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44 Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. — [Aug: 1, 
for useful and authentic information re- 
lative to the actual stave of the empire, 
is likely to prove tever to have bad its 
equal i any country.* : 
A School for 150°boys has been open- 
ed at Woburn, chieffy at tne expence of 
the Duke of Bedford. It is ou the plan 
the noble and: generous manner in which 
the Duke has patronized Mr. L. he has 
from gratitude paid it a personal atten- 
tion, which already renders it one of the 
most excellent schools on his system 
in the nation, We sincerely congratu- 
late the public on the extension of Mr. 
‘Laneaster’s popular schools in different 
parts of the country, and we anticipate 
the best effects from them, on the mo- 
rals and happiness of the rising gene- 
Fation. 
A school has been opened at Cam- 
bridge by one of the young men trained 
by Joseph Lancaster, to spread his new 
system of edueation, under royal patron- 
age. Above 240 children have been ad- 
mitted, and are alteady in high order. 
The schoel at Cambridge, we are happy 
ta state, has the approbation, sanction, 
aint support of the whole University, as 
the subscription lists clearly shew. The 
eominitteecousists of a number of the 
most iatelligent and respectable persons 
ty that seat of learning. ‘Ihe school is 
about to be extended to fifty additional 
children. One of Joseph Lancaster's 
young men has opened a school for 300 
boys, undcr the patrouage. of many. of the 
wost benevolent citizens of Bristal. It 
was proposed to him not to take solmany 
ja at once, butto admit thenr indirisions. 
His reply was, “ No, it is 6uly one trou- 
We; and he has brought them into the 
most complete order, without rod or cane 
1 the school. 
tend the sehool to a thous: 
2 
a 
* It may not-be improper in this place to. 
motice a late extraordinary publication of a 
Mr. Marshall, which professes to divide the 
counties into Departntents, and. give the)sub- 
stance of the County Reports of each Depart- 
ment in a single volume, It ae ae 
tor unis work that its author should, tn bis 
first volume, have included some. of the 
first Proof Reports of the Board, which it is 
well known were printed merely as skeletons 
for completion and improvement, and these 
he gravely analyses, and introduces as. the 
basis of a regular abstract of the acknowledg- 
ed reports of the Board. Of course such an 
nalytical view of its own Jabours will be 
fhe vines of the Board itscli, ‘as soon as 
‘those labours are finished. &. 
of Mr. Lancaster, and in consequence of to write; and 120 made considerable 
“Constitution ef England will’ 
fe is imtenmed to. ex-— 
d children, or 
A report of the committee of “the medium of this and other journals, hast 
Canterbury” Royal’ Laneastrian Free 
School, held iu the Archbishop's palace, 
Cumerbury, represents that within the — 
last six months 32% children had been ad- 
mitted. Above 100 did not know a let~ 
ter, but have learwt to read since theit 
admission; above 250 have heen taught 
progress in arithmetic. It passes many 
encomiums on the master, whase instruc 
tions’ in’the plansWweve recciveuk at ond 
of Lancaster’s scl » and the school 
itself organized by. one of his boys. The al 
save boy has-organized the sehool near 
Windsor, which’ the Toyal family visited 
some time ag” Gi 
A schol is tlso) establishing in Dube 
lin on the Laneustrian plan. Gs his 
young mev has-been there some time for 
that purpose.” — eee ae ee. 
Mie Cos ixew’s Concise View of the - 
ar in 
~ ter! er. ) x, % - 
m br. Het Wis apth of the.’ ’ mur " 
of Di “ey inserted regularly im this: 
Sige, tends te PM, se which 
have appeared hitherto’) small vor 
lume, ‘t 4 published carly in’ the wil 
ter, pF rex vii yA iis Treatise | 
‘On SUA PTIO RS) hi nad ‘ re 
4 Wen NS, jou. MAWjFA ) ‘aus 
thor of the Antiquities of Marna Gkcia, 
has aiiourtced a translation of . Civil 
Ayehitecture of Vitruyius, “comprising, 
those books of the author which relate ro 
the public and private edifices of the an- 
- cisuts, illustrated by numerous: engrav- 
ings, exhibiting a parallel of ancien at>” 
chitecture, with an introduction, con? 
taining the history off the “ode ogress, 
and declme, of amchitecsuiippa tgs the 
Greeks, ; * Sie 
Vhe Séciety for the Relief of the Rup- t 
sed Poor, upon a plan some tinve ago 
mmended to the public through the 
length assumed a regtilar’ form. The 
Lorp Mayor for the time being is Presi- 
dent, and the committee for managing 
the’ alfiirs of ‘the Che a ‘consists of 
uventy-four governors, among whom are 
some of the first. medical eharacters in 
the metropolis. “The governors of the 
City Dispensary have generously. per- 
mitted the affairs of the above Society to 
be conducted at their establishment in 
Grocer’s Hall court, Poultry; and the — 
strgical and other officers accept of no 
gratuity whatever for their services. By_ 
this laudable economy the whole of the 
funds being exclusively devoted to the- 
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purposes of the Charity, every contribu 
tor of a guinea annually will Pea op- 
