418 VARIETIES. 



this unit of currency of the three Presi- 

 dencies, so that the rupee of Upper India, 

 of Madras, and of Bombay, are the same 

 in value (about Is. lOd.) Weight 180 

 grains, standard quality. 



Hotel with Banking Privileges. 

 An hotel has recently been erected in New 

 Orleans, the proprietors of which are an 

 incorporated company with banking pri- 

 vileges, and a capital of tvro millions and 

 a half. 



Leghorn, which since 1593 possessed 

 the privilege of being a place of asylum 

 for foreign bankrupts, where, by an an- 

 cient law, they were free from all pur- 

 suits of creditors, no longer affords this 

 shelter, the law having been lately abo- 

 lished by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In 

 Nice also a similar privilege existed which 

 has also been done away with. 



Jamaica. The principal merchants of 

 this island are about to establish a local 

 bank with a capital of .300,000 currency. 



City of London School. This building, 

 situate on the site of Honey Lane market, 

 proceeds rapidly. It is expected to be 

 opened in January. The course of edu- 

 cation will be similar to that of King's 

 College or the London University schools. 



The Press in Russia. The Emperor of 

 Russia, on the proposition of the governor- 

 general of the provinces of Caucasus, 

 Georgia, and the governments beyond the 

 Caucasus, has permitted the establish- 

 ment of a printing-office at Teflis, and 

 the commencement of a newspaper called 

 " The Trans-Caucasian Journal." 



Russian Recruits. The imperial Ukase, 

 lately published respecting the levy of 

 recruits for the army to protect the fron- 

 tiers of the empire, states, that if they all 

 arrive in good health at the place of their 

 destination, their amount will be 125,000 

 men, which will be in the proportion of 

 five men out of every thousand. 



Sugar from Beet- Root At Quedlin- 

 bourg a process has been discovered by 

 Messrs. Fiesand Stanersald of extracting, 

 in twelve hours, pure and crystallized 

 sugar from the pulp of beet-root, in the 

 proportion of ten pounds of sugar to one 

 hundred pounds of beet-root. 



Aurora Australia. The Hobart Town 

 Courier states that on the evening of the 

 23d of April last, the whole south-western 

 quarter of the heavens was brilliantly il- 

 luminated. The Aurora Australis shoot- 

 ing up in coruscations more than sixty 

 degrees from the horizon. 



Remains of Off a, king of Mercia. The 

 coffin containing these has recently been 

 discovered in Kernel Hempstead church- 

 yard. The inscription was much effaced, but 



was sufficiently legible to prove the identity 

 of the bones it contained, which imme- 

 diately crumbled into dust on being ex- 

 posed to the air. The coffin was of stone 

 very curiously carved. 



Education and Crime. The chaplain 

 of the House of Correction in Coldbath- 

 Fields, states, in a report to the magi- 

 strates of Middlesex, the following results 

 of an enquiry into the extent of education 

 among a certain number of prisoners : 

 Of 667 prisoners, viz. 701 males, and 

 266 females, it appears that those 



Uneducated, first imprisonment, 

 amounted to 56 



Imprisoned before 48 



104 



Educated, first imprisonment 646 

 Imprisoned before 217 



863 



967 



The education which the prisoners had 

 received, refers, of course, to the manual 

 arts of reading and writing which are 

 the tools of knowledge, not knowledge 

 itself. 



The prevalent causes of crime are > 

 1. Deficient education, early loss of pa- 

 rents, and consequent neglect. 2. Few 

 convicts have ever learned a regular trade, 

 and if they were bound to any apprentice- 

 ship, they have abandoned it before their 

 time had lawfully expired. 3. School 

 education is, with most convicts, very 

 deficient, or entirely wanting. 4. Intem- 

 perance, very often the consequence of 

 loose education, is a most appalling source 

 of crime. 



Education in the United States Edu- 

 cation is nearest the heart of every Ameri- 

 can citizen impressed with a love of his 

 country. Yet there still exists not only a 

 great reluctance on the part of parents to 

 send their children to schools (an unwil- 

 lingness felt in common with the unedu- 

 cated parents of the Vaderland), but also 

 a real want of schools and teachers. To 

 remedy the former evil, a society, under 

 the name of " American School Agents' 

 Society," has been formed for sending 

 agents in various directions into the inte- 

 rior, for the purpose of persuading parents 

 and guardians of the utility of education, 

 and improving schools. According to 

 authentic accounts, the number of chil- 

 dren in America deprived of education, is 

 about equal to that of those who obtain it. 

 More than 1,000,000 is stated to be the 

 number of the former. Of these, 250,000 

 are to be found in Pennsylvania, 18,000 

 in the State of New York (13,000 also in 

 the city of New York). In Indiana, it is 



