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the Lands of the Tiber, the Jordan, and the Nile; with Notices of Asia

tentinonle Athens &e &o By the Rey TuOMAS W AVELING

"Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,

Might never reach me more. My ear is pained,
My soul is sick, with every day's report

Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart;
It does not feel for man; the natural bond
Of brotherhood is severed as the flax
That falls asunder at the touch of fire."

So, some seventy years ago, sang the
amiable poet of humanity in his rural
retreat on the banks of "Ouse's silent
tide." Were his meek spirit now in
the body, how would it again lament,
in plaintive strains, the outrages and
wrongs, the bloodshed and destruc-
tion, which are once more disturbing
and desolating some of the fairest
portions of the earth?

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And why these dreadful doings?
Why are men called to leave the
suits of peaceful industry, and meet
each other in deadly strife? Why
are human beings who never saw each
other before, and could not possibly
have cause of personal offence, to en-
deavour, the moment they meet, to
mutilate each others bodies, or take
each others lives ? Acting, all of
them, as if possessed by a spirit be-
yond which the most malignant of
infernals could not go? Already it
may be calculated that 100,000 vic-
tims have been offered on the blood-
stained altar of war.

How many
more may yet be sacrificed to this
demon of destruction none can tell or
even hazard a conjecture.

And why? We ask again, why all this? The only answer that can be given is that one man has willed it -one man has done it all-and "Pity

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The whole mi ONE MAN syste the system wh and bows dow Just such ad

Russia; who, vast regions alr tive control, se territories of ou ing shame on h his aggressive cloak-the old critical robbers terests of the Redeemer.

The Eclecti Review of Church," says: "Before the the civilized w suspense for th Czar-the word believed was to nations. It wa dictum of such should be listen est; for then all its force. T lions of human are subject to h of more than ha and having in A its whole surfa his vast resourc tary pre-emine was natural tha regarded with d ing nations.

his subjects. He is their king, the pope, their apostle, all in one, and h tells them in his inflammatory pro clamations that he is combating fo the orthodox faith-against the grea enemy of Christianity with which th Western powers have allied themselve

s, and like nerves, sensitive ore, and likely to be paraevery shock. Even with erful inducements to peace, hard for a monarch possess nth of the whole land of the he Czar does, to resist the f ambition and the propen- This, indeed, is but the cloak ression. Now, this intoxi- Russian ambition. It was worn b wer is in the hands of a Peter the Great, and by Catherin o acknowledges no law but with whom the conquest of Constar hose subjects are in a semi- tinople, which they called the Orient te, whose wealth has the project, was an object of earnest d ble dependence on the deli- sire; and to realize this hereditar lications of commerce, who project Nicholas has been preparin to lose but men, of which for many years. Our readers a e has an inexhaustible sup- aware that the Eastern question n which he places very little which is now being settled by th ut with all the temptations sword, originated in a dispute th sition, which operate most arose in 1850 between the Roma n a rude nature, stimulated Catholics and Greeks about the Hol rs, who cannot understand places in Jerusalem. The court ess its form is physical and France, constituted by treaties th destructive, there is super-protector of the Latin Christians blind and furious fanaticism, sa grand impelling motive of the conquering migrahe East and North. When n kings overran the nations, establish the faith of their dz, as we find it recorded by the Great Rock, Behistun. ed, we know, warred against el,' and when the northern esolated christian Europe in le ages, they felt that the of priests and the burning of were the most acceptable o their cruel idols. Many, ost, of the wars of Christena religious element mixed hem, which increased their fold. Like Attila, the cru

the Turkish empire, interfered, d manding concessions for the Latin which were strenuously resisted by th Emperor of Russia, the protector the Greeks. Hence the extraordinar mission of Prince Menschikoff Constantinople, ostensibly with other object than the adjustment the difficulties about the Holy place which the Czar himself positively as serted would settle all matters in di pute between Russia and the Porte though he had charged his ambassad with secret instructions to extort new treaty from the Sultan, extendin and confirming his protectorate.

From the earliest period of the in tercourse between the Greeks an Latins they regarded one another wit

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ereditary i ɔreparing ders are question,' 1 by the >ute that Roman he Holy court of ties the stians in ed, deLatins, by the ector of rdinary koff to with no ment of

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rages which it produced. The inter- from any su
course between the two parties during
the first Crusades did not mitigate
their hostile feelings. The Greeks of
Constantinople were compelled to en-
tertain the demoralized soldiers who
went forth to deliver Jerusalem from
the profanation of the Turks, but they
took revenge for the infliction by a
number of refined and ingenious in-
sults, which they could venture upon
with impunity. Such was their anti-
pathy to the persons and religion of
the schismatic crusaders, that in the
expedition of Louis VII., the Greek
clergy are said to have washed and
purified the altar which had been de-
filed, in their estimation, by the ser-
vices of a Latin priest. In 1183
their hatred broke forth in the mas-
sacre of the Frank inhabitants of
Constantinople. The capture of that
city by the Latins and Venetians, and
the partition of the defenceless em-
pire among the conquerors, while com-
pleting the degradation of the Greeks,
rendered their aversion to the church
of Rome, if possible, more intense."
The Greek church is grossly super-
stitious:-

"The worst and most shameful of their impostures, however, is the miracle of the Holy Fire, which is performed on Easter Saturday in the Holy Sepulchre and the little chapel annexed to it, which forms a separate building within the church on Mount Calvary. The fire which, as they pretend, is miraculously kindled, is designed to represent that which came

selected that indulgence in decencies far s gance of any ran and dragge sepulchre; th other's should selves up in py their heels nak performed the chapel tumbli The shouts an many voices, i sharpened wit surpassed any by the langui west. And the still more var more discorda ceedings of the soldiers, in the quillize fanatic Such is the Waddington, h 'Very soon glimmering th the Holy Cha flame, and inst ble to the cro announced thi of the miracle, exhibition of that had prece ous or more vi towards the cl obtain a more immediate app to the Divine f ness of those