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ee ===‘ Jt is over now: look for the money.’ | wi o ST ANZAS ‘] have found it under the pillow, said the son; it 1s peiere ms fos in a leathern belt and a pocket book.’ OR) TAR AAES SHEMAE: BOON The murderers ‘disappeared. Farewell life! my senses swim, Everything being now quiet, the traveller crept And the world is growing dim: ‘from under the bed, jumped out of the window, and hast- Thronging shadows cloud the light, jend to the adjoining town to inform the authorities of Like the advent of the night— | what had happened. oo. Colder, colder, colder still, The mayor immediately assembled the military, and| Upwards steals a vapor chill; in less than three-quarters of an hour, the inn was sur-| Strong the earthly odour grows— rounded by soldiers who had been summoned to arrest) I smell the mould above the rose’ ‘the murderers. The whole house seemed buried in)

Weicome Life! the Spirit strives! \profound silence, but on approaching the stables they

ee ny eee ae aes agen ; nee, the landlord till the word is compl

’ of the landlord, dried his clothes at the fire, and, as soon

: ives; heard a noise. The door was immediately broken in, peengee See ae ee ‘and the landlord and his son were seen busily digging a pit. As soon as the murderers saw the horse-cealer, they uttered a cry of horror, covered their faces with their hands, and fell to the ground.

This was neither from repentance nor the fear of punishment, but they thought they saw before them the host of the murdered man, notwithstanding they heard himspeak, There was some trouble in convincing them to the contrary. They were then bouid,and led to the out-house, where the horrible deed had been committed, anxious to see how the enigma would be solved.

The prisoners appeared tolerably collected, at least calm and sullen; but, when on entering the room, they perceived the body which lay on the bed, the son fell senseless to the earth, and the father threw himself upen

Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn Fly like shadows at the morn,— O’er the earth there comes a bloom, Sunny light for sullen gloom, Warm perfume for vapor cold—

I smell the rose above the mould!

AN ADVENTURE IN HUNGARY. FROM THE GERMAN.

On the third day after his departure from Vienna, a horse dealer alighted at an inn situated at the entrance of a little town, which, to all appearance, was respect- able and quiet. He recommended his horse to the care

as supper was ready, sat down to the table with the host. and his family, who appeared to be decent peeple.

During supper, the traveller was asked where he came from, and on his answering from Vienna, they were all anxious to hear some news from the capital. The horse-dealer told them allhe knew. The landlord then asked him what business had taken him to Vienna, to which he replied that he had been there to sell some of the very finest horses that had ever appeared in the mar- ket there.

At these words the landlord looked very significantly at the young man who sat opposite to him, and who ap- peared to be his son. His expressive glance did not es- cape the observation of the traveller, who, however, took |

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no notice of it; yet he very soon afterwards had cause) toregret his want of caution. Being in want of re-! pose, he begged the landlord, as soon as the supper was| finished, to shew him to his room. The landlord took! a lamp, and conducted the traveller across a yard, into| n detached building, which contained two tolerably neat! rooms. A bed was prepared at the farther end of the second. As soon as the landlord had retired the tra- veller undressed himself, unbuckled a money-belt con-| taining @ Considerable sam in gold, and took out his pocket-book, which was full of Austrian bank-notes.

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Having convinced himse!f that his money was right,|elasticity and activity of the Hellenic intellect, there

he placed both under his pillow, extinguished the light, | and soon fell asleep, thanking God and all the saints;

for the success of his journey. He had slept but an)True, they—the intellectual—were trampled upon by

hour or two when he was suddenly awakened bv the’ . - i

opening of the window, and immediately feit the night| which was called craftiness and cunning—in that subtle \readiness which so often trenched on, and not unfre-

air blow upon him. A dreadful terror seized our travelier, who gave him- selfup for lost; and scarcely knowing what he did.

— np ba the pote peas himself against the w all.| mercial spirit of the Greek islanders burst into energetic on — * the horse-dealer was, he nevertheless action ! Even before the last successful Hellenic in-

re TQ : re . . | . *,? . ey ° perceived that the intruder was inebriated ; this circum-|surrection, the maritime passion of the inhabitants of

stance however gave him little hope, for he had probably got intoxicated in order to summon up courage for the contemplated crime ; besides this the traveller had heard

the voices of persons outside, so that the murderer in! dane!les

case of resistance, could count upon the assistance of his comrades.

But how great was his astonishment when he saw the something to the charms of r , > . . | < ¢ inknown person throw his coat upon the floor, and/there might be found in those plain coloured garments

stretch himself upon the bed which he had just quitted! A few moments afterwards he heard the intruder snore, and his terror began gradually to give way to reflection, although the whole aff:ir was quice incomprehensible to him. He was just preparing to quit his hiding place, in or- der to awake the inmates of tlie house, and ask aucther| bed in place of that from which he had been so unce-' remoniously expelied, when a new incident occurred, He heard the outer door carefully opened, and, on! listening, the sound of cautious footste |

and two figures, those of the landlord and his son, stood: on the threshold,

‘Keep the lamp back! muttered the father in a sup-| They hover about the Red §

pressed voice,

are two against one: besides he has only a smal! knife!

with him, and is sleeping soundly: hear how he snores,’

‘Do what I tell you,’ said the father, angrily : do you! wish to awake him ? would you have his criesalarm the

neighborhood 7 | The horsedealer was horrified with the spectacle

He remained motionless under the bed, scarcely a‘

to breathe. The son shut the door afier him, and the

two wretches approached the bed on tiptoe.

An instant afterwards, the bed was shook by a convul-!f; , : . ‘ . -\F re , : .ve motion, and astified cry of pain, confirmed the fore-' re eyed other. | A rapid running has been ulfver-

|it with loud lamentations, clasped the bloody corpse,

iquently passed over, the barriers of truth and honesty— a “r |some resource was found against tyranny that would crept under the bed as quickly as possible. A moment|have been otherwise intolerable. But when the Tur- alterwards 2 man sprang heavily into the room, and stag-|kish yoke was removed, with what a spring the old com-

steps reached hisichants are wanti uv i | | ste s|chants ‘ing. Every trading ear. Ina few moments, the door of his room opened, | Med ‘! ce E dice Titan

i isinia on the one sid ; ‘What have we to fear? said the young man; ‘we! ce, and Arabia on the other, By

daring|cessities of rapid communication, It is no longer —

boding. that the unhappy man ja the bed, had his throat’

pee

and exclaimed, despairingly : ‘My son! J, thy father, am thy murderer ? The murdered man, was in fact, the youngest son of

ted. And this is an improvement unorn our style of writing; for the dots on our i’s, and the crosses on our t’s, are a great impediment to our pro- cress; and stil] more impediments do the accents create which are used by many of the continental nations, | In addition to the current style of writing abbreviations are much employed; and there 1s no European tongue better suited than the Greek to commercial intercourse : and itis almost universally used by the Greek mer- chants among themselves. ; It would bea curious inquiry how many Greek lette:

are constantly in transit from one part of the world to another, ‘The number, compared with the number ot persons who speak the Greek, would be discovered to be very great. And the language itslf is becoming purer and purer. It is ceasing to be Romaic—it 3s verging towards the Hellenic ; and is aow an instro- ment of epistolary exchange through regions undreaimt of in classical days. In the Greek nation, as now constituted, there will, no doubt, be founda biending of the various races which from time to time have occupied the Hellenic soil ; and there are spots where an intrusive tongue has domi- neered over and almost ejected the Rémaic. ‘The Hyd- riotes, for example, speak Illyrian ; but it is only among the very lowest classes even. of the Hydriotes that the Greek is unknown; and the emancipation of Greece is again giving ascendancy to the language of Greece. Many of the ancient characteristics of Hellas may be found existing at the present hour ;—not only national, but even provincial characteristics. There are speci- mens of the antique type, even ia its most beautiful physical forms. Among the youths, who during Lore Byron’s visit to the Morea, were sent for education to England, there was one, Stamos Nakos by name, the

the host. Drunkenness was the only fault this young|son of an Archon of Livadia, in whom the line of

man had ; and, this night, instead of being, as his father

beauty—straight down from the forehead to the point of

and brother supposed, in his own bed, he had gone out|the nose, without the slightest indentation between the secretly, and been carousing, with some of his compa-}eyes—was completely exhibited. He mighthave been

nions, at the ale-house,

a model for a bust of Phidias—was the very personifi-

Soon becoming sufficiently inebriated, and fearing his} cation of the equestrians on the friezes of the Parthenon. father’s anger, if he appeared before him in that state,]And the women of Greece—what country can exhibit he intended to pass the night in the detached outhouse,!diviner specimens of womanly loveliness! As a race I as he had often done before. His companions had ac-| know of none comparable to them in grace and beauty.

companied him thither, and helped him to climb up to

Among the groups of Andalusiar ladies, you wil! be

the window. The rest requires no further explanation.|struck with the surpassing charms of some—with the

Nor, do we need to add, that the murderers expiated|small pretty feet, with the laughing coquetry, with the their crime with their life; and that the horse dealer, | ready repartee, of most, or all. But you wil] see nothing although saved, and again in possession of his plunder-|comparable, upon the whole, to an assemblage of Gre- ed property, still shudders at the recollection of that/cian damsels. Asa race, I repeat, they are the most

dreadful night.

THE GREEKS. BY JOHN BOWRING, LL. D. M. P.

If a people be not brulalised by despotism, there is no ground forcespair. I never despair of Greece. In the

was always a source of hopeful trust and expectation. True, they drank of the bitterest draught of slavery!

the coarse and brutish; but in that fertility of device

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the Cyclades was exhibited in athousandshapes. The best sailors who manned the Turkish fleet were Grreeks. ; That noble race of boatmen who ply through the Dar- | , and about the Bosphorus, are mostly Greeks ; there was scarcely a port in the Mediterranean where |the Greek mariner, in his national constume, did not add the scene, the Hydriote

|which the sumptuary laws of his island imposed upon him. There the Sciote and the Spetziote, the Candiate and the Cyprus, the Rhodian and Eubean, were to be seen in the grotesque varieties of their distinguishing |habiliments; and the Greeks of late have been more |than ever faithful to their trading traditions, Within the last twenty years they have nearly monopolized the commerce of the Levant.

There is not a port nor a place in Europe, where busi- ness 1s carried on to any extent, in which Greek mer-

1 iterranean Sea is crowded with them. Through Egypt they have penetrated into Nubia, Soudan, and jdown to the confluence of the blue and white Nile. Sea, and trade with Abys-

Aleppo and Damascus they carry on their barter with ‘the two sides of the Euphrates. They have invaded Georgia, Armenia, and Persia, by the Caspian ; and at this moment the Greeks reckon’ among their number scme of the most opulent and enterprising merchants of the world. z

Their written language has adapted itself to the ne-

written as of old, in separate characters, as in ancient Greek manuscripts—every letter standing aloneyanart

beautiful women of Europe. Go forth at evening on the hanks of the Bosphorus—visit any of the Greek villages either on its eastern or western banks, ramble

on a holiday to the valley of the sweet waters, to The-

rapia, Arnaouta Koe, or Buyukdere—and you will see forms and figures gliding by, such as the eye of admi- ration would be never weary of contemplating, and the memory be delighted to dwell upon. Visit any of the European ports where Greek “merchants most do con- gregate ;” and in the evening gatherings, the balls, or conversazioni, in which you observe circles of ladies more charming than the rest, you may safely pronounce them to be the wives and daughters of the ambulatory and adventurous traffickers who, from Scio and Syra, from the islands of the Archipelago, or the harbours of the Peloponesus, have there established themselves.

Not long since the Greek merchants, settled in Lon- don, gave a splended dinner at the London Tavern to celebrate the Revolution of September. (It is sad to think how few and fleeting have been the fruits of that most worthy movement!) here were present most of the Greek ladies residing in our capital—each fairer than the others, and all surpassingly fair.

How truthfully and well did Byron sing, scarcely dreaming of the redemption, the not distant redemption of Greece,— .

“On Suli’s rock, and Parga’s shore Exist the remnants ofa line Such as their doric mothers bore : And there perhaps some seed is sown. The Heracleidan bleod might own ” _ And how natural the feeling of a high-minded Greek in the days of his country’s degradation, — “Qur virgins dance beneath the shade : i see their glorious black eyes shine ses But gazing on each glowing maid, Mine own the burning tear-drop laves . Le 9 such breasts must suckle slaves!” ost touchingly said; and “it is something” patriot Greek to feel that he has now canine de soe era than thet of “blushes for Greeks,” and “tears for Greece.” The sounds which had sassed from Scioand Teos to “the farthest west,” have already returned bs monious to “their place of birth.” i. _ Greece has yet resources, agricultural and commer- cial, Her present population amounts to nearly a mil- lion; of which about a quarter ofa million are distri- buted among the islands, the remainder in Eastern and Western Greece. But the million of inhabitants who are included in the kingdom of Greece comprise lese than half of those who call themselves Greeks and who speak the Romaic tongue. Of these, Macedonia clone —still subject to the Ottoman sway—is inhabited by there quarters of a million of Greeks. The area cf ing Otho’s dominions is about sixteen thousand miles.

‘sally adopted, in which the letters of every word are so

linked together that the pen is not taken from the paper|

Its geographical position is admirably adapted to trad

Ing enterprise. It has multitudinous inlets and superior harbours; its islands stud the Egean; its coasts hutiels an abundant supply of able and practised mariners ; the

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