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10. Rome. — Anatomy. —Joseph Trasmondi, while engaged 

 in verifyinj2; the existence of a new muscle, found in the human 

 eye by Dr. Horner, of Philadelphia, discovered two nerves 

 extending over the same muscle. He has given a detailed 

 description of them in his school at Rome, where he is pro- 

 fessor of practical anatomy. — Idem, 



1 1 . Brussels. — Society of Elementary Instruction. — The 

 members of this society celebrated at a banquet, on the ]2th 

 of January, the fourth anniversary of hs foundation. This 

 useful institution, founded in 1819, under the protection of 

 the hereditary prince, consistsof a great number of members, 

 who by an annual subscription of twenty francs,, or a donation 

 of two hundred francs, possess the right of recommending 

 three children to be placed in the free schools. The boys' 

 school established by the society, now contains 400 pupils. 

 The convent of Minimes in which the government allowed 

 the school to be placed, having been given up to be trans- 

 formed into a military hospital, the society has decided upon 

 constructing, on a fine tract of land which has been ceded to it 

 by the state in the Rue des Minimes, two schools, the one 

 for five hundred boys, and the other for five hundred girls, 

 with the necessary dependencies. The building advances 

 with rapidity, and is said to be very beautiful and appro- 

 priate. The subscription amounts to nearly two-thirds of 

 the requisite sum. The royal family, and various other 

 dignitaries, have subscribed liberally. — Idem. 



12. Friijurg. — Public Instruction. — The R. Pere Girard, 

 founder and director of the college of St. Michael, and of the 

 French school of Fnburg, a man as virtuous as he is en- 

 lightened, has just been deprived of his employment, and 

 rem6ved from the establishment to which he had so faith- 

 fully devoted himself. The regrets of his fellow-citizens 

 and universal esteem accompany him to his retreat ; and 

 the censure of every good man brands his persecutors. 



The college is definitively replaced in the hands of the 

 Jesuits, with the enjoyment of the estates which formerly 

 belonged to it. These estates are estimated at three 

 millions of francs. It ought to be stated, in justification of 

 the canton, that the partizans of these measures are few in 



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