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stamp. How it found ita way here to tae interior of the Celestial Empire is ta me 4 mystery.
The next day was daveted to temples, psgedas snd public building, only * few of which 1 have spacetomention, The “Tem- ple of the 500 Genii,” where that number of hideous wooden idols are ranged around the interior of a large building, looking like a lot of tobacconists signs, oxee gay with paint and gilding, but now dusty and gilapidated. The Temple of Confucius— where there iad a colossal statue of that old sags. The roof and deezrations at this temple are painted green—to him the sacred color. We entered the court-yard by aaide door, and my guide pointed ont the front gate, and just inside the inclosure asmall bridgs, over which, he said, no ore had ever passed but the Emperor. Desir- ing what Margaret Fuller calis ‘x univer~ gal exporicnce,” I told Orr-Kum to ergage the attention of the attending priest, while I quietly slipped round and passed over ibe bridge hitherto srezed to the foot ef the Chinese “Son of Heaven,”
In the “Temple of Longevity” was a fat and jolly looking old idol, with six hands. He was reclining on his sido, with mouth wide open, spparently erjoying » hearty laugh. This is consistent with the idea that length of days ie promoted by good humer. AsT lit my cigar from a joss-stick burning in front of this “jolly old cove,’ the attendant giared af me with astonish- meat, but the neual deceur of a small piece of silver reconciled him to my reeming ir- reverenca.
Tho “Flower Pagoda*® was the most charming of all tha sights in Canton, No hideous idols here, but beautiful dowers of every bue render it fli plse2 of worship for Christian or heathen.
The execution ground js & small court surrounded by high walls. Here 75,000 rebels were executed in a single year dur~- ing the Taeping rebellion.
We visited the Examinztion Halls at the southeast angle of the city wall. Thia ta used ones every three years at the compett- tive examinations. Here, ranged In long rows, are 14,000 celis, each 33 by 6 feet, where tho esndidates ars isvlated during the examination, being allowed only writ: ing material to compose their theses. Only five months zgo al] thean cells were oecus pied.
It was quite dark before we finished cur
