256 AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWAKD. 



We visited the Naples museum, which is said to con- 

 tain the most varied antique collection in the world. 

 The collection is too great to admit of any definite 

 description here. 



We may, in some other form, give a more detailed 

 account of them a little further on. The most interest- 

 ing of them all to us was the exhibition of the un- 

 rolling of the papyrus records taken from the ruins of 

 Herculaneum. 



At Puzzoli (Puteoli) we had the privilege of calling 

 on and shaking hands with Rev. F. Sciarelli (Sherellee), 

 the Methodist brother who, with two or three other 

 ministers, completely confounded the priests in the 

 argument respecting Peter's ever having been at Rome 

 at all, much less ever having been Pope. Sciarelli and 

 his colleagues put the priests in so tight a corner that 

 Pius IX. (as will be remembered) gave strict orders 

 that no one was ever again to enter on such 

 discussions. 



I preached on Sabbath morning, February 5th, at 

 St. Anna di Palazzo, where the Rev. T. W. S. Jones is 

 pastor. The Wesleyans have here a very fine property, 

 and Mr. Jones is doing a good work among the 

 Italians. Through his very great exertion there is 

 now no debt. The cause is daily growing. I heard at 



