The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

A BRIDAL SUPPER.

After another half-hour of grim anecdote we descended
en masse to the courtyard and ranged ourselves rovind one
long supper table, my friend and self being placed. in the
seats of honour, opposite the bride. In deference to our
European tastes (as our Jewish friend informed us) a knife
and fork had been placed for each of us, the rest; of the
company not caring for superfluities of the sort. Then
commenced the repast. Olives stewed in a peculiar manner,
whereby the original villainy of their taste was much en-
hanced, were handed round, and a few dozens heaped on
my plate by the assiduity, of my hospitable friend. The
flavour of the first I tasted had a striking restimblance to
bad sea- water, and to swallow another seemed tto be a hope-
less idea—so I had nothiug to do but to stare hard at my
plate and lift my fork occasionally to my mouth as though
I were enjoying them beyond measure. Howevt Ir, my en-
tertainer saw through the shallowness of the artifice, and
asked tee rather sharply if I considered the olives unclean.
I assured him that I had no such prejudice, but on
the contrary was merely refraining from in'tdulging
too much in them lest they might spoil my ,appetite
for another course. He looked dubiously at me, and
dishes of boiled fish being placed on the table, Heemed
determined to test the truth of my assertions by vetting
about half a pound thereof before me. The flavour—if
flavour there had ever been—was entirely boiled out, and as
there was neither sauce nor bread I doubt whether it were
even preferable to those disgusting olives. However set
to with a good grace and devoured at least half the plate-
ful, and immediately after that a fabulous quantity of fowl
stewed literally to rags. The ladies seemed to enjoy the
meal uncommonly, taking huge pieces of fish. with the
henna'd tips of their bejewelled fingers, and tearing the
flesh of the fowls from the bones with their teeth as raven-
ously as a set of half •starved cats. The bride herself seized
a leg, gnawed it a little, and finding it not to her taste
handed it to a younger sister who sat next her, and who
was already busy over a wing. The morsel, however, not
appearing remarkably tempting to the latter young lady-she
threw it back to the bride, and a prettylittle altercation en-
sued, the result of which was that the mutilated member
was jerked across the table towards my plate, and there left
for the remainder of the repast—an object, as may be
imagined, by no means provocative of further appetite.
After the fowls I entirely lost my reckoning among the
weird dishes which were placed one after the other with
terrible swiftness on the table, and found it impossible to
tell at length whether it was of flesh or fish that I was the
unhappy partaker. How truly fortunate was Sancho Pan=
as the dishes were snatched away one by one ere he
had time to taste of them. Oh, for a medical attend-
ant such as his, behind me 1 A peculiar kind of herb
soup concluded the entertainment, and I rose to take
my leave—convinced by the symptoms of indigestion
which hung about me days afterwards that, like Lord
Mauleverer, the terrible supper had completely " got into
my system."

A JEW OUTWITTED.
It was in one of these bazaars that a Jew out-Jewel
himself, and got "sold" in so delicious a manner that I
cannot help giving the benefit of it to the courteous read.er.
Not very long ago, a tough old Zouave stalked along be-
tween the rows of opposition "stalls" with a face indicative
jingled thirty francs
in his hand, and eyed the faces of the merchants in the
of unusual distress and anxiety. He
same manner in which Uncle Tom was supposed to have
scrutinised the countenance of his probable master at the
slave auction. At length he announced in a loud tone of
voice that he had borrowed some money of some one in the
bazaar,whose facehe could not recollect, and was anxious to
identify the lender in order that he might pay him his due.
No one put forward a claim, and a second time he repeated
the announcement. At length a Jew, issuing from the re-
ceases of a dark shop, approached him, and represented him-
self as having advanced the money, the circumstance
having escaped his memory till that moment. The Zouave,
poor fellow I seemed perfectly overcome with the idea of
being honest for once in his life, and immediately trans-
ferred the "vital metal" into the palm of the Israelite, who
passed a high eulogium on his probity. When he had
fairly pocketted it, in the presence of the crowd, which of
course assembled at so unusual an occurrence, the Zouave
coolly asked for the watch which he alleged to have given
in pawn for the money. The Jew, wrapt in ecstaoy most
robably at the idea of finding one righteous man in this
honest world, appeared not to heed the last demand,
toned slowly on his heel. But the Zouave repeated it
will rather a menacing gesture, and the crowd, too, joined
honest
in the debate. The descendant of the Patriarchs
changed
colour, and stammered mostdolefully—a defect which is no
joke in Arabic—attempting, at the same time, to slink back
ggedfionfdinthgehi soldiermself t
again into his shop. But the Zouave was no man of straw,
and the Jew,
be sorry," to
oe centre of
him to a spot
f a very unpleasant
circle, be
where they could be alone and adjust matters. " I should
said he, " to deprive you a your watch, as your
intentions seem to be so honourable, but, at the same time,
it is difficult during the multifarious transactions in which
I am generally engaged to lay my hand on it at once."
Quid multi ? The Zouave walked away with hush-money
that jingled to the tune of a couple of hundred francs, and
won besides a large bet which he had offerei to a comrade,
who never suspected that a Jew could be such a fool as to
claim a fictitious debt in inn brunt of the public gaze. Alas,
poor Levi!

T.HIS DAY'S MARRETAK

HAY MARKETS,

do., 9,nd straw, £1 105 to £1 16s per load.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 108 to £5 15s Od ; clover
Trade
e 3
flirt
.t o Os;
_ _ _

M:a 0117 and straw, £1 103 to 18s
steady£6
-6 O
demand. hay' £2 10s to £5 15s ;
per load.
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3E RAILO I Nt •
WHITECgAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 10s to £5 12s Od;
clove',
da Trade steady .s to a Os Od; and straw,
£1 105 to £1 165-
"ka.