May thank fortune the last day of one stay at Syra has arrived for a stay of 6 days are five to many on an island of such limited extent - but myself and Mr. Anson J. Phelps - New York - son of one of my old mercantile correspondents - have been gratified at making the acquaintance of a young Greek - Mr. Christopher Evangeles - educated under the protection of the late Mr. Ward of N. York (Prince Ward King and Co.) - who has been several years at Syra - where he is well known and respected - he tells us the military (that we see in the town) dressed men with swords at their sides are Albanians chiefs and are setting a foot a revolutionary expedition to Thessaly and Macedonia - which provinces are still under the sway of the Turkish Sultan - no doubt the Greeks have many wrongs to avenge - Mr. E - is very warm as Phelps informs me that at N. York he heard that his mother had been made prisoner and carried off by them when he was a child and in the last revolution -

The weather gets warmer every day - two of us have a small room ten feet square, where we fight the mosquitoes and fleas all night - for sleep is out of the question - at 7 this evening embark for Athens where we arrive tomorrow morning - Mr. Phelps goes on to Trieste in the same boat - The Govanni d' Austria - having already visited Athens Smynra and Constantinople -

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