They say, in the Oriental style that the children are no longer theirs, but ours, and that they shall remain with us and learn everything we think proper to teach them.

This event excited much talk in the city, particularly among the Moslem mothers.

The number of scholars, chiefly Moslem girls, increased to twenty-five and thirty." At a later date, Jan., 1836, "one of the girls in Mrs.Whiting's school, came with a complaint against a Jew who had been attempting to frighten her away from the school by telling her and her uncle (her guardian) that her teacher certainly had some evil design, and no doubt intended to select the finest of the girls, and send them away to the Pasha, and that it was even written so in the books which she was teaching the children to read.

Whether the Jew has been set up by others to tell the people this absurd nonsense, I cannot say, but certainly it is a new thing for Jews to make any opposition, or to show any hostility to us.
And this looks very much like the evil influence which has been attempted in another quarter." "March 7.

Yesterday Mrs.W.commenced a Sunday school for the pupils of her day school.