The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

JULY 10, 1849.

roads, mail coach roads, rivers, &e., &c. It is also t
embellished with a beautiful engraving of 4. The
Brighton Via,!uct, on the Hastinsis Branch." It opens
.
with an interesting thscription of
Old Blsing Dante, a township and chapelry in the
parish and hundred ct BASingstolte, 50 mils from LO7l-
- as the place where Ethelred I. was de-
featcd by the Danes in 871. After the Conquest the
manor was ai,sia-nfal to Hugh de Porter, who 01:70 held not
less than 55 lorLlehips' in this county. lie eri c:eal
lsrge castle, which was rebuilt on a magnificent
scale by his lir,eal descendant Sir William Paulet, who
I was created Marquis of Winchester by Edward the
Sixth, and will afterwards was made Lord Chamber-
ltthi to Queen Elizabeth. He - was Lord Treasurer of
England, through the fitful 'changes' of the reigns of
Edward VI., Mary, and Queen, Elizabeth. To oue who
inquired how he contrived to ret&n his post through
such a variety of circumstances,' he replied, by
being a willow, not an oak.' John, the fifth Marquis,
was distinguished as a faithful and able adherent of
Charles 1., and defended the castle successfully during
a siege of two years, until at last it was finally taken by
Cromwell himselt in 1645. Hugh Peters, after the seige,
in his report to Parliament, said, It was a house fit for
an emperor to dwell in, it was so spacious and beau-
tiful.' Ihe Marquis from this defence called the castle
Love-Loyalty,' and caused the name to be written on
each of the windows with a diamond, which so provoked
the Parliamentary troopers, that they burned it to
the ground. There was a bed there said to be worth
1,4001,, and the plunder was so great that a private sol-
dier got so much as 3001. in money. The loyalty of the
Marquis was the more remarkable, as it came from a
Raman Catholic subject to a Protestant Sovereign. The
personal pry perty destroyed with the castle was esti-
mated at the least at 200,0001, an enormous sum in those
days. The Marquis lived till the restoration, hut re-
ceived no rectomp.,2use for his losses. The sixth Marquis
was created Duke of Bolton by William 111., which
lapsed in 1794. The present, the fourteenth, is the
premier Marquis of Epiglaad."
Such historic records as these are full of deep in-
terest, and we trust will be fully appreciated. The
present part fully sustains the character of the pre-
ceding ones. The first of the half-crown parts is pro-
mised by the Ist of August, which we have no doubt
will be brought out with the same accuracy end
beauty as the monthly parts.

NE W Music.
THE VOICE OF SONG. The Poetry by E.
L. Blanchard; the Music by Lovell Phillips.
This song, which is arranged in the favourite key
of E flit major, has, to qi!ote a portion of its own
words, " A magical charm in its strain." The melody
is tenderly expressive, and the sentiment of each verse
the true poetry of; the heart.

TO MISS VANDENHOFF.
ON HER RECITATION OF " ANTIGONE," AT EXETER lIALL,
ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27.

Shall genius such as thine be lost to art?
Such gifted beauty flourish unreveal'd?
Such grace and energy not play their part?
Such inspiration, at its fount, be seal'd?
Such passionate outpourings thrill the scene,
Like gleams of bliss, too few and far between?
The chivalry of intellect forbid
The age's treasure from the age be hid!
Behoves the foremost nation of the earth,
On high, to elevate the foremost worth.
For this is she of whom the Grecian dream'd,
The grand ideal that convinc'd his sight,
When, on his trance, the awful pageant beam'd
Of Creon's haughty line all plunged to endless night.

Thro' the throng'd vista of two thousand years,
E'en from the life, the Bard his portrait drew;
Saw, in a vision, as she now appear.;
Antigone—dear, high-soul'd Maid!—in you,
The first in whom—oh, memorable feat
Of Woman's powers!—the likeness glow'd complete.
Never, till by thyself, the Poet's aim
Was fully vitahs'd and all-express'd;
No, not when Athens, thund'ring to his fame,
In inured crown her tragic hero dress'd;
Fur masks and male Antiones could ne'er
Fulfil the mission of his lofty verse,
The chapter of the human face lay bare,
The mind's emotions, thro' the eye, rehearse!
The fenta.'e heroine, to Greece unknown,
Thy fortune is to stamp Antigone thine own.
THE AUTHOR OF " RURAL SONNETS."
Inner Temple, July 2, 1549.
k° Impersonations by women not being permitted on the
Greek stage, its heroines and other female characters were
entrusted to men.

CONVENT OF MOUNT CARMEL.
At daylight filled away, and the wind blowing
fresh, wiled past the town of St. Jean d'Acre, its
battlements frowning in the distance, and anchored
under Mount Carmel, before the walled village of

Haifa.
With great difficulty I landed through the surf, in
company with our dragoman and our vice-consul at
Acre, who had come with us from Belrht. We were
in danger of perishing, and only rescued by the Arab
fishermen who came to our assistance. They are
bold and dexterous swimmers, as much at home in the
water as the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
The increasing surf preventing further communi-
cation with the ship, we proceeded first to Haifa
and thence to the convent for a bed, for in the
miserable village there was no accommodation.
The first thing in Syria which strikes a visitor
from the western world, is the absence of forest
trees. Except the orchards, the mountains and
the plains are unrelieved surfaces of dull brown and
green. No towering oak, no symmetrical poplar,
relieves the monotony of the scene. The sun must
surely be the monarch of this clime, for, outside the
flat, mud•roofed, cube-like houses, there is no shelter ,
from his fiery beams.
The road to the convent led for a short distance
through an extensive alive orchard, and thence
up the mountain by a gentle ascent. On the
plain, and the mountain side, were flowers and
fragrant shrubs,—the asphodel, the pheasant's eye,
and Egyptian clover. The convent stands on the
bold brow of a promontory, the terminus of a moun-
tain range 1,200 feet high, bounding the vale
of Esdraelon on the south-west. The view front
the summit is floe. Beneath is a narrow but
luxu-
riant plain, upon which, it is said, once stood the
city of Porphyrea. Sweeping inland, north and
south, from Apollonia in one direction to Tyre in
another, with Acre in the near perspective,
are the hills of Sa,naria and Galilee, enclosing the
lovely vale of Sharon and the great battlefield of
nations, the valley of Esdraelon ; while to the west
lies the broad expanse of the Mediterranean. But
the eye of faith viewed a more interesting and im-
pressive sight; for it was here, perhaps upon the
very spot where I stood, that Elijah built his altar,
and " the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the
burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the
dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench."
We were cordially received by the monks, " Bon
frere Charles" in especial, who, as it was Lent, regaled
us with vegetable soup and fish.
Within the convent is the celebrated grotto of Elias,
with a beautiful marble rotund() in front, and a chaste
and richly decorated chapel above it. In front of the
main building is a tent•shaped mausoleum, erected over
2,000 Frenchmen, who, sick, and unable to defend
themselves, were massacred by the Turks. The con-
vent was then used as a hospital. The word" Carmel "
means garden. Mount Carmel has been visited by
Titus, St. Louis, and Napoleon.
We procured here some ofthe fossil echini resembling
chalcedony, in the form of fruit—petrified, it is said, by
a curse of the prophet who was refused some of it
bytbe proprietor when lie was faint and weary.
They
are nothing more than round hollow pieces of
flint, with smooth end coloured protuberances
within.
Friday, March 31.—Wind changed off shore with
a smooth sea. Sent to Acre for horses, and huiited
out the two " Fannies" and landed them with our
effects. Pitched our tents for the first time,
upon the beach, without the walls of Haifa.
A graveyard behind an old grotto.look-
' ing well (then dry) on one side, and a carob tree on
the other. This tree very much resembles an al ple
tree, and bears an edible bean, somewhat like
the catalpa, which, in times of scarcity, is eaten
by the poor. It is supposed to be the " husk "
spoken of in the beautiful and touching parable
of the prodigal son. Indeed, I have heard orien-
tal scholars maintain that " husk" is not the proper
translation of the llebrew word. The fruit is called
(by the Christians) St. John's bread, and the tree,
which is an evergreen, " the locust tree," from the
belief that its fruit is the locust eaten with w ild
honey by Sr. John in the desert.—Lynch's Expedi-
tion to the Dead Sea.

AN ELOPEMENT—AN ADVENTUIZOUS DAM:r_c.
A Jew days since thecidaughter and only _
Haynes, retired excisA -officer, of Dartmouth, and
o
~
Cueningharn, of the Orin of Masan Garter anger u
Staffordshire, eloped together. The
young gtlaman
had been forbidden access to the house, and the young
lady was reasoned with; but the more this was done,
more unreasonable she become. and by some means she
who o
obtained communicationrtv,
,iihththo swain,
his ladye-love.n his
part
It was
was equally loth to pa
therefore planned that on the next market day, or rather
at one o'clock on the following morning, he should pro-
vide himself with the means of escape, which should be
effected from the window of the young lady's bed room,
which happened to face the public strt 0. The night
arrived, but her patience I), coming PxhatiqA, she could
not wait longer, and, some hours before the appointpd
time she herself escaped from her window (which ban-
pned to be a dormer one), without assistance, to the
parapet of the house, and thus she [will:ly passe(' oust
the roofs of four adjoining houses (throwing her bundle
into the street as she went on), and gaining access to a
window which happened to be accidentally open, she
parsed through her neigh')our's house unheard, and has-
tened to the hotel where her liver usmilly put up, and
where, indeed, he was safely enshrouded between the
blankets. They afterwards went as fast as they could to
Exeter, and were made man and wife in proper manner,
to their satisfaction,

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SPORTING INTItt,LIGENCE. .. .
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TATTERSALL':. Y.t.'n.:k.pAY.
LIVERPOOL .P , .
2 to I apt Mr. ilow-ii'i'lliri. tirtli, 3 ~..
.r, fist—L.:km
5Vi 2 e,i-,t Sir R. if,igut's Est tiui.,._3.a.i.-rg, sst tilb
t:,1:,-.11 F4ral cifert,i N 11.1,1 \'.l L.
9 to 1 Ygst Mr. Disney's Kelesilea. 3 r,,, Gst 12.11)--
takcti arid after ;yr/Ms 0ff4(1.1
_ _

13 to 1 ggit Mr. B. Green's Wubtow, 3 yr., sst—
notniroil
20 to 1 agst Mr.. Driiksld's Suter la C,:ure, 3 3rs,
4st 101L—ialieti to 150/.
Iu th,A early part of thj aftclut,,ou as little as 6 to 4
was taken about Thrirg4rlh—st the close 7 to 4 was
offered currently; Esscthirius,was very steady at 5 to 2;
7 to 4 laid on the two agst the field, and 500 to 3 agat
Cattczolt.

GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Captain Virratber's Maid of Masbam,
4 yrs, 7st 91b
14 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Tophana, 4 yrs, 61t 81b—
taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Gregor) 's Clermont, 5 yrs, 7st Glb
16 to 1 egst Mr. E. R. Clack's Giselle, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b
—taken
16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Firo•eater, 3 yrs, Est 31b
100 to 6 agst Duke of Richmond's Syrup, 3 yrs, 4st 91b
17 to 1 agst Mr. Blake na Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, sst
131 b—taken

18 to 1 agst Mr. Roles Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 81b—t
20 to 1 agst Mr. Parr'S Van Dieman, 3 yrs, sst 61b—t
Bacchanalian, Maid of Mashana, and Collingwood,
were the only horses in request; almost any odds agst
Plaudit.

GOODWOOD CUP.
5 to 2 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b
4to 1 agst Mr. Powney The Hero, 6 yrs, lost
9 to 2 apt Colonel Peers.Tadmor, 3 yl5, 7st 41b—t
10 to 1 alga Lcrd Eglinton's Solon, 4 yrs, 6St 31b
14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Belus, 3 yrA, 7st 41b
The odds against Solon were taken to at least 500/.
Nothing else backed to any amount.