The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-16 00:00:00

KHIVAH.

Madden, London, 1841,
This little voluMe contains an account of the
ty3untries in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea,
hid the Lake of Aral, illustrative of the late R us-
-8'44 expedition aaainst Khivah. It is a transla-
%ion from the ;Getman of Carl Zimmerman, by
Captain :gorier, and abounds in important statistic
(I,geographical information. A map is attached
to it, executed in Arrowsmith's most careful man-
intr, and compiled from the best sources, which
ryes us a better notion of the remote and little-
flown districts on the borders of the vast lake, or
sea) of Aral, than any we have yet seen. It is still
.3.nore deserving of ;totic!c, as enabling us to get an
hill4i ght into thq. nature of the progress that Russia
Is
the for soma time been stealthily making towards
Eau,

RATIVE OF EVENTS CONNECTED
WITH 7'HE, FIRST ABDICATION OF
'IVAPOLEON.. Fraser, London, 1841.
Of all the accounts we have yet had of Na-
1301eon's voyage to Elba, and his habits of life
during the first two or three weeks of his residence
in that Lilliputian island, this by Captain Sir
Thomas Usher is unquestionably the most enter-
taining, as it is the most authentic. The gallant
author is very lively and particular in his descrip-
ti°nB, and gives Several droll details respecting the
enthusiasm of the French, when he and his friend,
i??fig.htiag Charley Napier," landed at Marseilles,
did ;.°4141y to Napoleons embarkation. " Never
„ 'witness," he observes, " such a scene as now
r?•etented itself, as almost choked by the embraces ~
041 and young, we were hoisted on their shoul-
ders, and hurried along, we knew not whither. I
*e,ertainly did not envy the situation of my friend,
ptain Napier, whom I saw most lovingly em-
hraend by an old woman with one eye, from
whom
endeftvoured, but in vain, to extricate himself,
out • t I must say, the most gentle terms
a,l4nguage affords This must have been
✓ 'IA scene, and we can readily imagine the
"rl"Plimentary expostulations which the astounded
Captain addressed to the snuffy old slie-Cyclops, in
'order to extricate himself from her hugs and kisses.
o,!‘ritile strolling about Marseilles, waiting for orders
"torn the commanding officer of the station, relative
° the fallen Emperor, Sir Thomas Usher was
Eireatly struck by the absence of young men among
ttine crowds whom he encountered in the streets and
2.lll:kere. " The predominance of old people and
".dren among die crowd was," he assures ns,
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remarkable. Observing upon this to some of the
vnunicipal officers, they told me it was caused by
the conscription, which had swept off without
distinction, like another plague, all the young men
who were capable of bearing arms, causing jades-
crilvable misery, not only here, but everywhere
throughout France. What an idea does this con-
Vey to us of the devastating character of Napoleon's
"Palans ! It was not, however, to his conscrip-
tions Only
that this drain was owing, far before he
Commenced his career, the revolutionary wars under
ztenrz uricz, Pichegru, Kellerman, Custines, and
had swept ofF several hundreds of thousands
tel7°"riFrenclimen—to say nothing of those who
11.„- 'it the ,stiuggtes in. La Vendce, and under the
rT of the guillotine. Attached to Captain Usher's
Narrative are some hasty, meagre details respecting
l)°,1"11's flight from Elba, and his triumphant
flare from Grenoble to Paris.