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will be allowed, under the sanction of the principal, to attend lectures in any 
particular course of study; but never to such an extent as to interfere with 
the education of the students, or the discipline of the college. Persons so 
attending will not be recognised as students, nor will they be entitled to con- 
tend for prizes or rewards ; nor will certificates of attendance at lectures be 
granted to any persons who have not gone through the prescribed course of 
religious instruction. 
. All persons under 20 years of age, so attending, will be required also to 
attend such parts of the course of religious instruction as, in the opinion of the 
principal, may be expedient in each particular case. 
Lower DepartrmEent.—The lower department, which, in its detail, will be 
totally distinct from the higher, though intended to afford an education pre- 
paratory to it, will consist of a school for the reception of day scholars. 
This department will be placed under the separate management of a 
head-master, appointed by the council, and a competent number of under 
masters, appointed by him, all members of the church of England. 
The system here carried on will embrace a course of religious instruction 
suited to the age of the pupils, classics, arithmetic, elementary mathematics, 
the modern languages, &c. 
The salaries of the masters will depend on the number of the pupils. 
One or more public examinations will take place every year, at which prizes 
will be distributed. 
We hope, for the honour of English common sense, that the following 
story is not true :— 
« A superb diamond necklace is said to have been ordered for the 
young queen of Portugal, and is understood to be actually in hand at 
the manufactory of Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and Co., jewellers, Lud- 
gate-hill. Report says the design is most tastefully contrived, consisting 
of brilliant heart’s-ease, surrounded with other flowers, and leaf-work 
of various hues and colours. It is expected to be finished in the course 
of the present week, and intended to be presented to her majesty by 
some great personage, whose name has not transpired.” 
Have we not had enough of this poor child, whose little Portuguese 
brains must have been long ago completely addled by presentations, 
addresses, gracious receptions, hand-kissing, and the other gingerbread 
of court ceremony, to a sovereign of nothing, a wife of nobody, a child 
sent rambling through the world like a gipsey, by her copper-coloured 
papa, rejected by uncles, aunts, godfathers, and godmothers: and now em- 
ploying her regal leisure in the inquiry who is to pay the next quarter’s 
salary of the yellow fellows about her? ’Tis true, we English have a 
national propensity for foreign shows. Every half-baboon monarch of 
every South-Sea fragment of an island, every king of Squawmania, is 
received here with all the honours of regular kingship ; has a public 
table for his unbreeched aids-de-camp, an establishment for his unpetti- 
coated harem, sits surrounded by his coffee-skinned council ; and, if he 
does not choke himself with English beef in the first fortnight, break 
his neck down the tavern stairs, or go mad from overdoses of brandy, is 
leveed, hawked about, gives his black paw to kiss, and promises to 
send his three canoes to the assistance of the English navy, in their first 
war with the emperor of Tongutaboo. 
The Pimlico Palace is beginning to be—there is no other word for it 
—puffed in the most approved manner. But all the puffing on earth will 
not make it a palace fit for George the Fourth. We, however, believe, 
