whole family, Mr. Gleddon and his family, and the English captain and other merchants. Mr. Vedava, a Catholic, who is chancellor to Mr. Lee, likewise attends my sermons.

Nov. 4. Mr. Gleddon, an English merchant of this place, invited me to supper, and conversed with me about the conversion of the Jews. He wished to confide his son to my care, in case I should return to Cairo.

Nov. 5.-A great inquiry has been made after Italian, French, and Greek Bibles and Testaments.

Nov. 7. An old Jew called on me, and applied all his Talmudical knowledge and wit, to get from me nothing but money. Jew Valency, from Venice, called on me, and conversed with me several hours; he then said to D'I, that he was very much edified by my conversation. He is a Jew of property, and is seventy-three years of age.

Nov. 8. Captain Senner, the same Captain who on the 15th of June, 1821, took me from Gibraltar to Malta, at a very cheap price, on board his brig, called the Shamrock, arrived almost at the same time with myself at Alexandria, with the fine brig Friendship. He will take me back to Malta. He is a gentleman of Christian sentiments, and extraordinary energy; and, as he sincerely desires to be useful to the Bible Society, I am persuaded that it would further the cause of the Bible Society very much, if they would make him their regular agent, and charge his ship, Friendship, with a cargo of Bibles in all languages, which he could bring to Alexandria, Beyrout, Cairo, and Tarsus. He is a gentleman upon whose integrity the Bible Society may depend. Peter Lee, Esq. and Mr. Thurburn, speak of him with the highest regard. Bibles could by him, in a very easy manner, be conveyed to Suez and Mecca, spots to which Bibles never yet came. I should be very much obliged to you, to introduce Captain Senner to the Bible Society, and to the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the

Jews. In this case, Mr. Senner could be my regular correspondent, should I proceed on my journey to Persia and Abyssinia. And as Captain Senner is to return immediately from Alexandria, I should be very much obliged to you if you would give him the preference to any other, in commissions. Captain Senner resides at Liverpool, and as his pious lady is going out with him the next time, you will be so kind as to furnish her with a quantity of tracts and Bibles, to distribute among the ladies of the Levant. I addressed myself to him by letter, desiring him to promote the cause of the Bible Society: I send you his written answer. And as it is very likely that I may succeed, with the assistance of the American missionaries, in establishing a regular Missionary Institution at Jerusalem, Mr. Senner may bring the necessary Bibles to Jaffa, from which place they may easily be sent to Jerusalem. I shall write an account of him, to Messrs. Fisk and Temple, that they may recommend him to the American Society. The cause of God will, under God's grace, be promoted in this manner.

[Here follows a list of Bibles, Testaments and tracts, in various languages, which Mr. Wolff requests may be sent to him by Mr. Senner, on his return.]

It might be very useful if the Bible Society would procure Arabic, Greek, Turkish, and Italian translations of their reports; a great many people desire this. Peter Lee, Esq. told me it might be well, if the Bible Society would print portions of the Psalters, of the Old and New Testament, which one may carry about in his pocket; and then selections of fine passages, as we have of Milton and Shakespeare.

Nov. 9.-The Lord blessed the words of consolation which I spake and read out of the Bible to Mr. Gleddon and his lady, who have lost a hopeful son. I read the Scriptures with them, and prayed till eleven o'clock at night.

Nov. 10. I preached for the last time at Mr. Lee's. I

took for my text, "Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation."

I read the burial service of the church of England, when Mr. Gleddon's child was buried.

I embarked in the evening, together with my boys from Cyprus, on the wide seas, on board the Friendship, commanded by my friend Mr. Senner. He takes a fatherly care of the two Greek boys: and he gave me very sensible and affectionate advice, how I ought to treat them, in order that they may come well-educated to England.

Nov. 12.-Mr. Thurburn, of the house of Briggs and Co., a true gentleman by birth and education, came on board and took breakfast with us. He desired me to recommend Mr. Senner to you, for the purpose I have already mentioned. We conversed together about the truth of Christianity; and he told me I might make mention of his name to you, and the Bible Society, as one who wishes to be useful to the Bible Society. He ardently desires that a clergyman of that Society, should be sent to Alexandria; and likewise that a Lancasterian school might be established there by your aid.

A Piedmontese gentleman arrived in Alexandria, eight months ago, his name is Signor Urelli; he established a school for European children, and has already forty pupils, among whom are French, English, Italian, and some Jewish boys. I promised to send him as many books as he wishes, in Italian and French, for his school. It might be well if you could send him books about the Lancasterian system.

I must not forget to mention to you the following circumstance: When I was at Jerusalem, the dragoman of the Armenian convent, introduced me to an Abyssinian priest, who is in the possession of two Amharic manuscripts, the one contains the whole New Testament, the other all the Psalms of David, with hymns to the Virgin Mary, the Song of Habakkuk, &c. He was ready, at the recommendation of the Armenian dragoman, to sell both

manuscripts for sixteen Spanish dollars, but as my money was not arrived from Beyrout, I was not able to give him the money. I intended to send it from Jaffa, to which place I was proceeding on the next day, but the unsafety of the road from Jaffa to Jerusalem increased to such a degree, that none dared to go there. Mention this circumstance to the Bible Society, for I know that they are in want of an Amharic New Testament.

Rabbi Mose Mesicha, of Alexandria, told me that fifty years ago a letter arrived at Leghorn, from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, desiring to know the situation of the land of Heshbon. The letter arrived at Leghorn, whence it was sent to Rabbi Abram Divan, the president of the Jews of Jerusalem, who was just at that time in Alexandria.

,10 .1 Psalm) בהמות בהררי אלף The Jews translate

which is translated in the English Bible, " the cattle upon a thousand hills,") "the Behemoth upon a thousand mountains," which the Talmud says, is a beast that eats every day the grass of a thousand mountains, and which animal they shall eat on the arrival of the Messiah.

You will surely approve my going to Malta, when you consider that the American missionaries, Fisk and Temple, are now there, with whom I intend to return back to Salonichi, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. Yours, &c.

JOSEPH WOLF.

You will receive by the hands of Mr. Senner, the following books and Arabic manuscripts :

1. Discourses of Johannes Damascenus.

2. Arabic Koran.

3. Hebrew manuscript, containing the principles of a Jewish sectarian, which is very scarce indeed. He was called Israel Baal Shem.

4. The History of the Samaritans, written by a Samaritan.

5. Polish-Jewish Liturgy.
6. Greek Psalter, manuscript.

7. Two volumes of Caraite Liturgy.
8. Galistan Persian manuscript.
9. Persian manuscript.

10. Arabic Pentateuch in manuscript.

11. Book Kosri.

12. Greek Psalter. 13. Sepher Jesharim.

14. Greek Psalter.

15. For the Rev. Mr. Owen.

16. Hebrew tracts, a hundred years old.

It would be very advisable if the missionary students at Stansted Park, would read the Hebrew manuscript (No. 3.) containing the principles of Israel Baal Shem, the Jewish sectarian. There is, in that sectarian's principles, much tendency to Christianity. Rabbi Mendel was struck with amazement, when he found me acquainted with the principles of Israel Baal Shem, for this sect is most numerous in Poland; and I am sure that those Jews in Poland, who receive so readily the New Testament, are of that sect called the Hasidim. The chief principle of that sect is, that the Mahshaba, the intuition, thought, and spirit of the law of Moses, is of value, not the outward observance of it, and they apply, to maintain their principle, Jeremiah xxxi. 31-33, and believe that by this verse it is indicated, that the ceremonial law will be abolished in the time of the Messiah, and that we shall then understand the taam, the taste of that law. JOSEPH WOLF.

Nov. 28.-Arrived again in Malta, after a happy passage of sixteen days. Dr. Naudi came immediately, told me that he had received letters from dear Mr. Drummond and Mr. Bayford, and he promised me to take care that I may soon get out of quarantine, in order that a Jewish association may be established in Malta.

Nov. 29.-As Messrs. Fisk and King are going back to