The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-28 00:00:00

in Europe interested in calumniating him, and in op-
posing his struggles to benefit this nation.
" FEBRUARY 19.—1 had this evening another inter-
view with the Paella, in the same tnanner as the pre-
ceding. He at first appeared indisposed, from which
one might hope to have a different version of his ideas.
After the preliminary compliments, I inquired if he
had received any further information respecting the
treaty which Austria and Russia had formed lately in
opposition to his interests. He replied that he had
not, hut as peace was established between the powers
of Europe, he did not think that treaty interested him
as much as it did England and France ; he was, how-
ever, prepared to defend the provinces under his go-
vernment. As he desired me to express myself frankly,
I asked to be permitted to state a rumour respecting
the arrangements of his army, which was represented
to be badly officered, and which, since the Polish offi-
cers, who would prove so useful, had been refused
through the influence of Russia, could not compete
with that power. He replied that the time of trial
had not yet arrived, that he had refused the services of
the Poles of his own free will, that he was not in any
light under the influence of Russian intrigue, yet he
was not obliged, more than Austria or France, who
had encouraged those officers to leave their country,
to employ them. As to the state of his army, he had
that day had a long conversation with an officer just
returned from Syria, and was happy to find it excellent.
Upon my urging the chances of a collision with Rus-
sia, and the comparative weakness of his army, he in-
quired how many men I thought Russia could send out
of her territory to invade other countries, and on my
answering 50,000 regular troops, exclusive of Cos-
sacks, &c., he said he thought 100,000 in all might
be sent into Turkey; yet the Turks had frequently
beaten the Russians, such as in the late campaign in
the neighbourhood of Perna, where even Frank offi-
cers allowed, except from an unlucky accident, which
blew up some of the ammunition waggons, the new
Turkish recruits would have routed the old Russian
soldiers. He quoted the defence of Perna and St.
Jean d'Acre, as affording strong specimens of Turkish
courage. Upon my mentioning that within 150 years the
Turks had materially lost ground, as the treaties and
cession of territory proved, he said, although his
officers might not be so well instructed as the Franks
in the various sciences, they were not backward in
courage, and would fight well. As to the defence of
Turkey, it was not so much his affair as to defend
Egypt and the provinces under his command. He
did not fear Russia nor her efforts. To my inquiry
if he had Generals capable of conducting a retreat, he
replied, that at the battle of Koniah they had made a
feint, as if a retreat, and thereby finally defeated
double their number of enemies. In equal numbers
he was ready to meet the Russians at any time. As
it became evident that he did not wish to be pressed
with questions tending to show the ignorance of his
officers in tactics, the conversation turned on Egypt,
when he said much had been already done, although
the nation was still in its infancy. It was not at the
early periods of England and France that every one
looked at present, it was not what was doing now ; so
ought Egypt to be regarded by Europe. He was
himself an instance of that course ; late in life he had
received his education, yet he had done a great deal,
and if his life were prolonged ten years, and his
health continued, he would leave many things to be
seen by posterity. His family had, in numerous
places, given proofs of valour, and he thought it would
continue for at least 100 years.
" One strong impression derived from this interview,
was that the army is kept up by Mehemet Ali on the
principle of a soldiery without any great chieftains,
who after a series of victories might lead the soldiers
to upset the government of Egypt, and which it is his
policy to prevent. The present officers are slaves in
comparison with the soldiers.
" It is also remarkable that he spoke of his death,
and of his family, as if he thought it a dynasty. He
is described as opposed on all former occasions to the
thought of death ; his indisposition at the moment
might have led him to think on the subject. Some
of the Egyptian soothsayers might look at it as ap-
proaching, but before I left him Mehemet Ali appeared
convalescent."

SHEEP SLAUGHTERING.—This crime ap-
pears to be lamentably on the increase. On Saturday
some villains slaughtered two ewes, the property of
Mr. Ratcliffe, of Boston East. The head, entrails,
&c., were left, and they were skinned in a masterly
manner. —Boston Herald.

About three weeks ago, a blackbird had built
its nest in the garden of Mr. Thomas Savage, in Hol-
beach Marsh, and was rearing its young ones on the
top of a brocoli cabbage, immediately underneath
which a white duck was engaged in a similar duty.—
Lincoln Paper.

A weaver at Barnardswick, near Colne,
Lancashire, a short time since, determined to see how
much work he could do in the course of a week.
Accordingly he worked, including meal times, 17 hours
a day ; the length of weft he actually wove was 433 f
miles, and it is calculated that in the course of the
performance his shuttle travelled 800 miles.—Boston
Herald.

SCRUTUNUTUTURY.-46 Ma'am, said a
quack of Long Island, to a nervous old lady, " your
case is a scrutunututury complaint." " Pray, doctor,
what is that ?" "It is the dropping of the nerves,
ma'am ; the nerves having fallen in the pizarifitum,
the chest becomes morberous, and the head goes
tisarizen, tisarizen." " Ah, doctor," exclaimed the
lady, " you have described my feelings exactly."—
New York Paper.
INTENSE STUDY.—An instance of extraor-
dinary application to study, under the most frightful
circumstances, is recorded of a monk, during the reign
of terror in France, who, with many more of the vic-
tims of liberalism, was sentenced to the guillotine.
During his imprisonment, nothing could detract from
the avidity of his studies ; and, even at the place of
execution, he continued to peruse his favourite author,
unappalled by the scene of horror and bloodshed in
which he was about to act. When it came to his turn
to suffer, the executioner tapped him on the shoulder,
and pointed to the fatal block. The monk raised his
eyes, very quietly " turned down the leaf of the book,"
and resigned himself to his terrible fate.
Turpm, the highwayman (who, like M'Adam,
was a Colossus of roads), is, we hear, a prominent
character in the forthcoming romance of " Rookwood."
His contemporaries ascribed to him the power of übi-
quity, an attribute for which he was indebted to the
amazing powers of his steed, which, like that of Cla-
verhouse, was reputed to be a familiar spirit in a tene-
ment of horse-flesh. Turpin was described as an
Alibi personified, so wonderful were the instances of
his conquests over time in passing from place to place.
We know not what the story of " Rookwood" may be,
further than that it is based on the history of a family
to whom, through successive generations, a fatality of
the most appalling and mysterious kind was attached.
For more than two years past the females of
Wallingford have been kept in a state of perpetual
alarm and excitement by the frequent • appearance of a
wild man, often in a state of utter nudity, who haunted
the fields and meadows in the vicinity of the borough.
Dark and dreadful were the tales of the timid respect-
ing the nature of this mysterious visitant ; at one time
he was represented as a baboon or ourang-outang
covered with hair ; at another the superstitious held
him forth as a troubled spirit that only required some
authorised clerk for its exorcism. Although he had
been seen by several ladies of Wallingford, and a host
of females whose veracity was unimpeachable, he had
the adroitness on all occasions (except the fatal one)
to brush at the approach of a man. About a fortnight
or three weeks ago, as two girls were working in a field
near Benson, little dreaming of supernatural agencies,
suddenly the wild man stood before them in all
his native glory ! As he had converted his shirt into
a veil, and wore it completely over his face (it is sup-
posed to escape identification), he did not perceive
the approach of three strapping fellows who happened
at that instant to be passing near the spot. Upon one
of the women, however, appealing to them, he in-
stantly caught the alarm and scampered off, the men
of course following, and such a chase has not been
seen for many a day ! The wild man bounded along,
cutting the air like an eagle, as though his limbs had
been seethed in bear's grease, the pursuers following
scent like a leash of beagles. At , length however,
,
after a run of two miles, the ghost, if ghost it were,
or wild man, or whatever else it might be, fell ex-
hausted to the earth, and on being raised, and the
lather removed from his face, he was discovered to be
a barber of some standing in Wallingford ! At his
earnest request, the honour of being led captive into
the town with a rope round his neck was dispensed
with. The magistrates of Oxford are said to have
issued a warrant for his apprehension (it hardly oc-
curred in their jurisdiction), but he had previously
decamped, and it is rumoured that he has since em-
barked for America. What renders the whole pro-
ceeding most unaccountable is, that he is a married
man with a family.—Reading Mercury.