CENTRAL ASIA. Futeh Ali Shah, nephew of the preceding king, Agâ Mohammed, ascended the throne of Persia in 1797. During a considerable part of his reign, the direction of affairs was principally in the hands of his son, the prince Abbas Mirza. This prince died early in 1834. On the first of November, 1834, the throne became vacant by the death of the aged king. After many tumultuary proceedings, Mohammed Mirza, son of Abbâs, who had been designated by his grandfather as his successor, attained to the sovereign power. He was crowned king on the 21st of Dec. 1835. The old king had 800 sons and grandsons. Mohammed was somewhat distinguished in the last war with Russia. Though a rigid Moslem, his character is said to be good in several respects. Mr. Merrick, American missionary says the king is universally represented by the Europeans resident at his court, as a lover of justice, and really desirous for the improvement of his country. He is still anxious to have a European high school at his capital." Great insubordination, however, prevails in various parts of the kingdom. The prospects of the missions are, for the present, dark. 66 Martin Honigberger, born in 1795, at Kronstadt, in Transylvania, has been, for several years, travelling in Central Asia. He went from Damascus to Bagdad, thence to Shiraz and Isfahân, back to Bagdad, thence to Lahore, Afghanistan, Balkh, Bokhara, over the steppes to Kizilkoom, Orenburg, and St. Petersburgh. He resided three months in Bokhara. He proposes to compile a copious account of his travels. His collection of coins and other curiosities is very great. A newspaper is to be printed at the new printing office at Tiflis, called the "Transcaucasian newspaper.' - Col. Chesney has accomplished his perilous undertaking of reaching the Persian gulf by a steam-boat on the Euphrates. He proposes to ascend on the rise of the river in May next. The subject of a steam navigation to India, is eliciting a warm discussion in Great Britain and in India. The Red Sea and the Euphrates' partizans are equally confident. The advocates for the former predict, that besides the difficulties with the Arab tribes on the banks of the Euphrates, and the shallowness of the water at some seasons of the year, it will teach the Russian autocrat a dangerous lesson. In other words, it will open a road for his Cossacks to Bombay. SOUTH AFRICA. Dr. Smith's exploring expedition to Central Africa has returned to Cape Town. The association, under whose patronage it went out, held a meeting on the 19th of May, at which Sir J. F. W. Herschel presided. It was voted, "That the thanks of the meeting are peculiarly due to the missionaries who have aided so much the objects of the expedition." The limit to which Dr. S. penetrated was 23° 26' south lat. He had intercourse with twenty-seven native tribes, and received information respecting sixteen others, that he did not see. He laid down the geographical position of many places which are not on any of the maps. The collection of the members of the expedition contains 180 skins of new or rare quadrupeds, 3379 skins of new or rare birds, three barrels of skins of snakes and lizards, one box of insects, two skeletons of crocodiles, 23 tortoises new or rare, 799 geological specimens, and one package of dried plants. They found that the Hottentot race extends to within three weeks of the tropic. Another expedition will soon be undertaken by Dr. Smith. CORRESPONDENCE.-We have received a letter from the Rev. W. H. Pearce, English Baptist missionary at Calcutta, enclosing for the Repository a learned article from the pen of his fellow-laborer, the Rev. Mr. Yates. We make an extract from his communication: "It has been for some years my happiness to receive the successive numbers of the Repository. It may be gratifying to you to know that in this distant city, on the shores of the Ganges, your periodical is read by myself, and by several of my missionary associates, with interest and profit. May its circulation and usefulness be greatly increased." "I affectionately hope that the missionary spirit is still spreading throughout your country, and that India may be constantly supplied with large importations of her worthy sons, to aid us in the blessed work of converting her swarming myriads to Christ. There is no fear of sending too many, be it of whatever denomination it may." We make an extract from a letter which we have received from an eminent geologist: "I am glad to see Prof. H. so assiduously engaged in the study of diluvium. It is a glorious field for research, and will ultimately prove that the last deluge was not solely an act of retributive justice, but of divine mercy. The admixture of loose materials forming soils was in part effected by this grand cataclysm, and the surface of the earth made more productive by this dispensation of Providence. I have never seen this view of the subject taken by others, and shall endeavor to throw some light upon it by my researches in Maine. It seems strange to me that it should have been thus far overlooked by geologists and theologians. We have every where in Maine the most decided proofs of a current of water having swept over the surface of the land transporting the disintegrated rocks, bowlders, and soils from the north and north-west to the south and south-east. I now have before me the diluvial hills and valleys of Augusta, composed of soils derived from the rocks situated to the north of this place, while the deeply cut valleys, some of which are 2000 feet deep and denuded to the tertiary clay, have a general north and south direction.” INDEX TO VOL. IX. A. Accents Greek, nature and application Antiquarians, Society of English, their Appleton Pres. His complete works A Priori argument for the Divine ex- Cabinet Biblical, commenced in Edinburgh in 1832, 319. Tholuck's commendation of the plan, 319. Causes of the low state of biblical literature in Great Britain, 320. Character of Ernesti's Principles of Interpretation, 321. Language of Palestine, 322. Life of Tiltmann, 323. Notice of Prof. Tittmann's Synonyms, 323. Tholuck on the Romans, 324. General outline of the epistle, 325. Tholuck's commentary on ἔργα νόμου, 326. Tholuck's exposition of the sermon on the Mount, 328. Outline of the course of thought, 329. Pareau's Principles of Interpretation, 330. Dissertation's of Storr and Rosenmüller's Biblical Geog raphy, 331. General character of the Cabinet, 332. Catholics, tolerance towards, 503. Missions to the South Seas, 253. Chalmers Dr., his complete works noticed, 516. Christianity Practical, see Practical Christianity. Chili, encouraging state of, 243. Clarke Dr. Samuel, his Demonstra tion reviewed, 421. Colleges, number of in the U. States, 251. Commission Historique, of Guizot, noticed, 253. Cousin Prof., extracts from his view of Prussian education, 32. Cunningham, translation of Gieseler, 239. D. Deluges, historical and geological compared, 78. The Mosaic history of the deluge the one with which all others are to be compared, 79. Brief statement respecting it, 79. Egyptian tradition of a deluge, 80. These traditions had their origin in the deluge of Noah, 81. Because (1) of the discrepant dates assigned to these events; (2) some of the princes of diluvial memory claimed by various nations; (3) natural for every nation to appropriate this honor to themselves; (4) too many circumstances common in the history of the Noachian and heathen deluges to allow us to refer them to different catastrophies, 81. (5) As we approach Armenia, the traditions of deluges more nearly coincide with the Mosaic account, 83.Traditions of the Chaldeans and Assyrians, 84. (6) Analogous traditions respecting a deluge are found scattered over the whole globe, 85. Hindoo tradition very explicit, 87. Prevalent traditions in America, 87. Found also among the South Sea Islands, 88. These things not to be accounted for without referring them to the same event, 88. (7) The deluge of Noah forms, in a great measure, the ground-work of heathen my. thology, 89. So many allusions to Noah and his circumstances hardly accidental, 90. The ark a conspicuous object in heathen worship, 91. Histories of opinions respecting deluges, 93. Pythagoras and Strabo, 93. Ancient Jews and Arabians not scientific, 94. Fossil shells brought to light at Verona in the 16th century, 94. Many learned men still hold that these remains were deposited by the deluge of Noah, 95. Fossil animals and plants altogether dif ferent from existing races, 96. deluge of waters rushed over the Discussion Free, the Right of, 368. The right to be limited by metes freedom ought to be extended to |