There were his young barbarians all at play ;— All this rushed with his blood. Shall he expire? To the honour of the ancient Greeks they steadily refused, from motives of humanity, to imitate their Roman masters by introducing this barbarous pastime. Gladiatorial exhibitions were abolished by Constantine the Great, nearly six hundred years after their first institution. They were, however, revived under the Emperor Constantius and his two successors, but Honorius attempted, by edict, to put an end to these cruel barbarities. In spite of this, however, efforts were made in Italy to restore them to their ancient splendour, when, upon one occasion, a noble monk, named Telemachus, entered the arena to separate the combatants. The spectators, enraged at the interruption to their favourite pastime, overwhelmed the intrepid monk with a shower of stones. Hardly was the murder com mitted, when horror and remorse seized the perpetrators; the feeling of shame and repentance spread, and the m: yrdom of Telemachus sealed the condemnation of gladiatorial exhibitions, and ensured the submission of the people to the imperial edict, which for ever abolished the human sacrifices of the amphitheatre. POMPEY'S PILLAR. ABOUT three-quarters of a mile from the walls of Alexandria, midway between the city and the shores of Lake Mareotis, and quite detached from any other building, rises the famous column known by the name of Pompey's Pillar. It is one of the few monuments which still stand to tell of the past splendour and greatness of Alexander's wealthy city. At one time the rival of Rome in size, the first commercial city of the world, and embellished by the Ptolemies with the spoils of ancient Egypt; Alexandria is now little more than the wreck of its former magnificence, which this lofty column seems to call back from the past, while it fills the mind of the traveller with thoughts of the |