The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-12
[TRASsLATIoss FOR THE UNIoS.l
The Sultan Abdul Me dtid.


[From Lamartine, in La Prose-, Paris, August 2al
The Sultan Abdul Medjid is young man, twenty. six
or twenty years DID, with expression ripper than
his age In figure he is TALL plant. elegant and grace
full he carries his head with that dignity and that fex
bty of attitude which admire much in the Greek
statues which give length TO the neck and oval pro-
portion TO the face His features regular and sweet
his brow elevated his eyes blue, his eyebrows arcbed
as in the Caucasian races, his nose straight without
rgidty his lips parted and little open, his chn-tha
foundation OF character in the human face-6rm and well
set, the ensemble noble, proud, but sweetened by sen
ment of calm superiority which has greater desire to be
loved than to be imposing; little youthful tmidy in
his look little melancholy spread in light clouds
his features; little assitude in his attitude, like
who has suffered or thought before his time But that
which governs all is sort OF gravity profoundly sens
tive pensive and the expression OF who carries
something holy towards the people, who carries before
God and who feels the sancity and weight OF his bur-
den total absence OF lghness and youhfulness in his
hysognomy the statue OF young Ponf more than OF
young sovereign
See in reality the portrait OF Abdul Med, such one
of Van Dyckes who, If he had lived in day. would
have impressed il uIpn the canvass-such as he would
have painted doubtless, Don Carlos governed by the ia
tai shadow Of Philip II, and afflicted with dismal pre-
sentiment This eountenance inspires certain sweet
compassion We say to ourselves see man dedicated to
the supreme power, who is young, beautiful all power
full who will be great without doubt never iree never
his mind relaxed, never happy We feel disposition
10 love and pity him for in his greatness he feels
sbly his responsibility. Every in his empire is per-
mtted to be young except him. He rose from the cradle
TO the throne,
His costume was simple, modest, grave; his person
was nevertheless imposing: tunc OF brown cloth with
out folds falling 10 his knees the neck uncovered pan
falcons Of linen lying in large paits over black half
boots a sabre without ornament at the handle His
brow alone would have revealed him in a crowd.
Russis
From La Presse, OF date Angus, "a, we read (coped
from the Gazette de Tieste that, by the news from Tur
kew there appears to doubt that since the year
the Russians have lost than they have gained in the
Caucasus Up TO this epoch, in effect the Circassians
(peope of the mountains OF the Wes were entirely sep
ara,ed from the tribes OF the East the fischer
Lesghans, and Daghestanians. in spite OF the overtues
that Schamyl had made to them join him but since
then il would appear that they have changed their opn
ion and made common with Schamy to the great
loss of the Russian armies. We know, also, that the
have attacked with the strongest forts
of the Russians upon the coast
The Gazette dAugsbourg says: According to the
last ne WIS from Caucasus the Russians have completely
lost the left bank OF the Kuban and have been forced to
abandon IL with loss lbs an immense advantage for
the fischer. Kerses."
The National Gazette OF Berlin says; eve know
that manifesto Of the Emperor Of Russia dated the i4h
july orders the raising OF recruits in the kingdom OF Po
land and that the three governments OF the East will
raise ten men from every thousand souls OF The population
In consequence Of this which is now being pu,
in execution such great number Of fugves coming
over the frontier OF Prussan Poland. that the superior
pesden, OF the province OF Posen has addressed the gov
eminent for instructions to what measures he should
take"