The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-01 00:00:00

Guards. The clergy of each place will also assemble on the
occasion.

ADDRESS OF THE CHAMBER OF PEERS AND THE RING'S

REPLY.

His Majesty came yesterday to the Tuileries, and received
the grand deputation of the Chamber of Peers, with the Chan-
cellor at its head. The Chancellor presented to his Majesty the
address in answer to the speech from the Throne, voted on
Thursday by the Chamber. It is couched in the following
terms :

" Sire—The Chamber comes to unite its grief with that of a
king,.with the despair .of a mother and venerated Queen, and
with the mourning of a nation. A great misfortune has fallen
upon u°. That Prince whom your care and your example had
formed for the glory and happiness of France, to whom situa-
tions so difficult and circumstances so diverse had given the
education of experience—who grew up in respect for the laws
and in love of his country—whose valour .On the field of battle
our soldiers were proud of, and whose wisdom, when he took
part in our councils we acknowledged—this Prince has been
torn from, us so suddenly that we can scarcely believe that he
whom we loved to see by the side of his father is there no more.
If paternal grief admits not of'consolatioa, it is a duty for us to
say what ought to sustain the courage and constancy which have
never: abandoned the King in the most severe trials of his
life; it is a duty for us to proclaim what ought to maintain
the natien hi its security, even when it is profoundly affected
and afflicted. Yes, Sire, this grief which unites all classes
and all opinions in one sentiment is undoubtedly a sad, but it
is. also a powerful, proof of the attachment which France has
Conceived for the dynasty which she has called to the throne, and
to 'which she has entrusted the preservation of her liberties and
her honour, Yes, Sire, in this public calamity it cannot he
douhtful•that we all love the monarchy that we have founded ; it
is placed above the storms and discussions inseparable flow the
panic:al existence of a tree people. It is the fixstl point to
which cur rights end our affections are attached. It has new
beceme indispensable to fill up a chasm in our institutions. Our
confidence in the future has been betrayed. Providence has
tops severe towards us; but we should be ungrateful it we
forget how frequently it has preserved vs. It wia prolong for
many .years the life of your Injesty. God still protects Fiance,
to which you are so necessary ; tne Royal child, whose birth
was asource of public joy, will grow under your eyes ; he will
gather the lessons of your wisdom. Your sons, those
sons of France, those faithful anti devoted servants of the Stare,
will constantly set him the example of love of the country and et
the fulfilment of duty. His mother, that Princess who shared
our love and confidence with the husband for whom she for tao
few years was the cause of happiness, will devote her life in
rearing the King of our children for the future welfare of
France. And the whole nation, surrounding him with its love
and its hopes, will prove to him that it is a noble task to reign
by the laws over a great and powerful empire."
The King replied—
. Messieurs les Pairs-1 am much affected by this address.
I.find in it the expression of those sentiments with which my
own heart is penetrated, and a new pledge for that union of all
the powers of the State on which is founded security for the
present, and a guarantee for the future, against the dangers. to
which they might have been exposed from the cruel blow which
has fallen upon me."
Most of the Members of the Chamber had joined the grand
deputation charged with the presentation of the address. All
the Peers had crape on their arms, and on the hilts of their swords.
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THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1842.

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

The fierce and uncompromising Toryism for which
Maga was so long remarkable, has of late assumed a very
sobered and tolerant character. We hear no more blus-
ter about " standing on the ancient ways," &c. ; for it
is now discovered that those " ways" cannot be stood on
with safety, unless they be subjected to considerable re-
pairs. " The Conservative majority," we are -now told,
" of the present and of every future Parliament, must
have its root in the principle of Reform, and must par-
' take more or less of the nature of the soil from which it
springs." -So says the writer of the article on the " Ses-
sion of Parliament," adding in a plaintive mood, " we
cannot annul the Reform Act ; we can at b. st restrain
and regulate it ; but restrain or regulate it as we muy, a
change has come over the spirit of our policy." A
change, indeed, when even Blackwood bears testimony to
the irresistible power of Reform, and Sir Robert Peel
'sanctions the anti-Tory doctrine of Free Trade ! We can
feel for the situation of a Tory of the " good o'd " Eldon
bread. How completely out of his element he must be
in public life, when the political prejudices in which he
was reared, and which have furnished him with themes
for his eloquence for nearly half a ceatury, are
treated with sovereign contempt ; and things are
become absolute matters-of-fact, which, in his earlier days,
were the wildest impossibilities ! What humiliation
must such a man experience at finding himself dragged
a captive at the triumphant chariot-wheels of Reform ;
and forced, by the conjurations of his necromantic Pre-
mier, to vote with Whigs and Radicals—the Devil's
spawn, as he has been for years in the habit of calling
them—in favour of an anti-anon ;poly tariff!! In speak-
ing cursorily of the Income-tax, the writer confidently
anticiprtes that it will be productive of -" blessed fruits."
This will be a great consolation to those who have to
pay it, and we trust will reconcile John Bull to the vex-
atious and inquisitorial nature of the impost. "Why
not Colonise Cabal ? " advocates our taking possession
uf this fine kingdom as a convenient country residence for
the citizens of Calcutta. We have no treed to murder
the natives, says Mr. Gilbert Young, to whom we are
indebted for the suggestion, "there has been enough of
bloodshed," so we will merely kick them out of house
and home, and coolly and comfortably domiciliate our-
selves in the vacated territory. This Idea is not amiss,
but we had better first ascertain how the Atfghans may
be disposed towards it; We fear they will not much
relish a summary process of ejection being served on
them, in order that the Calcutta cockneys may be pro-
vided with country houses, but will be apt to
make the same sort of resistance that the • Cireas-
shins are now' snaking to Russia, who is playing
precisely the samb :genie with - those heroic 'noun-
taieeers. "Sketches of Italy " are rough and vigorous
bits of colouring, clashed off hastily. We should be glad
to see the author's descriptive powers occupied with a
more novel and exciting theme. " Human :!..‘acrifices in
India " is a singular account of a populous nativelndian
tribe--of whom till lately little or nothing has been.
known—who are in the constant habit of-offering up
human victims to their chief deity, Berd Pannu, or the
Earth God. This tribe, the Khonds, inhabit a tract of
country two hundred miles long, and nbaut one hunClied
and seventy broad, and lying between the valley of the
Ganges and that of the Gadavery. From the statements
respecting them recently published by Capt. Macpher-
son, of the Madras army, they would seem to be as su-
perstitious and remorseless, though not quite so merce-
nary a set of scamps, as the Thugs. Our readers will,
doubtless, thank us for the following extract :
"-The earth," say the Khonds, "was originally a crude and
unstable may, unfit for cultivation and for the convenient
habitation of man. The Earth God said " Let human blood
be spilt before me !" and a child was sacrificed. The soil be-
came forthwith firm and productive. And the deity ordained
"that man should repeat the rite and live." The disposition
of this god is malevolent; and it is only on condition of de-
precating his malignity by the cea,eless effusion of human
blood, that the Khond enjoys the ontinary bounty of nature.
The rite of human sacrifice is the very foundation of the Khond
superstition, and all must contribute, according to their means,
to its support. It is considered essential that every farm should
share the blood of a human victim at seed-time and harvest,
and also on various occasions, according to the promise of the
year, between those seasons. General suffering from disease
or the ravages of wild beasts, and any calamity affecting the
fortunes of the A bbaya, or Patriarch, equally call for public ex-
piations to the Earth God. Private atonements are deemed
necessary when any extraordinary misfortune marks the anger
of the deity towards a particular houSe, as when a child watch-
ing a flack perishes by a tiger, the form which is assumed by
the Earth God for purposes of wrath. The priest is always
consulted, anti generally demands an immediate victim.
The. Khonds do not sacrifice victims of their own reople,
for such offerings are unacceptable to the divinity. The victims
or " illerias," are procured by a elasa of inhabitants of the
hill country who are not Khonds; and these miscreants pur-
chase them upon false pretences, or kidnap them, from the
poorer Hindus in the low country, to the order of the abbayas
or of the priests, or upon speculation ; when in difficulty they
sell their own children for sacrifice, and for sacrifice under a
religious system which is not their own ! A few Meriaa arc
always, if possible, kept in reserve in es cry district, to meet
sudden demands for atonement. Every victim must be bought
by the Khonds with a price, an unhought life being an abomi-
nation to the deity. Victims of either sex are equally accept-
able to the Earth God ; children, whose age precludes a
knowledge of their situation, being for convenience sake pre-
ferred. The Meria is brought blindfolded to the village by the
procurer; and is. lodged in the house of the abbaya; in fetters,
if grown up; at perfect liberty, if a child. He is regarded
during life as a consecrated being; and if at large is eagerly
welcomed at every threshold. Sometimes he is suffered to
, grow up in ignorance of his situation, and he is presented
with farm-stock and land, and mitts a wife of one of the'eastes
upon the mountains, not of Khond race. Should a _family.
be the result, it is held to be born to the fearful condition ofs
the sire ; and should the deity require atonements not easy to
be afforded, the father and his children are sacrificed. without-
hesitation.
" Chapters of Turkish History" give a brief tiartr.tive
of the career of the famtiue Barbarossa of Algiers=--a
successful Corsair-King, to %ilium Robertsow has'alluded
in his " Charles the Fifth." ." Sonnets" are by Mr.
Prior, author of the " Life of Burke. The one entitled
" A. Remenstrance to Time" contains a sentiment, the
truth and force of which all must feel, who have reached
middle age. Time does indeed fly swiftly when a man
has once rounded his fortieth year. Up to that:period
the flight of the hours is scarcely marked ; sometimes
they oven seem to flag ; but after forty they hurry on at
railroad pace, and fly the swifter in exact proportion to
the value we set on them. Hence the frequent disincli-
nation among elderly people to keep birth-days, which,
like mile-stones, remind them of the number of miles
they have travelled along the road of life. " Recollec-
tions of a Ratable through the Basque Provinces" is a
spirited biographical memoir of Martin Zurbano, one
of the most celebrated of the Christino Chiefs in Spain.
" Poems oil Palestine" is a quizzical review of a recently
published Pastoral, entitled " Pan," the scene of which,
strange to say, is laid in the country round Bethlehem I
The author might have located " Pan" in the Regent's-
park with quite as much propriety. Mr. Moir's poem
" The Norman Conscript," is in his happiest manner ;
and of " Caleb Stukely" we may say, that it exhibits no
falling off in point of interest. The " Song on the In-
come-tax" is an amusing poetical squib.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Mrs. Butler, like Mrs. Trollope, is by no means ena-
moured of the manners and customs of Yankee-land,
as her present narrative of " A Winter's Journey to
Georgia" shows in every page. And, indeed, we do not
wonder at her disrelish, for, according to her account,
nothing could supass the dirt, discomfort, and rudeness
she encountered in the course of her journey. The rail-
roads were rough, tumble-down affairs—the steam-
boats leaky and ill-ventilated—the inns the very perfec-
tion of uncomfortableness. A clean towel was a God-
send—a clean bed a phenomenon—and when our tra
vellers, hungry ;'nd way-worn, asked for breakfast, they
were told they must wait till " the public hour !"
Truly, it seams scarcely worth while to take the wings
of the Great Western, and steam across the Atlantic, in
order to encounter so much personal inconvenience. A
traveller may be annoyed to his heart's content much
nearer home. Let him take a trip to Connemara in the
rainy season, or to Marseilles and Avignon, when the
fleas and musquitos are in full vigour, and he may de-
pend on it he will be quite as much inconvenienced as
if he had voyaged three thousand miles to Georgia. Of
Charleston, the capital of North Carolina, Mrs. Butler
says :—" This city is the oldest I have yet seen in
America ; I should think it must be the oldest
in it. It abounds in rickety,. dark, dirty,
tumble-down streets and warehouses, with every
now and then a mansion of loftier pretensions, but
equally neglected and ruinous in its appearance." We
congratulate Jonathan on his possessing a city which
bears such undeniable tokens of a venerable antiquity.
Washington Irving, in his " Sketch Book," hinted that
he envied us our majestic and picturesque ruins ; blithe
need do so no longer, since in Charleston his coun-
try may boast that she possesses, nut a baronial edifice
or abbey merely, but a whole capital, in ruins ! " Don't
be too Sure" recounts the disasters experienced by an
elderly Benedick on ;is wedding-day. At ten o'clock,
A. 31, he was marriA—at noon he lost his wife—in the
evening he was thrashed by a tremendous Irishman,
whose sister r,e had mistaken for his own spouse—and
at night Iv; was taken up on suspicion of forgery !
These incidents—we say nothing of their
are dex.Lerously put together, and told with much drol-
lery IA manner. In the " Visit to Malta" occurs a
gre.phie sketch of the chief town of Valetta, and its
cAthedral church of St. John. • " Pope Joan" is a tale by
Peake, founded on the old apochryphal legend, that a
clever, aspiring female once disguised herself as a monk,
gained high reputation for learning and sanctity i . n that
character, and ultimately obtained the Papal chair. we
see no great reason to doubt this legend, for many of the
Popes have been old women. " Hours in I.liudostan"
are an entertaining series of anecdotal reminiscences.
We subjoin a description of a fight between a mungooze
and that dreadful serpent the cobra capello, which the
writer himself witnessed, in the presence of a snake-
char iner

these
of the kind.
Beir:g el,sirous of seeing a combat between a snake and its
inveterate
.EgH
atoefene_my, the mungooze (au animal similar to the ich-
neumon ,
instantly
fight
only snakes, but mungoozes with them), and led
us out into the compound—the field attached to almost every
theho pusearitnven;tchttiments. Having expressed our fears lest any of
be injured by the reptile, he proposed that
the exhibition should take place under an enormous pheasant-
coop of worked wire, which w,,s lying unused in the court-
yard. This arrangement was acceded to, and, at our suggestion,
the snake first taken in the morning was selected fir the en-
counter. The mouth of the vessel in which he was enclosed
was placed under the edge of the coop, and the covering sud-
denly withdrawn. In a moment after the cobra capella darted
out. The kedgeree-pot was then taken away, and the edges of
the pheasantry let down. During two or three minutes the
monster poked his nose all round the enclosure, evidently
wishing to escape ; hut, finding this impossible, he quietly
coiled him;self up, freeing, however, his magnificent head from
the folds, and remained in a sort of listening attitude.
Presently the man produced the reungooze; anti let him in to
his adversary. Never was I more surprised. This was the
first time I had seen one. I had expected to behold a some-
what powerful opponent. Never could I have fancied that so
small an animal would have .dared to cope with Serpents of
the largest and deadliest kind; such, however, was the ease.•
The little ,creature which now sniffed round the edge of the

coop, was abbot half as ltirge agliti as- an Engliah rat, of a it
mottled colour, with small red eyes, and %radii ha+e been a
very ugly animal had it not been for its tail, which was long,.
and bushy in circumference near the centre, almost as large as
the little body to which it was attached. For a time the mon-
goose ran about without going direct up to the snake, which,
however, having perceived its tormentor on its first entrance,
had prepared to give him battle. Suddenly the tiny creature,
which seemed to be little more than a single mouthful to its
adversary, saw the snake, and without hesitation ran at. So
apparently unequal a contest I never beheld. '1 he cobra cabella
had reared itself, and 'spread out its hood, a sort of fleshy cape
it inflates when irritated, and which has given rise to its desig-
nation. The marks round its eyes resembled a pair of spec-
tacles. Its marble-stained scales seemed all alive, as it raised
itself some three feef high to meet the attack cf the little savage,
whose fiery eyes seemed suddenly tc glow like red-hot cinders
as it rushed towards its mighty enemy, and bit it. The snake
dart, d at it, squeezed it, inflicted its dreadful wound, and then
threw itself back. The mungooze was evidently disabled.
Faint and almost dying, it retreated. Many of us fancied the
battle over, and regretted the 'untimely end of the courageous
little beast. Alter limping about for some time, and even
lying down w bit exhaustion, the mungoeze began to poke its
nese on the grass. What it swallowed none have
ever been able to trace, though large rewards have
been offered for the discovery. What the herb is
which this little animal partakes of, none can tell, hut certainly
its erects are miraculous ; for, no sooner did the creature im-
bite the sought-for antidote, than it suddenly recovered its
pristine strength, and again attacked the serpent.• This scene
was re-enacted no less then seven times ; each time the cobra
appearing weaker and weaker, till actually tired out. The
mungooie at length succeeded in caching the monster by the
throat, and destroying it, to the surprise and admiration of all
present.
" Adventure of a Blue Jacket " is a true story of a
sailor, of the tough old :school, who took a garrisoned
fort near. Calcutta., by mistake, when he was drunk,
having swain off from his vessel, scaled the walls at mid-
night by way of a fralie, frightened the Dutch garrison,
who thought that the English had effected a breach, and
set them scampering out at the gates as that as their
short, squat legs would carry them. The old tar then
composed himself for a nap on the ramparts, and having
slept off his drunkenness; began wondering how he had
got into the film ,Alittt.had become of the garrison, and
how it was that lie was absent from .his ship, which was
lying in the river hard by. The rust of the story shall
be told in the writer's own words-:

Jim subbed his eyes. He pinched his legs, and walking up
to a tank, actually drank three mouthfuls of water before he
could believe that he was awake. He then strutted up to the
rampartS ; and convinced himself he was is his proper senses,
for there lay the two frigates, and there floated the union-jack,
for-which be had often risked his life. "Shiver my tanbers!
but this is a queer go!" said he, and with that he twitched up
his trouscis as usual, and shook the pigtail—which then hunt
from every sailor's he ad.
The vessels, perceiving a man thus expose himself, began to
.fire at him.

" Avast there I" shouted Jim ; but, as they did not hear
him, or attend to him, he ran to the principal battery, and,
climbing the flag staff, pulled down the Dutch colours, and
hoisted up a ragged cid turban, he found lying in one of tne
streets. The commanders of the vesel.thought this extremely
odd. Something strange had evidently happened ; so they
sent a boat on shore, bearing a flag of truce, carried by the
First Lieutenant of one of the frigates. Unmolested the party
marched up to the fort; and, as the gates were open, till_
molested t ey tnarcted into it. Not a soul did they inert till
. •
Jim strutted up to them.
flolloa, you sir, what's the meaning of this ?" said the
First Lieutenant to Bunting, in a voice of anger; for it was
sadly infra diy. for an officer of his rank to have been thus sent
off to parley with a common *allot. " What's the meaning of
this ?"

" Please your honour, I hope you won't be angry, Leeftenant,
but, somehow or other, I've taken this pace. The enemy have
cut the painter, and sheered off."
"What !" cried the superior, " You took the fort !"
m nodded.
" And pray who the devil'gave you leave to do so, I should
like to know ? Get on board, Sir, directly."
" Ay, ay, Sir," re; lied Jim respectfully, instantly doing as
he was desired.
In the meantime the Lieutenant went, and formally took pos-
session of the place-by running up the British colours; then
writing a most pompous despatch, in which be recommended
the real captor to be tried for leaving his ship without per-
mission, he sent it back by a young midshipman, remaining be-
hind himself, with half-a-dozen sailors, in order as he expressed
it, to garrison the fort..
Strange to say, his recommendation was attended to, and
Jim Bunting brought to a court-martial, who most reluctantly
were compelled to find him guilty, adjudging him, however, to
undergo the least possible punishment that could be inflicted
fer so glaring a breach of discipline. Jim felt highly indig-
nant at the turn things had taken. He could not help thinking
himself an ill-used man ; but he bore it stoically. When,
however, he heard the verdict delivered ; when he heard him-
self pronounced guilty, he once more hitched up his netber
garments, and exclaimed in an audible voice as he left the
cabin, " Damn my eyes if ever I take another fort as long as
I live."

Richard Savage " exhibits, as usual, some spirited
incidents. The "Philosophy of Oratory " ,is poor, con:-
mon-place stuff in which humour is constantly aimed at,
and as constantl missed. The illustrations, however,
are excellent, and tend in a great degree to redeem the
deficiencies of the ktter-press. We close with an ex-
pression of thanks to Tho nas Ingolthby for his quaint,
comical legend of " Netley Abbey."