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    AlfClHTECTUJU-: OX CO1^S. :J

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    THE PltOTESTANT COLI^EGE AT MALTA.

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    highly praised . The " Chinese are the best roasters in the world ;" they ndopt the old English plan before bottle jacks were invented , and wake a twisted thread of worsted turn their delicacy until it is nicely done . Then , whatever the material , it is chopped into small pieces , flavoured with a national sauce . called sania , and served up with rice , no one being able to make out what , the dish is composed of . In Europe -we waste a good many sorts of shell fish—not so the Chinese : they eat all , even the large fresh water mussels { anodanta ) , which are to be found in the mudof English ponds . A monster snail ( votiilo melo ) is a favourite article , and the abbe is glad to tell us

    that Paris is making progress , and that already snails can be bought of any marcluind cle comestibles . The insect tribes are not forgotten by tlie celestial foragers ; exquisite dishes are composed of spiders , and superfluous silkworms are conducted to the pot . Grubs and caterpillars are : popular delicacies , and when the silk is wound off the cocoons , the chrysalis is taken put and formed into a nourishing food . Zoophytes contribute their quota to tlie national commissariat , and a lar

    isinglass . ¦ M . Paykx h : is examined the celebrated birds nests , and finds that the Salnngane swallow produces a mucous secretion winch gives them tlieir peculiar quality , and which he names cubilose . In China a plate of birds' nest soup costs 12 francs , and in Paris a similar quantity has been sold for 120 francs ! So . valuable is this article that a rich Chinaman who had been ruined repaired , his shattered fortunes by . the discovery of a Snlangane caverii , out of whkh he made 100 , 000 francs ! . . To recur to the primary question— -what shall we eat ? We cannot fancy that horses , dogs , or cats could be fattened for less money than sheep , and we fear that after any experiments of this ¦ ¦ ¦ nature , we should , to use a French-phrase , " return to our muttons" as more and

    valued ' . friends . The income-tax , together with our army navy administration , may , however , drive us to rat * , '« nd the Piiusr-CE Consort may . before long , win a prize for choice specimens fattened at the Flemish Farm .. Our reptile world is , we fear , not numerous enough to ! do us much service , but perhaps the Statistical Society will take a census of the frogs , and tell us for how many minutes they would feed the population of the metropolis . The youngladies who a o anemone hunting : might lunch upon them afterwards ; and Mr . Gosse ' s " Devonshire Coast" gives instructions how to proceed . The insect w 6 rld does not promise much ; the courtiers of Moxtezuma might devour creatures that we should not like to name , but we cannot fancy we should get much work out of a population so lightly fed , and it would be difficult to persuade our " navvies" to accept a i-oast bluebottle as a substitute for a rump

    steak . Our chemists might aid us by discovering a substitute for the albumen which is largely used in manufactures , and which had bettor be employed in feeding our people , and improved arrangements might be made for : the capture of sea fish and its distribution in rural localities , but we doubt whether , ^ either in England or France , any very large quantity of alimentary matter is wasted that it would be profitable to preserve and prepare . Alltho gelatinous articles of diet may be dismissed as of little or no value , and it will be found that tho work of civilization caii only be carried on upon concentrated and highly nourishing food . " We should hope lor better results by imitating the Chinese care to utilise every particle of substance capable of acting us manure , than from copying 1 their

    omnivorous habits . We do not despair concerning tho " alimontation" of tho future , but at the -same time fully admit that providing a greater abundance of cheap food is absolutely necessary if the general condition of tho people is to be improved . Even the highest rules o . l ' wages are low in comparison with the simnlo cost of maintaining- a family , and without uosv and extensive sources of supply wo cannot anticipate that provisions will , fall much below their present high rates . As the wages feud increases , the number of persons able to compote for the purchase of food increases also , find throughout Europe there is still a strong" tendency towards a general rise in tho rate ot'living . Notwithstanding that Kussia has a much larger population than England , M . KoKQUEni 1 tells us tern times as many boasts

    are slaughtered in tho latter than in the fonnor . 'JLho diueronco is caused by tho greater industrial development of our country ; bub Russia has already commenced the march of pi'ogrcss , and tho emancipation of the serfs will soon lead to a much greater consumption of superior food . The average dietary of the French peasant is undoubtedly higher than ifc was before the Revolution , and all ovor Germany tho acquisition of political liberty , ami tho consequent impulse to industrial life , will have a similar off ' ect . Tho food question is one which must assume a political aspect . People will not bo contented merely to exist—they will demand to live , nnd , in tho course of thno , any Government will bo overthrown that levies an amount of taxation which compels the mass of tho people to forego a almro of the comforts and luxuries which the richer classes enjoy .

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    mi-IE extension of sound Protestant principles , bonidoa being of - * - roligious importance , is of the greatest civil value ; nnd wo cannot but lpok . w tho Protestant College at Malta ais an institution of grout intercut at tho present moment . An influential mooting of the friends nnd supporters of this groat experiment wn « hold on Wednesday last , in tho Egyptian Hall in tho Mansion . Wowso , nnd

    as the following speech of the Lord Mayor condenses very ably the whole purport of the ¦ ' movement , we give it , intending to refer to the subject on a future occasion . " The Protestant College at Malta is a great experiment , but iu using this term we do not mean that its usefulness is problematical . " Placed in the midst of a vast Mohammedan population , we have ourselves possessions which are of the greatest value to the British empire , and we are undoubtedly bound to furnish to every member of that empire the power of at least investigating the truth of our great and holy religion . We are not entitled to coerce them into a profession of Christianity , but neither are we . permitted to-leave them in ignorance of its nature ; and we may carry out , the principle a little further , and admit it as a fundamental axiom , that wherever we have opportunity to scatter the good seed , we are peremptorily enjoined to do so . ' " It is with this feeling that an attempt has been made to establish a college for the . raising lip of competent instructors . It may be said , why not have such an institution in England ? - Here it might be the object of especial care and watchfulness here the most distinguished of our scholars and divines could assist in the care of the students ; and here , too , a greater interest might be excited in all elasses on behalf of the infant college . " But then , on the other hand , we require native teachers , and it would be unfair to expect , and very expensive , to bring those who are best qualified for such a t ; sk to so great a distance a . s <> ur own shores . No European can be so well acquainted with the Eastern languages and literature as the natives , of the hinds themselves , where those languages are spoken and that literature studied .: Neither could a foreigner obtain the same access to the hearts and minds of the natives as those who are born on the same soil and brought up in the same prejudices . . "' Native teachers then being necessary , it may be at once seen that some establishment is equally so to prepare them for their arduous work ; and where can they be so well prepared as in an . ^ island belonging- to this country , ' under English and Protest nut" Government ^ in a climate at once suitable and healthy ,, and . among :--those who , while subjects of the British crown , are . . yet . half Oriental in their habits of life and . modes of thought ? . " But I cannot speak of climate without , in the strongest manner , expressing- my . hope / that before long the . tusk of civilising and evangelising tropical countries should be left to native -agency . How many evangelical bishops have been - victims -to the deadly climate of ' Sierra Leone ! How many more are likely to be added to the list ! ¦ " ¦ "¦• ¦ ¦ "I look on this college as a means of preparing the sons ot Alnca rind of the East fo be the pioneers of truth in their own lands . It has been wellsaid that a black bishop would be the triumph of tropical Christianity . A Protestant College at Malta is a step in the right direction ; and I am sure that the result ^ of tins day s explanation will not disappoint the friends of truth . "

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    TTNSCIENTlFIC readers are . often struck with astonishment when U they are told that a JUyell or an Owen can , from a Mnirle footprint , decide not only to what chiss an extiiict animal belonged , but can tell us all about its habits and nature , and actually build up i \ JUr- # , )) ulc of the creature itself . Many obstinately refuse to believe this . It is OS reasonable , say they , as to decide from the inspection of an old boot whether its wearer had been a general , an artist , or a tailor . JSevertime that th

    thelcss the world in tolerably well convinced by this o Palaeontologists are right , and that observation—ni . 'curnw , scientific observation , can do even more than this . Almost equally dilhcmlt is it to satisfy a , large class of mankind that unscientilie observation is not merely insufficient , but in many eases worse than useless— - absolutely mischievous find misleading ; thoy oontmid . that a bad description is better than none , and that wo ought to be very much obliged to those who take tho trouble to givo it to us , and not be over particular in noticing a few errors in such unimportant mutters

    as colour , form , weight , and dimensions . These remarks apply with great force to a peculiarly interesting branch of archaeology , on which Professor ¦ Donaldson has lately given us a very wplendid mb well as a very eriulito volume . Uto architecture of tho ancjents has always excited us much interest , as admiration . Greece was " its birthplace , nnd Athens witnessed its perfection . In tho opinion of most architects little bus been It'll for modern masters , save to copy those wondrous monument * wlncli still , oven-in their ruin , fill our minds with awe at their gnuuluur , or with delight ut their exquisite beauty . We may adopt then : style as far as possible to our climate and tho requirements ot our lilo , but if wo vary from their proportions , if wo attempt tho itctmixturo of any otlior style , wo produce incongruous mid yrou-tquf } results . Wo have , indeed , n style of our own , —borrowing nttlo or nothing from tho Greek ; but wo pass over this , at , present , because our buaiiiOHB is with tho architecture of Greece and Homo .

    Wo may obtain a , tolerable notion of what that architecture- \ vft 9 from modern imitations of it , and those who have trave oil extensively may bo nblo to toll what that which remains still , wm » munt have been the splendour of the paat ; but wo should likv , ana would givo almost anything to possess photographs u' t | l 0 _ gr « n «|

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    376 TJie Leader and Saturday Analy st . | April 21 , I 860 .

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    * Arohtteetura Ifumhiuatha / or , Architectural MothtlH <\ f ( /««< " < ' AntiQulOj . Ill uttt rated nnd JSaplalnod by comparison with tho M <>» i «« ' « ' «»» and tho Dosorlptiom of auoleni Authors , and ooplouti Tnvt . Chic 1 u \ m- ' <« XMhoffraji / ts and Woodcuts . By T . 1 ^ , Donaldson , Ph . I ) ., ArchUoojB , Profeesor of AroWtdOturo mid OonatmyMon ut tho Uiiivoreity Uyiiotf ^ Lpndon , ^ l . J . B . A ., Sec , &o , Loiulon : Day ami Spn .

    Alfclhtectuju-: Ox Co1^S. :J

    AllClIlTECTL J « -: OX COINS . *

    The Pltotestant Coli^Ege At Malta.

    THE PROTESTANT COLLEGE AT MALTA .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2344/page/12/