Frank Abney Hastings It has been thirteen years that the Filiki Eteria, a society of Greek patriots, was founded in the hope of liberating Greece from the Ottoman rule. Eleftheria i Thanatos - Freedom or Death - was their bold motto. It has six years that the uprising begun and progressively succeeded in freeing territories, including Athens. It has been three years that Poet George Gordon Byron, leading character of the European supporters of the greek revolt, died at 36

Pierre Claude Pajot, known as Pajol, Count Pajol Last year, a shipowner, Pierre Andriel, 34 by now, purchased the small steamship Margery, built at Dumbarton by William Denny & Brothers for the purpose of navigation on the Clyde. A 120-tonner, she is 90-foot long and 15-foot broad. Her 14-hp machinery was made at Glasgow by John Robertson. It drives two paddle wheels which give the ship a speed of six knots. Andriel renamed it Elise after having required modifications whic