The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-25 00:00:00

LI ZERAT URE.

Our Last Tears in India. By Mrs. John B.
Speid. Smith, Elder, and Co.
The volume before us contains a pleasantly writ•
ten narrative of the writer's overland journey to
India, as well as of her residence in that country,
and of visits paid by her to various places of anti.
quity and historic interest. She also discusses at
considerable length Hindoo theology, compares
Buddhism with Brahmanism, and strives on these
points, and with success, to render her work instrue...
tive as well as amusing. Passing through Cairo on
her journey out, she was delighted with its pic-
turesqueness. She says, " The streets of Cairo (fain
would I dwell on them), with their endless variety
of costume, their quaint old houses, sometimes lean-
ing over as if to whisper to each other, and nearly
touching in the upper storeys ; their, here and
there, honeycombed walls, their yashmuk'd (veiled)
women, or assumed women, for you only see a
rolling black pillar (I am speaking of the better
classes), a slipper, and an eye—the streets of
Cairo, were I to enumerate half their inte-
resting objects, would entice me into a sen-
tence fifty times the length of even this.
Some of the dresses of the men I thought quite
exquisite—so harmonious in the arrangement of the
colours—the brilliant shawl, sash, and turban-bound
fez so admirably contrasting with the black-braided,
chocolate-coloured jacket and trousers. I believe
there are no clothing funds, so how all the poor
manage to be so beautiful I cannot imagine. All
seem in holiday clothing ; even your dragoman who
waits on you is a very Dives—quite imposing with
purple and fine linen, or their Turkish equivalents.
Everybody, everything is picturesque; the donkeys
and Arab donkey boys; the blue-clad peasant wo-
men bearing their water jars; the camels and their
riders, slowly wending their way through the dense
many-tinted crowd ; the narrow streets, and houses
gay with scarlet stripes; the shop-keepers with
beards worthy of the patriarchs, sitting, dignified,
cross-legged, and ruminant among their drums of
figs, and wizardly bottles, and Damascus broidery
of gold and colours, and red slippers and amber
mouth-pieces. The people, the scenery, the dresses,
the shops, are all full of the freshest interest; you
seem to grudge every moment not devoted to look-
ing, and thanks to the delightful air, you may look
and explore all day without fatigue." Of the cele-
brated sculptured caves of Ellora, she gives an ela-
borate description, as well as of the painted caves
of Ajunta ; various phases, also, of Hindoo life are
graphically delineated, and the work will repay
perusal.

lite Quarterly Review.

Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables " furnishes the
theme of the opening article here, in which the
writer, giving the work high praise, carefully dis -
criminates between its poetical aspect and its shal-
low social theories. The recent translation, by Dr.
Whewell, of " The Platonic Dialogues " is the sub-
ject of that which follows, the translator being
credited with perspicuity, and freshness and vigour
of expression, but accused of want of enthusiasm.
Under the head of " Belgium" we find an interest-
ing account of the industry and resources of that
small territory. "It is," says the writer, "to the
excellent market which England affords for its pro-
duce that Belgium owes much of the present
flourishing and prosperous state of its agriculturß.
Flanders may be almost regarded as an outlying
market-garden, orchard, and dairy-farm of Great
Britain. The quantity of farm and garden produce
annually raised for English consumption is astonish-
ing. In 1860 we took from our Belgian neighbours
butter to the value of £467,686; fruit and
vegetables to the value of £150,000; seeds to the
value of £36,764 ; 11,656,576 eggs, and poultry-
to the value of £40,270." "The Waterloo of Thiera
and Victor Hugo," is a clever exposure of the fictions.
which those writers have put forth for facts. In
.‘ Aids to Faith," we have an elaborate resume of
the " Essays and Reviews" controversy ; and the
remaining articles are styled, "Modern Political
lemoirs," " China—The Taeping Rebellion,"
The Confederate struggle and recognition."

THE BIRICEWHEAD

BIRKENHEAD, FRIDAY.

At the police court to-day before Messrs. Darby-
shire, Case, and Ledward, Mary Nolan was brought
up under warrant charged with having used:
threatening language to Mary Ebrey, a witness
in the riot cases. The words complained of were,
that if Ebrey had anything to do with the charges
against the rioters the prisoner would "paste her•
brains ' against the walls of the house in which she.
was staying. The prisoner, who denied the charge-
through her attorney, Mr. Moore, produced no re—
butting testimony, and the bench ordered her to
find two sureties of £5 each to keep the peace for
months.

James Fining, Bridget Burns, Mary Macguire
and Bridget Al'Donald, were brought up undr
warrant and charged with having taken pal
the riot of Wednesday night week.
Mr. Moore, who appeared for the pr ,oners,
stated that he had been instructed in thr Sc_ only
a quarter of an hour previously, and t.ilied for a.
remand, which was granted until 'E. .tia,,y next.
Mr. Darbyshire took occasion to r, marl; that the
town was now quiet, and he hopeCi: that 'the good
sense of the inhabitants, of wll ver class or creed,
would teach them in future tc rafrain from taking
part in proceedings similar to chose which had,
brought such disastrous res't Its upon the people.
It was apprehended by the 1. once that another riot
would take place last night , in consequence of an
Dr. Butler, formerly.
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to Protestantism, ..ould deliver a lecture on
" Rome and Italy," a'. Christ Church, Claughton.
Although a number •;,f demonstrations were made
by Orangemen and others in the shape of crying
out in the streets,. where are the Birkenhead rioters
now P and calling for cheers for the Birkenhead
police and Garibaldi,and loud groans for the Pope,
no action of importance occurred despite the taunts
which were very unnecessarily Itlvelled against the
supporters of the Papacy.

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AbDeaEleAmFNedEiS.eSazaDsgr. ertißngertlheaMt
eotnhter,tahse wrermitetdeytifotrodetr-
ness recommended by Mile. Cleret a few years ago, is by
no means inefficacious as has been supposed by prac-
titioners. All that is required, he contends, is to apply it
properly, and to combine it with the treatment of the pri-
mary affection which has brought on the deafness. He
quotes two cases of rheumatic deafness, and three in which
otorrhoaa was, the primary cause. Of the latter, one was
that of a musician, who has, by proper treatment with
ether after the ottorhcoa was removed, regained the correct-
ness of ear which he possessed before in a remarkable
degree.

MARKET HOUSES IN PARlS.—Besides the rag-
gatherers, there is a class in Paris—of a much higher
grade—who have cabarets exclusively their own. These
are the market people who fill the Hanes, and whose houses
of refreshment were known by the names of Paul Niquet,
Bordier, Baratte, and half a dozen other less famous
cabaretiers. Unlike those night houses in London,
which M. Delvau calls " des gin-palace, des tap-rooms,
des beef houses, des beer shops, des oyster houses, the Ca-
barets des Halls aro now always closed at midnight, thougla.
until recently this was not the case. But Niquet's esta-
blishment has ceased to exist for several years, and Niquet
himself is dead. It was a place in which, perhaps, more
spirituous liquors were consumed than in any other cabaret
of Paris—absinthe, cassis, and brandy, the cheapest and the,
worst. The consumers sat on benches ranged round a large
room, the floor of which, though paved, was always damp
and sloppy. As a natural consequence, where so much fiery
poison was swallowed, quarrels were of frequent occur-
rence ; but as it was not desirable to call in the guard to
quiet the refractory, Paul Niquet adopted another course.
He had arranged a series of water pipes, so placed as to
enable him, when a quarrel began, to souse the combatants
well. When it happened that they resisted this application,
ceiani
.k but,_D .c like ,
Falstaff's supper, the eating'
All the Year .Round.
It is understood s
he raised an apparatus which completely blocked up the
only issue from the room, and the water rose and rose, from
the ankle to the knee, from the knee to the body, till the
disturbers of society begged for mercy. At the cabarets
of Bordier and Baratte, which reuinined undemolished—
the first at the corner of Rue aux Ours, and the second in
the Rue aux Fers—you can ibsotohn
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Captain Coles. The engines of 700-horse power are to be
by Messrs. Maudslay and Co