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learning. But complaints are still made 
as to various points of the discipline 
which are considered as fastidious, and 
encroaching too much on the time and 
industry of a student occupied in the 
pursuit of science and literature, gene- 
rally speaking. 
: COLLEGE Of CORFU. 
Besides the books from Paris, Lord 
Guildford has also procured for the 
College at Corfu, 20,000 stamps or 
impressions of ancient Greek medals, 
with a description of the same, by M. 
Mionnet, of the cabinet of medals at- 
tached to the king’s library. "The pieces 
were formerly collected in Greece, and 
brought into France by different travel- 
Jers.» Among others,: are some with 
‘the ancient name of Corcyra, which 
-sounds more poetically than the new 
one; there is also the represeutation of 
their Jupiter Cazios, and the gardens of 
Alcinous, so celebrated by Homer. 
The number of professers in the 
college has been recently augmented. 
‘Among these are Athanasios Politis, a 
‘young physician and profound natural- 
dist; Father Andreas Hidromenos, of 
Parga, a distinguished scholar, and a 
complete master of Homer’s language; 
-also an excellent Italian botanist, whose 
mame is not mentioned; and three pro- 
fessors.of law. The practice of mutual 
instruction is making a rapid progress 
in the islands. The inhabitants. of Ce- 
-phalonia have established alyceum, on a 
large scale, and its effects have already 
-been found beneficial. : 
COLLEGE of SERAMPORE. 
The Calcutta Gazette, noticing the 
third or last report on the college of 
Serampore, observes that-the object of 
the institution is to diffuse moral and 
intellectual knowledge among the na- 
tives. With regard to the buildings, it 
states that the twelve central saloons 
or hails ave finished, or nearly so, as are 
the hall for lectures, and the library. 
Two escaliers of cast metal were then 
‘expected from England. Of four suites 
of apartments intended for the profes- 
‘sors, ‘two “gre completed; each suite 
contains eight chambers, of different 
magnitudes, four below and four above. 
M. Johnmack, who recently delivered 
lectures on chemistry, in the hall be- 
longing to the Asiatic Society, is made 
superintendant of the department of 
sciences. The number of pupils in the 
last report was forty-five, and is now 
fifty. The cornmittee have admitted two 
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young Mahometans "from Delhi, the 
charge of whose education is defrayed 
from the fund provided by Captain 
“Gowan. In pursuance of his plan, one 
is to study the Persian, and the other the 
Sanscrit; a third, newly admitted, is a 
‘Mahratta Bramin, aged about twenty, 
placed also in the college by the cap- 
He is studying 
English, Sanscrit, geography, and New- 
ton’s astronomy. These three pupils, 
with the six Bramins that are studying 
astronomy, have a certain monthly sum 
for their maintenance, as the rules of 
their sect do not allow of their eating 
in the college. The fourth examination 
of the pupils, which takes place every 
three months, was held in the great hall, 
the governor of Serampore being pre- 
sent.. A resolution was then adopted, 
that the students who are learning Eng- 
lish, should also take lessons in chemis- 
It is intended to add to the esta- 
blishment professors in theology and 
medicine. The salary of each professor 
is fixed at 250 rupees per month. An 
observatory is to be erected in the 
centre of the building, the elevation and 
solidity of the centre being convenient 
for such purpose. The missionaries of 
Serampore have presented to the college 
library about 3,000 volumes, collected 
by them during the last twenty years. 
BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES i” FRANCE. 
The spirit of association has wonder- 
fully spread in France. To this may 
be ascribed the establishment of the 
Society of Maternal Charity, a number 
of free, or charity-schools, for young 
persons of both sexes; the Asylum of 
Providence, for the aged, infirm, and 
orphans; the regular organization of 
-friendly societies for, domiciliary visits ; 
that for apprenticing destitute girls ; 
‘that for collecting and instructing the 
young Savoyards; and that for reforming 
young persons that have been under 
sentences of judicial condemnation. 
Here may be also noticed various pro- 
vident societies, consisting of workmen 
of different trades, forming saving clubs, 
the benefits of some of which extend to 
widows and children. Within Paris are 
eighty societies of this description, and 
more than five thousand subscribers. 
The charity bureaux of the capital, and 
the venerable pastors, may be consi- 
dered as the active and enlightened 
agents of numbers that confide their 
offerings to them. One of the most 
ancient and useful societies is the Phi- 
lanthropic, founded in 1780; the duties 
are 
