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4 THE SOUDAN. the old Knights of Malta, in the shape of various relics of that time, and the chapels to the different nations situated on either side of the aisle, brings vividly back to one’s mind the romantic history of their struggles with the infidels. Besides the above the most remarkable things are the following :—In the Portuguese chapel a group of statuary, representing Charity and Justice, by Mariano (Javano, a Maltese sculptor, who died in France. He has also another group behind the altar, supposed to be his master piece, and especially remarkable as being carved out of one block of marble. The subject is the Baptism of our Saviour by St. John. In the French chapel the sculptured figure on the tomb of the Comte de Beaujolais, brother of Louis Philippe, representing him as having fallen asleep on the camp ground, is very good. The artist was an Italian. In the Italian chapel was a very fine picture by Michael Angelo, representing St. Jerome studying a book. An ex tremely interesting portion of the church is the marble flooring, inscribed with the arms of the various knights of the order who are buried below. Every great family of Europe has its representatives, and it would be in the highest degree interesting to study their various histories. I fancy many a book more than vieing- with even the best of Sir W. Scott’s could be made out of the materials so gathered ; but we have no time to examine them all, and so go on to the solid silver gates at the entrance to the Irish chapel, though, after all, these have very little effect, as the brown painting with which the silver was
