where the mysteries of Egypt again meet our view.

ntelope, and leopard. t of the screen of the of England, which is Hitherto our investigations have been does not screen the confined to the ground-floor of the palace, which, from noon to and we have no apparent temptation to this quarter of the extend our inquiries far aloft. Yet as gour and continuity there are galleries we must mount them. appetites and ample The first is twenty-four feet wide, and is ngement, which vir- reached by a broad staircase twentya part of the exhibi- three feet high. The paucity of articles n censured, but want exhibited gives a forlorn air to the vast hich even here is not area, so different from the crowded galnd must be accepted leries of the Great Exhibition. A few Iding can be raised. curiosities, however, draw us on. A are also distributed Chinese shop attracts a small assembly; d to this there could and we are prepared to ascend one of the cept that, contrary to spiral staircases, which lead by two , intoxicating drinks flights, of twenty feet each, to the second re sold at the buyer's gallery, which is entirely destitute of teps across the palace articles. From this point, at either end, ew World, with its the best view is obtained of the spacious oloured savages, the edifice. We look up and are surrounded slim Guianese, the with the vast network of the place; we Indians, the noblest look down, the spectacle is august, but man, and the stunted the individual parts diminish to a dwarfish als, birds, and plants, size. The colossal statues, all but those nd in such a manner which crown the sphinxes at the north atic interest to the end, look of ordinary magnitude, and the eding with our face men and women dwindle into the moveept we make a call at able figures which an organ-grinder exouse, not constructed hibits in our streets. There is still a und in Pompeii, but higher spiral ascent, but the entrance to of those houses which, it is barred, owing, it is said, to some ntombment, were laid persons having fainted. We are inclined day. The door-way to grumble at the interdict, for there is on the floor are the no danger; and the prospect is described cave canem"-beware as one of uncommon beauty. Surrey having no fear of the and Kent, on the edge of which the Ivance into the recep- palace stands, lie at the feet of the middle of which is a spectator, and London, through its atambers being fitted up mosphere of film, is within the circle of Still advancing we his vision. So they say; and though a -room and enter the misty day was not the best for enjoying flower garden smiles such a spectacle, what could have been Beyond this is a niche perceived would have yielded sensations usehold gods); small and emotions which were denied by the sleeping, and bathing exclusion of the sight.

But we have to ret train is ready to depa ourselves away from this enchanted place. ever, let us pay it the tr the cordial hope t and a quarter pounds s company have already them every encouragem the completion of this with which our nati glory will assuredly be estimation of distant ti

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avenue we reach the large circular foun- fountains between the tains, of which more anon. On either terraces also play, and side at some distance are cultivated sun the scene becomes grounds, and on each side is a rosary. wonders of fact and fan Remaining in the main avenue we pass in one gorgeous and stu between the temples of cascades, and the rows of smaller cascades, yet incomplete, beyond which two basins of large fountains are being formed. Farther still a lower reservoir is in process of construction; but diverging to the right we came to the geological islands, on which extinct species of the Irish elk and preadamite creatures (by whose side the rhinoceros and elephant seem like children) are scientifically arranged. The intention is entertained of making this part of the grounds into a school of practical geology. The styles of landscape gardening employed are the English and Italian mixed, and the former pure; and when the whole ideal of Sir J. Paxton is realized the pleasure grounds will exceed any thing existing in the world. Two hundred acres will allow of every desire to render the grounds an oriental paradise, outvieing Nebuchadnezzar's hanging gardens, while the correspondence of all the parts, and their proportion to eight as a unit, secure a uniformity which every one can discern, but which only the initiated can explain. It is now half-past four. We have heard music inside the palace, and its tones, softened by distance, have fallen luxuriously on our ears as we have sat by the unfinished cascades; but now a rushing sound, unlike any thing heard before, comes distinctly to us. We turn toward the palace, and first one stream of water and then another rises before our view. The enigma is solved: the fountains are playing. We hasten to the central basin, which is 196 feet in diameter, surrounded with white marble statues. Radiant is

We have not received Queries of our esteem J. J., inserted in our n page 269. Do our friend matter as one of little have the queries paraly give below the Resolut Annual Meeting of the Churches held in Nott last, and which led to cussion.

"On the practicability public union with the Par nomination. Resolved, u this association, anxious ship and more general in our churches and those o of the baptist denomin Secretary to correspond of the Baptist Union, to would be convenient to t its next annual session i tingham."

Metropolis," Mr. N., missions, says, "I e can look coldly on su

that other efforts should be tried, which, in the spirit of the Great Founder of religion, should seek out and make efforts to save the classes referred to. Hence- The necessities of the forth the principle must be to take reli- the results of miss gion to those who will not come after it, momentous beyond and every good man will hail with plea- duty is plain; and w sure this new and interesting attempt to name we bear if we carry out the great lesson which Christ with zealous and p taught in his life. Last Sunday a similar Yet, with all these service was again held, and we believe a ask, what right we series has been determined upon." save those at the anti look those who are doors? Of all the p London has the firs Here, within a walk know that hundreds living without the pub and we have reason t living without religio know that many ar sorrow; and they ha the heathen, because means of knowledge, prospect, therefore, of

WANTED IN GREAT BRITAIN.

We are aware of the objection against new churches and chapels - that the people will not attend them if they are built. In some cases there may be force in the objection, but the remedies are two, 1st. Let the pulpits be occupied with zealous, devoted, spiritual men, who, out of the abundance of their hearts, will preach to the people "the truth as it is in Jesus;" and, 2nd, let a system of domiciliary visitation be perseveringly pursued, in all affection and fidelity, by competent agents (within small districts), and both school-houses and places of worship might soon be filled, provided that the locality of the places and the amonnt of population will permit it.

We want the best adaptation of means to the great end of saving the lost, and we have the highest authority to "go out into the streets and lanes" to make known the glad tidings of salvation. The Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel, at a town missionary meeting, said, "What person, that really hopes to be saved in eternity through the merits of Christ, and cannot shut his eyes to the fact that there are hundreds of thousands in the metropolis living in ignorance and vice, can find it

"Untaught, and disgrace the kingdon neighbourhood — the of young persons to h and sin-they train poor children to tread -they mar the sacre tian stillness of this than any other class they threaten the safe and the security of themselves wretched have grown faster th struction- they dail us; and while the persons in this city b never was there, I th of utterly unregarde as at this moment."

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arly two thousand miles of a country ware cylinders, taken from a temple a y Mr. Layard over a tract of shown to the company were two earthenthe field of operations deciphered. Among other curious relics useum, for three but that part has not yet been clearly struc- of Nebuchadnezzar, and his recovery; Kawlinson thinks allude to the insanity Some passages which Colonel ong the Euphrates and Tigris to the few miles from the site of ancient Babyifferent points of this extended area remains of the Tower of Babel, and a The excavations made lon, which had been supposed to be the brought to light relics of the most view of which is given in pictorial Bibles. esting kind, far surpassing in anti- A French commission had been sent to the Nineveh marbles of Mr. Lay- examine the lofty mound, and excavand comprising a number of tablets tions were made in it without any result; inders with written inscriptions but after the French commissioners had end to throw much light on se- abandoned the enterprise, it was resumed btful portions of ancient history. by Colonel Rawlinson, who succeeded in t relic was an earthenware slab, extracting the cylinders, from the inFrom a temple built 2,000 years scriptions on which it appeared that it Christian era, impressed with was a temple to the seven spheres, which of the king who reigned in had been built about 400 years before hat time. Colonel Rawlin- Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and restored by d that the kings of Chaldea that King. Colonel Rawlinson said that xercised the exclusive right the inscriptions contained on the tablets - names impressed on the he had excavated tended to reconcile the building, and that by this discrepancy between the Greek historians y the inscriptions found and the Bible history respecting Bele was enabled to ascer- shazzar. erable accuracy the pe- mentioned by the Greek historians, the the temples had been Babylonian king conquered by Syrus e carvings, excavated being called by them Nabonadius; but dates of which were it appears from some of the excavated The name of Belshazzar is not belong to a period inscriptions that Belshazzar before the birth of eldest son of Nabonadius, and that he acter far superior most probably shared the throne with re recent date ex- his father. One of the remarkable relics rd, especially the shown by Col. Rawlinson was a large nting scenes. In piece of polished ivory, engraved with s on flat slabs, mathematical symbols, so small as

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