Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-08-08

London, England, by the Victoria lneti' |
tute are considered to have been of much |
Importance. The president, sir G. G.
Stokes, Bart, president of the Royal So |
ciety, took the chair at both, and on each |
occasion the members crowded the large |
hall engaged to the doors. AT the first |
meeting, Professor Sayce's account OF his |
examination of tho library brought by
Amenophis ILL.,, from Assyris to Egypt |
tnirty-four centuries ago, was given.
The lord chancellor delivered an elo-
quent speech on the occasion, aud NJ.
Naville, the discoverer of Succoth.
Pithom, Bubastis, and other places OF
great historical importance in Egypt,
characterized the discovery described by
Professor Sayoe as one of the most i'm
portaot, and perhaps really the most in
portant of this century; and the Victoria
Institutes members were not SLOW in
recognizing the value of their fellow
members work. At the second meeting,
the members assembled to welcome M.
Raville on his arrival in England after
his discovery OF the site of Bubastis, and
his exploration thereof. The business of
this meeting was commenced by the cleo
tipn, as members, of several who had ap-
piled TO join the institute as supporters,
including His Excsllenoy Count Bern
ssortf, and several Australian and Ameri-
can associates, after which M. Neville
himself described his own discoveries at
Bubastis, for the first time in England
his last visit to England having been pre-
yious to those discoveries. The Society
Of Arts having most kindly placed their
apparatus at the disposal OF the Victoria
Institute, he showed, by lime light, the
Il. - Il 4 a, A
III. Haville commenced by quoting the
prophecy of Ezekiel afaint Egypt, be-
cause it contained the nants of the lead.
ing buried cities, the recovery OF the re-
cor3g OF which he is no DESTROYS to
| obtain; and here We may be permitted to
| digress for moment TO call attention to
The fact that tue authoress OF the last
published work in regard to the cas-. de-
clares that this prophecy had not been
fulfilled according TO the prophets words.
Strange that the greatest and most sue
cessiul Egyptian explorer of modem
times should 90 TO this very prophecy
for light to enable him to find that which
others had failed to discovetl Taking
the last city namsd, he described how he
found Pihsseth- 5ubastis, how each days
axcavatinR work brought him new relics
|
H., in the nineteenth dynasty, had, as,
usual, blotted out the names OF previous
Pharpohs, and put his own name on
everything, even on the statue OF n
Pharaoh Of the fourth dynasty; and how,
by careful comparison, aided by the fact
that Rameses ii. bad net been quite thor.
ough in his appropriations, he had dis.
covered which Pharaoh OF the fourth
| kl,a oa,
to the conclusion that Bubastis was
founded at least ss early as in the reign
Of Cbeops, between whom aud Pepi OF
| whose influence there we're traces, 50u
years interviewed, sos years after
there was Transformation OF the
city In the twelfth dynasty In the
fourteenth dynasty there was the inya
sion OF the HykBos or Shepherds, who
from the statues Of great beauty found
and from other evidences, must have
been highly cultivated people, who, hi
considered, must have come from Meso
potamia. DR.. Virohow considered that theii
monuments represented Turanians, and
Prot, Flower considered them to represent
people OF TurRnian or mongolia type
but that did not mean that the popula
ton itself was Turanian. Their worship
l
the statues OF their kings showed thai
they were not Semites. N. Naville added
at was then what it is still now; and
believe that the conquest of Egypt by tn,
Hyksos Is not unlike what would happen
at the present day il the population o
Mesopotamia overrsns the valley OF th,
Nile; you would have masses, in grea
majority OF Semitic race, speaking
| in has tts "a
ligion, and being under the command o
Turks, who are not Semites but Turaai
ans"
ID. Naville, having referred toSthe hes.t
of Hyksos King, which he had sent 1,
the British Museum, added that he ha,
found two statues of Apepi, the Pharoai
Of Joseph, and inscriptions in regard II
the Pharaoh OF the exodus, and man,
others of high interest. Bat it would b
impossible to refer to the mine of inter
esting matter in this paper, and We cal
only congratulate the members OF til
, Victoria Institute on possessing il; it /
certainly worth the whole years subscTip
ton to possess this ope paper. M
Naville, in concluding, said ~ cAnno
] dwell at great length here or the event
of the exodus, yet l should liks to men
! ton that the successive discoveries mad
in the Delta have had the result of max
lug the sacred narrative more oompre
I hensible in many points, and in one es
! pecially in showing thst the distance
we're much shorter than WAS gene rail
! thought. l consider, for instance, ii in
. portant to have established that Bnbasti
vas a very large city, and favorit
resort OF the king and his family. 1t i
quite possible that, at the time when tn
events preceding the exodus took place
the king was at Bubastls, not at Tapis
as we generally believed
Sir George Stokes Bat, having con
veye' the thanks of ths members to Nj
Naville, short discussion took place
, during which CAPTAIN Francis Petrie, til
honorary secretary, pointed out that wha
Professor Sayce's paper had done as re
CARDS Assyrian and Babylonian history
n. Naviile'9 had done SIS regards Egyptia
history. They were papers advRncin
tho practical work of the institute IN IL
vestigAtirg philosophical and soientiti
questions, especially any questions use
by those who unhspoily sought 10 ettac
he Bible in the name of science an
both would appear in the journal, who
would be presented ut the institute
rooms, Ia, Adelphi Terrace, TO all mem
bers and associates who were now on til
list, or who might apply to join after tn
10th OF Jnly. The president, member
. aud associates then adjourned to II
museum, where refreshments were served
. FuitOn Cotton Will sold,