Wanderings in Greece. 583 ber 1st, 1834. The young King disembarked from a Greek vessel, under a salute of twenty-one guns. The regency and the municipality received him on landing the procession was formed by all the old Greek warriors, headed by General Church: near the Temple of Theseus an arch of laurel and olive was formed, and under it the King entered into Athens. The royal residence was a quarter of a mile out of town, a very humble palace, consisting of twelve rooms, to which, however, a banquetting room was subsequently added, capable of containing four hundred persons. A few evenings after the entry the Countess Armansperg, the wife of the chief minister, gave a ball in the streets of Athens. Carriages were out of the question: the consequence was, that those of the ladies who had horses rode them to the ball, in the Queen Elizabeth style; those who had not, cased themselves in huge Turkish boots, and walked with large lanterns carried before them. About nine the dancing commenced, the King leading off one of the daughters of the Countess. The new sovereign is described as rather above the middle height, with a very fair complexion, his hair rather dark, his eyes blue, and his countenance good-natured. In figure, Mr. Cochrane says, "he is one of the very best made men I have ever seen. After having for some time observed this gay scene, he retired to the other suite of rooms, composed of three chambers of twenty feet square: they were very well furnished, had good Turkish carpets, and exhibited handsome sofas and chairs, covered with blue and white silk; the walls were papered with some ornamental scenery just brought from France; and the observer half forgot that he was in the heart of dilapidated Athens. The hours were early, and should be a lesson to our London fashionables. As the King arrived at half-past eight, the ball was over at half-past eleven. Our taste however cannot recommend the regale that followed it, for it was hot soup, handed about in coffee-cups. In about a quarter of an hour after, the King retired, and the party broke up. On a subsequent evening, Mr. Dawkins, the British Envoy, gave a ball to the King and the Athenian beau monde of Athens. There was a fine room for dancing, with two smaller rooms at the extremities. The Englishman gave a regular supper, which was a phenomenon in Greece, and the Greek ladies behaved, on the occasion, more decorously than was expected. English suppers are trying things, peculiarly when champagne gets into unpractised hands. However, the ladies were delighted, and so, of course, must every one else have been. They are now beginning to dress à la Française. They speak French, and look as French as they can. Those Frenchmen beat us in millinery, cookery, and coquetting, all round the world. But Mr. Cochrane makes one reserve for the sinking honour of his country-they cannot beat us in red coats. He says, with a sincerity becoming a patriot, that the ballroom on this night only confirmed the observation that he had often made before—namely, the infinite superiority of a red coat over every other colour, in attracting and fixing the female eye and attention. The light blue, the light green, the white, the dark blue, and all the different brilliant uniforms that were exhibited on this occasion were comparatively powerless in claiming the eyes of the "Grecian fair; is still some hope for England. SO there The Colonel. But Mr. Cochrane had more important, if not more interesting matters to manage. All foreigners are wonderfully caught by the exploits of British engineering and machinery. Take any five INDEX TO THE SECOND PART OF 1837. Agriculture, state and prospects of, 147- Alexander's Western Africa, reviewed, 437 Anatomical Specimens, imitation of, 150 Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, Architectural Magazine, the, No. 37, no- Asiatic Society, the, proceedings of, 146 Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, no- Bank of England, the, quarterly average of Beau of Byblos, the, by Alfred Crowquill, 122 Berenger, Songs of, noticed, 287 Better Never than Late, a dramatic sketch, Biter, the, Bit, a tale of retaliation, 89 Campbell's Letters from the South, re- Carne, John, Esq., Lunacy in France, by, Aug.—VOL. L. NO. CC. Case of Furious Driving, by Alfred Crow- Charity, by the author of "Paul Pry," 519 City of the Sultan, the, by Miss Pardoe, Cochrane's Wanderings in Greece, noticed, Cockney Country Gentleman, a, by the Confessions and Opinions of Ralph Restless, Curtis on the Preservation of Health, Gleig's Family History of England, noticed, Granville's Spas of Germany, noticed, 576 Grimaldi, some Recollections of, 375 Hall, Capt. H. B., Recollections of La High Connexions, 399 Hill, Benson, Esq., Sewing up the Fogies, Hook, Theodore, Esq., the Gurney Papers, Humorist, the, 83, 233, 375, 519 Landon, Miss L. E., memoir of (with a por- Learned Societies, 146 Lines written in the Album of Rotha 142-Heath's Shakspeare Gallery, 143- Lockhart's Life of Scott, noticed, 428 Lunacy in France, by John Carne, Esq., Maison des Fous at Paris, 15 Man in the Macintosh Cape, the, by J. B. Marryat, Captain, the Phantom Ship, by, Mr. Cabooze and James Bevan, 412 Patty Larkspur's Watch, by Douglas Jer- Perditus Mutton, who bought a "Caul," Perkin Warbeck, recent discoveries re- Perplexity of a Deaf Gentleman, the, by Phipps, the Hon. E., Scenes in a Country Pleasures of Relationship, 333 Poetry: Sonnet, by Lady Charlotte Bury, Poole, John, Esq., Better Never than Late, Potass, new means of manufacturing, 150 Queen Victoria, Memoir of, 441 Ragamuffins, Native and Foreign, 416 Recollections of La Mailleraie, by Captain Recreations in Natural History, 189 Salzburg, Visit to the Salt Mines of, 467 Sewing up the Fogies, by Benson Hill, Esq., 118 Shakspeare in China, by Douglas Jerrold, Shovel-Hat, the, by Benson Hill, Esq., 531 Snarley Yow, or, the Dog Fiend, by Capt. Societies, Proceedings of, 146 Subjects for Pictures, by Miss Landon: END OF THE SECOND PART. Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford-street. |