THE WEEK. MAY 22.-This is the anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pope, a great name in English literature. This celebrated poet was born in the year 1688, in Lombardstreet, London, where his father was a linen-draper. The old gentleman was a Roman Catholic; and so strongly was he attached to the political opinions which were then generally held by persons of his persuasion, that upon the Revolution, which happened only a few months after the birth of his son, he resolved to retire from business with the money which he had made, and which he would not even entrust to the public funds or any other investment which would have yielded him interest, but preferred keeping it in his own hands and living upon the capital. The health of his infant son, also, who was both weakly and deformed, probably contributed to determine him to take up his residence in the country. They went accordingly to a small house at Binfield, near Windsor Forest-and here the infancy and early boyhood of the future poet was passed, under few eyes but those of his tenderly attached parents. Pope owed his first instructions, not only in reading and writing, but even in the elements of literary taste, to his father, who, while he was yet very young, used to set him tasks in composition, in the performance of which he made it a rule to exact the greatest correctness. His education, indeed, was entirely private; with the exception of a short time which he spent, first at a school at Twyford, and then at another which was kept near Hyde Park Corner, While at this seminary he is recorded to have set his school-fellows to act a play which he had composed of passages selected from Ogilby's Homer, intermixed with verses of his own. The work just mentioned, and Sandys's Translation of Ovid, are said to have been the first books which turned his thoughts to the writing of poetry. He was not yet, however, twelve years of age. The first poems which he published were his Pastorals, which appeared in 1709, but had been written four or five years before; and some of his pieces which afterwards appeared are of still earlier date. His Essay on Criticism, which was written in 1709 and published in 1711, was the production which first made him extensively known. From the time of its appearance he may be said to have taken his place in the front rank of the living writers of England; and it was not long before he was placed by universal consent at the head of all his contemporaries in his own domain of verse, succeeding here to the unrivalled supremacy which had been so long enjoyed by Dryden. The Rape of the Lock, the Epistle of Eloise to Abelard, the Essay on Man, the Dunciad, together with numerous minor pieces, and his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, confirmed and sustained him throughout his life in the high station which the public voice had thus awarded him. He died at Twickenham, his favourite and celebrated residence, on the banks of the Thames, on the 30th of May, 1744. The moral character of Pope was not without considerable blemishes, but he had also virtues which claim for him much of our respect and esteem, and of these his independence of spirit, his firm attachment to his friends, and above all his filial affection, deserve especially to be mentioned. As for his poetry it is enough to say that, whatever may be its deficiency in certain respects, at least in its more peculiar and remarkable characteristics, which are correctness, brilliancy, and elastic vigour of expression, it has never been surpassed or equalled; that it still retains its popularity undiminished, notwithstanding the rivalry of other schools which have arisen, or been revived, since it first won the public ear; that its author has had a larger number of imitators than perhaps any other writer that ever existed; and that the example of his compositions has evidently and undeniably exerted no inconsiderable influence on nearly all the English poetry that has been written since his time, not excepting the works of some of those who would probably be the least disposed to acknowledge such an obligation. May 23. On this day in the year 1718 was porn at Kilbride, in the county of Lanark, in Scotland, the eminent physician Dr. William Hunter. Dr. Hunter was originally educated for the Scotch church, but while pursuing his studies at the University of Glasgow, was induced to turn his attention to the medical profession. In 1737, he and his countryman Dr. William Cullen, who afterwards acquired so high a distinction as a medical theorist, entered into partnership together as general practitioners, in the village of Hamilton. The scheme which they pursued was to attend the classes at the University of Edinburgh alternately; the one remaining at home one winter, and the other the next. This connexion continued till 1741, when Hunter came to London, and soon after obtained an engagement as dissector to a public lecturer on anatomy. From this beginning, he gradually raised himself to the very top of his profession. Dr. Hunter devoted a large portion of the fortune which he had acquired by his lectures and his practice to the formation of a magnificent museum of natural history and antiquities, which he bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, where it is now deposited. He died on the 30th of March, 1783, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. "If I had strength enough to hold a pen," he said to one of his friends, a short time before his decease, "I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die." MARRIAGE FESTIV AL OF THE GREEKS IN [From a Correspondent.] AT Boudja, a village near Smyrna, I attended a Greek marriage with considerable interest. The ceremony in the church seemed interminably long, and the mumbled prayers and nasal singing (for all the Greeks in this part, whether in church or out of church, when they sing, will sing through the nose) were not very amusing. Both bride and bridegroom wore a wreath of flowers round their heads, which was pretty and classical: these wreaths of flowers were exchanged and re-exchanged many times in the course of the ceremony. They had also two nuptial rings, one on the hand of the bridegroom and one on the bride's, which were slipped from the one to the other very frequently, the bride now wearing her own, now her husband's, and so on. The procession returned from the church to the bridegroom's house, preceded by music, instrumental and vocal, and followed by all the Greeks of the village. This procession closely resembled those we see represented in sculpture and on ancient vases, and which refer to the customs of the Greeks two or three thousand years back. Immediately on her arrival at the house, the young bride took her place on a sofa in the corner of the room, and there sat with downcast eyes as immoveable as a statue, taking no part whatever in the amusements that were going on, and never even uttering a word, except in a whisper, to some female relative or dear female friend. She retained the bridal wreath of flowers, over which was hung, very gracefully, a veil of rose-coloured gauze, which fell on either side her head, leaving her face exposed, and reaching her girdle. Besides the coloured veil and the wreath, she was further distinguished as a bride by a long bunch of gold tinsel cut into slips, which was attached to her hair, aud dropped down as a gaudy ringlet on either side her neck. The merry company immediately began to dance, and continued from noon till midnight. The room was soon very crowded. Every one, as he went in, advanced to the bride, whose lap (she was cross-legged on the sofa like a Turk) was duly hollowed for the reception; and gave her a piece of money, more or less, according to the visitor's circumstances or generosity. The bride deposited the money in a small silver box, but neither opened her lips nor raised her eyes. Meanwhile the dance never ceased, or paused but for a minute, new performers supplying the places of such as were fatigued, and keeping up the strange Romaika (the favorite dance of all the Greeks), waving, winding, and interweaving their handkerchiefs. When the musicians gave symptoms of flagging, or talked of being tired, some spirited Palikari would step out of the circle of the dance, take a bright rubich (a small thin Turkish coin) from his pocket, wet it between his lips, and then, with a smart exclamation, stick it on the forehead of the head performer. This recipe, generally washed down by a draught of wine, never seemed to fail; and on they blend and sawed and bawled with increased vigour. The instrumental music was always accompanied by one voice, of whose beauty not much could be said. dancing, on the floor of which, a carpet being spread, These marriages and other merry-makings are nearly always attended by young Greeks of respectable families, who dearly love a dance, no matter whether it In the course of the evening the old Aghà of the vilbe under the roof of a prince or of a peasant. These lage came in with two of the Turks of his guard. He persons liberally pay the musicians, but it would be quietly seated himself on a low chair in a corner of the out of all character to present the money in any other room, had his pipe lighted, and commenced a process of way than by sticking it on the forehead. I would add silent smoking, which he hardly interrupted by a word, as another general remark, that I have frequently seen at except "Atesh" (fire!) when his pipe went out, during Smyrna and the neighbouring villages-at the villages the two hours he honoured the Greeks with his company. on the Bosphorus, and above all, at Prince's Islands, His guards, two young Yebecks, or mountaineers, from in the Sea of Marmora, near Constantinople,-as much the interior of Asià Minor, stood near the door with difemale beauty and grace, and natural gentility of man-lated eyes and open mouths, wondering, no doubt, at the ners, and infinitely more spirit and gaiety at the dances liberty of the Greek women, but evidently delighted with of these poor Greeks given in a confined room, illumi- the joyous scene. nated by four tallow candles stuck in bottles in the four corners, and on a creaking, crazy, wooden floor, than it has been my lot to meet with in splendid saloons, luminous with chandeliers and wax-lights, and appropriately furnished with all the appurtenances which luxury and fashion have rendered indispensable to our balls. And moreover, though in general the company at these dances was composed of no higher characters than boatmen, fishermen, vine-dressers, and donkey-drivers, with their wives, daughters, sisters, or sweethearts, I never saw their frolics degenerate into riot, nor one of them fail in respect to any person of superior education or condition, who had chosen to be present, nor, at the same time, appear awkward or uncomfortable at the presence of such persons. But to return to the marriage at Boudja-what most struck me was the automaton-like passiveness of the bride, who was young, handsome, and naturally lively. But there she sat in the midst of all this dancing, music, merriment, and gossip, close in the corner, like a statue in its niche, without motion, without giving a sign that the busy noisy scene before her reached either of her senses. And during three mortal days (for so long is the marriage festival kept up) was she to persist in this unnatural forced position of stupid decorum, amidst the joyfulness of those who were called together only to celebrate her own happiness! This forced delicacy and decorum, and submissiveness on the part of the young bride, must have been mainly borrowed by the Asiatic Greeks from their masters the Turks. In the evening, about an hour after the candles had been lighted, the wedding repast was served up. This, in truth, was frugal enough: it consisted of a large dish of keskake (a Turkish dish made of unground wheat, mixed with a little maize, butter, &c.), which, among the Oriental Greeks, as well as the Turks, is always eaten at weddings, and of a large bowl of pilaff, or boiled rice, in which was some mutton hashed. All the females present partook of the hymeneal banquet, (except the bride, who tasted nothing,) in the upper room, the scene of the I was informed by a young lady, (a European present,) that the Aghà had furnished the materials for the wedding feast. This looked paternal and pretty, but not so the context-he was to receive a large portion of the money presented to the bride by her friends and visitors! As, besides nearly all the peasants of the village, many respectable young Greeks from Smyrna were present, and all the Franks who had country houses there, went, or sent a few piastres, the old Turk must have been a considerable gainer by the transaction. This marriage was celebrated, as they nearly all are, on a Sunday. On the Monday and Tuesday following the same amusements were kept up; the bridegroom and his friends, male and female, making processions through the village with music and dancing. The bride was not allowed to go out of the house until the Sunday following. THE LIBRARY. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, AND CONTINUED BY HIS GRANDSON, W. T. FRANKLIN, COMPRISING HIS PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE AND HIS SELECT WORKS. Third Edition, in 6 vols. London, 1818. Ir would be difficult to select a happier subject for the biographer than the life of the great American Philosopher and Statesman whose name adorns this title-page. It is not merely that the history of Franklin is intimately interwoven with that of one of the mightiest political movements which the world has ever witnessed, and that it was in great part by his hands that the foundations were laid of the powerful and flourishing empire which we now see established in his country. If this were all, his life, to the generality of readers, would be rather a tale of wonder than a lesson. But the achiever of the high political results to which we have alluded, was not more remarkable or interesting as a public character than as a private individual; and in the latter capacity the record of his progress from boyhood to old papers, these volumes contain a large selection of the author's letters and tracts on philosophical subjects, most of them printed here for the first time. The remarks and accounts of experiments are illustrated, where necessary, by diagrams and maps. The regular price of this book in boards is 31. 12s., but it may probably be often got for considerably less money. Even at the lowest price, however, at which it is likely to be met with, it is hardly a book for many individuals to purchase; but it is one of the very best sets of volumes that can be placed in a subscription library. Few books are calculated to be perused with greater avidity than the Life and Correspondence of Franklin by all classes of readers, and hardly any books of entertainment will be found at the same time more exciting or more useful. The biography of Dr. Franklin, written (though not so correct as in the edition here noticed) by himself, may be purchased with several cheap selections from his works. 68 Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for the gout?" was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. "Live upon sixpence a day-and earn it;" was the pithy answer.-Annual Biography and Obituary for 1832. Popular Poison.-When pure ardent spirits are taken into the stomach, they cause irritation, which is evinced by warmth and pain experienced in that organ; and next, inflammation of the delicate coats of this part, and sometimes sides the local injury they produce, they act on the nerves gangrenes. They act in the same manner as poisons. Be of the stomach which run to the brain, and, if taken in large quantities, cause insensibility, stupor, irregular convulsive action, difficulty of breathing, profound sleep, and often sud den death.--The habitual use of ardent spirits causes a slow inflammation of the stomach and liver, which proceeds steadily, but is often undiscovered, till too late for relief.-Lon don Medical Surgical Journal. age is full of instruction for all. Happily we are in possession of this record in the most authentic and desirable form, namely, as it was, drawn up by his own pen. This is not only, as all will acknowledge, by far the most alluring and delightful sort of biography, but it is also, we are inclined to think, upon the whole the most satisfying and useful. It is true, that a man in giving us an account of his own actions, even supposing him to be perfectly honest and disposed to tell us the truth, may be sometimes led by self-love or self-ignorance to deceive both his readers and himself. But this cannot be done to any considerable or important extent, in such a manner as to impose upon persons of ordinary observation and judgment. The facts which are stated will in general sufficiently indicate the real motives which influenced the actor; and much may be gathered even from the mere manner in which he tells his story, and from the thousand delicate and in describable but yet universally intelligible evidence, of feeling and character, which, in such a communication, will unavoidably slip out in a man's very style and mode of expressing himself. In the present instance there is a great deal of this. Franklin's narrative is coloured all over with the moral and intellectual character of the man. And as for the truth and correctness of the account which he gives of his marvellous rise in life, and the noble triumph which he accomplished over the formidable array of difficulties by which he was so long beset, if we had no other ground for believing what he tells us, the known and unquestioned facts of the case would speak for themselves. There is no doubt that he did raise himself from the lowest poverty and obscurity to wealth, eminence, and fame; and there is nothing in his narrative more surprising than this certain and acknowledged reality which it is its purpose to explain. Although, therefore, there are other lives of this most distinguished person, and some of them written with considerable ability, as well as containing some things which are not to be found in his own account, those who wish fully to understand either his character or the methods by which he commanded the extraordinary success that attended most of his undertakings, should read and study the latter. It has been frequently printed; The busy activity which distinguished the reign of George but never correctly, and as it came from the pen of the IV., more than doubles what was considered an era of great author, till it appeared in the present publication, super- of George III., and assumes a very high and lofty character commercial activity and mechanical invention in the reign intended, as the title-page states, by his grandson. The when compared with the reigns of the two preceding mopart of the Life, however, written by Dr. Franklin narchs of that name. In the year 1825 two hundred and himself, occupies only about the half of the first volume forty-nine patents were granted. It was a year replete with of this collection. The remaining half of that volume interest in the history of speculation and adventurous enterand the whole of the second consist of the continua-prises of all kinds, and cannot but be looked at by the phition by his grandson, but embrace also many letters losophic observer of men and things, without the deepest and other original documents. This continuation forms feelings of astonishment and regret. Many salutary lessons a valuable contribution to the history of a most inter-ficent and splendid hopes; but few of them, however, were may be drawn from the year 1825. It was a year of magniesting and important period, comprehending, especially, realized. Statesmen may derive useful lessons from it, and a curious detail of circumstances which preceded the so may the merchant and manufacturer, and the industrious commencement of the American war, and also an mechanic. The sober pursuits of industry produce, in the account of Franklin's conduct afterwards as American long run, more solid and substantial pleasures than all the ambassador at Paris. The contents of volumes third gilded visions which artful and interested theorists can supply. and fourth may also be considered as supplementary to the Memoirs, consisting as they do of the correspondence between Dr. Franklin and his friends, divided into three parts; in the first of which are given letters on miscellaneous subjects; in the second, letters relating to American politics; and, in the third, letters relating to the negociations which preceded the peace between America and Great Britain. Many of these letters, especially those in the first part, are among the author's very happiest compositions. To those respecting public affairs, the editor has appended ample explanatory notes. Finally, the fifth and sixth volumes consist of a collection of the principal literary remains of Dr. Franklin; many of which had not before appeared in print, and are still not to be found in any other publication. Besides numerous political and miscellaneous ... Average Annual Grant of Patents in England in several 5 | George I. 4 George II.. 8 George III. 7 8. 61 .136 which he receives from himself, especially when the active The most valuable part of every man's education is that energy of his character makes ample amends for the want of a more finished course of study. Suffer not your spirit to be subdued by misfortunes; but, on the contrary, steer right onward, with a courage greater than your fate seems to allow. LONDON:-CHARLES KNIGHT, PALL-MALL EAST. Booksellers: Shopkeepers and Hawkers may be supplied Wholesale by the following Paternoster-Row. Hull, STEPHENSON. SIMMS. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, CHARNLET. Edinburgh, OLIVER and BOYD, Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES, Stamford Street. 9.] OF THE Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. BUTTER. Suffolk Cow.] PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. The THE various circumstances attending the introduction and use of butter in antiquity, have been investigated by Beckmann with great learning and industry. conclusion at which he arrives is, "that butter was not used either by the Greeks or Romans in cooking, as is everywhere customary at present. We never find it mentioned by Galen or any other ancient medical writer, as food, though they have spoken of it as applicable to other purposes. No notice is taken of it by the Roman epicure, Apicius, who wrote on cookery; nor is there anything said of it in that respect by the authors who treat of agriculture, though they have given us very particular information with respect to milk, cheese, and oil. "This, as has been remarked by others, may be easily accounted for, by the ancients having accustomed themselves to the use of gocd oil; and in like manner butter is very little employed at present in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the southern parts of France."-Butter is very extensively used in this and most other northern countries; that of England and Holland is reckoned the best. The production and consumption of butter in Great Britain is very great.-The consumption in the metro polis may, it is believed, be averaged at about one half pound per week for each individual, being at the rate of 26 lbs. a year; and supposing the population to amount to 1,450,000, the total annual consumption would (on this hypothesis) be 37,700,000 lbs. or 16,830 tons: but to this may be added 4,000 tons for the butter required for the victualling of ships and other purposes, making the total consumption in round numbers 21,000 tons, or 47,040,000 lbs., which, at 10d. per pound, would be worth 1,960,000l. The average produce per cow of the butter dairies is estimated by Mr. Marshall at 168 lbs. a year; so that, supposing we are nearly right in the above estimate, about 280,000 cows will be required to produce an adequate supply of butter for the London market. Butter made in hot countries is generally liquid. In India it is called ghee, and is mostly prepared from the milk of buffaloes: it is usually conveyed in duppers or bottles made of hide, each of which contains from ten to The most common of the Indian breeds of the ox tribe is the Zebu, a humped variety, of which the smallest specimens are not bigger than a full-grown mastiff, while others are found almost as large as the finest English cow They are all useful, both as affording food, and as beasts of burthen. VOL. I. [MAY 26, 1832. forty gallons. Ghee is an article of considerable commercial importance in many parts of India. The Arabs are the greatest consumers of butter in the world. Burckhardt tells us, that it is a common practice among all classes to drink, every morning, a cupful of melted butter or ghee; and they use it in an infinite variety of other ways. The taste for it is universal, and even the poorest individuals will spend half their daily income that they may have butter for dinner, and butter in the morning. Large quantities are annually shipped from Cosseir, Sonakin, and Massona, on the west coast of the Red Sea, for Djidda and other Arabian ports. We shall notice in our Supplementary number for this month the very valuable publication, M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, from which the above account is extracted. [Zebus from Specimens in the Zoological Gardens.] OF PEACE-FROM LORD CLARENDON. Ir was a very proper answer to him who asked, why any man should be delighted with beauty? that it was a question that none but a blind nan could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it. Nor can any aversion or malignity towards the object irreconcile the eyes from looking upon it; as a man who hath an envenomed and mortal hatred against another who hath a most graceful and beautiful person, cannot hinder his eye from being delighted to behold that person, though that delight is far from going to the heart, as no man's malice towards an excellent musician can keep his ear from being pleased with his music. No man can ask how or why men come to be delighted with peace but he who is without natural bowels,-who is deprived of all those affections which can only make life pleasant to him. Peace is that harmony in the state that health is in the body. No honour, no profit, no plenty can make him happy who is sick with a fever in his blood, and with defluctions and aches in his joints and bones; but health restored gives a relish to the other blessings, and is very merry without them: no kingdom can flourish or be at ease in which there is no peace,-which only makes men dwell at home and enjoy the labour of their own hands, and improve all the advantages which the air, and the climate, and the soil administers to them; and all which yield no comfort where there is no peace. God himself reckons health the greatest blessing he can bestow upon man L 99 kind, and peace the greatest comfort and ornament he can confer upon states, which are a multitude of men gathered together. They who delight most in war are so much ashamed of it, that they pretend to desire nothing but peace,—that their heart is set upon nothing else. When Cæsar was engaging all the world in war, he wrote to Tully, "There was nothing worthier of an honest man than to have contention with nobody." It was the highest aggravation that the prophet could find out in the description of the greatest wickedness, that "the way of peace they knew not;" and the greatest punishment of all their crookedness and perverseness was, that " they should not know peace." A greater curse cannot befall the most wicked nation than to be deprived of peace. There is nothing of real and substantial comfort in this world but what is the product of peace; and whatsoever we may lawfully and innocently take delight in is the fruit and effect of peace. The solemn service of God, and performing our duty to Him in the exercise of regular devotion, which is the greatest business of our life, and in which we ought to take most delight, is the issue of peace. War breaks all that order, interrupts all that devotion, and even extinguisheth all that zeal which peace had kindled in us; lays waste the dwelling-place of God as well as of man; and introduces and propagates opinions and practice as much against Heaven as against earth, and erects a deity that delights in nothing but cruelty and blood. Are we pleased with the enlarged commerce and society of large and opulent cities, or with the retired pleasures of the country? do we love stately palaces and noble houses, or take delight in pleasant groves and woods, or fruitful gardens, which teach and instruct nature to produce and bring forth more fruits, and flowers, and plants, than her own store can supply her with? all this we owe to peace; and the dissolution of this peace disfigures all this beauty, and, in a short time, covers and buries all this order and delight in ruin and rubbish. Finally, have we any content, satisfaction, and joy in the conversation of each other, in the knowledge and understanding of those arts and sciences which more adorn mankind than all those buildings and plantations do the fields and grounds on which they stand? even this is the blessed effect and legacy of peace; and war lays our natures and manners as waste as our gardens and our habitations; and we can as easily preserve the beauty of the one as the integrity of the other under the cursed jurisdiction of drums and trumpets. DR. FRANKLIN'S MORAL CODE. THE great American philosopher and statesman, Benjamin Franklin, drew up the following list of moral virtues, to which he paid constant and earnest attention, and thereby made himself a better and a happier man: ... Temperance. Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order.... Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality... Make no expense, but do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing. Industry... Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. Sincerity... Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and ustly; and if you speak, speak accordingly. Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. ... Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries. Cleanliness.. Suffer no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation. Tranquillity. Be not disturbed about trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. Humility... Imitate Jesus Christ. PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IN ASIA MINOR. AN American missionary and his wife have established a school at Smyrna, for the instruction of children of both sexes in the English language, and in general elementary education, after the most approved system. This school is chiefly attended by the children of Eng lish parents settled in the country. It must be productive of important good; for it is a positive fact, that only a few years ago, from the want of some such establishment, and the carelessness of their fathers, many of whom had married women of the country, these children were not only sadly deficient in those rudiments which the poorest among us now acquire, but positively ignorant of the English language. You would meet, for example, a Mr. John this, and a Miss Mary that, with names the most English, who would not know how to address to you a single decent sentence in the idiom of their fathers; and it need scarcely be added, that in English character, intelligence, and energy, they were almost equally defi cient. Two or three respectable families of Dutch descent also send their children to this school. The other European settlers, who are nearly all Catholics, have not yet had the good sense to overcome their religious prejudices, and to send their children to be educated by a Protestant minister; but, even confined as they are, we look upon the labours of the respectable American missionary in this part of the world as praiseworthy and important. What, however, is of still more importance at Smyrna, as regards numbers and a whole people, is the settlement of a good Greek seminary for the education of the young Greeks. The British consul has been recently allowed to take this establishment under his special protection; and, with the arms of England over its gateway, it has now nothing to fear from the Turks, but goes on teaching steadily and quietly. An intelligent friend, who was in England a short |