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asked to send up his name, forgot it, and not having a 
card, said, “Pray tell me who I am, for I cannot recollect,” 
a situation which was decidedly serio comic. 
In conclusion let us take care that things committed to 
memory are worthy of being remembered, never forgetting 
that although a strong absorbing passion or sentiment may 
for a time appear to blot out everything else, we cannot 
forget what we have once learnt ; we are unable to perform 
the achievement which the immortal Shakespere undertook 
to perform in the person of Hamlet, whom he thus makes 
speak, when acquainted with the murder of his father, 
Yea from the table of my memory, 
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 
_All saws of books, all forms, all pleasures past, 
That youth, and observation copied there, 
And thy commandment all alone shall live 
Within the book and volume of my brain, 
Unmixed with baser matter. 
But as this cannot be, as no human being while the mind 
is sane has the power to prevent the reproduction of ideas 
which it has once entertained, let us learn to live that 
memory may be a sweet solace to us, and that when we 
near the end the representation of the past may have no 
terrors for us. 
COMMERCIAL ASPECT OF JERUSALEM. 
HE following interesting particulars, are extracted 
from Mr. Consul Moore’s report, on the Trade and 
Commerce of Jerusalem, for the year 1866. 
“Trade and Commerce.—The trade of the Sandjak (or 
minor province) of Jerusalem is very inconsiderable. Jeru- 
salem, the chief town, is one of the least commercial or in- 
dustrial of cities. The principal imports from England are 
cotton goods and some colonials. Of the former it is 
calculated that between 300 and 400 bales, of the value of 
16,0007. to 20,0007, annually find their way here. There 
are no British merchants or tradesmen. The imports from 
foreign countries—consisting chiefly of woollen manufactures, 
hardware, glass, and fancy goods—are on an equally limited — 
