The mere existence of a church upon an apostolical basis, worshipping God in simplicity, told with force against the corrupt hierarchies.
The excitements at Mosul during the Crimean war, were often intense.
At one period there was great danger of an outburst of Mohammedan fanaticism, so that the Christians were in terror for their lives.
Stringent orders from Constantinople aroused the local authorities to do their duty, and the insolence of those ready for deeds of blood was checked.

Early in May, 1854, a volunteer reinforcement of two thousand Koords for the Turkish army, was quartered in the city, and certain outrages indicated an approaching massacre of Christians and Jews.

The evil was averted by the bold decision of the English Consul, who went to the Pasha, and demanded that the Koords be sent at once out of the city.

They were soon on their way to the seat of war.
Mosul was regarded as free from miasma; but the heat of the summer days was exhausting to the foreigner, and the natives also suffered.
For a hundred days in 1853, the mercury stood, at two o'clock in the afternoon, as high as 98ｺ; and for eighty days it ranged from 100ｺ to 114ｺ.

The highest point in the shade was 117ｺ.