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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sharpe's London Magazine gives" a continuation of
" Lewis Arundel," and the conclusion of Dinah
Muloch's beautifully told "History of a Household."
We miss the admirable "Diary of Mrs. Milton" this
month. " The Story of a Family" is continued, and
is full of interest. The Sporting Review and the
Farmers' Magazine each contain a portrait of the
Earl of Yarborough. The Journal of Design is as
graceful and instructive as usual; among other papers
in this number is Mr. Redgrave's " Lecture on the
Study of Botany." The Colonial Church Chronicle
contains a most interesting account of a " Conference
-aith a Mussulman." The Colonial Magazine gives
an abstract of a priza essay by Mr. J. A. Leon, on
" Improvements for Growing and Manufacturing
Sugar in the British Possessions," to which was
awarded Prince Albert's gold medal at the Society for
the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com-
merce, on the 14th of last month. the Patent.lournal
as usual, abounds in matter of scientific and mechani-
cal interest, among which is an abstract of Sir
Charles Lyell's Lecture on the Alluvi3l Condition
of the Valley of the Mississippi. The Belle Assent-
blJe gives a bc,autiful portrait of the hapless Bride of
Lammermoor. Dr. Shelton Mackenz:e has com-
menced a serial tale in this number, which also con-
tains one of Elizabeth Yuuatt's always delightful
papers, and a poem by the accomplished editress, Mrs.
Newton Crosland. Le Follet is as charming as
ever ; it has reached us in company with Le Lion
and a similar brochure of Children's Fashions. These
last are as graceful as Le Follet, but the gent!emen
who figure in Le Lion are far from rivalling the at-
tractions of their fair companions. One in
particular is attired in a sky-blue coat, which would
excite considerable attention in St. James's.
The Land we Live In conducts us this month to
"Nottingham and the Hosiery district." It contains
a fund of interesting information, historical, manu-
facturing, and picturesque. Charles Knight's" Studies
of Shakspere," Part VI., forms the sixth number
of the National Library of Select Literature. The
Pictorial History of England (containing a map of
North America) chronicles the death of the Duo de
Reichstadt. Frank Fairlegh proceeds with its
wonted spirit. The pencil of Cruikshank exhibits,
by way of illustration, the melancholy " results of
giving satisfaction."

LITERATURE.
ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE.
Illustrated Edition. Vol. IV.

If any previous historian ever saw more numerous
editions of his masterpiece during his lifetime, we are
convinced that no one has ever before witnessed in
the prime of his manhood such various and costly
reprints as Archibald Alison. The present volume
of this beautifnl republication of the " History of
Europe," embracing the interval between 1796 and
1799 inclusively, is embellished with portraits of
General Bonaparte, of Moreau, and of Ney. Per-
haps this particular division is about the most en-
thralling as it most certainly is the most marvellous
of all the periods described by the annalist. In proof
of this it is only necessary to remind the reader that
it narrates the naval glories of Great Britain during
the time when Jervis, and Howe, and Collingwood,
and Duncan, and Nelson were in their zenith—that it
records the rise of Murat, of Junot, of Duroc, of Mas-
sena, of Augereau, of Lannes, of Ney, of Moreau, and
of Marmont to celebrity—and that it recounts the
appearance upon the field of European warfare of the
most wonderful man of modern times, in battle a
Cid, in generalship a Hannibal, in legislation a
Justinian, in grandeur an Augustus, in ambition
an Alexander, in pride a Sesostris, in daring of
enterprizes a Caesar, in capacity of administration a
Charlemagne. The miraculous campaigns in Italy,
and the chivalrous expedition to Egypt, are here
pourtrayed in succession ; :and, turning over the
leaves of the volume casually, it is scarcely possible
for the reflective student not to be struck by the
sad and solemn omen contained in the superb quota-
tion from Livy, on the fly-leaf, that final sentence,
we mean, where the master-annalist remarks—" et
adeo variabellifortuna ancepsque Mars fuit, ut propius
periculum fuerint gui vicerunt." The words thrill
upon our comprehension in all their astonishing and
antitheical truthfulness when we pause in the flush
of our admiration at the account of the dazzling vic-
tories of the young General Bonaparte over the Aus-
trians and the Arabs, and suddenly remember the
crumbling away of his colossal empire, and his hor-
rible incarceration for six dismal years on the rock
of St. Helena. Several points in the present portion
of Mr. Alison's narrative are directly opposed to our
own unimpassioned and deliberate opinions. For
example, he reprobates for their atrocity the massacre
of the prisoners and the poisoning of the sick at Jaffa,
when the former. was manifestly a bitter necessity,
and the latter has been proved to be a fabrication by
the declaration of the surgeon that, at the period in
question, there was not a single grain of poison in the
medicine chests! The three engravings are highly
finished, and admirably characteristic.

THE BRITISII POLITICAL, COMMER-
CIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND lIIS-
TORICAL GAZETTEER; Travelling Road
Book, and County Atlas.
The seventh part of this enterprising and useful
publication has reached us ; it contains an excellent
map of Kent, accurately marking the division of
counties, boundaries of boroughs, distinguishing those
boroughs returning two members, and those return-
ing one, those wholly disfranchised and those dis-
franchised of one member, principal places of county
election, polling places, market towns, with the dis-
tance from London, churches and chapels, seats of
nobility and gentry, railways, turnpike-roads, bye.

roads, mail-coach
.roads, rivers, - &c., &c. It i also
I embellished with a beautiful engraving of "The
Bright'on Viaduct on the Hastings Branch." It opens
with an interesting description of
Old Basing. Hants, a township and cbapelry in the
parish and hundred of Basingstoke, 50 miles from Lon-
don--famous as the place where Ethelred I. was de-
feated by the Danes in 871. After the Conquest the
manor was assigned to Hugh de Porter, who also ti,eld not
less than 55 lordships in this county. Ho erected a
large castle, which was rebuilt on a magnificent
scale by his lineal descendant Sir William Psulet, who
was created Marquis of Winchester by Edward the
Sixth, and who afterwards was made Lord Chamber-
lain to Queen Elizabeth. He was Lord Treasurer of
England, through the fitful changes' of the reigns of
Edward VI., Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. To one who
inquired how he contrived to retain 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 I, and defended the castle successfully during
a siege of two years, until at last it was finally taken by
Crotowell hinaselt' in 1645. Hugh Peters, after the seige,
in his report to Parliament, said, 'lt was a house fit for
an emperor to dwell in, it was so spacious and beau-
, tiful."The Marquis from this defence called the castle
ire-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 3601. in money. The loyalty of the
Marquis was the more remarkable, as it came from a
Roman Catholic subject to a Protestant Sovereign. The
personal property 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, but re-
ceived no recompense 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 England."
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 and
beauty as the monthly parts.

NEW MUSIC.
THE VOICE OF ,SONG. The Poetry by E.
L. _Blanchard ; thi Music by Lovell Phillips.
This song, which is arranged in the favourite key
of E flat major, has, to quote 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 u " ANTIGONE," AT EXETER HALL,
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
Die age's treasure from the age be hid!
_Behoves the foremost nation of the eartb,
Oa 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 bearo'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 appears.
Antigone—dear, high-soul'd Maid!—in you,
The fir.t in whom—oh, memorable feat
Of Woman's powersl—the likeness glow'd complete.
Never, till by thyself, the Poet's aim
Was fully vitalis'd and all-express'd;
No, not when Athens, thut►d'ring to his fame,
In laurei'd crown her tragic hero dress'd;
For mask= and male Antigouez could ne'er
Fulfil the miesion of his lofty verse,
The chapter of the huma❑ face lay bare,
The mind's emotions, thro' the eye, rehearse!
The female* heroine, to Greece unknown,
Thy fortune is to stamp Antigone thine own.
THE AUTHOR OF " RURAL SONNETS."
Inner Temple, July 2, 1849.
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, sailed 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 Beirtlt. 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 roach at home hi the
water as the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
The increasing surf preventing further communi-
cation with the ship, we proceeded first to llelia
and thence to the convent for a bad, 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 olive 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 from
the summit is fine. 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 Samaria and Galilee, enclosing the
lovely vale of Sharon and the great battle field 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
mein 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 e. chini resembling
chalcedony, in the form °Malt—petrified,itis said, by
a curse of the prophet who was refused some of it
by the proprietor when he was faint and weary.
They are nothing more than round hollow pieces of
flint, with smooth and coloured protuberances
Friday, March 31.—Wind changed off shore with
a smooth sea. Sent to Acre for horses, and hoisted
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. grave-yard 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 apple
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 Hebrew 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 wild
honey by St. John in the desert.—Lynch's Expedi-
tion to the Dead Sea.

AN ELOPEMENT—AN ADVENTUROUS DAMSEL.--
A Jew days since the daughter and only child of•
Haynes, retired excise officer, of Dartmuuth,a_do.,Dl
Cunningham, of the firm of Messrs. Garter and
gentleman
had Staffordshire, eloped together. rho young rhe young
had been forbidden access to the Douse.
,ias
done,
the
lady was rutsoned with; but the u
more unreasonthle she became,
eamsnlcivr:hily, some means she
obtAined communication tvith
.%evo till hts purt
was equAlv loth to pat with Lis love. It
therefore planned that on next market day, or rather
a ono o'clock on the following morning, ho should pro-
vide himself with the means of escape, which should be
effected from the window of the young ladv's bed.roJw,
which happ,,mod to face the rublic surer. The night
arrived, but her paienee b:cowin,4 exhawtlo, she could
not wait longer, and, some hours before the appointed
time she hers,-11 escaped from her windur; iw-P-
-p-ned to be a dormer one), without assistance, to the
parapet of the house, and thus she actually passetl over
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
passed through her neighbour's house unheard, and has-
tened to the hotel where her lover usually 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 mau and wife in proptr manner,
to their aatioNetion.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTRUDAY.
LIVEr.POOL CUP.
2 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Thringarth, 3 yrs, sat—taken
5 to 2 agst Sir K. Pigot's Essedarius, 3 yrs, sst 61b
taken and offered
9 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Keleshea, 5 yrs, 6st 121b—
taken and afterwards offered
13 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Westow, 3 yrs, Sat—.
nominal
20 to 1 agst Mr. Drinkald's Sauter la Coupe, 3 yrs,
4st 101b=taken to 1501.
In the early part of the afternoon as little as 6 to 4
was taken about Tbringarth—at the close 7 to 4 was
cared currently; Essedarius was very steady at 5 to 2;
7 to 4 laid on the two agst the field, and 500 to 3 agst
Cantzpu.

GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Captain Wrather's Maid of Masham,
4 yrs, 7st 91b
14 to 1 rgst Lord Exeter's Tophana, 4 yrs, 6st 81b—
taken
15 to 1 rgst Mr. Gregory's Clermont, 5 yrJ, 7st Gib
16 to 1 sgst Mr. E. R. Clatk'a Glselle, 6 yrs, Gst 121 b
—takan
16 to 1 agat Duke of Ruticnd's Fire•ester,3 yrs, Gst 3lb
160 to 6 agst Duke of Richmond's Syrup, 3 yrs, 4st 91b
17 to 1 agat Mr. Blake na Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, sst
131 h-.—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Roles CAlingwood, 6 yrs,9st 81b—t
20 to 1 agst Mr. Parr's Van Dieman, 3 yrs, sst 61b—t
Bitechannlian, Maid of Masham, end Coliingwood,
were the ()I:1y horses in request; almost any odds agst
Plaudit.

GOODWOOD CUP.
5 to 2 agst Lora Stan!ey's Canezou, 4 yrs, Bst
4 to 1 agst Mr. Powney's The Hero, 6 yrs, 10st
9 to 2 apt Colonel Peel's Tadmor, 3 yrs, 7st 4lb--$
10 to 1 agst L sd Eglinton's Solon, 4 yrs, Est 3lb
14 to 1 ag,t'Lord Egliuton's Belus, 3 yrs, 7st 4:b
The odds against Sidon were taken to at least 5001.
Nothing else backed to any amount.