Wednesday's papers publish a very touching letter from Mr. Stewart,
written in April last, which show him to be a man if feeling and humour, as well as of deep piety. In it he describes how the Vegetarians attacked the city of Kuchen, and how the citizens made a subscription to raise the fallen walls. While the walls were being rebuilt, Mr. Stewart re- moved within them a large number of Christian converts, chiefly girls and women. The gates had been blocked up before the fugitives got in, so they had to climb in by means of s. ladder. "Near our chapel," he says, "the wall had not been rebuilt to its full height ; and the chapel ladder, the only one to be obtained, just reached to the top. This was one of the many incidents that showed us that the hand of God was controlling everything. The next day that part of the wall was built to its proper height, and the ladder would then have been several feet too short, and we could never have got the womenwith their cramped feet and the children over the wall." There is a very humorous account of the defenders
of the wall, who were armed with "three-pronged forks, centuries old to judge by their appearance, with movable rings on the handles to shake, and so strike terror to the hearts of the foe. Rusty, too, were their swords, and rarely to be seen. We watched the proud possessors washing them in a pool and scraping them with a brick. The majority had no scabbards, not that the 'braves' had thrown them away, but they had lost them. One I examined had a useful sort of scabbard ; it covered all but the last couple of inches of the blade, so you could stick your enemy without the bother of pulling it out—a good thing if you were in a hurry."
