The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1698, 12 June 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1874.

Iw a report of the "Warden's Court yesterday* ".Queen , of- Beauty :was»• erroneously * inserted for "City of London." *

. The list of subreptions to the McAuliffe Belief Fund will Wpublished in to-morrow's Star. Considering the nufliber of subscriptions wiiich hare been going round lately the committee of the McAuliffe Fund hare done well, and deserve every' credit for -their u'h-1 tiring exertions.

The Athenteum contains the following :— " Among the valuable additions lately made to the British Muieum are some architectural fragments from Tel El Yahoudeh, the; mounds ef.Jfche Jews' in: • EgyptX These* mounds are the site of tho town called Vicui. .Judeemim in the Roman Itinerary; thirty' Boi&an miles to the north of Heliopol a. fit; is called the Quits .in, Jtoleroy's;. Orography, and is where the Jewish high: priest, Onias the Fourth, huilt his temple to; God. These fragments arc, some of them,: part of the Jewish,temple, because they are notHgyptian-'in style; while some of them,; bearing 1 tha name of Bameies:: the Third,^ belong to. the. older Egyptian temple, whicb,j as Jo'sepKus tells ua, bad gone to ruins on the spot. Both the temples seem to have 'been built of base materials, in large part of unburnt bricks ; and hence they have give a no traces of their ground plant] The Jewish .fragments are porcelain tiles, which were set as ornaments into the bricks; and also encirle a column as a capital. Many of them fcate-~roKt'.ei or op'n flower", alw&yi *ith light'leaves. The forms on others'rescmblo the high cap or mitre of the priests. The biblical student will ba grateful for these fragment* from tho Jo wish Temple in *gyp>" -__ '"' ' •