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which will give you at once an idea of the arrangement of the studies 

 and of the professors employed. I wish it may fall into the hands of any 

 of the council of the London University, as information of this kind can- 

 not but be useful to them. The divisions, you will observe, are fourfold 

 three professional, and one philosophical branch. 



The first order is Catholic Theology, with four professors. 



The second, Evangelical or Protestant Theology, with four professors, 

 including Dr. Nitysch, who is now engaged in preparing a second refu- 

 tation of Mr. Rose's calumnies on the German Protestants ; although it 

 has been done once effectually by Dr. Bretschneider. 



The third order is Law. Nine professors, who embrace the whole 

 field of jurisprudence Roman, feudal, German, and French as well as 

 natural, criminal, ecclesiastical, and commercial, ancient and modern. 



The fourth order is Medicine. Eleven professors ; one of whom 

 devotes himself to the useful task of giving general advice for the preser*- 

 vation of health. 



The fifth order is that of Philosophy, with twenty-nine professors. This 

 includes history, logic, mathematics, languages, natural sciences, poli- 

 tical economy, and every branch of learning not comprised in the other 

 orders. Niebuhr and Schlegel are in this list. 



There are also extra lectures for architecture, music, painting, statuary, 

 and, as might be expected in a German school, teachers of gymnastics. 

 The library contains above 70,000 volumes, and is particularly rich in 

 classics. It is well arranged, and is open to the public at all reasonable 

 hours an accommodation which it would be well if our English collec- 

 tions afforded. The publicity of the churches and libraries in most parts 

 of the Continent is indeed enough to shame our chapters and curators 

 into more liberality. " Time and the hour" will, however, at length 

 make them yield to the general good. There is an academy of statuary 

 with many good models, and a very large collection of Roman antiquities, 

 found in the neighbourhood of the Rhine. It is, however, not so exten- 

 sive as that of Neuwied, which, though highly curious, has been but 

 little visited. So great value is attached to the Roman monument inscribed 

 " Deae Victoria sacrum," lodged in the place St. Remi at Bonn, that that 

 square is now generally called the Rcemerplutz. The music warehouse of 

 Simrock is one of the best in Germany : lithographic engraving is 

 chiefly used, and it would be difficult to name a piece of music that is 

 not to be found there. Some English ladies, whom I met at the table 

 d'hote, told me that Simrock's collection was the largest they had met with 

 in the course of a long tour. 



Apropos of the table d'hote that at the Star is abundantly provided, 

 and very cheap. One usually meets several of the professors, and such 

 company as may be in the house. The apartments are clean and neat, 

 and a drawing-room up- stairs is better furnished than that of most inns 

 in England. The landlady is noted for her embonpoint, and not less for 

 her good humour and civility. There are other good hotels, as the Angel, 

 the Hotel de Cologne, &c. ; but the Star is decidedly the best. The 

 early dinner-hour (one o'clock) makes a supper at nine necessary, which 

 is a very social meal, and gives the traveller the opportunity of mixing 

 twice a day in pleasant company. 



After what I have said of the University, you will perhaps wish to 

 have my thoughts on the German system of education. The influence 



