MOSCOW. 
them bore the slightest resemblance to the lan- 
guage of Finland. 
In this convent, one hundred and fifty students 
are instructed in the Greek and Latin languages, 
and in rhetoric. After a certain time, they are 
sent to complete their education in other semi- 
naries at Moscow. The church is lofty and 
spacious : the table for the Sacrament, as in all 
other Russian and . Greek churches, is kept in 
the Sanctuary, behind the altar, where women 
are not permitted to enter. The archbishop, 
who had visited our English church at Petersburg, 
observed that our table was uncovered, except 
when the Sacrament was administered ; a degree 
of economy which he said he was unable to 
explain consistently with the piety and the 
liberality of the English nation. What would 
have been his sentiments, if he had beheld the 
condition of the Communion tables in some ol our 
country churches! In Russia, the altar is always 
covered with the richest cloth, and generally 
with embroidered velvet. 
of On the twenty-eighth of May, we again saw 
Plato in great pomp, at the burial of Prince 
Galitzin, in Moscow. This ceremony was per- 
formed in a small church near the Mareschal 
Bridge. The body was laid in a superb crimson 
