Wolcott and Van Dyck, and Mr.Thomson removed to 'Ain Anab to superintend the schools for the common people, of which there were three opened in the vicinity.

Mr.Smith, on arriving at Beirut, was so much interested that he did not stop to open his house, but went up at once to Deir el-Kamr.
In this same month, the Rev.Mr.Gobat, a German in the service of the Church Missionary Society, arrived from Malta.

He had long been known as a missionary in Egypt and Abyssinia, and was a personal friend of the older members of the mission.

His object was to see if he could make arrangements by which evangelical missionaries of the English Church could advantageously share in the labors for converting the Druzes.
In September, despatches arrived from Lord Palmerston, which were reported to contain an order for taking the Druzes under British protection; and with them came from England the Rev.Mr.
Nicholayson,--originally a Baptist, and at this time an Episcopalian and zealous high-churchman--with instructions, it was said, to assist in carrying out that arrangement.

He did not agree with Mr.
Gobat in respect to the treatment due to the American missionaries; and when the Druzes inquired of him what support they might expect from England, the answers they received led them to the conclusion, that England would not protect them unless they renounced the American missionaries, and put themselves under the exclusive instruction of clergymen from the English Church.