counterparts of one that stands in the hippodrome at Constantinople.

The last of our ride, leading us by the Greek convent, called us to drop a tear over the grave of Parsons. The convent is without the inner wall, and according to the information of the superior, who received us civilly, it contains four monks, besides a few novices. It is the only place for Greek worship now remaining in the city, once the capital of the four great patriarchates, into which the Christian world was divided, and the residence of prelates who successfully rivalled the incumbents of Constantinople itself. It is not even the residence of any ecclesiastical dignitary, the humble successor of the great Athanasius now occupying a moderate establishment in Cairo, a city of Moslem origin.

At my former visit to this convent seven years ago, I found in the pavement of the inner court, under the arcade, a slab of marble with an inscription pointing out the grave of Parsons. Now no trace of such a monument appeared. We were conducted into an open burying ground to search for it, but could find it no where. The superior said he had been here but four years, and knew nothing of it; nor could any of our inquiries lead us to the least information. The pavement had evidently been recently relaid, and as the convent received an income from the sale of burial places, the monument had doubtless been removed, that the place it occupied might be sold again. Such an iniquitous proceeding is nothing new. The tomb of a child, once buried here by Mr. Gliddon, who is now our consular agent, long since suffered the same fate. The result of our visit to-day was immediately reported to this gentleman. He was already aware of what had been done, and had his eye upon the unprincipled management of the monks; but was doubtful whether, instead of renewing the monument in its former place, it would not be better to erect one in the new English cemetery, where it would be under the protection of that power. We concluded on the whole, to claim the right of placing a small slab in the wall adjacent to the pavement in which was the former tomb-stone, where, by the side of the monument of Mr. Lee, the English consul, and others, it would probably be safe. In order to lay in this claim we visited the convent together on a subsequent occasion. The superior was sick and declined seeing us. But in reply to our roposition, he sent us word by the con

dragoman, that he dared not accede

to it upon his own responsibility, lest he should incur the displeasure of his superiors, and it must necessarily be referred to the patriarch. Mr. Gliddon therefore concluded to communicate with the Patriarch through his son and agent in Cairo, and report the result.

Native Education.

28. Wishing to look into the state of native education, I visited this morning the Greek Lancasterian school. It occupied two small rooms, for which, the teacher assured me, an annual rent of one thousand piastres is paid. On his list was the names of thirty-seven pupils, but not near half that number were present. Only two or three are admitted gratis; the rest pay from five to twenty piastres a month, according to their ability. The school is under the patronage of the Wesleyan missionary of this station, and perhaps would have been found in a more prosperous condition had he not been absent from the city. His Arab school will be noticed under another date. In the same Ochella which contained our lodgings was another school for native children, and the only one in the city for Christians of the Arabic language, except that just referred to. It contained perhaps forty scholars, and is wholly under papal influence, being taught by a papal Greek monk. How many scholars the Moslems may have I know not. They are probably numerous. It come to our knowledge, that there was just commencing the strange phenomenon of a school for Mohammedan girls entirely under native auspices. The sheikh or imam of the largest mosks had established a school for boys and another for girls.

Altogether too favorable statements have been made in England from high authority, respecting the part which the government of Egypt has taken in reference to education: and I have been sorry to see these statements copied into American magazines. Abroad it seems to be the order of the day to praise the present ruler of this land, in reference to the bearing of his measures upon the interests of his people. His schools, here and at Cairo, are for the education of persons whom he has taken under his patronage, intending them for the government service, in naval, military, or civil stations. He talks much of educating the people at large, and is probably favorably disposed toward it. But I am assured he has never established any schools for this purpose. He says, indeed, that if he

English captain with whom I first came to Egypt, then the master of a ship of four or five hundred tons. He at that time drank so freely that I feared for our safety; and also, besides treating all his officers, (among whom were three or four otherwise promising young men,) at the usual hours and at meals, he regularly called them to drink with him before retiring at night. He subsequently found, as might be expected, a drunkard's grave, and that in this city where so many others have found the same.

A few days ago I gave a copy of the reports of the American Temperance Society to our consul, and finding last night that they had interested him and his family, I furnished them this morning with another set and some tracts, for this city and for Cairo. His lady had long been an advocate for temperance, and was now inspirited with new zeal. She determined that all her countrymen, who|| would, should have an opportunity to read the reports at Alexandria, and not only so, but that in Cairo also they should be furnished with them. At the latter place a large number of English mechanics are employed in the pasha's manufactories, under a respectable director of their own nation. Many of them fall into lamentable habits of intemperance, and thus sacrifice their health and their life. She subsequently went to Cairo on a visit to her son, the American agent there, and procured the ready approbation of this director to the circulation of the temperance publications among his men. So deeply did the principles of temperance ultimately take root in her own family, that her husband at length poured out all his stores of ardent spirit, and thus cleared his house of the poison. It was not a little gratifying to us to see our worthy national agent enter so promptly into, I trust what may be called soon, if not now, our national spirit. And these, with one or two other similar facts that might be named, seemed to us like the first glimmering of early dawn upon the long spiritual night of Egypt.

The ships of the pasha are furnished with Moslem mollahs, or priests, as chaplains. But what duty is required of them regularly, I was unable to learn. In one ship, while at sea, I was informed, the men were assembled only at the sunrise and evening prayers, when the mollah led the worship. In port at Crete, the Izan was regularly cried for all the ships from the one which had the chief mollah on board. But does all this apparatus of false religion prevent the growth of sin? The pasha has added his authority to that of the Koran, and has forbidden intoxicating liquors and even smoking, to all on board, except Europeans. But intemperance is common from the admiral downwards, and a number of high officers were mentioned to me who indulged in it. And more than this, sodomy is the common sin of almost all on board, and much of their "filthy conversation" relates to it. It is forbidden by the pasha under a severe penalty, and therefore does not appear in public. Oh! the patience and forbearance of God, who by his power upholds such sinks of iniquity to swim the sea, and suffers them not to go down under the weight of their guilt. Surely a greater cry could never have gone up from Sodom and Gomorrah, nor could their sin have been more grievous.

Climate-Preaching to Franks-African Slaves.

To its execution the pasha was deemed essential, and the project was submitted to his prime minister. This officer re

plied that a proposition, which, like this, implied that his highness could not take care of his own subjects, could by no means be submitted to him! And thus the poor Arabs were left to suffer. In the summer Alexandria is not considered warmer than Beyroot, if it is so warm, and it appears not particularly unhealthy.

5. Sabbath. Information was given yesterday by a circular from our consul to the English residents, and by a card upon the chapel door, that services would be attended in the chapel to-day. We accordingly assembled this morning at 10 o'clock, and I preached to a congregation of fifteen, all but three or four of whom were females. The chapel is a room fitted up a few years ago by subscription among the English residents. It is a neat and comfortable place of worship, and I could not but be grieved that so few, after contributing their money, are willing to contribute their presence. The attendance to-day was rather better than usual. The English, even, are as sheep without a shepherd. And many a young man, finding practices countenanced by public opinion, which would thrust him out of all good society in his native land, is carried away by the stream of pollution and lost for time and for eternity. I was about to mention particulars but I forbear.

We met in the evening, by invitation, at our consul's for prayer. One only, besides his family, joined us. Yet it was refreshing to find two or three take delight in prayer, where all seem to have gone out of the way.

I have already informed you that the Franks here amount to several thousand, and that nearly all are papists. The only place of worship for the latter is in a convent of some size just without the inner wall, and monks are the officiators. They have two schools, with twenty or thirty boys in each, both under papal influence, and taught by Italians. For Frank females, there is now no school, and we were assured that those who were born in the country, though many learn enough to say they can read and write, generally know hardly enough of these elementary branches to be of any use to them. A missionary to Alexandria ought, of course, to direct much of his attention to the Franks. Were he to do this, the opposition of their priests would probably effect but little. For the majority of the Franks here, we were assured, care little about their priests, and neglect and often ridicule their religious rites. Were the missionary to

7. In a walk at noon into the suburbs, we happened upon a new sight. Among the miserable hovels, already referred to, was a cluster inhabited by black female slaves from Darfoor. For the first time I could conceive of the rudeness and barbarity of the heart of Africa, for we seemed to be transported thither; the beings before us having undergone no change in their removal from their native land. A coarse blanket, half covering them, was their only dress, and some were almost entirely unclothed. Also their features were those of the negro and their skin was of the darkest hue. Their woolly locks hung in short braids from the tops of their heads, smeared with grease, and looking like a dirty mop. They are said to be wives of the black soldiers, who are numerous in the Egyptian troops, and procured for them by the pasha, a strong antipathy preventing the Egyptians and them marrying. Most of the hovels constituting the suburbs of the city seem to be occupied by soldiers' women, and the wretched condition of the wives is not a bad picture of the condition of the husbands. I have already intimated that the Egyptian soldiers and sailors are raised by forcible impressment, which is submitted to with great reluctance. Indeed mothers are known to maim their little ones by digging out one eye, cutting off a finger or a hand, to secure them from it! The same cruelties are inflicted by grown persons, also, upon themselves for the same reason. Surgeons in the navy have assured me that the case is not unfrequent of persons in the service blinding themselves by sprinkling some powder in their eyes, or by other means, in order to be released from it. Indeed the pasha has been obliged to take cognisance of these practices, and many are now in chains here for maiming themselves, a number of whom we saw.