Except the securing by Government open navigation and the freedom of commerce, the only duty that seems imposed upon Great Britain now, is to fulfil her treaty obligation of twenty years ago-namely, the seeing that complete protection and religious liberty be secured, not only to the Greek Church, but to all sects alike-Christian and Jew. This may prove no easy task, however, and requires unanimity. There is very great danger that, in befriending Turkey, Great Britain may unintentionally strengthen her in evil, and this it now appears was pointed out by the late Prince Consort. It is remarkable that of all our statesmen he was the one who some twenty years ago foresaw and pointed out this danger; and every new revelation we obtain of his life shows more and more the enlightened character of that great Prince, who seems to have lived in advance of his age. October 16th, 1876. * W. Y. M. CONTENTS. CHAP. I. EGYPT AND THE OUTWARD JOURNEY, II. PALESTINE, JUDEA, JERUSALEM, &C. . 49 91 133 172 す THE EAST. CHAPTER I. EGYPT. HE subject of my little book is "THE EAST". -one on which more books have been written, and more lectures given, than any other perhaps which could be named. Nothing therefore could be easier than to write a lecture in the usual style out of such an immense mass of material-to build, as it were, a beautiful house, with stones already shaped and polished. For that very reason, however, I do not propose to lecture at all, in the ordinary acceptation of that term, but to 20 B |