The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-29 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

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Consols closed yesterday at 91 H both for time and
motley ; opened at the same. Exchequer Bills, 48 to 51 ;
India Bonds, 48 50 ; Pa k Sock, 2108 ; India do. 058.

In the Foreign market Spanish Active closed 2.1-Ccx -
Coupons ; with the Coupons, 224 ; opened at 2.23 owing
so thir comng highcr from Paris.

In PortugueseSto:k nAhins doing as sit ; nominal
prices 411 ; Three poi- Cents., 251 261 ; Dutch 21- per
Cents., 52;-,1 33 ; Colombian, 241-254 ; Mexican, 231 243.
The news published this morning from Lisbon has not
bad any effect on the Portuguese Stocks, which are 41i ;;1 ;
Three per Cents., 24 26-1.
Consols are 914.
HALF-PAST ONE.
During the early part of the morning Consols were 9
for the Account but on the sale of 50,000!. the market
receded to 91a since which they have improved to 914
for the Account—Money, same ; Exchequer Bills, 49 51
improved ; India Bonds, 49 52 ; Bank Stock, 210,1 211 ;
India Stork, 2531 259.
Io the Foreign Market Spanish Active remains steady at
2.2i1 21 with Coupons, and '2l a without. Up to the present
hour the accounts of disturbances in Portugal have scarcely
altered the price of Portuguese securities, which are 411
to 3 ; three per cents. 264 ; Spanish Coupons, 44 ; Dutch
two and-a-Half par Cents. 528 53 ; Columbian, 25
Mexican, 231 24k.
THREE CY CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 91

The new throne upon which her Majesty re-
ceived several addresses yesterday is fixed in the new
Palace. It is a most magnificent piece of furniture, and
does great credit to the skill and taste of Messrs. Dowbiggin
and Co., the eminent upholsterers of Mount-street, who fur-
nished all the State-rooms of Buckingham-palace. 'rho
platform upon which the gorgeous chair is placed is 16 feet
I;,ng by 10, and raised three steps from the floor. It is covered
with crimson velvet pile carpeting, over which a canopy is
su pended 18 feet in height, decorated with the rose, thistle,
a .d -shamrock, interwoven with foliage, and surmounted with
a beautifully- carved crown and cushion. The drapery is com-
posed of the richest crimson velvet of English manufacture,
lined with iutestring of the same tone. The tester is com-
posed of velvet pannclled with a broad oak leaf and acorn gold
lace trimming, with a massive gold rope: similar decorations
are used in forming the drapery of the inside valance. The
valance on the outside is of a different design, and is trimmed
with two rows of gold lace, and finished with a deep gold
fringe. The curtains, which aro exceedingly full, are finished
in a similar manner, and are looped up with a gold rope and
tassels, the whole forming one of the most beautiful structures
imaginable. The chair, which was not fiai,hed until a late
h ur Thursday night is covered with crimson velvet, and is richly
carved and gilt, and embroidered with ro,vs of deep gold lace.
The f iotstool corresponds in colour and magnificence with the
decorations abs,ve and around the throne.
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and at the very onset is very violent and malignant : 1,500
persons have died in a few days, which is an enormous number
when we consider that a fourth of the population of 190,000
had previously fled from the city. All the shops, magazines,
coffee-houses, &c., are closed. The consternation is bound-
less, and the populace have committed numerous excesses. A
deputation has formed itself which means to manage the
public affairs, and has taken possession of the public coffer,
containing 150,000 ounces of money, to support the poor.
All ships from Naples are refused admittance : one of the
King's ships, which had performed quarantine at Leghorn,
was lately refused admission by the Board of Health.
The defeat of Sir James Graham in Cumberland is
certain. If the men of both extremes are disliked, we may
infer, from Worcester, and Cumberland, and St. Andrews,
that the Trimmers arc despised. As the celebrated Sir An-
drew is to be ousted, we shall have, at the end of the elections,
to boast of the good sense of the people in rejecting the Pha-
risees as well as the Trimmers.
At Stratford-on-Avon a seizure has been made on
the property of a dissenting minister and three others, for a
church-rate. The general disapprobation was so strongly
expressed throughout the town among churchmen as well as
dissenters, that no auctioneer could be got to offer the effects
for sale. On Monday a bellman was actually employed to
offer a reward to any one who would undertake this disgusting
task unsuccessfully.
The latest accounts from Vienna continue to speak
of the probable visit of some highly illustrious personages to
the Turkish capital. A Prussian Prince is also expected to
extend his travels through the southern provinces of Russia as
far as Constantinople.
A Sicilian youth, named Cachillo, is now at Rome,
who, although only in his eighth year, can read ten languages.
Ile has already given proofs of his extraordinary talent before
the King of Sicily and the Apostolic nuncio at that court. It'
the talent of this boy be' not overrated, he will share the
honours of his youthful compatriot Vito Mangiamele.

LITERATURE.

THE BASQUE PROVINCES. in 2 VolS.
Br FDTVARD ZELL STEPHENS, ESQ.
London : Whittaker, 1637.
In noticing Mr. E. B. Stephens' sketches of the
political state, scenery, and inhabitants of the Basques,
we find ourselves in a predicament semething similar
to that of the honest Jockey of Pennafior, when Gil
Blas made him an offer of his mule fur what, as a
man of honour and integrity, he considered the animal
to be worth. The Jockey started at the prop oral,
and protested that in appealing to his honour an un-
fair advantage was taken of him, as he piqued himself
excessively upon Ins nice sense of what was becoming
in a gentleman. An appeal to him as a man
of honour was an attack upon his weak side, which his
knowledge of the world never enabled him successfully
to repel. The dealer in mule-flesh was not more
puzzled than we are in undertaking to award the
proper raced of praise to these volumes. The author
is, and what is more, professes himself to be, a partizan
of Don Carlos—resided for many months at the
head-quarters of the Pretender—drew his informa-
tion on most of the subjects of which he treats from
exclusively Carlist sources—not only admits the
confidence which the Carlist chiefs reposed in him,
hut he glories in it—and to crown all, was the
accredited agent of a London Tory journal to the Car-
hat camp, in which capacity his duty no less than his
predilections prompted him to use all his exertions in
f tvour of the cause of usurpation and absolutism.
Now. having, from the commencement of the civil war
in Spain, taken a different view of it from that so ably
advocated by Mr. Stephens—having from day to day
done all in our power to correct the wrong im-
pressions likely to be produced by his letters—iae
should hold ourselves obliged in decency not to
sit in judgment upon the merits of his work, were
we not assured that he trusted to our generosity and
acknowledged impartiality for an honest verdict. Leav_
then, the political bias of the work cut of the
question ; skipping over all the anecdotes of the great-
ness, goodness, popularity, and what not, of Don Car-
los ; the history of the fabricated Epistle in pro,: e
and rhyme ; the lianelagh correspondence ; and the
Carlist official documents—we have not met with a
series of more entertaining and agreeable sketches of
the manners and customs of the Basque peasantry.
Mr. Stephens displays a quick perception, a lively
creative fancy, and a happy art of describing natural
scenery, so that a reader of taste may in an instant
form in his own mind a panoramic view of every land-
scape at which the author stops to point out the situa-
tion and the beauty. Of the Basque peasantry he is
an enthusiastic admirer, and no wonder, since they de-
mand no further concessions than the subjoined, for
sufFering an Englishman to travel unmolested through
the northern provinces of Spain I :
" Speaking merely from my own experience, I can sly
that, an Englishman may travel very safely and pleasantly
through the Basque Provinces and Navarre, provided he
keep his eyes and cars open and his mouth shut, and does
not impertinently set himulf up to contradict the popular
opinion that Englishmen are all drunkards, who will sell
their shirts, shoes, or jackets for a bottle of wine ; and
that English women will sell their children for a real (2id.)
a piece, or the equivalent thereof, in aguardicnte."
Where men arc not suffered to contradict a " popu-
lar opinion" disgraceful to their nation, they are gene-
ally obliged to confirm it. Their very silence does as
much, allowing that a people so prejudiced against
them will permit them to be silent—which is next to
impossible.

To glance at the details of Mr. Stephen;s book
would he only lo give a summary of events in the
Basque Provinces since the summer of 1836. The
most interesting pa:ts are those personal to himself,
descriptive of his midnight mountain rambles in the
Pyrenuces. These sketches readers of all parties will
peruse wills pleasure. The following extract includes
such a beautiful, well-merited eulogium, on the unaf-
fected piety of the Sisters of Mercy, that we have
pleasure in 'giving it a place in our columns:—
" The Basque and Navarrcse women appear to make
excellent nurses. No false notions of delicacy interfere
with their indispensable services : they know that the sur-
veon must amputate legs and arms—that he wants their
nerves, have tl:e) rtelt:edye rs,,iltdoteeffi Notnt, and tiie woundedn owitig
ti all the better tnr their hardiesse. The Sis- I
and other nr»!jas, whose rules permit them
tail-toes: sreais::.„l:ittost.taiitf,tnlcse,eni‘:en,Liici
Mercy
ytend the sick, devote themselves to the task
with an earnestness and efficacy which cannot be sufficiently
admired. Many of these are educated and highly intelli-
gent. When they take charge of an hospital, everything
is sure to prosper. Their conscientious regularity and be-
neeolent attention, effect, perhaps, more for their patients,
than greater skill seconded by mere mercenary attendance
can accomplish in England. Surgeon, apothecary, and pa-
tient are all confident in the watchful care of the Sister of
Mercy. She administers the cup of hope with one hand,
and that of resignation with the other. She brings to the
sufferer's pillow every attainable earthly comfort and spiri-
tual consolation ; and in short, if a cure be possible, effects
it. These excellent women carefully attended the hospital
at Yrache, and were of incalculable benefit to the sufferers
in the action of the 13th September, before mentioned ;
but as day broke on the morning of the 14th, they found
that the enemy was in force descending the heights ; that a
fresh combat was in progress at their undefended gates,
and that their friends were giving way before them. The
Carlist soldiers were at that moment carrying three wounded
comrades to the hospital, but. the Lancers of the enemy
charging down in numbers, obliged them to fly and leave
them on the spot, where they were deliberately cut to pieces
by the Christino cavalry. The Carlists in the hospital saw
this horrid butchery going on almost under their windows,
and all who could leave their beds, rushed down to escape
by a postern, expecting similar treatment every moment at
the hands of the ferocious victors. The Sisters of Mercy
still stood by the beds of the helpless and dying, calmly
awaiting their fate—perhaps to be burned alive with them,
for the Christinos, wherever they passed during the foray
were consuming all the Carlist property they had not time
to plunder and carry off, and did not spare the houses that
held it. Fortunately the Carlist generals, Francis Garcia
and Pablo Sanz, hastening up at the moment with rein-
forcements, preserved the hospital and all its inmates from
the impending destruction. My visit occurred only six
days afterwards, when I was a pleased spectator of the
quiet but ceaseless devotion of the good sisters, and the
attention, order, and neatness which their watchful kindness
ensured throughout the establishment, where 120 poor fel-
lows lay enduring every variety of pain. The gratitude
and confidence of the sufferers were not less obvious and
delightful, and I left the convent with the conviction that
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LORD WESTERN.—His Lordship concludes a let-
ter, addressed to the E'litor of the Chelmsford Chronicle
avowing his approval of the New Poor-law, the Commutation
of Tithes Bill, and those other liberal measures charged
against her Majesty's Ministers as crimes, in the following
terms :—" Ministers, I hope and trust, and confidently believe,
will continue courageously to act upon those principles which
have hitherto governed them, neither shrinking from the at-
tacks of their Conservative opponents, or giving way to the
suggestions of their Radical supporters ; this course they have
hitherto pursued. It is not a popular course. It is the most
trying and difficult possible to maintain. I entreat them to
adhere to it strictly, and whatever may be the consequence, it
will have established for them golden opinions in the eyes of
all wise men living and hereafter." Lord Western, clinging
to his " order," bestows praise on Ministers for their repeated
resistance to an organic change in that branch of the Legisla-
ture, where the necessity of Reform has been long recognized
by a majority of the people in the United Kingdom. It is
natural, perhaps, that his Lordship should stand by his
" order ;" but it is not less imperative on the country at large
to provide against an oligarchical obstruction to the enactment
of wholesome laws, opposition to a wise policy, and resistance
to the principles of good government.

A novel, commodious, and elegant description of
omnibus is about to make its appearance in Paris, offering to
each passenger the advantage of an arm-chair, with an elastic
cushion, which, in summer, will be replaced by a cane seat. In
the winter, the passengers will have heated plates of iron under
their feet. Independently of the tax laid upon every public
carriage, the inventors of the new vehicle offer to the city of
Paris and the' hospitals a contribution which in a few years, will
amount to ttbiut 400,000 francs. It is, conscquntly, expected
that the Prefect of Police will allow the new vehicle to be
started immediately. .•

THE KING OF HANOVER AND MR.

PLANTA.

FROM THE RIGHT HON. JOSEPH PLANTA TO THE ruin-
PENDENT ELECTORS OF HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S.

GENTLEMEN—My attention having been called to a
placard just issued, and headed " Toryism Unmasked," 1
consider it to be a duty which I owe to you, and I think it
also due to myself, to contradict forthwith in the most dis-
tinct and positive terms, the foul calumnies against me which
that paper rather insinuates than exprestes, and to place
before you in its true light the transaction by which the
Guelphic Order has been conferred unon me.
As written documents are stubborn things, the proper dc-
count of this matter will best be found in the following cor-
respondence :

NO. 1.-EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRIVATE SE-

CRETARY OF HIS MAJESTY KING WILLIAM IV., DATED

BRIGHTON, FEB. 24, 1837.

" The King has ordered me to assure you, that he w•iI1
have much pleasure in conferring the Grand Cross of the
Guelphic Order upon you."
NO. IL-ANSWER OF MR. PLANTA TO THE KING'S PRIVATE
SECRETARY, DATED FAIRLIGHT-PLACE, FEB. 26, 1837.

" Your very' kind letter of the 9.4 th did not reach me un-
til this morning, or I should sooner have requested you to
lay me at the King's feet with the most earnest expressions
of my humble but 'very sincere and heartfelt gratitude for
the highly gracious manner in which his Majesty haz been
pleased to signify to me, through you, his royal intention of
conferring upon me the d'stinguished honour of the Grand
Cross of the Guelphic Order. As to the time at which his
Majesty m ty be pleased to bestow this honour, that remains
entirely in his own breast ; and I can only hope that I may
be permitted to add, without presumption, that this distin-
guished badge of the royal favour will never be conferred on
one more sincerely, and, in his humble way, more devotedly
attached to his Majesty, his royal family, and his service,
than the individual who now subscribes himself,

" Your very faithful and ob►iged servant,
"JOSEPH PLANTA."
NO. 111.--LETTER FROM THE lIANOVERIAN MINISTER IN

ENGLAND TO MR. PLANTA, DATED 44, GROSVENOR•
PLACE, JULY 11, 1837.
" Sir,—lt gives me great pleasure. to have to inform you
that his Majesty the King of Hanover has most gra-
ciously been pleased to nominate and appoint you a Knight
Grand Cross (civil) of the Royal Hanoverian Guclphie
Order.

" Being, at the same time, directed to transmit to you
the decorations thereof, I regret that I am not able to do
so immediately, as I had caused the decorations of the said
order, formerly under my care, to be sent off to Hanover,
from whence that destined for you, Sir, will be returned in
a short time, and duly forwarded to you.
" I remain, &c."
NO. IV.---ANSWER OF MR. PLANTA TO THE HANOVERIAN
MINISTER, DATED FAIRLIGIIT-PLACE, HASTINGS, JULY
14, 1837.
" Sir,—l have had the honour to receive your Excel-
Icncy's letter of the 1 lth acquainting me that his Ma-
jesty the King of Hanover has been most graciously pleased
to nominate me a Knight Grand Cross (civil) of the Royal
Hanoverian Guelpbic Order.
" I intreat your Excellency to lose not a moment in lay-
ing before his Majesty the King of Hanover the expression
of my deep gratitude on receiving this very distinguished
honour ; and I cannot resist also asking your Excellency
to submit to the King my especial thanks, for the very con-
descending kindness which has induced his Majesty so soon
to fulfil, in this respect, the intentions of his Majesty's
Royal brother, our late most lamented Sovereign.
" I have the honour to be, &c.,
JOSEPH PLANTA."

These letters indisputably prove that the honour con-
ferred upon me was allotted to me by his Majesty King
William the Fourth, our late dearly beloved and much
lamented Sovereign ; and that those intentions have been
carried into effect by the King of Hanover, who became,
by the death of his Majesty, Sovereign of the order in
question.
The last time I was in the presence of his royal highness,
the then Duke of Cumberland, was on the 2.4 th of May
last, at the ball given by his late Majesty at St. James's
Palacc, in honour of the birthday of the Princess Victoria,
now our most gracious Queen ; and this fact is perhaps the
best answer to the statements of secret consultations and
secret services mentioned in the placard, and most falsely
imputed to me. I havo the honour to be, with great res-
pect,

Gentlemen.
Your most ob.:dient faidiful servant,
Marino Hotel, July 29. JOSEPH PLANTA.

On Thursday last Lord Morpth and Sir George
Strickland terminated at Halifax their canvassing tour through
this extensive Riding. The nomination, it will be seen, takes
place on Monday next; and the
,days appointed for the final
and decisive struggle are the following Thursday and Friday.
Throughout the whole of their progress, with, we believe,
only one draw back, the reception of the Reform candidates
has been as warm an.i cordial, as it is animating ani encou-
raging ; and the expression of their political views and opinions
at this important crisis has also met with as approving a res-
ponse as the warmest friends of the Queen and of the adminis-
tration of Lord Melbourne could have desired. In no place
more so than in Doncaster have there been evinced in their
favour those demonstrations of public feeling, which, while
they present a striking contrast to that of Mr. Wortley on
Saturday last, arc indicative of a triumphant result.—Don-
caster Gazette.
At a book-stall in Paltlington•street may be seen a
volume labelled " Essays on Rite and Rong," and a bill in a
window in East-street adjoining, is thus classically got up :
" A gude jack mange! to Be souk!, with a hexlent couneck-
shun."
In the county of Hereford the apple crop does not
promise to be large, but the corn is looking extremely troll,
and is in many places nearly ripe. The hops every where
leek troll.
TWELVE TooLs.—EARI, OF POWIS.—The dawn
of a new era is visible in Shropshire. This wealthy and
beautiful county will no longer bear t.be stamp upon its fore-
head as the Cain of liberal principles among the towns and
counties of England. Shropshire elects twelve Members to
Parliament, and the most indecent taunt, and sneers have been
thrown against the population because they have su'Jmitted to
be represented by the alleged " Twelve Tools" of the Lord
Lieutenant, the Earl of Poblis, whose ancestor was a Whig.
Each and every Member in Shropshire has voted against each
and ovcry reform : incidentally some of them have been, from
prudence, Conformers, and that is all. The " Twelve Tools"
have, in various publications, been called by the Lord Lieu-
tenant, his " Twelve Apostles." These twelve partners are
now dissolved ; for it will be seen that the triumphs in Lud-
low, Bridgnortb, and Shrewsbury, have reduced the partner-
ship to nine : and it only requires equal efforts in the county
to exempt itself from the unjust odium cast upon it. The
Northern and Southern Divisions of this County are now
fairly opened to contests. The conduct of the electors in
Ludlow surpasses all praise ; and .so confident were Mr.
Pig,ot'a friends in Bridgnorth, that his chair was actually pre-
pared.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
CIIANGES.—Lord Prudhoe and the Hon. Mr.
Herbert, at Milan, from Vienna ; Captain and Miss Codring-
ton, from FrankiTt, for Baden Baden; the Earl of Ashburn-
ham, from Tunbridge Wells, for Asliburnham-place ; Lieut.-
General Sir Gordon Drummond, fur his shooting quarters, in
Perthshire; the Earl and Countess of Normanton and family,
at Somerley-park, near Fording-bridge ; the Earl of Leices-
ter, at Holkham-hall, from Lynn; the Hon. Major Keppel, at
ditto, from ditto; Viscount Combermcre and the Hon. Staple-
ton Cotton, at Leamington, from a tour; Lord and Lady
Bolton, at flickwood Park ; Count and Countess Flahault
and family, at Paris, from Dieppe; Lord and Lady Crofton,
at the Mote Park, Roscommon, from a tour ; the Earl and
Countess of Meath, at Dublin, from the Continent ; Colonel
and Lady Arabella Arden, at Brighton ; Lord and Lady Hood,
from \Vhitley-hall, on a continental tour ; Lord Cantalupe,
from Helstone, Cornwall ; Lord John Thynne, at Glastonbury
rectory, from Bath. _ . _

There is an advertisement in our paper of a plan for
a railway mail, which, according to the projector, is to traval
at the rate of 120 miles in the hour. If ever this project should
be realised, we may set out from Liverpool to London after
breakfast, and return home before dinner !—LiverpoolMercurg.
Lettars arrived at Paris announce a rising of the
slaves in Dutch Guiana. Severe punishments, it is said, had
been indicted on some of the revolters who had been made pri-
soners, and terrible reprisals were exercised by the negroes on
the soldiers who fell into their power. It is said, that amongst
their soldiers were some officers. _ .

Oa inquiry at Sir lt °hen Peel's house in Privy
Gardens this morning, we were informed that the latest ac-
counts from Tamworth conveyed the pleasing intelligence of
the Right Honourable Baronet daily improving in health. A
letter was received from Sir Robert the b-ginning of the pre-
sent week, containing instructions for his sons (who were
spending the vacation in Hertfordshire), to be conveyed to
school. In that letter the Right flea. Baronet stated he was
considerably better, and entertained full confidence of being
shortly restored to health.
The dissatisfaction felt by the Liberal party in North
Warwickshire at the very equivocal line of conduct pursued
by Sir E. Wilmot in the last Parliament, has called up two
opposing candidates on the Reform interest in Sir G. Skip-
with, and C. H. Braeebridge, Eig. Sir Eardley and Mr.
Dugdale appear now to be almost equally identified as friends
of the Tory party.—Coventry Herald.
FLOWERS.—Three acres of flowers and a regiment
of gardeners bring no more pleasure than a sufficiency. Be-
sides which, in the smaller possession there is more room for
the mental pleasure to step is, and refine all that which is
sensual. We become acquainted, as it were, and even form
friendships with individual flowers. \V bestow more care
upon their bringing up and progress.
They sensible of
seem Urns
our favour, absolutely to enjoy it,
and make
et l pleasing
by their beauty, health, and sweetness* this
returns
by tsr e
do
respect
hundred thousand roses, which we look at i n
masse,
not
identify themselves with us in the same manner as even a very
ama 1 border ; and hence, if thec.ottager's mind is properly
attuned, the little cottage gar den may give him more real de-
light than belongs to the owner of a thousand aeres.—Dius-
tratiols of Human Lffe.

THE AMAKOSA CAFFR

The people who inhabit these fair regions—the Amakosa
—arc among the finest specimens of the human race—tall,
straight-limbed, and active ; their every attitude is graceful,
and every motion is performed with ease. The head of
the Amakosa is well developed, and his expanded forehead
shows considerable intellectual capacity. The hair i;
woolly, the nose is tolerably prominent, and though in gene-
ral round in some there is a tendency to an acquiline shape ;
the lips are inclined to fulness, the teeth are beautifully
white, and the large eye, ever restless, shows deep cunning,
is easily lighted up with a gani2e, yet often flashes with re-
lentless cruelty when the evil p;ssions arc at work within.
The colour of the skin is a liebt etheecolate, and though this
is often concealed with a coat of greaaa' and-red clay, to pre-
serve it from the effects of the sun, thw pirsons of the Ama-
kosa are not disagreeable. The chest is .not so broad mne
arc the arms so strong as these of Eurepearte, for the Chffre
males perform little 'manual labour, but thet haver limbs
arc muscular in the extreme. The trousers of -se.hy Euro-
peans are. large enough for the brawny Caffre Chia h ; the
legs are really " pillars of Hercules."
I'he Amakosa d.sdains to wear any covering on the haed
which is occasionally ornamented by the females, who eon:
it closely with red ochre into smell knots about the size of
a pea. In war a band of leather encircles the brows. and
front it stand erect on both sides the long wings of the blae
crane, giving the head a demoniacal appearance. From the
shoulder hangs the ungoobo, kaross, or mantle of softened
hide, worn with the hair next the body, and fastened with a
thong at the neck. The Caffres near the colony are begin-
ning to change their leather covering for one of cloth, which
is not so heavy, and is warmer in wet weather than hide.
The chiefs and counsellors wear karosses of leopard t khas,
neatly vandyked at the neck and skirt, and worn so as to
show a part of the closely-spotted hair.
In stalking the open kaross displays the whole of the
naked body, and the Caffre is without sense of decency.
The adoption of the kilt, which would not confine the lindea
would be a great step towards weaning them from the sa-
vage exposure of person. In one car a few beads are com-
monly worn, of which the fashionable colour of 1835 was
white with a narrow pink stripe. The Tambookies, the
French of South Africa, set the fashions for dress and otna
meet. Round the neck are a rote of garnet and white
spotted heads, with occasionally pieces of s;vect-scented
wood ; leopards' teeth, / ither reel or imitated in brass ; and
a long needle in a leather sheath. From the neck of the
kaross hangs, by a thong covered with brass rings, a mall
tot toise-shel, filled with bruised wild celery-seed, with which
to perfume the person. When a Caffre has his head dressed,
aid his scent-box hang; down his back, he looks as if lie
wore a red wig with a ghttcring cue.
Round his loinS is a double thong, also thickly set with
brass rings. This is regarded as a great ornament in
South Africa, and it also serves as a girdle of famine to
confine the stomach, if on a journey food runs short. On
these occasions, indeed, the Caffre often adopts a more
useful ornament. Pieces of hide with some flesh attached
are worn as bracelets on the left wrist, to be applied to oc-
casionally for sustenance. Brass and ivory rings are gene-
rally worn on the arm. The feet are frequently cased in
brown leather buskins, particularly in mountain paths and
on stony ground. But the straps are so ccutrived that the
buskins can be kicked off if a rapid and unencumbered
retreat is necessary, when the kaross is then also thrown
away or twisted round the loins.
The natural arms of the South African Caffres are
assegais (hnkonta) rr javelins. These arc tied up with
two thongs in a bundle of seven or eight together, with a
walking staff to keep them straight. The shafts of the
Amahossa assegais are slender, five feet long, and taper
off to the butt, in order that they may quiver in the
air, and in passing through the object at which they
are thrown. The blades arc of various shapes. The
ceminon •one (ingola ) is shaped like a laurel leaf, with a
smooth round neck, which is let into the wood of the -haft,
and neatly tied round with wetted thong. The elephant
assegai (intshuntshe) has a blade.eightecn inches long ; the
ingairla is shaped like a long spike, and used both as a pro-
jectile and for making holes in sewing the kaross or milk-
skins ; tied the izaka, or man-killer, has a jagged neck, and
iull•cts a most dangerous wound. Common assegai wounds
aro not difficult of cure ; not so that of the izaka, which is
only used in the most deadly and vindictive strite, Tied up
with the assegais is commonly a short stout stick, with a
large knobbed head, called by the Caffres themselves in-
dooko, and by us keerie. The oval shield, intonlra, which
completes the equipment of a Calico warrior, is of hide of
all colours, five feet in height, and is bound to .a stick
a little longer. This shield covers the warrior in fight-
ing with men and lions : when set on edge it shelters
him at his tire from the wind ; and is a roof under which
he sleeps with his comrades, closely together, in a field.
To frighten their antagonists, the Caffres spring about,
shaking their light shields, and beating them with their
knees. Holding this defensive weapon with the bundle of
assegais and keerie in the left hand, they quiver a single
ass gain the right, uttering short cries of rege and defiance,
nd ;vith their horned head-gear and waving mantle they
line rally a very savage and warlike apasarance. The
C &hes - balance and quiver the assegli !,efore throwing it,
c buil it a distance of seventy or eighty yards through
the air, are certain of their aim at fifty ,-arils, and at a dis-
tauce of fifteen or twenty yards, throw it so sharply under
handed that it is impossible to ice or parry the blow.
Who they wish to stab at close querters, they break off
the blade from the shaft. Some of the Amatembie and
Atnap.ala javelins of this kind are barbed like a harpoon,
ate! the Zuolas use a stout stabbing assegai, engage hand
to hind, think it cowardly to throw their- ecapon at a dis-
tance and from under cover, and are much dreaded by their
neiglil)ours in consequence of their desperate onsets.
111sny hundred of the border Caffres had British musketes
purchased from the Hottentots or traders of low character,
or stolen from the farmers ; and as the shield is no protec-
tion against a bullet, the Amakosa, in fighting with our
people, generally disencumbered themselves of that ineffec-
tual defence.- Formerly a Caffre would fly from the sight
of a musket, and a stock, even without a barrel, would ef-
fectually intimidate him ; now lie has no such fear : and the
use of fire-arms, together with the recent introduction of
l.ergc bodies of mounted men among them, has converted
them into formidable foes.
The young Caffre females are generally tall, well formed,
and plump ; their features are regular and pleasing; and their
teeth and eyes very good. Unlike the Dutch "end vroutuen,"
who singly are sometimes a waggon-load, the old women of
the Caffres get skinny and deeply wrinkled, and when with
brandished assegai or keerie they dance and eerawn, and en-
courage the men to war and plunder, they look like the at-
tendants of the infernal Hecate. In full dress the females
wear a broad and high cap of the valuable blue buckskin,
with the hair inwards, and outwardly ornamented with
white and blue beads, sewn closely on it. Half-a-dozen
oug stripes of skin are twisted round the brows, which are
thus begirt with a hendsoate turban. The breasts are con-
cealed by a little leather api-on fringed with heath ; the
kaross, fixed closely round the waist. descends below the
knee ; and the same garment is occasionally drawn over the
shoulders, between which hangs a long flip of leather, orna-
mented with rows of flat and round buttons.
In the bush, and in war-time, the women always display
their glittering flips to save themselves
fsom being shot at.
They have necklaces and braCelets of beads and brass, much
the same as the men ; and wear under their kaross a small
sn-dlow-tailed apron, covered with white and blue beads.
The women are as studious to conceal their persons, as the
men are savagely proud and shameless in the exposure of
theirs. Infants arc tied in the folds of the mother's kaross
which is brought across the breasts for this purpose ; and
thus the beauty of their shape is destroyed.—Captabt
Aica-
ca Narrative of Western Africa.

A STREET SKF,ICII, BY Boz.—Oliver Twist was
stopped at last. A clever blow that. He's down upon the
pavextent, and the crowd eagerly gather round him ; each new
coiner jostling and struggling with the others to catch te„
glimpse. " Stand aside l" " Give him a little air !
" Nonsense 1 ho don't deserve it." " Whcre':; the gentle-
man?" " Here he is coming down the street." " Make
room there for the gentleman l" "Is this the boy, Sir?"
" Yes." Oliver lay covered with mud and dust, and bleeding
from the mouth, looking wildly round upon the heap of faces
that surrounded bins, when the.old gentleman was officiously
dragged and pushed into the circle by the foremost of the
pursuers, and made this reply to' their anxious inquiries.
Yes." said the gentleman in a benevolent voice, " I am
afraid it is." " Afraid r murmured thegnt,eierozo d:; " "
t
good un." " Poor fellow I" said the.
hurt himself." " I did that, Sir," said a great lobbcrly fellow
that's
t' shas a
slepinng forward, " and preciously cut my knuckle aria' his
gwmeit'isttihaan. grin,a ni:setesoxepiir:neegcdt ihnignit;orriS cli'th fhoer hfeisllo lehbeodt
his
him with an expression of disgust, looked
the oh
ladt
anxiously round, as if he contemplated t t.uning away himself;
which it is very possible he might have attempted to do, and
thus afford another chase, had not a police cfficer (who is al-
ways the last person to arrive in such cases) at that moment
made his ,vay through the crowd and seiz,d Oliver by the col-
lar. " Come, get up," said the mar, roughly. "It wasn't me
indeed, Sir. Indeed, indeed, it was two other boys," said
Oliver, clasping his hands passionately, and looking round ;
" they are here somewhere." " Oh no, they ain't," said the
officer. lie meant this to he ironical; hut it vas true be-
s:deF, fur the Dodger and Charley Bates had filed off down the
first convenient court they came to. " Come, get up."
" Don't hurt him," said the old gentleman compascionately.
" Oh no, I won't hurt him," iedlicd the c,fficer, tearing his
jacket half off his back in proof thereof. " Come, I know
you, it woi,';, do. Will you stand upon your logs, you
young devil?" Olive, who could hardly stand, made a shift
to raise himself upon his feet, and was at once lugged along
the streets by the jacket collar at a rapid pace. The gentle-
man walked on with them by the officer's side r and as many
of the crowd as cs..uld, got a little a-head, and stared back at
Oliver from time to time. The boys shouted in triumph, and
on they went —Oliver Twist, in Bentley's Miscellany.