The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-01 00:00:00

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL.

The story of Hassan Banou and Bahrain Gour will
excite the desire of all who read it to extend their ac-
quaintance with the fabulous literature of Persia. If
the library of the East India Company abound in
such works, translations of them should meet with na-
tknal encouragement, and we are confident they wou!d
arrive at a high and very remunerating degree of popu-
larity if the experiment of their publication were fairly
m,de. Apologues and Popular Tales," and the
"Mackenzie Manuscripts" abound in well-selecte
fragments from the 'legendary lore of the East. The
account of Aden, the new British settlement midway
between Bombay and Suez, is graphic and interesting,
but it is too long and too minute for quotation in our
columns. The mass of miscellaneous intelligence from
all parts of the East is exceedingly copious and wall
arranged.

UNITED SERVICE JOUI,?NAL.
Among the usual articles on naval and military affairs,
there this in this number one of a different sort, entitled
" The last Moments of Prince Talleyrand," by an Eye-
witness, drawn up evidently by one intimately acquainted
with the habits and character of that illustrious states-
men, who for fifty years, and under every dynasty, had
the fi st place among the councillors of France. The
paper, short as it is, contains a great deal of information
relative not only to the character of the Prl nee, but of
ti6ose with whom he had intercourse, and among others 1
of the present ruler of Fra 6!. The account of the
visit of the King to Talleyrand on the morning of his
death, the 17th of May, 1838, will not raise him in pub-
lic estimation either as regards his feelings, sincerity,
or gratitude. Louis Philippe proceeded according to
appointment, accompanied by his sister to the hotel in
the Rue St. Florentin, at an early hour. The Prince
had fallen into a slumber, or rather lethargy from which
he was with difficulty aroused. Oa the approach of
the King he was lifted from his reclining position, and
seated on the edge of the bed in his old faded dressing
gown. His Majesty was the first to break silence. "It
would be difficult," says the eye-witness, " to define the
expression which passed across his features as be con-
templated what might be called the setting of his
guiding star." " I am sorry, Prince, to see you suffering
so much," said he, in a low tremulous voice, rendered'
almost inaudible by extreme emotion. " Siro, you have
come to witness the sufferings of a dying man, and those
who love him can have but one wish—that of seeing
them shortly at an end." " The royal visit," continues
the writer, " like all royal visits of an unpleasant na-
ture, was of the shortest duration possible. It was evi.-
dent that his Majesty felt it to be an irksome moment,
and that he was at a loss what countenance to assume,
and after uttering some expressions of consolation be
arose to take his leave, but too visibly pleased that the
self-imposed task was at an end."
I must confess that I was grievously disappointed in the
anticipations which I had formed of this visit. I had looked
upon it as the farewell of the safely-landed voyager (landed,
too, amid storm and tempest,) to the wise and careful pilot
who had steered him skilfully through reek and breaker,
and now pushed off, alone, amid the darkness, to be seen
no more. But no : there was the hurry and impatience
of one to whom the scene was painful ; and that it was
painful, who can doubt? There was; too, that evident
secret self applause, in the performance of an irksome
duty; but not the slightest expression of any one sentiment
of friendship or attachment, such as I had imagined to have
bound these two men together. A friend of mine—a man
of great sense and diseernmert —to whom I made this e,b-
scrvatian, remarked drily, " It is plain that his Majesty
has no fear to see him die ; but wait a little while, and we
shall see that he will have regiet enough that he sbeuld
be dead I"

EVENING EDITION.

I Perhaps that "little while" has elapsed. and 1_,,),n is
I Phitppe regrets the loss of a trusty councillor so
fitted to extrieate him from the numerous diEe-.::: ~!_.
in which he has, by his bead-strong and selfish poli,v,
involved himself. The editor, after adverting to the
unsatisfactory state of the Canadas, the West lodies,
the dispute about the American boundary line, the Y.w.
in India, &c., in rather a gloomy mood, concludes w.tn
this just observation
We have saii enough to show the critical situation of
the affairs, both foreign and doMestic, of this country ; f.r.,:i,
without bating cpartiele of our habitual confidence in the
power and resources of England, we appeal to her Cc_
vernors to pat them forth without further stint or evasion;
the hour is arrived when the exigencies of the Sia',c can no
longer be trifled with.