Charity in France. — Lille, 1 8T 



emulation of the students. They, as well as the professors, 

 wear a uniform, which has been fixed by an imperial de- 

 cree. — Idem. 



16. Rural School. — In the month of March, 1822, a school 

 was founded near Berlin in Prussia, by C. de Treskow, a be- 

 nevolent gentlemen, for the purpose of educating twenty 

 poor children. In their instruction, domestic economy, he. 

 the founder has adopted the Principles De Fellenberg's 

 ecole des pauvres. The experiment has been very successful, 

 and the founder thinks that the whole annual deficit for the 

 twenty scholars will not exceed five hundred crowns (about 

 three hundred and fifty dollars). — Idenu 



17. Lisbon. — Elementary Instruction. — M. J. J. Le Cocq, 

 who had been sent by his government to Paris, to study the 

 method of mutual instruction, has been, since his return 

 to Portugal, charged to introduce it into the elementary 

 schools. The government has assigned for this object a 

 large hall in the Foundling Hospital, capable of accommo- 

 dating four hundred children, and has ordered to be printed 

 the collections of tables adopted in France for reading, 

 writing, religious instruction, calculation, &c. It is in view 

 to introduce this beneficent method into the different parts 

 of the kingdom. — Idem. 



18. France. — Charity. — The amount of donations and 

 legacies which the ecclesiastical establishments of France 

 received from 1802 to 1823 is 15,300,714 francs, equal to 

 ^3,060,000, nearly ; and the valuations of the charities be- 

 stowed upon the poor, and upon houses for the aged and 

 infirm, from 1814 to 1823, is stated at 27,505,256 francs, 

 equal to about $5,500,000.— Idem. 



19. Lille. — The Society of the Amateurs of science, 

 agriculture, and the arts of this city, in its programme of 

 prizes for 1824 and 1825, offers on the subject of public 

 HEALTH a gold medal of the value of sixty dollars for the 

 best dissertation on the means of ameliorating the health of 

 the labouring classes of the city ; and on the subject of 

 PHYSIQUE, a gold medal of the same value to the inventor of 

 a Photometer, that shall be sensible^ comparable, and of easy 



