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Deputies are ^ovXevral ; Senators, yepova-iaa-Tai In the legislature 

 of the Ionian Islands, the representatives are avTiirpoaaiioL ; as, in a 

 recent discussion on the question of union with Greece, 6 dfrtTrpoVwTros 



TTjs AevKciSof, Kvptos 'icodwr^s Mapivos avr^yyiikiv avTT}v, the representative 

 of Leucadia reported it. 



From the report : 'EvSeKa^eXTjs eniTpoTrri (KKexOrja-^rai, a committee of 

 eleven members shall be chosen ; the subject to be referred to them 

 being a SiaKtjpv^is rrepi ivwa-eas, a proclamation concerning union. 



A tariff bill has been recently discussed in the legislature at 

 Athens. From the debate I select a few terms and phrases appro- 

 priate to this subject : — 



To TrpoaTarevTCKov <TV(rTr]p.a, the protective system. 



Ot TvpoaTarevTiKoi, the protectionists. 



'EXevdepia tov efiiropiov, freedom of trade. 



'E^evdepa efirropeia, free trade. 



Udyios 8a(rp6si afxed duty. 



At (Tv^rjTrjads nepl roii viov vopov t&v (TiTtjpciv tov KarapyovvTOs Trjv xXtjuaKa, 

 77ie debates on the new Corn-law abolishing the sliding-scale. 



To f»?r7/)Lia IriOri ets ■^r](po(f)op[av, the question was piut to the vote. 



'H TponoKoyia dneppLcfidr], the amendment ivas rejected. 



The debate on the Telegraph Bill is called 'H a-v^rjTrjcns tov nepl 



TTi\eypd(f)ov vopocrxediov. 



" One or two more illustrations must suffice. In their Declaration 

 of Independence, in 1821, the Greeks did not employ the old term, 

 avTovopla, which expresses nearly the idea, but a modern compound, 

 dve^apTTjo-ia, resembling in its etymology our word independence, which 

 to an ancient Greek would have meant the not hanging from some- 

 thing. The modern abstraction, nationality, is expressed by idvcKOTTjs ; 

 and national, by idviKos. 



" A few years ago, when table-tipping was spreading over Europe, it 



visited Athens also. There is an amusing article on the subject in the 



Almanac for 1854, from which I take the following pleasant account 



of a table which imprudently disclosed the age of a lady who was 



. present : — 



" ' Kal povov av fKivelro Koi civ TrepieTrdret ! dXX' rj dvaTpocjir] ttjs (fiaiverai oar]- 

 pipai Tf'KfiOTTOiovpfVT]. "Odev rj8r] kol SpiXd Kol ypd({)et, Koi dpidpel, Kal ^dWei, 

 KoX )^opevei ! Med' oXcov 8e tovto>u t<ov yvvaiKeiwv TrpoTeprjpaTcov 8ev ecu aTTTjX- 

 \aypevr] Kal Tivav tS>v TrpoTrerws vno Tav dvhpav ovopaadevTav yvvaiKelav iXaT- 



