==il FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE ETi.3ll DE •OF EASTERN . Tlty/ EL. --'l3vzAtcrrltti--Moilday ,Beciung„. May 9, last letter,which arn vv#lL:clcsetl,„, last night,. as talk you. where; anOiftriC t r when wdArnibilled, on N bos.l thlpite that lett4l left itts 49441 . allith, pith affis in 010619 c ') , lnrt, "itiOdiriget4-At4aylight•-his finino-atiiti-elVesi*Sibgjiint th4Rific- al:Ot sail R,lekig'ini:t i .44,l%l l l 6 4 3 fty jinit fhieeltinclied -Fars ago, tliegreat naval battle-was fought between the 'Turkish_ fleet, on the one band, and thecombined fleets of Austria Spain and Italy on the other.,,com-,. mended by the Duke Don John of Austria. This was one of the great decisive battles of history—the battle that el - II:dually. • checked_ the progress' of the 04 foriittit'airriff iii Europe. Our voyage all daibas been anion' the lonian Islands._ There,are seven of. them; .and they are spoken of as " The Seven . Islaads." They lie on - the - western - shores ,- of- Greece, tooking . towards Italy. 7.ante, Cep halonia and Corfu arc the chief' of the seven. They were, all un- - der the government of England for -many years, and: • prospered 'from the eonnection.. But when the present government of Greece was established, under' the direction of the powers of Europe, England resigned her pro tectorate of the island's and bandodthein over , -to-Greecer—We-stopped_tirst:_at.theasla,nil of Zante. The town of the same name, , at the soutbern part of the island, is very , pic 7 , tures quely situated. Its great staple-is 'curl. rants, which are sent all over the world. But • the island abounds in churches as well as Cur rants. There is said to be mare than one for every hundred inhabitants. This is chiefly due to the influence : of the Venetians When in . power here. Then every important family bad -church of-their,own. _.Tirprci. is . one large, churchriear the water, built after the model ofq-.:,t. Mark's in Venice. The.steanaer did not • tarry long enough to allow us to' go ashore, so we could 'only take a general view of the island and town from our position on the. water. _Nothing could more charming - than this sail 'among the : different islands of Greece. have enjoyed it more than I:can express. ThesoftneSS - of the sky, the rudged hills lying ..„In_Sharii;,Clear.ontline against,* arid.the,peen- Ahudy-rioli, , deep hue of: thef..clea4, - sparking water, looking like liquid Indigo' or a medten sky, would be bearitiful enough in - theniselves. But when to' all this is added the deeply inter esting historical and classical associations con nected with almost every spot, it becomes very charming. That line of Tennysou's is in my mind all the time, in which he deTibes these islands so beautifully as : " Summer isles of lying in dark spheres - - - of purple sea." Leaving Zante, we, sailed along the coast of the Island of Cephalonia.' This is the largest of the lonian Islands. It figures .largely, too,• in the classic literature of Greece. Homer speaks of it under the name, of Sa•nos - It was one of the Wands Oyer - Which - the sagacious Ulysses,swayedhis sceptre, and it ,aided hint in furnishing his quota of twelve ships to the Grecian - fleet that sailed - to Troy. Westopped an hour or so at the ebieflOWii Islaiiil; - but did not land. Upper end of Cephalonia we got a distant view of the famout3 Ithaea—Ulysses's own island'. It is a rocky little isle, iiliont - seyenteen miles long and four broad. It has never figured in the scenes of actual history. Its only interest, thotigh this is an undyingrme,is that with which Horner has invested in his charming story of - the sage old king—of his long and weary wee detings—:of the peerliVcs prudenee of his faith ful Penelope, and of his final happy return to her and to his kingdom. The localities of the island are said to answer very accurately to —flideseriptitms-whielt—H oilier-gives-of-them_ It has a present population of 10,000 people, who have a good reputation for industry and intelligence. This afternoon we struck out from the: shores of Cephalonia into the broad space of li water lying -between it and the Island of Corfu. There was a heavy sea on., Our little steamer tossed about at a - tremendous rate. This pro duced the usual distressing effect of such com motion on many of the passengers, and, among the rest, upOn " the present writer " (to use STEAMER BYZANTINE, GULF OF CORINTH, Bishop White's favorite periphrasis for the May B.—We were up before four this morn- personal pronoun I, or me), who was obliged ing; left Athens by five in a carriage; reached to go without his dinner. The rocking still the Pincus, and got on board the steamer be- continues. It is 4 3 riting under difficulties, so fore six—which was the hour for the steamer I will say good-night, and " turn in." to start. This is a Grecian line of boats tiPit . STEAMER PRINCIPE ()DONN°, BETWEEN runs between Athens and the island of Coyl . ll CORFU AND BRINDISI, Tuesday Evening, May It goes through a very interesting part of 10.—Our little Grecian steamer came to anchor Greece, and this was our reason for preferring in the harbor of Corfu about three o'clock thii3 it. Starting from the Pir:eus we had a fine morning. Most of us had been driven out of run of four hours up the Gulf of :I:lgina„to the our beds by finding too many inhabitOnts in Isthmus of Corinth. Our course took us in them. We were therefore quite ready for a full view of the Bay of Salamis, where ehange; and so, without waiting for morning, Xerxes had his plans spoiled by the destruc- we gut a boat and went ashore by starlight. We lion of his fleet;'and also of the Bay of Eleu- found a decent hotel, with comfortable rooms sinia, where the famous mysteries were per- and beds, and were thus enabled to get a good formed. 'We landed on the Isthmus at ten sleep before breakfast,, which made up in part o'clock, and were carried over, with our bag- for the discomforts experienced in the earlier gage, in an omnibus. It is only about four part of the night. The first thing after break miles, and was accomplished inside of an fast we went to secure our passage to Brin hour. Grecian troops are stationed all across disi, in the French steamer in which we are the Isthmus, for the protection of travelers now embarked. I ought to have mentioned from the briganels. On reaching New Corinth, that four of our Scotch friends left us at Ath on the other side of the Isthmus, at the head ens to go directly home, by way of Trieste. of the Gulf of Corinth, we found the steamer Another gentleman, a friend of theirs, joined waiting for us. Old Corinth stood a mije or our party, so that now "we are seven." This two froin the sl ore, at the foot of a lofty hill, latter gentleman, a General Robertson, proves which was ti e ropolis of Corinth, but it to be a brother of the late F. W. Robertson, never rivalled that of Athens. The city had of Brigl tpn. The t.amily ikeriess, is quite 'long been &Li* to decay, when it'Wes finaily strong to that popular divine. He is destroyed -by an earthquake some ten or pleasant, gentlemanly man,- holding the post twelveyears ago. The new city does not amount tion of a general in the corps of Royal Ea u much. It contains only a few houses, and gineers. We have talked together about his these very poorly built. - Unless there should brother, and he was greatly pleased to. hear, be a canal built across the Isthmus, which as lie BM heard before, of the popularity of his has been talked of, there is but little to cause writings in America. ' ' it ever to become a place of much import- After securing our tickets, we got a couple of carriages and rode round to several of the The sail of to-day has been our first expe- most striking points of view about Corfu. rience of Grecian steamers. They are much This is the gem of all the Grecian islands we smaller than the French steamers, on which have seen. The town is delightfully situated. we have sailed several times, and are also in- The harbor in front of it is one of the finest ferior to them in every respect. But they are imaginable. At a projecting point of the better than the Italian boats, in which we island, on which the town lies, are two bold, leave made several small trips in getting down lolty, rocky cliffs', which are fortified to their the western cost of ItalY. The boat on which very summits, making defences of the strong- we are_ now sailing is—a pretty decent est character. The view from the citadel is vessel. We find things on board a good deal magnificent. The-neat, clean city . below, the better than we expected. _._..libleriant gardens on the outskirts, the dark Our sail down the Gulf of Corinth, this mountain ranges in the distance, the lovely afternoon, was a very delightful one. We had islands scattered round about, and the beauti the rugged hills of Sparta and the Pelopon- nil blue water that surrounds them, make up ROSSI% - on one side, and those of Thessaly on altogether a landscape - which, once seen, can, the other, making altogether a landscape of never be forgotten. This is our last .day in the most varied and picturesque beauty., The Greece. It, makes a charming conclusion to lofty summit,. of Parnassils—sadred to the this delightful part ..of our journey, and will abode of the Muses—has been in sight all the leave an indelible impression of the peettliar afternoon. Its top was covered thick ' with loveliness of this interesting 'region. We left snow, which must make it rather cool • for Corfu about five o'clock this afternoon. The those - hunous damsels; unless their Wardrobe sun was going calmly down, as with the bow iconttyins au assortment of external appliances of our noble steamer (the finest we - have sailed mu , pb more' substantial than those in which on in these waters) pointing westward, we they are generally represented as being ar- `threaded our way along the beautiful straits rayed, : But 1 have no doubt that if their that separate this island from the - , lofty Al present abode could be found out, it would be ' haniart hills on the other eide.,,.ltWas'ivinest tme'fbruiShed - with ~all the modern (olive- - - charming evening sash Al4l not ;With a olear i . the distance, .:,„bright,sky.ool:l:,.*o: fjP)l,33.r.AAre. faveiis, Whose ••44wles have. now quietly plowitigour]vvay over the ealtta; spark-1, 2%0. a 1 II Pporterpondence of the Phila. Evenini'itunptin HOTEL D'ANGLE,TP.4tp., Airrimi;',Sattfii,lM, Nan int], Masi 7.—We '4tigA,l,,irritintletl'bur aminati on of--the- oliActs about-. Athens; to flay Wt iwfeut 11 st, tbu morning, to the remains Teinple 1 ,:of Jupiter, Sixteen collipins••pf thiti famous huildiii - g — "fire" still stand ing. They are certainly very tine; but 1 do not think them' equal to those of the Temple of Jupiter at-13aalbok. .1 know this , would be regarded as .):10, an orthodox opinion,hy those , who consider' themselves judges in Matteis of art : Still : this is my. opinion,,most —I shall hold, to it,. „On , thp, colonnade, ,over two 'Of the - columns here, are the remains of ceps inhabited during the middle ages by some of those strange' - beings - known -as -"pillar sairitS," and Who showed their piety by living cin'thp tops of pillars or columns . . The fellows who lived up this cell must have had a lively time of it. They had not more room to Move about in than three or four paces; and their lonely den was liftedup some, sixty or sev erity feet . from 'the earth, with no visible means of communication with it. They cer .;nlr-lived-above-the—world—in_olie_tiens_e,_ whidever their condition in other respects Might hive been. We then rode over the site.Of ancient Athens. The dwellings of the ohicity have all disappeared, and the.modern city occupies an entirely different locality. We..yisited the old Stadium, or. Circus, where the Athenian games were celebrated. It was a past amphitheatre in. side-of a hill, wltich could seat 40,000 people. The celebrated stye of thg. o lllessus,flowing near by,is now a mere threat" of water. A mass ,of rock lies aceross,'lthe river," near the Stadium. From this..rock astreamlet trickles down into a pond at its foot This is the classic spring of "the beautifully flowing." It was once sacred to the nymphs; but the only rep resentatives • of those poetical ladies to be found there; in these matter-of-fact days, are some of thp washerwomen of Athens, pursuing . , their" practical, but V'ery vnpoetical avo;;. --Then--we:-visited