The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-18 00:00:00

A TURKISH JUDGE IN A "FIX."
The Stambol effendessy (mayor or first magistrate of
the city), a great admirer of badem halvassy (almond
cake), being desirous one day to procure a morsel where-
with to enliven the tedium of the judgment hall, reined
in his fat grey palfrey, on the road from his own konak
(mansion) to the court, and ordered an attendant to
purchase fifty drachms of this _ favourite dainty.
.From the necessity of employing his mouth in expound-
ing the law, the venerable effendy did not taste his pur-
chase until a few minutes before he was called upon
to pronounce judgment in a complicated case. This was
more difficult, however, than the judge anticipated. In.
vain he cleared his voice, and attempted to open his
mouth. The adhesive halve had united the upper and
lower teeth as fast as if they had been cemented with
khorassan. This was extremely perplexing for the halve
was obdurate, and the effendy's teeth were loose.At length,
by grasping his beard in his right hand, and tossing back
his head, the judge succeeded in liberating his impri-
soned jaws. But the result was fatal to himself and to
the manufacturer of this novel denti-tug. The dilapi-
dated teeth of the upper jaw had entered into an
indissoluble bond of union with those below. In a
word, the venerable mollah had not a tooth left
in the upper alveoli ; they were firmly embedded in
the subjacent glutinous mixture. To clear the court,
to mumble a dozen oaths, most uncomplimentary to
the halvajee's mother, and to order the culprit
to be dragged before him, with all the goods in his
shop, were the affairs of a moment. The order was no
sooner complied with, and the halvajee brought
into the presence of the irritated magistrate, than
the latter beckoned him forward, and ex-
claimed, as loud as his sufferings would permit,
" Oh, you law breaker, how dare you exercise other
men's callings without a license? Where is your
dentist's permit?" " Allah ! Allah !lam a dealer in
sweets! By the soul and grave of Omar Halvajy, I
exercise no other calling," replied the trembling shop-
man. "You are a liar—a most unblushing ller?" ex-
claimed the mollah; " do you think the sultan's subjects
are to devour dirt, that
you may fatten? You exceed-
ing impostor! You are worse than a Muscoviteunbehever.
Look! there is your badem halvassy, and there are my
teeth. What does the pezevenk say to that?" "By the
effendi's head and beard," replied the other, " the halva
is worthy of paradise. Wai I wai What else can I
say ? ' " What blasphemy and perjury is this ?" re-
torted the mayor, wincing with pain. " Oh, you bad
man I it is only fit for devils and Persians. How long
have you employed glue instead of honey? Allah alone
knows how many honest men's jaws have been mutilated
through your infamy." Then, directing the culprit's
mouth to be opened, and, finding his teeth also were net
over-soundly established in their sockets, the mollah
continued, " Now, you purveyor of lies and filth—now
we will see what your mixture can effect. Chew some of
that almond devilry, I say firmly." Then as the trem-
bling offender obeyed, he added, " Bite, in Allah's name!
Bite harder, harder—bite as if your teeth were grind-
stones and your drug soft paste." There was no resisting
these orders, especially as one of the cavass kindly aided
the process of mastication, by applying his hand to the
halvajee's chin. In a short time, therefore, the worthy
Mayor of Stambol had the consolation to see the hal-
vajee reduced to the same dilemma as himself ; two
loose teeth remained imbedded in the composition, which
had, in fact, been mixed with some strong glutinous
substance. Seeing this, the mollah smiled with grim
satisfaction. Then, having gazed a while at his fellow-
victim, he exclaimed, " There, you unblushing rogue
You poacher upon other men's trades 1 There are the
proofs I We will teach you to act dentist without a
license." Then, turning to the cavo.sses, he added,
"Let him eat stick—one hundred on the soles of his
feet, and let all the satan's filth be cast away." —IV kite's
Three Years in Constantinople.

A WEALTHY AND EXTENSIVE
FARMER OF WILTSHIRE.
Near to the town of Mere, in this county, we were
struck at beholding the fine crops, the excellent order
the fields appeared to be in, the low neat cut hedges or
fences, and
the immense quantity of oxen, cows, and
sheep grazing in the meadows ; and this led to an inquiry
to whom those rich, broad fields belonged. To Sir. 11. It
Hoare, the rich banker of Fleet-street, London was the
ready reply, whose seat is about three miles from Mere.
and seven miles from Wincanton, who himself has the fol-
lowing seven farms in his own hands:--hirton, Knoyle,
Colcat, Hill Grounds, Brenham Lodge, Top Lane, and
Search Farm ; altogether containing between three and
four thousand acres of land, once so poor and considered
so unproductive that every farmer of the old school
failed .in getting their living from the farms they occu-
pied; hence Mr. Hoare one after the other was driven to
make the best of such land, or suffer it to be still less
useful if overrun with weeds. He therefore hired farm
bailiffs,purchased horses, and every necessary implement
of husbandry ; employed at least 150 labourers, keeping
between seventy and eighty horses, giving constant work
to woodmen, carpenters, bricklayers, thus more than 200
men through him have constant employment, winter and
summer, wet or dry, at good wages; the lowest amount
paid to labourers is 12s. per week, some having 21s. at
the present time; no reduction in the cold and short days.
His cotte ges are let to his labourers at from 30s. to 40s.
per annun:, with large gardens, right of common or pas-
turage, enabling some to keep a cow or two, and in the
winter fatten two or three pigs. Mr. Hoare himself has
as many cows in milk at one time as yields him twice each
week fourteen to sixteen dozen pounds of good butter,
has seventy calves weaning and fattening at one time, and
in the winter at leant fifty beasts staled; when fat they
are sold generally to beast dealers in the neighbourhood,
some of these beasts frequently reaching the enormous
weight of from sixty to eighty score pounds each.
About one-third only is grazing land, he has never
less than 1,000 sheep and :500 ewes for breeding, of the
pure South-down breed ; .nearly 1,000 acres of this
very land was never considered to be worth more
than one shilling per acre for ,rent per annum. When
Mr. Hoare had it first in his pa:. session, the occupiers
then thinking three to four sacks per acrd of wheat
a good field, now by cultivation, draining, and
manuring, it would let for 30s. an acre. Five hundred
acres of wheat grown last year on this very land pro•
ducing on an average from ten to eleven sacks per acre.
This gentleman lets off a large breadth of land to farmers
in the neighbourhood, giving every encouragement and
assistance to those who will follow in his plans, by lend-
ing them money, finding drain tiles, and rendering every
assistance they may reasonably ask, and even more than
they expect ; not raising the rent as extra management
leads some to adopt, but granting long leases at the
olden low terms to induce those under him to persevere;
those not blinded to prejudice soon do well, the self-
willed and ignorant are soon compelled to leave. A
short time ago he discharged one of his stewards who
neglected carrying out the plans and orders he had
laid down. This worthy gentleman has also a con-
siderable estate near Towcester, Northamptonshire,
known there as Sillingstone Hall, with nearly 1,000
acres of fine land ; this is cultivated in a similar
manner, yet more regard is paid here to his hunting,
carriage, and riding. nags ; this he designates the
sporting box, where in the winter he exchanges hi
scenes of London life into those of the coantry. recruit
ing his strength and energies by strong and excitin
amusements. Mr. Hoare also has another delightful
dwelling and retreat called Burnham Grove, near Mai•
denhead, four miles from Windsor, and about the same
distance from Slough, and twenty-five miles from Lon-
don, thus this rich man of the metropolis can vary the
scene of his life in the spring and chief part of the sum-
mer visit, his Wiltshire farms, in the autumn and winter
get within an easy distance of town to enjoy the plea-
sures of either shooting or hunting.—Hampshire Ad-
vet tiscr.

THE NEW LANDING STAGE.—This great conve-
nience is now open to the public. Its opening was de-
layed in consequence of the oimmunication with the
shore being incomplete ; but a connexion having been
established, the steamers commenced to use it yes-
terday, and the public have free access to it. It
has already endured a strong in-shore wind ; and while
the Dublin and other steamers were making tremen-
dous plunges in the sea-way, it was difficult to per-
ceive the slightest motion in the landing-stage. The
plan adopted appears to meet much favour from the
public. Many strange thiegs are said about it by specta-
tors; for instance, some think it would make a good
cabbage garden; others think it less than the Great
Britain; while there are to be found several who say it is
as big as the Isle of Man. It would certainly make
a good garden, for its area is nearly an acre, and while
we have little to support the comparison with the Isle
of Man, we may compare it with the Great Britain
—the steamer being 3,000 tons, carpenter's measure-
ment, and the stage 16,000 tons. The boats permitted
to use the stage are those which ply to Runcorn, East-
ham Rock Ferry, and Birkenhead. The Woodside and
other boats using the George's Bier will take in passen-
gers at the broad steps until the permanent bridges are
fixed. It is arranged for the convenience of the public,
that persons going on the stage shall use the bridge at
the north end; while those who come on shore are to
use that at the south.—Liverpool Courier.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—On the evening of Monday
last, two men, named Clarke and Connor, belonging to
Elderblie, near Paisley, agreed to decide a quarrel, by
fighting each other in a field a short distance from their
houses. When engaged in the fight, Clarke fell, and
on his being lifted, it was ascertained that he was dead,
his neck having been dislocated. Conner immediately
absconded, and has not yet been apprehended.—Norgh
British Mail.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—The office of in-
spector of corn returns for the week ending last Saturday
was for once a sinecure, not a bushel of any kind of grain
having been returned as sold during the week ; a circum-
stance which we should think is unprecedented in the an•
nals of our market.— Worcester Chronicle.
ORDINATION OF MR. NEWMA.N......MF. Newman
was ordained subdeacon and deacon at Rome in Whitsun.
week, and on Trinity Sunday received the priesthood at the
hands of Cardinal Fransone in the church of the Propa7
ganda.
WORTH TRYING.—A Pittsburgh paper states that
a field of potatoes was wholly destroyed by the rot, but was
permitted to lie over to this season without cultfureo,
tantd it
was discovered to have produced a tine crop
The arrival of a vessel
inwithoutto.
isvi single symptomkier id. of disease._Let this fact ber loaoloted,
PORTUGUESE PRODUCE.--
des of food, is a novelty and
t k
and
if it ever oo place. One has re,.
merle of rare occurrence4Bl
bags
of beans, 29 barrels of eggs,
from Portugal, laden, with oneaerccegmtiostan,neenetiwrehlyichwiNNt.hasartifor:
cently arrived,
ofa that3o caskscoun potatoes,country. The The vestal
25 casks of beef,
to arrived at the port of Liverool from Lisbon, and
alluded
the cargo especially the animal portion oft, possesaes several
features of interest.
117 boxes ofonilloantvs,hien2glprboadrurecles
FITY TFIE Poon PRISONERS.—In consequence of
the success of the Pentonville Model Prison, the "searat4
system " is to receive an important extension in Weet•
minster. Mr. Barry has received orders to build fourteea
additional committee-rooms in the newliottses of Parliaments
--I°letchi