The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

By the Count P. de

2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

These volumes contain a very interesting account
of military life and adventures in Algeria, at the
time of the general insurrection of the tribes against
the French rule. It commences in the year 1843,
when the narrator and his companions took the
road to Blidah, the residence of General Chan-
gamier. The work narrates the history of the sup-
pression of the revolt, describes the country and
natives, and concludes with the narrative of an ex-
pedition against the Kabyles, in the summer of
1851. The first volume commences with the fol•
lowing description of Algiers :

" Arriving by sea,
.Algiers gives one the idea of a
city lying asleep on a hill side—calm and careless, amidst
the fresh fields which surround it ; but on drawing
nearer, and penetrating within its whitened walls, you
soon discover that beneath this apparent listlessness
there is a stir and life altogether European. The die is
cast, and in Algiers the Mussulman is daily fading away
to make room for the French city. From the terrace of
a house in which we had been received with warm-
hearted hospitality, we were never weary of gazing at
the bustling crowd, not an individual of whom was seen
walking—everybody ran. A strange medley of many
various faces and costumes ; here a European just landed,
and bewildered amidst the mob ; now and then the
Biskris passing at a rapid and measured pace, and
carrying a heavy burden hanging to a long pole ; anon
the Arab in his burnous, the Turk under his cumbrous
turban, the Jew with sombre garments and wily glance,
or the oil carrier with his goat-skin vessels ; and
through the thick of the route, legions of donkeys with
their negro drivers, light cars drawn by two or three
horses, baggage mules in a long string, bearing provi-
sions for the military stores, equestrians galloping in
spite of police regulations ; a colonist, with white broad-
brimmed hat, or perhaps an officer in brilliant uniform,
believing himself privileged to do anything in the town
which he protects. In short, the scene presented all
the disorder, the confusion, the bustle of an anthill ; all
around were signs of activity, energy, and hope, that
just and productive hope which accompanies labour.
While the lower- city is thus delivered over to
French fury, the silence and repose, the calmness and
and gravity of the Mussulman have taken refuge in the
upper quarters. I should advise no one to venture
alone through those narrow crooked streets, through
which it is difficult for two people to walk abreast. He
would infallibly lose his way in this labyrinth, which
seems peopled only by shadows. From time to time a
white phantom glides by your side, a door opens noise-
lessly, you turn your head, and the mysterious appari-
tion has vanished. One would imagine that, from the
summit of the Casbah, the memory of the Deys still
spread terror among their subjects of yore, though it is
long since the flag of France first waved over these
walls."

The eager desire of the soldiers for war, notwith-
standing all the hardships they have to endure, is
constantly expressed. They had, however, at
length their reward in success. Several histories
of the African tribes are given, and the style is very
lively 'and entertaining. The description of the
encounters are also full of interest, and many
legends and customs of the country are given.

Sharpe's New Gazetteer of the British Isles. Long-
man, Brown, and Co,
This useful and practical gazetteer is steadily
proceeding towards its completion. We give the
following extract as a fair specimen of the contents
of the work :-
" The port of London reaches from the Bridge (where
is 11 to 2 fathoms at low water) about 80 m. down the
Thames, past the Nore (8 fath.) to its mouth within a
line from N. Foreland, Kent, to the Naze, Essex (8 to
12 fath.) ; but ships are first boarded, and they clear out
at Gravesend. The actual port, called the Pool, is 21
in. long to Limehouse, and is in the charge of 4 harbour
masters, under the corporation, whose jurisdiction as
conservators of the fisheries, soil, etc. to the highest
watermark and up creeks where the tide flows, extends
(about 85 m.) from above Staines down to the Crow-
stone below Leigh, Essex, and Yantlet creek, Kent ; the
Trinity Board regulate the pilotage, beacons, ballast, &c.
The Upper Pool, the first bend, or reach,' of the river,
from the Bridge to. Wapping old stairs,' near the Tunnel
and Execution Dock, is in. long by 250 to 300 yards
broad, with 12 to 16 feet water (or 29 to 33 at high
water, enough for 800-ton ships) ; the Lower Pool,
where about 240 colliers mostly lie in tiers, leaving a
fair way of not less than 300 feet in the stream for ship-
ping and steamers up and down, is 1 mile long to the
Regent's Canal, Ratcliffe, and 280 to 320 yards broad,
with. 13 to 18 feet ; Limehouse Reach thence, round
Cuckold's Point, on Surrey side, to Deptford Yard, is 11
mile by 300 to 450 yards, with 15 to 18 feet ; and Green-
wich Reach, past the hospital, is 11 mile, with 11 to 18
feet. Mean depth off London Docks 21.3 feet, and off
Sheerness only 3.1 feet more, in a course of 50 m. St.
Katherine's Dock, of 24 acres, below the Tower, on site
of the parish or precinct of St. Katherine's Hospital
(now at Regent's-park), was made by 1826-8
(when 1,250 houses were pulled down), at a cost of
1,827,1131., and has 111 acres of wet docks, dock gates
by Bramah, dock ho., large warehouses for 110,000 tons
of goods, and a play where the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's steamers lie ; revenue (1846) about
230,0001. East of it the London Dock for 300 sail,
made 1805, covers 90 acres (35 water) including the
East London Branch Dock (made 1828), the Hermitage,
Middle and Lower basins, and the tobacco warehouses
"(for 24,000 hhds.), which cover 5 acres (with the
' Queen's Pipe,' or chimney of the kiln, where the da-
maged tobacco is burnt) ; the great dock has a jetty
_ (made 1839) 62 feet wide, with 1,600 feet quay room.
There are warehouses and sheds for 220,000 tons of pro-
duce, besides new ones for tea (built 1844-5 for 120,000
chests), wood, &c., and large wine and spirit vaults for
60,000 pipes and hhds. beneath ; and the company's ca-
pital is 4 millions. Two basins at Limehouse serve for
the Regent's Canal and R Lea cut. The West
India Docks, of 204 acres, across Isle of Dogs, are at
Poplar ; East India, of 32 acres, at Blackwall ; the
Commercial, or Greenland, or Surrey, and the East
Country, or timber, docks, of 55 acres at Rotherhithe.
What are called legal quays for small craft, stretch
1,464 feet from the bridge to west side of Tower ditch ;
and there are numerous sufferance wharfs on both sides
of the river. (See omnibuses, &c.) In 1846, 2,847 sail
of 581,878 tons (of which 731 were under 50 ton each,
179 of 48,996 tons were built in the colonies, 92 of
49,261 tons in East Indies, 60 of 11,376 tons in foreign
ports), and 287 steamers of 55,910 tons (90 being under
50 tons each) belonged to the pert ; and the tonnage
inwards and outwards, including repeated voyages, was
coastwise ' 21,101 sail of 2,670.654 and 10,936 of
757,088 tons (besides 1,192 steamers of 349,317, and
1,181 of 346,932 tons)-from and to `colonies' 1,603
of 490,446 and 1,202 of 444,103 tons (besides 10
foreigners of 3,709 tons outwards)-from: and to 'foreign
ports' 2,792 of 449,987 and 1,415 of 235,970 tons (be-
sides 2,394 foreigners of 370,380 and 2,317 of 354,236
tons). Imports are reckoned to be worth 80,000,0001.
yearly ; export (1845), 11,078,1641. Total customs
10,885,1561. ; in 1,265, they were 1501., and 500,0001.
in 1641. About 12,820 cargoes of coal entered 1845,
averaging 270 tons per cargo. Steamers run up and
downs from the bridge to Wstminster (for !,d. id. 2d.),
Lambeth, Chelsea, Richmond, Hampton Court, Green-
wich, Blackwell, Woolwich, Gravesend, Southend,
Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate, and other places on
the river; also to Aberdeen, Belfast,. Cork, Dublin,
Dundee, Edinburgh, Hull, Inverness, Newcastle, Ply-
mouth, Falmouth, Waterford, Yarmouth ; and abroad
to Amsterdam, Antwerp, 136nlogne, Bremen, Calais,
Dunkirk, Hamburgh, Havre, Harlingen, and Niewe
Diep (Holland) Ostend, Rotterdam, &c. Excise district
comprises the City, -Westminster, Southwark, &c., the
parishes up to Whitechapel (in the old bills of mortality
as at p. 107), with Marylebone and St. Pancras (the
suburbs belong to Hertford and Rochester collections),
and is divided into 12 surveys ' and 42 districts ;in
1835, the total traders (26,315) included 10,152 dealers
in tobacco 7,624 in wines and spirits, 6,298 in tea, 244
brewers, 396 makers of tobacco, 109 of soap, 55 of
brick, 6 of paper, and 203,2661. was collected on soap,
115,8141. on licences, 90,3231. on auctions, 53,4041
paper, 15,7391. bricks, 9,024/. glass, 5,4231. malt, &c."

-London and Provincial Medical Directory for

1853. Churchill.
This is a work of the greatest value to the pro-
fession, for the uSe of whom it has been more im-
mediately compiled,Of all the annuals of this de-
scription Nvmhiocaltlelave. come under our notice, it is
one of the
laal In
dt the members
Iv
aes,:mplete. It contains a register of
t theati medical profession in Eng-
land
of their withg first in the alphabetical
next in the order of,
the townstheir qualifications, and
settled, giving in the metropolis
in which they are
li)seaisreven a street direc-
tory. Besides this, there
dim,.
bodiesst of all the mem-
bers of the recognised me
hospi-
tals and schools of med'cine in
f of the
it parts of the
empire, of the dispensaries and infirmaries, and
also of-the medical publications, besid
other information, general and professional.a mass of
The
compilation evinces great labour and talentand
we are assured that this will prove to be one ;
e of the
most useful class publicationsof the
day.

LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOUNG
FEMALEs.--On Friday, Sir Brooke W. Bridges, Bart.,
in company with a number of gentlemen, visited the
asylum belonging to this charity, at Tottenham, previous
to the annual dinner on the 25th inst. The secretary
reported that there were at the present time 50 inmates,
that several had been cent to service, and that 500 had
received the benefit of the institution. In addition to

this, he also stated that nearly 40G improper houses had
suppressed, and several procurers punished. After
the establishment had been inispeeted, and much satis-
faction expressed, the company separated.
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