. Travels and politics in the Near East. with the fruitjust beginning to colour, the eternal olive, and thesolemn cypress are all here in wild profusion. Herethe dust and din of modern Athens are absent, and allis peace. There are still remains of the British time, besides theroads and other public works, to be found in once the Ionian Assembly harangued and intriguedand petitioned for union with Greece, the English chap-lain now holds his service, his vestry is the old guard-room, the altar stands where once stood the chair, andthe pews are placed in the former room of the Govern-
. Travels and politics in the Near East. with the fruitjust beginning to colour, the eternal olive, and thesolemn cypress are all here in wild profusion. Herethe dust and din of modern Athens are absent, and allis peace. There are still remains of the British time, besides theroads and other public works, to be found in once the Ionian Assembly harangued and intriguedand petitioned for union with Greece, the English chap-lain now holds his service, his vestry is the old guard-room, the altar stands where once stood the chair, andthe pews are placed in the former room of the Govern-ment and Opposition benches. I saw in a room of the 220 in the Near East deserted palace, the former residence of the Lord HighCommissioner, where once the Upper House of theIonian Legislature met, the historic parchment contain-ing the final vote of that body in favour of unionwith the Hellenic Kingdom, under his Majesty KingGeorge L and his successors, with the signatures of theIonian legislators beneath the vote. It was the last Act. ROYAL PALACE, FORMER RESIDENCE OF BRITISH LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER. (From a Pliolo. by Mr. C. A. Miller.) —the swan-song—of the Ionian parliament. Where oncethe senate of six met, there is nothing now save a fewportraits ; the stone figure of Britannia has been longremoved from the roof of the palace, and the triremeof the Pha3akians, turned into stone like the vessel thatbrought Ulysses to Ithaca in the old Homeric story,alone crowns the edifice. The temple, erected to KingTom, the first and most autocratic Lord High Com- 221 Travels and Politics missioner, is still to be seen on the great open spacein front of the old Venetian fortress. The public libraryis still crammed with English law reports. The oldermen retain a considerable knowledge of English, whilethe rising generation plays a species of cricket, whichis evidently a survival of the British Protectorate. Nota few of the English-speaking Greeks in the Levant tellone that they learnt
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