New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-21

the Land Of the Morning fas. sinking into the tomb
Of eternal night Ard al that remains Of the people who
lad the vanguard of civilization are sols aid seai'
tsrbsrc destitute Of present vitality or future nope
Tie Traveller is weighed down BY great sOrr9w ~ he
tresGs the iemFles erected by Osicsen or keeses
and cont lie s,uIendou grandeur Of the pss with the
ruin Of the present Who're lbebes. aad Memphis sad
he twenty greet cities which i'urishcd On the
banks Of Old Me, when Egypt contained s.sAi nii
lions Of people Tie mud OF the Nile and the sands
of the desert are rapidly buying their last traces
And yet in Egypi there more traces Of grandeur han
Greece or Rome boast Of Greece robbed her
Rrue robbed Greece, ana Napoleon robbed Rome Most
~ The cites WI cb once Aoursh-d the banks Of the
Mic in the days Of the ancient Egyptians, were gcnsrSs
BE for fheir architectural beauty sud well chosen shla
tors The ,ombs Of the modcrns IN their pow
cry Of design aud meanneSs OF mater,sh eNince
roro strkincly than anything else the national deoSenoe
While the aucens worshpPed in temples respendent 10
all TIE gOries % majestic architecture sih were IN
TERED in msusoleums 6esigned by immortal genius aud
wrought out by cultivated art the modern' worship
in mud mosques and are buried IN ruie tomos' coz
cred with white plasteT, with attempt az ofoa
unless the rudest figures. eolored IN the most
tswdry toy shop stye lie termed enlbeshnlen me
Egypt the present sad mOckery of the past Ihero
10 be no recuperatve energy manifested py tae
reOte, but all Gesoati0n. ruin death gigantic
past locking with solemn sadness upon the desoaie pre-
The lecturer shifted the scene from the silent tomos
the people, who either ind )enty stleSs in tho a
talism, stupidity fascinated by their traditions. Not
lcrg since the Pasha wishing TO raise standing army in
imitation of his European neghbors He sent hories OF
soldiers into the towns and villages % compel the Cops
and MahoRetsns 30 join his army, AZ the magnificent
salary seventy five cents per month Many OF the ma
ves mutate their persons, by binding their right eyes
cutting Of their hnger 20 as TO disable Themselves Tor
military duty. The excuses committed By the recruiting
Of the Pssh6 described by Ae lecturer most
neutrality-suspicious. every species OF volence al ages
and From the Provinces the lecturer suddenly lant
al his audience the streets OF Cairo and invited thom
"a look around and mark the streets that occupy the same
position ia Cairo that Wall ST does in Now York IL is
their business ime equivalent 20 eur from one 70 three
The surging OF enterprise are not here visible the
great hroDg OF naucers az whose nod fortunes are male
and lost whose whisper railroads are unrlied Ae the
tapes whose breath heaye the huge pst ani
6nnJlae the barriers of Ocean, sprnging steam bridges
10 tie continents OF the anhpOdos-nOne OF these are
here But the enterprise OF the merchant Is conlnei
to Ills eternal coffee aud pipe and some game or other
lie sits cus legged in 'front.' Of his warehouse And
thoy thrOus life without making step forward
i'm. regardless alike Of the present or the future,
is no longer a wonder that EsyPts gl3ry 10 hope
lessiy pact. In the precincts OF Cairo the traveller
may observe tall brick chimney and around is base
carried on a the operations OF sugar boiling and refining
This Of the improvements introduced by the Pasha
here the people employed At cents per day. one hall
OF which is paid in cash. and the other half in clothes
with permission 10 eat a httle sugar when hungry.
BY the bye said the lecturer the Pa,ha has received
great deal Of credit which h. deserved for although
he rotsses 10 aim az the social regeneration of the people,
b. merely them as mere tools 81 carry out his own
selfish essns and although some few works OF puoAc
importance such manufactures &c have been e-tab
lshCd by him during his government they have been moro
than balanced by bis inexcu-abls eruees TO the
people From Cairo, the scene was rapidly transferred
To- the Pyramids, that for more than tnree thousand
wears have lifted their submits 10 the skies and sternly
defed the attacks of time Those mighty structures thar
cost 20 much of human suffering aud torture Tho lee
.urer proceeded 10 describe his ascent OF Cheops, aid
ed by the natives From the summit which he attained
BY considerable labor he described the beauty OF the
scene presented to his delighted vision Far in the dis
lance lay Cairo, with her Offering domes and mnsrets
and back the westward stretched the vast expanse Of
the Lyban Desert cleaning in the sun The lecturer gave
ms audience brief sketch Of the Sphynx after which no
thanked them for their kind attention during his lecture
and said that at some future time, he might renew the
sulit.t