Star.
London, England, 1824-05-06 00:00:00

S2ARRING.

Sampson, the Birmingl.am man, who will he pitted against Josh
Hudson on the 11th inst. rook a henefit at the Tennis Court, yet.;
terday. There was more of quantity than of quality in the sets-to:
The best bouts were as folt"w

n. 11.,Idwin and Gaynor made a very god set-to. Baldwin had
110 denial abot.t him, and Gaynor behaved w• 11.
Burn and Oliver afforded considerable amustine:st, as did also
Iteid and a new beginner. The other matches were chitty be-
tween adventurers unknown to the ring, and consequently excited
nu interest.

The Dowager Marchioness of &slimmer had an ele-
gant click of fashionable& yesterday, at her liotea? rang tor. street:
Tile shfp Hudson, arrived iu the Downs yesterday
moriiiiig, in 21 days from New For k, spoke on 224
April, the ship Pacific, MAzwv.t.f., 18 days from Liver-
pool, 1.14. 42. 50. long. 40. The popeiS brought by the
Hudson contain no news worth extracting. except a short
article of inteliigence from the city of Mexico, data,
the 6.h of March, which states that an arrangement
has been effected, by which sevelai provinces are to
have distinct Governments, the whi.le iii.ited in a fede-
ration similar to that of the United States. 'lle pro-
vinces of Mexico, Yucutan, Ptiebala,:ga7ceartreancaesn,
tGi.uadoniten
laxara, Xal:ipa (and one other), had juii:cd in this kcp.-
federacy, and established their local
. of the ai ticles of the ninon• provides for the security and
protection of Europeans. No apprehensions •ensged
• that • Spain. would attempt to recover the sountry,..

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Imagination can hardly figure a spot which has been
marked with such woeful desolation, and more strikingly
calculated to fill the human mind with wonder.
Daring this journey the scene became awfully grand
and sublime, from that conspiracy, if it may be so
termed, of the elements, which impeded our pi ogress—
by storms of rain and hail, with vivid lightning and
rolling of thunder, threatening to dart in thunderbolts
on our heads. Overpowered with fatigue, and drenched
with rain, we landed at a small house of lava, at the
bate of the Cone, for the accommodation of travellers,
built by the British at my, with an inscliptioa to that
purpose over the entrance. This consists of a couple of
apartment, with a stable adjoining, where some travel-
lers prefer, on account of the extreme cold, to repose
during night in the manger. We lighted a fire, and,
after taking eshments, agreed to set out by midnight,
and ascend the Cone, so as to reach the summit in time
to witness the glorious luminary of day rising from the
chambers of the east, and as a giant rejoicing to run
fills eenirse. The dead silence that reigns in this devoted
spot, shut out as it were from the world, and the terrific
devastation all around, where not an insect or bird is to
be seen, a; e calculated to strike deep on the mind senti-
metits of profound awe and veneration.
After muffling ourselves up, and taking staves in our
hands, we set out with the guide, who carried a lighted
lanthorri. The General, one of cur companions, however,
after proceeding a short way. apprehensive of danger
from stepping among the masses of lava, hiving nearly
broken his leg, abandoned the enterprise, and returned
to the Louse, intending to undertake it next day, and
leaving us to go forward. In the course of proceeding
we stumbled among enormous blocks of lava, which I
tan only cum:iate to prodigious masses of ice hurled on
each other in terrible confusion, in large gullies. Al-.
•though proceeding with cautious steps, yet we fell down
at almost every other moment, afraid we should break
our legs. In about two hours we got to the immediate
base of the perpendicular height of the Cone, which we
began to ascend, when a slight glimmering of the light
of day began to appear. Of all the tasks I had ever
undertaken at any one period in the course of my tra-
vels in ascending mountains, this was unquestionably
the most arduous and laborious. The difficulty chiefly
arose from being unable to obtain a solid footing to
press the body forward, in consequence of the ashes
being loose; since frequently, at acquiring a step, we
slid down, and lost rnoie ground than had been gained.
'At this time the pure air in Inc ;ant affected the lungs,
and prevented free re;i.iretion ; another the std..
eodsv apour, which oh cored the eyc-sir,ht as if ex.
posed to occasioned sickness and violent vomit-
ing. !laving reached hall way up the Cone, I was
obliged to lie down in a complete same of exhaustion.
I perceived below a spa; k of light moving quickly along,
and not unlike the torch of a lampiightof when in full
speed. This t;gnisjidutis is presumed by some to be
occasioned by swarms of flying glove-worms or lumi-
nous insects; although callers ate disposed to think
them meteors, or a specie: of natural phosphorus.—
On proceeding I found rile louse ashes still continuing,
and after Sc, ambling up, and lolling down, thank GOD
we leached the top, when we threw ourselves on the
ground, and remained for some time, complcaely worn
oat by exertions. At this most critical moment the sun
began to rise, and with a glory altogether indescribable.
Most fortunately at this season there was no snow on
the Cone, othensi,e our attempt to gain its summit
would have been perfectly impracticable. The snow on
this mountain yields a revenue to the Bishop of Catania.
The scene around, from this most commanding alti-
tude, unit:lig objects so numerous and sublime, bases
all kind of desciii.tion, a::,1 never could be attempted
by the most fertile and lively mind. Silence, awfully
solemn as the very regions of death, appeals to reign
around. An horizon is untiilded of an extent incredible.
A vast extent of county y, with numerous villages, like
so many packs of cards, are scattered about, and rivers
m their serpentine directions; mountains and volcanoes.
The ocean is boundless, and the islands of Lipari and
Sttombolo appear with their smoking summits. In
short, all nature, nay, the very world itself, appeared, as
it were, to be under our feet

The horrors arising from numerous caverns belching
forth clouds of smoke, boiling cauldrons, and that over-
whelming destruction occasioned by lava from different
.options that rushed down the matirstlit a state of
tusk's' with such terrible fury, the vast elevation of the
mountain, the purity of its air, the. ya!aning caverns,
and the dead silence reigning throci)luot ; 1 say, the
combination of these is calculated t,, stlike terror on
the mind, and shake the tierirs ref t...tyeller, how-
ever distinguished he may .be for coat aad int! epidity.
This place is infioitely more terrific any part of
Mount Vegnvius which I visited. The view which these
rocks presents—b..ing rent and toni is a thousand parts
—the flames of fire, lava winriniz down ti.e mountain,
and smoke produced by the volcanoes :;rouli.l, brought
forcibly to my recollection the terrors l:S,.layed can that
Mount, where the law and cananandmeats de-
beef ed, and spoken by the MAJESTY of EA Vi.:N ; when
ve find that the " Fire :eta along upon the iz.:ntn:J."—
T 2 avds through Turkey, ere. Li IV. Ike li4isbir.