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be found placed on a table in a spacious chamber, to which
all have access, and where it is usual for individuals to
enter and read aloud. Altogether their divine worship is
characterised by simplicity. At evening they commonly
offer up a short prayer, whereupon they practise exer-
cises, having reference to their warlike life ; grasping their
swords violently with both bands, they petition their
Gooroo for victory and the propagation of their faith.
The wives of the chiefs live in close seclusion, but the
few who have been seen by Europeans are of extraordi-
nary beauty ; they wear high conical caps, richly embroi-
dered in gold, and ornamented with precious stories and
pearls ; they also wear trousers, a short tunic open in
fron', and a shawl lightly thrown over the shoulders and
bosom. Morality and chastity ate neither observed by
them nor expected from them : it is not unusual for one
woman to belong to several brothers. Thus it has often
happened that the soldiers of Generals Ventura and Allard
have requested leave of a`isence, on the plea that their
brothers' wives were solitary, and that fraternal duty
compelled them to keep them company until their brothers
return.— Translated from the " Briefe aus Morgenland."

GEORGE CANNING'S FIRST POLITICAL BIAS.-At
Eton he first discovered a political bias. The boy was an
ardent Whig. His noble poem on " The Slavery of
Greece," in one of the early numbers of the "Microcosm,"
shows that he inherited his father's principles, which he
knew how to set off with a higher grace. But he gave a
more practical proof of his opinions on the occasion of a
contested election for Windsor, when he threw himself
boldly upon the popular tumult in opposition to the court
nominee. There was no mistake here. Students who
are visited in their dreams by visions of Marathon and
Toer nopylm, must not be held too strictly responsible for
their classical enthusiasm, if it lean (as it always does !)
towards the side cf public liberty ; but here is a question
of the day, between might and right—into which forms
such struggles, at that time, but too plainly resolved
themselves. And the young politician, with the whole
collected force of his mind, was found battling on the side
of the people; speaking, huzzaing, swelling the shout and
chorus of the weaker party, which, being the weaker, is
generally the first chosen of generous and heroic natures.
But how could it be otherwise ? His education had all
along been superintended by his uncle, one of the most
zealous liberals of the day. His Eton, and afterwards his
Oxford vacations, were passed either at his uncle's, or at
Mr. Crewe's, or Mr. Legh's, of Cheshire, or amongst the
Sheridans—all of the same colour. What politics was he
likely to hear in such circles ?—or where could they have
been so temptingly presented to his imagination ? His
progress, too. was watched with daily interest by Fox,
wto calculated upon attaching him to the Whigs ; and he
was already looked upon with such confidence as their
legitimate property, that Sheridan absolutely announced
his coming in the House of Commons.—Bell's Life of
Canning.