The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-08 00:00:00

TURKISH CENIETERIEs.

Amongst the Turkish burial grounds may be ob-
served the modest tombs of whole families swept off
by the plague ;—these families seem to repose in
union, close as when surrounding their humble
hearths—the mother next the father, and the chil-
dren, according to seniority, following their mother.
These tombs, raised on a sort of terrace, ate sur-
rounded with flowers and evergreen shrubs; sarco-
phagi, monuments of marble or of some more costly
stone, embellish the elysium of the Field of Repose.
A flat slab rises over this grave at the head and at
the feet, the head-stone terminated by a turban mark-
ing the rank of the dead; their turbans being
amongst Mussulmans indications of the different sta-
tions in life. The inscriptions on these stones are
in a style of simplicity and piety.
The Field of the Dead, at the outskirts of Con-
stantinople, and its suburbs, presents almost the
only shelter to be found from the rays of the sum;—
that of the Armenians, near Pera, has become a
place of re-union—a resort for promenade. Here,
seated on the tombs at the foot of the Mulberry,*
they repose themselves, whilst the sports, amuse-
ments, and noisy mirth of the idlers, form a striking
contrast with the calm, the silence, which reigns
in the- Field of Rest of the Turks; where may
be perceived here and there at a distance through
the cypresses, Mussulmans, near the different
graves, occupied in prayer; wives and mothers
burning perfumes in censers at the foot of
their daughters',.tombs ; others carefully watering
the flowers planted there; some showing to their
children the spot where rest the ashes of a father
who was their only prop : in all may be remarked
the reservedness of sorrow and regret, a profound
sadness which cloth not clothe itself in vain ostenta-
tion, and' which nothing may disturb. Not so
amongst the Armenians : in their cemeteries may be
seen crowds of men, women, and children, weeping
and praying over the tombs of their parents, and
the next moment becoming gay, and taking their re,
past on the same tomb which was so lately the objec
of their grief.

This cemetery is entirely planted with mulberry trees,
as those of the Turks are with cypresses.

On Wednesday morning a very large sun-fish
was caught in the river South Esk, at Montrose, mea-
suring from the tips of the fins six feet, and from the
mouth to the tail four feet. Its weight is 2481b5. Fish
of this species seldom visit our northern shores. The fish-
ermen are acting as showmen, and making a good job of
tat Id. a-head for admittance.—.Culedonian Mercury.
There is now in one of the prisons at Bremen
a female, in the bloom of youth, and very handsome, who
is charged with having poisoned sixty-five persons, amongst
whom were three husbands and five lovers. The motives
for these crimes were love, jealousy, ambition, or avarice.
One of the victims was a physician, who, after having ex-
amined one of the persons poisoned, and pronounced the
cause of the death, was himself poisoned on the following
day. On being apprehended by the police and examined,
poison was found concealed in the hair papers of her head,
and she acknowledged thirty of • the murders., Courier
des Tribunaux.

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However questionable the prowess and chivalry
of England, in respect to her relations in the East, there
is one direction, at all events, where no scepticism. can
controvert her decision and valour, and that is h. er direc-
tion when she looks westward. Can it be, that imperious
diplomatic game
and arbitrating England may he likened to the feathered
animal, which, beyond its own acclivity of ordure, loses
all passion for glory, peril, and enterprise?. Or, are we to
unsuccessfully, she is resolved to master her countenance
into placidity before the Russian alone, and vent her wrath
and her despair upon her own domestic hearth, and upon
mi-
litary influence of England, save that part which patrols
Chester and the I'Velah mountains in the capacity of an
army of observation, is on the qui vine to the borders of the
county Tipperary, to keep the Black-hens and Magpies
quiet. This is the bitter fruit of the Penal Laws. To her
own perverseness, England is indebted for those contingen-
cies which compel her to have those soldiers and those
pieces of artillery lounging about Slievenamon, which
ought to be, at this moment, within a day's march of
Mount Athos.—Dublin Freeman's Journal of Monday.
After the proceedings of the Brunswick Club
had. terminated, Mr. Szzree, who had earned some noto-
riety during the Clare election, rushed into the room, ac-
companied by some half dozen persons. Mr. STEELE dis-
played his green sash of the Order of Liberators, and in-
sisted on addressing the Meeting. In vain did flu Noble
Chairman (Lord Ma ssr ) in form hhniteitgilli,Autioslaip3ae,toialrtdhdereitiseeedtin
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concluded its business and was now dissolved. Mr. SzezLE
became outrageous, and a mob began to collect outside. the
place of meeting. The Noble Chairman informed him that
he must not create an uproar, and that if he (Wno! take
off his unlawful green badge, that be should leaveh the
room ; all remonstrance was in vain, and li.was then
the room, when the Mayor of Limerick ordered
.him to be
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and
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put out by force ; the order was no sooner given than
executed, fin• iN one minute both lio,! and his associates
were landed in the streets. Mr. Sreert immediately
outside the door of the house of meeting,
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rabble
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and began to address the mob.—" By the allegiance you
owe the Cagle& Association, whose representative j
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STEELE :—" I am surprised that you will wear that
unlawful budge iti defiance of the Lord Lieutenant's Pro-
clamation,
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3i:lootr:iii%l,:canrsaliiiiserte,ldi
uitinloi
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appeal-
ing in the streets, with this unlawful badge, for if he did
lie would commit him. He was then conveyed by the
mob to an hotel in the city, in the roams of which he has
been all day. The Government are, I bear, by this post,
informed of the transaction, and the Protestants of Lime-
eiellftlonyl attitude.:4 st:rheeLetdTol
i's‘raf.'he.tiole,o'deolfell)si ere! ati:k(inrl'inadin4e:

Casting our eyes over the space comprised be-
tween Chalcedony and Scutari, we perceive immense
cupolas of a dark green, contrasting strongly with
the objette surrounding them— 0
they are tops f a
prodigious quantity of cypresses. The soil h-01)
whencethey rise forms the two greatest cemeteri, *5
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of the Turks in- the vicinity of Constantinople,: at
the end of the defile there is another very extenai ye
one before the gate of Adrianople. The pyramidal
cypress (cupressus sempervirens), of large size, aed
always green, is the peculiar tree of the tombs; it has
been seleeted in all ages, and not without reason, to
adorn the last resting place of man, here called the
Field of the Dead, or Field of Repose. The exha-
lations of the cypress contribute to the salubrity of
the burying-places from their balsamic nature. Its
sombre and dull foliage accords well with these
abodes of mourning; and in the opinion of the
ancients, the cypress once cut down never shoots
again—a natural type of the life of man upon earth,
cut off by by death' without renewal. This tree
forms a remarkable contrast with the sycamore,.
usually planted at each fresh birth, and distinguished
by its smiling foliage, its proudly reared head, and
the extensive shadow which it casts.
The planting of a cypress over the recent tomb
of a beloved child, is a species of religious cere-
mony possessing all the simplicity of antiquity;
whilst a young man, having at his side it watering
pitcher, which may well recall the lustrel vase of the
ancients, gives to the earth a young Cyprus, an Iman
recites the prayers suitable to the act, and the women
seated at the edge of the tomb contemplate, in the
attitude of grief, that ceremony which no one can see
without emotion. After this everywhere hallowed
custom,the cemeteries of the Turks become forests of
cypress, which may be said eventually to invade the
territory of the living, for each tomb is separated
and distinguished from the other by sarcophagi orna-
mented with cippi. There nothing hideous or re-
pulsive offers itself to the view; no parsimonious
entrenching again throws up to the surface the
remnants of out decay; the ashes of the dead rest
in peace. The people of the East, faithfully ob
servant of traditional customs, profess great yeller&
don for the dead.