New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-13
SKETCHES Of LECTURES.
LECTURES on EGYPT
No. uI-Life among the TOmbs.
BY REV. JOSEPH P. THOMPSON, Of NETWORK.

Tlelrl Lecture of this was delivered lasteyen
ing IN the tabernacle. The audience was small Ont
lstened witt great attention to the remarks oi the Lee
Mr. Thompson commenced his discourse with brief
relnn of his last Lecture tracing on the map le p)'iuon
Of 1hcbC- with il temples u hdrdk anu Luxor anu
sketching their various IccuNares lie pointed oui INC
brother column 10 that which now stands ID the race a.
Luxor in Pari. and observed "a an example OF the
great influence Of climate that the inscriptions are almost
a. flesh as when four Thousand years ago, while ae III
ctrtons on thl orc wlh hos been removed % Paris are
rapidly becoming inlistnlt He then commenced 10 de
scribe The cat0combs, Ia which loJ.' 9i persons h11e
been buried He narrated visit % the Tomb which was
ortnsd by the celebrated Belkoui One Of the hals in
tbs Tomb he described being y feet sqlare and sup
ported by six massive columns the walls of ifi' room
were covered N sculptures Of human beings anmalf
and Meroglvths The greatest tomb in lhebes - mat
81 the Assassi It is si,u1icd On the side %! MIL am
lcNn n the solid rock, aer passing through series 'i
halls 800 feet in length. is deep PIT which on
Fighting fire. seemed, by the glare OF the com
lus.iblts thrown in TO be about go ,eet deep IN
tomb /. deposited Tie whole OF the halls ald pit
Il about four and hail acres Another tomb worthy oi
number Of chambers tine walls az Vhich are coVerel wy
sculptures in u,sco and basrecfs This sculpture 10
scmttmes composition or plaster Pread yer TIE walls
ard VIXEN hardened cu into relief In other cases tle
sculpture is executed in the stone in intag'o,
ard often highly coiored. The designs exhibit the
modes Of lie Of The people OF Egypt at that
dry Some Of the furniture there depicted lh.a'
have been very cosy Scenes OF tie Mo % IL Hood to
res OF the chase thebailcs inwich some particular king
Lad been victorious t.t-t7 ana EtLlt-tl'
rrd IN theWal. being IN fret chronicles 81 the people
ftr mruuer- laws gud customs, religious ana ic.tNe
Tho Lecturer then pointed out picture Of the BRICK mako
ami he,yer If wood and drawers OF water together W
their krnasters standing over thcm copied from one Oh
thee torbs a. described in the Old Iestamont AMI per
rltnnted hv some cont oraneou artist probably at the
dre Of the builder Thoihmgs. Ia this tomb al! Ih)th
mes il picture Of life quite as ntcre ting as that which
We had from the pencil Of the lamented Cole:
Tie various scenes of life arc muutely dehneae1 on
the walls from the commencement to the grave AZ the
far end Il the tomb is beautiful symbol Of Immortality
n tile child seated upon winged globe Ono OF me
scenes represents The Judgment whee the good and PAD
deeds which the had performed are being weyh
ono c-ainst the other We speak Of golden age ana can
II the Augustan said the lecturer but here Il an age Of
cold long before Augustus reignet or Pericles drew
breath In one of he scenes tie lecturer saw brd
which though 600 wears old, perfect and beautiful
as ary labOred work OF ar he had ever seem lie asked
loreared and Paid for such tructres-uupaTal any
other nee # The world either in durability Or maesty Of
des,qr-as exist at Ben lossan Was it the wor. Of
Kings No But the result OF private maCnlfce1ce and
wtalih with al the rcinenens and Gxure3 OF high
state Of civilization az time when the whole western
world was involved in bgrbarsm when the history Of
Fusore including Greece had not Began, and long before
Cnrthase. Athens and Rome were thought Of. And this
HIGH state Of dcycopemeut attained under system
Of Institutions and policy the most bghting and benuulb
irg II such not the golden age he knew not when 10
existed lie concluded bis lecture by sketch Of the
modern Yeculiares Of tie country and drew an infer
eucc from the deC0vOf mighty empires that the people Of
tli. country should not he too boa-tful.