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

RISE OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF PHLPFS,

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 11., 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 winter
of 1814, in the existence of a lady with a ig's face. This
of a great lady residing in Grosvenor-
interesting specimenof porcine physiognomy was said to
be the daughter
square. It was rumoured 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
wh, n carriages could not ?move on very rapidly, horresco
t fer
fromen a ashnb
s lafn‘ni:inar°l7 pigs snout had been seen protrud-
ing looking bonnet in one of the landaus
which were passing.
The mob cried out, "The pig-faced
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-
squire. Another report was also current. Sir Wil-
liaminto a drawing-roow, where
Elliot, a youthful baronet, calling one day
to pay his respects to the great lady in Gros-
hveenfooruTdua person was ushered
rson 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 inflicted a severe wound on the back
of his neok. This highly probable story concluded by
stating that Sir William's wound was a severe one, and had
been dressed by Hawkins, the surgeon, in St. Aud!ey-
street. lam really almost ashamed to repeat this absurd
story; but many persons now alive can remember the
strong belief in the existence of the pig-faced lady which
prevailed in the public mind at the time of which I
speak.
The shops were full of caricatures 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 misadventure,
and was en-
titled, "Beware the pig-stye
A CURIOUS Dr. Champeaux, a surgeon
in the French W
navy, D.—
was consulted in 1827 by a
cavalry officer, M. Elophe, about a small sore which he
O
had had in the tape of the neck since June, 1815. This
sore would sometimes heal, and remain closed for about a
avUyN,
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 Has
hit on the breast by a fragment of a howitzer shell, and fell
insensible 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 he 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
roar, 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 fou,Al 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. 1 his
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,
their sudden enthusiasm and as easy discouragement, their
readiness to be ruled by military leaders, their fondness for
ornament and art, their gaiety, fickleness, and amorousness,
they are thorough Kelts such as their ancestors have been
in all ages : but in the sob;r devoutness of a large mass of
the people, in their seriousness, in their personal sensitive-
ness and personal independence, in their spirit of sceptical
inquiry and the thoroughness of their scientific research,
they are Teutons, while their wonderful talent for organisa-
tion and their tendency to centralisation are Roman. Still,
with all this, and much more which might ingeniously be
worked out of inherited qual 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 presenc. 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-
scribedp
Mr. Sala, in the new number of the
m Temple y
Barb magazine for August, as compounded by
putting a lump of frigid cream into a cup, sweetening it
vokstti with the syrup, used hero in lieu of loaf sugar, and
then
pouting some cold coffee into the ice. Ina few minutes,
he
the coffee and the cream amalgamate. The flavour
of
is inexpressibly toothsome, and you fall into a
trance of beatitude, to wake up and find yourself wofully
a they syrups

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 Secemin, in the Pala-
tinate 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