great races of antiquity. Bruce's Races of the Old
World.

A DELICIOUS BUT PERNICIOUS ICE.—It is de-
scribed by Mr. Sala, in the new number of the
Temple .Bar magazine for August, as compounded by
putting a lump of frigid cream into a cup, sweetening it
ci volontJ with the syrup, used here in lieu of loaf sugar, and
then pouf ing some cold coffee into the ice. In a few minutes,
he says, the coffee and the cream amalgamate. The flavour
of the syrup is inexpressibly toothsome, and you fall into a
trance of beatitude, to wake up and find yourself wofully
bilious.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,
LEMBERG, JULY 30.

The official Lemberger Zeitung announces that
fresh detachments of insurgents have entered
Volhynia, and that there are several small bands in
the government of Sandomir

CRACOW, JULY 30.

The insurgent leader Chmielinski had a success
ful engagement with eight companies of Russian
troops on the 28th inst. at Seaemin, in the Pala-
►inate of Cracow.

The Russians suffered a defeat on the 24th inst.
near Pionfek. The reinforcements they had de-
manded from Skierniewice arrived too late to take

part in the engagement.

HAMBURG, JULY 28,

News received from the frontiers of Lithuania
state that two priests named Tasiewicz and Sareders
have been condemned to 6 years' hard labour in the
mines of Siberia.

A sanguinay engagement has taken place near
Krakinow, in which the Russians lost one cannon
In the Government of Kowno two detachments
of Lithuanian cavalry have been formed, which
scour the country, and inflict considerable loss on
the Russians.

THE KING OF GREECE,

COPENHAGEN, JULY 29.

King George I. of Greece will leave Copenhagen
immediately after the question of the lonian Islands
has been arranged.

His Majesty will pass through Brussels, London,
and Paris. He will slay six days at the latter city,
and will embark at 'Toulon in a steam frigate. He
will travel incognito until after his embarkation for
Greece.

SPAIN AND THE RECOGNITION OF THE

SOUTH.

MADRID, JULY 30.
It is officially stated that the Spanish Govern-
ment has taken no diplomatic steps in reference to
the recognition of the Southern States of North
America.

Spain will await the course of events.

GERMANY.
A meeting of the Congress of German Deputies
will be held at Frankfort on the 21st and 22d of
August. All who have been members of any
German Chamber will be allowed to take part in
the Congress, as well as the present Deputies. The
Nord states that the questions to be brought under
discussion are the following :—The position of
Schleswig-Holstein ; the interests of Germany in
relation to the Polish question; the importance of
the constitutional crisis in Prussia for the whole of
Germany ; a further development of the Congress
of Deputies. Motions to be submitted must be
forwarded to the Committees eight days before the
meeting.

RUSSIA.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg and the Invalide
Busse continue to publish lists of addresses from
the provincial towns to the Emperor, promising their
support to the Government in its cor.flict with the
Polish insurrection.