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number; but an invisible power gives them the requisite 

 force, and they brave with impunity the indignation of the 

 majority. Until now the German cantons have apparently 

 disapproved of the operation of this occult power, which 

 must become more fatal to the Helvetian Republic than 

 the oppression of Bonaparte. It tends to relax the federal 

 bond, to alienate the government from the affection and 

 esteem of the citizens, and it degrades Switzerland in the 

 eyes of Europe, — Idem. 



13. Rome —The clergy of Rome consists of 10 cardinals, 

 27 bishops, 1450 priests, 1532 monks, 1464 religieux, and 

 332 seminarists. The population, without including the 

 Jews, was, in 1821, 146,000 souls. —/(/ew. 



!4. Fctune Frangaise* — A work is now in progress at Paris 

 under the title of Faune Frangaise, or natural history, general 

 and particular, of the animals found in France, permanently 

 or periodically, at the surface of the ground, in its waters, 

 and on the borders of the seas which surround it, by M. M. 

 G. A. Desmarest (the mammiferes; reptiles, hemipteres, 

 nevropteres, and orthopteres) : L. P. Vieillot (the birds) ; 

 C. Pbevost (the fish) ; M. Ducrotay de Blainville (all 

 the invertebral animals, except insects and the arachnides) ; 

 M. Serville (the coleopteres, hymenopteres, and dipteres) ; 

 M. Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau (the lepidopteres) ; M. 

 A. Walckenaer (the arachnides). The work will consist 

 of 80 numbers, each containing 10 plates, and three sheets 

 of descriptive text. The whole will form 12 volumes, com- 

 prehending 3840 pages with 800 plates. Price, with plates 

 uncoloured, 320 francs ; coloured, 880 francs. — Idem. 



15. Warsaw. — University. — The commencement of this 

 university was in 1807. A faculty of medicine was at that 

 time established, and in the following year a school of law 

 was founded. The Emperor Alexander gave a definitive 

 organization to the university in 1816, and the courses com- 

 menced in 1817. Several edifices have been successively 

 granted for its library, collections of natural history, labora- 

 tory, &tc. The number of its students has gradually in- 

 creased. In 1819 there w^ere 396; in 1820, 496 ; in 1821, 

 507; in 1822^ 576; and in 1823, 609. The number of 

 professors is 44. Prizes have been founded to excite the 



