“ The Story of our Lives from Year to Year.”—SHAKESPEARE. ALL THE YEAR ROUND. A Weekly Journal. CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED HOUSEHOLD WORDS. VOLUME VI. FROM SEPTEMBER 28, 1861, to MARCI 8, 1862. Including No. 127 10 No. 150. LONDON: AND BY MESSRS. CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY, 1862. CONTENTS . . 222 . PAOB A STRANGE Story 1, 25, 49, 73, 97, 121, 145, 169, 193, 217, 241, 265, 299, 313, 337, 361, 385, 409. 433, 457 481, 505, 529, 553 African Negroes 234 Agricultural Eucampments 229, 277, 307 Agricultural Society, The Royal 229, 277, 307 Agriculture, The Iron Age of 307 Almanacs 318 America. The Morrill Tarifi 328 American Cemeteries 226 American Cotton 256 American Disunion 295, 3:28 American Humour 190 American Notes 540 American Slave Sale 125 American Slave Story 108 American Vigilance Committee 477 An Enlightened Clergymau 558 Antiochus and his Double 19 At Home in Russia 29 At the Court of the King of the Gipsies 69 Australian Aboriginals 14 Australian Milk and Water 13 BEES of Carlisle, The 403 Behind the Pope's Scenes 133 Benefit Clubs 461 Best House of Correction 537 Between the Cradle and the Grave . 456 Black Flags in the Channel 523 Black Men, Stories of 2:34 Black Min, The 3046 Bon Ton 58, 92 Boots in Russia 475 Bribes. 349 . , 204, . . . . . PAGE Cricket Match, The Onic-armed Hundred Years Ago, A . . 546 and One-legged 33 Hungarian Dragoon, The • 373 Crininal Statistics 471 300 Critic, Mr. Hawk, The 330 Hutchiuson, Mr., in Africa . 234 Crowns, A History of 224 396 281 Demetrius's Doubles' 21 In and Out of School 77 Divine Authority of Kings Incombustible Muslin 323, 441 Divine Hedge, The 222 Incorrigible Rogues 471 Don't! 200, 349 Incumbered Estates act 114 Double Likenesses 19 India, Famine in 519 Dr. Arthaud on Wine 246 India. The Play of Nil DarDrift 87, 202 pan Du Chaillu's African Travels 158 236 Indian Cotton 91, 259 Du Plessis, The Prodigy Hunter 331 Indian Suttee 5 Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha 174 Infaut Mortality 455 Infant Nursery, The 155 EARTHQUAKE of Last Year Iron Age of Agriculture 307 Eden and Paradiso 43 104 Edward the Confessor 87 20 284 English Life Abroad 274 Join Bull Abroad 274 English Roads 302 Judge Lynch's Mercy 321, 477 Englishmen Abroad 326 Judicial Murder 405 Equinoctial Trip in the Great Justice in Russia. 30 Easteru KENT Waterworks 153 FAIR Man of Dark Fortune 153, 237 Kerlis Peak 260 Pamine in India 519 King Edward the Confessor 87 Farm Labourer in Poverty 402 King of the Gipsies 69 Fever Hospital : 512 Kings, The Divine Right of 922 Field-Day, A Volunteer's 61 Fire 393 LADIES' Lives 323, 441 Fire, Accidents by 323, 441 Lambert Simnel 20 France a Century Ago 551 Lambeth Water Company 153 Francophobia 85 Lebanon, Cotton at 344 Footprints Here and There 13 Lesurques, Romance, The 237 French Administrative, The 234 Lighthouse, Story of a 424 French Bon Ton 5S, 92 19 281 French Songs 418, 561 400 405 237, 405, 500 Locomotive in Slippers, The 513 Frenchman on Wine, A 246 London Water . 137, 150 From Turkey to Persia 543 Long Services 128 Frozen to Death 399 Lost in the Jungle 88 Funerals in America 226 Love and Marriage in Persia 428 Lunacy Doctors 510 GARDEN of Eden, The. 43 Lynch Law 321, 477 Gas Lighting 55 Genii of the Lamps 55 MACHIXES for Agriculture 307 Genius, Men of . 281 Mad Doctors 510 Ghost Story, Mr. H.'s, 36 Magic • 400 Gipsy Life 69 Mandevile's Stories 356 Globe Theatre, The 381 Marks of Genius . 281 Going to the Play with Shake. Marriage in Persia 488 speare 379 Martin Guerre's Likeness 22 Good Servant, The Bad Master Master and Man 368 332, 441 Matrimonial French Polish 30 Grand Junction Water Works 153 M.D. and M.A.D. 510 Gratuities 200,349 Members of the V.C. 477 Great Eastern in a storm 201 Memorial to Lord Herbert 102 Green Light, The 424 Men of Genius 281 Guilty, or Not Guilty ? 34+ Meudoza, The Earthquake at 186 HARTLEY Colliery Accident 492 Mexican Revolution, A 46 Hatteras Lighthouse 424 373 Heat 393 Milcarrambas Revolution, The 46 Herbert Memorial, The 102 419 405 Historical Likenesses 19 Morning Caller, The History of a Young Ology 186 Morrill Tariff 328 Hodson, Mr., on Japan 284 Morta! Struggle 542 Humau Monsters 531 Mortgage, Borrowing on 115 157, of . . . CANNIBALS of Africa 236 Carlisle Mechanics Institution 403 Catacombs of Paris 516 Catacombs of Rome. 208 Cattle Shows 231, 277, 307 Cécile Combettes, The Murder 500 Cemeteries in America 226 Census Taking, Story of 467 Century Ago, A. 546 Chatham, Soldiers' Club at 539 Chelsea Water Works 153 Chesapeake and Shaunon Ac tion, The 310 Children's Hospital 45+ Chimney-pieces. 65 China, Suitee in 5 Christmas Boxes 202 Chromidrosis. 104 Church Service Reform 128 Circumstantial Evidence 31 Circus Life 182 City in Arms, The 202 Coach Travelling 302 Coal Mine, Accident at Hart: ley 492 Coru mission of Lunacy, A 510 Convict Treatment 471 Corn from Russia 382 Cost of Coal. 432 Cotton at Lebanon 344 Cotton Cultivation in Bengal 91 Cotton Eden, A 349 Cotton Fields 256 Cotton Pielus, Old and New 125 Cradle and the Grave 454 PAGE 033 . . PAGE PAON Mr. H.'s Own Narrative . 36 The Emperor and the Mes- This Sheet of Paper 7 Murder at Wegby, The 344 senger from Inkermann 32 Through a Dillicult Country 203 Murder of Cécile Coinbettes 500 The Great National Railway 140 Ticket of Leave, The 471 Murder of the Courier of Refreshment Rooms 77 Lyons 154, 237 Horse-keepers at Moscow 142 Tolls and No Tolls Murder of Vellerte at Rome 405 In the Hands of the Police 143 Town and Country Circus Life 181 Music in the Streets, 179 Frost aftera December Thaw; Town and Gown 203 Muslin Rendered Incombus Risk by the River 356 tible. 323, 441 253 Travelling in the Last Century 301 Myddelton, Sir Hugh. 150 Nothing Like Russian Lea- Trial at Toulouse 500 ther 392 369 NATIONAL School Teaching 79 Ice-bound in 396 Turkey to Persia 513 Negroes, Stories of 23+ Wolves 399 Turkeys 117 New Disease, A 16+ Up the Danube 422 Turnpikes 534 New River, The. 150 473 Two Cures for a Pinch 474 Two Nights in the Catacombs 516 Wil Darpan 15 The Starosta 477 Tybourne Brook 159 Nou-Inilanımahle Garments 323, 412 Nothing Like Russiau Leather 353 St. George and the Dragoman 538 UNREPORTED Speech, An . 179 San Francisco, Lynching in 477 Up the Danube : 422 On Bribes 319 Saving a Patient 103 On the Chimney-piece 65 Saxe-Coburg Gotha, The Duke VALET de Chambre, The 309 Operating for a Rise 46 of. 174 Vigilanco Comunittee, A 477 Orxan Vuisance 10 School-time Voice from a Pev. 128 Our Latest Eden 284 Sea Duel, A 310 Volunteer Field-day. 61 Our Old Abbey 87, 190 Sebastian Dorin 20 Our old an Seij cottin Select Committee on French WALBROOKE 138 Fields . 123 Sonirs 448, 561 10 Servants 363 139 PAINTED Eyes . 161 Servants' Gratuities. 200 Water Supply of London. 137, 150 Paper- jiaking Seventeen Hundred and Sixty- Wegby Vurder, The. 316 Puadise Two 139 Paris, Lost in the Catacombs · 510 Shakespeare Going to the Play 379 West Middlesex Water Works 133 Perkin Warbeck 20 Shamon and Chesapeake Ac Westminster Abbey 87, 496 Persia, Love and Marriage in 425 tion, The 310 What is Fire! 393 Pet Prejudices 8+ Short School Hors 77 What Wine Does for Us 215 Pinch of Poverty. Show Cattle 5 Pirates 623 Sick Child, The 454 Wine, Dr. Arthaud on 246 Play in Shakespeare's Time 379 Skating Spiders. 397 Pliny's Stories 356 Slave Sale 125 Withered Daisy, The 210 Poor Benefit Club, The Soldiers' Club, T12 339 Poor Rate Relief 432 Southwark later Company 153 Wonderful Stories 331, 336 Pope, a Portrait of the 134 Spence, Mr., ou The American Word about Servants 308 Pope's Goverument, The 13) Union 293 Working Men of Carlisle, The 403 Portable Property in Land. 11! Spiders 351, 369 Wrockers, A Story of the 424 Prejudices : 84 Stature of Men of Genius 281 Princo Ernest of Saxe-Coburg: 171 Stories of the Black Vien 23+ YELLOW Pamphlet. The . 17 Prodigy Hunter, A 331 Stories of the Marvellous 331, 356 Young Jan Irom the Country, Professor Bon Ton 53, 92 Story about Mazic 400 The. 540 Pursuit of Cricket under iili- Story of an American Slavo 108 467 318 Story of Hatteras Lighthouso 42! Zula in Russia 47 RAILWAY Accidents 17 Story of Michael the Dragoon 373 Railway Compensation for Story of Mr. H's Narrative 36 POETRY Accidents 17 Story of the Black Jill 306 A GREAT Man 421 Railway Statistics 303 Story of the Catacombs of At the Roadside 181 Railway Travelling in the East 515 Rome 203 Fair Urience 372 Rather Interested in Railways 17 Strange Story, Å. 1, Fallen Leaves 56 Rather Remarkable Person 467 25, 43, 73, 97, 121, 143, 169, 193, Hermit at loine 203 Roads, The Improvement of 300 217, 241, 205, 239, 313, 337, 361. How Lady Blanche Arundel Roads of Old London. 301 385, 409, 433, 157, 431, 505, 529, 553 held Wardour for King Rome, a Portrait of the Pope . 133 Street dusic 179 Charles 107 Ruine, Lecatelle's Execution 405 Striking Likenesses 12 Lady Witch, The 276 Rome, The Catacombs of 208 Study 77 Life's Balances 132 Royal Agricultural Society 229, Stump Cricket 33 Jelancholia 396 277, 307 Sutice in China. 5 Mme Spirit, The 318 Russian Travel : On the liste 491 At Home in Russia 29 TAPE at the Ilorse Guarda 539 Rabbi Ben Ephraim's Treasure SO A Peasant's liut in 23 Terririai Paradise, The Rosemary froin the Camaldoli Rule of the bad in 30 Thailes Shakespeare's Monastery, Vaples 252 Five in a Kivilaa 31 Tuino 370 Unrest 23 Factory Lile. 32 Theatrical Properties 352 . . . . The Extra Christmas Number, “TOJ TIDDLET'S GROUND,' will be found at the end of the Volume, containing I. Picking up Soot and Cinders . IV. Picking up Waifs at Sea . II. Picking up) Evening Shadows 1. Picking up a Pocket Book lil. Picking bij Terrible Company VI. licking up Miss Kimmccus Page 17 PAGE 1 5 11 PAGE 1 20 ALL THE YEAR ROUND. A WEEKLY JOURNAL. [Price 2d. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1861. N 127.] » &c. BY THE AUTHOR OF CIŁAPTER XXII. A STRANGE STORY. subject you could have hit on. Pray give us the details." humouredly, “I will not hesitate to communi cate the little I know. In Aleppo, there had That evening I went to Mrs. Poyntz's; it lived for some years a man who was held by the was one of her ordinary“ reception nights,” and natives in great reverence. He had the reputaI felt that she would 'naturally expect my at- tion of extraordinary wisdom, but was difficult tendance as a proper attention.' of access; the lively imagination of the OrienI joined a group engaged in general conversa- tals invested his character with the fascinations tion, of which Mrs. Poyntz herself made the of fable; in short, Haroun of Aleppo was popucentre, knitting, as usual, rapidly while she larly considered a magician. Wild stories were talked, slowly when she listened. told of bis powers, of his preternatural age, of his Without mentioning the visit I had paid that boarded treasures. Apart from such disputable morning, I turned the conversation on the titles to homage, there seemed no question, from different country places in the neighbourhood, all I heard, that his learning was considerable, and then incidentally asked, “What sort of a his charities extensive, his manner of life irreman is Sir Philip Derval? Is it not strange proachably ascetic. He appears to have rethat lie should suffer so fine a place to fall sembled those Arabian sages of the Gotbic age into decay?” The answers I received added to whom modern science is largely indebted-a little to the information I had already obtained. mystic enthusiast but an earnest scholar. A Mrs. Poyntz knew nothing of Sir Philip Derval, wealthy and singular Englishman, long resident except as a man of large estates, whose rental had in another part of the East, afiíicted by some been greatly increased by a rise in the value of languishing disease, took a journey to Aleppo to property be possessed in the town of L consult this sage, who, among his other acand which lay contiguous to that of her hus- quirements, was held to have discovered rare band. Two or three of the older inhabitants of secrets in medicine—his countrymen said in the Hill had remembered him in his early days, "charms.' One morning, not long after the when he was gay, high-spirited, hospitable, Englisliman's arrival, Haroun was found dead in lavish. One observed that ihe only person in his bed, apparently strangled, and the EnglishL- whom he had admitted to his subsequent man, who lodged in another part of the town, seclusion was Dr. Lloyd, who was then without had disappeared; but some of his clothes, and practice, and whom he had employed as an a crutch on which he habitually supported himassistant in certain chemical experiments. self, were found a few miles distant from Aleppo Here a gentleman struck into the conversa- near the roadside. There appeared no doubt tion. He was a stranger to me and to L- that he, too, had been murdered, but his corpse a visitor to one of the dwellers on the Hill, who could not be discovered. Sir Philip Derval had had asked leave to present him to its Queen as a been a loving disciple of this Sage of Aleppo, great traveller and an accomplished antiquarian. to whom he assured me he owed not only that Said this gentleman : "Sir Philip Derval! I knowledge of medicine which, by report, Sir know him. I met him in the East. He was Philip possessed, but the insight into various then, still, I believe, very fond of chemical truths of nature, on the promulgation of which it science; a clever, odd, philanthropical man; was evident Sir Philip cherished the ambition had studied medicine, or at least practised it; to found a philosophical celebrity for himself.” was said to have made many marvellous cures. “Of what description were those truths of I became acquainted with him in Aleppo. He nature ?" I asked, somewhat sarcastically. had come to that town, not much frequented by Sir, I am unable to tell you, for Sir Philip English travellers, in order to inquire into the did not inform me, nor did I much care to ask, murder of two men, of whom one was his friend for what may be revered as truths in Asia are and the other bis countryman. usually despised as dreams in Europe. To This is interesting," said Mrs. Poyntz, return to iny story. Sir Philip had been in dryly. “We who live on this innocent Hiil all Aleppo a little time before the murder ; had left love stories of crime; murder is the pleasantest | the Englishman under the care of Haroun; he a 127 VOL. VI. |
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