The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-05 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

a city of whose magnifiettn: spe,l44 in h;;:1,
turns, especialb id its fatij ALshae, which ho culls the
11104, :vlau.,o!ouni in the tvor;4l;"___

'• I had visited it lest 3 ear." 1-1, ointrirves, •• durAag a
ramble try and iis large aerial dome of white
marble. its gr,c, ful n.biarrits, and stat,ly bo4i.. or
the same costiy iiiateral. tt. g-rden tided a'' now-
;lnd or. and ;iron Lie, 0
foontaies, atjes.ic gat d I
and realizA wi t I si.,,Azio !.ave tuought an
impossilAity But this evening I was more than ever
charmed with it The moon's fullest radiance sb-ss•
crud over the exqui,ite marble edifice, the trees were
shadowy and dark, and cased noiselessly in the perfumed
wind, the ranges of fountains seemed like the delicate
plumes of egrets, and diffu,ed throughout a delicious cool-
ness; while the silence of ..fight was only broken at inter
vals by the solemn recAations from the Koran of the :Moot
lahs in the alcoves of the shrine."

Arrived once thurishing capital of the
:‘,l(,zul empire—Sir William Lloyd was struck, as every
traveller ims been, by the extent and grandeur of its
ruins, and forcibly observes ()fit

•` If all the tre.isaire which has been lavished here were
amass d, it would form a marnid of gold. If all the
blood which has been shed here, could gush again from
the earth, it would cover the house tops. If the bones
of its unsepuchred throngs were heaped up, instead of a
level plain, we should see a mountain. Delhi has been the
stage of greatness. Men the actors, ambition the prompter,
centuries the audience."

01 one of the Delhi Allnarchs, who was tsken pri-
soner by the Sikhs, we have this striking anecdote :
" Whilst awaiting his execution at Delhi, he was told to
put his child, who was ,it; ing on his lap, to death, which
he calmly did, by cutting its throat ! He was then torn
to pieces by red hot pincers, a death which nothing but
the resolution of fanaticism could patiently inflict or
suffer." On the twenty-first of April, the author
reached the nearest. and lowest range of the Himalayas ;
and on gaining an ascent of upwards of four thousand
feet, felt a buoyancy of spirit, and a physical energy
that he had never experienced before. This, of course,
was occasioned by the extreme purity of the air ; but
we are surprised that he should have felt. such intense
" thrilling elasticity"—we quote his own words—at, com-
paratively speaking, so trifling an elevation above the
level of the sea. Humbolt, we remember, describes
the same sensations when climbing the Andes ; but then
this was at a height of eleven thousand feet. While
journeying through one of the many picturesque delis
common to this country, the following ludicrous mishap
occurred to one of the author's attendants, who had just
been bathing in a small river that wound through the val-
ley

" We were enjoying our breakfast, and were pouring out
our thoughts upon the grandeur and loveliness of the Hi,
malaya, when we were startled by a yell of despair, fol.
lowed by horrible vociforations, and upon running out, we
perceived one of our fatted Hindoo servants, rusking he
knew not wiere, with both his hands glued far back below
his hips, and his long white waist- cloth, his only dress,
streaming in most • nwarrantable disarray between his legs.
He bellowed again and again, till the whole dell rang. As
he appeared insane, we had him entrapped, but he conti-
nued capering as if possessed by every demon in the nether
sphere, nor would he move It's hands from where he bad
fastened them. We could obtain no answer from him,
and were at a loss to conceive the cause of his conduct,
until one of his companions from the crowd which had
collected on hearing these elaborate cries, told us that,
after bathing, he had chosen a place among some bushes,
to sit down upon, when, as if enchanted, he had suddenly
sprung up, and began performing these extraordinary
antics. He pointed to the spot which was close by, and
we discovered that the hapless Hindoo had sate down on •
clump of gigantic nettles !"

This will remind the reader of at' equally ludicrous
accident which occurred to the celebrated German pro-
fessor, Dr. Heavystern, who—says Scott, in the " An-
tiquary"—most unadvisedly and thoughtlessly squatted
himself down on an arm-chair, on which were two
sharp spurs, " whereby he grievously endamaged his
sitting parts !" To resume : it appears that the Hy-
malayas consist of four or five distinct ranges of moun-
tains, each rising above the other, the loftiest towering
to the enormous elevation of thirty thousand feet--
that is to say, about six thousand feet higher than the
highest point of the Andes. " Within these bounds,"
we arc told, " the general appearance of the region is
mournful and barren. There, surrounded by the mos*
gigantic pinnacle of the universe, sublimity sits fettered
to desolation." Among the nearer and lower ranges,
however, the scenery is transcendently beautiful, 51
may be surmised from this description :
o The summit of Wartco, which has an elevation of about
Aix thousand feet, is covered with charming woods, sad I
sward draperied with the most beautiful flowers. It were
impossible to be fatigued by wandering here. On all sides
grow the yellow buttercup, and one also of a lilac colour;
the strawberry is flowering, and a crowd of wildinga be-
sides, rear their graceful forms, and nod in the gentle
breeze. In the woods we saw several pheasants, and, for
the first time for many years, heard the throstle discoursing
most excellent music. Indeed this day we admired Na-
ture in all her loveliness and sublimity. Before us rose
the lofty and infinite realm of eternal snow, the Himalayas.
On its eastern bounds, Jumnootree, JAunlai, and another
peak, stood like giants mantled in white ; to the west, s
group of their equals were assembled, and the glistening
plains on which they stood, were broken by black precipi-
tous rocks, and steep beds of spotless snow ; and interve-
ning, were rugged cliffs, wooded heights, cultivated ra•
vines, temples and villages—a disjointed mountain realm."
So pure and transparent is the atmosphere in this
mountain regian, that a peak, twenty-four miles distant
from where Sir William Lloyd stood, not only seemed
to be within gun-shot, but every rock and fragment
lying upon the snow, nay, every rent, was distinct ;
and he thinks it far from unlikely that if a man oa
horseback could possibly hare been upon that peak, he
would have been perfectly visible ! After wandering for
sJine weeks among the Himalayas, tid on some occa-
sion; gaining an elevation of upwards of twelve thou-
sand feet, our author returned to the plains, where
the narrative of his journey closes. The second
volume contains Capt lin Gerard's account of bis
tour over the mountain district, who ascended to
a far greater height than Sir William Lloyd,
having not unfrequently gained an elevatioa, of
16,000 feet. He, too speaks in raptures of he
scenery through which he passes ; but of the famnke
sacred lake, the Manasarowara, which lies kid ,
without the great barrier of the Himalayas
and which must be of vast extent, since t"
circuit is said to be a four or five days' journey, he
gives us scarcely any details whatever, which is
a grievous omission, for this splendid sheet of water is
scarcely known, even by name, in Europe. If ;re
cept these defects, his narrative is such as cannot fail
to ;ratify the reader, however high-raised his expecte•
t.ions may bc.

HALL'S VOYAGE TO THE LOO-cllOO

ISLANDS.
Moron, London, 1840.
This is a republication of an entertaining narrative of
a voyage of discovery to the islands in the Chinese meJ,
which, if we remember rightly, first appeared in ono of
the earlier Nurnberg of Constable's Nliscellany. The
author is Captain Hall, and at the close of his narrative,
he has given us a minute and lively account of a conver-
sation which he had with Bonaparte at St. Helena, on
his wa) home to England, after a protracted absence of
upwards of twenty months.

CAPTAIN MARRYAT7"S POOR JACK.
Poor Jack is neither better nor worse than the ge.ne"
rality of Captain Marryates over-rated tales of fiction
but. maintains a quiet, even tenor. The illustrations,
however, by Stantbld, are excellent, and among they'
we may notice, As worthy of special praise, the skeet'
of the old sailors reading the news of the Battle of O'
Nile, who form a very natural and animated group° in
the foreground of a picturesque landscape.

ENCYCLOP2EDIA OF RURAL SPORTS'
A carefully digested work, containing an immerl
mass of useful information on all matters connected
with the sports of the field. The cursory observatiotl
on the improvements made of late years in the art of
gun making, will ammo the uninformed reader, as orl
also the condensed and entertaining account of falconry

THE BIBLE CYCLOREDIA, No. 1.
Parker, Strand,
This work was announced in 1834, under the sanc-
tion of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledgei
hut was postponed, owing to some new arrangements °
the body, and is now brought out, though not under at°
sanction of the Society, upon precisely the same plan 8'
at fret contemplated. Its great object is to illuitrato
the Holy Scriptures, by explaining the customs, "11:
gious ritls, laws, &c. of the Jews, and giving represent*
t ions of their ceremonies, buildings, medals, and delver
tic occupations. It is, in fact, a Bible Dictionary, i 1101:
trated with cuts. It'woulL4 have been satisfactory, h°11",
ever, had the publisher stated the sources from which.
had taken these representations, for there is not a little 1A"
congruity in those published in this Number. For it,
stance, some of the human figures are copied ex tbe
from those found on Egyptian monuments. ,ja
sowing, reaping, and winnowing of corn—representeelo
cuts—have evidently been taken from some EgYPtil
work, while the cut illustrating the ariicle d. Adder{
represents to the life the Hindoo serpent-charmets.d,
the present day. The commentary on Scripture '
"?ves
will be found very useful in reading the Bible. Ittg',,of
the ii,eral translation, with the Hebrew word goner:
annexed, and includes details of the most ilnP°r dot.
events in Scripture history.

THE TRAGEDY 019 " MARY STUART. ThiSnted
evening the new tragedy of Mary Stuart will be represehe
at Drury-lane Theatre, and to-morrow night will conchlu%bo
performance of the piece for the season. Mr. Macreadpirre..,
has, in the character of Ilutliven, added greatly to his big,e of
putation, will set off, immediately after his last performa"" in
that part in London, for Bristol, where Mary
preparation : and it is expected that a great effect will be ijiye
duci-d by ihe representation. It is believed that thert
and magnificent theatre of Drury lane will be filled in ever)
14 of
on each of the nights, which are to close the engagemi con-
Mr. Macready, who has erowrA his labours by an act
summate liberality to hi., lernther performers.
o • 1-
uLs.;,„iy, instant, a general asSe dat
Jones.
Stuart
of _A.entemicians of the Ttuyal Academy of Arts %To' joneg,
their apartments in Trafalgar-square, when Georgewiiiiao
14 sq., It. A., wag duly elected Keeper, in the room of.n, 3lr•
Hilton, R.A., deceased. On the same eve
Denholni Kennedy was elected Travelling Stud "