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the following ; On the influence of laws over morals, or of 

 morals over laivs. — Rev. Encyc. Aout, 1827. 



1 8. University of Halle. — Jubilee Fete of Chancellor Nie- 

 meyer, — On the 1 8th and 1 9th of April last, there was cele- 

 brated in this University one of those fetes which in Germa- 

 ny is dedicated to distinguished men, and which are peculiar 

 to the literary establishments of that country. It was on ac- 

 count of the fiftieth anniversary of the promotion of M. Nie- 

 meyer to the doctorate of philosophy. This aged and res- 

 pectable man is well known by his valuable works on educa- 

 tion, and he has held for a long time, the station of chancel- 

 lor of the University of Halle. All Germany wished to avail 

 itself of what is called the jubilee of the doctorate, to furnish 

 this servant with a testimonial of public esteem and grati- 

 tude. The Prussian minister of state, two bishops, and ma- 

 ny other functionaries attended the fete. On the eve of the 

 18th, the children of the Latin school, planted two young 

 oaks behind the monument of Franck, a professor pronoun- 

 ced a discourse, and the scholars sung a hymn. The next 

 morning the chancellor received the felicitations of an im- 

 mense crowd of citizens and strangers, as well as various de- 

 putations of the learned bodies of Prussia, and other parts 

 of Germany, Austria excepted. The deputation of the uni- 

 versity sent him a Latin poem, and that of the faculty of 

 theology, a programme, or public dissertation on the subject 

 of the fete. The deputation of the city, conducted by the 

 burgomaster, presented him with a civic crown of oak leaves 

 in silver imitation. The Franck institution had struck a 

 gold medal, with this inscription ; Alteri conditori suo ante 

 hos L. ann. creato doct. phil. instit. Franckiana Hal. A. 

 MDCCCXXVII d. XVIII. April The other institutions, 

 caused to be presented or recited by the masters and by 

 about one thousand four hundred children, of both sexes, 

 portions of Latin and German poetry. All the public au- 

 thorities of the province, sent in like manner, their felicita- 

 tions by deputies. The president of the regency, in the 

 name of twenty-three public Prussian functionaries, sent to 

 the venerable man a silver vase, with the inscription ; A. H. 

 Niemeyerwn dejuventute sua optime meritum viri venerantur. 

 Another deputy offered him, in the name of sixty Mecklen- 

 burgians, pupils of the university, a beautiful porcelain vase 

 of the Royal manufactory of Berlin, with these words ; Vi- 



