scriptures. There was no bringing them “to the law and to the testimony,” which they possessed not. Very different is the effect of conversing with the well-taught peasantry of Scotland. You are aware that the scriptures are circulated with difficulty in the Austrian dominions. In Prague, once the seat of biblical study, and whence issued one of the very earliest printed translations of the bible, a bookseller told your associates that the Bohemian bible was a prohibited book; he might obtain a copy for a known customer, but it would be a smuggling transaction. Your associates were much struck by the wretched appearance of the Jews in that city. They have a separate quarter there, as well as at Frankfort, and in both it was melancholy to drive through the narrow, crowded streets, and to observe the squalid degraded countenances, and the repugnance with which they seemed to regard the christian strangers. It made them long to extend to them the boon which they could receive with equal pleasure and profit—their own scriptures, in their own revered language. Your associates did not scruple to offer a few tracts in their passage through Austria and Bohemia, and they noticed that those which consisted solely of scriptural extracts were received with the most pleasure: they often left groups reading them aloud, around the post houses. The same may be said of the French text books, selected by Mrs. Fry, which were always received as a most acceptable present, and so were the few copies of the New Testament, which they were able to carry. A friend of theirs, Mrs. R. Fox, of Falmouth, had been in the South of France, last Spring, and had mentioned to your associates, that she had been much pleased with a young pair, Roman Catholics, who kept the small hotel attached to the post-house at Orange. She found they were just married, and she left them a bible as a wedding present. Your associates asked the pleasing young landlady, if she had made any use of the bible. “Yes,” she said, “her husband and herself read a chapter of it _every_ evening;” and the warmth with which they received the friends of the donor, proved their true value for the gift.