New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-01
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Fran EyroDeaa Journals receircd By The Tribune.
CHANGES AT Carol found myselfin a marble
bath In an elegant room boiling out the dus. OF the
desert and al the same time, Illuminating on the
wonderful changes so quickly brought ABOUT az
" e. Musr," the city Of victory the stronghold o.
Islam where, a few years ago, the GlaOur dare n)t
appear ia tine streets mounted on anything more
pretentious than a sOw-golrg donkey. Now we
come in with four horses atiul gallop, making more
clatter than a caph OF old, scattering the true be-
levers TO the right and left, unmndia oil their NUT
tered curse and careless even II We damaged their
faithful toes. Not long ago, for christian to be
kicked or cuiied or spit upon, might be considered
rather a polite attention from the favored OF Allah,
whicht unhappy dog was obliged 70 acknowledge
by a pleasant and gratifed look. Now, one sees
the unbelieving Keb mounted On an Arab horse,
the holy turban on his brow, the A" antaghan at his
side and horror Of horrors an unveiled she-dog,
his wife riding at his side And Tor these hesthen-
ish hounds whelps Of Sheitan the holy Mufti, the
learned Moolah, the expOunders OF the sacred word
of Allah and OF the Prophets law, must give way
or be rode over, even though every bris,le in their
venerable boards curl in scorn and hate
Powers Journal.
THE PoET BowLEs The canon's absence Of
mind was very great, and when his coachman
drove him into b ath he had TO practice all kinds OF
cautions to keep him to time and place The poet
once left our Office in company with a well known
sntiquary of our neghborhOod. since deceased, and
who was as absent as Mr.. Bowles himself The
servant of the latter came to our establishment 70
look for him, and, On lcaTniuS that lie had gone
away with the gentleman TO whom We nave re-
ferred, the man exclaimed, in tone Oil ludicrOus
distress, What those two wandered away To-
eetherl then they'll never be found any more 2!
The act OF composition was slow and laoorlous
operation with Mr. Bowles. lie altered and re-
wrote bis Ms until, sometimes, hardly anything
remained Of the original, excepting the general
conception When we add that his handwriting
wes one of the worst that ever man wrote-inso
much that Frequently he could not read that which
he had written the day before-we need not say
that his printers had very tough work in getting
his works into type. At the time when we print
ed for Mr. Bowles we had one cOmposltor IN our
Office This death is recorded in paper of to day.
who had sort Of knack In making out the poet
heroelyphics and he once actually sent i1r by
Mr. Bowles into Wiltshire to copy some Ms. writ
ten year or two before, which the poet had him
sell vainly endeavored to decipher Bath Chron.
REPORTED News OF SIR JoHS FRASKLIN.-A
letter was received on "Wednesday by Mr. X.
Owen, tailor, OF Cross-st. Manchester, from w III.
Ia seaman on board Her Ma esty's ship Hastings,
wing on the Goth of February, the date OF the let
ter at Hong Kong, in China,l from which we ex-
tract the following postscript purPorting TO contain
| news of the expedition 10 the Polar seas under
| Sir John Franklin. The writer says: "Smce l
wrote these few lines, the Goth, we have board
! ed an American bark and she reports that Sir
| John Franklin has got through the ice and IS at
| some island i have forgot the name OF Il. \ on
will bear all about it in the papers, as the dis
| patches will come home with the same mail as this
does" Theletter, which we have seen, is undoubt-
edly genuine; but whether the news 1t brings may
be relied on, time only can prove.
FATAL RESULT or BITE FROM A HUMAN BE-
| ING-Dr. Duhr, of Coblentz mentions the case Of
police officer whose right thumb was severely Bit
ten while taking a man into custody. The wound
healed up very well but a week aiterward numb
| ness and formicati0n were felt in the thumb and
| the index with spasmodic twitches of the muscles
| The next day the man was seized with irlghtul
commissions and loss OF consciousness for few mo
ments. These symptoms diminished greatly for
! the two following months, yet they reappeared
subsequently with renewed intensity, accompanied
by defective speech, want Of sleep, and wandering
| The patient soon died. On a post norton examln-
alton the posteror portion of the left hemisphere
Of the brain was found in a state oi intlammatory
sottening Lancet.
The cuckoo, herald Of the Spring, is bird whose
note Is hailed by every person with delight. Many
attempts have been made TO keep the cuckoo alive
in captivity, and several have lived with care to
the middle OF Winter, when they have died. Mr.
Richard Dewey Of Slesford, has with great care
and trouble kept one alive through the Winter
and on the 30th March, and every day since it has
sent forth its wellkuown note and is very cheerful
and active, although is has been moulting for some
time. There are only two instances OF the kind on
record one bird lived for more than year at
Cranmore, near Belfast, the residence Of John Tenn
pleton, Esq, and died in consequence Of an acc.
dent on the 10th January, 1922. Leeds Mercury
Lord LondesboroUgh has opened his ample man.
sion the Terrace, Piccadly, " a series of con.
versazoni, 10 which he invites literary men. sci.
entihc men, archao!ogists and artists The first OF
the series, on w ednesday last, was preceded bv a
sumptuous dinner TO party Of about thirty The
numerous, spacious and splendid rooms, were
adorned with highly interesting collection of
archaeological and artistic objects Of all ages and
natons-notable Greek remains from Greece and
her Italian colonies, and Anglo Saxon remaipsfto
Kent The rooms were crowded, and the pleasant
reunion lasted TIL midnight
IRvINGs LIFE OF GoLDsNITH-T This yolume
has, for nine months been running the gauntlet
through almost all the London publishers il com.
menced with the iOrdly Murray and, for the pre-
sent has terminated in the cheap series published
by the ndeiatgabie Mr. Bohn. For he present.
We say, because We perceive there are at least
half dozen other announcements from rival pub.
fishers, stating that Olirer Goldsmith, a BIO.
grdphy, will also appear under their superintend.
euce, the different series published respectively
by those gentlemen.
The Bucks Advertiser gives some information
for the nervous" While the magistrates were
in special session at Vylesbury, constables were.
as usual, appointed. On the name Of one person
being stated, q stout voice called out '0h, be