PRICES OF ARTICLES AT MAROCCO, 95 &c. &c. &c. ; also, slaves, male and female. Such a horse as would cost m London 50/., sells here for 50 dollars ; a good mule sells for the same, viz. 50 dollars; a bull, 12 dollars; a cow, 15 dollars; sheep, a dollar and a half, each ; a goat, a dollar. Very fine large grained wheat, which increases one-fifth in the grinding, sells at one dollar per saa, or about half a dollar per Winchester bushel. The slaves are conducted through the market by the auctioneer (delel), who exclaims, occasionally, (khumseen reeal aal zeeada, i. e.) " 50 dollars on the increase,' till he finds no one will advance ; when he goes to the owner and declares the price offered ; the owner then decides if he will sell or not ; if he sells, the money is paid immediately, but if not, he takes his slave away with him, and tries him again the next market-day, or waits in expectation that this wretched article of trade will rise in value.

A stranger passing through Marocco would consider it an irregular miserable town ; but the despotic nature of the government induces very individual to secrete or conceal his opulence ; so that the houses of the gentry are surrounded with a shabby wall, often broken or out of repair, at a considerable distance from the dwelling house, which does not appear, or is invisible to the passenger. Some of these houses are very handsome, and are furnished with couches, circular cushions to sit on, and other furniture, in all the luxury of the East. When a