resent about one hundred of the most interesting scriptural events. Oliver Cromwell was a member of Sidney Sussex College. In the Fellows' garden is a pear tree said to have been planted by him. Emmanuel College, in the south-east corner of the town, is celebrated as the college where John Cotton, Nathaniel Rogers, Thomas Shepard, Thomas Hooker, Francis Higginson, and others of the first emigrant ministers of New England were educated. John Eliot, John Robinson, Peter Hobart, Leonard Hoar, John Nortou, William Brewster, Hugh Peters, etc. were also educated at Cambridge. John Wilson was a fellow of King's College. Charles Chauncey was a student of Trinity, and afterwards professor of Hebrew and Greek.1 John Milton was a student of Christ's College in 1626. S. T. Coleridge joined Jesus College. John Rogers the martyr, Edmund Spenser and William Pitt were members of Pembroke Hall. The university library contains, it is said, 200,000 volumes. Among the Mss. is the celebrated one of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, on vellum, given to the university by Theodore Beza, who obtained it from the monastery of St. Irenaeus at Leyden. Of the Catholic epistles, which it formerly embraced, nothing remains but a fragment of a Latin version of 3 John 11-15. The Ms. belongs to the seventh century. There are also about fifty volumes of Hebrew and Syriac Mss., which Dr. Claudius Buchanan brought from India. Among these is a Syriac Bible in two volumes, folio, written on vellum, in the Estrangelo Syriac character. The library has copies of the first editions of many of the Greek and Latin classics; also the greater part of the works printed by William Caxton, the first printer in England. The library was originally much indebted to three successive archbishops, whom Thomas Fuller denominates "powerful Parker, pious Grindall, and polite Bancroft." An elegant building is now erecting for the Fitzwilliam Museum, etc. in the Grecian style, with a portico of eight Corinthians columns, supporting a cornice and pediments. Various classical figures are sculptured in bold relief. THE SORBONNE AT PARIS. The parliament of Louis XIV., in the age of Pascal, Corneille and Moliere, assembled one day, all the chambers together, at the request of the Sorbonne, and condemned to banishment three chemists, Bitaut, de Claves and Villon, who had maintained theses contrary to Aristotle; the Sorbonne gravely pronounced the punishment of death against any one who should afterwards dare to attack the Greek philosopher. At the same Sorbonne, from a passage in Aristotle ò vous čotiv άúkos, the soul is im * Richard Mather, Thomas Parker, John Oxenbridge, Roger Williams and others were educated at Oxford. 1848.] Lectures at the Sorbonne.-Other Colleges. 195 mortal, it was maintained in an academical exercise, by five arguments, more or less, that the soul is a flute, that being one of the meanings of άulos! In our days at this same Sorbonne, Royer Collard, Cousin and Jouffroy have lectured in philosophy, Andrieux and Villemain in literature and eloquence, Guizot, Lacretelle, Michelet and Quinet in history. The celebrated school of the Sorbonne, where now stands the College de la Sorbonne, was founded in A. D. 1253, by Robert de Sorbonne, chaplain of St. Louis. The rue de la Sorbonne, near the centre of that part of Paris which lies on the left bank of the Seine, begins at the rue des Mathurins and abuts on the place de la Sorbonne. Many monuments and buildings give a singularly original aspect to this quarter of Paris. At the bottom of the street is the hôtel de Cluny, begun in 1480, in part on the ruins of the Roman emperor Julian's palace of the baths. It was finished in 1505. The turrets and richly ornamented garret windows are very striking. It now contains a precious collection of antiquities. In it the section of Marat held its sittings in 1793. Those lofty, narrow, gabled, small windowed houses, which elbowed each other and clomb up in each others' faces, without order, were the College de Bayeux, College de Narbonne, and the collegium Sagiense. At present the inscriptions over the gateways are the only remnants of those institutions. On the 4th of June, 1629, the foundation of the present buildings of the Sorbonne was laid by cardinal Richelieu. Two Doric portals lead to a wide quadrangular court, surrounded by substantial buildings of simple design varying from three to five stories. In the southern transept of the church-not now used as a parish church-is the celebrated tomb of cardinal Richelieu, the chef-d'œuvre of Girardon, and one of the finest pieces of sculpture of the 17th century. It was before this tomb that Mademoiselle de Thou-sister of the great historian-whom the cardinal had ordered to be beheaded, exclaimed, “ Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died!" Here also Peter the Great on his knees exclaimed, "I would give half of my estate to find out from thee how to govern the other half." The college forms a large court, sombre but grand, yet almost entirely destitute of architectural ornament. The professors have apartments here. The lecture rooms are inconveniently small. OTHER COLLEGES IN PARIS. The university of France, having the control of the whole subject of education throughout the kingdom, consists of twenty-seven academies. The academy of Paris consists of five faculties, Sciences, Letters, Theology, Law and Medicine. The first three are established at the Sorbonne. The list of professorships and incumbents in these is as follows. The number of students attending the various faculties cannot be exactly ascertained. For the courses of law it amounts to about 3000; medicine, 2900; sciences, from 1200 to 1500. The library in the basement rooms of the Sorbonne, contains 50,000 volumes. It is principally used by the professors and students of the different faculties. All the lectures are gratuitous, and are also open to foreigners. A few rods north-east of the Sorbonne, is the place Cambrai, opening upon the street Louis le Grand. Here is the Coll ge royal de France, founded in 1529 by Francis I. The present buildings, erected in 1774, of simple and elegant style, enclose three courts. The left wing contains laboratories for chemistry and lecture rooms; in the right wing are two semi-circular amphitheatres for lectures. In the upper stories are cabinets for natural science, and a library. At this college twenty-eight professors give public and gratuitous lectures. Among these we may name, M. Michelet, history and morals; Etienne Quatremère, Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac; Caussin de Percival, Arabic; Desgranges, Turkish; Stánislas Julien, Turkish and Tartar languages; Eugène Burnouf, Sanscrit ; Boissonade, Greek; Barthélemy St. Hilaire, Greek and Latin philosophy; 1848.] Colleges in Paris.-Museum. 197 Nisard, Latin Eloquence; Tissot, Latin poetry; Edgar Quinet, languages of southern Europe, etc. The College de Louis le Grand, which is termed, together with the four following, royal colleges, is situated at 123 rue St. Jacques, a few rods east of the Sorbonne. It was originally founded in 1560. It was many years in the hands of the Jesuits. It has 1111 pupils, of whom 522 are boarders. The terms for board in these colleges are 1000 francs a year, and 105 francs for college and university fees. The pupils of the various institutions and pensions are obliged to attend the royal colleges; and such as have private tutors are also admitted. The College de Henri IV, in rue Clovis, in the rear of the Panthéon, has 850 pupils, of whom 486 are boarders. It is established in part of the church and other buildings of the celebrated abbey of St. Geneviève. The western side is of the 14th century. The sons of Louis Philippe were educated at this college. It is soon to be enlarged by the addition of the buildings occupied by the library of St. Geneviève. For this library-which is a rich and valuable collection of 200,000 volumes and 3000 manuscripts,-a spacious edifice is erecting in the place de Panthéon. The College St. Louis, is a little north-west of the Sorbonne, and opens upon the rue de la Harpe. It was built in 1280, and rebuilt in 1675, though some part of the ancient structure still remains. The court is spacious; at the end is the chapel. The number of pupils is 980, of whom 350 are boarders. The College de Charlemagne is at 120 rue St. Antoine, on the right bank of the Seine, a few rods above the Hotel de Ville. It was founded in 1582, the buildings of which formed the College of Jesuits, and are remarkable only for their great size. The attendance is 830 day pupils. The site of the Collège de Bourbon is No. 5 rue St. Croix d' Antin, in the north-western part of the city. The buildings were erected in 1781. It has 1200 day pupils. There are besides, the two private colleges of Stanislas, 350 boarders, the College Rollin, 34 rue des Postes, 380 boarders; Collège de St. Barbe, 7 rue de Reims, founded by Jean Hubert, A. D. 1420, still one of the principal colleges of Paris, with 500 pupils, all boarders; and the College des Irlandais, 3 rue des Irlandais. The latter has a commodious edifice, forming three sides of a spacious quadrangle. It is devoted to the education of young Irishmen for the catholic church, of whom about twenty-five priests graduate annually. It is said to be in a flourishing condition. The students of natural history in these colleges, as well as other persons, have free access to the unrivalled Musée d' Histoire Naturelle in the Jardin des Plantes. It is undeniably at the head of all the institutions of the kind in the world. In the mineralogical and geological cabinets, the stranger is constantly filled with surprise at the size and value of the specimens; in orderly and effective arrangement, no people equal the French. The cabinet of comparative anatomy, collected and arranged by the immortal Cuvier, contains upwards of 15,000 specimens in eleven apartments. The number of species of plants, cultivated in the botanical garden, exceeds 12,000. On the ascent to a mound is a noble cedar of Lebanon, which was planted in 1735 by the elder Jussieu, and now measures ten and a half feet in circumference, at six feet from the ground. The gallery of zoology, contained in a building 390 feet in length, classed according to the system of Cuvier, comprises more than 200,000 specimens. The number of articulated animals, without vertebrae, are about 25,000. The arrangement begins with the lowest manifestation of animal organization, e. g. the sponge, and ends with man. The mineralogical, geological and botanical galleries have been recently arranged in a new building, under the superintendence of professors Brogniart and Cordier. The centre division contains the mineralogical and geological collection; the eastern division, the library, etc.; the western division, the botanical collections. On one side of the central division, are specimens of all known rocks and earths, arranged geologically; on the other, the fossils found in the various geological formatious. The number of mineralogical and geological specimens exceeds 60,000. Among those which were noticed by the writer were a superb vase of brecciated porphyry, some remarkably beautiful specimens of yellow, red and white topaz, two large groups of colorless quartz crystal, a series of diamonds rough and cut, a piece of massive gold from Peru, weighing sixteen and a half ounces, a fine specimen of native silver from Mexico, etc. The botanical gallery has more than 350,000 dried plants, and more than 4,500 of woods, fruits and grains. The library consists of 30,000 volumes and 15,000 pamphlets. The manuscripts, accompanied with original designs, and the paintings of fruits and flowers on vellum, form an unrivalled collection. It was commenced in 1635, and now fills ninety portfolios, with upwards of 6,000 drawings, in value estimated at two millions of francs. In the centre of the hall is a marble statue of Cuvier by David, the inscriptions upon it being the names of his works. MEANS FOR ORIENTAL STUDY IN PARIS. At the King's Library, No. 12 Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, near the Palais Royal, is the Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes. Ten profes sors are attached to this establishment, and lecture publicly and gratuitously in the following languages: Pure Arabic, M. Rinaud; Vulgar Ara |