196 Foreign Laterutureand Science. 
burgh have long been distinguished for the exercise of chari- 
ty, ‘and on this occasion they have evinced so much zeal 
and liberality, as to deserve the most honourable mention. 
No poor person is found among them without food, cloth- 
ing and fire; no sick person without assistance. Mendicity 
is unknown in Hamburgh, and every person in a condition 
to labour finds the means of employment.—Rev. Encye: 
37. Munich.—The German Journal entitled Morgenflatt 
gives the following view of the actual state of public instruc- 
tion in Munich. ‘The College and the Lyceum: are: both 
devoted to classical instruction, containing at the commence- 
ment of the present year about one thousand students. The 
elementary and popular schools were frequented by five 
thousand two hundred children. The gratuitous Sunday 
schools established within twenty-five years for female 'ser- 
vants and other young girls who have received no elemen- 
tary instruction nor learned to work with the needle. These 
schools of such vast moral utility, had above one thousand 
pupils. ‘The school of the same character for boys, when 
they learn not only to read, write and calculate to teach also 
the elements of drawing avid practical mechanics, were fre- 
quented by thirteen hundred and eighty apprentices, and 
three hundred and fifty of them companions of all profes- 
sions. From this view it is evident no individual remains 
in Munich without instruction, since in a population of forty 
thousand, near nine thousand attend the public schools. 
37. Vaccination a remedy for the plague—Dr.Strubou 
at Constantinople and Dr. Lafond at Salonica, have made 
many experiments which tend to prove that vaccination is 
an excellent preservative against the plague—Rev. Encyclo. 
38. College of Chios.—The college of Chios in» the 
Mediterranean, continues to prosper. The physical and 
mathematical sciences, Belles Lettres, the Greek, Latin, 
and French language, moral philosophy, drawing, &c. are 
successfully taught. ‘The number of students is’ four hun- 
dred and seventy-six. Many of them are from Pelopon- 
nesus, Cephalonia, and the Islands of the Archipelago ; and 
what is remarkable, two young men have come from Amer- 
ica to study the language of Homer in the Capital of Chios, 
one of the seven cities which contend for the glory of hav- 
ing given him birth. M. Varvaki, a native of Ispara, not far 
from Chios, and a rich Greek merchant, has contributed six 
