The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-01-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LEPERS IN JERUSALEM. harpsichord, believing the time had been altered from supposed to have had a considerable sum of money on his fast to slow, slackened its pace ; and the flute, entertain- person, was missing, and has not since been heard of, —4,-- ing a different opinion, went away at double speed. Such though every effort was made at the time to discover the (FROM THE DIARY OF AN AMERICAN TRAVELLER, a strange medley was never heard before; nevertheless, cause of his sudden disappearance. On the day when he In my rambles about Jerusalem, I passed through the the king was seen leaning forward, with his eyes fixed on was last seen he had been collecting the rents of some quarter of the Lepers. Apart from the interest attached the music, evidently too absorbed in his own performance property, and it was supposed that he had been murdered to this unfortunate class of beings (arising from the to heed the confusion that distracted the audience, and and buried. After a lapse of time his property was difrequent allusion made to them in the Scripture,) there is made the other musicians feel extremely uncomfortable. vided amongst his relatives, and by degrees the affair be. much in their appearance and mode of life to attract The Duke of Newcastle, a studious courtier, knew not came almost forgotten. Some short time since, a labourattention, and enlist the sympathy of the stranger. Dirt what to do ;he played a few notes here and there, whis- ing man resident in Tranmere, and yclept "The Admiral," and diseases go revoltingly together here ; gaunt famine pered to the Duke of Devonshire, nudged Philip Dormer, dreamt for three successive nights, so it is said, that he stalks through the streets; a constant cry of suffering whose blowing had become desperate; he glanced at the saw the murderer of Mr. Green and the place where that swells upon the dead air, and sin broods darkly over the music of the princess, without obtaining any clue to the gentleman's remains were buried. He mentioned the ruin it has wrought in that gloomy and ill.fatea spot. cause of the inextricable disorder ; but still he plied on, fact to a neighbouring clergyman, who paid but little Wasted forms sit in the doorways ; faces covered with knowing that matters could not be worse than they were. attention to it, but so strongly was the man impressed white scales and sightless eyes are turned upwards ; The king, at last, brought the concert suddenly to a close, with the truth of his dream, that he began digging about skeleton arms, distorted and fetid with the ravages oby finding himself suddenly and unexpectedly at the end the spot revealed to him in his dream—a small plantation leprosy, are outstretched from the foul moving mass ; and of his symphony. The princess, who alone dared to adjacent to a house near the Rock Ferry slip.. He mena low bowl is heard, the howl of the stricken for alms. speak, discovered that the king had turned over two leaves tioned the facts to Mr. Green's daughter and described Alms, oh, stranger, for the love of God ! alms to feed the at once ; the monarch, with the utmost composure, the murderer so minutely, that from the description she inexorable destroyer; alms to prolong this dreary and turned back to the part which had not been played, and recognised a labourer resident in Tranmere, whom she hopeless misery ! Look upon it, stranger, you who walk without uttering a word set to work, followed by the met in the public highway, as the alleged murderer, faintforth in all your pride and strength, and breathe the fresh other musicians, who were well up at the finish, and in at ing, so say the gossips, at the unexpected sight. Of air of heaven ; you who have never known what it is to the death with tolerable exactitude. course, such a mysterious affair affords ample food for be shunned by your fellow man as a thing uncleaned and