The monks of Venice refusing to sell to the mission, Mr.Hallock, the printer, visited the United States, and superintended the cutting of the needful punches.

The Prudential Committee, appreciating the new demands, authorized an expenditure of five thousand dollars for punches and types in the Armenian, Greek, and Hebrew languages, and for foundries of types and stereotype plates.

After Mr.Hallock's departure, the mission succeeded in procuring two Armenian fonts of great beauty from Vienna.
Meanwhile the Turks were making some advance in civilization.
Lancasterian schools were established by them in the barracks of Dolma Baktche and Scutari, which were carried on with remarkable success.

The missionaries being present by invitation at a public examination, Azim Bey publicly declared, that the Turks were indebted to them for everything of the kind.

Travellers were no longer obliged to depend on slow sailing vessels, since steamers ran every week from Constantinople to Smyrna and Trebizond, and every fortnight to Galatz on the Danube.