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which Riza, Pacha had submitted to them with
reference to a settlement of their claims. These

proposals embraced three categories of payment—
namely, one by which the claims in question should
be cut down at once to 70 per cent. of their nominal
amount, of which 20 per cent. should now be paid
in cash and the remaining 50 per cent. in a year ; a
second, by which the sums due should submit to

no present reduction, but be paid in five yearly in-
stalments without interest, and a third, that they
be paid in ten yearly instalments, with 6 per
cent. interest till finally liquidated. The dele-

gates who attended for the various parties inte-

rested demanded permission for each to make

is own choice of the three
_methods proposed;

this was granted, and the interview ended by

a large majority consenting to accept one or
other of the forms of the Paella's offer. A minority
declined to avail themselves of any of the three,
but insisted on prompt and full satisfaction of their
claims. On the occasion of the approaching de-
parture of Mr. Cumberbatch, her Majesty's Consul-
General, who, it is believed, will not return to his
post, but receive an appointment elsewhere, the

English and lonian merchants of the place deter-
mined on presenting him with an address, expres-
sive of their high personal respect and esteem. The
address terminates with the request that on his
his arrival in London, Mr. Cumberbatch will sit
for his portrait, to be placed in the new Consulate.
A letter from Tokat,in Asia Minor, contains the

following :
" The American Missionary Establishment hero
buildings having been consume
property of a Turk,
has met with a severe loss, tdhe
by fire.
mission
buildings were originally the
merchant, who sold them t Swiss Mission.
by
butrrhe
They
wereoccupied
many years
at agothe
otitmh eeAmericano purchased.th accident)y
three missionaries, the Rev. Messrs. Van Lennep,
Winchester, and Pettibone, the two former with
their families ; and a portion of the buildings was
also used for a theological school, in which native
Protestant young men were being educated for the
holy office of the ministry. The fire originated in the
basement storey of the main building, though by
what means It is not known. There are strong sus-
picions that it was the work of an incendiary. Most,
if not all, of the timbers in the lower part of the build-
ing were of pitch pine, so that the flames spread. with
very great rapidity. Mr. Van Lennep, being at the
time suffering from fever, was only able to escape,
with his family, without saving an article of his
things. His furniture, clothing, and library are all
lost, as we infer from the information we have
received, and some valuable manuscripts and
drawings also, which can never be replaced. It is
understood that most of the things belonging to
Messrs. Winchester and Pettibone were saved."
A Smyrna letter of the 25th says :
" A few weeks ago, an Alsatian ' colporteur'
landed in Smyrna with his wife and child, and.
took up his lodging in the quarter inhabited by the
Maltese. Early one morning, the body of this
man was found in a blind alley of the Jewish
quarter, in a sitting posture, the head nearly
severed from the body, and the arms and. hands
gashed in several places. A Greek butcher, who
was seen running from the spot by some of the -
Jewish women dwelling in the neighbourhood,
has been denounced as the murderer by them, and
he on his part charges them with the crime. On
the person of the Greek was found a large knife,
and certain blood stains, for which he accounts in
a professional point of view ; he does not, how-
ever, account in as satisfactory a manner for the
fact of his running away from the spot upon which
the murder, if murder it be, was committed. On
the other hand, the old story of the Jews employ-
ing human blood in their Easter ceremonies is
renewed by all our gobe-mouches,' who do not
understand that the myth is trumped up every
year in the East for the purpose of extracting a
round sum from the unfortunate Israelites. My
own opinion of the whole affair is, that there has
been no murder committed either by Jew or Greek,
but that the Alsatian in a fit of despondency, to
which he had by the statement of his wife given
way for several preceding days, committed suicide.
The antecedents of the Greek are most decidedly
in his favour ; nothing in his previous conduct is
known that lead one to infer him capable of such
an atrocious deed, and it would be ridiculous to
suppose that some half dozen Jewish women, never
at the best very temperate characters, should at-
tack a lusty and strong man in open
day for such
a preposterous purpose as the one assigned."

A Berlin letter, in the German Journal of Frank-
fort, says :—" The Sardinian Cabinet has defini-
tively declined to accede to the demand of Austria
relative to disarming, although England and
Prussia declared themselves ready to guarantee
Sardinia, in case she should disarm, against any
attack on the part of Austria. No resolution has
yet been come to on the proposition made to Austria
and Sardinia to withdraw their troops from the
frontiers. To arrive at an arrangement, it was
lately proposed to evacuate the frontier districts for
a less distance than the ten leagues at first pro-
posed ; but it is not known whether this proposi-
tion
has been accepted. Generally speaking,
serious doubts are entertained of the
success of the negotiations on the matter."

.LITERATURE,.LITERATURE,I

The Handbook of Dining ; or, How to Dine.
Theoretically, Philosophically, and Historically
man and Co.
considered. By L. F. Simpson, M.R.S.L. Long
Man has long been distinguished as " a cooking
animal," and there appears to be little chance of his
especial characteristic being lost, if we may
.judge
by the important letters lately published in the
Mies, written by suffering
and sapient beings
who bemoan the misery of eternal " dim soup,
boiled turbot, chickens and ham, roasted haunches,
common-place blancmanges, and vulgar plum-pud-
dings. We confess that we have always held the
" stomach" in great respect, and considered its de-
mands as being paramount, especially with the
" superior set." Breeches pockets are buttoned up
in the face of charity—electioneering interest doh'
gedly withheld, and stern reserve kept sullenly 111
the ascendant, until steaming viands and flowing
beakers have exerted their magic influence
over tongues and hearts, and set the frozen
rills of Inman feeling gushingly free. Sir-
loins, wild ducks, truffles, port, and diamond'
studded champagne have wonderful effect in
quickening benevolence, inspiring patriotism, and
sharpening wit; but much as we know of thin
mighty subject of "gastronomy," we scarcely
imagined it to constitute such a deified and
engrossing theme as it evidently does. Men seen
to think more of their dinners than women of their
dress; and it may be a question whether to disap'
point a country gentleman of his grouse and claret,
or a city alderman of his turtle and punch, would
not insure a worse state of temper than the crush'
ing of a young lady's best bonnet, or the non'
fitting of a ball-dress. A " spread," a " tiffen,"
" supper," a " wincing," or any recherche meal of
luxurious temptation has ever been found to carry
great weight with " men," inclusive of Dr. Johnsoof
who revelled in an unknown quantity of lobster'
sauce poured over his rich plum-pudding ; and the
great Napoleon, who fumed and stormed because he
posedcould of t h
not bee
lsoeirnvse do
fwith his
certain
singingfavourite
book before us is chiefly based on the " Physiologic
gdaulaGxoyiLt,'B' of that particular star" in the cuisine
birds.sl' e
T°111i1;
rillatSavarin—and contains very little
of fresh interest or information, with the exception_
of the declaration that it is a " great disaster" fer
bodies to be thin, and accordingly we meet with the
following rules to be observed by the unhaPri
feminines who are not beautifully round in form
4, Eat a quantity of fresh bread—the same day's bakia
---and do not throw away the crumb.
,g Before eight a.m., when in bed, take a basin of soul/
(potage au pain or aux pates), not too much, or, if you Pre-
ter it, a cup of good chocolate.
" Breakfast at eleven. Fresh eggs, boiled or as poacheat
pets pates, cutlets, or anything else; but eggs are essenti •
A cup of coffee will not hurt.
" After breakfast, take a little exercise. Go shopping'
or call on a friend, sit and chat, and walk home again.
" At dinner, eat as much soup, meat, and fish as you lice)
but do not omit to eat the rice with the fowl, macarowt
sweet pastry, creams, &c.
" At dessert, savoy biscuits, babas, and other farinaceous
preparations which contain eggs and sugar.
" This diet may seem limited, but it is capable of gi
variation, and comprises the whole animal kingdom.
" Drink beer bypreference ; otherwise Bordeaux, or ivP'
from the south of France.
"Avoid acids ; except salad, which gladdens the beat,
Eat sugar with your fruit, if it admits of it. Do not ra,
baths too cold ; breathe the fresh air of the country as '3l7)t
as you can ; eat plenty of grapes when in season ; do
fatigue yourself by dancing at a ball.
"o to bed at eleven o'clock; on extra nights be 111134
by one.
' If this system is boldly and exactly adhered to,
failings of nature will soon be supplied ; health and bes"
will be the result.
v(014
"We fatten sheep, calves, oxen, poul c, era „v.
oysters, whence I deduct the general maxim Pce7,ll
thing that eats can be fattened, provided the food is "
and suitably chosen.' "
On the whole we cannot compliment the an•trre
of this book on the worth of his production. 1.4 a
is little of original matter in it to enlighten, ta
much that is trifling and silly ; but perhaps it "":0
concocted on the principle of Peter Pindar's viz"
,---merely to "sell."