382 Elementary Instruction, &c. 
which exist in manufactories,) four secondary schools or 
colleges, in the towns of Arau, Brugg, Lensbourg and Zof- 
fingen ; two other schools of the second degree in the 
Catholic towns of Rheinfield and Baden; a superior or 
cantonal school, in Arau, in which the history of Argow, 
read with interest and enthusiasm, excites in the minds of* 
its young citizens the 4mor patrie ; a normal school for 
forming teachers, one public, and various private schools 
for females; and a school for the deaf and dumb, In 
the town of Arau are three societies for public good, viz. 
ne for patriotic culture, divided into sections for the dif- 
ferent branches of agricultural and manufacturing ‘ndus- 
- trys One for the assistance of poor children, and, a read- 
ing society, which:has also the care of the cantonal library. 
our periodical papers are published in the same town. 
One of them, in German, the Swiss Messenger, had, afew 
years since, more than five thousand subscribers. | The in- 
habitants of Arau, celebrate in the month of August every 
year, la Féte de la jeunesse. The houses and the streets, on 
this occasion, are ornamented with garlands of verdure and 
flowers ; and after a solemn religious ceremony, and a ser- 
mon, the evolutions of the corps of cadets, and various gym 
nastic ises place, in which young people between 
the age of eight and eighteen, are engaged, presenting 3 
very animated spectacle, and attracting crowds of obser- 
vers. To this succeeds a banquet in the open air, in. 
which the children of all the schools, instructors, members 
of the government, and principal inhabitants take a nate 
These joyful repasts are sometimes followed by the flight 
a , Ora hymn sung in concert, and the fete !s 
terminated by a rural dance. 
18. Brussers.—Elementary Instruction. —The King by 
two ordinances of the 17th off May, and 2d-July, 1823 bas 
granted to the Society established a' Brussels for the encour- 
agement of mutual instruction, a convenient spot of gro 
for a building destined for a school of both sexes; and bas 
added to this grant a donation of 12000 florins from his 
own purse. The edifice is,designed to accommodate about 
‘ 19. University of Leyde en.—M.. Reinwardt, whose te 
turn from Batavia was expected with so much impatience, 
