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indulgence, of idlenesS and depravity. The i temples, ampithealre, and pri, ate resi!en- ccS, convey a distant idea of the manners i anl habits of the Roman people eighteen centuries ago-while the articles of domes.

 tic furniture and ornamenl-of ease, still

 preserved in the museum, show that, at that distance Of time, human nature in its ten, dencies aud pursuits was much the same as it is now in the nineteenth century. What gives so opeculiar an interest 10 this remark. able scene, is the f,ct, that instead of being RJman habitatioh evacuated of it's inhab. itants, and left 10 ruin and decay, ;t pre-

 Sents, as it were a petriied reality of men and things as they existed in their day-a synopsis of Rome in the first century of the Christian era. It Is like city of tho dead arouSing itself 10 give testimony concerning the living who have passed away, as irthcy had never been. Every stonc is admonilory and every marble ulters homily to the men of the present generation, whose foot. ste ps break the silence of this scene of dea th and awful devastation. Looking upward from Pompeii to Vesuvius; the picture is still alarming. The mountain yet threat

 ens-while the indura,ed streams of lava

 which are iucrus,ed on its sides, present lasting memorial oflerror