fulfilled, and among the nations they have found no ease, neither has the sole of their foot found any rest; but the trembling heart, and failing eye, and sorrowful mind have always been theirs. They have ever been persecuted by the nations where their lot has been cast, ever craving for their lost home, ever hoping for the Messiah.

JEWS' PLACE OF WAILING, JERUSALEM.

Still they keep their Sabbath on the seventh day; still they follow the rules of clean and unclean; and on each Friday, such as still live at Jerusalem stand with their faces to the wall, and lift up their voices in mournful wailing for their desolation. Their goodly land lies waste, the sky above like brass, the earth beneath like iron; her fruitfulness is over, and from end to end she is a country of ruins, a sign to all nations!

Some there are who read in the prophecies hopes for the Jews, that they may yet return, and learn who is

the Saviour. Others doubt whether this means that they will ever be restored as a nation; and still the Jews stand as a witness that God keeps His word in wrath, as well as in mercy, a warning that the children of the free New Covenant must fear while they are thankful.

NOTES.-Procurator was the Roman Governor. Emperor of Rome.

QUESTIONS.

Nero was

What did our Lord do when He saw Jerusalem? When was that? Where was He standing? What did He foretell? Who saw it fulfilled? How did St. Andrew die? Where? Where did St. Philip die? St. Bartholomew? St. Matthew? St. Thomas? St. Jude? Who was Florus? What was his character? What was the result? What was done to Agrippa? Why? Who was Nero? What did he do? Whom did he send? What made Vespasian retire? How was our Lord's warning fulfilled? What did the Christians do? What visions did they see? What voices did they hear?

How long was this after Christ's death? What year was it A.D.? Who besieged Jerusalem? Who was he? Describe the scene in the city. In what month was it taken? How did that fulfil Christ's words? What did Titus wish to save? Why? How was the temple destroyed? Who perished in it? Why were they there? What words of Christ were thus fulfilled? How many Jews were killed? How many taken prisoners? What spoils were taken? Where are carvings of them to be seen? What is that arch called? What happened to the people? How were David's words fulfilled? and those of Moses? What hopes are there of restoration What warning to others?

THE SIEGE OF GENOA.

PART I.

In the autumn of the year 1799 an English artist of some ability, Horace Bernard by name, had taken up his temporary abode in the city of Genoa.

Early in the April of 1800, the French troops under Massena were forced back into Genoa by General Ott, and it was rumoured that not only were the Austrians about to besiege the town with an overwhelming force, but that a strict blockade was to be maintained by the English fleet, in the hope of reducing the place by starva

tion. Mr. Bernard thought it prudent to beat a retreat from the dangerous neighbourhood without loss of time. He found, however, that his resolution came too late.

Baffled in this, Mr. Bernard next proceeded to take what precautions he could against the threatened danger, which was in his eyes much more imminent than it was in those of the Genoese.

Going about, therefore, to a great number of different shops, he purchased at each a small quantity of provisions, especially dried meats and fruits, biscuits, arrowroot, and the like, which might be kept for a great length of time, without becoming unfit for use. He conveyed them home in small quantities, and as much as possible by night, in order to avoid exciting suspicion; and after two days' hard work, was rejoiced to think that he and his were at least secure from famine for several weeks to come.

Another piece of good fortune.occurred about the same time. His little daughter Emily, who had for her playroom one of the chief bedchambers of the old house they rented, was one day amusing herself with thrusting a stick into the carved work which ornamented the walls, when suddenly one of the lower panels flew open, disclosing a secret passage just large enough to allow a man's body to pass. In great alarm she rushed into her father's studio, which was close at hand, and informed him of what had happened. Mr. Bernard accompanied her to the spot, and ascertained that the door led to a secret passage, which had formerly communicated with another apartment on the basement of the house, but the other end had been closed with masonry.

It immediately occurred to him that if the town should be taken and plundered, this passage would form a secure place of concealment, and he therefore strictly charged his little girl to be silent respecting the discovery she had made. Another use had now been found for the secret chamber, and thither, accordingly, Mr. Bernard conveyed all his stores, resolved to have recourse to them only when the ordinary supply of provisions in the markets should fail him.

It would not have been easy to carry on his operations without discovery in a household of any size, but the

wants of the Bernards were few and simple. One small damsel of fifteen, Francesca Terni by name, was their sole domestic; and she was easily kept out of the way when it became necessary.

Bernard rejoiced still more in the success with which his manœuvres had been conducted, when a few days afterwards he received a visit from a French sub-lieutenant, accompanied by a guard of grenadiers, who came to search the house for any provisions that might be secreted in it.

Other persons, it was found, had been as farseeing as the Englishman, and the supplies of food with which the shops were stored, had been bought up with such rapidity, as threatened speedily to drain the town of the means of supporting, even for a few weeks, the general population.

The grenadiers were fully equal to their work, and had that morning discovered large quantities of victuals of all kinds, which their owners had deemed to be hidden too skilfully for detection. But the secret passage proved too much for them. After exploring every nook and corner, poking the ceilings with their bayonets, ripping up the floors, and sounding the walls of the various rooms, they were obliged to take their departure as empty-handed as they came.

Thenceforth, however, no food was to be obtained, except from the French general, and he suffered only a certain quantity to be dispensed to each individual who applied. As has already been intimated, the contents of the shops and storehouses had disappeared with terrible rapidity: but some ships laden with corn, which by some strange chance had succeeded in entering the harbour, afforded the means of staving off the most urgent wants of the citizens for another fortnight.

It was not until the 10th of May that the pressure began to be really felt. But on that day General Massena announced to those who came as usual to purchase the daily allowance of victual, that it could no longer be issued. In place of it a soup composed of weeds and grass, mixed with offal, was served out, together with coarse cakes, composed of linseed and starch mixed with cocoa, large quantities of which latter article were stored in the magazines of Genoa.

But this food had little nutriment, and was nauseous in the extreme. The more weakly among the inhabitants soon fell ill; and in a few days a general spirit of discontent spread among the lower classes, who had hitherto evinced the utmost good-will towards their foreign

visitors.

"It is well the soldiers did not discover the secret passage, Gertrude," said Mr. Bernard to his wife, when he returned home after hearing Massena's proclamation. "This broth might do well enough to keep people alive for a few days, and so might the cakes, if it were possible to swallow them. But I am convinced neither you nor Emily could live three days upon them without serious illness."

"How dreadful!" exclaimed Gertrude. "The French must surrender. Why, you said it would take a fortnight at least for the troops to reach Genoa, if they have to cross the Alps "

"Three weeks," interrupted her husband. "My dear, I am sorry to seem so selfish; but it is my duty to think of you and Emily first." Mr. Bernard might have added that he held it a paramount duty to consider himself, even more than his wife and child, but he did not judge it necessary to expound this article of his creed also. "Have we provisions in the secret passage to last us three weeks?"

the wife.

"God help us all, our only hope is in Him!" exclaimed "Husband, if we are to hope for deliverance, should we not ask Him for it, who alone can secure it to us?"

Mr. Bernard impatiently threw off the hand which Gertrude had laid on his shoulder.

not agree about all that," he said.

"You know we do

"I thought it was

understood that no more was to be said on the subject?" He turned as he spoke, and left the room.

but

Gertrude sighed as she heard her husband's answer, her eye brightened again at the sight of her little girl, who came running in accompanied by Francesca.

Francesca," said Mrs. Bernard, "I am afraid that we shall be unable to keep you any longer in our service. Signor Bernardi cannot obtain any remittances from