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presence of a commission of surveillance , and all the pro- 
fessorial corps. 
The majority of the students reside within the walls of the 
establishment, but externe pupils are admitted for instruction, 
under the sanction of the government. They wear a uniform 
in common, and should any violation of the laws of the school 
be committed by them, they are subjected to the punishment 
of public or private censure, or confinement, or expulsion, as 
may be thought necessary ; the last-named being determined 
on by the Minister of the Interior. Only on certain days is 
the porter at the lodge permitted to allow the pupils to pass 
outside the walls, within which there is a chapel they are re- 
quired regularly to attend, the service being conducted by 
the almoner. 
Horses, and other animals belonging to the public, are 
gratuitously attended to every morning, between eight and 
ten o’clock ; the senior pupils performing the operations, and 
doing what is necessary, under the direction of the appointed 
professor. 
The professors are not allowed to carry on private practice, 
but any case of more than ordinary interest they will visit, 
charging only for the medicines ordered by them. This, it 
is considered, enables them to become conversant with such 
varied information as will profit the students and the school. 
Having instituted these inquiries into the internal arrange- 
ments of the establishment, we proceeded to inspect its build- 
ings. These, from most of them being detached, cover a 
somewhat large space of ground. There are three or four 
lecture-rooms, spacious and well ventilated. That of the 
Professor of Chemistry is connected with his laboratory, and 
also the apartment in which the philosophical instruments 
are kept ; the principles of natural philosophy being likewise 
taught by him. The electrical machines and galvanic batteries 
were both large and numerous, although this power has not 
been successfully applied to the horse ; these, in common with 
mounted magnets, being only used by him for his lectures. 
We were also shown Matteucci’s beautiful apparatus for 
proving the identity of the nervous and electrical forces. 
