METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 544, 20 January 1858, Page 3

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.

iProiri^th© Lwtnpool .Albion.) •HONOURS TO'THE BRAVE.

The news of I |he :i best9W^al J of i a K.X3. B. on ijayeloek,; and i°f>u-A.-r'Pv. W-Jedl, Cortland, Nicholson, Wilso% and! Chamberlayne, was well received by the citizens, who ,are, specially, conversation: and!highly applaud all other recommendation , that other, classes : . should contribute to the; fighting, requirements of the,, state,, though y.ery shy .pf.Jglitjng themselves,,, put, wiUing,enQugh, tp^nd^the sinews of. war. The same discrepancy, between words and deeds, desire-and performance, apparently prevails, every where. THE .CA.pt ; TO. ARMS.To judge from the papers,, and, the talk, and the speeches, and the sermons, and the letters, and; the every thing, o,ne. might, imagine i; an^py empowering niilttary mono-i mania hadtalsen ppssessipn. of ,the uniyer^ saL British bosom; ithat;. cockney , and clown^ peer, peasant, porter, parson, apothecary, sheriff's officer*; quaker, cpffin-makerj corn cutter, and ihVehtor' of perpetual motion^were ,bellowing jßella, , ; "ndrr^da b'eiidf^t ! the top. pf IKeir,; pipe, yelling to be; led. j to,-. battlgany -how:, ,any r . where,; at any time, against any- odds, under all possible; and impossible,.conceivable and inconceivable- circumstances. Yet what is the; fact? '!A total, practical apathy on the subject of arms ;; utter ihsensibility to the ; ,atlm*eriies'ts" of s the, .recruiting charmer,, jcharm jie!neyer^io, bJarneyHedly; the!4eafness!!ofJforty bothered adders to regimental arithmeticians,:who, the more they call, on factory and on forge^ at the loom and plough] in cellar and attic, the more they are not heard. How account for this t There is no. accounting, and ,no usedn trying to account.; but that is just the ,reason!the trial is .being.all jthe more energetically made. Qnesnrieks out that he has discovered the secret-—namely, that another inch should be taken off the enlistment standard, as if it wasn't low enough already to suggest .that we.meditate crimping the, Aztecs, thereby furnishing some contemporaneous Volney with a new text for the old.homily on *^» n~«>~ of Empires. Kr 'vi*v oi prelude to the coming of Baron Mac's tattooed exhibitor in the broken arch and dilapidated bricklayer tableau. Other .explorers discover that it is all along of the., effeminacy :of the man milliner genus, who, won'tthrbw, down their yard-measures and boxes. of Gants Jouvin, and seize, upon ramrods, cartridge-pouches, and a shilling and a halfpenny a^day, with, a kit of an antiwaterproqf blanket and a pair of regulation /boots, to 'hegin with., ..Accordingly, the unfortunate Jinen T drapers, and all the linsey^wpolsey,; male, ; haberdashery, breed, are being pelted Iwith printer's ink, as if **aey wore the privatel Vellutified bodyguard of Nana -Sahib, and that only for them .that pink, of Pandemomium would now be as pale as a showTball with terror of being gaTotted ,by..hangman Calcraft from! the cross, of St. Paul's in! despite : of a more airy gibbet. - The-,- unlucky counterr skippers^ are -being- brayed—for what? For nothing, less than nothing; for not being seized with a scarlet runner vertigo, like TSTajpr. Sturgeon-s /Brentford corps,.or the foJlowei*s ; of Abrahaminides, in Fpote's farce of the ( Tailprs.'* ' . . .LORD DiVLHOIJSIE'g ,PETf§IpN. .Apropostoi .■:his pluckinginthe.pension line!, the Disraeli journal to-day continues the quiz witji ,a mock solemnity worthy of Solomon in a burlesque. Iflstead df con;,fessing . the -rnista^ ; it v never fell into, though! it thereunto! ied 'me, ,wool- ■ gathering .fjlpck.<of .the^foui'th .estate, it. says the Marquis,(hearing the allowance of I < the king of Oude (who never had any) ■ was !tb be appropriated/ t° the war which! hiS Majestyhelped to occasion materially-,! feared 'hiiaUowa^c^ be included in j j.the!/ samecategory! for*, j .pi:Qc^ely f . tlie.' sarnie j J*feaspii,/.ne; being : a, prime ..author, ,of thel . mischief, and he^ therefore,; made a virtuej •of inecessity by proffering what Ihe could' -not-keep! ;A better preserved piece of 1 tnystificatiori the right 'h.on.' sphinx never

TH,ESULTAN. ' ' :., Wilxetber the Qaupa^ran.Quri^ , nbngghig, or.iumbuggea. on ,ianot|ier jppint to-day, it is not.easy to<say,.but would be - very' interesting- to know-^-to-wit,rthe?Sul- .'. tan's, subscription,or rather the import of 1 that , butcliaracterisitic act.' As : ,'. soon. as , ftfrj^jirus, ..sent 'the . : !', cqntripiitipn' to ! the committee in, the., Poultry .Solan, that body, with a sagacity worthy of this Michaelmas . seaspn, sent the papers a paragraph expres-

sive of the " exceeding significance" of the | head of Islam thus practically reprobating I the Mussulman malefactor at Delhi. Of j course the papers; inserted it, and in type ! of Holloway's Ointment emphasis. So did j the Hebraic print—a bewildering proceeding truly on the j>art of-an Asian Mystery elucidator. There, at /any rate, the meaning oi* the thing might foe explained, from a; source so., learned in the pancake and lotus-flower rationale of the revolt. But no j all is blank from Bucks to Bucklersbury. It seems to have been wholly forgotten who and what Abdul Medjid is: •—a man of most sensitive mind, moved by every tale of woe, and in the present instance all the more, likely to Jbe moved because, of the woe being occasioned by |iis co-religionists. .Forgotten is-it, that he was ready to peril his empire, or even, to _ use his own words "to descend from his station and close the line of Othman," rather .than suffer the Christian refugees from Hungary to.be seized by their persecutors ; and' this at the moment they were abandoned by the British Minister here, who was coolly taking credit, the while with Marylebone deputations for exceeding anxiety on their behalf. When the famine raged in Ireland the Sultan ordered £2,000 and .two cargoes of provisions to be sent, and asked was that enough? He was answered that it would, not be seemly for his contribution to be larger than that of the Queen of Eng-land, and, therefore, was his reduced to £1,000: The influence of the Sultans has invariably been used in India in favour of England. Ih the- Wellesley despatches is given not only a remarkable instance, but the explanation of this, viz., a letter from Sultan Seiim toTippoo Saib, enjoining on him not to admit the influence of the French in India [piquant souvenir at this moment S] because France.being the breaker of all law, England—her antagonist—was the maintainer of the law of nations and the rights of men. From the close of the European war Russia took the place of France in the eyes of the East; and the belief being kept up of England's opposition to her, the traditional policy of the Porte has been retained. How far this policy may be affected hereafter by what is groine*.m*-?.*^'" <*s' GXtragartltV'and »v nut nas lately gone on in the Principalities. Stratford de Redcliffe may perhaps tell. n S „ when he comes home; but, in the meanwhile, as he is fond of mischief, he may tell the Sultan that the enlightened British public value his liberality chiefly for a polemical point which couldn't have entered his head; for, if it were supposed that it could, the evil would be irremediable. The blunder was just the same as the Scotch deputation tumbled into a couple of years ago, when, in addressing the King* of ; Sardinia, they denounced the Scarlet Lady and her abominations, because Nono and Victor Emanuel didn't happen to be of one opinion about ecclesiastical jurisprudence; and his Majesty had to acquaint his felicitators that the House of Savoy had from time immemorial gone to heaven by the old Roman road, and intended to do so for .the time to come as long as it was in a condition for tolerably comfortable travelling. To the credit" of Lord Mayor Finnis, he steered clear of the mare's nest of his Mansion-house Committee;' and in reply to Musurus' letter, acknowledged the Sultan's munificence as. simply what it was, a noble manifestatation of sympathy with suffering humanity, and of detestation of acts abhorrent to nature.