ECUADOR. 



EGYPT. 



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generously and toicrantly headed tho list with ono 

 11, .1 ili,"- I, .t:il amount, is four liun- 

 and sixty-two pounds four shilling*. Th 

 Nestorum ill tlun. ufti-r all their suflerinffg, be 

 gainers in tho cil ; that is, tin- lvi>i:m M.--I 

 f or Ull . , to ho done for those of them \\ ho 



Hvo across tin- Turkish frontier. Tho Shah, as a 

 farther mark of his favor, has appointed Urn, -ml 

 Gchangir Kahn, an Armenian gentleman of distin- 

 ct represent the interests of the 

 community. 



ECUADOR, a republic in South America. 



nomo Carrion, sinco August 4, 



nt, Dr. Rafael Carvajal; 



: Finances, of the Interior and Ex- 



Manucl Bustnmcnte; Minister of 



.-iinl .f tlio Navy, Colonel Ignacio Vein- 



liniilla. The republic is now divided into tho 



ten departments; Pichincha, Irababu- 



l.oon, Chimborazo, Esmeraldas, Oriente, 



!!, Man.'ivi, Cuenca, Loja. Area, about 



'.0 English square miles, but, as the eastern 

 frontier is not yet fixed, others estimate it at 

 i'roia 190,890 to 343,602 English square miles. 

 Population in 1858, 1,040,371, among whom 

 600,000 were descendants of Europeans. Tho 

 capital, Quito, has about 76,000 inhabitants. 

 The pnlilic revenue consisted, in 1865, of 1,401, 

 300 piastres, and the expenditure of 1,399,672 



03. The public debt, in 1865, amounted 

 to 9,390,554, tho interior debt to 8,692,955 

 pia-tn-s. The exports from tho port of Guay- 

 !i<iuil in 1864, amounted to 2,953,649 piastres 

 (increase over 1863, 11 9,304 piastres) ; and that 

 in 1865 to about 4,000,000 piastres. The num- 

 ber of entries, in the port of Guatemala in 

 1864, "was 50 British mail steamers, and 171 

 other vessels (42 Ecuadorian, 78 Peruvian, 7 

 Chilian), together making 14,999 tons. In Jan- 

 nary, 1866, tho Government of Ecuador joined 

 tbe alliance of Chili and Peru against Spain, 

 and subsequently, like the other allied republics, 

 expelled all the Spanish residents from her ter- 

 ritory. On November 26, President Carrion 

 replied to tho proposition of GeneralMosquera, 

 of the United States of Colombia, relative to 

 tho convocation of another South American 

 Congress, approving of tho suggestion and de- 

 claring his readiness to send a delegate to the- 

 Congress. 



EDGAR, JOHN, D.D., LL.D., an Irish Pres- 

 byterian clergyman and professor, born in 

 County Down, Ireland, in 1797 ;-diod at Dublin, 

 August 26, 1866. He was tho son of the Rev. 

 Samuel Edgar, D. D., a seceding minister of 

 Ballymahinch, County Down. He received his 

 elementary education in his father's academy ; 

 studied classics, science, and philosophy, in tho 

 Belfast College ; theology in the Divinity Hall, 

 under his father ; and was ordained pastor of 

 tho Second Seceding Congregation, Belfast. On 

 the death of his father, though young, he was 

 chosen his successor in tho divinity chair ; and 

 happily disappointed tho fears of many, and 

 realized the hopes of more, by the tact and 

 judgment with which he conducted the cia^s 

 the sonnd and extensive knowledge he imparted 



to it, and tho skilful training for ministerial 

 M r\lco through which ho led his pupils. On 

 tho union of the Secession Church with the 

 Synod of Ulster, he continued to exercise bU 

 worship in conjunction with Dr. Hanna, 

 who had been professor of the latter body, till 

 tli<- death of that gentleman, after which he wa 

 sole professor in his department in the Assem- 

 bly's College, till his death. Dr. Edgar did not 

 confine his labors, in the cause of religion, to 

 tho duties of his professorship. He was the 

 author of the temperance reformation in Ulster, 

 and in tho autumn of 1829, issued his first pub- 

 lication on tho subject, which was followed at 

 intervals by others, amounting to nearly ono 

 hundred, of which hundreds of thousands were 

 circulated ; and not only from the press, but 

 from pulpits and platforms, in Scotland and 

 England, as well as in Ireland, he ably and elo- 

 quently advocated the noble cause. Dr. Edgar 

 was decidedly and intensely devoted to the 

 Presbyterian system, but he loved and main- 

 tained Christian friendship for all good men. 

 The plans for building manses and churches, and 

 increasing ministerial support, had in him one 

 of their most successful supporters, and to ad- 

 vance these, his liberality and influence were 

 unfailingly devoted. All the missions of the 

 church, foreign, Jews, and colonial, had in him 

 a powerful advocate, but that to his Celtic coun- 

 trymen was quite absorbing. The North Con- 

 naught Mission, whose centre is Ballinglen, with 

 its missionaries, preachers, schools, industrial, 

 and scriptural, colporteurs, etc., owed its origin 

 and success mainly, under the blessing of God, 

 to his exertion. In politics he was a Liberal, 

 and ardently advocated the abolition of West 

 India slavery. He also took a deep and abid- 

 ing interest in tho education of the deaf, dumb, 

 and blind. 



EGYPT, a dependency of Turkey in Africa. 

 The Government of Egypt has, since 1841, been 

 hereditary in tho family of Mehemet Ali, ac- 

 cording to the Mohammedan law of succession, 

 which passes the throne from one member of 

 the family to another in order of*seniority. In 

 May, 1866, the present viceroy of Egypt, Ismail 

 Pacha (born 1816, succeeded his brother, Said 

 Pacha, on January, 1863), prevailed upon the 

 Turkish Government to grant him the right of 

 succession in direct line, and the son of Ismail 

 Pacha, Mechmed Yefwik Pacha, born in 1861, is, 

 therefore, the presumptive heir to the throne. 

 Tho territory subject to the viceroy of Egypt, 

 embracing Nubia, the provinces -of Kordofan and 

 Takale, Taka, tho territory of the Bareah, and 

 other parts of Egyptian Soodan, extends on 

 the White Nile as far as Helle-e-Deleb ; on tho 

 Blue Nile, as far as Fazogl. Altogether its area 

 is estimated at 657,510 English square miles, 

 and the population at 7,465,000, of whom 4,- 

 806,691 belong to Egypt proper, 1,000,000 to 

 Nubia, 400,000 to Kordofan and Takale, 38,000 

 to Taka, 20,000 to the territory of the Bareah, 

 1,700,000 to other parts of Egyptian Soodan. 

 The population set down for Egypt proper is ae- 



