ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS AT CON

 STANTINOPLE.
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The Rev. Robert Walsh, ,LL.D. late Chap lain to the British Embassy at COnstantino- pie, has given to the public, through the pa ges of"The Amulet,''a sketch of the history, religion, SLc. of the American Christians in Constantinople and the adjoining villages, es- timated at 200, ,OOO. Of these, about 4,OOO have conformed to the Roman Catholic forms of worship, and acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope the remainder adhere to the doctrines and discipline of their primitive A. siatic Churches, and acknowledge no spiritual head but their own Patriarchs, four in num- Der, viz. the Patriarch of Etchmeasin," near Erivan, in Persia, and of ?" Sis," Cansha- har," and Achtamar," in Armenia. There are also the Patriarchs of "Constantinople," and of {" Jerusalem :" but these are merely titular, being appointed by the Sultan, and having properly no share in the government of the Church. Persons who have read the Journals of the American Missionaries to Pal estine, need not be informed that these secu- lar Patriarchs las the two last may properly enough be called) are mere tools of the Sultan; being made the instruments of enforcing his firmans, and of collecting the Capitation Tax, for which they are held responsible. Our ex- tracts embrace but small part of the article in question.-N. Y. Obs. & Chron.

 "Places Of fWorship.-The Churches of the Armenians are plain edifces outside, but the interior is exceedingly gaudy. In common with the Greeks, they abhor images as idola- trous, and they never admit statue inside of their Church. They do not, however, an, mex the same idea to pictures, and the walls of their churches are literally covered up to the roof with portraits of our Saviour, the Virgin and different saints, to all ofwhich they pay profound veneration, by genufection, touch ing their hands first to the ground before them, and then to their foreheads, and kissing some part of the figure with an awiui re- spect. The service IS chaunted, ana Ihe music much more tolerable than that of the Greeks.

 PrieSs.-When an Armenian feels, as he