Jan. 19, Nor since a composite squadron of British, French, and Russian men-of-war gave new independent life to Greece at Navarino in 1828 has there been so interesting a political event as the rebirth of Georgia, whose very site has probably been forgotten by a large number of people. The State of Georgia, one of the United States. is familiar to everybody. but the Trans-Caucasian land of the same name, though boasting a history of more than 2,000 years, almost needs introduction. The fact of the matter is that since the beginning of the 19th century it it has been so merged in the Russian Empire as almost to have lost its identity. Yet its veopla are the main branch of that Caucasian race which once gave its name to the white race in general. They became Christians about the same time that our own British ancestors were converted, and it was the fact that they were Christians of the Greek Church which, in later times, brought them into conflict with the far stronger Persian and Turkish Moslems, and so induced them to submit themselves to the protection of the Russians. From protection to annexation was but a step, and for more than a century Georgia has been swallowed up in the vast domains of her great northern neighbour.
The recent war has done for her what it has done for Poland, Lettland, Finland, and Esthonia. Tt has brought back her freedom, and to-day the ancient monarchy. which boasted thirteen King Georges to our five, has blossomed forth as the Remublic of Seorgia with a national flag on which St. George is seen mounted on a white horse, and surrounded by seven planets representing the seven states constituting Georgia. Moreover the new Republic is wise enough to have taken steps to lighten the darkness concerning her to which allusion has already been made. From 89, New Oxford St. London, she issues a weekly Bulletin of the Georgian Information Bureau,"
copy of which lies before us, a four page sheet of most interesting historical and general information regarding the land which has once more come into the dignity of independent life. From this particular number, for example,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.