Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-01
EUGENE IN THE EAST.
English Idea Of the Visit and its Re-
suits.

From the London Times, October lG.
The 500, 600 souls which make up
the motley and mongrel population OF
COnstantinOple have outlived q grand
day. The Empress of the French has
made her appearance among them.
The Imperial " Eagle bearing that
exalted lady folded his wings on the
BosphOrus on Wednesday. There is
enough in the laconic account of the
Empress arrival, as conveyed by tel
egraph, to call up the scene with suffi-
cient Vividness to the dullest imagina-
ton. The Empress yacht, which,
owing to some untoWaTd mishap, had
not been met, as 1t was intended, by
the Grand NiZier and his staff OF
officers at Dardanelles, steamed leis-
urely in from the Sea of MarmOra,
rounded the Seraglio Point, attended
by a large retinue of boats laden
with foreign diplOmatists and
Ottoman dignitaries and by a
powerful escort Of Turkish ir0n-clad-,
and steered into the Strait, leaving
Scutari on her right, and on the left
the triangular masses of Stamboul, re-
clining like a fallen pyramid on the
water, with the separate suburbs OF
GaIata aud Pera facing it athwart the
beautiful basin of the Golden Horn.
On through this singular confluence
OF three seas, in sight of a panorama
Of towers, dOmes and expresses, con-
stituting the most picturesque site in
the WOrld-On glided the imperial
lady from the West past all the splen-
dor and quaintness of that Eastern
scene, till the Aigle came to her moor
ingS at the Beglerbeg Palace, the En-
press appointed residence, beyond
Scutari, and nearly opposite to the
SuItan's own abode of Dolmabach-
tsche. AT Beglerbeg the Empress was
received by the Sultan in a caique,
also specially constructed for his
guests use, a forty-barred barge sur
mounted by a canopy, at the mere
fringe and tassels OF which two hun
dred Turkish women, skilled in golden
embroidery, have been at work for
months, and with a massive silver
dove at the prov, concerning the
weight and value OF which almost ia
bulOus accounts are given. There
was sensation enough even for an
Empress. AS the countenance of the
Empress beamed with her acknOwl-
edgments of the chant with Wkich the
Catholic schoolgirls greeted her
their shrill hymns strangely blending
with the boom of the salute gun from
the Seven Towers and the Admiral
frigate-as she leaned on the arm ten
dered by the Sultan, in gallant COM
pliance with European usage-as she,
after sunset, gazed on the blaze OF
light, from every mast and from
every minaret, a blaze spreading all
the distance from the Sea of MarmOra
to the Black Sea, an illumination, we
are told, OutdOing everything that
Paris, or even Rome, ever exhibited
who can tell how busy the Imperial
lady's mind may have been with the
contrast between that gorgeous reality
and the Arabian Nights dreams of
her whole lifetime, between the living
evidence OF Mussulman pomp and
power before her and the dim recollec-
tions of that same Mussulman magnifi-
cence cumbering the ground with its
wreck on the nights of her own native
Granada?
## But however disastrous
may be the immediate effects of the
too generous hospitality of those Eas-
tern potentates on their exhausted |
treasures, and whatever influence !
their boundless prodigality may have |
in sinking their funds in the European |
money markets, it would not be right |
to account their improvidence as mere |
dead loss to their subjects. No tri-
fling amount of Western gold will /
find its way into the tills of shop and I
at Eastern bazarsj and, |
what is gilmore moment, full tide of
Western life, both industrial and in
will flow into those COM
stagnant pools of Stamboul |
and Cairo. Already the necessity of /
a free ingress to the Aigle I
had been the occasion for opening the I
Dardanelles and Bosphorous for night /
navigation to all the merchant vessels
of the world, and it is not unlikely |
that the light of the animated coun-
tenance OF the Empress Eugene, as
with her ladies Of honor she paid her
visit to the Sultana Valide and the |
other secluded inmates of the Serag- |
lilo, may determine a revolution which |
has long been maturing--a reYolu- /
ton which is to do away with the |
mystery and coquetry Of,the Vash-
mack, and to allow Eastern beauty to |
shine forth in its unveiled briIliancy
in the sunlight.
" My DEAR inquired young wife
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