270 BUKOREST. 
CHAP, midst of the confusion of the Library itself. 
^ ^-' _' There is a pubUc school, where the antient, or. 
Schools. ^g -^ ^g always styled, the literal Greek, is taught ; 
and another, called Domna Balescha, for the 
instruction of youth in Latin, French, Italian* 
German, and Walachian. Almost the only 
edifice, considered as an antiquity in Bukorest, 
is a church, built under the auspices of Charles 
the Twelfth. The walls of the periholus are 
nearly a quarter of a mile square. At present, 
Magdalen this buildiug is used entirely as a kind of Mag- 
°''"** * dalen hospital for prostitutes ; and the church 
is appropriated to their use. Perhaps there 
is no city of equal size in the world, where 
there are so many women of this description, as 
in Bukorest. Of all other towns, it most re^ 
Ceremony scmblcs Moscow. Thc Ceremony of the Resur- 
of the Re- ..,., , ,-, ., 
iarreciion. rectiou, cxhibitcd With so much splendour m the 
Russian capital, took place here, on the morning 
of the twenty-ffth, in the Palace of the Hospodar. 
Upon this occasion, the Metropolitan presents 
flowers to the ladies of his family, as the 
signal for beginning those presents which it is 
then usual to make so universally ; a custom 
already described in the account of Russia. 
Mr. Cripps, who attended, received from the 
hands of the Princess, the bouquet given to her 
by the Archbishop. The khans, for the reception 
