The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-05 00:00:00

" C. WEA.THERBY.

" Irwin Willes, Esq."

" TO IRWIN WILLES, ESQ.

"I, the undersigned agent for, and on behalf of, the
Stewards of the Jockey Club, do hereby give you notice not
to enter, or come into, or upon any of the lands or heath,
grounds, buildings, and hereditaments, in the occupation of
the Stewards of the Jockey Club, and used by them for the
purpose of racing and training racehorses, situate in the
parishes of Burwell, in the county of Cambridge, and of
Esping, in the county of Suffolk, or elsewhere. And that
if, after this warning, you shall be found or seen thereon,
or any part thereof, you will be considered a wilful tres-
passer, and be prosecuted accordingly,—Dated this 3d day
of November, 1862.

" CHAS. WEATHERI3Y."

CHEAP TRAVELLING IN PERSIA.

At night, wherever we encamped, the chief in•
habitants of the place sent us presents of tea, sugar,
fruit, honey, and sweetmeats. These gifts were so
numerous as to become a very expensive mark of
honour, for each gift was brought to us by a diffe-
rent servant, and every servant expected a present
at least equal in value to the gift he brought. It
would have been considered highly offensive to
slight these demonstrations of goodwill. Every-
thing supplied to a traveller is charged, therefore,
not in accordance with its value, but in accordance
with his supposed rank ; and he is expected to give
liberal presents to all the ragamuffin crowd who
collect wherever his tents are pitched, The total
absence of hotels, the universal custom of giving
money to the servants of the host of the night
whenever the traveller halts in any considerable
city ; the almost incredible number of servants
kept by official personages, and that class with
whom a traveller is brought in contact; the syste-
matic peculations of his own followers, who cannot
be checked nor controlled in their accounts by rea-
son of the total ignorance a traveller is necessarily
in, as to the prices of every commodity in a place
where he remains but a few hours ; the constant
pilfering of idlers about the tents ; the trcublesoms
and expensive practice of giving presents and
offerings to a traveller twenty times a day, so that
he cannot pass near a corn field or an orchard with-
out being stopped to give money for a few ears of
wheat or an apple—the privileged dervish who can-
not be refused, and who seizes the traveller's bridle
reins, shouting" Hoo! Hak !" with the contortions
of a madman till. satisfied ; the crowd of other beg-
gars, sacred and profane ; the necessity of buying a
whole sheep for a single dinner; the need of pur-
chasing even water in many places ; the extortions
of muleteers, who will stop in a centre of a range of
mountains and insist on money before moving
another step ; the exactions of leaders of guards, and
cavasses, who press for money with an importunity
that no coolness nor management can disconcert—
all these things may convey some idea of a few
of the items which swell the traveller's accounts.
Wherever we pitched a tent, the owner of the land
came to demand compensation for the injury which
he declared done to his property. These claims
were frequently absurd, but not always so, for we
travelled in harvest time, and, for safety, were
obliged to pitch our tents in the neighbourhood of
some village. Our famished mules may have often
eaten up some corn. About 10s. a night may be
reckoned as the average cost of our tenting-ground
and water, In the neighbourhood of large towns the
expenses were greater. There is still another reason
which makes an accurate calculation of the real ex-
pense of a journey absolutely impossible : that is,
the impudent fraud practised by bankers and money-
changers, with the large variation in the value of
the same coins at places but a few hours' distance
from each other. Then, when a piece of money is
changed, the nominal value g►ven for it by no
means represents the real one. The change is made
up of Russian coins, Turkish coins, Persian coins,
Indian coins, French coins, and Spanish dollars—
all clipped, sweated, and defaced, almost beyond
recognition. These again bear a value differing in
every town and village. In some places all pay-
ments appear to be made in kind. The people are
ignorant of every other use for geld money than as
an ornament fur the hair; and the few silver coins
they possess, are hung upon the bridles of their
horses.—Dickens's All the I ear .Round.