An imeute of a perfectly new kind has occurred in
Athens.
The New Testament is there read in the original Greek, and not in modern Greek ; and certain reformers propose that a translation should be issued, presumably by the State. The proposal so greatly irritated the students of the University that on Monday they endeavoured to storm the offices of the it sty and Akropolis newspapers, which support the innovation, .ind on Thursday the rioting outside the University was so serious that in putting it down seven persons were killed and thirty wounded. The riot is, of course, attributed to religious rancour, but may not another feeling have entered into it ? The cultivated Greeks are always trying to restore the popular use of their ancient tongue, and the students may have resented the idea of abandoning a usage which more than any other facilitates the project which they have at heart.
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