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25. Manufactory of Apprentices-—A benevolent institu- 
tion has been formed in Paris, for the purpose of rescuing 
from idleness, misfortune and vice, the crowd of little unfor- 
tunate beings that swarm in the capital, and of giving them 
the means of gaining useful instruction, morals and industry. | 
For this purpose a capital has been raised by subscription, 
consisting of 800 shares of 1000 francs each. Every share 
is divisible into ten parts. ‘The administration is composed | 
of a director, three administrators, and seven counsellors, all 
chosen among the stockholders. To give the institution. 
greater weight and celebrity, an honorary council has been 
added, chosen from the most distinguished men, united in 
the national representation, the magistracy or public admin- ° 
istration. » ite 
The stockholders who only wish to place their funds tem- 
porarily in the institution, may withdraw them at certain pe- 
riods with ordinary commercial interests, or if they remain 
they will be entitled to whatever dividend shall arise from 
the profits of the manufacturing and commercial operations of 
the company. Those who subscribe from motives of be- — 
nevolence, will be at liberty to bestow their profits on the 
apprentices of the establishment—or if they choose, on some 
one whom they may wish to promote at the time of his exit 
from the institution. The most exact account is kept of all 
those appropriations. Each stockholder has a right to pre-_ 
sent an apprentice for each of his shares for gratuitous ad- 
mission into the institution. ‘Nothing is undertaken in the - 
work-shops but by the advice of the council, the more ex- 
perienced members of which watch over the progress of — 
each branch of industry. The benefit of the instruction © 
professed in this general manufactory will not be confined to ~ 
the indigent. “The children of parents above want will be — 
received as day pupils in the work-shops for a moderate _ 
contribution) © oe Se a 
The operations which have constituted the daily work of | 
the apprentices of this useful establishment, are book bind- 
ing and ruling, cabinet making, joinery, tanning, various ob- 
jects in the art of painting, gilding and varnishing, prepara- 
tion of mastic, varnish, &c. &e. 
26. Philology.—M. D’Arndt of Frankford, has just pub- 
lished a treatise on the “ origin of the languages of Europe, 
