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From Blackwood's Magazine.
JERUSALEM.
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aSI DIS Is IHC pcTlOu, ana singular as


the changes of European history since


Christian era, Judea still continues to


the most interesting portion of the


lid. Among other purposes, it may


for the purpose of fixing the general


upon this extraordinary land, that it


been periodically visited by more


king succession of great public calam-


IS than perhaps any other region. With


to attract an invader than any other
pspicuous land of the East, it has been
(stantly exposed to invasion. Its ruin


the Romans in the first century did


prevent its being assailed by almost
Dry barbarian, who, in turn, assumed


precarious sovereignty of the neigh
ling Asia. After ages of obscure mise


a new terror came in the Saracen in
zion, which, under Amrou, on the con-
est of Damascus, rolled on Palestine.
siege of four months, which we may


conceive to have abounded in hor-
E, gave Jerusalem into the hands of


Kaliph Omar. On the death Of Omar,
b died by the usual fate Of Eastern


hces-the dagger-the country was


to the still heavier misgovernment of


MOslem vicerOys-a race of men es-
5tially barbarian, and committing their


hes for their zeal in proselytism. The
Pple, of course, were doubly tormented.
"a new scourge fell upon them in the
5asion of the Crusaders, at the begin
bg of the 18th century, followed by a
pg succession of bitter hostlities and
blic weakness. After almost century
this wretchedness, another invasion
IN the Desert put Jerusalem into the
|hds of its old oppressor, the Saracen
ID in 1887, the famous Saladin, expell-
B the last of the Christian sovereigns,
pix possession Of Palestine. After an
her century of tumult and severe suffer-
B, occasioned by the disputes of the
(racen princes, it was visited by still
pre- formidable evil in the shape of the
prks, then wholly uncivilized-a nation
all the rudeness and violence of noun
|neer life, and spreading blood and fire
rough Western Asia. From this date
BID it remained under the dominion
the Ottoman, until its conquest, few
Jars ago, by that most extraordinary of


Mussulmans, the Pacha of Egypt "a
|eary period of 500 years, under the
bst desolating government of the world.
is equally impossible to read the Scrip
ral references to the future condition of
llestine, without discovering crowd of
E plainest and most powerful indica-
pns, that it shall yet exhibit a totally
flerent aspect from that of its present
Ate. Enthusiasm, or even the natural
terest which we feel in this memorable
ltlon, may color the future to us too
nghtly; but unless language of the most
'emn kind, uttered on the most solemn
'cas'ons, and by men divinely commits
0ned tor its utterance, is wholly unmean-
y we must yet look to some powerful,
questionable, and splendid display Of
rael.


The remarkable determinations Euro
'an politics towards Asia Minor, Syria,
~ Egypt, within these four years; the