so oddly too, with little pinched-up features, and his hair so curiously arranged.  We looked much at him, thinking he must have had much courage, and have thought himself quite right in his belief, to have stood opposed to all the existing religious systems of his native land.  He, however, and those who thought differently from him, have long since in another world experienced, that if men only act up to what they believe to be right, the Maker of the Deist, the Christian, and the Parsee, will receive them into his presence; and that it is the professor of religion, who is nothing but a professor, let his creed be what it may, that will meet with the greatest punishment from Him that ruleth all things.”  But before we quit the subject of this attractive exhibition, we must not omit to mention an adventure of the Persian princes, two of whom, having paid a previous visit, persuaded the third brother, on his accompanying them thither, that he was in truth in the royal palace, (whither he had been invited for one of the Queen’s parties on the same evening.) and in the presence of the court and royal family!  The embarrassment of poor Najef-Kooli at the morne silence preserved, which he interpreted as a sign of displeasure, is amusingly described, till, on touching one of the figures, “he fell down, and I observed that he was dead; and my brothers and Fraser Sahib laughed loudly, and said, ’These people are not dead but are all of them artificial figures of white wax.’  Verily, no one would ever have thought that they were manufactured by men!”

[5] “The Parsees,” says Mirza Abu-Talib, describing those whom he saw at Bombay on his return to India, “are not possessed of a spark of liberality or gentility....  The only Parsee I was ever acquainted with who had received a liberal education, was Moula Firoz, whom I met at the house of a friend; he was a sensible and well-informed man, who had travelled into Persia, and there studied mathematics, astronomy, and the sciences of Zoroaster.”  If this account be correct, a marvellous improvement must have taken place during the last forty years.  Many of the Parsees of the present day are almost on a level with Europeans in education and acquirements; and in their adoption of our manners and customs, they stand alone among the various nations of our Oriental subjects—­but their exclusive addiction to mercantile pursuits, and their pacific habits, (in both which points they are hardly exceeded by the Quakers of Europe,) make them objects of contempt to the haughty Moslems.

A few days after his visit to Madame Tussaud, we find the Khan making an excursion by the railroad to Southampton, in order to be present at a banquet given on board the Oriental steamer, by the directors of the Oriental Steam Navigation Company, from whom he had received a special invitation.  With the exception of the brief transit from Blackwall to London on his arrival, this was his first trip by rail, but, as his place