It contains thirteen gigantic figures, which would be about eight feet high standing, but they are all, except the image of the god of war and another, sitting cross-legged. They are of copper-gilt, holding a pot with flowers or fruit in their lap. They are represented covered with mantles, and crowns or mitres on their heads; and altogether, particularly the drapery, are far from being badly executed. The thrones upon which they sit are also of copper-gilt, adorned with turquois, cornelians and other inferior stones. The mouldings and ornaments of the thrones are in a good style. Behind each figure the wall is covered with a piece of carved work, like unto the heavy gilt frames of our forefathers’ portraits or looking-glasses. Behind them are china vases, some of them very handsome; loads of china and glass-ware, the last partly Chinese, partly European, filled with grain, fruit or gum flowers, a variety of shells, large conches set in silver, some ostrich eggs, cocoanuts, cymbals, and a variety of other articles, making a most heterogeneous gathering. Round the necks of the images are strings of coral, ill-shaped pearls, cornelian, agate and other stones, and their crowns are set with the like ornaments. The ceiling of the gallery is covered with satins of a variety of patterns, some Chinese, some Kalmuk, some European, brought through Russia and overland. The gallery is lighted on the south side from five windows, and the walls between are hung with paintings of the different deities and views of heaven. The opposite side, where the images are, is shut in all the length of the gallery with a net of iron-work that meddlers may be kept off. SERVICES AT THE H’LASSA CATHEDRAL. Köppen presents a very full account of the worship in one of the chief Buddhist temples, in the centre of Buddhism, the city of H’lassa. Rhys-David condenses this as follows: