The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

The Chinese Giant Chang.

Last evening Chang, the giant of Fychow ; his wife, the
Lady Chang King Fop; Ching Mow, the Tartar Rebel
Dwarf ; and the members,of their suite, Ah Ying (Amall)
Woo Kwan Toon (compradore), and Sing Ah Look
(shroff), held their first public levee in the Dudley Gallery,
Egyptian Hall, which has been fitted up in the most ap-
proved Chinese fashion. After a brief introductory lecture
by Mr. Siddons, the great man was introduced to the
" pale faces of the Western Countries," and the surprise that
his appearance excited was intense. • Chang stands in
height within an inch of eight feet, he of course wears the
peculiar costume of his native country, and is real a
handsome-looking personage. After saluting the company
ho takes his seat on a End of throne, and calmly survel°
the animated scene before him, keeping his little fan in
constant use. His wife, " The Golden Lily of the East," i°
next presented, but beyond being a very good-tempereu:
looking young lady, about an inch or so over five fen',
there is nothing remarkable about her, save of course het
tiny feet, and finger nails on the third and foot'
fingers of her right hand, which are fully three inches
long, and protected from injury by silver cases. The
peculiarity of the finger nails is to prove that the 1201
never has been guilty of laborious work or menial °call*:
tion. When the Golden Lily was seated by her lord and
master the audience could not, at the contrast presented
by the happy pair, refrain from laughter, in which the lady
heartily joined, but on her fan being handed to her by her
attendant she hid her blushes from the public view. The
next introduction was the dwarf Chung Mow, who stands
2 feet 11 inches high, and is 30 years of age. This pigmy
specimen of humanity, although a comical little personage,
is by no means the most interesting of the party, War,
his height is the effect of deformity; however, he is so':
to be of a most martial spirit, as he was one of the Ws'
noted Tartar rebels. The rest of the party are ordinarl
Chinese, such as we have seen frequently in London
before. After the virtues and amiable qualities of Chang
and his 'wife have been dilated upon by the lec-
turer, the great man descends from his chair of Ott
and, walking amidst the audience, goes through the label'
of shaking hands with the company with the greatest affa-
bility and politeness. The lady also follows the example
of her husband, but the long finger nails were very much
in the way, as frequently she had to replace their sill°r
coverings, which had become loosened by the hearty e
gratulations -of the audience. The dwarf also was
very'
eager to join in the general hand-shaking ; and at the Of
elusion of the performance the fairer portion of the
dience were invited to inspect the tiny foot of Lady Cl'ans4
A speech in Chinese, thanking the public for their kil"
reception, concluded the proceedings of the levee.
The exhibition is a peculiarly novel and interesting Out
and, from the crowded state of the Gallery last evening'olf
is fair to suppose that Chang's levees will become One e.
the great attractions of London for many months t°

NARROW ESCAPE.—Professor Ruggles, of Dart"
mouth College, had a Darrow escape at Niagars
Falls recently. While walking on Goat Island with .11
party of ladies, one of them dropped her parasol, which
slid some 15 or 20 feet down the bank of the river. 30
Ruggles went down and picked it up, but on attempting
to return, the bank being steel' and the ground hard, 105
his footing and fell down to the very brink of the precipieet
hold of the roots of an upturned tree, the trunk of whioh
which at this point is 80 or 90 feet high ; here he 0010
hangs over the abyss. The shock caused the tree to shoir°
violently, and it appeared on the point of falling over the
burr,
°
precipi•ce • The ladies shrieked and called for help,
assistance was at hand. A movement on the part a
Ruggles, or a gust of wind seemed sufficient to cause the trl
to fall. At this critical moment one of the ladies took °",/
her basquine and skirt, cut them into stripes, got shawls Od
other articles of clothing from the rest of the party', tied
them together, fastened a stone to the rope thus formed, °3‘l
let it down to Mr. Ruggles, who, taking hold of it, wale
slowly up the bank. It was a moment of fearful sP°lle
su .
The rope was held firmly by the ladies above, but it iv
untie or break, and a fall of a hundred feet upon the °Apo
below must be the inevitable result. When Mr. 10'52011
reached terra firma, his fair rescuer, who had ahoW11:000
remarkable presence of mind, fainted, and was taken

in an unconscious state.—New York Tribune.
THE EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE AT Evq.el,
Last evening Mr. W. Carter, coroner for S tio
held an inquest at the Adelaide Inn, Kingston-road, and
bodies of Louis Hill and William Ilorscraft, aged- 2`,oore
26 years respectively, the two unfortunate men Nvil°
killed on Saturday by the dreadful explosion in th° "Ptoil
house" of Messrs. Sharp and Co.'s gunpowder mailufr but
at Ewell. The evidence was of considerable lead sios
nothing was elicited tending to show how the oPfatai
was caused. The jury returned a verdict of "ASSs—
dealt,"