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THE LosT TRIBEs.-The Messrs. Harper have published work by Asahal Grant, entitled " The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes" which, it Is said furnishes very satisfactory evidence that the Nesor ans are the descendants of the lost tribes ofIsrael The author, (says the Journal of Commerce) was employed hy tue American Board of Missions in 1885 to visit the Nestorian Christians in Turkey and Per- sa, and co-operate in the formation of missionary establishment among that singular and little known people. He returned to this country in octoberlas, after spending five years in Asia; and his work em- bodies the results of his researches into the past s- tory and present condition of the Nestorans; from which he is satisfied that they other than the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. The main body of the Nestorians occupy mountainous regon on the borders of Turkey and Persia, and owing to the natural strength of the country, they have been enabled to maintain their independence against all attempts of these powers to subdue them During his stay among this primitive people, he was greatly struck by the evidences he of their being of Jew ish origin; and he has in his work offered mass of testimony, founded on tradition, language, manners and customs, religious obseryances and historical and and biblical research, which go prove that the in- dependent Nestorians the lineal descendants of the Ten Tribes who carried into captivity by Shelmanesser, King eff Assyra.

 It is said the author gives highly interesting ac- count of the manners of those secluded people, and the wild and semi barbarous tribes which surround them