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moved the clouds that rose from the chibouque

peace and tranquillity, i
figures, among which arm
the arches of the palace;

the water rns

Lt paused under the bank where
gloomily along—for a moment
amongst that boat's dark crew

a white figure

a faint sr

the river flowed on as merrily as if poor Fatima still sang
her Georgian song to the murmur of its waters.—Dublin
University Magazine.

DESCRIPTION OF CAlRO.—After the desert—the sce-
nery of which may be described as a dreary flat, only di-
versified by sand-hills, stones, rat-holes, camel skeletons,
and two trees—the view of Cairn, the " City of the
Tombs." The Nile meandering

'emery pleasing

corn or rich pasture land—the white sails
iding on the river's bosom—the foliage of
he suburbs of the town—the mosques and
laces, and the distant, though apparently
raids—form a picture grateful to the eye.

of the h
the

lens in

Minarets, t

proam
and ag

at the " Great Eastern Hotel," the head-quarters of
the Egyptian Transit Company, who own the vans, horses,
and boats which transport passengers to and from Suez
and Alexandria. Two-third

t the passengers remained
.taking themselves to Co-
The Litter is on every ac-
,ure travellers. The rooms
s—the table is more sump-
attendance infinitely better. The
;regate, the same at both hotels.
liastre is 21d.) per diem, include
Inner, tea, and bed, with café noir
les are charged ten piastres, and
0 are incltided in the bill for por-
e good in their kind, and not very

at this hotel, the remainder b
lombe's Hotel de I'Europe.
count to be preferred by fu

are cleaner and more spaciou

in the aggi

breakfast, lunc
in the morning
five piastres (E

and most commonly drank,
costs fifteen piastres per bottle, claret thirty piastres,
champagne fifty piastres : bottled ale (Bass's and Hodg-
tres the bottle.—Overland Trips,

terage.
expensi

The wines al
. Marsala, t

... _ .
son's) is drank at ten pias
in the Asiatic Journal.

Tax Boox of COMMON PRAYER.—We have all felt
the charm of visiting our old halls and battle-fields, the
homes of our poets and philosophers, the scenes of valour
and the haunts of genius. The humblest stranger feels
some indistinct delight—some quickening of the pulse—
in the contemplation of ground thus consecrated and en-
deared. But of the millions of educated persona who
upon every returning Sunday at least turn over the leaves
of their Prayer-books, how few remember or appreciate
the solemn beauty of association which our incomparable
Liturgy ought to awaken in every thoughtful bosom I
Yet surely it cannot fail to bring a sweet and consolatory
reflection to know that our ritual of prayer and thanks-
giving is built up, so to speak, from the hallowed ruins of
the primitive ceremonial ; that the costly materials of
our own courts of gratitude, and supplication, and praise
have been chiefly taken from the dilipidated fabric of the
church. Chrysostom. and Basil, and Gregory, look out
from each opening page. And, of a certainty, we shall
contemplate the spiritual splendour of our church's de-
corations with a more tender and affectionate eye when
we remember that many of those thoughts which shine
like precious stones—pearls of great price—upon the
walls and gates of her sanctuary, shone with the same
lustre upon the inward eyes of the Christians of the first
century. When we recollect that in spirit and in truth
the petitions which we breathe, and the lessons which we
read, and the hymns which we sing, were breathed, and
read, and sung, by our ancestors in the faith sixteen
hundred years ago ; and that the dying prayer of the mar-
tyr Polycarp, " For this, and for all things, I praise
thee, I bless thee, I glorify thee, together with Jesus
Christ, eternal in the heaven, thy beloved son, with whom
to Thee and the Holy Spirit be glory now and for future
ages;" that this exulting declaration of gratitude and
faith may have been a passage in the service of the primi-
tive church and familiar to the expiring saint. Nor
should we forget the affecting simplicity of the name by
which the Prayer-book is recommended to the love and
veneration of all who receive it. It speaks in the same
voice of In% e -5,..t and •

he print% to the peasant, and ra-
ng the Book of Common Praver.—Fra-

ier's Magazine fol; October