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THE SLAVE MARKET.

The profane eye of the Frank is not held worthy of a
sight of the sacred place ; but the Bakschich unprofanes
us, and whilst the negotiation still pends, a Jew advances,
and places his hand upon his forehead with a peculiar
movement, and seems to say, " I lay my forehead humbly
in the dust of your feet ; and then he offers his services
in his case ; if not for slaves, then for shawls, if not for
shawls, still for tobacco ; strictly faithful to the officious,
trafficing spirit of his nation. Franks, however, may not
purchase slaves • it is a privilege that belongs to the
Turks exclusively. Now we enter eagerly; filled with
curiosity and expectation, a paradise of houris. The
place itself is not very inviting, an irregular space sur-
rounded by damp galleries. In these galleries sit the
salesmen with coffee and chibouque, the overseers, the
purchasers, and the simply curious ; and in the narrow,
dark, low chambers, which have a door and grated win-
dow opening to the galleries, are kept the noble
wares. One group is placed in the middle of the
court for inspection, or rather, seated, for they are
squatted upon mats as usual. Let us contemplate
them. Oh horror I dreadful revolting sight!! Summon
your whole faculty of imagination ! Picture to yourself
II rasters; and you still fail to conceive such objects as yon
negresses, from whom your outraged eye recoils with
loathing. But the Georgians, the Circassians the love-
liest woman in the world—where they are? Not there.
No; dearest brother, the white slaves are kept separate
in Tophana; thence they are conducted to the harem for
inspection, and only by greatest favour, and under espe-
cial escort, can you be admitted to a view of them. Here
are only blacks, and with the monstrous spectacle you
must fain content yourself. There they sit. A coarse gray
garment envelopes the figure, coloured glass rings encir-
cle the wrists, coloured glass beads the neck; the hair is
cut short. You are struck first with the depressed fore-
head squeezed over the eyebrows, as in the Cretians;
then with the large, rolling, inexpressive eye; then, with
the nose, innocent of a bridge, a great misshapen mass;
then, with the mouth, and the frightful animal formation
of projecting jawbone, and gapillg, black lips (red lips on
the Moor is an European fancy which reality does not
sanction); then, with the long figured, apelike hands,
and hideous colourless nails; then with the meagre spin.
dle-shanks and projecting heel; then the most of all with
the incredible animalism of the whole thing, form an ex-
pression combined. The colour varies. Here it is bright
black, there somewhat brown ; and here, again, greyish.
They give out no sign of life ; they stare at us with the
same unconscious gaze that thy fix upon each other. A
purchaser approaches. examines them, women-buyers
make their remarks upon them. They are indifferent
to all. They are measured in their length and breadth,
like a bale of goods ' • scanned, tried in their hands, hips,
feet, teeth, like a horse ; they submit to everything
without dislike, without anger, without sorrow. It is
much that the exhibition proceeds with decency, that is
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to the calf of the leg. Now they are selected, bid far,
cheapened ; do buyer and seller agree, the slave departs
with her master and mistress ; do they not, she seats her-
self again upon the mat, unconcerned about her fate.
Say, brother, how do you like it ? I honestly confess
thin the whole proceeding, nothing so shocked me as the
creaat'tures' hideousness ; and that the majestic king vul-
ture at Schonbrunn inspired me with more compassion
for his captivity than I feel for the slavery of these my
fellow-mortals. I ask myself internally, "Is it possiblo
that a Sappho, an Aspasia, a Mary Stuart, and other
miracles of mind and beauty, pan be made of the same
sex as these ?" And, with -great confidence, I answer
" No." For a woman without intelligence is no longer
a woman, but, alas ! I have no more appropriate word
—a mate, and this contains too much of tenderness and
caressing for my meaning ; she becomes' simply unc
fonelle. Place in your mind such a negress by the side
of an Aspasia, and you may perceive, as intensely as it
is possible for you to perceivs it, how far asunder lie the
human families, how wide The gulf which separates two
such beings. We are all of dust, and to dust we shall
return ; but, for the few years which I hue to live, I
am truly grateful to my Creator that it has pleased him
:o vouchsafe me a dusty integument that is tit least
white :—.Letters from the Orient.

ARTIFICIAL STONE.—At Augsburgb, an architect
Herr Alois Steiermann, has invented an artificial stone,
which, for solidity, is said to surpass the best free-stone, ie.,
one-third its cost, and to which any form can be given in
the manufacture. It is composed of river-sand, clay, and f.
cement whose composition is the author's secret. It has
limn submitted to the proof of air, pressure, and fire, and
resists them all. The King of Bavaria ika -given his gold
medal of civil merit to Herr Steiermann, for qis useful in,
vention,