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likewise teaches drawing and book-keep- bility to the public. They are also favour- Antiochus III, and was made librarian at ing, has joined the institution, and the im-ed by their situation, as they are enabled Antioch, where he died. Euphorion prinportant branch of the Spanish language and by it to offer boys every reasonable grati- cipally devoted himself to epic poetry, but literature is thus provided for. fication and amusement on their own prem- he also wrote elegies and epigrams. He ises, a circumstance of no small moment. also produced some treatises on grammar They live in the midst of a healthy, moral, and history. He was charged with being and thriving population, and are surround-obscure in his expressions, and with using ed by scenery of great beauty, and of a words in a forced sense. cheerful character. All this has a favoura ble influence on the forming mind.

In whatever branch they can best teach, they are themselves the instructers. In the modern languages, and in some other things, instruction can best be given by men who devote themselves to the branch. Still they hold themselves responsible for every thing. Should their means allow it, they' will add to their number an instructer in the language and literature of Italy.

The administration of the school rests solely with Mr Cogswell and Mr Bancroft. They are assisted by a gentleman, who, in the present divided state of the town, performs for them a service on Sunday. Determined to have nothing to do with disputes in religion, they wish the religious principle should be strong and efficacious

in the minds of all around them.

In short, they have begun a school, a place for the liberal education of boys assembled in numbers, where they wish to collect the means of teaching all that a boy needs to learn. They would have good discipline, a free, constant, and affectionate intercourse between masters and pupils; they would encourage and promote a love of knowledge, and give instructions in the ancient languages, in French, Spanish, German, and if it be desired in the Italian, among the modern; in mathematics, the outlines of the natural sciences; in geography, history, morals; in reading, writing, composing; in short, in whatsoever it can be thought essential for boys to learn. Their object is, to establish a good school; and no more. If they can impart knowledge, they are indifferent to names, and think the evidence of a diploma, or the distinction of a degree, would be superfluous. There exists nowhere an institution exactly like this. The gentlemen who conduct it, have borrowed from the most different sources; one principle from the schools at Berlin, another from Hofwyl, a third from Edinburgh, a fourth from the books and practice of Niemeyer. With respect to health and morals, and the important branch of physical education, they trust to their observations. Originality is not the distinction they covet; they wish to bring to practical application the principles in education, which have the united testimony of nature, of reason, and of experience. They are aware, that a mere imitation of a foreign model would never succeed, and have endeavoured to adapt all things to our own conntry.

There are one or two circumstances which favour them very much. They are responsible only to the public. No tribunal, or board of men, stands between them and the country, whose rising generations they wish to serve; they gladly acknowledge the value of the public opinion, and in general the justice of the public voice; and, while any direct interference on the part of men who might not sufficiently understand their views, would be injurious, nothing but good can be apprehended from a responsi

Our readers may wish to know, particularly, how the day is passed at this school. They rise in winter at six; and, after the devotional exercises of the morning, are busy with teaching and study till eight, at which time all breakfast. They then engage in some vigorous exercise till nine, when the season for intellectual labor again commences, and continues till noon. Two hours are allowed for exercise, dining, and for rest, when, at two, studies are resumed, and continued till four. An hour and a half is then employed in the sports and exercises suited to the season. The evening meal is over by six, when some time is passed in attending to declamations, and then about an hour and a half is given to study, and the exercises of devotion. The instructers and pupils spend a few moments around the fire, and the boys are sent to bed at half past eight. In the morning and evening religious services they chiefly use the excellent prayers of the Episcopal church. The collects and various services furnish a variety of earnest and suitable petitions. Saturday evening they meet, but not for study. At that time exhortations are made to the boys on their studies, and on subjects suggested by the events of the week. The older boys read the New Testament aloud to the school. On Sunday the smaller boys read aloud in the Bible. The older ones are engaged with works of Paley, Porteus, or Mason, books where the duties of religion are inculcated without any of the spirit of party.

They neither covet, nor shun inspection. A parent is in duty bound to know, in what condition his child is, and these gentlemen have ever been ready to explain to any the principles and practice of the school. The criterion, by which to judge of a good school, must always be the state of the scholars; and it is by this they must be and are willing to be judged. As for health, they have as yet had no sickness; and now, out of forty boys, there is not one who does not enjoy firm health, though many were received in a weak state of body.

It will certainly require much time to complete this design, but its form and tendency are already apparent.

EUPHORION OF CHALCIS.

The life of this poet, and fragments of his works, have been published at Leipsic, by M. Meinecke; who distinguishes him from another Euphorion, of Thrace, author of the Priapeia. Euphorion of Chalcis obtained the right of citizenship at Athens. He was the pupil of Lacydes and Prytanis in philosophy, and of Archebulus in poetry. At the age of fifty, he went to the court of

EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS.

A sarcophagus has been brought to Marseilles from Alexandria, which is described as being very magnificent. It was found in the burying grounds of Memphis, near the valley of the Pyramids, and was taken, with infinite pains, out of a well sixty feet in depth. The lower part is eight feet long, two and a half high, and three and a half in its greatest breadth. It is covered with a multitude of hieroglyphics, mythological figures, and symbols, admirably executed. This large and splendid antique weighs above six thousand pounds. The lid, the workmanship of which is no less remarkable, is nearly of equal weight. It is of a dark green colour, resembling that of bronze, with spots of a rich dark red. Be sides these spots, which are pretty equally distributed, the lower part is marked in three or four places by broad streaks of a bright yellow colour, which extend to the top: these accidents beautifully relieve the deep colour of the ground. It has sustained no damage, except two slight notches on the edge, doubtless made by persons who had formerly attempted to remove the lid, in order to plunder the tomb of its contents. The two parts have been placed on separate carriages, and despatched for Paris.

FRENCH WAVERLEY NOVEL.

"Jean Perthus, or the Citizen of Paris two hundred and fifty years ago," is an attempt in the manner of the Scotch novels, and gives a good picture of France and Paris at the time of the League. But the author has introduced a Baron de Malteste, who is views, and too superior to those around him. much too fond of developing his political When Sir Walter Scott places a personage of his own creation among historical characters, he takes care not to assign him the first rank. The author, it appears, has, in manuscript, other novels relative to various periods of French history.

GREAT HEAT AT NEW SOUTH WALES. Dr Winterbottom relates, that a particu lar friend of his, a very careful observer, saw the thermometer rise, in New South Wales, to 112°, and continue so nearly a week. The effects of this heat upon the human body, were extremely distressing, producing extreme languor and incapability of exertion. A gentleman, remarkably ro bust and active, out of bravado, to show that he could do what not a man in the colony dared to attempt, took his gun, and went out in pursuit of game; but he was very soon obliged to return, and found some difficulty in doing so. heat upon animals was such, that the parro

The effects of this

quets dropped down dead in the open air. | parts, and ultimately almost disappeared. | time ago in exile. A book has since apIn Africa, where Dr Winterbottom resided When cut thin, or when extended, this sub-peared under the title of "Memoirs," by four years, he once observed the thermome- stance forms excellent washers, or collars him, which contains many interesting anecter at 103° in the shade, and, placed upon the for stop-cocks, very little pressure being dotes of the revolution. It was eagerly read ground, (speaking from memory) at 138°. sufficient to render them perfectly tight. in France: the first edition was soon sold, In the Soosoo country, to the north of Leather has also been coated on one surface and a second was printing, when the sons Sierra Leone, at a considerable distance with the caoutchouc; and without being at of Fouché instituted the present suit to have inland, he walked one day about twenty all adhesive, or having any particular odour, the work suppressed. There has been one miles, when the thermometer, observed by is perfectly water-tight. Before caoutchouc hearing of the cause, but only the plaintiff's Dr Afzelius, at present professor of botany was thus worked, it was often observed how counsel has yet argued. He rests chiefly at Upsal, stood at 9940 in the shade; which many uses it might in such a case be applied on the following dilemma: Either the work degree of heat was by no means disagree- to: now that it is so worked, how few the is genuine, or it is not: if it be genuine, the able, nor even suspected to be so great by cases are in which persons are induced to copyright belongs to the heirs of the author, at least 10°, owing to a pleasant breeze use it. who do not choose to publish it; if it be not which met him. We judge very inaccugenuine, the publication ought to be suprately of heat by our feelings, and are more pressed as spurious and fraudulent. In affected by a sudden diminution of 10° of THERE is a college for the Chinese at point of fact, however, he asserts, that the heat than by a much greater increase. Naples, of which M. Viesseaux gives the work is not genuine. The truth is, that following account. It is the only institu- some memoirs, said to be his, got into the tom ever experienced in Africa, was about tion of the kind in Europe. Its founder bands of the ultras, who suppressed and altered passages to suit their political views, and have thus given them to the world, as a confirmation in many points of what they wish to have credited, and to cast an odium upon the fallen party.

The lowest degree of heat Dr Winterbot

half an hour before sunrise, when the mer-
cury stood at 68°, and, to the feelings, the
cold resembled that of a sharp frosty morn-ary.
ing in England.

PREPARATION OF CAOUTCHOUC.

CHINESE COLLEGE AT NAPLES.

STATISTICS OF BRAZIL.

was Matteo Ripa, a Neapolitan mission-
Ripa went to China, and resided
several years
at the missionary house at
Pekin, where his skill in painting recom-
mended him to the Emperor and his court.
While living in that remote land he con-
ceived the plan which he afterwards exe-
cuted, of establishing a college in Europe The following statistical accounts, if cor-
for the education of young Chinese as rect, evince the wealth, the power, and the
Christian missionaries to their countrymen. resources of the Brazilian empire. The
Several trials were made, and at last Na- population of the nineteen provinces which
ples was fixed upon for this institution, as compose it, amounts to upwards of four
the climate appeared to be the most favour-millions. In this census, it is to be lamented
able and congenial to them. The youths that there are more than two millions of
destined for this place are smuggled out of slaves. The regular army of Brazil amounts
their country at the age of thirteen or to between twenty-five and thirty thousand
fourteen, by means of the Roman Catholic men; its militia to fifty thousand. The
missionaries, who send them first to Macao, revenue of the empire is estimated at nearly
whence they are conveyed to Europe, gen- 3,000,000l. sterling; in the year 1824, it is
erally in Portuguese vessels bound to Lis- estimated at 95,000,000 francs, or nearly
bon, from which place they proceed to 4,000,000l. sterling. The vast extent of
Italy. The expenses are defrayed partly land belonging to the nation, permits Bra-
by this institution, and partly by the Col-zil, by their sale, to redeem its debt, with-
lege de Propagandâ Fide at Rome. "The out imposing burthens on the people. From
college," says M. Viesseaux, "is situated on the king's arrival in 1808, to his departure
the slope of the hill of Capo di Monte, in a in 1820, the revenue was in a regularly
quiet, retired spot, which commands a fine progressive state, and during that period,
prospect of the bay. The house and the from fourteen millions to sixty-one millions
adjoining church are simply but neatly con- of francs annually.
structed, and the apartments are comforta-
ble and airy; and the whole place is kept
remarkably clean and in the best order, so
as to form an agreeable contrast with the
generality of Neapolitan establishments.
The rector, a Neapolitan missionary, and a
sensible, well-informed man, politely showed
us every thing deserving attention. We
entered first the hall, which is hung round
with portraits of the Chinese who have re-
sided in this house since its establishment;
they are about forty; and among them is
that of Ripa, the founder. Those who have
suffered martyrdom are represented with
the instruments of their death; others have
chains around their necks. as a sign of their
having suffered imprisonment. There were
six Chinese in the college when I visited it;
one of them was insane, and another blind."

Mr T. Hancock has succeeded, by some process, the result of a long investigation, but which he has not published,-in working caoutchouc with great facility and readiness. It is cast, as we understand, into large ingots or cakes, and being cut with a wet knife into leaves or sheets, about an eighth or a tenth of an inch in thickness, can then be applied to almost any purpose for which the properties of the material render it fit. The caoutchouc thus prepared, is more flexible and adhesive than that which is generally found in the shops, and is worked with singular facility. Recent sections made with a sharp knife or scissors, when brought together and pressed, adhere so firmly as to resist rupture as strongly as any other part; so that, if two sheets be laid together and cut round, the mere act of cutting joins the edges, and a little pressure on them makes a perfect bag of one piece of substance. The adhesion of the substance in those parts where it is not required, is entirely prevented by rubbing them with a little flour, or other substance in fine powder. In this way flexible tube catheters, &c. are prepared. The tubes intended for experiments on gases, and where occasion might require they should sustain considerable internal pressure, are made double, and have a piece of twine twisted spiraily round between the two. This, therefore, is imbedded in the caoutchouc, and, at the same time that it allows of any extension in length of the tube, prevents its expanding laterally. The caoutchouc is, in this state, exceedingly elastic. Bags made of it, in the way just described, have been expanded, by having air forced into them, until the caoutchouc was quite transparent; and, when expanded by hydrogen, they were so light as to form balloons, with considerable ascending power; the hydrogen, however, gradually escapes, perhaps through the pores of this thin film of caoutchouc. On expanding the bags in A curious trial has occupied the attention this way, the junctions yielded like the other of the Parisian public. Fouché died some

MEMOIRS OF FOUCHE.

SOUTHEY'S LETTER ON LORD BYRON.

Southey has published a letter respecting Lord Byron. We shall, says a London editor, give no further opinion on the controversy, than to express regret, that even the object of self-defence should reduce a living author to the alternative of so violently assaulting the dead.

DAUGHTER OF LORD BYRON.

The Greek government has sent over two letters, addressed to the daughter of Lord Byron, giving an account of her father's death, and of the services he had rendered Greece, and declaring that Greece will consider her as its own child.

ROMAN AMPHORE.

Among the curiosities lately deposited in the British Museum, are some Roman wine jars of the year before Christ 105. Their antiquity and precise date are placed be

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A number of earthen-ware vessels of various Individuals. By Charles Brooks, Minister of the
kinds, were dug up among the ruins of Car-Third Church in Hingham. Third edition, newly
thage, and sent to this government as a
arranged, revised, and enlarged.
present, by the Bey, who knew nothing of
their age or value, except that the English
liked such curiosities. On arriving at the
colonial office, they were forwarded to the
British Museum; and a learned antiquarian
of that establishment, examining them with
care, discovered on one of the amphora, the
names of the consuls of the abovementioned
year.

MEDICAL REMAINS AT POMPEII.

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