t judgment. In the present
case, however, an exception was made to the general form, the governor
receiving the young Jewess in his inner hall of audience.

[10] In the barbarous legislation of the Moors, the evidence of one
witness alone affords ground sufficient for passing sentence of death;
and in cases relating to the Mahometan religion this is most frequently
carried out.

[11] It is the Moorish custom, that all those who are convicted as
guilty, or their families, should pay all costs of the lawsuit, and
every other contingent expense. Thus, one condemned to suffer the
penalty of one hundred bastinadoes, after he has received them, is
compelled to pay the executioner the whole sum required for the work of
inflicting them.

From Fraser's Magazine

LAMAS AND LAMAISM.

FRENCH MISSIONARIES IN TARTARY AND THIBET.[12]

Few persons in England are aware of the amount of information which has
been obtained through the medium of priestly literature in France; not
to speak of the early Jesuit travellers, whose wonderful adventures
first familiarized their readers with China and South America, and more
than one of whom has been cleared, Herodotus-like, of the charge of
exaggeration by the testimony of subsequent writers; not to speak even
of those _Lettres edifiantes et curieuses_, which the Parisian wits and
philosophers of the eighteenth century did not disdain to read, and
which were merely extracts from missionary correspondence; a patient
reader might even in the present day gather from publications of the
same kind--_Les Annales de la Propagation de la Foi_ for example--many
curious details respecting savage tribes and distant lands rarely
visited by learned or worldly travellers. Unfortunately, such books
are, for the most part, written in a style at once so wearisome and so
full of religious affectation, that only a particular class of readers
can digest them. The volumes before us--though recalling by their
origin, and certain peculiar views of the writer, the class of works we
have described--are very superior both in form and matter. We doubt if
any publications, at once so diverting and so instructive, has appeared
in France for a very long while. There is a vein of good humored
raillery and natural fun running throughout them, which, joined to a
total absence of book-making, carries one pleasantly on: to these are
added good faith and earnestness of purpose, that command respect. It is
always a p