ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 227, 2 October 1847, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The Admiralty have afforded G. F. Muntz, Esq., M. P., an opportunity of testiug his patent metal in sheathing a man-of-war vr'ub it. The Champion, at Portsmouth, is selected for the trial. Professor Challis has confirmed the statement that a ring, similar to that which, surrounds Saturn, encircles the newly discovered planet Neptune. The Dissenter's of Bristol have purchased the Etna, an old man-of-war, for the purpose of a Floating Chapel ; and on Thursday evening, last it was formally opened by a number of ministers. The Pacha of Damascus lately issued a proclamation to the women of that city, in which he enjoined them to be more strictly veiled when they went abroad, and declared that he would cut the noses of all who disobeyed his orders. A guard on the Great Western Railway has written a tragedy, called Athelstan, which has been published by subscription. Glass, of a rich colour, has been used instead of the old ebony for the sharp or flat keys of the organ of All Saints, Northampton. The Bedford Times suggests that the idea may be happily applied to the whole keyboard of the pianoforte with a tasteful diversity or iridescence of colours.

Application of Electjucitx-mi^xpiß Extraction op Metals. —At a recent meeting of the Society of Arts, Mr. Whishaw, (secretary,) read a paper, by Mr. Napier. " On separating Metals from their Ores by means of Electricity." The author's mode of operation is as follows : — He used a black lead crucible, lined inside, within an inch or two of the bottom, with a coating of fire-clay, which is allowed to dry, and a second and third coat superadded ; the ore to- be operated on, (which if a sulphate, should be previously roasted) is put into the .crucible, together with a little lime or other flux, for the purpose of giving it fluidity. The crucible with its contents, is then placed in a common crucible furnace j a battery of zinc and copper is prepared with five pair of plates, excited by very diluted sulphuric acid; to the zinc of this battery is attached an iron rod, the end of which is inserted in the furnace, and caused to touch the outside of the crucible ; another rod, either of iron or copper, is used, having at one extremity a disk of iron or coke, which is made to rest on the surface of the fused mass in the crucible. The electricity is thus passed down through the whole fluid mass in the crucible, and in the course of an hour the metal is separated from the ore, and deposited at the bottom.

Miss Hbrschell. — A letter from Hanover »ays that on the 16th, Miss Caroline Herschell, sister, and for a long time assist- ( *nt of the illustrious astronomer, celebrated j the 97th anniversary of her birthday. The King sent to compliment her, the Prince and Princess Royal paid her a visit, and the latter presented her with a magnificent arm chair, the back of which, had been embroidered by her Royal Highness ; and the Minister of Prussia, in the name of his sovereign, remitted to her the gold medal awarded for the extension of the sciences. Miss Herschell notwithstanding her advanced age and infirmities still passes several hours every day in astronomical labours, and not unfrequently spends, the whole night in her observatory. — Globe. A Boy Adopted by a Wolf. —We (Douglas Jerrold), are favoured by a correspondent with the following: — "An officer of rank in the Indian army, writes from Ferazpoor, that a male child, about seven years 0/ age, has recently been discovered by some police in the den of a wolf. He cannot speak, s and eats only raw flesh. The boy is claimed by parties who say they lost him four years ago, when he was three years old ; and it is supposed he has led a wolfs life ever since. The magistrates still retained possession of this strange foundling, when the letter detailing these facts was written. Henceforth we may believe in the legend of Romulus and Remus." t

Fair in the Thames Tunnel. — On Monday, the fourth anniversary of the opening of this thoroughfare beneath the Thames was celebrated by a grand fancy fair. The tunnel was illuminated with 100,000 variegated lamps. Dr. Edson, lately died at New York. He was an intelligent physician, a regular graduate from Vermont, and was in good practice. While weighing 140 pounds, and being in good health, he commenced decaying gradually in size without the least diminution in health, and in 19 years he fell off until he weighed no more than 46 pounds, yet continuing his practice, riding his medical circuit and delivering medical lectures as usual. There was no decay of strength, vision, or appetite, yet to all appearances he was a walking skeleton. The Sunday Mercury of Feb. 28th, published in New York, contained among its advertisements, the following announcement : — " General Tom Thumb, the smallest man in miniature in the known world, weighing only 15 pounds, who has been patronised by all the crowned heads in Europe, and been seen by over 5,000,000 persons, has returned to America in the steamer Cambria, and made bis grand debut to the American public at his old head-quarters, the American Museum, where he is to be seen every morning." This is something to say of crowned heads !

The Camel and the Needle's Eye. — Lord Nugent, in his recent publication, " Lands, Classical and Sacred," has given an Application of the words which at once prove the fitness of the expression for the subject our Saviour had in view. Lord Nugent describes himself as about to walk out of Hebron through the large gate, when his companions seeing a train of camels approaching, desired him to go through " the eye of the needle," in other words, the small side of the gate. This his Lordship conceives to be a common expression, and explanatory of our Saviour's words : for, he adds, the sumpter camel cannot pass through unless with great difficulty, and stripped of his load, his trappings, and his merchandise. Omnibuses are running from Battersea to Hoxton, a distance of nine miles, for sixpence ; and steam-boats from London- bridge to the West-end for a halfpenny ! In three wheat-stacks recently removed at i Kimbolton, on a farm belonging to the Duke '. of Manchester, the extraordinary number of i ■4&553(y mice and ninety rats were destroyed, i the former measuring six bushels and a half! : Insurances on sovereigns about to be sent < to New York, are understood to have been i effected to the amount of 1,000,000 for the i month of May. An old man, named Hervilte, was found • dead in a miserable garret in Paris, and was i supposed to have died of destitution, but con- ] cealed amongst his miserable rags and filth ] were found 7,500 francs in money, and a 1 quantity of plate and jewellery. < A funeral lately took place at Rome of : some importance, as showing how the middle I classes are emerging from nonentity into im- t portance and self-respect. A coffee-house \ keeper named Ricci, who had been distinguish- ( ed as the first Roman who brewed gas for the 1 lighting of his splendid saloons in the Falaz- ] zo Ruspoli (the putting out of which gas pipe i I enumerated last year on the 4th of April, ] among the doings of the late Governor Man- i ni), having died, was conveyed to his last rest- t ing-place by several thousands of his fellow- } citizens; the corso was resplendent with \ torches, and the National Guard, of which he v was a' ioldier, turned out in force to honour s their worthy comrade ;he was the great 3up- c

porter of the poor exiles and a stout reformer. You will find the speech pronounced over his grave in the pages of the Contemporaneo. None but a noble or a " saint" everhad honours of this sort in Rome. The mezzo ceto have begun to understand their own worth. It is reported that a room \s to be fitted up in Buckingham Palace for the exhibition of some family portraits of her Majesty, the Priuce, and their children — which have recently been painted by Mr. Winterhalten ; and that admission thereto will be open to the public generally.

Hanging Judas. — A Cork paper contains the following account of a singular ceremonial which took place on Easter eve, on board some Portuguese vessels in that harbour :—": — " From the yard-arms of some Portuguese vessels, effigies of Judas Iscariot were suspended by the neck, from an early hour, to emblematise the fate the traitor inflicted on himself. Some of these were dressed iv curious costume — one wore a sailor's holiday attire, viz., a blue jacket, boots, and white trousers. He had, besides, a sword, on the hilt of which one hand was laid, while a purse of large dimensions dangled from the other. Red ochre and lamp black, on a white calico ground, constituted the various tints of his complexion — certainly a rude pictorial art had given him a most fiendish and unearhly scowl. During periods of the morning each of the effigies was lowered down and castigated by every sailor in the ship with a long stout scourge. But, at ten o'clock, the final punishment was inflicted, amidst loud salvos from small pieces of cannon, and tremendous shouting. In one of the vessels, the figure was subjected to every species of torture and indignity. It was hanged, shot, drowned, kicked guillotined, scourged, and bastinadoed : the sailors applying themselves to the different operations with a vigour and heartiness expressive of passionate indignation." The German newspapers state that Professor Schonbeiu, the inventor of the cottonpowder, has discovered a new composition which produces the same effects as the inhalation of ether, without causing any danger. The nature of the n_w invention is not described. Mr. R. Stevenson, C.E., lias invented a very beautiful time marker, to be attached to the carriages, by which the speed of the train can be accurately ascertained. We learn from Kcenigsberg (Prussia) that all the Russian students of that university (about 150 in number) have been ordered to return to their own country immediately. It is said that the Emperor Nicholas intends to forbid all his subjects to receive their education in foreign universities. It appears from a Parliamentary paper, just issued by the House of Commons, that, in the year ending 31st December, 1846, there were 276 non-commissioned officers appointed to commissions. We have been told, that officers who have risen from the ranks are seldom " black-balled" by the "exclusives." Lieutenant Waghorn has addressed a letter to Earl Grey on the subject of " bringing England and the capital of the colonies in the Pacific within sixty-five days' distance of each other," by means of steam communication. Independent of other advantages, he says that such an amount of food of all descriptions could be diavvnfrom the colonies by this plan, as would neutralize the expected famine pressing on the commerc'al world. The expense is estimated to be £100,000. A monument is about to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the memory of the celebrated John Hunter.

The Poet and the Publisher. — A. poet was once asked by his publisher how many copies of his poem, then in sheets, he would like to have put in boards. " The whole edition," replied the confident author. " Humph!" said the publisher, " just as you please, but if you take my advice you will only have a , dozen or so.,' " Why not the whole !" asked the indignant poet. " Because, answered his adviser, "it spoils them for waste paper." The first Italian Opera in England — The first opera represented in England after the Italian manner, though not in the Italian language, was " Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus." This opera was originally written for the Bologna theatre by Signor Pianzi, of that city, in 1667 ; it was performed at Venice in 1668, and was translated from the Italian for the English stage by Peter Antony Motteux, a native of Rohan, in Normandy, where he was born in 1660. He came over to England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became a considerable trader, keeping a large East India warehouse in Leadenhall street, and had a very genteel place in the General Post-office, relating to foreign letters — being master of several languages. Thomas Clayton, one of the royal band, in the reign of William and Mary, composed the music. Having travelled in Italy, where he heard the works of the Italian masters, he deemed himself imbued with the spirit, and felt a certain conviction that ho could reform the style of

English music by his own composition, after the Italian school. He wrote the music of " Arsinoe" in 1705, and violated in it, accor- - ding to Dr. Burney, " not only the common rules of musical composition in every song, but also the prosody and beauty of our language." — Hood's Magazine. Sir John Ross has written to the Royal As- ' tronomical Society, stating that he had made proposals to the Admiralty to attempt to reach the North Pole, in order to measure an arc of the meridian. He proposes to winter atSpitzbergen, employing his officers and crew under the direction of the talented son of the Professor Schumacher. At the proper season it is Sir John's intention to attempt to reach the North Pole on sledges drawn by Swedish horses, being a modification of the plan proposed first by Dr. Scoresby, and of which that highly talented individual has given his most unqualified approbation.

.Emigration. — Upwards ot 6,000 Lrerman emigrants have within the last fortnight, passed through Cologne, on their way to Bremen, Havre, and Antwerp, whence they will lake their departure for America. The greater part of them seemed to be rather well off. The town of Minden was lately so full of emigrants th-it it resembled the camp of a wandering tribe. It is calculated that 120,000 Germans will emigrate this year. The desire to emigrate has extended to districts in Gemn any where it was never before felt, and, among others, to the rich and fertile Saxon province of Prussia. — Gahgnani.

Death of the late President of Hayti. — Jean Baptiste Riche, the late president of Hayti, died at Port au Prince on the 27th Feb., to which phce he had returned from Govaines, on the 24th. He was about seventy years of age, but apparently hale and strong, though blind of an eye and literally covered with wounds. An experienced printer has discovered a mode of making printers' ink rollers of the prepared and improved irsdia rubber, and which is more permanently elastic, and will last at least ten times as long as rollers made in the usual way, and of the ordinary material. The model i f an Electric Printing Telegraph, printing eighty-seven letters per minute, may be seen at work at No. 29, Parliament street. By this ingenious piocess, of which Mr. Jacob Brett is the patentee, a communication may be made in London and printed at every station along the line of a railway simultaneously. Mistakes by this means may be said to be imposs ble ; as the letters printed at one end must necessarily correspond with the letters indicated at the other. At one extremity of a line of telegraph is fixed a small box containing a row of keys (similar to those of a pianoforte) and marked with the letteis of the alphabet ; and at the other extremity, to which it is connected by a single wire, is a printing machine having on its circumference corresponding letters. A slight electric power is sufficient to regulate the motion of the whole: and the instant that a key representing any particular letter is touched at one end of the line, the corresponding letter of the type-wheel prints, and the alarum bell rings, at the other. The communications are printed on a scroll of paper of unlimited length, from which any portion of the correspondence may be cut off at pleasure.

i Important from Portugal. — Accounts \ from Lisbon, of the 20th April, have reached us, by which we learn that the whole of the Queen's troops on the south of the Tagus, with the exception of 600 men, who with Genera] Schwalback, have shut themselves up in a fortress of Elvas, have recrossed to the north and fairly abandoned all Alemtejo and Algarve to the Patulea. The force of Count de Mell (the insurgent general) was joined on the seventeenth by Viscount Sadaßandeira, with 1500 men, and the two together now muster upwards of 5000 men, well drilled and well armed volunteers, with nine field pieces and about 100 cavalry. The main body of the insurgents is at St. Übe's, with an advanced post on the hill of Palmella, which commands all the surrounding country, and the old castle of which they have victualled and put in a formidable state of defence. The Patulea have other forces at Evora, Portalegre, Narvao, Faro, and Lagos, and in fact are masters of the whole country beyond the Tagus. It is reported that the castle of Vianna has at last been starved out by the insurgents, but the report wants confirmation. An insurrection has again broken out among the peasantry, in the district of Cintra, and from that all the way to Torres Vedras. The Queen has determined to agree to a change of ministry, as the ministry decided to reject the terms of negociation offered by Sir A. Seymour. The English sailors hava been landed to protect the Queen.

The late Henry Bell. — On Tuesday evening an immense block of freestone, intended for a colossal statue of the late Henry Bell, of Helensburgh, was brought from his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch's quarry at Granton, drawn by six powerful horses, and placed in the studio of Mr. Forrest, sculptor, < Calton-hill. Mr. Bell, it is known, was the J

first who applied steam to navigation on the Clyde. The statue has been subscribed for by a number of gentlemen in the west, and the model approved of. It is to be placed in the churchyard of Rovr, near Helensburgh, where the remains of the original are interred. The Fortress of San Juan D'Ulloa. — The following is an extract of a letter in. the last number of the New York Tribune, from an officer on board the United States ship Albany. "As from the deck, with my glass, I swept over the city of Vera Cruz, iti environs, and the stronghold which covers it — said to be impregnable to the combined fleets of the carth — it was with a rather serious feeling that my eyes rested upon this grim, grizzly pile, barbed and bristling with its hundreds of cannon. The question at once arises, can it be taken ? Shall we ever see our fleet moving up over the expanse before me to attack it ? I doubt it very much. Certainly not, with any force we have, or have had here. Let people prale'as much at home as they please about it. If ever it is done, it will be by a tremendous array of cannon, and a most awful loss of life. The castle of Vera Cruz is no more what it was when the French carried it, than you are now to what you were when a nursling in your mother's arms. Then. there were no guns above the calibre of 24pounds, and but few of them most miserably served. The magazines, unarched, were not bomb proof. The powder was of such an inferior character that not a shot penetrated th» side of a French ship, but at the close of the engagement were stuck about the sides of the shipping like so many balls of mud ; and in addition to all this, the commanding officer, having been instructed not to fire the firsc gun, permitted the French squadron to come up and take its position as quietly as though mooring to pass the winter season. Now let us see what a change time and a severe lesson have effected in this same castle. There are at present mounted within its periphery nearly 300 cannon, and these all 32's, 42's, and 8 and 10 inch Paixham's, there being a very, large uumber of the latter ; and wherever it has been possible to train a gun about the approach, they are planted en barbette, so that a fleet moving up to the attack, must be exposed to a concentrated fire of seventy cannon, over a distance of two miles, before it can get into position to return a single shot. Th« castle of San Juan fronts the city at a distance of about 3-B ths of a mile, and is supported by a water-battery, at the north-west angle of the town, of 50, 32, and 42-poimd guns — all of which would pour their volleys on the squadron passing up, bows on, from the moment it arrived within -range of the shot until its anchors were down, with springs upon the cables, within the reach of musket shot. Judge then what a force would be required for any promise of success, and at what at) immense sacrifice it w<fuld be accomplished, if at all. The garrison at this moment is composed of 2000 men. In the event of an attack they would, with the most perfect safely, retire within the casemates (which are impervious to shot as the sides of Mount Orizaba) until the ammunition of the assailing force was expended, , when they would return to their guns and sweep the waters before them with the most terrific destructive effect. The officer commanding the castle lately sent official word ' that if the commodore would bring his fleet up, he might fire until there was not a shot left in the locker, and he would promise him not to return a gun until he wai done firing.' "

The Great Tower at Westminster. — This enormous structure, into the lower part of which the Queen's state carriage and eight horses will be driven, is eighty feet square, and the top of the octagon turret with which each of its four angles will be furnished, will be 346 feet high or little less than the height of the top of the cross which surmounts St. Paul's Cathedral ! The boldness of the idea, and the effect that will be produced by this erection, may not be judged of by comparing it with the lofty spires of our cathedrals, because here the whole structure is taken up of the same dimensions, or nearly so, to the top, while in those the mass is rapidly diminished towards the summit. The faces of the tower will be elaborately panelled and ornamented, and will include two ranges of triple windows. Within the porch, but concealed by a rough boarded ceiliug, or temporary floor above, all is bustle and startling activity. Twenty carvers are at work by the light of gas, fashioning enormous bosses at the intersections of a star shaped web of groins — the net-work of the ponderous stone vault which is suspended over the whole area of the porch, and will carry the floor of the upper chamber. The piers of the tower will be adorned within the porch with gigantic statues on bracket pedes- ' tals. — The Builder.

The New Hall of the British Musaum. — Tbis splendid addition to the national establishment will, it is stated, be opened for the first time to the public to-Jay. The facade is now nearly completed ; the interior* however, is entirely finished, and embeHi»£ed

in' the Etruscan order. The colouring throughout is rich, chaste,' and in perfect keeping with the ancient examples of that order handed down to us from antiquity. The hall is spacious, nearly square ; on the right hand, as the visitor enters, is the! commodious room in which is placed the Greuville library, wl.ich was Lequeathed to (he country some short time ago. On the left is another spacious room, containing a portion of the celebrated Townley collection ; this part of the new edifice is in future to be distinguished as the Townley Gallery, and when entirely finished will form the means of communication with the whole building. The hall is lofty, with a pannelled roof, in the centre of which is a large gold star on a blue ground, which has a remarkably pleasing appearance. On the right of the entrance door is Roubilliac's wellknown and exquisite statue of Shakspeare ; on the left of the entrance is another siatue by Chantrey ; both are placed on white garble pedestals. The floor of the hall is laid out in very large squares of Portland stone, with small gray marble diamonds. At the back of the hall is a magnificent flight of steps, with a balustrade of polished stone, so highly worked up, that it resembles porcelain. The balustrade rests on a wall of red granite ; at the lower termination of the balustrade on either side is a white alabaster Etruscan vase. At the top of the flight is a landing place ; the width of the hall, to the right and left of which are corresponding stair cases leading to two natural history rooms, which open into the old mineral gallery. The entrance to these is by three doors, finely painted after the Etruscan. The tout ensemble, as viewed from below, is imposing. The room in which the Lycian marbles are to be deposited is built, and the specimens are now being placed in their positions. This part of the building, however, will not be properly arranged for a year or two, as it is calculated that it will occupy a long period in putting the fragments of the sculpture together — a delicate process, requiring the utmost taste, care, and skill. In connexion with ancient art, it is not generally known, that in the Museum have been placed some marbles brought over by Sir Charles Fellowes from a temple dedicated to Harpagus, general of Cyrus, 546 years -before Christ, the earliest examples of Greek art in our possession, showing that the same principle of building and working the marble was used then as now. — Observer, April 18. Eugene Aram. — We have had a curious printed paper placed in our hands for inspection, being no other than the halfpenny sheets hawked about the streets on the execution of the notorious Eugene Aram. It is entitled " The las t dying words and confession of Eugene Aram, who was executed at Tyburn, near York, on Monday, the 6th day of Aug. 1759, for the murder of Thomas Clarke, of Knareshorough, about the 7th of February, 1744." Beneath this heading is an impression from an old and well-worn woodcut engraving, curious as representing the mode cf hanging at that time. The gallows has only one upright in this form T and there does not appear to be any scaffold. Beneath this woodcut is the brief notice of the murderer's biography — " Eugene Aram, aged 48, vas born at Ripon, the son of Peter Aram, who wrote the excellent poem on Studley Park." The " last dying words" bear internal evidence of their being' fabricated for the purpose of being hawked about the streets. As this document is believed to be unique, we insert a literal copy of the speech and' confession put into the mouth of the wretched man :—": — " My Father, who had some loose Thoughts of the Power of Almighty God, which he continued too long, hurt my tender and young Principles in Religion ; I thank God I am thoroughly convinced of his Error, and am in hopes through the Mediation of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ to be saved. I confess the Justness of my sentence, but was not apprehensive my Accomplice would have dealt so perfidiously with me, for I connot help taking Notice to the "World (as it does expect I should say something) that he was forsworn upon my Tryal, as I have solemnly declared to a revetend Divine ; he also was more active in conveying poor Clark, away than myself, likewise in burning his Cloaths, and attempting to persuade me to murder my poor injured Wife. I hope the Lord will pardon me for the wrong I have done my Wife, whose honest Counsel I always disdain'd, depending on my own, as I thought superior Judgment, which I find, hut now too late, hath brought me to this untimely End. I desire Forgiveness of all the World, particularly my poor, dear, and injured wife, and of all others whom I have injured in the Course of ray wicked Life, begging their Prayers for my poor departing Soul, and that my Accomplices may take warning by this my woeful End ; for tho' they are cleared by man, they kuow, before God, they are guilty as myself, I do heartily desire they would make Restitution to all those whom we have injured, which is the last Words and sincere Wishes of the unfortunate Eugene Aram." — Manchester Guardian.

A German Settler in the States. — " He was notorious for his stinginess, and had never been known, when any one entered his house whilst he was at table, to practise those rights of hospitality so common amongst country people. He was in th«? habit, however, of getting over the omission by an impudent sort of turn that was inimitable. If a traveller entered the house about noon, which is the usual hour for dinner with American farmers, who are generally a very hospitable race of people, he would say, in his AngloGermanic dialect, ' How t'ye do ? Heb you make your dinner?' And if he received an affirmative answer, would say, * Well, den, you peats us.' If he got a negative answer, his regular response was, ' Well, den, we peats you.' With this established character, an impudent Yankee tin pedlar once tried an experiment upon his patience. This fellow had a prodigious canine appetite, and was for this reason the dread of the whole ciicuit in which he was accustomed to sell his tins. He had, therefore, thought it prudent to annex to his perambulations a new district in Maryland ; andj hearing of this German farmer, and being in his neighbourhood, he one day presented himself just at the dinner hour. ' How t'ye do ? Heb you make your dinner V said the farmer. * I guess I have,' answered the pedlar. ' Well, den, you peats us,' he replied. * You see/ said the Yankee, 'I am one of them critturs that likes his dinner as soon as he can get it ; howsumdever, I'll jist take a look at your taters till the woman has done, and then, perhaps, we can trade a little.' Upon this he sat down, and helping himself to one-half of the pork that was on the table, he shot it dov/n so rapidly that all eyes became fixed upon him, little suspecting that the corned beef on the table was doomed to follow it iustanter. Having achieved the beef he perceived near to him two fine young cabbages, — the first that had been gathered that summer ; these, which were the German's own dear dish, he had the inexpressible horror to see disappear in a twinkling down the implacable throat of the omnivorous tin pedlar. Rising from his seat full of wrath, the farmer now shoved a huge dish of unskinned seedy potatoes to the fellow, that were there for the family, and screamed out, * Will you swallow de botatos, too, you duyvel's kind, mit de dish und de skins ? I should like to see dat.' ' No,' said the Yankee, ' I guess I telled you I'd only jist look at your taters ; it ain't so long to supper time but I can hold on. So I'm ready for a trade whenever you please.' 'If you makes your subber as you makes your dinner, and if you trades in de same way,' roared the German, ' I dink I shall hab de worst of de pargin ; so I'll not trade mit you at all.' This story which was related to us with good effect, produced much merriment." — Featherstonhaugh's Canoe Voyage.