Sh niin tSirtoeggectae es 
cn peas ae 
Copenhagen. 183 
—The Canton of Berne contains near- 
Air pists Einieived the idea of forming a norma! school 
for the jestraction of these unfortunates, and undertook the 
(=$900) for the first year’s expenditure ; and it has just voted 
a similar sum for the second year. leven upils have been 
confided to the care of an intelligent and zealous master, Mr. 
John Burki. One of the objects of this Institution is to sim- 
plify the method of instruction so that the teachers of ordinary 
country schools may be charged with the instraction of the 
deaf and dumb.—ZJdem. 
3. Russ1a.—Gold Mines.—The Cronstadt Gazette gives 
very interesting details relative to the gold mines, discovered 
a short time since in Mount Ouralo (Ural Mountains) in. the 
vicinity of Catherineburgh. It is known that some of the 
houses of that town are constructed with a very rich mineral, - 
and a considerable quantity of gold has been extracted from 
the earth of which the bricks were made some years ago. 
In beginning to explore the mines, whence these materials 
have been drawn, small masses of native gold, some of them 
weighing as much as three-fourths of a pound, were found, and 
the whole quantity obtained in gene: the fone amounts 
to more than three thousand pounds. The discovery of 
these mines and their lied veal are facts not less im- 
portant than unexpected ; and if there i Is nO exaggeration in 
the statement, we may conceive what consequences such a 
Bay must produce upon the relative value of gold and ‘ilbee 
he commerce of Europe, an bere. even upon the 
Sorted! balance of its different states. —Idem 
4, Copenhagen.—The late Count de Moltke, minister of 
State, has, by his will, enriched the University of Copenha- 
gen, for which he has done much during his life. He has 
bie sence sixty thousand crowns, to be given in premiums to 
e professors of natural history, and in rewards to the authors 
of memoirs on questions proposed by the Universities; ten 
crowns to the Academy of Fine Arts, and‘a hundred 
ue thousand crowns to support at the schools and universities the 
