BRITISH BEAUTIES.-During the latter period of the nominal reign of the late King, his present Majesty, anxious to perpetuate the remembrance of a galaxy of female loveliness which the peculiar position of the British Court had placed comparatively in the shade, was pleased to commission a distinguished female miniature-painter with the task of forming a gallery of beauties for his private cabinet; and thus the charms of many of our fairest contemporaries, which were not gifted with Hebe-like properties sufficiently tenacious to remain unimpaired for the advantage of his future Court, have been, at least, rendered permanent by the favour of his Majesty's selection, in order to advance the claims of the regency against those maintained by Grammont, or rendered immortal by Lely, Vandyke, Kneller, or Reynolds. But the gallery formed by Mrs Shee, however various and exquisite in its exhibition of female loveliness, is but a shadow of that which the highest coteries of the present season might have consigned to the canvass. Annual, is, like the " Amulet," especially designed to establish and illustrate the connexion between polite literature and religion. The embellishments are to be selected principally from Scriptural subjects, and the work is to be edited by the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A. -Another new Annual is announced, to be called by a name which we think highly objectionable-Emmanuel. We are told in the prospectus, that the distinguishing feature of this publication will be its endeavour to diffuse and maintain, in its various compositions of prose and verse, sound principles of religion and virtue, its governing rule being that which pervades the doctrines of the established church. The Rev. W. Shepherd, Author of " Clouds and Sunshine," is to be the Editor. We are sorry he has christened his bantling by a name which we think far too sacred to be so used.-Friendship's Offering is to be published on the 31st of October, and it is confidently expected will be still superior to any of the former volumes of the series. Its embellishments will consist principally of choice specimens of the British School, both of painting and engraving.-The Winter's Wreath is to appear on the 1st of November, and will contain thirteen highly-finished line engravings on steel, together with contributions from Mrs Hemans, Miss Mitford, Miss Jewsbury, Derwent Conway, Hartley Coleridge, and many other persons of emi-promise called Henrich Marschner. The piece is likely to have a nence.-Mr Ackermann announces his intention to add another to the class of Annuals for youth, under the title of Ackermann's Juvenile Forget-me-Not. It is to contain eight beautiful engravings, and contributions from a number of popular writers, among whom are the Ettrick Shepherd, Montgomery, John Clare, and Miss Landon. The Second Volume of Guy Mannering, being the fourth in the series of the new edition of the Waverley Novels, has just appeared. It contains a few notes of an interesting kind, and a frontispiece of great merit by William Kidd, very cleverly engraved by James Mitchell. The subject is the game at High Jinks. Each figure is full of character and humour, and the whole are grouped in a manner that would not disgrace Wilkie. We cannot say so much for the vignette by Cooper, R.A. It represents Hatteraick burking Glossin; the figures are heavy, and the countenances very unmeaning. The first volume of the Antiquary will be the next of the series, to which, we understand, a curious introduction is prefixed. We understand that the forthcoming Volume of Constable's Miscellany will contain an "Autumn in Italy, being a Personal Narrative of a Tour through the Austrian, Tuscan, Roman, and Sardinian States, by J. D. Sinclair, Esq." A new monthly periodical is about to appear under the title of The London University Magazine. It is to be supported chiefly by the students of that University, and will be strictly a literary and scientific miscellany. It will contain, according to the Prospectus,"Reviews of New Publications, Matters of Science, Critical and other Essays, Sketches of Character, Satires on Men and Manners, Literary and Scientific Intelligence, occasional Reports of the Professors' Lectures, a Monthly Summary of the Proceedings at the University, and Miscellaneous Intelligence connected with it, allowing, besides, a voluminous et cetera for subjects which may not be included under any of these heads." Mortality, a Poem, in three Parts, by T. Cambria Jones, will shortly make its appearance. A Topographical and Historical Account of Methodism, in Yorkshire, is preparing for publication. Dr Shirley Palmer will shortly publish Popular Illustrations of Medicine and Diet, illustrating the principal existing causes of disease and death. BOTANY. A Flora of British North America, illustrated with figures of nondescript, or rare species, by W. Jackson Hooker, LL.D. is in the press. Also, a Flora Devoniensis, or a Descriptive Catalogue of Plants growing wild in the county of Devon, arranged both according to the Linnæan and natural systems, with an account of their geographical distribution, &c., by the Rev. J. P. Jones and Mr J. F. Kingston. A society has been formed at Brussels, similar to our Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Society, for the express purpose of publishing good works at a cheap rate. It proposes to publish twelve volumes per annum; and every subscriber of six florins yearly is entitled to a copy of each. The Application of Morals to Politics, and Schlegel's History of Ancient and Modern Literature, are already published. A new German Journal, entitled, Periodical Review of the Jurisprudence and Legislation of Foreign Countries, is announced at Heidelberg. The editors are in communication with the principal lawyers in France, England, Italy, Denmark, Russia, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, with a view to make their countrymen acquainted with all the works on legislation published in these countries. The Geographical Society at Paris has awarded its annual medal for the most important geographical discoveries and labours to Captain Sir John Franklin; and decreed honourable mention to be made of Dr John Richardson, who accompanied him in his northern expedition. Theatrical Gossip.-A new piece, after the manner of the Freischutz, entitled "Der Vampyr," has been brought out with great success at the English Opera House. It is an adaptation from the German by Planchè, and the music is by a young composer of much decided run, and in some of the scenes is said not to be unworthy of Weber.-The on dits relative to Covent-Garden are as various as they are uncertain and unsatisfactory. Among them are the following:That the company will keep together, and engage the Haymarket Theatre; that they will disperse, and some of them take up with engagements at the Minors; that Elliston has it in contemplation to engage several of them, and make a vigorous start at the Surrey. In the meantime, the properties of the Theatre are actually adver tised to be sold by public auction, under the distress for the taxes and rates; and if the proceeds are not sufficient for that purpose, the remainder must be got out of the materials of the building! It is said that the number of persons dependent for their support on this Theatre amounts to no less than seven hundred.-Mr Price of Drury. Lane has accepted a new tragedy from Miss Mitford, in which Young and Miss Phillips will sustain the principal parts. Price has also re engaged Braham, who will not, however, appear till after Christmas. We do not hear that he has determined on setting his face against the plan of engaging the principal performers by the night, as was reported at the close of the season. On the contrary, it is said that Vestris and Liston are both to receive enormous sums under this ruinous system. It may be stated, in illustration of this system, and as one of the dramatic miracles of the day, that Laporte has not lost much, if any thing, by the Italian Opera during the last season. When it is considered that the house overflowed almost every night, this fact becomes particularly worthy of attention.-The Duke of Sussex, who appears fond of theatricals, has engaged a box during the season at the Surrey Theatre.-A Mr Simpson, a clergyman in Derby, has been foolish enough to write a letter to Miss Foote, advising her to leave the stage, which Miss Foote has answered, through her mother, in rather a sharp style.-A young lady, named Huddart, has made a great sensation in Dublin in the character of Mrs Oakly, in the "Jealous Wife."-The Theatre Français, in Paris, has at present in rehearsal an almost literal translation of Shakspeare's "Othello," by M. Alfred de Vigny. The French must be much changed, if they can tolerate the burking of Desdemona.--The drama is in a very quiescent state here. TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. THE interesting and highly original sketch by the Ettrick Shepherd, entitled "Wat the Prophet," shall appear in our next. We have also to acknowledge the receipt of a very amusing parody by the Shepherd, which shall likewise have a place next Saturday. The paper on " Mottos" will be inserted." A True Sectsman although he may occasionally choose desipere in loco.-We have need have no doubt of the patriotism of the person alluded to, read" A. B, C.'s" tour with pleasure;-it lies for him at the pub lishers'. The verses by " Musicus" of Greenock are not without merit.-We may probably make some use of the lines by "C." of Dal keith.-In the "Adieu to Ancient Smoky," by "Philo-countribus-insummerosus," the following are the best lines: The hum of men hath ceased within thy walls, LITERARY CRITICISM. AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.-The Cherokee Phoenix. New Michael Burnham & Co. PRICE 6d. The Cherokees inhabit the northern parts of Georgia and the Alabama territory, and the southern borders of Tennessee. Their number is between fifteen and twenty thousand; and their existence, as a free and independent nation, has been acknowledged in several treaties with the Americans. The government of the United States, however, has for several years evinced a considerable anxiety THE two newspapers, to files of which we refer at the to remove them farther back; but the Cherokees seem head of this article, scarcely resemble each other in any determined to make a stand, and, as it is the policy of the thing except the circumstance of their both being news- Republic to avoid coming to extremities with their impapers. The one is the first literary and intellectual ef- mediate neighbours, it is not unlikely that they will ultifort which has yet been made by a young state just start- mately be allowed to remain where they are. From ing into an independent existence, and anxious to throw whatever cause, the Cherokees have exhibited a greater off the barbarism of ages; while the other is the regular-willingness to tread in the footsteps of improvement than ly systematised production of a large city, long accustomed any of their Indian brethren, and they have not been to such conveniences, and to be viewed more as an ordi- without their reward. Having, in the first place, prenary mercantile speculation, than as a symptom of any vailed upon themselves to give up the wandering habits fresh accession of mental or physical vigour. We shall which, for the most part, characterise the other Indians, keep this distinction in view in the remarks we are about and having built in their own district one or two small to make on these separate publications, speaking of the towns, of which New Echota is the principal, they soon one with that grave interest which naturally attaches to made considerable progress in husbandry and domestic it, and treating the other with less ceremony, as being manufactures, the fruitful nature of their country affordprincipally useful to us for the glimpses it affords of the ing every convenience for the former, and their own quick manners and habits of the worthy citizens for whose espe- ingenuity speedily initiating them in the latter. So far cial accommodation it is published. back as the year 1810, we learn, by Warden's "Statistical Account of the United States," that, besides a great stock of cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep, they had 500 ploughs, 1600 spinning wheels, 467 looms, 3 saltpetre works, 50 silversmiths, and numerous mills of different kinds. This was only a beginning; and, during the last nineteen years, their progress has been great. They have established a representative constitution, they have framed a code of laws, they have set a-going schools for the education of their children, and, above all, they have directed their attention to the art of printing; and, in February 1828, the first number of a weekly newspaper, called the Cherokee Phanix, was issued from the press of New Echota, printed partly in the ancient Cherokee character, and partly in English for the benefit of the whites, with whom they are a good deal intermingled. This newspaper, a file of which now lies before us, has been carried on ever since, and we cannot help regarding it as a highly curious and interesting publication. It is supported almost exclusively by native Indians, by persons whose copper-coloured complexion has been supposed to indicate an inferior mental capability, yet who are no sooner placed in circumstances of a more favourable nature than those to which they have been hitherto accustomed, than they proceed to the display of as much talent as could be expected from any other body of men whatever. It is certainly something new in the annals of literature, to find literary essays in print, the real and only names of whose authors would at one time have smacked so much of the mokassin and toma Among the public measures creditable to the humanity of the United States, the means they have employed for the civilization and protection of the Indian tribes, the original in habitants of that vast continent, should not be overlooked. It is true, that they have wrested from these Indians a country which was once their own, and left them only remote districts, for which, as yet, the conquerors do not find any immediate use; but, having thus attained their own ends, and secured their own settlement, they have, in most cases, been desirous of wounding as little as possible the feelings of the native tribes. Thinned as their numbers are, and broken as is their spirit, by the annihilating warfare so long carried on against them by the Spaniards, little cause has the American government now to fear even their combined efforts, were it possible that any combination for political purposes could be entered into among them. It is only on the extreme borders of the American territory-principally on the northeast and south-that Indians are now to be found; for wherever the destruction of game consequent on agricultural industry has taken place, the natives, finding the means of subsistence become insufficient, have sold their lands, tract after tract, and retired to remoter parts. The tribes, of which there is a considerable variety, are all independent of each other, and, though probably descended from one common origin, speak different languages, and but rarely enter into confederations or alliances. We have at present to do only with that tribe which appears to have been making, of late years, more rapid progress towards civilization than any other-the tribe of the Cherokee Indians.* The tribe which ranks next to the Cherokees in civilization, is that of the Mohawk Indians, on the Grand River in Upper Canada. Besides having schools and places of worship, many of them can read and speak English with fluency. hawk. These names are such as Little Turtle, Head Thrower, Sleeping Rabbit, Raccoon, Slim Fellow, and Young Chicken. Yet these, and such as these, are the contributors to the Cherokee Phanix, which newspaper, we hesitate not to say, is conducted with a manly spirit, a philosophical temperance, and a literary ability, that would do no discredit to any of our European Journ· We shall give a short account of the manner in which its contents are divided and arranged. by a Roman Pontiff, but by the Creator, when the first inhabitants of Georgia came into this country, and it is well The paper, which is a folio sheet of the ordinary size, known that this possession ever since has been permanent. contains four pages, with five columns on each page. At We have not yet seen a Georgian permanently occupying any part of the Cherokee nation; and, in fact, none have the top of the first column of the first page, the Editor's ever attempted to settle in it without being driven out by orand Publisher's names are given in these words:" Edi- der of the United States government. It would seem rather ted by Elias Boudinott; Printed weekly by Isaach Har-curious, and not a little mortifying, if the declaration of ris, for the Cherokee Nation." The first page is, for the these men, for it is nothing more, was admissible, that the most part, chiefly occupied with additions, alterations, and rightful owners should be driven from their possessions amendments, to the Cherokee laws, as resolved on by the with the point of the bayonet. "National Committee and Council," and printed both in considered insolent, and the reason of this insolence is as"The determination of the Cherokees not to remove, is English and Cherokee. The second page is devoted to cribed to the protection of the United States. It is true, the communications, which are sometimes in English, some-general government has greatly befriended the Cherokees; times in Cherokee, and sometimes in both; they are often and it is well for them, for, had it been otherwise, they exceedingly sensible, though of course mostly of local in- would most assuredly have been devoured fifty years ago. terest. On the third page we have the Editor's leading But it is not true that they have become insolent from this article, followed by such a selection of public news from fact. They have been respectful to their Great Father, and American and British papers as may be supposed to be they wish to preserve the same respect, though they have refused to sell their country to him. But is it a crime to most interesting to his readers. As a specimen of the refuse to sell one's property? Is an inferior person accountEditor's style, and of the firm and manly spirit in which ed guilty when he conscientiously withholds his possessions he writes, being in some sort the representative of his na- from his superior? In this land of liberty he certainly ought tion, we shall extract one of his articles upon the subject not to be. We claim the privilege of free men, and wish of the encroachments which the neighbouring state of to have the right of disposing of our lands to the United States, when, and in what way, we please. Query: If Georgia appears anxious to make upon the Cherokee terthe lands, now in the peaceable possession of the Cherokees, ritory; and we are sure it will be read with pleasure: "Cherokee lands,' Georgia and the Cherokees,' Geor-it that money is appropriated, commissioners appointed, are absolutely the property of the state of Georgia, why is gia rights,' &c. are now becoming popular topics of edito- and proffers made, to purchase these lands? There is somerial talk in some of the Georgia papers, and they are cerwhere a manifest inconsistency." tainly well suited to that boisterous kind of genius which has been frequently exhibited in Milledgeville. If the editors of the Statesman,' and the Southron,' are to be taken as a fair specimen of the advocates of the right of Georgia to lands now occupied by the Cherokees, we should rather apprehend that this controversy will not be improved. And to suppose that the lands in question will be attained by means of such language as has been exhibited in the report which we have published, and such language as we continually notice in the papers, would be to deceive oneself, and show an utter ignorance of the spirit of the times. It will be doing an injustice to the United States to have the most distant idea that she will be influenced to redouble her exertions to purchase the Cherokee lands, merely by boisterous and frequently unbecoming language; and unless we are very much deceived, the Cherokees will not be influenced to move a step towards the setting sun by such means. If The tone in which these remarks are written would do honour to any people; and the recollections they are calculated to cherish in the breast of the Indians, of their ancient privileges, cannot but have the effect of inspiring them with that virtuous pride, which is the best incentive to exertion. The Indian knows, and ought to know, that whatever the Americans may have done for the country, it once belonged exclusively to his ancestors, who received it as a gift from the "Great Spirit." One of their popular traditions runs thus :-"The white people came in a great canoe. They asked us only to let them tie it to a tree, lest the waters should carry it away ;—we consented. They then said some of their people were sick, and they asked permission to land them, and put them under the shade of the trees. The ice then came, and They the state of Georgia ever attains her wishes, it will be by they could not go away. They then begged a piece of fair and friendly means, when the United States shall pur-land to build wig-wams for the winter ;-we granted it chase, and the Cherokees voluntarily relinquish, the country, and receive an equivalent. But it is expected they will act independently for themselves as freemen, and as the rightful owners of the land. We are aware that force is talked of, but it is nothing more as yet; and it is our opinion that it will not be carried into effect, either by the United States or the state of Georgia. This great nation, this land of the oppressed, this land of civil and religious liberty, will not disgrace itself, by driving away with the point of the bayonet a few handfuls of Indians; and for what? For a small tract of country, and because these Indians, by their smallness, are unable to defend it. It will be more honourable, and highly more becoming, if those who wish to make the Cherokee question a matter of private conversation and public harangues, will pay attention to decorum and propriety of language. This would be the best course; for if their cause is just, it will not require intemperate language to disclose the truth, and if their cause is unjust, which we rather think is the case, they will be saved from much mortification. "It would appear from what had heretofore come to our knowledge, that the people of Georgia, we mean those who are urging for the acquisition of the Cherokee lands, were perfectly united, and that the foundation of their claim was well known, and harmoniously supported. The case, however, seems to be different. While some are establishing their right to the lands in question from a grant of an English sovereign, others merely laugh at this idea, and resort to another equally as absurd, permanent occupancy.' What they mean by permanent occupancy,' we are not able to divine. It cannot be the common acceptation of the to them. They then asked for some corn to keep them from starving;—we furnished it to them, they promising to go away when the ice was gone. When this happened, we told them they must go away with their big canoe; but they pointed to their big guns round their wig-wams, and said they would stay there, and that we could not make them go away. Afterwards more came. brought spirituous and intoxicating liquors with them, of which the Indians grew very fond. They persuaded us to sell them some land. Finally, they drove us back, from time to time, into the wilderness, far from the water, and the fish, and the oysters. They have destroyed the game; our people have wasted away, and now we live miserably, while they are enjoying our fine and beautiful country." Simple as this narrative is, we suspect it is not very far from the truth; and, seeing the injustice that has been done them in time past, it surely becomes the white man's duty to treat the Indians now with all the kindness in his power, especially when they show themselves so willing and able to profit by that kindness. The fourth page of the Cherokee Phanix is devoted principally to literature; consisting, for the most part, of extracts from American and British periodicals. It also contains invariably a poem by Mrs Hemans, copied of course from some English publication. This lady seems in her own country; and it certainly speaks well for Into be no less a favourite among the Indians, than she is word, for the Cherokees have most undoubtedly a stronger claim to this country, on the ground of occupancy, original dian dispositions, that her fine appeals to the natural feeland permanent occupancy, than any other people. They ings of the human bosom should be felt by them in their were in peaceful possession of their lands, given them, not full force. The only other English poetry which we ob serve quoted, is an extract from Pollok's "Course of Time." The Cherokees, however, seem to have poets among themselves, for there are several original pieces in that language, besides one or two poetical translations into it from Watts's Hymns. We sincerely trust that this highly meritorious paper will go on steadily, and rapidly increase in prosperity. A thousand difficulties must have attended the commencement of such an undertaking; and of these some little notion may be formed, by the following intimation in the twentieth Number:-" We think it necessary to inform our readers, that one of our hands has left us to see a parent who is dangerously ill, and perhaps we shall not be able to issue our next Number until the week after next. Our patrons will be pleased to remember, that the location of our paper renders such failures unavoidable, as it is not in our power, in cases like the above, to procure substitutes." The same Number contains a modest and well-written appeal to the friends of the paper, in which it is stated that its existence must, in a great measure, depend on the support received from those who are not Indians; and that, though as many subscribers had come forward among the Indians as could be reasonably expected, yet that, to secure the continuance of the conductors' labours without embarrassment, the list would have to be considerably augmented. We believe this appeal produced good effects; the paper continues to be regularly published, and the Cherokee nation is quickly advancing in civilization, and in all the arts which embellish life. other power ultimately removes the carcass of Turkey from Thrace, may perhaps for a period bend under the burden, meet at the commencement with impediments en masse, encounter famine and sickness in its progress; but the event of a single pitched battle will be the coup de grace to Turkey, and the very fears of the invaded will accomplish the prediction of their expulsion from Eu│| rope.' "I never questioned a Turk," he adds, "on the stability of the empire, who did not state his conviction of the fulfilment of the prophecy, that the Giaours were to prevail over the true believers." Mr Madden resided for a long while in Constantinople, and the greater part of the first volume is occupied with a description of the present condition and manners of the Turks. He afterwards visited Egypt, the Red Sea, Nubia, and Palestine; and the second volume contains many interesting details of his adventures in these countries. We can at present make only one or two miscellaneous extracts, which shall relate principally to the Turks. We have already said that Mr Madden is no admirer of this people, neither is he inclined to attach much weight to the visions of the Philhellenists, as the following passage regarding the warlike habits of the two nations sufficiently proves : MILITARY TACTICS OF THE TURKS AND GREEKS.-" If any one can believe such qualities as the Turks possess can transport that person, for half an hour, to the spectacle of make virtuous citizens or good soldiers, I would only ask to an engagement between the Mahometans and the Greeks. After the dreadful note of preparation had long been heard, We must postpone the consideration of the New York he would find the two armies in the field, and at a conve Evening Post till our next. Ar the present moment, when the attention of all Europe is directed towards the East, in consequence of the great struggle which is there taking place between two of the most unwieldy powers of modern times, the work of an intelligent traveller, who has had opportunities of investigating the whole arcana of the Turkish character and Ottoman policy, must be considered interesting and valuable. Mr Madden's book answers, in many respects, this description, and supplies us with that species of information we wish to receive. At the same time, without entering into argument on the subject, we think it right to take this opportunity of expressing a doubt, (though we know it is in opposition to the received belief,) that the circumstance of a traveller in the East belonging to the medical profession is in his favour. In one respect it no doubt is an advantage, as it secures for him occasional admission into private families, which he might not otherwise obtain; but has it not a tendency to make him much better acquainted with one peculiar phasis of society than with any other, and that, too, the least pleasing one? He sees disease in all its various shapes, and his mind naturally dwells upon the causes which have produced that disease. Stories of private scandal, and family dissensions and quarrels, ending in brutal attempts at revenge, thus become familiar to him, and the great stream of health, sound morality, and happiness, flows past him unregarded. It is for this reason that medical travellers represent in general, we think, the very worst side of things; and it is for this reason, we suspect, that Mr Madden has, in the present instance, done barely justice to the Turks. Mr Madden is, nevertheless, an acute observer and a clever writer. Many of his remarks on the Ottoman dynasty are evidently founded on a comprehensive examination of the system on which it is built; and politicians ought to have some respect for the clear-sightedness of that individual, who, so far back as the year 1825, expressed himself thus in a letter to the Earl of Blessington:-" Russia, or whatever and nient distance from each other; he would find the Greeks, At the present moment, when a hostile army is at its very gates, our readers will peruse with interest Mr Madden's DESCRIPTION OF CONSTANTINOPLE.-"Whoever would paint the picturesque in all its loveliness, has but to gaze on Stamboul from the sea. Whoever would pourtray the barbaresque in all its horrors, has but to land and wade through the abominations of Constantinople. It is not my inte tion to repeat, for the hundredth time, the charms of the jestic, and his aspect noble: his long black beard added to Bosphorus, to surfeit you with the praises of its fairy sce- the solemnity of features, which he never relaxed for a nery, of its smiling shores, studded with enchanting Kiosks, moment; and while all around were convulsed with laughand graced with lofty Minarets and splendid Mosques. All ter at the buffooneries of a Merry Andrew, who amused this you will conceive without my description. And like the multitude, he kept his dark eye on the juggler, but he wise, take it for granted, that the traveller who sets his foot never smiled. Hundreds of horsemen were galloping to in the Turkish metropolis, is doomed to traverse the filth- and fro on the plain below, hurling the jereed at random; iest and most ill-constructed city in Europe. now assailing the nearest to them, now in pursuit of the dis"The population has been decreasing for many years; it armed. Their dexterity in avoiding the weapon was luckily now, probably, does not exceed eight hundred thousand very great, otherwise many lives must have been lost; as it souls, including the suburbs of Scutari, Pera, Galatea, &c.; was, I saw one cavalier led off with his eye punched out, and to keep up this number, drained as the town is con- and another crushed under a horse. These accidents never stantly by the plague, the provinces are totally exhausted. interfered for a moment with the sports; one sort succeedYou may imagine what a tax it is upon the latter, when it ed another. After the jereed came the wrestlers, naked to is considered that the plague of 1812 cut off three hundred the waist, and smeared with oil. They prostrated themand twenty thousand people in the capital and the circum-selves several times before the Sultan, performed a number jacent villages along the Bosphorus, and that to supply the of very clumsy feats, and then set-to. Their address lay in seideficiency, the surrounding country was depopulated. The zing upon one another by the hips; and he who had the most city is of a triangular form, and lies upon a neck of land, strength lifted his adversary off his legs, and then, flinging him rising, with a steep acclivity, into several mounts. These to the earth, fell with all his force upon him. Music relieved are intersected by narrow lanes, for there is no thorough the tedium between the rounds, and several occurred before fare deserving the name of a street; and the whole town is any mischief was sustained. At last one poor devil was encompassed by crumbling walls and ancient turrets. The maimed for life, to make a Turkish holiday; he had his compass of the city is from fifteen to eighteen miles. The thigh-bone smashed, and was carried off the field with great two most imposing structures are the Seraglio of the Sultan, applause! Bear fighting was next attempted; but Bruin which forms an angle of the town, and is said to occupy a was not to be coaxed or frightened into pugnacity; the dogs large portion of the site of the ancient Byzantium, an im- growled at him in vain. During all these pastimes, the mense pile of incongruous buildings, huddled together with- slaves were running backwards and forwards from the mul out taste or order; and, like the empire, is a colossal mass, titude to the Sultan, carrying him innumerable petitions "composed of a strange mixture of heterogeneous and ir- from the former, which he cannot refuse to receive, and reconcilable parts;" and the Mosque of San Sophia, whose seldom can find leisure to read. The departure of the pasplendid dome dominates the city, and whose respect has cific bear terminated these brutal sports; and every one, exsurvived its degradation. cept the friends of the dead man and the two wounded, appeared to go away delighted beyond measure. All the amusements of this people are of the same cruel character.” Vol. I. pp. 96-9. Our extracts ought to stop here, but we cannot help one more upon a different subject. When in Alexandria, Mr Madden had an opportunity of witnessing a visitation of the plague, and of paying particular attention to all its phenomena. He has collected a mass of information upon the subject, which he will probably give to the world in a separate shape. In the meantime, as illustrative of the horrors of this dreadful disease, we quote the following affecting narrative : “Close to this ancient structure is the Hippodrome, the horse-course of the Greeks, now converted into the Atmeidan, or cavalry ground of the Turks; in the centre are the remains of an Egyptian Obelisk; and near this still exists the famed brazen pillar, consisting of three serpents, ascend-making ing in a spiral course, but deprived of their heads, which formerly looked on the three sides of the city. There are no other vestiges of the glorious city of Constantinople worth mentioning. The Imperial Library, which was thought to contain many of the treasures of ancient learning, has been examined by Dr Clarke and others, and no work of value has been discovered. The place where stood the palace of Constantine is now a receptacle for cattle! Heaven knows into what some of our palaces may be converted in a dozen centuries, if, peradventure, a remnant of the lath and plaster be then in existence! In every corner of the city, a pack of hungry dogs are suffered to prowl, for the diversion they afford in worrying all Frank passengers; and nothing can exceed the amusement of the Turks, when they behold a Christian_mangled by these ferocious animals. I can safely say, I have never yet passed through the bazars, without having the dogs set on me by the men; without having stones pelted at me by boys; or being spit upon by the women, and being cursed as an infidel and a Caffre by all! I was very near having a sword put through me, for chastising a little rascal who flung a stone at my head; and, on another occasion, for only looking indignant at a fat lady who spat upon me, I was rather roughly handled by her and her companions. The streets, soon after dusk, are as silent as death; not a word is heard, but the pass-word of the sentinel, or the occasional announcement of a conflagration, with the warning cry of Vangenvar!' and few nights occur without the ravages of fire in some parts of the city. I have already witnessed three. In one of these conflagrations the whole of a street was burned down. The houses are of wood, and once in a blaze, no effort, short of pulling down the neighbouring houses, arrests the progress of the fire. There are seldom any lives lost; so that a stranger may witness the splendour of the spectacle, without much prejudice to his humanity.' ."-Vol. I. pp. 92-6. To this we shall add the following graphic passage : TURKISH SPORTS." The only remnant of Saracen chivalry existing in Turkey is the Jereed tournament. I witnessed one in honour of the birth of a child in the imperial harem, and certainly never beheld so imposing a spectacle as this immense assemblage of people exhibited: upwards of 60,000 persons of either sex, in all the varieties of Eastern costume, and in which all the colours of the rainbow were blended, were seated on the sloping sides of a natural amphitheatre: the Sultan sat above, magnificently apparelled, surrounded by his black and white slaves in glittering attire. He appeared about forty-four years of age; his figure ma THE PLAGUE. Already I have lost one servant. I took him with me, two days before his attack, to a Turkish house, where a man was said to have apoplexy. I found, on examination, it was the plague. On my return I changed my dress; I gave the clothes to my Maltese boy to hang up on the terrace, and from them I have every reason to believe him staggering as he walked, his eyes had the expression of be took the disease. The second day after this I observed a drunken man's, his features were tumid. and yet he com plained not. I asked him in the evening if he felt unwell? He said he had a cold; but I perceived he could hardly keep his feet: his pulse was very frequent, but easily compressed, and not full; his tongue was of a whitish brown in the centre, with the borders very red. "I saw the poor fellow had the plague. It was imposstay was an extension of courtesy on the part of Mr C. sible to keep him in the house where I was, as my own that I could have hardly expected, subjected, as I daily was, to the danger of contagion. I took him to the hospital, but, before he entered, he begged me to let him call on his bro ther. I accompanied him to the brother; he shook hands with him notwithstanding my caution, and left some message to be given to his mother. When he arrived at the hospital I saw him shudder, (and well he might): he said to me, Don't you recollect, sir, I said in the bazar that health is above every thing?' I never was more uncomfort able; I felt as if I was in some sort accessary to his disease. Headach and nausea distressed him from the time he was put to bed; he shivered frequently, but he said his heart was burning. At night, two livid spots were discovered on the forearm, with purple streaks, extending to the axilla, and terminating in a bubo. His skin was parched and burning, his eye glaring on one object; and, when his atten tion was called off, he talked incoherently, and complained of his tongue becoming swelled. His pulse at sunset was an hundred and eighteen, small and obstructed. His fea tures swollen, and of a sallow crimson hue; but next morning his colour was of a darker purple, such as denoted con gestion somewhere strangling the circulation. His regard |