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THE SUN. LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8. 1656.

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OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Patrick Fitzgerald, Charles Field, and Edward Noble,
who had been out on bail, surrendered to take their trial
upon an indictment charging them with unlawfully hav-
ing in their possession certain naval stores, to wit, 55
lbs. of copper nails, and 7 lbs. of copper sheeting, the
property of the Queen.
Mr. Atherton, Q C., and Mr. Sleigh prosecuted; and
Mr. Ribton defended.

It appeared that Fitzgerald and Field were labourers
in the service of the contractor for removing the du-t
and chips from the dockyard at Deptford. Upon the
evening ,of the 21st of December two police-constables
were on duty at the door of a marine store-shop,
kept by the father of Noble, when they saw Fitzgerald
and Field standing in the shop conversing with Noble,
something in an old apron being in the scale, which sub-
sequently turned out to be the stores in question, which
bore the Government mark.

The Recorder decided that there was no case against
Noble, and against the other defendants the case was
proceeding when we went to press.
In the course of the morning the Grand Jury re-
turned a true bill against Thomas William Corrigan for
murder.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AND MURDRR IN FENCLTURCa-
STREET.—James Daniels, George Roffey, and John Green-
land, remanded, charged with attempting to commit a
burglary, on the premises of Mr. Crossland, 1, Fen-
church-street, and assaulting John Seeker, the house-
keeper, were again placed at the bar with a fourth pri-
soner, named Charles Cooke, an accomplice.
Mr. Beard defended Daniels and Roffey.
F The three first-named prisoners were examined on
Wednesday last, the particulars of which we then pub-
lished. It will be recollected that Seeker went
to the cellar with a candle after the shop was
shut, on Tuesday night, to fetch coals, and
that he discovered three of the prisoners in the
cupboard, when they attacked him in a violent
manner. Seeker, nho was sufficiently recovered to
attend to-day, deposed that as soon as he discovered the
prisoners in the cupboard one of them cried out, " Mur-
der him," immediately on which he received a blow on
the head which knocked him down. He rose up and
ran to close the door, but in doing so one of the pri-
soners passed him. He followed him, the other two
prisoners running after him. Not being able to open
the front door the prisoner turned on him. Witness
then observed that two of the prisoners had sticks, one
of whom struck him and he fell ; one knelt on him,
whilst the others opened the door and ran off. The
third man (Greenland) witness oaught hold of, but he broke
from him. He, however, recovered his senses, jumped
up and followed him, and came up with him opposite the
church in Lombard-street, a gentleman having stopped
him. The prisoner was taken back to the premises in
Fencburch-street, and a policeman sent for, when he was
taken into custody. On his way back the prisoner said
"I am sure I was not one of them that was in." He
said it before any charge had been made against him.
Witness received a wound on the back of the head and
one over the left eye, which bled very much. He also
received a bruise over the right eye, and his chest was
much injured. He could swear to Greenland and
Roffey as two of the persons who were concealed in
the cupboard. He discovered the prisoners about half-
past eight o'clock at night.
After the prisoner Greenland was in custody he in-
formed the police who were his companions that night,
and the other prisoners were apprehended in conse-
quence.
Some further evidence having been given, the pri-
soners were committed for trial.

diculous description of one of the many cruel freaks
of Shahpesh in the fantastic punishment of Khi-
pil:—

"Khipil plucked a handful of the nettles that were
there in the place of flowers, and put his nose to them be-
fore Shahpesh, till his nose was reddened ; and desire to
rub it waxed in him, and possessed him, and became a pas-
sion, so that he could scarce refrain from rubbing it even in
the Ring's presence. And the King encJuraged him to
sniff and enjoy their fragrance."
" Then Shahpesh laughed, and cried, ' Chafe not ! it is
an ill thing and a hideous ! This nosegay, 0 Khipil, it is
for thee to present to thy mistress. Truly she will receive
thee well after its presentation ! I will have it now sent
in thy name, with word that thou followest quickly. And
for thy nettled nose, surely if the whim seize thee that
thou desirest its chafing, to thy neighbour is permitted
what to thy hand is refused.'
" So the King set a guard upon Khipil to see that his
orders were executed, and appointed a time for him to re-
turn to the gardens.
"At the hour indicated Khipil stood before Shahpesh
again. He was pale, saddened ; his tongue drooped like the
tongue of a heavy hell, that when it soundeth giveth forth
mournful sounds only : he had also the look of one battered
with many beatings. So the King said, ' How of thy pre-
sentation of the flowers of thy culture, 0 Khipil ?'

"He answered, Surely, O King, she received me with
wrath, and I am ashamed by her.'
"And the King said, ' How of my clemency in the mat-
ter of the chafing?'
" Khipil answered, 0 King of splendours ! I made pe-
tition to my neighbours whom I met, accosting them civilly
and with imploring, for I ached to chafe, and it was the
iyry.raginy thirst of desire to chafe that was mine, devour-
ing intensity of eagerness for solace of chafing. And they
chafed me, 0 King I yet not in those parts which throbbed
for the chafing, but in those which abhorred it.' "

Happiest of all, however, as illustrative at once
of the humorous and imaginative powers of the
author of " The Shaving of Shagpat " is his record
of the consequence of the kick of Kadrab, the slave
to the old beggar who was in reality a Genie so dis-
guised— _ _

"Then was Kadrab wroth, and kicked the old beggar
with his fore-foot, lifting him high in air, and lo ! he did
not alight, but rose over the roofs of the house; and be-
yond the city, till he was but a speck in the blue of the
sky above. So Kadrab bit his fore-finger amazed, and
glanced at his foot, and at what was visible of the old beg-
german, and again at his foot, thinking but of what ho
had done with it, and the might manifested in the kick,
fool that he was ! All the way homeward he kept scan-
ning the sky and lifting his foot aloft, and I saw him be-
wildered with a strange conceit."
Additional evidence of the marvellously creative

fancy of our author it were scarcely necessary to
extract from his pages after this inimitable passage.
Nevertheless we cannot refrain altogether from
some passing reference, at least, to the roc-like
bird Koorookh, a creature capable of pronouncing
any name save that of Shibli Bagarag—a name dis-
torted in its beak into Shiparack, into Shiplabarack,
into Shiblisharrack, into Shibberacavarack ! Koo-
rookh being thereupon chid angrily by his mistress
—" he with a heavy eye sulking, and keeping the
sullen feathers close upon his poll." Neither can
we wholly resist thus casually calling to our own
remembrance, as it were, by the simple aid of their
incidental enumeration—Karaz the evil Genie,
whether as he appears when lolling his huge head
upon the lap of Noorna, she whispering her spells
the while into his " hairy-pointed red ear," or
whether seen again under, a more dreadful aspect
when reeking up into the presence of Kadza, " the
great smell" of the monster being " an intoxication
in her nostrils," and his foot stamping in wrath so
as to shake to its foundations the palace of the city
of Shagpat ! And besides the bird Koorookh and
the Genie Karaz—the Solid Pillar of Water in the
mystic cavern, paved, under the smooth roll of the
billows, with " agates of size, limpid cornelians,
plates of polished jet, rubies, and diamonds innu-
merable.' And the fairy boat of the shell in which
Noorna bin Noorka and Shibli Bagarag sped so
swiftly across the ocean that " the waters smacked
and cracked beneath it." And the marvellous
fruit-tree of Aklis, more marvellous even than any
fruit tree in the garden of Alladin :
" A tree with golden spreading branches and leaves of
gold ; among the leaves gold-feathered birds, and fruits of
all seasons and every description—the drooping grape and
the pleasant-smelling quince, and the blood-red pomegra-
nate, and the apricot, and the green and rosy apple, and
the gummy date, and the oily pistachio.nut, and peaches,
and citrons, and oranges, and the plum, and the fig."
And the Fountains of Aklis, that were fountains
throwing up showers of " gems, pearls, chrysolites,
and thousand-hued jewels." And the China jar of
the King of Oolb, which was brimmed with wine, and
remained so though a thousand drank of it. And
the royal dress of Samarcand, rendering the wearer
of it invisible, like the cap of Fortunatus. And the
imaginary chair of Khipil, where the wretched
builder for one day and one night sat upon nothing
--and the ideal fountain where for three days and
three nights he drank of its drought—and the
supposititious fruit tree, as which for seven days and
seven nights ho stood " with stretched arms, as
they were the branches of a tree, in each hand a
pomegranate." Punishments more tantalising
almost we had said than the banquet of Tantalus
himself, or than the feast of the Rarmesides !
Finally, as evidences of the original fancies lavished
in the adornment of this Arabian Narrative, we
may instance the magical hairs plucked from the
horse Garraveen—" sapphire hairs, with a flicker-
ing light that seemed to live, wriggling their
lengths, and were as snakes with sapphire skins
—hairs that ultimately swelled, and took glittering
scales, and were [indeed] sapphire snakes, with
wings of intense emerald"—creatures of which the
following marvels are then related :

" And they rose in the air spirally together, each over
each, so that to see them one would fancy in the darkness
a fountain of sapphire waters flashed with the sheen of
emerald. When they had reached a height loftier than
the topmost palace-towers of Aklis, they descended
like javelins into the earth, and in a moment :e-appeared,
in the shape of Genii when they are charitably disposed
to them they visit ; not ranch above the mortal size, nor
overbright, save for a certain fire in their eyes when they
turned them ; and they were clothed each from head to
foot in an armour of sapphire plates shot with steely eme-
rald. Surely the dragon-fly that darteth all day in the
blaze over pools is like what they were. So Abarak bit
his forefinger and said, Who be ye, 0 sons of brilliance ?'
" They answered, Kravejin and Veejravoosh, slaves of
the Sword.' "
The sword here mentioned being the Sword of the
Event—the Sword of Aklis.
"Lo ! the length of it was as the length of crimson
across the sea when the sun is sideways of the wave, and
it seemed full a mile long, the whole blade sheening like
an arrested lightning from the end to the hilt; the hilt
two large live serpents twined together, with eyes like
sombre jewels and sparkling spotted skins, points of fire
in their folds, and reflections of the emerald and topaz
and ruby stones, studded in the blood-stained haft. Then
the seven young men, sons of Aklis, said to Shibli Baga-
rag, Surrender the Lily !' And when he had given into
their hands the Lily they said, Grasp the handle of the
Sword !'
"Now he beheld the Sword and the ripples of violet heat

that were breathing down upon it, and tliSse two venomous
serpents twined together, and the size of it, its ponderous.
ness ; and to essay lifting it appeared to him a madness ;
but he concealed his thought, and, setting his soul on the
safety of-Noorna, went forward to it boldly, and piers ng
his right arm between the ;twists of the serpent, grasped
the jewelled haft. Surely the Sword moved from the
slings as if a giant had swayed it ! But what amazed him
most was the marvel of the blade, for its sharpness was
such that nothing stood in its way, and it slipped through
everything as we pass through still water—the stone co-
lumns, blocks of granite by the walls, the walls of earth,
and the thick solidity of the ground beneath his feet.
They bade him say to the Sword, Sleep !' and it was no
longer than a knife in the girdle. Likewise they bade him
hiss on the heads of the serpents, and say Wake !' and
while he held it lengthwise it shot lengthening out. Then
they bade him hold in one hand the sapphire hair that
conquered the lion, and with the edge of the Sword touch
one point of it. So ho did that, and it split in half, and
the two halves he also split ; and he split those four, and
those eight, till the hairs were thin as light and not dis-
tinguishable from it."
The Lily surrendered by Shibli Bagarag, in order
that he might grasp the Sword of the Event,
being the Lily of the Enchanted Sea, in effect
one of the loveliest imaginings in the whole of this
strangely imaginative Arabian Entertainment. In
evidence of which we are here tempted to give another
and a more lengthened quotation. A passage it is
descriptive of the manner in which Shibli Bagarag
went in search of the missing Lily, aided only by
drops of the magic water from the miraculous well
of Paravid. Than which description we know of
none in its way more exquisite for its sorrowful
beauty and pathetic tenderness. Listen !
" Now when he awoke the second time he was in the
bosom of darkness, and the Lily goys from his hand ; so
aosfk that,e a
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L ly ;
ho lifted the phial to make cerataiiin
about till he came to what seemed an urn to the touch,
I caught a light from it in passing.'
and into this he dropped a drop,
and a voice said,
And he same in the darkness to a tree, and a bejewelled
bank, and other urns, and swinging lamps without light,
and a running water, and a grassy bank, and flowers, aid
a silver seat, sprinkling each ; and they said all in answer
to his question of the Lily, 'I caught a light from it in
passing.' At the last he stumbled upon the steps of a
palace, and ascended them, endowing the steps with speech
as he went, and they said, The light of it went over us.'
ge groped at the porch of the palace, and gave the door a
voice, and it epenod on jasper hinges, shrieking, 'The
light of it went through me' Then he entered a spacious
hall, scattering drops, and voices exclaimed, We glow
with the light of it.' He passed, groping his way
through other halls and dusk chambers, scattering
drops, and as he advanced the voices increased in the
fervour of their replies, saying, We blush with
the light of it ;" We beam with the light of it f
We burn with the light of it.' So presently he found
himself in a long low room, sombrely lit, roofed with crys-
tals ; and in a corner of the roam, le ! a damsel on a couch
of purple, she, white as silver, spreading radiance. Of
such lustrous beauty was she that beside her, in sleep the
Princess Goorelka as Shibli Bagarag first beheld her would
have paled like a morning moon; even Noorna had waned
as doth a flower in fierce heat ; and the Queen of Enchant-
ments was but the sun behind a sand-storm, in comparison
with that effulgent damsel on the length of the purple
conch. Well for him he wist of the magic which floated
through that palace ; as is said,
Tempted by extremes,
The soul is most secure ;
Too vivid loveliness blinds with its beams,
And eyes turned inward soon perceive the lure.'
Pulling down his turban hastily, he stepped on tiptoe to
within arm's reach of her, and, looking another way, in-
clined over her soft vermeil msuth the phial slowly till it
brimmed the neck, and dropped a drop of Paravid between