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R. BONN:
BR, § EDITOR AND rRoPRIETO!
ER, {N04 ASN STREETS
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 28, 1857.
. 2 ($2 PER ANNUM,
TERMS, ("iy abvance-
VOL. XIL
i
Huterd according to Act of Congross, inthe year 1857, by
NER, an the Clerk's the District
ait forthe Soutborn Diet af New You
the CROWN JEWELS.
A TALE OF LONDON AND PARIS.
DY DR. HORATIO W. NEISON,
ACTHOR OF LADY CLAUDINE ; OR, IIE DOCSLE MARRIAGE”
be, bin, be. -
CHAPTER V.
Before we follow the barge with ia six oaremen
‘d belmman down the Thames, we
womise to make ee to the
thi
the
Sel to the abode of Salabiel, the oye the hake
‘ jurokey Hincheliff in the cemetery or
the euleeney a wud a few hours prior to hit
ance with the latter in company at the ° Sack inn?
mbark in the
We have already deseribed the night as dar
y
grandee; exiled for life rom his native land.
in the progress of generations it had become the
well-known house of the rich Jew Salathiel ; well
‘Laustibl
ood” he never inated to oat dlownall the
money asked on loan to the )xonians, “ Iam
men,” and ot her spendtbrifts of ite real.
admit Lord Neagle to Salathiel’s
fingers seat
many 3 a bright soe Soi aver and gold rings
ang crescents of the precious
@ pared court, lofty and wide, into pie
only the outside but thus far all the inside indi-
cate des solation, desertion, and abject poverty. By
sign street-ward, not
trout one suspect that it was the abode of “ay
than a family of ragpickers, or the temporary shel-
ter of homel
If the African, Eho, by a close sorutiny is satis
fied with our exterior, he will ask us for the pase
v the customers of Salathiel are re-
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wo is tired wits for bis ea
ie acqnaintance wit!
fhe vile Jew. The Triend, however, cannot find
the pie without the others
mitted er court and to
could loan to the Queen, did she know it, eae a
million sterling.
he password duly given, to show we are duly
pory, but an iron balustrade et
step, and we reach the landing at the top, and fad
ourselves in a sort of vestibule, with a grated win-
dow, ftom dy a curtain of cob-webs, that
vvailed its
"The Atican porter now pashos back bolt, and
the door ewings bac
eyes a noble
{| and bat three had so far gained his cont
As
me of bis customers, the ogre | rin
, revealing to our aarpcied w
fists The lemon-colored columns are entwin
by green flowering vines, which grow from 8
with earth at their bases The
decorated with oriet iental tracery ‘ot
may, the elect upon te mud fs Hke magical
enchantm
Tt the, cul of Salathiol are not aft admitted
Sato thin penetra, only thow in whom be bas
confidences an takes Biog tj for
lite has his fhvorils even ainoag
who seek his abode for aid.
outer door to ask
rowded with old garments, od all the
miscellaneous second hand w: ich go to make
upa poor Jon's merchandize that by day a grea
Limp always easis its yellow and dingy glare
seo Ta a sort of closet to this room is a des
and two stools; and near it an iron chest for
oiled, and emoked, and aged. his desk’ th
visitor e even though he be a nobleman, will find on
bis entrance the money-lender seated ready to
inte. If, by-and-by, the borrower need in-
func bim, bo gradually onde in him, and i in-
im into a better apartment, neatly furulshed,
and sets rich wine bofore him, is liking for
jim increase, on tho next visit he carps him by
faking tim a roo ome
to his private and across the
salon we have d ‘Or course te sn
int of his increased in proportion t
She splendor “he eves, hitherto carefully concealed
from even his sospicions.| But there was still mi
beyond ; and but half-a-dozen ni nobles les were honor
ed by a sight of the whole of this private pal:
ed Hk pees over t
But we will not anticipate.
entored the splontid oriental corse, where slag,
ingLirds greet -our ears, an ray
ni
© e
Sy riliant Gowers delight the sense of
smelling, vance, conducted by the scarlet turtan-
e follow him to the extremity of | as
bent, as to a man his
master delights to hone aud wit ‘a graceful wave
of his arm motions enter,
es him ‘to obey, he "lds his gold be
is breast, ani stands in an at
from ¢ ‘captiv ‘ity, m1
gaud temple,—all ‘lus done by foreign ar-
sul
who sear ‘is
concealed Jux
rey ¥
himself.
e
SALATMEL, THE Jew, “aT Boxe.”
all their pearly beauty bye their contrast with his
veined and dusky cheel
any Lord,” oles in a tone of voice
me iho deep, soft nolee of a flute gently breathed
PTTf we are entitled to the s rank, we en
ter, and) fo, we fi enter for ae tho you
amy Tons” a hi utber's palace,”
he ows wo ober tlle of weleo
find ourselves in an sprint which isa
wale gallery of Fine Art, the walls of which are
all sides aleoved and printed ofa Tht, sy
be fink They are bung with i
related with Now Testament history. fem nee
icifisions,” no “Descents from the Cross,”
no arysat the Sepulchre” no heads iets * Christ”
or of “John the Baptist ;? no * Ascension,” no
Vi But the historical incidents
of the old Jewish Scriptures had been largely and
tastefully drawn upon. In one burnished-border-
anel was a life-size representation of young
David, with his foot etanding upor ine
giant's neck ; in another, @ Some standing =
Diime before Pharaoh ;? in a ui, Sept’ # daugh
ter, who is therein represented as
e
magnifiee
embodiment of Jewish femate eauty. There ts
thing wantitg, we feel, as we survey this noble
and unique gallery of arf, and eudieal
absent appears to us There is not a statue~not a
but tobeseen! - The auunant ofthe eLan, eo
shal
her fale to as ‘ewer ty the epulent seme Te
visitor is escorted along this beautiful
door still ie but reached by two broad steps,
richly earpe' gorgeous rugs from the costly
looms of Isp: an
‘The page opens this door, and Instead of Aan
ing aa as the dark African had
es us and Heads us ito’ the ve
| pass, he
o presence of the lord of all this taste, wealth, aa he
cury.
e ace before us a noble form, Israclitish in every
outline anil feature, bat of the purest type of the
what is | >
enter an emperor's presence
scattered over the thee of the
omise of restoration to all that they have
lost! This wonderful people, preserving in two
hound years of 4
lows, their religi
among | of great value amid a cluster of large pearls. Her
as
to thal beloved Palestine, bow carefully bave they | a preci
their language, and the
preserved their name,
Dood of their royal line! With
mn king
without commanding
earth! Nation ‘vith,
and let me hear bow ‘hoa bast improved inte
brew since thy sister a teaching
noble voice, and with \
es—a glory yet to come. Sit and listen to
Ww all that our dispersed people Tooke
Selathiel then spoke to the listening boy of the
‘ish race, and
eason. While
is Tange, kingly eres expanding
ig me theme, a door
softly open cd wider, anda young rae,
‘tha bigt-bore mien and the dark ta
cy of a Jewess entered ; but seeing the two thu
engaged the ;;
listened, as if not wishing to interrupt i
was a Gne attitude for a painter to peize
with fine effect, the superb poiuts of her beauty. :
To deseribe ‘ordinary oriental style of i
loveliness in detail would be impossible. Sach a {
Sigure in the charms of the Three Graces
were united might have bad the fair daughter of i
Jeptha! Such wv would have become i
rk eye eof and starry as
uth to
dian<ummer night,
lave bad. Such Tip, full of Toveand soci rete
sfroluntary bone § Soden te een il in their ripe magnificence, most the som : | .
, oF ussias, Tise at tri ce presee, wht Foi , 4
his Operon, x he reprevente the long line and | 24 the Orient Tebecea to hes is wife! In :
roud throne of the Jewish kings! To bis veins | her face and the ie or :
flows the blood. of Abraham and of David Meee ee eerie a se in 4
wath | race is of that line of crowned monarchs on whose Sou Siow that ‘here “all aac in thts fallen :
heads the hand of God placed the jeweled / peo, those elements o} y that I ancieatly ~
odo i }
Nation peclod ond down Nation its women rerereaced over the Gred
Romaa worl k
She wasaltived in a long purple robe of rich
sow-white neck was round as a column of ivory,
and supporting her elegant brad with 0 gracefal
ision and symmetry, ry: that no wenn ‘s chisel
conta tore shay ape the like
rere bare, and
@ molded 4 as Eve's
cd, yet obscurely hidden ig to ao mt ha ve been whe en she came in fresh lo eliness
knowledge him before the Faiaas Sines of the | from the band of her Divine maker! They were
carth! With astandard of the f Liou ofthe Tribe a glory and a Beauty 5 aut when one .
of Judab,” yet fearing to lift it up and rally | the fair, emall fingers, spaviting wi with rubies {
around it for the re-conquest of ‘eit holy land! | and jewels, one thought o aly of mt i 4
my which seemed t around them,
With her Sapphoike bead bent slightly for-
ward, che listened immovable, with her glori
yes bent upon her falher and brother withthe eo
ice | were in unison
ferusalem | Here that that of oar
mime
ingled Tooks ot filial and sieterly love.
continned her ‘led, her ‘bosom heaved, {
her color went ad came, as if her heart and soul .
with every sentiment that fell from :
his lips It was a etriking and benntifal picture ‘
the three presented with the adjanct splendor of :
the apartment and the golden light that fell upon
each.
“ And will Sue Barat rine come dear futher?”
“Yes. The As his pro :
+ | pheey of our cpesion is AA ing, 8 be
restoration awaits Aiatiscet
aoenane o¢ Alesham, The epartment in which i and linea e alone lives :
bi ives us is a private sittings room, | #24 patent to all mea’s the line of David, fro fasten ‘te coh chief and ’
te | pera ‘at elegant rly “Fama furnished ; and while | _ But we will not linger to apostrophize! Let us conqueror fs pro heeled to ” .
hooks, and a writin; desk, and other init signs of j honor the children of Israel for the cee of their will he come, fatter? “asked the young
Dusinese show that it is usually occu im- | bistoricat past! If they are based, and | Joy ow an bis earnest and handsome eyes bent upon
hang the na, ‘unare Silfsh, and seek their own, | ony vf bis father. von
e fresh Bl
Toh malate atte, ad in a a piece of half
finshed e embroidery, with the needle still sticking
in it Proofs of the joint occupancy of it by a lady
¢ common sitting-room of the
the only. ocenpant reeat now is the Israe
gor and over lis noble bro
eaftan rckaanship, Wide end erimna
woven in gracefut forms Bef
him, upon a leaf or lectera afixed to his chair, is
a large Hebnew ook, over whieh be is intently
pouring. The Tight of falanp of gold, made as
| nearly ater the one a the ancient
temple of his nation, vas he dared have it shioned,
fell broadly upon his Aarouie or eal forehoad—
exioaly inter
ul
us not despise but pity! "If we were and had
teen for cighteen hundi
ved, hated, despised, unjast]
a
3
faith, hope, and perseverance under
De
ealt beta ai with a shade of sorrow passing over his
Lie know not We ba
may have to wait two thousand more"?
ave waited two thousand
At thie moment the maiden advanced towards
them, and she spoke:
l) “Say not. 7 toy dearest father.
| “Kelura, my ebild—I knew not you were here.”
“Thave heard all you have said. T have more
” nest
timullie tat oa have made bane other people | have father,” sho suid, Ina voice wana and glow
lose all religion, honor, m ms 1d hope. ing, and with a noble melodions sound that re-
But to ow tory. net fo, rack that we | ded one of a herp tunefuly sounded. “The
have preceded Lord Nene 's entrance, and must | time cannot be fa '—for the current of all the
to @oay #9 Tong a8 fo exhaust hn yong noble splendid prophecies are meeting in this century.”
patience, ‘supp invisi-
we s unthor wat ater) the taichoking sew that bap,
trust st my aughter.. I hope to live to see
the I eo rakam, Noah, Adam, the ine his eyes atour entrar “And what h day! dispersion of i
1g | us 8 young page, fn vot braided | fathers of te weseea pone ast have bad, upon had leisure to take one fl ple in at ations bas ge ue the koowledge of 5
vwith sil of gold, his waving au Treat ai heh the Creatar bas et te seal and impress of | sppenrance all th In ready gold of ou mer i
flowing freely npon his shoulders, H ful “Tis noble, aquilin , arching | ing against bis shoulder, otfsctionstely ‘ad confit chants will convenient at Jerusalem the world’s
boy ; and the arched cyebt "se 3 ete ‘his command ingly his beroiclooking motte ingly looks over the page ashe rads The two | wealth, ‘There is not a kingdom or aa empire tat }
almond-shaped eyes, lung-lnshed, and looking at} and chiseled lips, aa grent faces tlhus side by side— the throne some one oF Lerael i
you with that peculiar, yet interesting expression, wast have hail, was the pare type of po- | and the beautiful and youthful pears ites of talent, education and mu! 2
vhich a woman's eyes wet with tender tears have, | culiar feature of his race, and which would hare alt iu speaks ia, Perel ters of
betray him of the race of David and of Jonathan, | qj the counteaan: shangel, oni e re took tim tobe isthe council, whoare Jews! With such talent aswembled ;
in whose vel towed ¢ proud b Abraham, | human features given to these angelchiefe is tonott tho stately Ysact in Judea, sh e will command therespect and bomage (Jy
anceetry before whick tho proudest shield among | beard, once black as the velvet of is elose-batton- Fatt es wat do Fou ‘real? ofthe world, Tuall Isis Jowsare eminent painters, is i
the peers of Eagland shon wered i ed vest, swept apon his brea: led with silver ou iptors, arc :
fe was abont fide: th; His aye was about fifty-five, put in form “es he ht a pti these brill
formed, and attractive in ¢ and aspect he was in fall possesion of his health 8 prophet. “Thou shouldst remember'] them i
tupeebly-—his pure even teeth belog deplayed in gad vigor. The man we are desoribing en not better Teruel, the great mon of thy people. Read, by intellect, by knowledge of all tongues, Israel
