granting religious toleration. A correspondent for the New-York Observer thus writes from France respecting the pacific disposition of the reigning PACHA OF EGYPT:

'A French physician, named M. Clot, went to Egypt, several years since, to practise medicine. Being a skilful man, having solid learning and great prudence, he acquired soon in that country a high reputation. He founded at Cairo a school of medicine, in which he instructed Egyptian youth, and he obtained, even of Mohammedan priests, permission to dissect dead bodies, a thing forbidden by the laws, and revolting to the feelings of orientals. The name of M. Clot was soon known to Mehemet Ali, pacha of Egypt. This chief, who knows how to appreciate every species of talent, and who employs all possible means to civilize Egypt, called M. Clot near his person, and gave him the title of his first physician. Some time after, having had opportunity to be satisfied with his conduct and his surgical operations, he raised him to the dignity of bey, one of the first marks of distinction in Turkey. The rumor was then spread that M. Clot had been forced to change his religion, and abandon Christianity for Mohammedanism, before being named bey by the pacha. This false accusation having come to the knowledge of M. Clot, he has denied it positively in a letter published in some French journals; and it is in this letter that we find authentic proofs that liberty of worship has been established by the pacha.

Before the administration of Mehemet Ali, a barbarous intolerance prevailed in that country; Christians and Jews possessed no rights, and enjoyed no security. Their persons and their goods were at the mercy of every Mohammedan, and the least cadi of a village could, with impunity, rob them, imprison them, or cause them to be put to death. They were not permitted to mount a horse or a mule; they were allowed only to ride on asses. When any unfortunate Christian or Jew, thus humbly mounted, happened to pass before a mosque, or to meet in the street a Mohammedan chief, he was obliged to dismount from his ass and to put foot to the ground. He was forbidden to wear garments of any other color than black. There was no justice for him before the tribunals: when he plead against a Mohammedan, the judge condemned him, however good his cause. In a word, Christians and Jews were exposed to all sorts of vexation and oppression, as is the case still in almost all the rest of Turkey.

But, since Mehemet Ali has been pacha of Egypt, he has made a radical change in all these matters. He has established a perfect equality among all religions.— He has admitted Christians and Jews to sit in the tribunals of commerce, and he would have done the same in respect to other tribunals, if it.had not been expressly forbidden by the Mohammedan religion. He has given his confidence and princi pal offices to men of merit, without regard to their religious faith. Thus the minister of commerce, the director general of the finances, the first physician of the pacha, and several other chief officers, are Christians. Among the receivers, paymasters, and persons employed in all the various offices of government, are to be found Christians and Jews. The director general of the arsenal of Alexandria, and many captains of vessels and other naval officers, are also Christians.

This is not all. Not only does the pacha of Egypt place Christians in high.civil and military offices, but he allows them also the free exercise of religious worship even in public places. "Often," says M. Clot, "are seen in the streets of Alexandria and of Cairo, Catholic priests, clothed in their sacerdotal habits, walking in funeral trains, bearing the sacraments and making public processions with the utmost liberty."

Mehemet Ali has allowed the founding of several large churches, and even convents; he thinks every one should have a right to shut himself up in a cloister, and make vows of seclusion, if he thinks proper.'

ERRATUM.-On p. 8, first line of the article on the Life and Times of Arminius, read Biblical Repertory instead of Biblical Repository. N. B.-The Origin and Progress of Religion in Savannah will appear in our next number.

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is hardened,' or rendered callous and unfeeling, through the deceitfulness of sin,' and there is no listening to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely,' there is also in the same case a total destitution of spiritual taste. It is true that in the animal or corporeal man, the want of one sense does not necessarily argue the want of any other. On the contrary, it very frequently occurs that some of the senses continue longer than others, and it is possible that one single sense may survive the extinction of all the rest. Thus, for example, one who has lost the senses of hearing, seeing, smelling, and tasting, may still retain the sense of feeling, and that in a much greater degree than when all his senses existed in full vigor. But in the spiritual man the VOL. IV.-July, 1833.

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