388 Foreign Literature and Science, 



them. Twenty-one young people have been restored io 

 the society in a condition to provide for themselves, and 

 even to assist their parents. To render more certain the 

 perseverance of those who annually leave the refuge, the 

 administration gives them a protector selected fiom among 

 its own members. This protector watches over his pupil, 

 informs himself of his conduct, of his work, of his wants, and 

 of his success. During five years, those discharged pupils, 

 may, if they are worthy of it, receive pecuniary assistance 

 from the house. Every month, the council distributes re- 

 wards to the best workmen, and at St. Louis, utensils and 

 other useful things are given to the children, who have dis- 

 tinguished themselves by their good behaviour, docility, and 

 love of labour. A multitude of children are exposed in the 

 prisons to all sorts of danger. Resources are wanting to 

 extricate these unfortunate creatures from that melancholy 

 indolence, and corrupting example to which they are exposed. 



22. Conservatory of Arts and Trades. — M. Charles Du- 

 pin, member of the Academy of Sciences, terminated on 

 the 9th of June, the course of Mechanics applied to the 

 Arts, of which he is professor in this fine establishment, by 

 giving a summary of the objects of which he has treated this 

 year. He exhibited a table of the ameliorations which the 

 mechanic arts may produce in the most important branches 

 of our industry. We remark particularly that which re- 

 gards the application to the means of transport, upon the 

 highways, and the services rendered by the steam engine, 

 and those which French industry may expect to derive 

 from it. We recognize in these considerations, the learn- 

 ed engineer, who has written upon the maritime arts, and 

 upon navigation by steam. We cannot too earnestly invite 

 the directors of mechanical concerns, whether in Paris or 

 in the departments, to send their children and their foremen, 

 to attend the course which is annually given at the Conser- 

 vatory, commencing in the month of November. 



23. Sugar from Beets. — Extract of a letter addressed to 

 the Editor of the ^^ Revue Encyclopedigue.''^ 



The good of France, the prosperity of our native soil, is 

 what occupies incessantly every noble mind. I seek among 

 the libraries, and journals, every thing that relates to na- 



