not quite half a mile: in that space were thirty-four 'mosques, all of which, with the houses attached to them were destroyed, or nearly so. The number of houses attached to a mosque forming a Turkish parish is very varied, so that I could make nothing of the data; but, supposing the Peninsula of Pera to contain 30,000 houses, and 150,000 inhabitants, which is the usual conjecture, it will appear that about one-third has been destroyed, or about 10,000 houses, and 50,000 people left without habitations, which is, in fact, a calamity of sufficent magnitude with out any exaggeration. Comparatively, very few lost their lives, considering the imperturbable character of the Turks, and their utter inaptitude to take any precautions. About 500 persons, consisting of bed-ridden old men and women, sick and young children, perished in the ruins. The fire was, as usual, attributed to the discontented janissaries, and was taken as an expression of their opinions. It was rather remarkable that not a single house belonging to a Frank, or even a Raya Christian, was consumed. Whatever the Sultan's opinion really was, he affected to believe it entirely accidental. A firman was immediately issued, that no Turk should, in future, leave his house without carefully extinguishing any fire remaining in his mongal or tandoor. The Gatherer. The Asphodel. It was formerly the custom to plant asphodel around the tombs of the deceased; its fine flowers producing grains, which, according to the belief of the ancients, afforded nourishment to the dead. Homer tells us, that having crossed the Styx, the shades passed over a long plain of asphodel. Orpheus, in Pope's Ode on Cecilia's Day, conjures the infernal deities By the streams that ever flow, Or amaranthine bowers. Vegetable Lace.-The inner bark of the Lace-bark Daphne is of such a texture, that it may be drawn out in long webs like lace, and has actually been worn as such. Charles the Second had a cravat made of it, which was presented to him by Sir Thomas Lynch, when governor of Jamaica. The Globe-Flower.- This splendid flower adorns the path of the rustic on festival days. It is a bright yellow flower, blowing in May and June. In Westmoreland, these flowers are gathered with great festivity, by the youth of both sexes, at the beginning of June; about which time it is usual to see them return from the woods in an evening, ladeu with them, to adorn their doors and cottages with wreaths and garlands. The Gourds.-The Bottle Gourd is, by the poor Arabians, boiled in vinegar and eaten. Sometimes they make this gourd into a kind of pudding, by filling the shell with rice and meat. In Jamaica, the shells are used as water-cups, and frequently serve the negroes and poorer white people for bottles. largest kinds are cultivated for their shells, which will sometimes contain five, six, or seven gallons. The Warted Gourd is gathered when half grown by the Americans, and boiled as a sauce to their meat. The Water Melon serves the Egyptians for meat, drink, and medicine, from the beginning of May to the end of July. When it is very ripe, the juice, mixed with a little rose water and sugar, forms the only medicine which the common people take in the most ardent fevers. The Heart's-ease has an infinity of provincial names, as : VOL. XXVII. OF THE MIRROR, MITFORD, Sixty-six Engravings, and upwards of With a Steel-plate Portrait and a Memoir of MISS 440 closely-printed pages, price 5s. 6d. boards, will be published on the 30th inst. also be ready on the same day. Part 180, price ls., completing the Volume, will The SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, containing the Portrait and Memoir, with Title-page, Preface, and Index to the Volume, will be published on Saturday next, July 2. LONDON: Printed and published by J. 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ABINGDON, new workhouse at, 129 Alfred's Tower, at Stourhead, Wilts, 377 Algiers, Lord Exmouth at, 24 Alms-houses at Marylebone, 175-208-401 Annuals, Spirit of the, for 1836: Hoods's Comic, 7 Anti-Malthusian, one, 336 Antipathies, remarkable, 284 Ants in Peru, 315 Antuco, in South America, description of, 297 volcano of, 298 Appetite, lost, 64 Apple and comfit custom, 266 April evening, the, 413 Architecture, Elizabethan, specimens of, 18 Arques Castle, history of, 33 Autographs and localities, 163-370 Baltimore, monument to Washington at, 248 Barnaby Palms, the man who felt his way, 36 Bears and bulls in stock jobbing, 176 Beauty, Nature, and Winter, a sonnet, 416 Bede, shrine of, 86 Bed-liers, anecdote of, 311 Beef, roast and boiled, to dress, 124 Bees, anecdote of, 151 Beet-root sugar, preparation of, 425 VOL. XXVII. 2 F Beetles, voracity of, 68 Bible of Charlemagne, 374-304 systematic arrangement of, 309 Black Hole at Calcutta, account of the, 344 Black preachers at Sierra Leone, 270 Blucher, statue of, 332 tomb of, 335 Blunders, translation, 95 Books, ancient, 130 New, noticed and quoted: Arcana of Science and Art for 1836, Back's (Capt.,) Journey to the Arctic Ben Brace, by Capt. Chamier, 170 Bray's, Mrs., Description of part of Companion to the Almanac, 42 By Baron Von Raumer, 238-251-299 Experimental Guide to Chemistry, 62 Godwin's Lives of the Necromancers, Books, New, noticed and quoted: Random Recollections of the House Castle Acre Priory, ruins of, 103 Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes, 12 Ceylonese canoes, construction of, 311 28-44 Rookwood, 4th edit., 254 Savory's Companion to the Medicine School of the Heart and other Poems, Separation, the, by Joanna Baillie, 155 Sketches of Germany and the Ger- Swainson's Discourse on Natural His- Swainson's Geography and Classifi- Walsh's (Doctor,) Residence in Con- White Man's Grave; or a Visit to Wraxall's, (Sir N.,) Posthumous Me- Brahmin beauty, 16 Bread, adulteration of, 42 British Artists, Exhibition of their Pictures, British Museum, improvement of the, 147- 211-258 persons admitted to, 44 Brougham, Lord, sketch of, 348 Buckingham, the late Duchess of, 334 Palace, visit to, 299 Buffalo, the Naked, 288 Bulwer, noveis by, 89 Buonaparte, lines on, by Lamartine, 72 Jerome, at Warsaw, 374 Buonapartiana, 325-373 Burghley, Lord, at Theobalds, 417 Burns, lines on, 398 Cabbage prevents intoxication, 16 Chambord, excursion to the chateau of, 69- St. John's, at Norwich, 241 Chilians, improvement of the, 320 Clifton, Giants' Cave at, 215 the Palace, at Hampton Court, 301 Cobbett, William, birthplace of, 273 Coffee and sugar, consumption of, 400 Cold, extreme, in the Arctic Regions, 359 Conspirator before the magistrate, 14 Cooking apparatus, Weeks's, 295 Courtship, past and present, 112 Cowper at Olney, 149 Cranes catching crabs, 408 Cranstoun, Dr., letters of Thomson to, 6— Curls, extraordinary, 236 Cuttings, new mode of striking, 296 Dardanelles, description of the, 361 Davy, Sir H., on the British Museum, 148 Day, the first, 336 Dead, watching for the, 222 Dean of Badajoz, the, a sketch, 404 Epitaphs, eccentric, 320-416 Exchequer buildings, the old, 289 Fame, sonnets on, 415 customs and superstitions in, 222 Fancy and Reason, 416 the Duchess of, 409 House, rout at, 238 Dewberry, the, 101 Diamond, the Sancy, 224 Diana of the Ephesians, temple of, 363 Dinner, civic one at Greenwich, 76 Diorama, Regent's Park, the, 267 Dog-ape, the, 102 Domestic dilemma, the, 7 Dorking church, repair of, 192 Doubt, Feltham on, 336 Douglas, Mr. David, death of, 194 Drawing-room at St. James's described, 159 Dublin, King William's statue at, 258 Duckboats in China, 229 Dunning, Lord Ashburton, anecdote of, 160 Dyspepsia, or indigestion, causes of, 218 pyramids at, 227 vastness of its buildings, 180 Egyptiana, 180-227 Ejectment law, singular, 389 Elephant, tusks of the, 165 Elizabeth, Queen, portrait of, 336 Farnham, Cobbett's birthplace at, 273 Fern, gathering on St. John's eve, 102 Fielding, anecdote of, 320 Field-paths, by Richard Howitt, 398 Fish, modes of dressing and serving, 110 and snipes, migration of, 230 finest varieties of, 110 Fits and ague, cures for, 236 Flames, coloured, 62 Fleet marriages, register of, 380 Flies, keeping them out of houses, 374-389 servants in, 286 Fresco, paintings in, 143 Fumigation, new modes of, 219 Gallipot and schoolboy, 96 Game, fine specimens of, 124 Ellis, Sir Henry, evidence of, on the British Garden, the suburban, 250 Museum, 211-258 Engraving, subdivision of, 423 Einsiedeln, pilgrimages to, 277 Epigram on a Deformed Lady, 416 Genius, Victor Hugo on, 89 Ghost stories, origin of, 139 Giraffes at the Zoological Gardens, 386 Globe-flower, gathering the, 432 Goethe, song from, 292 Good Friday customs, 242 hymn for, 223 washing clothes on, 222 Gourds, uses of, 432 Governess wanted, lines on, 399 Grayling, the flower of fishes, 392 Guernsey, islanders of, 85 Guest, the unbidden, 245-261 Irishman, the tipsy one, 144 Irish Blunder, 304 Hailing a Portuguese man-of-war, lines on, Islington, new cattle-market, 306 216 Jackal, a tame one, 35 Lamb, Charles, lines by, 303 Dr., the conjuror, 185 Lament, touching, 112 Leo X., Pope, 182 Letters, foreign, 176 Licensed Victuallers' School, the new, 114 |