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too, are a' tenet y of fine working models of patent windlasses',
by Gladstone & Co. Betteley, Pow and Fawcus, and others.
Besides the models there are, round the walls, numerous fine
paintings of nautical subjects, ancient and modern, including
several by our talented townsman, Mr. Walter. But, we
repeat, the room must be visited, and its contents leisurely

surveyed.
No. 9. Here there is a small but curious collection of an-
cient and modern crockery ware, and a potters' wheel et

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work, which turns out numerous, and we may add, amusing
specimens of ornaments, &c., before m
the visitas, chewing,
with great rapidity, the art of turning and moulding in clay.
There is a curious flask, found in the grave of an Inca
chief in South America.

No. 10 is occupied by the large model of Hobart Town,
and a panoramic view of Sydney and the fine interior waters
of the cove. The model is very minute and accurate in de-

tails, showing all the streets, houses, public buildings
dens, fences, &c., together with the harbour, and the
lations of the site. Visitor 4 may be provided with a descrip
tive guide.
No. 11. The refreshment room,
One end is entirely covered by Mr. 1-1
picture of the Battle of Agincourt, which we shall hereafter
notice, as well as another pioture on the side wall
me to the paintings.
Between this and the Board Rom... No. I

is the fountain,
(No. 12) facing the large central window of the building. It
is surrounded by exotics and evergreens, is discharged into
a large circular basin, and has a most pleasing and cool effect.
The Board Room contains the Town-hall portraits, by cele-
brated masters, of George 111 and IV, the Duke of York,
Wellington and his horse, Charles 11, by Sir Godfrey Knell.
&c. Also capital portraits of the Rev. H. M`Neile, Lord
Stanley, John Gladstone. Esq., James Aspinall, Esq., and
other distinguished individuals, with marble and other busts
of eminent townsmen. There is also a beautiful marble sta-
tue of a peasant girl. Here there is a piano for the use of
visitors. The chimney-piece. cut in stone in the Gothic
style, is well worthy of observation.
No. 14 is fitted up with steam engines at work, in great
variety; also, a rotatory engine, by Yates, Rotherarn. One
m-del, with a patent sliding crank, is ingenious. Here me-

tats are timed; and ivory cut with a circular saw, &e. There
is also a very noisy patent power-loom at work, by fienwor-
thy and Co. making cloth with great rapidity, without a
hand being put to the shuttle. There are also a variety of
other articles and models.

No. 15. The type composing and distributing machine at
work; a curious and ingenious apparatus, like a piano, and
played upon in the same manner, setting pieces of poetry, &c.
Also several handsome iron printing presses at work.
No. 16 is appropriated to electrical, galvanic, and magne-
tic apparatus, in meddling with which the ladies and gentle-
men are suddenly quite " shocked," to the great amusement
of the bystanders. Here, too, parties may be weighed and
measured, and receive a ticket as at a weighing machine, for
the small charge of a penny.
No. 17 contains many fine specimens of hearth rug and car-
pet weaving, a large loom for which is at work. In No. 18
is the jacquard figured silk loom working ; also a stockiug
loom, both curious and interesting. But we must close our
present sketch, which embraces only the two louver floors.
In our next publication, the first of the new series, (to be
published on Tuesday next,) we shall notice the rooms in
the two upper stories, which are perhaps still more interes-
ting, as they contain the pictures, the museums, curiosities,
&c. &c.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR PRO-
MOTING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN SYRIA.

A highly interesting series of lectures is in the course of
delivery in the Music-hall, Bold-street, on the manners and
customs of the inhabitants of the Holy Land, in illustration
of the Scriptures, by Assaad Yacoob Kayat
from the vicinity of Beyrout. The first was delivered on the
evening of Friday last in the presence of a very numerous
auditory, the room being completely filled, amongst whom we
observed a large number of the clergy

, a native of S

The Rev. H. M'NEILE, who occupied the chair, said the
object of the meeting was to hear an address upon the sub-
ject of Christian education in Syria, from their Christian
friend and brother, Assaad Yacoob Kayat, a native of that
country. He (the chairman) would not interpose between the
auditory and their promised gratification by any prolonged
observations; it might, however, be proper to state for the
information of some present, that four years ago a Church of
England Society for promoting Christian education in Syria,
was instituted in this country under the patronage of the
Lord Bishop of London, the Earl of Chichester, Lord F.
Egerton, Lord Bexley, and Sir Thomas Acland, and it was
under the management of a highly influential committee of both
clergymen and laymen. The operations of the society were
two-fold, in Syria and in England. In Syria with the -con-
sent, and he might add, with the active co-operation of the
Patriarch of Antioch, and the bishops of his province, several
schools had been formed. The Patriarch was himself a sub-
scriber to a school at Damascus where 200 boys were now
under Christian education. There was also a school at Bey-
rout, the native place of their friend who would presently
address them, containing 140 boys, and at each of these towns
there was also a school for girls. This was an important and
interesting feature in the case, because owing to the influence
of surrounding Malioniedenisni the female character had been
long neglected and debased in that part of the world. Even
the females of the more wealthy Christians had been totally
destitute of education, but now, we were happy to find that
private teachers were employed in sothe such families, and
schools were in process of operation for the female children
of the poor. In Tripoli and other places, schools for boys
had been lately established; and, he (the chairman) was
much interested in one fact recorded in the last report of the
society concerning a printing press which had been opened
at Beyrout, the first fruits of which were elementary works,
containing the Nicene and the Lord's Prayer, and the 51st
Psalm, in the Arabic language. The operations of the society
had been chiefly confined to the education of some young
wen from Syria, whom they were desirous of instrneting in

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the secular, as well as the sacred, branches of a comnetet
education, in order that they might return to their ow
country and prove effectual instruments for the encourage
merit of literature, and the general civilization of their ne(

pie, as well as for the direct propagation of the gospel c
God. It was to give further information upon these interest
ing topics, and to elicit that Christian sympathy hi the taus

Christian sympathy, namely, Christian liberality, that th
friend was now among them. (Cheers.)

ASAAD Y. KAYAT then came forward to deliver his let
tore, and he was warmly received. He speaks English yer
fluently, almost every word being correctly pronounced, an

the emphasis properly placed. He commenced by some al
lusions to his first visit to Liverpool four years ago, whey
he was introduced by the chairman, as a minister of th
blessed Gospel, and he gratefully acknowledged the kindnes
and support then bestowed upon him, which had been th
means of enabling ham to carry on his scheme for extending
Christian education in Syria. He would first eive some in

formation respecting his proceedir
tore upon the manners and custo
illustration of the Holy Scripture

)efore he gave his lec
of his own country, i