directions under the church of the convent, he found that the numerous coffius deposited there were all decayed or broken to pieces, except one, which remained entire. When this report was received by the superior, he consulted with his brethren, and it was resolved to open the coffin. This was done with due solemnity, and their astonishment may be imagined, when it was found that this coffin, which was of lead, was filled with bundles of papers, in a very good state of preservation, each wrapped up in oiled cloth. On a general examination, they were discovered to be chronicles, written in the different Sclavonian languages, and to extend from the first invasion by the Sclavonians, of the countries watered by the Danube, to the year 1721. These chronicles contain the history of Wallachia, Moldavia, Servia, and Bulgaria, and numerous details relative to the crusades, the empire of the East, the wars of Poland and Hungary against the Ottomans; the whole written and composed by eye-witnesses. Prince Milosch has purchased this precious collection of manuscripts for 5000 ducats, and has commissioned his private secretary, Mr. Wouk Woukanowitch, and twenty-four learned Servians, immediately to examine, and to class them according to their dates; and these documents will be forthwith published at the expense of the Prince.— Athenæum, March 10th, 1838. GREECE. ATHENS, Dec.-The new press-law has passed through the Cabinet, and will be printed shortly. We understand that it will in some degree impede the publication of political newspapers, by raising the capabilities for publishing them, but even then it will be more liberal than England with its newspaper stamps. The licentiousness has been, in fact, too great. Hitherto every editor who could deposit 5000 drachms in the state treasury, for which he received six per cent. interest, was licensed to publish a newspaper. The next step was to make his cook, or any other servant, sign the manuscript. If the paper was ever condemned, the domestic went to prison, and the paper went on, the manuscript being always taken to the prison to be signed. The new law will enforce the following restrictions. The deposit of 5000 drachms will remain; besides this the editor must show that he has landed property to the same amount, that he is a citizen of the country, that he has sworn the oath of allegiance, and has had a scientific education, i. e. a knowledge of ancient and modern Greek. This may seem ridiculous, but is not so here, as we have editors who, only for this purpose, had learnt to sign their names. Freedom of speech is unlimited as ever, and the liberty of the press as great as in any other country in Europe. EGYPT. Letters from Dr. Löwe, received since our last, and dated from September to the end of November, mention successively his arrival at the tombs of the Pharaohs, and his delight at the scene, and still more at the exactness and clearness of the Inscriptions. This amiable and intelligent traveller mentions some interesting discoveries which he had made at Malta, but gives no details at present. The Pacha, he states, had received him most kindly, and set him to translate some hieroglyphics; on performing which he immediately received a firman to travel through all Upper Egypt, with boats, camels, horses, and every thing he required, with or without money. He was engaged in translating an Obelisk, at Heliopolis, for the Pacha, at the time (Sept. 20) of writing this letter, which is dated from the Pyramid farm-yard of the great Pyramid of Geeza. He was expecting to be presented to Ibrahim Pacha. In the mean time he was taking four lessons a day in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. These continued for two months, and of course far greater advances can be made on the spot where these languages are spoken than in Europe. We subsequently find the traveller at Memphis, (15th November), delighted with every thing, and intending to proceed one and a half day's journey beyond Wady Halfa, in the Desert. He was journeying with six Nubian sailors and an Arab servant, and thinking of proceeding to Meroe and Gebel Barkal. His furniture was all Turkish, and his tent, instead of books, fully supplied with guns, swords, and pistols, and also a prayer carpet. The wind was extremely favourable for proceeding. On the 28th of November he was at Dendera, panting to reach Thebes and go on to Upper Egypt and Nubia, from whence he was to return to Cairo; and proceed, after a month's stay there, to Constantinople; from thence to return in the course of six months, through Rome and Turin, once more to England. PERSIA. ARROW-HEADED INSCRIPTIONS OF ANCIENT PERSIA. - Major Rawlinson, who is carrying on researches in Persia, has made material discoveries among the Kuneiform or arrow-headed Inscriptions there; and has addressed a letter to the Asiatic Society, stating that these will shortly be brought before the public, and promising to send the results of all his labours on this head, if they should be found to interest the people of England. Having ourselves directed notice to the Continental discoveries of Grotefend, and after him St. Martin, Burnouf, and Lassen, in a recent Number of this Review, and given, amongst others, the decypherment of that most important tablet which goes far to confirm the Persian Satrapies of Herodotus, we are the more desirous to call public attention to this subject, which hitherto appears to have attracted no notice whatever in England. We shall return shortly to the consideration of this question in a distinct Article. INDIA. RAJPOOTANA. The poems of Chund, the Rajpoot poet, are appearing in successive Numbers of the Asiatic Journal. They are extremely warlike and spirited, almost deserving the name of Epic, and though tinctured with Oriental faults bear a considerable resemblance to the compositions of the West. They are equally curious, beautiful and interesting, and are elucidated by the valuable remarks of the learned, judicious, and able editor. ASSAM. The hopes first excited by the discovery of extensive tracts of the tea-plant, in the recently ceded province of Assam, have been considerably checked by finding its utter uselessness, or rather deleterious qualities, in its present uncultivated state. It is not however doubted but that assiduous care, and the results of our horticultural skill, united to the practice generally observed by the Chinese under somewhat similar circumstances, though never known to the same degree as in our new possession, will in time render tea a British (colonial) production. CHILE. 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