The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-14 00:00:00

LITERATURE-.

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FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, So. VT"
Block, London, 1841. t
The character of Mehemet Ali—the pri-b
ruler of Egypt—as a conqueror and a legislator,
are incidentally discussed here in a leng.thenean
notice of " Clot Be 's General Observations o,
Egypt." The portrait_ of this daring andeloTl"
Albanian adventurer is impartially_ enough drawl?,
with this single exception—namely,
viewer attempts to find excuses for his treacherous
and heartless conduct towards the unsuspectiog
Mamelukes. " Can it be justly said," he-hit+,
" that the Viceroy of Egypt is entitled to lessiyitr;
dication than the Sultan', at a subsequent peri.),u
for the wholesale destruction of the Janissereg
that the It_e;
at Constantinople? To us they appear
cases." The Reviewer is here widely in
err
The cases are anything but parallel. The gifitig!.
ter of the Janissaries, though it can neverlie.n,(2:
fended, was almost a matter of imperativeot,iiie
ss in
necessity. Things had come to that pa
key, that the Sultan must have either destroYe,a
his body-guard, or have. postponed-to ,the
Kalends all chance of reforming the,instittainur
of his dominions. More than this,
have extinguished the Janissaries, or.tlo3Y-w°::l,','„)
have dethroned and killed
middle'.Course left. for hint ,to &dosed
ferent was it with Mehemet. cle,7• 4
strength of the Mamelukes had bemigefitio7 d
long before his time—for they neyerialeortio
the crushing defeat they sustained, litiitilti'butt,i,
he,must eitheid
of the Pyramids; and what. few: restOurtesillihj
possessed were entirely at his disposali'.. fie€lidcs°
the small remnant of their chiefs:had entered
to a strict and solemn treaty. of aMityittith
and it was at the festival held. in honotti of: this
.s
treaty, that he treacherously caused them all to
be massacred! The monstrous perfidy of
wanton act iS'• not •to be justified. - It•is whoa!,
without•paraller in the annals of modern crie.
" Boncroft's 'History of the -United StifYqr.is
Of
dnll,'WeariSoine article, With 'the- stilga*
Which inost readers of history are a11'641.11".'1-
liar. " Education .in Italy" is 'a
dexterously handled. The - Revieir .justlY
marks, that education in that country slit,.
have an essentially agricultural tendency', for
that . the general negligence of agriculture
in
the Italians, " tends to keep the. peasant
state of absolute isolation." The following' (-Ty
servation, however—the Reviewer is -cursor'
feoittq. for,
alluding to the character of the Englishtivlit,
assuredly anything tint correct rig ti-d
his inalienable franchises, are his country ;ia at
wherever there be liberty, he can feel
home." Not so. The genuine Englishman felt).
nowhei e at home but in hi 4 own native
Though lie is a constant traveller, yet he Dev.e.
travels but to grumble, and to boast of the
Igor advantages of a residence in E
very fogs are dearer to him than the sininl'hil
skies that the south can show. In a word, Jc).de
Bull is at heart essentially a domestic, &el.
animal, and his love of locomotion is lintii,re
perficial feeling which lie can abandon or inn,' an
in at will. " State of the Jews in Poland" ,j 5 ,er
exceedingly interesting paper. The Rcv!esino.
tells us that proficiency in Talmudic le311y;
['gland.
constitutes a kind of aristocracy among the Je ;b!
and that by its means a humble pedlar roal:idj,
tarn the hand of the daughter of some
Jewish banker. lie adds that, in genera!, -"se
tocracy of birth is disregarded, except in "le --ay
of a descendant of Aaron. Walter Scott, itllent
11'
be mentioned, has turned this fact to exc
account in his "Ivanhoe." We conclude wit a
spirited sketch of the personal appearance
dwelling of a modern Polish Jew : e Ge&
" Crossing the frontiers of. Poland on the side
many, we are struck by the sight of a curious rii.7%-'-';Toir,
tinet in every respect from the rest of the Vein''A 'ves
The flowing beards and long robes with hangin"' i?.'ecven
of the men, and their sharply marked features ; the
black locks and eyes of the women, their towering '1,4 •
to
dresses and strange necklaceS and arm-bands, Prertalic
us a picture which, like a solitary monument el ory
ppearance 04,
architecture in some modern city, carries our rael'irki-
many, very many centuries back. These are the w°,ol-
- Polish Jews. They are the best-preserved l'the
mies of the remotest time. The dirty appearance °`
quarters which they inhabit, and the eagerness 's f
which they arc seen flocking wherever an occasirithe
gain without labour presents itself, if associated wit`rie to
late disasters of Poland, will add another dark fc"t%d to
her gloomy aspect. The Polish Jews may be liken° die
a black veil hung all over the country, ferego.- the
other rather illiberal simile—that of lches suelono
life
This blod of the ntrv.
externalco countrast increases as we enter an be
by a Polish Jew, which now, happily, ;:0001
coining scarce. The house consists of a isrge
destined for the visitors, and of a smaller one 3/%1. tg
printed to the family. The bitter is usually' crew`'l,' iiS
excess ; piles of feather-beds are the consP'pc° t,
objects there, but they present so uninviting 035,1`e
that a traveller, however weary, will feel hut; itolay
clination to rest upon them. The design of this "Lsrjtho
is to disgust intruders, and ~to screen riches tinr," ii•
cover of apparent wretchedness. Usually severs,' • 9
lies crowd into this little hovel, which is divided
many compartments, not by partitions; lut limp o•
e.
lines drawn with chalk on the floor ; the society "r,e to
rally increased by the presence.of a calf'resting‘!,7aer
the fire-place, and of geese cackling in baSkets
benches; the representatives of sofas and ehilirs'„s
kind of charivari produced by these singular of
unison with the crying of Children and sc°',Tccieff
women, need not be described ; but we must not Istei
look those rough cupboards, loaded with saver P
rich female ornaments, glittering.
withpearls and .ie"; At
and above all with bonds for large sums of money
the most usurious interest."

CARDIGAN ELECTION*
TO THE EDITOR OF THE VIA" •nstart'
Sta—Seeing a paragraph in your Paper of the 9t''
.‘ That no return has been made for the Cardicran .or,
owing to the negligence, or something worse, of a7fOrY I wring
I beg to say, that the subtraction of the poil-books he .re
to one of thecontributary boroughs is the cause of the do°b 3ts are
turns which I found myself compelled to make. The f,twith
simply 'these :—At the declaration of the poll the ..kbeiy Libe-
poll-books were due, and it appears that Mr. PrYge, t'''jorllY
rat candidate had a majority of 83 at that place, and 3 nici.astle,
of 9.0 on all the boroughs over Mr. Harford of Blair
who canvassed on nservative principles. bp
The Mayor of Aberystwith forwarded the poll-h°
messenger on horseback to Aberayron, where he reoeot
about three hours, and then delivered them to law cent
Mr. Harford's, who was on his during Cardigan freon",,i, new
with, where he had been engaged the day. f" i;the
tleman, on his arrival in Cardigan at an early 110,111..0
morning, delivered them to the landlord of the l3lack
from whose hands I have not been able to trace them.

I am, Sir, you P.
B ob
ROWN, edient serMayovant, r
of „iigati•
u."
Cardigan, July 12, 1841.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 5TM;.,19,.
Hull, Jty
ii
SI al—That the Tories will have a majority in el-all:doll'
Parliament is beyond doubt, though Scotland and the
do their duty ; but as they only return as many Mellihrs Not'
English and Welsh count.es, they cannot turn the scate•eoent
withstanding the unheard-of bribery amongst the old freti.oo-
- towns and cities of England and . give the an, ma'
nopolists a small majority. In fact, theßefrmers hoe „hosts
joity everywhere but in the Enlish and Welsh acietilic
conTshtietugeuneesytiiosnmnoroewigniso, ignorant, andt exposed to arpisetnopeler:aovletli:
tiuence, than any other voters in the kingdom.
h
country suffer the Queen, all
tar to her wishe3, feat
Tories forced upon her, and the nation thrown into colloid g 0
without making another effort ? I think petitions slworgieg
from every community of Reformers, however 503,11' •,!,
her Majesty to dissolve Parliament every time the Orif:Coreh'
tiously oppose good measures, until we obtain a fleu,se °re Wit",
mons not elected by Tory bribery. Ztich as the Tale' -bribe Ø"
public plunder, I do not think they could afford. toit toot
another election to the' extent they have done at this, if
place before the year was out. t it would
The step I recommend may be a serious one, be in scot
be preferable to a rebellion iu Ireland and disturbariefil h would
land and the manufae.uring districts of England, "iice.
inevitably attend the introduction of the Tories into 0
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servont,
A REFOP
ins.-
rte
DEATH OP A VETERAN.—On the sth
died at
Ross,atCulr vii.l,sionn,innert,ptie lo
heinar,isho7fth yearKincardine, Bess 0.15
a his ak,e.s and
hoary veteran foamed a connecting link betwixt mi... fl.
period now scarcely recollected but as matter of histoor ftoYai
entered the British army as a private in the 21st, of I;liti.g
North British Regiment of Fusiliers, during the reign ed,
of
George 11., and, havin received a wound, was di ensign
8
the rank of corporal, in the year 1786, with aPr fifty-fiv.
g
la. lad. per diem, which he enjoyed for the space °Till wit od
years, having thus received altogether about 1:20°1. Jay, a
the last few months he was able to walk about everY brosb'
the writer' has frequently seen him gathering sticks 00.00. age.
wood at the distance of nearly a mile from his lin? ico, about
His wife was the daughter of the
ruinmer of 3t eight);
a century ago, and still survives, an awedgwoman of aWI,, o•hic
His family are all dispersed, and at his humble funerelatives
took place at Kincardine, there were none of his near
present.— Inverness Courier.
.AYll46'''''
M ENDELSSOHN9S PIANOFORTE the
Solidity, in which the organ-touch is I toen
piano without the organ ponderositv ;
his execution to the finale of the ininoret_re3sioni,
animating, but never intoxicating. the ear ;. n,ot tilt;
which, making every. tone sink deep, requires, •"iiia 0.!
garnishing of trills and appogiatum, .0 • oficilv
changes of times, are among its outward se,":, tog!!
ant
hard characteristics ; but, within and beyond all
hard to be conveyed in words, there is to be ram
clear and deep, an appreciation of characterto
which refers to the inner spirit rather than
~slitoic
so csge"l,o-doblit
ward details ; the same which gives
Southern character to the Barcarole and
atli, its fres
tune in Mendelssohn's Lieder oline Worts,
and
Hebrides
Ossianic, sea-wildness, to his overture tot
(" Isles of Fingal") ; the same which enabled! raoscrip:
lion
ott tenl e more than a boy, in the happiest piece
0,3
tive music of our time, to illustrate Shak
,i.spe.r, vx.eca
controi
unwortliil
never morbid, and feeling under the r
Ipcli ire
fairy scenes
without grimace,neith efra fancyfeebly
cheerfulnoreel:hot:lst'
1
not sluggish spirit—l can come no neare
diessolul of
fsaerl ffri
(n.mal
dcici,ianrgacjtuesrtitcheantobtyh
etihre
sslie
b.N.ivecortd.s.
which is
eminently manly music, an
when at, t ,
almost any other of his contemporaries,
perhaps a
.half-ddefillietts)enff;ceD:ebneyooti,,,etrotto
by female hands.