ASIATIC INTELLIGENCE. under weigh at 3 o'clock p. m. on the 10th, and after a communication of one house with another, and it was not delay of four hours at Mocha, reached her destination at until morning that the whole truth could be known. Alas! Suez at half-past 11 on the 17th; thus completing a voy. every bungalow in the station had been destroyed. One age of 2,992 miles, with the wind almost all the way un- solitary puckha-house stood the buffetting of the storm. It favourable, in 16 days 9 hours, of which she was only was most providential that some families deserted their own 15 days 4 hours actually under steam, making at the rate houses during the afternoon, and took shelter in any secure of 8 miles per hour, mean velocity. By the unlooked-for place they could find, for, had they remained, they must celerity of the Alexandria mail, which reached Suez at have perished. Entire roofs and walls came to the ground, two o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st, the Victoria was other houses went piecemeal, rafters and thatch coming able to get under steam for her return voyage the same down, and some have disappeared altogether. Some ladies evening, at 9 p. m., having till then been unable to com- were obliged to desert their bungalows, and remain in their municate with the shore from the unusual violence of the palkees on the sands the whole night. In fact, no one has Kam-Sein wind. She reached Mocha, where she was de- escaped, and many have lost every thing they possess. layed four hours, at five o'clock in the morning of the The drift of the sand was so great, that every thing was 27th, and at half-past 10, the same evening, she came to buried several feet in it, and a most difficult task it has been anchor off the coal depôt at Aden, having enjoyed favour- to recover property so imbedded. The ruins of the houses able breezes nearly all the way from Suez. In making the are almost unfit for repairs, except under a cost equal to requisite detours to and from her anchorage, and working the original expense of building, and the whole coast preat half-steam, she was delayed nearly 38 hours at Aden, sents one scene of destruction. The city has suffered to a which she quitted at half-past 8 on the morning of the great extent indeed; every house has been blown down, but 29th. From this to Bombay, the weather on the whole the immortal remains of Juggernauth lie undisturbed in his was favourable, though the winds, light and gentle as they celebrated temple. The surrounding villages have been were now, were for the most part adverse. She came to equal sufferers, and a camp belonging to the revenue surher moorings here at half-past 9, on the evening of the veyor, about twenty miles distant, was totally destroyed. 6th; the greater part of her passengers having imme- Large trees strewed the road, and many lives have been diately landed, the mail remaining on board till 6 next lost in consequence. One family, of eight persons, were morning having thus performed her return voyage of crushed under one tree; but the loss of life has been much 2,992 miles in 16 days 9 hours, on deducting detentions less than could have been expected. I have not heard of at Mocha and Suez, having been 321 hours actually under more than forty altogether; but accounts may be brought steam. For the return voyage this gives a rate of sailing in hereafter. Altogether the scene has been one I never of 94 miles throughout. Letters and papers of the 4th wish to witness again, for, independently of the great peApril have been received by her from London (32 days,) cuniary loss, it has been an awful visitation, which those A letter from Balasore, dated 4th May, says :-"We and despatches from England of the 5th; while the mail who have lived and experienced can alone comprehend." carried by her to Suez, and which left Bombay on the 4th April, would in all probability be delivered in London by have just escaped a severe hurricane; it blew very hard on the night of the 30th, and the tide rose very high, but the 5th May. luckily the wind did not last long enough to drive the sea over the country. At Pooree they have felt the hurricane most severely. I hear that all the houses and the governdamage has been sustained; great part of the native town ment cutcheries have been blown to the ground, and much If unforeseen delays had not occurred at Aden, she would has been destroyed, and several lives lost. When the cirhave brought the mail in less than a month from London. cuit house fell, two men were buried and escaped with At Aden all was quiet when the Victoria left: but a broken legs. The natives declare that Juggernauth's auband of trusty hearts was collecting, all sworn to be re- gust presence alone prevented the sea from washing away venged for the blood spilt in the last attack-so our garri- the town. The storm was felt at Cuttack also severely, son is in daily expectation of them. This, it is said, is to and I much fear it has been destructive on the whole line be the last trial of strength. The road is open and the of coast." place well supplied. The following melancholy intelligence of the hardships A correspondent at Pooree writes:-"On the 30th of sustained in the Belochee territory has just reached us April, one of the most violent storms ever remembered in from Sukkur, 29th of April. The hardships of the desert, Orissa visited the station of Pooree, and surrounding dis- where water proves deficient,-terrible to the natives themtrict. The wind blew very fresh from the N. E. early in selves,-occasion an amount of suffering which is frightful the morning, and towards the middle of the day increased to contemplate to those accustomed to a cool and humid much. The surf was unusually high and roaring; out. climate:offices were levelled and clouds of sand buried every thing. "Yesterday an official arrived, stating that Lieuts. Clark About six o'clock in the evening, the wind lulled, when it and Varnon, with a party of horse, went in pursuit of some was hoped that the worst was over, but the disasters of the Belochees, but arrived too late. In returning, they lost day were as nothing in comparison with what the night their way in the desert, and after wandering about all day, brought. The wind suddenly shifted round to west and in the intense heat, at last found the road. Lieut. Varnon south-west, and commenced in all its fury. Every one sat was brought in delirious-28 men dropped in the desert, waiting for the worst, or running from one room to ano- and those that came in with great difficulty saved their ther, as the house gave way, and when the general crash lives. As soon as the horses smelt the water, which was came, it was fearful,-the wind and rain so boisterous that only a small muddy pool, they became quite mad and no one could stand erect exposed to them. Ladies then rushed into it, and both men and beast eagerly drank mud. escaped to their palkees, anxiously awaiting the break of This was near Pullajee, where the heat is truly awful-it day. The darkness of the night totally prevented any is almost death to be out.-Bombay Times, May 16. BOMBAY LITERATURE. ASIATIC INTELLIGENCE. apology for so doing, in reference to a speech attributed to the Hon. H. Lindsay in the Court of Proprietors, on the The publication of Captain Outram's journal in Bombay 21st March, 1838, as reported in the Asiatic Journal for is creating some sensation; it has been printed in con- April 1838, in which Mr. Lindsay is made to declare, sequence of this officer finding himself aggrieved at not "that he knew, from undoubted authority, that officers of having had his services properly represented in the com- the East-India Company's service had, upon parade, after mander-in-chief's despatches. Captain Outram is quite the the military exercises were concluded, taken upon themidol of the Bombay army, and from his own modest nar- selves to address the sepoys, and to preach to them in disrative it is sufficiently obvious that his zeal, spirit of enter-paragement of their religion." prise, and talent, demanded the very highest commendation. This speech has beaten the rounds of the local papers, He touches but lightly upon the fatigues and privations and has excited unmingled astonishment and regret. It which he endured in his hazardous and rapid journey from refers to a class of officers, happily a numerous and still Khelat, and does not mention the exhaustion which en- increasing body, in the Indian army, who form its brightsued. Upon his arrival in Bombay, which took place in est ornament, and whose devotion to the service, integrity, the middle of the night, he proceeded to the house of an and zeal, have never been impeached, and upon whose tried old friend, which he entered unceremoniously, and the fidelity and disregard of all personal considerations, in cirowner having retired to rest, he flung himself down upon cumstances of trial and difficulty, our Indian Governments a sofa. The servants at first believing that it was a drunken have had too frequent proofs, to allow of such an insinuanative, who had thus entered, tried to eject him, but upon tion as that implied in Mr. Lindsay's speech to pass curhis proclaiming himself to be a British officer, permitted rent for a moment. I shall not attempt to describe what him, though unwillingly, to remain. The next morning, I know to have been the feelings of such persons in this the host being informed of the circumstance, came to the army, on such an attempt to bring their fair reputation place where his friend was till sleeping, and had some into discredit. You, my dear sir, will readily understand difficulty in recognising the gay and gallant Captain their position-banished from their native land, in nine Outram, in the travel-stained, not to say dirty, object before cases out of ten for life-when unable to defend themhim. However the captain was soon replumed, and as his selves, to find one of their honourable masters stand forth modesty prevented him from relating his own exploits, the to attack them, when their voice and their plea of defence appearance of this narrative has been cagerly looked for cannot gain admittance. This you may understand, and by all who took an interest in the romantic adventures in you have not been insensible to the claims of the injured; which he was engaged. but I question if the generous mind itself is in the position Speaking of Bombay literature, it seems incumbent to to understand the feeling of gratitude and of admiration state, that Captain Harris is sending a superb work to excited by your endeavour to wipe off the foul stigma* England; it consists of a series of coloured drawings from that was so wantonly cast upon the absent. Neither will life, of the various wild animals he has encountered in his I offend against delicacy by dwelling upon our obligations shooting expeditions. They are the most spirited and to you, both in the particular instance referred to, and in beautiful things imaginable, and the work merits the pa- the noble way in which, upon every occasion, you have tronage of all the lovers of natural history at home. It exposed yourself to that suspicion which you have so frewill be illustrated by descriptions from the pen of Captain quently and so effectually removed from the injured in Harris, who has made himself well acquainted with the this country. habits and manners of the animals represented. The I am fully sensible of what is due to discipline, and how value of faithful representations of rare zoological spe- unmilitary a proceeding this for a soldier to appeal for procimens is much enhanced, in consequence of the fantastic tection in any other way than that laid down by the Act portraitures with which some travelling artists have de- which governs him; but, cautious as I feel on this head, ceived the public. The late Mr. Daniell unfortunately and every way anxious to uphold instead of weakening permitted his imagination too much license, but his ex- authority by agitation, I have felt too deeply in the present aggerated representation of a boa constrictor has had the question to remain silent. You will, my dear sir, I am effect of producing inquiries into the nature of that crea- assured, at once recognise the propriety of avoiding any ture's attacks, and it has been satisfactorily ascertained reference to my name. that Mr. Daniell must have been misled by the marvellous I have addressed some of the oldest and most respectaaccounts of natives, who are fond of making the most of ble officers, all of them either the commanding officers or any story. OFFICERS PREACHING TO SEPOYS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. the staff of the principal military stations of the presidency, as to any knowledge they may have of the circumstance alluded to by Mr. Lindsay. The following copy of a letter from an adjutant-general of the army, to my address, speaks the language of all, and I transcribe it, to show how utterly unfounded the accusation is. Colonel writes:-"I never heard, either privately Sir: I rely upon your kindness and candour for the parade of any regiment or body of troops belonging to this or publicly, of any circumstances occurring upon the insertion of the following communication, which I have army, that could afford even the shadow of a ground for received from India, in reply to a report in your Journal such an assertion as that stated in your note now replied for-April 1838. The letters referred to in it arrived in to. Had a rumour of such a thing ever reached me, a course. For obvious reasons, I do not give the name of sense of duty would have made me, without a moment's the writer. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, delay, use every exertion to satisfy myself upon what foundation it rested, and means would have been taken very soon to convince any party so offending of the grave nature of his indiscretion. And I am, therefore, perfectly satisfied that such a thing was never attempted to be put in practice, if it ever entered the head of the greatest en JOHN POYNDER. Bombay, 1st March, 1840. My dear Sir:-The steady support you have for years given to the cause of Christianity and of truth, in connexion with the British possessions in the East, at once supplies both inducement to trespass upon you and my preached the Christian Religion-Ed. Museum. *We understand the charge to have been, that the officers thusiast on the subject, as to preach to the sepoys on ference in matters of this kind, and to leave them in the parade in disparagement of their religion." hands of private individuals, upon the principle that comA staff officer at one of our largest stations writes:-mercial energy and enterprise can effect such objects much "During that period (fourteen years), I have been inti- better without than with the co-operation of Government. mately connected with missionaries and blue-light officers, This policy has been successfully acted upon in other great as they call them, and up to this instant I not only never lines of steam-communication, by land as well as sea, heard, but I can safely say I never even suspected, such a where the vessels and locomotive engines are the property downright mad act and injudicious proceeding as that of of private companies, the Government contracting with an officer or officers, of any service, having upon parade, them for the transmission of their mails and despatches. after the exercises were concluded, taken upon themselves So far as the exigencies of the state demanded it, in the abto address the sepoys, and to preach to them in disparage- sence of a private channel of conveyance, the Government ment of their religion." have established a steam communication with India, and if Shall I add my own testimony? It is that of an officer letters can now be despatched from England to Bombay in who has served twenty-two years, and has more than once the short space of thirty-one days, who have the mercanfaced his country's foes and has bled in her defence, and tile community and people of England and of India to is prepared to do so again at duty's call; and I can with thank for it, but the Government? If the projectors of confidence affirm, that I never heard even a whisper of steam communication at Calcutta, who have been vocifesuch a piece of madness attempted, either on or off parade, rating and abusing each other and the Government for so by any officer of this or any other army. Rely on it, my many years, and doing literally nothing themselves, had apdear sir, there is too high a sense of duty pervading the plied the funds they have wasted to floating a few steamers," service, and too correct and vigilant an eye over the mili- even on the Asiatic side alone, the Government would have tary body here, to render such an act at all possible. been glad to employ them, though they might be naturally I write from a sick couch: the medical gentlemen tell reluctant to bind themselves hand and foot, by entering 'me I cannot recover in this country, and I know the un. into engagements previous to a specific plan being put into certainty of life every where, to be too sanguine of restora- operation. tion any where. But I am only one of many, whom I We have at length, however, some prospect of seeing a know similarly situated, who have given up to their coun. proper direction given to private energy and exertions in try that which is most precious to man, their health and this matter. Two plans are now brought to a certain destrength, by exposure at duty's call to this ungenial climate, gree of maturity, which may be carried on either sepawithout a murmur, sustained by better hopes and firmer rately, or in conjunction, or as one united scheme. We support than can be derived from the sympathy and con- have been addressed by the projectors of both these plans, fidence of their earthly rulers (dear and soothing as this, and we have both the schemes before us; but we shall obtoo, would prove ;) and before Mr. Lindsay again attempts serve, as we have endeavoured to do all throughout this to add to the trials of his countrymen so situated, I trust protracted controversy, a strict impartiality, submitting to he will pause and reflect on the effect such indiscriminate our readers an outline of each plan, with such remarks as and ill-founded accusations are likely to produce. they may suggest. I remain, my dear sir, Your most obedient, most faithful servant, Captain, Bombay Artillery. P. S.-I will send you all the original documents herein quoted and referred to, by a ship going round the Cape. This goes by over-land despatch. What is termed in Bengal the Comprehensive scheme, has, luckily for its projectors, fallen into the hands of an able and a straightforward man of business, Mr. Curtis, late governor of the Bank of England, and under the managenent of the Board, of which he is the Chairman, a company is now formed or forming, under the title of the East-Indian Steam Navigation Company, with a capital of £800,000, to be raised in 16,000 shares of £50 each. Although this scheme has been from time to time adverted to in our Asiatic Intelligence, we think it better here to state, that it proposes to establish, by means of large and powerful steam-ships, a connected intercourse between Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon, and England, in one unbroken chain, reducing the communication as nearly as posssible to a certainty. Bombay is not embraced at present in the arrangement, but will eventually be included. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. No less than seventeen years have elapsed since the first formation of a fund in India for the purpose of carrying into effect a communication by steam-vessels between that country and Europe; and, after a very considerable outlay To meet the wishes of the Indian public, and looking to of funds, a prodigious effusion of sanguine promises, a an immediate profitable return in the general call for such world of speaking and of writing, the object, as far as pri-a preliminary step, it is proposed to purchase and despatch vate energy and enterprise have gone, remains in the same to Calcutta, with the least possible delay, the largest steamembryo state as when Capt. Johnston first, and then Mr. vessel procurable, to be employed between that port and Waghorn, began to stir the Calcutta community. It is not Suez, making four voyages from each place in the year. our design to review the causes which have retarded the To carry the entire service into effect for a regular monthly fulfilment of so desirable an object, and for which ample communication, it is intended to build seven steam ships resources were obtained or retainable; but we may observe, of such tonnage and power as to be applicable to the route that the disputes between the presidencies abroad upon by the Cape of Good Hope, in case of any interruption to this subject, the perpetual squabbles amongst the same that through Egypt. The vessels will also be so conparty at the same presidency, the rise and fall of project structed as to admit of their carrying an effectual armaafter project, the conflicting views, the rival interests, the ment in case of any warlike contingency. From detailed petty jealousies, to which this object has given rise, would calculations, which have been made on those data which afford materials for a narrative at once ridiculous and experience has already furnished, the estimated outlay, lamentable. charges and revenues, are exhibited in the following ab Upon one point alone the various partisans have been stract:tolerably unanimous, namely, that of ascribing all the blame of the delay to the Government. Now it has always ed his steam scheme, was to convey the mails from London to Cal*The utmost that Mr. Waghorn promised, when he first projectbeen the policy of the Government to abstain from inter-cutta in seventy days. Passengers, less victualling and land transport £281,000 Freight, consisting of light parcels, periodicals, bullion, &c. 24,000 Yielding a clear annual surplus of pany, which is yet imperfect, in the other, which is complete and organized. It is to be hoped that a new race of £600,000 rivalry will not be commenced between these two bodies, with the Precursorites (a strange misnomer) still in the rear, which will make the subject of steam communication with India a standing jest. 239,000 ANECDOTES, TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN. Bahrám Shah, son of Sultán Mahmud the Ghaznaví, sent a governor to Ghor, who practised great oppression on the inhabitants. One Ghorian fled, and going on foot to 305,000 Ghazní, called for justice against the tyrant. Bahrám Shah ordered a long and prolix letter to be written, repre£66,000 hending and forbidding his oppression; and the Ghorian, taking the letter, returned to Ghor. The governor, on receiving the letter, tore it in pieces, and compelled the or upwards of 11 per cent. upon £600,000. No contribution for post-office service has been included in these calculations; but there can be no doubt that the bearer by blows to eat it. The man returned to Ghazní company, when once in operation, must be employed by Government to carry the mails. To carry into effect the plans of the company, the following outline is proposed :-That steam ships shall start on a fixed day in each month from England and Calcutta ; the time calculated on for the performance of the route being, from England to Alexandria 66 Ceylon Calcutta 14 days. 35 to 37 66 42 to 45" The route across the isthmus of Suez to be at the charge and under the superintendence of the Company. £104,000 of the proposed capital has been subscribed in India. on foot, and again complained. Bahrám ordered a letter to be written full of threats and menaces. The secretary took up a longer sheet of paper than the last, on which to write the letter, when the Ghorian said, "For God's sake, write the letter on a small piece of paper, that I may suffer less in eating it, for I had great difficulty in swallowing the last." Bahrám laughed at these words; upon which the Ghorian said, "Do you laugh at this, when the fact is, that if you had any zeal for the duties of government, you could not but weep bitterly at your own conduct, whence it is that your servant makes no account of your authority and disobeys your commands?" Bahram was impressed with this address, and, changing his intention, said, "Ghorian, you are right; and I swear by heaven that I will neither taste savoury food nor enjoy pleasant The other plan, proposed by the Peninsular Steam Na- sleep until I have taken vengeance on this tyrant for his vigation Company (which has now assumed the additional insolence." He rose up immediately, girt on his jewelled epithet "Oriental"), proposes to forward mails and letters sword, and set out for Ghor, saying to his retinue, "Folto and from India by two routes, one a land-route through low me quickly, for I am going to the mountains of Ghor France via Marseilles, and the other a sea-route, by Fal- on a hunting excursion." Under this pretext, he left mouth and Gibraltar; both uniting at Malta. The out- Ghazní and proceeded to Ghor. The unjust governor went ward mails through France will leave London on the 4th, out to meet him, bringing suitable presents for the king; and the sea-packets on the 1st of the month, both reaching but, seeing the Ghorian at his stirrup, he trembled for his Malta on the 13th, and being forwarded to Alexandria on life, and throwing himself from his horse, he rushed forthe 14th. On the homeward route, through France, the ward to kiss the stirrup of Bahrám Sháh. The king ormails will leave Malta on the 28th of the month: the only dered him to be bound hands and neck, and said, “I will difference between the sea-route and the overland is the not dismount until I have given this tyrant his desert." time required for the transmission of letters between Fal. He then ordered twenty muns of lead to be brought and mouth and London. Every necessary accommodation is melted, and the tyrant being thrown down on the ground, to be provided for passengers by the vessels, and those per- some one poured the lead down his throat, and said, "This sons who go by the sea-route will have the opportunity of is the recompense of him who treats with disrespect the visiting Spain and Portugal, staying there a longer or orders of his majesty, and who gives them as food to the shorter time at their pleasure. It is understood that the oppressed." He then appointed a just governor of Ghor, government will contract with this Company, experimen- exempted the Ghorian from the, payment of taxes, and, tally, from the 1st of September. neither dismounting from his horse nor reposing for a moment, turned the reins, and hastened back to his capital of Ghazní. This scheme presents many advantageous features. It is already in operation, and requires merely an extension of capital and means: it admits of union with the other plan, for the Peninsular Company, "so far from entertaining When the King of Abyssinia drove Saif ibn Zi 'lyazn, any views of rivalry or opposition towards those who have who was King of Yemen, out of that country, he took retaken a leading part in advocating the Comprehensive plan fuge with Nushirván, and asked succour of him. Nushirof Steam Communication with India, are ready and willing ván granted him three thousand men. He said, "O to co-operate with them in carrying out that long contem- Kasra, how can three thousand oppose fifty thousand ?"— plated enterprise to its full extent;" and, moreover, it offers "A little fire," said the monarch, "suffices for a great deal to passengers a source of attraction, in the facilities it will of wood." afford of visiting Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar. Our opinion is decidedly in favour of the expediency of A rich man said to a philosopher, "I have a hundred union and co-operation between the East Indian and the dinárs of gold, which I think of bestowing upon you. Peninsular Companies, either by dividing the line betwixt What is best to be done?"-If you give them," replied he, them, the Peninsular taking the line between England and “it will be best for yourself; and if you give them not, it Alexandria, and the East Indian that between the isthmus will be best for me;" meaning that he would be free from of Suez and India; or by merging the East Indian Com- the debt of obligation. From Blackwood's Magazine. PART XI. the other, that of the Earl of Dreddlington. The former's dinner engagement with the latter, his august and awful kinsman, was an event of such magnitude as to absorb almost all his faculties in the contemplation of it, and also occasion him great anxiety in preparing for an effective appearance upon so signal an occasion. Mr. Gammon had Several legal topics have been touched upon in these repeatedly, during the interval, instructed his anxious papers, which seem to have attracted some little attention pupil, if so he might be called, as to the manner in which amongst legal readers, as, at least, would appear from va- he ought to behave. He was-Heaven save the mark, rious communications-some at considerable length, some poor Titmouse!-to assume an air of mingled deference, anonymous, others not-addressed, through the publishers, self-possession, and firmness; not to be overawed by the to "The Author of Ten Thousand a-Year, in Blackwood's greatness with which he would be brought into contact, Magazine." The principal matters thus discussed are, nor unduly elated by a sense of his own suddenly-acquired the power of an heir, in the lifetime of his ancestor, (to importance. He was, on the other hand, to steer evenly speak popularly, though not with legal accuracy, since between the extremes of timorousness and temerity-that nemo est hæres viventis,) to convey away his expectancy happy mean, so grateful to those able to appreciate the in fee, so as to bind himself, and those claiming under effort and object of those attaining to it. Titmouse was to him, by estoppel on the subsequent descent of the estate. remember that, great as was the Earl of Dreddlington, On this point have been received several communications he was yet but a man-related, moreover, by consanguinity -one of them from, perhaps, the greatest lawyer in Eng. to him, the aforesaid Titmouse-who might, moreover, land. 'Tis doubtless an important point; and where doc- before many years should have elapsed, be himself Earl of tors differ I am not presumptuous enough to volunteer an Dreddlington, or at least Lord Drelincourt, and by conseopinion, though I entertain a pretty decisive one. Those quence equally entitled, with the present possessor of that who think that I am wrong, had better, perhaps, again resplendent position, to the homage of mankind. At the refer to their books. Mine I had consulted pretty anx-same time, that the earl's advanced years gave him a naiously before sending off my MS. to the press. The next tural claim to the respect and deference of his young kinspoint is, the effect given by Lord Widdrington, C. J., at man, whom, moreover, he was about to introduce into the the trial, (in which he is represented as being subsequently sublime regions of aristocracy, and also of political society, confirmed by the decision of the Court of King's Bench,) Titmouse might derive a few ingredients of consolation to the ERASURE in the deed of confirmation. From two from the reflection, that his income probably exceeded by letters I learn that three or four clients of the writers of a third that of the Earl of Dreddlington. This is the sum them have conceived great alarm on this subject, and have of Mr. Gammon's general instructions to his eager and directed all their deeds to be overhauled, and, in case of an anxious pupil; but he also gave Titmouse many minor erasure being discovered, submitted to eminent counsel! hints and suggestions. He was to drink very little wineSuch erasures have been discovered, it would seem, in two (whereat Titmouse demurred somewhat vehemently, and instances. In one, the counsel differed from Lord Wid- asked "How the d-1 he was to get his steam up?")—and drington; in the other he agreed. The question, then, on no account to call for beer or porter, to which plebeian here is, Whether, when an ancient deed (i. e. upwards of beverages, indeed, he might consider himself as having bid thirty years old, after which period a deed is said to prove a long and last adieu;-to say "my lord" and "your lorditself) is produced from the proper custody in support of ship," in addressing the earl-"my lady" and "your ladythe rights of the party producing it, and there proves to be ship," in addressing Lady Cecilia;-and, above all, never an erasure in it in an essential part of the deed-such deed to appear in a hurry, but to do and say whatever he had to ought to be rejected, unless the erasure can be accounted do and say calmly; for that the nerves of aristocracy were for; or admitted upon the presumption that such erasure very delicate, and could not bear a bustle, or the slightest occurred before the execution of the deed? Now, upon this display of energy of feeling. Then, as to his dresspoint also I have formed a pretty strong opinion, and re- Gammon, feeling himself treading on very doubtful ground, ferred again to the authorities; and venture to give in my intimated merely that the essence of true fashion was adhesion to the opinion of Lord Widdrington and his simplicity-but here Titmouse grew fidgety, and his Mencourt. It is rather singular that, about a fortnight ago, tor ceased. Lord Brougham, in delivering the judgment of the House During the night which ushered in the eventful day of of Lords in three appeal cases from Scotland, each of Titmouse's dining with the Earl of Dreddlington, our which was a case depending upon the effect of an erasure, friend got but very little sleep. Early in the morning he expressly declared the Scotch law to be to the effect laid engaged a handsome glass-coach to convey him westward down in these papers, and decided accordingly, admitting in something like style, and before noon his anxieties were the cases to be full of grievous hardship-in one instance, set at rest by the punctual arrival of various articles of a widow losing the whole of the provision which had been dress, and decoration, and scent--for Titmouse had a great made for her by her deceased husband. Whether or not idea of scents. His new watch and its brilliant gold guardmy notions of the English law on this subject are anti-chain-his eyes gloated upon them. What, he thought, quated, and contrary to those entertained by the judges would he have been without them. About half-past three and the bar since I ceased practising, I leave for them o'clock he retired to his bed-room, and resigned himself who are competent to form an opinion to decide. As for into the hands of the tip-top hairdresser from the Strand, several other communications of a different nature-some whose agreeable manipulations, and still more agreeable similarly, others differently addressed-surely, on consi. small talk, occupied upwards of an hour, Titmouse giving deration, the authors of them cannot expect any answer, the anxious operator abundant notice of the high quarter nor yet construe silence into discourtesy. Z. in which his handiwork was likely soon to be scrutinized. Pray-a, can you tell me," quoth Titmouse, drawlingly, shortly after Twirl had commenced his operations, "how RANK Is very apt to attract and dazzle vulgar and feeble long it will take me to get from this infernal part of the optics; and the knowledge that such is its effect, is un-town to Grosvenor Square? Dem long way, isn't it, speakably gratifying to a vain and ignorant possessor of Mr. What's-your-name?" -, near London, 14th August, 1840. that rank. Of the truth of one part of this observation, "Grosvenor Square, sir?" said Twirl, glibly, but with a take as an illustration the case of Tittlebat Titmouse; of perceptible dash of deference in his tone; "why it is, as MUSEUM-OCTOBER, 1840. 17 |