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HOURS OF PRAYER.-BELIEM IN SPIRITS. 315very materiatlJ infl;uenced the events of this country, rendering the lieutenancythegovernmentheres:tood on, next to nominal. And things wouldhavegone on better, couid that empire have beeu duly substautiated.The Moor's hours of prayer are sun-rise, mid.day, sun-set, eight o'dock,and mid-night; sp that a Mussulman's devotion isnotpermitted to doze.On ordinary days a white, on Friday a blue flag gives them notÎ.ce duringthe day; at night a crier pronounces from the strmmit of Hie mosquêtowerthe Prophet's creed, " God is great: there. is but one GOd, and M~hommedis his prophet." A pithy sentence. Of course the Moors willhe concluded superstitious. Atheism at any rate never appears to haveentered their minds·,. They are usually ~onvinced of the existence of adassofbe.ings of a .. spiritual kind (as so many in Europestill think), whichhaunt and oc.cupY every objeétof'Nature that attracts ~otice, whether"mountain; river, streamlet, groVe,.Of cell," who aréactuated, bygratitudefor due res,pect shown, butofotherwise a highly itritable disposition;but who are equaUy and principally roused by the two very opposite ex:'citements of neglect and obtrusiveness; so that the}' seem to possess astrong portion of the capriciousness, whether they do or do not the va:"rious other penchants, (very serious annoyallce they wouid afford to Mo:..hommedans,) of the classicaLdivinities: that elegant mythology, (such is1\1r. Gibbon's ter01,) the details whereofwere furnished by the luxuriant.imaginations of the philosophicloungersof the Pirreus,-Some Europeansindiscl'eetlybathing Jate, and: haying thereby caught cold and consequentfever,wete,astlte natives terllled it, "stricken by thèspirit orthe river~ AtheÎsm i~ a' ~entimentunnatural t~. the mind ~f man. f;ven' the savages in America have anidea of both a good and a bad spirit; ". To the latter ther ascribe earthquakes, hurricanes, and conVUlsion!!natural and civil; and to hitn they sometimes pray and Blake pl'opitiatory offerings; taking ie .for granted, that the former or good spirit, who is supreme over aU, will not hurt them. They a180suppose that therewiU he a state of future existence, in which they will he îndulged, provîded theybehave weIl in this, in their favourite pursuits andenjoyments.~s2