The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-18 00:00:00

INN AT EXETER.

" A wonderful lofty building ; consisting of many
rooms which are royally furnished. These rooms have
places for washing, the hot water was quite ready placed
on the wash-hand table, standing before large looking-
glasses, and towels hanging down exceedingly clean,
with perfumed articles and fine soap. Every traveller
is shown to a room to himself, attended by a servant.
In every room there is a splendid bedstead with every
thing belonging to it ; ink and pen, with fine paper,
are placed on a table, for the convenience of travellers.
Fine looking women also serve here, and everything is
most desirable. The rooms for eating are separate
from the bed-rooms ; where there are fine large tables.
furnished with all sorts of eatables, both cooked and
uncooked ; everything that you may desire and ima-
gine is Owed on the table. Many people were sitting
round the tables taking their breakfast, others reclining
on the sofas. We were quite astonished at this house,
and asked whose it was, and we were informed that it
belonged to an individual whose business is to entertain
strangers and travellers ; and as he knows the time that
the mails come in, all things are made ready for travel-
lers to take their breakfast, that no time may be lost.
Moreover, we were informed that there are in this city
about five thousand such public places ; each of them
gains' about 1,000 tomans per day ; indeed the money
here is like dust."

SIGHT-OF A LADY AT BATH.

" While we were sitting, when it was about the as-
ser, behold ! a sun appeared from our east, shining and
flashing. On seeing this incomparable beauty, and be-
holding this lovely face like the full moon, I lost my
senses, not to say that I lost my sight, in admiration.
No, my eyes, by beholding her smiling, became a hundred
times more powerful. The delightful odour of her hair
fell into my heart, and Iwas obliged to rise up and to invite
her to sit by my side, paying her all honourable respect.
My heart died away, and unless my mind had gained
strength to maintain conversation with this visitor, I
should have appeared as if I were lost. I asked who she
was. This full moon was the daughter of a captain in
the East Indies."

THE OPERA.

" It is a very lofty edifice, built in a wonderful manner.
From the roof of it to the ground, on the three sides
round, there are small rooms made of wood, these they
call boxes ; these rooms or boxes are elegantly dressed
up with woollen cloth and velvet ; before every box there
are forty chandeliers of cut glass, each has fifty lights ;
there are also lights in every. part of this house. The
forty chandeliers (Ant glass, each containing forty lights,
and each light of five branches, as well as the other
rights, have one pipe, which, by touching an instrument,
all the thousands of lights suddenly become dim, so that
you scarcely see anything ; and by moving the instru-
ment differently, they as suddenly give a powerful light.
There are young ladies with faces like the full moon,
the beauty of whom makes the illumination of the sun
dark ; and a company of young men, whose beauty ob-
scures the sun. ,Seats are provided below for the musi-
cians ; they play with instruments which nourish the
heart : the pen and the tongue are incapable of giving
an adequate description of them. . . . There were
in the boxes around more than a thousand young and
beautiful ladies, splendidly dressed with jewels ; the
beam of their beautiful faces illumines the place, the
brilliancy of their sweet faces takes away the heart ; my
whole soul cried out to leave the body, that it might go
near those houris. The heart beats with the ravishment
of that sight. There are also distinguished places about
this house, where are fine-looking women with arms like
jasmine, and faces like a shining mirror ; these handsome
young women sell refreshments, and on the whole this
place seems to furnish the nourishment of life."