The Athens correspondent of the Times gives some account in
last Saturday's paper of the revision of the Greek Constitution. It had been hoped to finish the revision before Easter, but this has been impossible. The language in which the Constitution is drawn up is described as the official language of the State, and there is a provision prohibiting the translation of the Scriptures into any dialect without the sanction of the Patriarch. The British Bible Society has protested, pointing out that Greece is the only country in the world where a Version of the Bible in the popular language is forbidden. Greece certainly pays dearly for the attempt to demonstrate that the modern Greek is the descendant and inheritor of the Greeks of the great age. In other clauses it is provided that arrested persons must be brought before a magistrate within twenty-four hours ; that primary education is compulsory ; that the quorum of the Chamber, instead of being one half of the members plus one, shall be one third of the members, and that Greek subjects resident outside Greece are eligible to the Chamber.
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