The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-06 00:00:00

NOBLE STATUE of KING GEORGE 111.

and the prospect Eastward opens uninterruptedly upon the majestic
PORTICO of ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH, the NATIONAL

GALLERY,
And TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.

By these great natural endowments this splendid site combines
beauties and advantages of position not only unequalled, but un-
attainable by any Society or Crub, however vast their resources,
or however great the sums they would pay to obtain thorn. When
in addition to these natural advantages, the greatness of its tho-
roughfare, with the incessant passage of public carriages to the
City (sufficiently removed to avoid inconvenience), are considered,
its great capabilities for any GREAT COMMERCIAL ESTA-
BLISHMENT, PUBLIC or PRIVATE BANKING FIRMS,
CLUB, or INSURANCE COMPANY, stand unrivalled.
Among the peculiar advantages for a Club, the house, No. 25, in
Great Suffolk-street, adjoining the principal building, and forming
part of the property to be submitted for sale, affords an opportunity
for throwing the whole of the floors of the chief building into un-
interrupted areas or saloons, and of obtaining access through this
building at a tithe of the expense which would be incurred in the
erection of an especial building, at thirty or forty thousand pounds
expense, the rock upon which so many Societies have been wrecked.
Among the MANY IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL OBJECTS
to a hich these splendid premises are peculiarly available, and for
which object no outlay whatever would be incurred, having been
already arranged in the most convenient divisions for commercial
offices and counting houses, while that of a
GREAT HABERDASHER'S TRADE
is evidently paramount, as the excellence and publicity of its posi-
tion, with double entrance in Pall Mall, East, and Great Suffolk-
street, afford superior facilities to those of ANY SIMILAR ESTA-
BLISHMENT, either in its immediate Vicinity at the West End,
or by any of the Great Wholesale City Houses, to any of which this
would form a most important Branch. It may be well to observe,
by way of conclusion, it is a vis-a-vis

" THE UNIVERSITY CLUB."

The property is leasehold for 27 years
FROM THE CROWN

at the original building rent.

Particulars may be had 28 days prior to the Sale, on the pre-
mises ; of Mr. Reynolds, Solicitor, No. 10, Great Marlborough-
street; the Mart and in Covent-garden.

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ADVENTURES DURING A JOURNEY
OVERLAND TO INDIA,
By WAY of EGYPT, SYRIA, the HOLY LAND, and
MESOPOTAMIA.

By Major SKINNER, 31st Regiment.,
Author of " Excursions in India," &c.
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Thus spoke the Signor Berettoni, as we were sailing
through the beautiful gulf of Ajaccio, and cast anchor be-
fore that city, which rises from the shore like an amphi-
theatre. Here everything is Italian, the sky, the climate,
the fruits and flowers • and more especially the inhabitants.
" Look at those delightful houses ! Is not our Ajaccio
a fine town ?"
" Most assuredly ! but the house of houses, that which
we have made a pilgrimage expressly to visit, the most re-
markable of its houses, where is that ?"
" I understand you—let us leave the quay, and follow
this winding and narrow street."
Signor Berettoni was like all his countrymen ; once men-
' tion to him the name of Napoleon, to flatter his national
pride, which is a species of self-love, and you can get him
to do anything. So he undertook to be our pilot through
the streets of the Corsican capital.
" All that you have just seen," said my guide, as we
quitted the vast avenue of the quay, was not in existence
50 years ago ; and when France sent her first Governor to
the island, the house we are now going to visit was the best
in the town ; the family which inhabited it—you know
that family, of course ?"
" What! the Buonaparte family ?"
" Look straight forward—that building is its mansion."
This annunciation roused us suddenly from meditative
ecstacy, into which we had been plunged by the glorious
associations
andiationbsyntehe necessarily connected
w
e hadw coithlmi. Generalteenameot .
Napo-
lß.,
who accompanied us on this historical pilgrimage, could
scarcely breathe, so strongly was he agitated.
" What ! that yellow house, with newly-painted green
jalousies ?"

" Yes, that is it. Three stories high, and four windows
to each story, was quite a Corsican palace in 1768. The
present proprietor of this illustrious relic is a respectable
old gentleman, the only member of the family resident on
the island. He is very attentive and civil to strangers
and visiters, and will receive you most cordially ; only he is
always much surprised at the eagerness and enthusiasm of
those who come to see his house, and can scarcely under-
stand the importance attached to the chamber where a per-
son was born to whom he was uncle."

At this moment the old gentleman walked out of his
house. He listened to our request, for permission to see
the mansion, with a corteous benevolence of tone and look,
and volunteered his services as our guide. Old General
B. could scarcely believe his eyes ; he actually trembled
with emotion ; for, I believe, the first time in his life, tears
trickled down his cheeks, and showed the nature of the
feelings by which he was influenced.
We entered the house with that species of religious ve-
neration with which one is impressed on the threshold of
a temple ; we were about to inspect and touch with our
hands the cradle of the greatest man of modern times.
" I have to apologise, gentlemen, for the form and
fashion of my furniture, which is, no doubt, different from
that now in vogue at Paris, and, as you have just left that
city, it no doubt looks odd to you. It was, however, in
the newest and best taste in 1818, and I bought it myself
there, when I formed one of a deputation, to which ho-
nour I was called by the confidence of my fellow-citizens,
and perhaps by the unconscious spell which is reflected by
an illustrious name. A Emperor's uncle may speak of
being a deputy without being looked upon as a boaster."
We were amused by his discourse, which we took care
not to interrupt.

" I perceive your impatience," said he, compressing his
lips, as if to hide an ironical smile." " You are all anxiety
to see my curiosities and antiquities ! But if you will have
the kindness to walk still higher up stairs, you shall have
a sight of them by-and by."
General B. could scarcely contain his wrath at hearing
this careless indifference, and almost disdainful allusion to
circumstances which the veteran imperial trooper regarded
with fanaticism, and any scorn of which he considered a
sacrilege. The old man did not not notice his looks and
went on.

" In the meantime, this was the apartment of my very
august and gracious sister, her Majesty the Empress
mother : a generation of Kings was born, played, and grew
up here ; and the greater portion of Europe was furnished
with sovereigns from this little' room. Talking of rooms,
this is the one where the most famous of the brothers passed
his infancy, and here he lived and slept until the Governor's
kind interest and patronage procured his reception at the
military academy at Brienne. Will you now walk up
stairs ?" •

We entered the garret. Do not be scandalised ; a
year or two later I saw the costly and gorgeous cradle of
the King of Rome put out of sight in another garret of the
arch-ducal palace of Marie Louise, at Parma.
" Stop," said the old gentleman ; " look at this old chair,
and at that walnut-tree table. He used to sit in that chair,
and it wa§ at that table that he learned his A B c. There
is sonic difference between these worm-eaten articles and
the gilded furniture of his cabinet at the Tuileries."
The general respectfully kissed this table, or rather its
remains, for it was mutilated and cut in such a manner that
it could hardly stand upright.
" You see that my visiters leave their marks behind
them," remarked the proprietor of the house, with a sneer
which quite petrified us ; " you can do the like, if you choose
to take the trouble.

The General took advantage of the permission with the
haste and fervour of a soldier's devotion. We carried off a
considerable quantity of this precious relic ; and valuable,
indeed, it was, if the preciousness of a relic is to be esti-
mated by the feelings its contemplation excites. Two or
three months afterwards these two pieces of furniture had
followed their other parts all over the continent, to the great
despair of the English tourists and curiosity hunters.
A fortnight after our expedition to the house in Ajaccio,
the sloop bent its course to the island of Elba, and sailing
along the shores of Rio Longone, glittering with iron rocks,
we anchored in front of the city of Porto-Ferrajo, which
seems ready to be crushed by the weight of the superincum-
bent mountains. The Elbese boats, with their cargoes of
vegetables for Leghorn and Piombino, and the fishing

smacks, filled with the rich supplies of that part of the Me-
diterranean, saluted, as they passed, the French flag, which
had now become their own. The captain lowered his boat,
and in five minutes we trod the soil of the island of Elba,
the first gaol of the illustrious prisoner of Europe. What
an immense distance—what a deep gulf there is between
the house in Ajsccio and this in Porto Ferrajo, which, to
common eyes, seem to be in so close a juxta
rpousilietiroiens!,
Brienne, Toulon, the Pyramids, Austerlitz, the r
the Kremlin of Moscow, Fontainebleau, and the island of
Elba—what a starting point—what resting places—what a
sad termination ! From the lious-e in Ajaccio, BuOnaparte
rushed forth to conquer the throne of France, and to subju-
gate Europe ; from the house, in Porto-Ferrajo, Napoleon
escaped to be conquered at Waterloo, and to die at Long-
wood I—The Parterre.

MRS. HEMAN'S VISIT TO WORDS WORTII.-" I
was driven to a lovely cottage-like building, almost hidden b
a profusion of roses and ivy; and a most 'benignant.lookirgy
old man greeted me in the porch; this was Mr. Wordsworth
himself ; and when I tell you that, having rather a large party
of visitors in the house, he led me to a room apart from them,
and brought in his family by degrees, I am sure that little
trait will give you an idea of considerate kindness, which you
will both like and appreciate. In half an hour I felt myself
as much at case with him as I had been with Sir Walter
Scott in half a day. I laughed to find myself saying, on the
occasion -of some little domestic occurrence, Mr. Words-
worth, how could you be giddy ?' He has, undeniably, a
lurking love of mischief, and would not, I think, be half so
safely intrusted with the tied-up bags of winds as Mr.
insisted that Dr. Charming might be. There is an almost
patriarchal simplicity, an absence of all pretension, about him,
which I know you would like ; all is free, unstudied—' the
river winding at its own sweet will '—in his manner and con..
versation there is more of impulse about them than I had ex-
pected, but in other respects I see much that I should have
looked for in the poet of meditative life ; frequently his
head droops, his eyes half close, and he seems buried in quiet
depths of thought. I have passed a delightful morning to-
day in warichlyshaded
it grounds,
writers, particularly
Spenser, whom he loves, as he
the abouto his
himselfs
expresses
lkinhg imw
h
and hearing speak him o
f
for his
with
•‘
earnestness and devotedness. ,

THE ROYAL PRINTING OFFICE AT PARIS.-
According to the last inventory that has been published of this
establishment, it contains the types of 56 founts of oriental
characters, which comprehend all the known alphabets of the
nations of Asia, ancient as well as modern. There aro 16
alphabets of different European nations who do not employ
the Roman characters, and of these latter the establishment
possesses 46 complete founts, of various forms and dimensions.
All these founts weigh at least 828,000 pounds. The
.con-
sumption of paper at the Royal Printing-office in a single year
amounts, at an average, to from eighty to a hundred thousand
reams per day, which are pritEed fur the use of the several
public boards. The number of workmen employed regularly
is from 350 to 450.