... IF our readers will turn to the teenty-sixth chapter of Exodus, verses 31 to 33, they will find an allusion made to the vail which was to be hung up before the ark in which were deposited the scrolls of the law. This custom has been cherished by the Jews in all ages, and is still universally observed in all their synagogues. The particular one represented in our engraving has been designed and ...

... I Zq7 . IMM. : ?? ?? p? MW ?W. e F) M-Mm ,PomI'ics. The Norwich Election Commission resumed their sittings on Monday, and a number of publicans have given further evidence respecting the messenger trick, all agreeing in the fact that the messengers, who were employed for 5s. a day, did not appear to be killed with their work, nor to be foot- sore-each carrying out about a dozen ...

... I, THE LONDON MIssIoN.-We have given some account of theprogressof the Mission in our Illustrationscolumnsf The ten days' vork closed on Tuesday morning with a Thanksgiving Se'rvice in St. Paul's Cathedral, attended by a vast congregation. After the service, the Rev. G. 11. WVilkinson preached from the text, Praise the Lord, 0 my soul. Although, be said, they had gathered there with the ...

... THE FRONTIER TRIBES OE BRITISH BURMAH THE Burmese Empire is attracting considerable attention at the present time, on account of the frontier difficulty which has lately arisen there ; through its territory, moreover, lies the highway between India and China, and during the late famine it was the chief granary from which the starving millions of Bengal were supplied with food. Our sketches, ...

... A SKATING RINK on a large scale is being organised in Dublin. THE HERMANN MONUMENT, lately unveiled at Detmold, has cost 270,000 marks (13,500L.). A FINE ART EXHIBITION is to be opened at Poonah this month. It will consist of paintings, drawings, and etchings. A STORY SIGNED BY CHARLES DICKENS, The History of Simon Heavysides, is being published as aftuielleon in the Paris 7Tcwps. YET ...

... 0 TIlE HEALTH OF EUROPEANS IN INDIA.-Ataseason when the Prince of Wales is about to spend some months in our Indian possessions the world is more than ever interested to know how far the old and still widely prevalent ideas of the dangers of India as a permanent or even temporary residence for the European are based on anything like actual facts. A paper read by Dr. Mouat before the British ...

... Ii-i! i .i A b e I THE Loss OF THE VANGUARD.---This disaster, although fortunately unaccompanied with the terrible sacrifice of life which distinguished the foundering of the Cap61ain, is, when considered in connection with that tragedy, and with other minor accidents which have befallen our ships of war, of a nature to cause grave disquietude. Men's minds have been much exercised of late ...

... -to, ?? 0' z '40 E MI*EIE POLITICAL AFFAIRS.-At a Conservative banquet which .took place at Brighton on Saturday, the Duke of Richmond defended the policy of the Government, adducing the result of the West Suffolk election as a proof that the course hitherto pursued was approved by the country. While introducing measures for effecting social reforms, Her Majesty's Ministers desired to maintain ...

... RUA(MMI DR. PARKER AND MR. BEECHER.-Last Sunday Dr. Parker in his sermon at the City Temple made special reference to the Beecher-Tilton trial, declaring that having read carefully the whole of the evidence, he believed that a more cruelly-wronged and persecuted man than Mr. Beecher did not exist. Ile praised the Plymouth Church congregation in high terms for the way in which they had stood by ...

... ?? (itp aunb Qathebral of (tantabarp HISTOR Y CANTERBURY may well be called the sacred city of England. It is especially associated with the introduction, or rather the revival, of Christianity in this country. It is associated with the whole range of our ecclesiastical, and with many important chapters of our political history. It has many associations with our literature, from the ...

... N1CdiiiC adb -I Allcnian IIt' il.r. the Chtistian Church in the East had been split up into factions, Arians, Carpozratians, Ncstorians, Valentinians, Guostics, Marcionites, Mlarionites and others, incessantly quarrclling with one another, thc Moharimmedan power had been rapidly spreading, and Amru, a general who had been very successful in the Syrian \Vars, commenced the conquest of Egypt. ...

... Wfgppt for the Qgpptiaiw IT is difficult even now to describe impartially the events which gradually, and as it were by an inexorable necessity, led onwards from some trivial emiezes, which a little firmness might at once have arrested, to troubles of a graver kind than Egypt has known for many centuries. It would not probably be correct to say that Jeshurun has waxed fat and kicked ; but ...