The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-08 00:00:00

A .RELIC OF ANCIENT EGYPT,

One of the last weekly sittings of the Academy
of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres was unusually
interesting. The name of M. Mariette is already
well known in the world of science and art. This
young archeologist has been for several years ex-
ploring various parts of Egypt, and the Museum of
the Louvre possesses many relics of antiquity
which his perseverance has rescued from the earth.
But, on seeing him thus operating with such indus-
try and success, the Viceroy of Egypt began to
think himself rather unwise to let his country be
thus dispoiled for the advantage of European anti-
quarians. As he intended to erect at Cairo a build-
ing something like the French Palace of Industry.
he wished to retain for that museum whatever
Egyptian antiquities might be found for the future.
Meanwhile M. Mariette discovered the tomb of a
queen, princess, or some opulent personage of the
olden times. Near the mummy of the departed was
found a multitude of objects and ornaments, very
valuable as to material, but still more so for their
elegance, taste, and workmanship. This unexpected
discovery was at once designated for the future
museum of Cairo ; but as some of the articles re-
quired mending and cleaning, the Viceroy requested
M. Mariette to get this work of restoration exe-
cuted in Paris. He at the same time permitted him
to show the said curiosities to the amateurs of the
French capital. It was in that way that the
Academy of Inscriptions had the advantage of
seeing spread out for its inspection an almost com-
plete Egyptian toilet of the time of Cleopatra,
Semiramis, or some other celebrated beauty. There
were coronets, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, pins,
rings, all of which, for purity of design and form,
elegance of ornamentation, and delicacy of work-
manship, surpass all conception. I doubt whether
the ablest goldsmiths of the present day can surpass
them. One of the most remarkable articles was a
gold necklace, formed of bees with outspread wings,
which must have produced a most charming effect
on the neck of a pretty woman."—Le Nord.

THE CHANNEL FLEET.—Torbay has been again
honoured during the past week with a visit from the Chan-
nel fleet. On Wednesday the Melpomene, 61, Capt.
Ewart ; Diadem, 32, Capt. W. Moorsom, C.B. ; and the
screw despatch gunboat Flying Fish, 6, Commander Hope,
arrived in the bay from the westward. On inquiry it was
learnt that a day or two before the fleet encountered a very
heavy westerly gale in the chops of the Channel, in which
the Diadem sprung her mainyard, and that with the vessels
above-named she was detached from the squadron and
ordered to rendezvous at Torbay. Early en Friday morning
they were rejoined by the remainder of the fleet. The
vessels were discerned in the offing standing in for the bay
in splendid order. They consisted of the Royal Albert, 121,
Capt. E. B. Rice, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir
Charles Fremantle, K.C.B. ; the James Watt, 91, Capt. E.
Codd ; the Algiers, 91, Capt. G. W. D. O'Callaghan; the
Caesar, 90, Capt. T. H. Mason ; the Agamemnon, 91, Capt.
T. Hope ; the Aboukir, 91, Capt. F. Schomberg ; the Nile,
91, Capt. A. P. E. Wilmot; the Hero, 91, Capt. a W.
Seymour, C.B. ; the Emerald, 51, Capt. A. Cumming ; the
Topaz, 51, Capt. the Hon. W . S. Spencer; and the Imperieuse,
60, Capt. John J. B. E. Frere. At noon the whole of the
ships had come to an anchor about midbay. It was a noble
sight to the spectator ashore to witness these magnificent
specimens of naval architecture taking up their respective
positions. Thousands of persons were, as on the last occa-
sion, attracted to the quays, and the bay has been every day
studded with boats and steamers conveying excursionists
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morning a gentleman (Mr. Winaerls, of IIillgay), staying
at the Bath Hotel, in Yarmouth, with his wife, went out
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be obtained to the robbery, except that one of the ser-
vants had seen a strange individual on the staircase,
who requested to be shown to a closet, and shortly
atter, as the servant was coming out of one of the
rooms, was seen by her to put his head out of the
closet and draw it in again. The police were sent for,
and one officer looked round the house, and of course
discovered nothing. It was afterwards found that a purse
containing £9 4s. 6d. was taken at the same time from
under the looking-glass on the dressing-table. On Thurs-
day morning a similar robbery was committed at the Royal
Hotel, Norwich. A commercial traveller, Mr. W. Crigh-
ton, sleeping in the house, awoke at six o'clock, and looked
at his watch, which hung from a hook above his. head, and,
on awakening about seven
having gone to sleep again,
watching the occupant of the e.
d to see whether he had
o'clock, saw- a man backing out of the bedroom, evidently
been disturbed. Thinking some gentleman had entered his
room by mistake, Mr. Crighton allowed him to leave it un-
questioned, but the next instant missing his -watch rushed
to the door, and seeing the person running as fast as he
could down the stairs, followed him, and ultimatelypursued
him to the yard, where he was captured and brought back
by some men. The watch was found on some boxes on the
landing. The individual thus apprehended, who gave his
name as Meyer Hirsch, a German, residing in London,
and professed to be unable to speak English, was charged
before the magistrates the same day, when one of the ser-
vants in the hotel stated that she saw the prisoner, after
brushing his clothes in the passage, walk up stairs, after
which she saw him upstairs, at the door of one of the
rooms, and again a few minutes later at the bottom of the
stairs, when he followed her, and tried the door of one
room and afterwards went to two others. The prisoner
said another man was going down stairs at the same tii no
as himself, dressed lik himself. He was remanded 'for
further inquiries.—.bury and Norwich Post.