The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-21 00:00:00

Teresa Pulki. Frilbner.

Under this fanciful title is presented to the Eng-
lish public a cluster of amusing and brilliant sketches
of society in the United States—sketches, drawn
with infinite vivacity, by two of the most distin-
guished of the refugee Hungarians. Under ordi-
nary circumstances a work of this description, from
hands like those of Francis and Teresa Pulszki,
could not possibly have proved otherwise than in the
highest degree attractive. Considering, however,
that the occasion which has elicited the present vo-
lumes is one no less memorable than the visit paid to
the American Republic by Louis Kossuth, the guest
of that Democracy, the production before us must
necessarily be regarded by the English people as
one fraught with a very peculiar fascination.
Although so brief an interval has elapsed since the
time of the voyage here recounted, it is really
remarkable how effectually the industry of the
companions of the Hungarian chieftain has
overcome all the difficulties of a narrative
necessarily diffuse and comprehensive. Numerous
as have been the works already written upon the
Republic of North America, we know none more
eminently calculated to present a truthful and life-
like picture of the original to the mass of the
British population. Already we have been rendered
familiar with the condition of society in the States
through the descriptions of Harriet Martineau, the
humorous pencillings of Charles Dickens, the ani-
mated rhetoric of Silk Buckingham, and the
shrewd comments of George Combe, through the
satire of Mrs. Trollope, the science of Sir Charles
Lyell, the perspicuity of Alexander Mackay, and
the ever-watchful observation of M. de Tocqueville.
Added to these, we have now the pleasant pages
furnished to us by our travelling Hungarians. The
merit of these passages can only be the more ap-
preciable on comparison with those of their prede-
cessors. Neither Francis nor Teresa Pulszki appear
to have crossed the Atlantic accompanied by preju-
dices any more than by predilections. Their good
opinion must, necessarily, to a considerable extent,
have been propitiated by the fact of their illustrious
compatriot having received the magnificent tribute
of an invitation from Congress—a grand and na-
tional invitation to visit, as the guest of that people,
the inhabitants of the North American Republic.
Otherwise, our authors evidently set forth on
their journey with their minds altogether un-
warped, and ready to accord to the novel
and interesting scenes presented to them the
benefit of a calm and altogether dispassionate
judgment. Setting aside entirely any reluctance
that might be excited by the apparent incongruity
of a work of this particular character coming to us
from the hands of a foreigner, Francis Pulszki
observes, at the very outset of his preface, in a

phrase quaintly but ingeniously apologetic, that
various reasons therein specified have induced him,
by publishing these volumes, " to carry an owl to
Athens." The task of compiling the work from
the loose papers brought back with them by our
Magyar travellers on their return to England,
seems to have been singularly facilitated by the
circumstance of a regular diary having been kept
by Teresa Pulszki throughout the whole of her
transatlantic movements. What tends particu-
larly to enhance the value of the present narrative
is the fact, that its materials are not, as is usual with

the majority of such productions, composed for the
most part of allusions to the domestic manners and
personal peculiarities of the American population.
As our authors themselves remind us, they were
not shocked by such little incidents as the Ameri-
cans pouring the contents of their egg shells into
glasses at breakfast ! Neither did they care much
seemingly about the orthodoxy of eating lamb with
mint sauce, rhubarb pie with Devonshire
cream, and roast beef with Yorkshire pud-
din°. ! Their indifference in these particulars
recalls to our recollection the introductory
remark of Mr. Samuel Weller when " Boots" at the
White Hart in the borough—" We shan't be bank-
rupts and we shan't make our fortunes ; we eats
our biled mutton without capers, and don't care
for horse-radish yen ye can get beef." Similar is
the disregard evinced in reference to these minutiae
in the sublime art of cookery by our light-hearted
Hungarians. As to another peculiarity already
frequently commented upon by previous travellers
in the United States, Francis Puiszki candidly ac-
knowledges that " belonging to an eminently

smoking people, the extensive use of the cigar did
not hurt my feelings, though I thought that chew-
ing and its consequences were no improvements on
the.use of the fragrant leaf !" Everything consi-
dered, Brother Jonathan could scarcely have been
subjected to a more generous examination than that
of our authors (as we may now rezard them),
the Anglicised Hungarians. The charming
sketches before us open with a descrip-
tion of the passage to America across the
Atlantic. Prior to this description, however,
we have an account of the departure from England
of Kossuth and his companions. This account is
immediately followed by some intelligent remarks
upon the discovery of the New World before the
age of Columbus—a discovery made, of course, as is
now pretty generally known, by certain Norwegian
adventurers. It may be observed, moreover, that
the tedium of the voyage is lightened very agree-
ably by a narrative of the escape of Madam
Kossuth, as told by herself, in the course of
one or two familiar conversations. Incidentally,

also, a deserved tribute of gratitude is paid by our
writers to the Turkish hospitality displayed at the
close of the Hungarian war of independence,
towards their fugitive fellow-countrymen. Arrived
at Staten Island, we have a brilliant description of
the noble city of New York, of its motly society,
of its enormous meetings, and of its composite
architecture. Opinions are then expressed as to the
position assumed in the United States by the chiefs
of periodical literature. A chapter upon colonisa-
tion conveys to the mind of the reader, in regard
to the North American Continent, a tolerably clear
idea both of its physical and political configuration.
Especial reference is, of course, made at a fitting
opportunity to the state of parties in America, and
to the nature of their respective principles. From
New York we advance to Philadelphia, thence to
Baltimore—on to Washington, to Annapolis, to
Harrisburgh, across the Alleghanies to the iron
city of Pitsburgh on again by Maryland and
Pennsylvania to Ohio, where we are introduced to
Cleveland, to Columbus, and to Cincinnati. Tra-
versing Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri, we find
ourselves conveyed at last to the lower Mis-
sissippi. Returning northwards by Mobile, the
Alabama River, and Montgomery, we pass Georgia
and the Carolinas, and so come at length to Nw
Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachussets. Here,
however, the journey by no means terminates—for,
advancing to the city of Boston, we are carried
forward to the wonderful Falls of Niauara' and
leaving these we are carried back to New York,
through Buffalo, Troy, and Albany. Having
thus completed the tour of the United
States, we are invited to the consideration
of an ingenious parallel of the American and
English character. Several appendices to the
three volumes comprise a variety of interesting
documents. Among these, it must be especially
remarked, will be found some valuable statistical
papers on the local railways and telegraphs.
Besides three remarkable letters from the
MSS. of a New England Lady, a detailed
account of the Northman in North America,
and Chancellor Harper's vindication of slavery.
It must be borne in remembrance that the title of
the work here under review is not simply eccentric,
but in an eminent degree significant and sugges-
tive. It implies that the races herein described are
not simply those of the domineering white men,
but those also of the Red Indian and African
populations. White, and red, and black are,
in fact, the motley colours observable amongst
the inhabitants of the Great North American
Continent. Apart from every other considera-
tion, these sketches of society in the United States
must be regarded as of singular importance, seeing
that they demonstrate, beyond the possibility of
contradiction, that Louis Kossuth, the glorious
guest of the American democracy, was re-
ceived by the vast mass of its citizens
not with coolness, but with universal accla-
mations. Consequently, the Times and the
Daily News were in every respect mistaken, in re-
presenting Kossuth's visit to the United States as
a " failure,"—doing so through the medium of
anonymous correspondents. True, undoubtedly,that
as the public is here reminded by thePulszkis, Kos-
suth would not avail himself of his popularity to ob-
tain a grant of land on the opposite shores of the
Atlantic for himself and his countrymen, so that
he might " live there in comfortable easeecthousasrseters °f.
Hun-
and ,
senti-
mentally remembering his country,
money and anNdo_polsittliccahlwcasapit:oltofththe making
—if the refusal
the glorious hero of Debreczin. No. Pursued. by
of Kossuth to act thus can be as consti-
tuting the failure of his visit to America,
as the failure, thank God it musAtnedverre
but not otherwise, did he fail. regarding
d ing then,tregardedh at
as altogether unmistakeable. A failure forsooth !
Why, take the following as its proofs : it was surely
a wonderful failure the passing of that unanimous
vote in the Americancl.
Congress, on the motion of
Senator Foote,
send, a
steam-frigate to Asia Minor for the
purpose of conveying • Kossuth to the Sultan
States so
soon as his Majesty the
would consent to his departure ! It
wonderful failure, the President of the
ante's
States exile's
States only a few days before
arrival at New York, taking
his annual Message to comwe
Kossuth 'to the attention of C negr was surely a_
the occasion of
nd the approach of
o ea...observing

that it was impossible for the people of America ip
see with indifference the principles of freedom
attacked and baffled. It was a wonderful failure
that reception of Kossuth at New York, with
triumphal honours—a wonderful failure his being
greeted. by Congress at Washington, in a manner
like that displayed towards Lafayette a wonderful
failure his official introduction to the Senate and
House of Representatives—his reception by the
most eminent American Statesmen now living—his
respectful treatment by the two great men since
departed, Henry Clay, " the mill-boy of the
slashes," and Daniel Webster, " the great ex-
pounder " ! As further illustrations of this same
wonderful failure, take the resolutions inviting
Kossuth to the capital of those States, passed by the
Legislatures and Governors of Indiana, Maryland,
Maine, New York, lowa, Rhode Island, Ohio,
Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Penn-
sylvania, and Massachusets—all of which, with
the exception of Maryland and Teunessee,
commended in the warmest terms the foreign
policy suggested to the Union by its illustrious
visitor. It would be difficult to enumerate the ad-
dresses presented to that great man during his stay
in America by a series of important deputations.
Everything throughout his progress indicated a
triumph rather than a failure. Undoubtedly the
old hunkers and the silvery greys were sufficiently
frightened, but their alarm in no way tended to
diminish the general enthusiasm. Such is the
character of the extraordinary events here re-
counted by Francis and Teresa Pulszki, and of
which these present delightful volumes form a noble
and brilliant celebration.

British Medical Directory for 1853. Published air

the Lancet Office.

This annual has been prepared with great care
and elaboration, and contains a great deal of infor-
mation of thta most useful description. It is impos-
sible to over-estimate the value of such a work,
whether as regards the medical profession or the
public. By a reference to its pages can be found
the name of every practising medical man in every
city, town, or village in England, Scotland, or
Wales, with the date of his diploma, the offices he
holds, and other particulars of an interesting char-
acter. The information respecting the courses of
study and the examinations and honours at the
different colleges, universities, and hospitals is am-
ple, and, as far as we are able to judge, extremely
correct. Among the other contents of the direc-
tory are lists of all the hospitals, dispensaries,
lunatic asylums, and medical institutions, from
John o'Groat's to Land's End.

SPOBTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCXCIII.

By permission of the weather the Lincoln Spring
Meeting will come off to-day and to-morrow ' • the New-
castle Spring Meeting on Wednesday and Thursday ;
Chipping Norton Steeplechases to-morrow ; and Derby
and Tadcaster Steeplechases on Wednesday. Such is the
present outline of sport for the week. The freezing state
of the atmosphere,' however, bids fair to curtail it of its
fair proportions.
LINCOLN SPRING MEETING.—On Saturday, in the
city, they backed Snowdon Dunhill for the Trial Stakes,
as if the race was a forgone conclusion. Chilton is the
only animal in the entry that could beat him, but, I pre-
sume, he will be reserved for the Handicap to-morrow.
Billy Richardson will be the second horse for the Trial
Stakes. There is nothing that has any chance of suc-
cessfully contesting the Two-year-old Stakes with rope
Joan and the Jewess but Monitress, whose starting is
dubious.; the other two I have but little doubt will oc-
cupy the first and second places.
The Steeplechase ought to be won by Bourton.
Maria Day and Maurice Daley are not " in" badly at
9st 101 b and 9st 91b.

The Spring Handicap will be contested, I suppose, by
about half the acceptances ; and if HARP is not able to
accomplish the feat of winning with only 6st 71b up, I
must turn to CHILTON to pull me through. Odiham is
not overdosed with weight at 6st 131 b, nor is that re-
markably slow coach Abdallah, who, though a six years
old, has been favoured with the light weight of 6st 71b.
Game Tommy at sst 121 b, is the only other animal that
may find his way to the front ; but I cannot fancy with
the small difference of 41bs that he can beat Chilton.

The Hurdle race I do not profess to advise upon, but
I cannot help remarking that Sir Robert at lOst 81b,
Caurire at lOst 41b, and Theodine at Bst 21b, seems to
me to be better "in" than the remaining twenty-one.

ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT NORTHAMPTON-
SHIRE HANDICAP.
Being within a fortnight of Northampton races,. I will
at once proceed to analyse the principal stake of the
meeting, more especially as it will be the centre of
attraction to the betting world until its decision.
The Great Northamptonshire Stakes was established in
1844,. when Vitellius, then 4 yrs old, with 7st up, was
the winner. It is a curious fact that, with one excep-
tion (Poodle last year), a three years old has not been
able to win over this course, which has so trying a finish
as generally to stop the youngsters. It has been won
on four occasions out of the nine by light-weighted 4 yrs
old, and in four instances by 5 yrs old and upwards,
who have carried 7st 91b and above. By this it will be
seen the chances are great against a 3 yrs oil winning ;
and it must be remembered that in the only victory of
that class the winner, Poodle, had only the feather of
4st Sib to carry.
The Stakes of 100 sovs. are the gift of the Northamp-
ton Grand Stand proprietors, added to a Handicap
Sweepstake of 25 sows. each, 15 ft, &c., with penalties
for winning certain stakes, which only affects one horse
in the entry, Llanforda, who will have to carry 5 lbs
extra for winning the Liverpool Spring Cup. The dis-
tance is exactly two miles.
The large entry of 117 has been obtained to this stake ;
seventy-three of whom declared forfeit, leaving forty-
four animals to contest the palm of superiority.
Stebbing's lot consists of Kingston, at the top weight
of Bst 131 b-; the Bishop, at 6st 111 b • and Charity, at
sst 31b. I should hardly imagine they will pull out
Kingston, but if they do, with Nat or Butler up and the
horse in good condition, his chance is anything but for-
lorn ; quite as good, in my estimation, as Wolfdog's,
when he won carrying pretty nearly the same weight, in
1847. The Bishop's running at Nottingham was too
mediocre to give him a chance here. Charity would
seem to be their horse for this race ; her pretensions,
however, are but indifferent.
Scott has a couple— Newminater and Hobby Horse ;
the former stops at home, and the latter will not only
represent its stable, but carry a considerable amount of
aristocratic cash. His running last year was execrable ;
he has improved considerably during the winter, and has
done good work during the last week or two : at 4st. 131 b.
he will, not improbably, repeat Poodle's performance.
W. Day's horse, I believe, will be Postulant, who, at
the same weight as Hobby Horse, must, I fancy, give
way to him. Joe Miller, I understand, does not run ;
and Lady Harriet is very doubtful.
Alec. Taylor has the Confessor and , the Dandy ; the
former at 7st. 121 b., and the other at sst. 31b. I think
some mischief is meant from this stable, to be brought
about very shortly ; whether we are to have it with
these horses, at the present moment I am unable to
say. Everybody knows what the Confessor can do, and
the Dandy has much improved on his last year's form.
Tom Dawson's lot is comprised in a couple—King of
Trumps and Lindrick—the former, I believe, being the
representative. I have but A very so-so opinion of
either.
Lord Eglinton's Lucio will not do this time.
Dockeray's Muscovite and Cotton Lady I think very
little of for this race, albeit the latter is treated very
favourably in the disposition of weights and measures.
C. Fisher can have no chance of producing the winner
in Attack ; though if Nerva starts he decidedly has.
Mr. T. Parr's stable will, of course, not trifle with
their Chester Cup horse for this stake, but do what they
can with Defiance, whose chance, notwithstanding the
gameness of the horse at sst 131 b, cannot be the very
best. . . .

_____
-I shall conclude this analysis to-morrow, and at the
same time attempt to indicate the winners of Monday's
races at Lincoln.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

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and would the shopman kindly. again in a short time,
basket till her return 1 There allow her to leave the
any objection to so trifling could not, of course, be
was very carefully deposited a request, and the basket
Not long after the w in one corner of the shop.
woman's
the basket attracted s departure,
some noise from
by the screams attention which was quickly fol-
loweda
fine healthy of an infant ; and upon searching
child was found
posed, carefully packed, but, as
without any reference or clue to its
.
connexions The woman did not return to look for her
friend, and the infant d tand was removed to
the workhouse.—Exeter we un ers ,
Flying Post.
HEALTH. ni , -.
..:
, -- TOWNS ON LICVATED SITES.—It is a
somewnat singular fact that fever should be prevalent
ham
at
the present time in the Tillages of Cherry Willing
and Reighington both beautifully and airily situated on
the summit of hills, whilst villages that lie at the base
and on the sides of the hills are f
ad Heighiree. Yet uch is the
Willingham ngton the
case, and both at
disease has appeared in a malignant form.
EGYPTIAN CATTON.—Mr. Boothman, secretary of
the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, has received 20
the Pa of
small bags of cotton growl? on the estates of ach
.
pro
samples exhibiting a ve im
ry great vement
Egypt as
through the instrumentality of Mr. Ed-
already effected •
lehurst, a young man sent out by the chamber
ward wing
request of the Pacha, in the cleaning and packing
at the
of Egyptian cotton.
THE KOH-I-NOOK DIAMOND.—This diamond that
looked in the Great Exhibition like a dingy chandelier
drop, has now—after an expenditure of 2,000/. in bringing
it to light—been finally set in an exquisite circle of small
diamonds, and made the " Mountain of Light" on a most
graceful tiara of diamonds for the brow of Queen Victoria.
To show a jewel of this character to numbers, and to due
, invitation of
advantage, is impossible ; but, by the kind
Mr. Garrard, opportunity
of the/Haymarket, we had the
of examining and at.miring it before it was sent,
on Fri-
day week, in its new setting, to Buckingham Palace. The
-reserve
old setting, as worn by Runjeet Singh, has been d
with beautiful counterfeits of the stones p '
as
on the arm of the Lion of Lahore. The they were seen
sur-
rendered to Great Britain on the same
large rubies
with their Persian inscriptions untouched,
remain
indeed, they will log • - ed, as we hope,
lelnain,----Minicum.