Summary: female, side by side as it were, which are enveloped in a costume pretending to the utmost prudery,—the Cccc in the Major Wheeler whatever he begged; his ex­ cellent memory, and the lively manner in which be spoke of India, with its complex system of religion, literature, and manners, as well as of its countless inhabitants,—Hindu, Mohammedan, and Christian,—showed bow entirely his mind had been absorbed in the study of those vast countries. And even the evening which, to the inhabitants f>f the remote Koilnecbo, seemed to have come on so early,—must now give place ; but exhausted as we were from our long ride, an interesting party still attached me to my chair round the hospitable board of my hosts. How truly delightful was all lie here! In what a suburban paradise had we unexpectedly found ourselves! All that surrounded us wasa no /'e*'Il'i°yv delightful and enchanting; while the conversation did not flag for a moment, but went on from topic to topic, the smallest particulars ab ' ut which were all clothed in peculiar charms by the Major’s lively and inspiring style of inter­ preting them to us all. Nevertheless it was already fouro’clock when we mounted our horses and rode along the Waterloo-road to the tin-houses of the actual resident Sipahzy Major, styl­ ed Bhaedjflr, because he had formerly held the appoint­ ment of Commander in Chief. Thank God! the cool breeze is refreshing the drooping sun-flowers of Paradise; the monotonous murmur of the Pudmanjl Gunga,* near at hand, is like the motto of a melody to us all. The sun is declin'- itlowly in a blaze of golden light sere­ nely behind the Hayasawor hills. The Major’s fine and noble countenance now beams with a peculiar home­ ly yet unimpeachable, acknowledged dignity, entirely his own. “Major, ’- 1 exclaim aloud, “daring the heat of .the day, I could endure it all to look on such scenes as these; but now that the hour of rest and freedom is gone by, 1 feel that all this holiday­ ing has only been half painful to me.” Major Wheeled is the son of an Oude Princess by a Grerman father. He gloried in his connection with that land of kings and princes; and yet...