The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-17 00:00:00

JUNE 17, 1846.

SPORTING IN TELL] GENCE.
HAMPTON SPRING MEETING.
The following entries were made on Monday night. The
racing commences this day at half-past one.
TUESDAY.
The Gold Cup. Heats, once round and a distance.
Vitula, 6 yrs-Redleg, 3 yrs-Lady Charlotte, 5 yrs-ch c
by Amato, out of Countess, 3 yrs.
The Strawberry Hill Stakes. Heats, one mile and a quarter.
Barbara Young, 4 yrs-Deodara, 4 yrs-Miscellany, 4 yrs
-Pimento, 5 yrs-b fby Glaucus, out of Harmony, 3 yrs-
Patchwork aged-Abdel Kader, aged.
The Corinthian Stakes. Once round and a distance.
Lyons, 4 yrs-Solace, 4 yrs-Alexa, 3 yrs-Voltri, 5 yrs.
WEDNESDAY.
The Hurst Cup. Heats, once round and a distance.
Vitula, 6 yrs-Barbara Young, 4 yrs-Tit-bit, 3 yrs-b f
by Glaucus, out of Harmony, 3 yrs-Deodara, 4 yrs-ch c by
Amato, out of Countess, 3 yrs-b f by Sarnarcand, out of
La fille mal gardee, 4 yrs.
Her Majesty's Plate. Heats, two miles.
Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs-Aristotle, aged-Baronet,
3 yrs-Vitula, 6 yrs-Jack Cade, 5 yrs-Red Leg, 3 yrs-
Tit- bit, 3 yrs-Ruff; 4 yrs-Brother to Valentissimo, 3 yrs-
Sir Edmund, 3 yrs-Lady Charlotte, 5 yrs-Auld Lang Syne,
6 yrs-Nubia, 5 yrs.
The Claremont Stakes. Half a mile.
Leporella-ch c by Don John, dam by Ishmael-Lady
Lift-Oat Post-br fby Red Shank, dam by Delhi-ch fby
Ells, out of Antler's dam.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1846.
The Liverpool Cup of 3901., added to a Sweepstakes (handi-
cap)of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared by the 22dinstant.
Lothario, 6 yrs, 9st-Wolfdog, 4 yrs, Bst 1 llb-Red Deer,
5 yrs, Bst 101b-Sweetmeat, 4 yrs, Bst 91b-Winesour, 6 yrs,
Bst 71b-Mentor, 4 yrs, Bst 61b-The Baron, 4 yrs, Bst '
51b-
Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst 51b-Pompey, 6 yrs, Bst 41b-Light-
ning, 5 yrs, Bst 41b-Tiueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 31b-Maynooth,
4 yrs, Bst 11b--Glossy, 6 yrs, Bst 11b--Mosstrooper, aged,
Bst llb-Discord, aged, Bst-Hope, 4 yrs, Bst-Aristotle,
aged, 7st 131b-Morpeth, 5 yrs, 7st 131b-Intrepid, 5 yrs,
7st-Needful, 5 yrs, 7st 91b-Red Robin, 4 yrs, 7st 81b-
Yardley, 6 yrs, 7st 81b-Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs, 7st 81b-The
Pacha,4 yrs, 7st 71b-Mickey, 5 yrs, 7st 71b-Rowena, 5 yrs-
7st 61b-Miss Elis, 4 yrs, 7st 61b-Pythia, 4 yrs, 7st 61b-
Collier, 4 yrs, 7st 61b-Telemachus, 5 yrs, ist sth-
Highwayman, 4 yrs, 7st 31b-Whinstone, 4 yrs,
4 yrs, 7st 41b-Lady Wildair,ad3ylb-voleau 4 yrs, 7st 31b-Crim. Con.,
Vent, 5
yrs, ist-The Dart,
4 yrs, 7st-Fitzallen, 4 yrs, 7st-Roderick, aged, 7st-
Satyr, 5 yrs, 7st-The Roper's Daughter, aged 7st-Little
Hampton, 5 yrs, 7st-Pedometer, 5 yrs, 7st-Javelin, 4 yrs
7st-Fancy Boy, 3 yrs, Est 131b-Polish, 6 yrs, Est 121 -
John Goldham, 5 yrs, 6st 121b-Clumsy, 4 yrs, Est 121 -
Mendicant, 3 yrs, 6st 121b-Comical Boy, 4 yrs, Est 101 -
Warp, 5 yrs, 6st 101b-The Conjuror, 3 yrs, Est 101b-Colum-
bus, 4 yrs, 6st 91b-Dolo, 3 yrs, Est 91b-May, 4
yrs, 6st 81b-Chertsey, 4 yrs, Est 71b-Master Step-
ney, 4 yrs, 6st 71b-Badinage, 4 yrs, Est 61b-
Plaudit, 4 yrs, Est 41b-Salopian, 4 yrs, 6st 41b-
Nereus, 4 yrs, Est 41b-As-you-like-it, 4 yrs, Est 31b-Vi-
tula, 4 yrs, Est 31b-Mongrel, 4 yrs, Est 41b-Robin Burns.
4 yrs, Est 31b-London, 4 yrs, Est 31b-Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs,
Est 21b-Rowland Hill, 4 yrs, Est 21b-Flahowlagh, 4 yrs,
6st 21b-Cranebrook, 3 yrs, Est 21b-Burgundy, 3 yrs, Est 21b
-Parson's Clerk, 4 yrs, Est lib-The Premier, 3 yrs, Est llb
-Duke of Kent, 4 yrs, 6st-The Hero, 3 yrs, 6st-Jenny
Wren, 4 yrs, 6st-Poynton, 3 yrs, 6st-Stream, 4 yrs, sst
131b-Princess Royal, 4 yrs, sst 121b-Best Bower, 5 yrs, sst
121b-Sharston, 3 yrs, sst 121b-Fitzwilliarn, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
-Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, sst 111b-Deodara, 4 yrs,
sst 101b-Auricula, 3 yrs, sst 91b-The Slayer's Daughter, 3
yrs, sst 91b-Ohio, 3 yrs, sst 81b-br c by Bran dam by
Whisker, 3 yrs, sst 31b-Tour de Force, 3 yrs, sst 71b-Mo-
rocco, 5 yrs, sst 51b-Lady Alice, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Camera
Obscura, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Tragical, 3 yrs, sst 41b-Snake, 3
yrs, sst 21b-Comet, 3 yrs, sst 21b-Pergama filly, 3 yrs, sst
21b-Finoaragh, 3 yrs, sst 21b .Laura colt, 3 yrs, sst I lb-
Mount Pleasant, 3 yrs, sst llb-Driffield, 3 yrs, sst llb. If
the highest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it will be raised
to Bst 71b, and the others in proportion.
The Derby Handicap of 10 soya. each. One mile.
Refraction, 4 yrs, 9st-Ironmaster, 4 yrs, Bst 131b-Lady
Wildair, 4 yrs, Bst 1 lib-Miss Elis, 4 yrs, Bst 81b-Lanca-
shire itch, 4 yrs, Bst 71b-The Pacha, 4 yrs, Bst 41b-The
Dart, 4 yrs, Bst 31b-Clumsey, 4 yrs, Bst 11b-My Mary, 4
yrs, Bst llb-Patriot, 5 yrs, Bst llb-Javelin, 4 yrs, Bst-
Plaudit, 4 yrs, 7st 131b-Chertsey, 4 yrs, 7st 131b-Coheiress,
5 yrs, 7st 131b-Bretwalda, 4 yrs, ist 121b-Flattery, 4 yrs,
7st 121b-Burlesque, 3 yrs, 7st 101b-Duke of Kent, 4 yrs,
7st 91b-Gannet, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-Salopian, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-
Mongrel, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-Sister to Clare mare, 5 yrs, 7st 6lb
-Sotades, 3 yrs, 7st 41b-Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, 7st
21b-Sharston, 3 yrs, 7st-Alliance, 3 yrs, 7st-lest, Bower,
5 yrs, 7st-Blackbird, 3 yrs, 7st-Tour de Force, 3 yrs,
Est 131b-Lady Alice, 3 yrs, Est 71b-Laura colt, 3 yrs,
6st 61b-Finvareigh, 3 yrs, 6st 41b.

I BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY..
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.-5 to 1 agst Lucy (t)-7 to 1 agst
Winesour (t)-8 to 1 agst Fair Star (t)--12 to 1 agst Mentor (t)-12
to 1 agst Glossy (t)-12 to 1 agst Polo (t).
LIVERPOOL CUP.-25 to lon the field-33 to 1 agst Lightning (t)
—33 to 1 agst Aristotle (t)-33 to 1 agst Morocco (t).
DEBBY.—No betting.
UTT PARK .ESDAY.
The Sutton Park StakosON ~f 10 MMRICES —TII
. each and 25 added, for two-yrs
old; the second to save his stake. (3 Subs.)
Lord Caledon's gr fby Simoon, out of Pergasna --(Denman) 1
Mr. R. Peel's Credential •••• •• •• •••••••.• • • • .• • • • • 2
The Birmingham Stakes of 25 Bova. each, 15 ft, and .5 only if de-
clared, with 200/. added ; the second to receive 501. Twice round
and a distance.
Mr. J. Spittle's Brother to Sir Henry, 3 yrs, sst 31b .• •• (Prince) I
Mr. Ongley's Mystery, 4 yrs, Est Ellb ••• .• •••••• • • • • •
Lord Waterford's Wolfdog, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b
Mr. Ongley's Roderick, aged, 7st I Ilb • ••••••• • • • • • 0
The following also started :—Mr. Mostyn's Stream, 4 yrs, Est 61b—
Mr. E. Peel's Spithead, 3 yrs, 6st. A very close run race. A dead
heat between Woltdog and Roderick for third place.
The Stand Handicap of 10 sods. each, h ft, and 3 only if declared,
with 30 added ; the second to receive 201. Heats, once round and
a distance.
Mr. T. Parr's Dulcet, 4 yrs, 7st 31b .........
Mr. Tempest's T'Auld Squire, 6 yrs, 7st 91b •
Mr. Barton's Reliance, 4 yrs, 7st 31b

(Parr) 1

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THE ARGONAUTS' CUTTER-MATCH.
The boat-race last evening, amongst the members of this highly
respectable club, for silver oars and a rudder, was one of the most
dashing and spirited of the whole season. The distance was from
Vauxhall to Putney-bridge.
White l.—Messrs. Butterfield, Rea, J. T. West, and L. T. Strut-
ton—l. Reynolds, coxswain.
Red 2.—Messrs. H. S. Edward, C. Baker, S. Bradley, and E. M.
Gifford—K. R. Marshall, cockswain.
Yellow 3.—Messrs. J. C. Purves, H. Keene, James Butterfield, and
Joseph Butterfield—J. B. Johnson, cockswain.
Light Blue 4.—Messrs. C. Reeve, W. H. M'Dermott, E. Grimston,
and G. M. Innes—C. Godby, cockswain.
Dark Blue.—Messrs. J. F. Showbridge, G. Gear, H. E. Smith, and
R. E. Cundy—J. Duplan, cockswain.
The start took place at about a quarter to seven. They all went
away well together, and at a very rattling speed. After a few strokes.
Yellow showed a slight lead, all the rest being in a cluster. White
and Red then made play, and having challenged Yellow, the latter
fell into the third place for a moment, and were then displaced by
Light Blue, but the whole of the boats continued very near to each
other. Yellow, however, was not so easily disposed of, and off the
Red House had a dashing spurt with Light Blue, whose No. 2 had
snapped his stretcher. A smart race between the first and second
boats, won by half a length only; the third boat a length astern of
the second. The match was well attended.

CAUTION.—A correspondent states that it may not be
generally known that a law is still unrepealed, which was
passed very many years since, for the protection of the brass
button trade, and which makes it a fineable offence to manu-
facture buttons of silk, cloth, &c. Taking advantage of this
Act, a person has been hard at work endeavouring to extort
, money by threats of action. Amongst others, he has called
upon the Messrs. Nicoll, both in Regent-street and Cornhill,
who are most extensive manufacturers of buttons, covered
with Llama cloth, for their registered Paletot, and whom, if
liable, are so to an enormous extent. The Messrs. Nicoll
have, however, expressed their determination to resist to the
uttermost, and thus put the question at rest, should the
movers in it carry out their threats.
EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION AT BERMONDSEY.—Last
night, between ten and eleven o'clock, a very extensive fire broke
out in the premises belonging to Messrs. Bayly and Son, sail-manu-
facturers. at Bermondsey-wall. The discovery was made by Ser-
geant Middleton, of the M division. An unusual glare of light, In
the upper floor of the building, convinced the officer that the place
was on fire, and not many minutes elapsed before the flames shot
through every window, and for dearly an hour the reflection of
the conflagration could be seen from the most distant parts of
the metropolis. Engines from the London establishment, with
Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent; the West caf England, with
Connorton ; as well as the parish engines, arrived in quick suc-
cession. The tire, however, had assumed a most alarming aspect,
for not only were the whole ralrge of premises where it com-
menced completely enveloped, but a spacious wooden bridge, ex-
tending across the street, was also blazing away with gre:,t
fury. At first it was feared that the contiguous grana-
ries of Messrs. Begbie and Co., and Messrs. Somers, would have also
fallen a prey to the flames. The water obtained from the mains in
the road was found inadequate to feed the whole of the engines ; the
powerful float from Rotherhithe was, therefore, moored up, and set
to work. The premises abutting upon the river the firemen were
enabled to discharge copious streams from the float into the midst of
the flames, and with the assistance of the land engines, the fire was
subdued by one o'clock. By that hour Messrs. Bayly's front build-
ing was nearly gutted, and the adjoining premises severely damaged.
The origin of tile ire could not be ascertained. The police, under
Inspector Froud, had a most difficult task to perform, in keeping the
many thousand spectators out of the reach of danger.
CAUTION TO LADIES.—We have received the follow-
ing statement from a lady who le well known to us, and on whose
veracity we have the fullest reliance :—Having occasion, one day
during the past week, to purchase a parasol, she went into one of the
large drapery establishments in St. Paul's Churchyard. Several ar-
ticles of this kind were shown her. She purchased one, and pro-
ceeded down Ludgate-hill, when, to her great dismay, else found one
of the linendraper's most expensive parasols dangling from the chain
of her watch, and partially covered by her shawl. It was evident '
that the hook of the parasol had accidentally got entangled in the
chain while standing at the counter. She at once hastily returned
to the shop and gave back the article. Fortunately it had not been
missed, and, as far as this transaction Is concerned, the matter ended.
But suppose this expensive article had been missed, and the lady fol-
lowed, and, as inuet have been the case, the property found OR her
person, no evidence could have been adduced by her to rebut the
charge of felony. It would have been sufficient for the prosecutor to
have sworn that this particular article was his, and had been ex-
hibited for sale to the lady in question, and found wanting when she
left the shop to have justified a conviction. One can hardly nt
plate the extent of misery that this charge, even to say
nothing
conviction, would inflict on a respectable family
and we give pub-
of
licity to the circumstance, by way of caution to our fair readers, on
the one hand, but more particularly to show that a train of circum-
stances, however apparently conclusive, are not at all times to be
implicitly relied on. —Times.
SPAIN.— ACCIDENT TO MONTES, THE BULL-
FIGIITER.—A private communication from Cadiz, received at
Bayonne on the llth inst., has the following:—" Idcaiznnotclose my
letter without acquainting you with an incident which has filled
Cadiz with wonder and consternation. This afternoon, the cele-
brated torero, or ball-fighter, Montes, called, par excellence, in this
country, La primera espada de Espana,' that is, The first sword
of Spain,' was caught by a bull in the circus, and wounded so badly
that the doctors, who are always in attendance during these
dangerous pastimes, immediately pronounced his case as desperate,
and extreme unction was forthwith administered to him in the am-
phitheatre. What makes this accident the more deplorable is the
fact, that Montes, who, besides the extreme popularity he has ac-
quired as a torero, is Universally esteemed for his sterling private
qualities, retired from the bull-ring two years ago, but aas preva
upon, much against his will, to exhibit his prowess before the Frenchiled
to
le
Princes at Pampeluna last August ; 'and now, once more 3* Id
the enthutsiastic prayers of his admirers, he has, I
victim to his good nature in the eleventh hour. Poor fear,ei ow fallenl
10t
yn
a
entering the circus this morning, he said to an acquaintance,
joints feel rather rusty,' thereby intimating that he was out of train-
ing. Besides his celebrity as a torero, Mentes has likewise distin-
guished himself as an author, being the author o o
sea el arts de fa popular work
upon bull-fighting, termed Tauromaquia complete,
torear en plaza, escrita par of celebre Lidiador Francisco Montes.
Madrid, 1836." A hundred pronunciamentos might take place, and
new constitutions be proclaimed, without creating such a sensation
as the death of Montes would cause throughout Spain."
11 DEATH FROM A coup_DE SoLEIL.—. Yesterday, Mr.

Higgs, coronerfortheDtichy of Lancaster, reeelved information that
a child, four years and a half old, residing with its parents at Clap-
ham, was killed by a sun stroke. The inquest on the body will be
held at the Union Arms, Union-road, Clapham.

TRAVELS OF LADY—HESTER STANHOPE.
Ely her Physician. 3 Vole.
What the author of these volumes had commenced in
his previous publication, he has completed in these
Eastern Travels—namely, a copious biography of Lady
Hester Stanhope, the beautiful, accomplished, and ec-
centric niece of William Pitt. IVe conceive that in so
I doing he has discharged himself of a very important
duty which he owed to his contemporaries and posterity.
For it is precisely from works of this description that
we obtain the most correct notion of those domestic re-
lations which not unfrequently influence the political
movements of statesmen, and change the whole condi-
tion of an empire. It is from the memoirs of Sully that
we glean our most correct knowledge of the otherwise
hidden machinery of the Government under Henry the
Fourth ; it is from the autobiography of Madame de
Maintenon that we peer into the secret chambers of the
French Court under Louis the Fourteenth ; it is from
the remarkable scholarship of Anna Comnena that we
obtain the principle portion of our information respect-
ing the Byzantine empire under her brother, the Em.
peror Comnenus. Indeed, it we survey history from
the most ancient to the most modern periods, we shall
invariably find that our truest guides to the' actuating
sentiments of a legislator are discoverable, not in state
documents, not in official statistics, not in dry debates,
but in those lively, anecdotal, and almost flippant bio-
graphies which are given to the world by the minor
Rotors in the great scene—by men or women who
have associated in familiar life with the more dis-
Agnished personage. Hence it was that the pre•
vions publication respecting Lady Hester Stanhope—
though crammed with ridiculous exhibitions of
her vanity, and prurient with frivolities—possessed never-
theless an importance, and attracted an attention en-
tirely apart from the literary merits of the composition
or the personal character of the heroine. Every one
turned very naturally to such volumes for some glimpse
of the Prime Minister in his morning gown and slippers;
they expected to hear the great orator chatting about
his opponents over the tea board; they yearned to listen
to his views of contemporary legislation and contempo-
rary legislators, when incited to freedom of remark by
the abandon of social conversation. Nor in these ex-
pectakrons were they altogether disappointed: much as
we might have experienced a feeling of annoyance at
the interminable harping-upon-self in his niece, we ex-
perienced pleasure notwithstanding at the casual peeps
we thereby obtained of the renowned. Premier. In the
travels, however, which conclude the memoirs of Lady
Hester, we are compelled to give ourselves up entirely
to the romance attached to that fair adventurer. Pitt
has spoken his last harangue, has plotted his last in-
trigue; Pitt has drawn his last sad breath in solitude,
in desolation, and almost in obscurity; the great Minis-
ter, whose mandate was so recently the guiding voice of
the anti-Napoleon monarchs, is rotting unremembered in
his coffin. Lady Hester Stanhope discovers that the
talisman which has hitherto obtained her so much adu
lation (viz., Influence 0 is for ever shivered into atoms.
Her heart aches with a feeling of disappointment, and
of pensiveness, and of unusual tranquillity. She re-
solves to dissipate her moodiness by going in quest
of adventures, and to distract her memory by visiting
foreign countries. The consequence of this resolve is,
her migration with a suitable suite (among whom is the
writer of the narrative) to the land of the Orientals.
Of her singular mode of life in that remote region there
is assuredly no Englishman but has listened to some
gossip, or who has had his curiosity excited by mysteri-
ous inuendoes of her magnificence, her loneliness, her
hospitality, and her munificence among the Musselmen.
That curiosity may be fully and elaborately appeased by
the three volumes just published by the anonymous
physician of the expedition. His descriptions of the
rather uncleanly inhabitants of Syria, of the somewhat
unprepossessing females, of the-singular customs of the
people, of the scenery and of the various cities, are
peculiarly lively and as peculiarly graphic: The book
is better than a score of ordinary novels for interest,
and is preferable to a thousand works of travel for the
truthfulness of its delineations. We only regret when
the author forsakes the beaten track of his subject to
meddle in matters upon which he only betrays his
ignorance. For example, he mentions an hospital at
Jaffa, " which is said to have been the grave of many
Frenchmen poisoned by Buonaparte, when he raised the
siege of St: Jean d'Aere." Here is the old trumpery
libel raked up again, and actually thrust upon the
credulity of the reader, after the charge has been su
elaborately refuted by Las Cases, O'Meara, Savary,
Hazlitt, and even by Sir Sidney Smith himself, whose
silence alone would have constituted its triumphant re-
futation. For the satisfaction of' those who may be
inquisitive in such matters of costume, we transcribe
the following description of Lady Ifese,r Stanhope's
eastern dress:—
"In addition to her more splendid habiliments, Lady
Hester had, whilst at Cairo, procured a travelling 111arnehihe
dress. It consisted of a satin vest, with long sleeves, open to
the bend of the arm, which reached to the hips only, and
folding over at the chest was attached with a single button
(
at the throat and waist; over this again she wore a red cloth
jacket, in shape like a scanty spencer, with short sleeves,
and trimmed with gold lace. The trousers were of the same
cloth, gorgeously embroidered with gold at the pockets, as
well before as behind. They were large 4nd loose, as is the
fashion in Turkey, and, when worn, formed, by their nume-
rous folds, a very beautiful drapery. Over the whole, when
on horseback, she wore the burnooz or white-hooded cloak,
the pendent tassels and silky look of which gave great ele-
gance to her figure. The turban was a Cashmere shawl, put
on with the peculiar fuluess which the Mamelukes affect in
their head-dress, and which is very becoming. This dress,
as far as regards the sherwals (or trousers), which (were of
the same colour as the jacket, is peculiar to Egypt: for
throughout Syria the sherwals are almost always blue, and
generally dark. But this Egyptian costume was more proper
for her ladyship, because hersaddle and bricUewersEgyptian;
being of crimson velvet embroidered in gold."
As some palliation of what might otherwise appear
like indecorum, we give the author's account of the lady's
reason for abandoning the habiliments more suited to her
sex:—

"It will be thought by many persons, that Lady Hester
Stanhope violated too far the regard due to her sex in the
resolution she now adopted of equipping herself as a man,
and as a Turk. But let it be recollected that she had lost
everything in the shipwreck, and that even the cities of the
Levant, had she been in one, had neither milliners nor
mantua-makers, who understand how to make European
female-dresses, nor materials for them, could she have made
them herself. The impossibility of getting what she wanted
was therefore so evident, that she unavoidably made choice of
the Turkish costume, in which the long robes, the turban, the
yellow slippers, and pelisses, have really nothing incompatible
with female attire."

Nor can we refrain from entertaining the reader with
a very gorgeous narrative of eprocession of the Sultan
at Constantinople. It runs (the narrative, not the pro-
cession) thus :

"Firit came some dozens of water-carriers, who bore skins
of water across their backs, with which they laid the dust as
they advanced. On the right and left of the street was a
double file of janissaries. Bostangis, with knotted whips,
kept the crowd fronfpressing on the procession. Next to the
water-carriers came a group of nondescript persons; grooms
to hold horses, servants to unrobe their effendis or masters,
and other hangers-on or attendants of great men. After
these, upon a finely caparisoned horse, surrounded by a dozen
valets on foot, followed a fierce-looking Turk, with a black
beard ; and I and my companion exclaimed, Here comes the
Sultan :'—it was only his coffee-bearer We made the like
remark at a second, and a third ; but they were his stool,
sword, and pipe-bearers, who, with the emblems of office in
their hands, passed in succession.
"The surprise which the splendour of these inferior officers
of the palace excites is increased, when the Captain Pacha,
the Reis Effendi, the Kakhya Be)', and the Grand Vizier, pass
muffled in pelisses worth 200/. each, wearing in their
girdles hangers or daggers studded with diamonds, and
mounted on horses almost sinking under the weight of gold
housings. Our ideas were confused by the magnificence
which we saw displayed. And now, on a sudden, the crowd,
which had been noisy and making their remarks on the
scene before them, was hushed. A solemn and really an
awful silence prevailed, whilst only low whispers were heard
that the commander of the faithful was near. Every Turk
immediately folded his long robe over his breast, crossed his
hands before him, dropped his head on his bosom, and, in a
tone of voice just audible, prayed Allah and Mahomet to
preserve the perpetuity of the royal race. Our object was
curiosity, and we looked eagerly for the Sultan,, but could
hardly obtain a glimpse of him. His person, too sacred to be
gazed on, was almost hidden by the lofty plumes of feathers
of the attendants who surrounded him, each of whom wore
a vest of glittering stuff representinigaurcevsplinenudstenasst armour,
otuhre,
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imagining
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ghoerglmeeots
housings, studded with
rubies,raenaddon
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emeralds, and other precious stones, on a ground of
gold, that covered the Sultan's horse, which was a milk-white
congratulate the author
stalvflioen."
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world. He has written with an agreeable
sparkle of style, and with a very valuable brevity.
The six volumes are altogether a curious innovation upon
the usual manner of biographies ; and as they relate to
the niece and familiar associate tt,
of the celebrated Pi
they cannot fail to secure a multiplicity of readers of
this and of other generations.

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HOME AND COLONIAL LIBRARY, IV°.
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tastes of his subscribers ; and so to alternate the
themes
acsent volume, which is pleasantly and
unaffectedly written, initiates the reader into the
domestic life and the social condition of the
inhabitants of that gigantic colony, while it en.:
livens the narrative with the incidents' encountered
by the narrator—the vicissitudes and adventures of a
Christian missionary. There is a novelty about the
scenes described, and an air of truthfulness about the
manner of the descriptions, which invest the page with
a peculiar fascination. We travel on through the suc-
cessive chapters, _now involved in a snowdrift, now
startled by an earthquake, now interested by a
providential escape from robbers, now decoyed
by the account of some haunted mansion,
until we are suddenly surprised to find our•
selves at the termination of the volume, with -a
sin-
cere wish that the obnoxious finis had not to make its
appearance until after the intervention of another 150
pages. As an agreeable, chatty, and yet reflective por-
trait of Canadian life, these memoirs will be read
with profit, ,and, we are *Confident, with pleasure.
As a specimen of the natural and spontaneous tone of the