Copenhagen. 1 8^ 



2. Deaf and Dumb. — The Canton of Berne contains near- 

 ly one thousand deaf and dumb persons. A few Christian 

 philanihropisis conceived the idea of forming a normal school 

 for the instructioj of these unfortunates, and undertook the 

 execution of it in the beginning of the year 1822. The 

 Bernese government granted them about 4500 francs 

 (=^900) for the first year's expenditure ; and it has just voted 

 a similar sum for the second year. Eleven pupils 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 instruction of the 

 deaf and dumb. — Idem. 



3. Russia. — 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 opening the galleries, amounts 

 to more than three thousand pounds. The discovery of 

 these mines and their prodigious wealth, are facts not less im- 

 portant than unexpected ; and if there is no exaggeration in 

 the statement, we may conceive what consequences such an 

 event must produce upon the relative value of gold and silver, 

 upon the commerce of Europe, and perhaps even upon the 

 political 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 

 bequeathed sixty thousand crowns, to be given in premiums to 

 the professors of natural history, and in rewards to the authors 

 of memoirs on questions proposed by the Universities; ten 

 thousand crowns to the Academy of Fine Arts, and a hundred 

 thousand^ crowns to support at the schools and universities the 



