and as he looks back, his meagre, ferocious aspect, flanked by that tangled web of hair, stamps him the roving tenant of the desert.  It is curious to find in this remote country a custom similar to that of the fiery cross, which in old times summoned the Celtic tribes to arms.  On the alarm of invasion, a branch, torn by the priest from the nebek, (a tree bearing a fruit like the Siberian crab,) is lighted in the fire, the flame is then quenched in the blood of a newly slaughtered ram.  It is then sent forth with a messenger to the nearest clan.  Thus, great numbers are assembled with remarkable promptitude.  In the invasion under Ibrahim Pasha, sixteen thousand of these wild warriors were assembled from one tribe.  They crept into the Egyptian camp by night, and, using only their daggers, made such formidable slaughter, that the Pasha was glad to escape by a precipitate retreat.

The Jews form an important part of the population, as artizans and manufacturers.  Feeling the natural veneration for the Chosen People in all their misfortunes, and convinced that the time will come when those misfortunes will be obliterated, it is highly gratifying to find, that even in this place of their ancient sufferings, they are beginning to feel the benefit of British protection.  Hitherto, through their indefatigable industry, having acquired opulence in Arabia as elsewhere, they were afraid either to display or to enjoy it; but now, under the protection of the British flag, they not merely enjoy their wealth, but they publicly practise the rights of their religion.  Stone slabs with Hebrew inscriptions mark the place of their dead.  They have schools for the education of their children; and their men and women, arrayed in their holiday apparel, sit fearlessly in the synagogue, and listen to the reading of the law and the prophets, as of old.  It is a great source of gratification to the philanthropist to find, that wherever England extends her power, industry, commerce, and peace are the natural result.  Aden, barren as the soil is, is evidently approaching to a prosperity which it never possessed even in its most flourishing days.  Emigrants from Yemen and from both shores of the Red Sea, are daily crowding within the walls, through the security which they offer against native oppression.  In the short space of three years, the population has risen to twenty thousand souls.  Substantial dwellings are rising up in every quarter, and at all the adjacent ports hundreds of native merchants are only waiting the erection of permanent fortifications, in token of our intending to remain, to flock under the guns with their families and wealth.  The opinion of this intelligent writer is, that Aden, as a free port, whilst she pours wealth into a now impoverished land, must erelong become the queen of the adjacent seas, and rank amongst the most useful dependencies of the British crown.