fessor or tutor officiates-and the religious services of the Christian Sabbath in the University chapel, which are conducted by the president, who preaches on one part of the day; and by the Hollis Professor of Divinity, who delivers a lecture on the other part. There is a university church of the congregational order, in which the ordinances are administered, and of which the officers last mentioned are the ministers. Any undergraduate, who is above twenty-one years of age, and has been brought up to attend public worship at an episcopal church, who proposes to attend statedly on that service in Cambridge, on signifying in writing the fact, and his desire to the President, may have leave so to attend. Any one under age, who has been accustomed to worship at an episcopal church, may have leave to attend statedly upon that service in Cambridge, provided it be the desire of his parent or guardian, signified in the manner aforesaid. The college CHARGES are made in four quarter bills, of which the annual amount, to those not beneficiaries, is as follows: Steward, $10 114 12 57.50 8 16 15 $232 50 The room rent and wood are estimated upon the condition that two students live in a college room, and divide the expense. The rent of a room in a private house, near the college, is about fifty dollars a year; and the price of a room and board in a family from four to six dollars a week. The foregoing charge for instruction is the whole expense under this head, and gives a student access to the lectures and recitations of the various professors and instructers, including French and Spanish, with the following exceptions, viz. For the lectures of the Professor of Natural History, on which attendance is voluntary, the fee is six dollars for the first course of Botany-for a second course four, and for Zoology nine dollars a year. The attendance on the private instructer in Mathematics, which is also optional, is a separate charge, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents a quarter. The principal part of the other expenses of a student, such as clothes and allowance of spending money, so far as the reputation, morals, improvement and happiness of the pupil are concerned, can be estimated by the judicious. The authority and influence of those intrusted with the government of the seminary are anxiously exerted to prevent extravagance, and to discountenance the culpable and pernicious emulation in expense, which may sometimes appear in particular members of the society. Still, much will depend in this respect on the course adopted by the parent, as well as on the character of the pupil. To provide an additional security, the following law, requiring the appointment of a patron, has been passed. "Whereas, students from distant places, wanting the particular advice and control of friends, are liable to unnecessary and improper expenses, every student, not of this commonwealth, shall have some gentleman of the college or of the vicinity, approved, and if the parent or guardian desire, appointed by the president, who shall have charge of the funds, and superintend the expenses of said student, and without whose permission he shall not contract debts, on the penalty of dismission from the college or other punish ment." GRADUATES of this and other colleges, of good character, are permitted to reside at the University for the purposes of study, and have access to the library and lectures. THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY of the University was established by the corporation and overseers, assisted by the Society for promoting Theological Education at the University.-Graduates of any public college or university, of suitable character, may reside at the university as students in divinity. They are to be recommended to the corporation by the President and Hollis Professor of Divinity; and when their distance or other circumstances require, to produce proper testimonials. Applications are to made in person or by letter to the President, or Professor of Divinity, or to the Registrar of the University. The pecuniary assistance, at the disposal of the corporation and trustees of the society, for the benefit of theological students, is to be applied, first to those alone, whose characters, abilities, and improve 1818. Literary and Scientific Intelligence. ments afford the promise of usefulness; and secondly, with a regard to what their circumstances make necessary to enable them to devote their whole time, or the greatest part of it, to their preparation for the ministry. It is understood that a faithful use of their advantages, and an exemplary conduct, are indispensable conditions of their receiving the aid of the institution. INSTRUCTIONS AND EXERCISES.-The theological students are to attend the religious services of the college chapel, as well as to have devotional exercises with each other. They have access to the public lectures of the several professors in Cambridge and in Boston, on the moral and physical sciences. The theological and ethical studies are divided into three annual courses, corresponding to three classes, and are superintended by gentlemen in different offices in the University, or members of the corporation or overseers, whose lectures and exercises the students are to attend, as follows:-In the Evidences of Revelation, Christian Theology, and the interpretation of the Scriptures, by the President and Hollis Professor of Divinity. The Hebrew and Greek Old Testament, by the Professor of Hebrew and the Greek Professor. Elements of Biblical Criticism, by the Dexter Lecturer. Composition of Sermons, and Pulpit Oratory, by the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric. On Ecclesiastical Polity, and especially the History and Constitution of the American and New-England Churches, by the Rev. Dr. Holmes. The Pastoral Office, by the Rev. W. E. Channing. Intellectual Philosophy, by the Professor of Logic and Metaphysics. Natural Religion and Ethics, by the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity. A LAW SCHOOL is established at the Candidates for admission to the Law 301 lectures on Intellectual and on Moral A degree of Bachelor of Laws is in- In the MEDICAL SCHOOL, the lectures for Medical students are delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University in Boston; they commence annually on the third Wednesday in November, and continue for three months. Students, before attending the lectures, names with the Dean of the Faculty of are to be matriculated by entering their Medicine. The degree of Doctor of Medicine is given twice a year, viz. at the close of the lectures, and at the public Commencement in August. Candidates must pass a satisfactory private exarination, and at a public examination read and defend a dissertation. Before being admitted to private examination, the candidate must have attended two courses of lectures in the Medical college on each and Surgery, Chemistry, and the Theory of the following subjects, viz. Anatomy and Practice of Physic,-he must have dies under the direction of a regular employed three years in professional stupractitioner, including the time occupied in attending the lectures cated at the University, he must satisfy the Faculty of his knowledge of Latin and experimental Philosophy. He shall be examined upon the following branches, viz. Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Midwifery Medicine. The students. during the lecSurgery, and the Theory and Practice of tures, have access to the Medical College Library of 4000 volumes, and the Boylston Medical Library. Cambridge; and they have opportunities of seeing practice. The fees for the lectures are as follows: If not edu for the course on Anatomy and Surgery $20, Chemistry and the Theory and Practice of Physic $15 each, Materia Medica and Midwifery, each $10. The fee for the degree of M. D. to one who has not taken a degree at any university or college is $20, to a Bachelor of Arts $15, to a Master of Arts $10. The officers of the University, concerned in the instruction or immediate administration, are a President, one or more Professors in each of the following branches: Divinity, Law, Theory and Practice of Medicine, Anatomy and Surgery, Chemistry and Mineralogy, the Greek language, Greek literature, Latin language and literature, French and Spanish languages and literature, Hebrew and other oriental languages, Natural History, Mathematics and Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Intellectual Philosophy, Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, Rhetoric and Oratory, Belles Lettres, the Rumford Professor on the application of the Mathematical and Physical sciences to the useful arts, a Lecturer on Sacred Criticism, on Ecclesiastical History and Polity, on Materia Medica, on Obstetrics, two Tutors in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, a Librarian, Instructer in French and Spanish, Regent, Proctors and Registrar. JOHN THORNTON KIRKLAND, FOREIGN. Under the auspices of government a College is to be established at Buenos Ayres. Mr. J. E. Dekay, a gentleman of this city, now pursuing the study of medicine in the University of Edinburgh, among other interesting articles of intelligence which he communicates to Professor Mitchill, states: passing through London, on my way from Paris, I was shown a most magnificent work by Mr. ABBOT, on the Birds and Insects of Georgia. It was the labour of twenty years, and contains more than five thousand figures. Every plate was drawn and coloured by himself; and is accompanied with specific characters in his own hand-writing. The work has been extended to twenty quarto volumes, and commands the price of two hundred and fifty guineas the set. This sum puts it almost beyond the reach of a private individual, but I should rejoice to hear that some of our learned societies had become purchasers." H. R. SAUERLANDER in Aerau, and WILLIAM SCHAEFFER in Frankfort on the Maine, Germany, publish a periodical work, entitled: Contributions towards a History of our own Time, edited by H. Zschokke. One of the late numbers contains a translation of Gov. CLINTON'S Introductory Discourse before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York. EUSEBIUS SALVERTE, a learned citizen of Geneva, has translated into the French language, and accompanied with an erudite comment, Professor MITCHILL'S Pa per on the Population of America. The whole has been published in the Bibliotheque Universelle, and appears to be a subject of an interesting discussion in the city where CALVIN and ROSSEAU resided. An aggregated substance was found in the diamond mines in Brazil, containing diamonds, gold, iron, &c. A specimen of this mass has been sent to Mr. Marve, England, who is to examine this gangue of the Diamond. Professor WARZUR of Marburg, has found the oxide of iron, and a trace of the oxide of manganese in a human calculus. He has met with both the same oxides in pulmonary concretions. VON LEONHARD, an eminent mineralogist of Munich, is appointed Professor of Mineralogy at Heidelberg. Of the greatest Astronomers now living in Europe, thirteen are Germans, eight Italians, four Frenchmen. Two are assigned to Great Britain, two to Spain and Portugal, and to all the northern European Nations, three. At a late meeting of the Horticultural Society of London, Professor Hosack, of this city, was elected an honorary member. The same gentleman has also recently been elected one of the twelve honorary members of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. At a late meeting of the Linnaan Society of London, on the 5th of May last, there were three vacancies of foreign membership, caused by deaths during the past year. These vacancies were filled by the election of Baron F. H. A. DE HUMBOLDT, of Berlin, Professor CUVIER, of Paris, and Governor CLINTON of NewYork. 31 persons do. 10 do. $ 2,553,917 A contagious fever prevails in London. It is attributed to the wretched quality of the food of the lower classes. 382 emigrants, mostly labourers, and many of them having much money, have lately left Dumfries for America. A fleet, consisting of two 80's and six 74's is to cruise for 2 months for discipline. An incombustible store house has been completed in Plymouth dock-yard, every part of which is composed of stone and iron, without an inch of wood in the whole building; the girders, joists, doors, sashes, and frames, are all of cast iron, neatly executed. The roof is also of cast iron, and the floors of Yorkshire stone, the staircase, which is a geometrical one, is of Moorstone, projecting six feet from the wall. The estimated expense of this novel building is 15,0007. Provisions exported from Waterford, for the year ending April 30-5,070 tierces beef, 2,768 bbls. do.; 1776 tierces pork, 11,492 bbls. do.; 95,074 cwt. butter; 11,037 do. lard; 249,739 flitches bacon; besides a large quantity of wheat, eats, barley, oat-meal, &c. Total value, 1,564,2917. 18. Notwithstanding this great export, worth nearly seven millions of dollars for a single port, the mass of the population suffered excessively during the year for the want of provisions. We have dreadful accounts of the fever that lately prevailed in the southern parts of Ireland-it appears to have swept off the people by thousands-it is supposed to have been caused by the want of provisions among the lower classes. On the 27th of May, the chancellor of the exchequer stated, in the house of commons, that the general state of the country was most promising, and that the revenue was improving at the rate of 100,000l. per week. Despatches from the North Pole expe 303 dition, dated off Shetland, May 3, have The west of England papers state that It is estimated that the total import of cotton into Great Britain during the month of April, amounted to 42,557 bags. FRANCE. The number of deaths in Paris, which in 1816 amounted to but 19,801, in 1817, has increased to 21,381, a difference of more than 1,581. The body of marshal Ney, which was interred in the Pere la Chaise, at Paris, has been taken up and conveyed to his country seat, where it has been deposited, and an elegant monument erected over it. A magnificent church is erecting in the Rue d'Anjou, Paris, on the spot where the late queen of France was interred. The altar is placed immediately over the grave. The French government have advertised for a loan of 14,600,000 francs. A man was ordered to be whipt to death at Fontainbleau, for crying vive l'empereur. A violent affray took place at Cambria between a number of French and English officers, in consequence of some "free A battle with sabres took opinions" of the latter about the battle of Waterloo. place, and it is said that several persons were killed. A London paper observes-"since the passing of the conscription law, the military faction in France have assumed an insolent demeanour, especially towards the English, which is but too likely to lead, in many instances, to a fatal result." The Royal Academy of Science, in their sitting of the 27th of April, has heard, with lively interest, a detail made by Mr. This Richerand, of a singular operation performed by that skilful surgeon. operation, in which the heart and lungs have been uncovered, by making the resection of two ribs, and by cutting about eight inches square of the plevre, which had become swelled with cancer, is new in the history of surgery, and reaches the No doubt Mr. Kicherand bounds of possibility in this species of operation. will soon give to the world the memoir in which he has detailed the particulars of this bold and successful undertaking. SPAIN. Gibraltar. Under date of May 7th, a writer says, "I have the pleasure to announce to you that the measures adopted by our government, in the case of Mr. Meade, have had the desired effect, and that that gentleman was set at liberty three days ago. It exhibits the power and respectability of our country, in compelling to a single act of justice the cruel despot who arrogantly stiles himself the king of the two worlds." The Russian fleet at Cadiz, upon examination, prove defective-so much so, that they were all condemned, except one, which the Spanish government talk of fitting out. The wretched state of the Spanish finances has caused the stealth of a great number of cattle to subsist the troops collected near Cadiz. Great preparations are still making for an expedition to South-America. ITALY. By accounts from Rome, we learn that public safety becomes daily more confirmed in the Pontifical States. Nearly all the chiefs of the brigand bands have surrendered themselves, amongst these is the noted Cesaris. The army of the line of holiness is estimated at about 9000 men. The king of Naples and his brother Charles IV. of Spain, went lately to Pompeia, where, after inspecting some fine works lately discovered, they went in a carriage through the streets of the 'city where the noise of wheels had not been heard for more than 1,500 years! GERMANY. An article from Dresden, states that all the fortifications erected by Bonaparte on the right bank of the Elbe, have been demolished. By the last geographical details published in Austria, the population of that monarchy amounts to 27,613,000 souls. They are divided thus-21,000,000 catholics, 2,500,000 belong to the Greek church, 2,000,000 to the reformed church, 1,450,000 Lutherans, 400,000 Jews, about 40,000 Unitarians, Young Napoleon has received the dukedom of Reichstadt, in Bohemia, which title, with the appellation of highness, he is hereafter to bear. The duke of Saxe Weimar has granted a liberal constitution to the people of his duchy; he is celebrated as the first German sovereign who has given to his It is stated in an article from Constantinople, that the negociations between Russia and the Porte were entirely at a stand, and that the Spanish minister had been unable to obtain the satisfaction he sought, although supported in his demands by other foreign ministers. A suspicion is hinted that the Ottoman court and Persia are about to form a species of federation to protect themselves against the European powers. A Greek, who had turned Turk, lately repented, and professing the Greek religion again, required to be beheaded, conformable to the Mahometan law, for deserting the faith of the prophet. His desire was complied with, after many attempts to change his resolution. The Mussulmans in Palestine have taken possession of the Holy Sepulchre; and the Abbe Forbin Janson has proceeded to Constantinople to reclaim from the grand seignor the keeping of the tomb of Jesus. It produces an annual income of 260,000 dollars. ASIA. EAST INDIES. The British defeated Holkar on the 21st Dec. last, near Maheidpooz-he lost 2000 men. The fight was obstinatethe British had 30 officers and 700 men killed and wounded. They have had a severe battle with the troops of Berar, in which also, they doubtfully claim a vic tory, and acknowledge the loss of 14 officers and 349 men-but in a second battle the rajah was fully defeated, and lost 40 elephants and 75 pieces of cannon. |