When the bright dreams of youth no more No longer bids the landscape glow- 'Within my heart unchilled remain! The feelings which I cherish there, That treasure locked, that heart unseen. Bound by the spell, it vainly beats For one, who may not, must not know How faithful, warm, and true a pulse Will throb for her in weal and woe ! INTELLIGENCE. H. THE interests of Cambridge College are, or should be, in a good measure identified with those of literature and all intellectual education. We cannot, therefore, doubt that the public will always be eager to learn all the circumstances which directly affect these important interests; nor can we any more doubt that they whose duty it is both to conduct and protect this venerable institution, will be ever disposed to avoid even the appearance of that reserve which tends to produce jealousy and feelings of unkindness, and frankly to acquaint the public, for whose use it exists, with its actual condition, its wants, its dangers, and prospects. With no further apology, and perhaps none was needed, we proceed to state, as matter of interesting intelligence, those circumstances respecting the University which have lately occurred. It seems, that while there is the most general and universal acknowledgment, that the members of the Corporation, and the officers of the government fully merit the high respect and confidence which they enjoy, there exists also a pretty general belief that changes in the institutions of the College have become necessary. Reasoning from the nature of the case, one would readily conclude that this might be so. Universities, with all their institutions, fashions, and processes, are exceedingly apt to repose too quietly, while all things about them are in motion; they are naturally in stereotype. Hence, some have even thought that they were but as a strong anchor, which could hold the "ship of knowledge" fast to her moorings, while it was no part of their business or use, to act as sails and waft her onwards. This similitude may have some truth in foreign countries, but it should be utterly falsified in our own. Past ages may have left many prejudices and absurdities in Oxford and in the elder Cambridge, as in a sanctuary; time may have stood still for them, or passed by with little injury and less good; and there it may be considered wise to retain, through all ages, institutions and forms suit- | ed to a gentleman, whose intellectual ed only to the days of darkness in which strength and practised skill, both in conthey were invented. Nothing of this sort, troversy and in writing, are distinctly indiand nothing approaching it, should be suf-cated in this little pamphlet. He assails fered here. If possible, let our Alma Ma- the Report on the ground of its inconsist ter be preserved in perpetual youth. Letency; he says that the Committee aim at her advance with the progress of literature advantages essentially incongruous; that and of thought, aiming only to become what they would have a University, and yet apply to it a mode of discipline and processes of instruction, fitted only to a College. or rather to a large School. But the stress of his argument lies against the exaltation of the Presidential office. This change, he thinks would necessarily tend to lessen the dignity, the honourable zeal, and the sense of responsibility of the subordinate officers. The President, says this writer, should be "primus inter pares," and an attempt to make him more than the first among his fellows, would probably cause the most important and essential duties of the officers of the College to be weakly and imperfectly discharged; because all those motives which could move them to "high endeavours," would be taken away. It is obvious that the changes which this gentleman would recommend are precisely opposite to the principal measures suggested by the Committee. But our business is not to make an argument, to show whose plan we think best; we would only inform our readers what plans are in agitation. We have seen a third pamphlet,-not di the College, claiming for the members of the Immediate Government, an admission into that body. This claim is made on the ground of legal right, and is supported by many arguments drawn from expediency. As to the legal argument we can only say, it appears to us in the highest degree complete and satisfactory. We are able to find in it no flaw;-but understand that some gentlemen, whose opinions upon all law matters we should respect infinitely more than our own, say that the Memorial exhibits but one side; if this be so, the other side will doubtless appear in due sea At a meeting of the Overseers, July 24, 1823, a Committee, of which the Hon. Judge Story was Chairman, was appointed to inquire into the state of the University, and to report thereon. A report was read on the 4th of May last, and taken into consideration at an adjourned meeting of the board, in the State House in Boston, on the 1st of June. After much discussion, it was determined to let the whole matter lie for another year. This report may be considered expressive of the opinions of many gentlemen of our community, whose opin-rectly connected with these two,-which is ions must have all the weight which can be in fact a Memorial to the Corporation of derived from their eminent intelligence and high standing in society; we would therefore state briefly, what, we suppose, gentlemen whose views this report exhibits, desire. They would have the gradation of ranks, and the subordination of each to that above it, made more distinct, on the ground that the officers of the government would act with more efficiency, when they found themselves under a more immediate and inevitable responsibility. The President should be wholly exempted from ministerial duties have an absolute veto upon all the boards and departments of the University, and a visitatorial authority and duty son. The question of expediency, as it rewith respect to the internal government of spects the claim advanced in this Memothe College; and he is to be directly re- rial, seems to us very similar to the princisponsible to the Corporation. Each Col-pal question in agitation between gentlelege is to have its own executive board, to men who approve the plans proposed by the be formed from the Professors and Tutors, and to exercise all ministerial duties with respect to the residents within that College. The classes are to be so subdivided, that each scholar may be very thoroughly examined; all the Collegians are to be visited in their rooms, at nine o'clock, and all are to wear some very peculiar College garb to be made by the College tailor; and other plans are suggested for the purpose of improving the discipline of the University, and lessening the expenses of a College education. We should have premised, that this Report was printed but not published; it was, however, as we believe, extensively circulated; and was answered by "Re- men in the vicinity of Boston, a strong, marks" purporting to be from "one lately direct, and permanent interest in the wella member of the Immediate Government of being of the University. But it is no less the College.". They are commonly ascrib- certain that the officers of the institution committee of the Overseers, and those who oppose them. The effective control of the University is now in the hands of certain gentlemen who are selected to become fellows of the College, but who, except from the office to which they are thus chosen, have no connexion whatever with the College. The question,-shall it remain there or be restored to the members of the Immediate Government, must soon be decided by the competent authorities. Certain it is, that, as things now are, all the advantages are secured to the University, which can be derived from giving to the most distinguished and influential gentle 109 are made the mere officials of a separate sive, obstinate. There is a letter also giv- | manifested a degree of perseverance and and supreme body. Whether this be, on en, written in the true Suffolk lingo, in fortitude which cannot be paralleled exthe whole, wise, or likely to give the which may also be detected many Ameri- cept perhaps in Parry's rry's voyage. In fact, University a choice of officers among the can phrases and corrupt modes of pronun- the hardships encountered by the Russian first in intellect and literature in the counciation. "What will the Yankees say," expedition were probably greater than try, or to secure the most zealous and effi- says the reviewer, "if this volume should those to which the British adventurers were cient exertion of what abilities they may find its way to America, at learning that exposed. The latter could always retreat possess in promoting the best interests of such English is still spoken in the mother to their well-built and warm ships, whilst the the College, many seem to doubt. So country? We ought not to be very se- former, in their excursions on the icy sea, much must be trusted to these officers, vere on the subject of Americanisms. which sometimes lasted for several weeks and the reposing confidence in men is so Another thirty years, however, by means seology. Our antiquarians must make the most of their time." ANTIQUITIES OF POΜΡΕΙΙ. apt to make them trust-worthy, we should of Sunday Schools, Bible Societies, and hardly think it worth while to fear that other innovations, will make sad havoc these gentlemen would rob the College among these remnants of the olden phratreasury, and give themselves undue salaries; and the time has almost past for supposing that scholars do or should or will live in such monkish seclusion as to know nothing of the world beyond their cells, and to be unfit to govern themselves. The system of checks and balances may be carried out, to the extinction of far better motives than it can supply; and it must be a difficult task to provide for the College a supreme power, out of the College, and other than that body of Overseers who represent the public, against which some weighty objections shall not lie. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. A Royal Society of Literature has been instituted in Great Britain within the last year. Its organization is similar to that of the Royal Philosophical Society. The Bishop of St David's is its President, and among its other office-bearers are many individuals distinguished for birth and rank, and some for their literary eminence. There is a provision for the election, by the Council, of ten Royal Associates, who receive from the king an annual allowance of a hundred guineas, Among those who have received this distinction are Mr Coleridge the poet, Mr Malthus, and Sir W. Ousely. At the late annual meeting of the Society, Mr Mitford, the venerable historian of Greece, was presented by the President with one of the beautiful gold medals which the king had enabled the Society to present annually. SUFFOLK WORDS AND PHRASES. There has lately issued from the royal press at Naples, a folio volume, with 107 plates, under the title of Decorations of the Walls and Pavements of the Chambers in the ancient Pompeii. Here are representations of the Arabesques, Mosaics, and other ornaments found in the houses of that city. Among other groups and compositions, interesting to the artist and antiquarian, are six designs of the arenas of the amphitheatre, preserving their memory, as the originals have been destroyed. The royal press has also made much use of the unpublished monuments of Winckelman, and printed a new edition of them. ANCIENT COINS. There has been found within a short time at Gordon in Berwickshire, (G. B.) a small horn, containing fourteen silver coins of about the diameter of the modern shilling, but not quite so thick. On one side is the head of the prince, with the legend Henriu di Gra. Rex. Ang. & Franc. On the obverse is the cross, with a border inscribed Posui deum, Adjutorem Meum; and on an inner circle Villa Calisie. These are taken to be a coinage of Henry V. (from the u in the name Henriu) and stamped by that great and victorious king at Calais. RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE. An expedition was sent out by the RusA book with this title has been publish- sian government in March, 1820, under the ed in England, containing two thousand direction of Baron Wrangel, towards the five hundred leading words (as they are north pole, for the following purposes. To called) peculiar to the county of Suffolk. determine, by astronomical observations on It was compiled by Mr Moor, author of the coasts of the Frozen ocean, the extent a treatise on Hindu Infanticide, to whom of Eastern Siberia, and the true geographthe plan was first suggested, on return-ical position of Cape Schalagskoj, the northing to his native county, after twenty ern point of Asia; to decide the still disyears' absence, by hearing these long for- puted question, whether Behring's Strait gotten provincialisms, "which produced, be a real channel between Asia and Amerias they fell upon his ear, a sensation simi- ca, or only a deep bay, as Burney asserts; lar to the welcome sight of an old friend." and lastly, to examine more accurately Among the few of these Suffolk words, which than has hitherto been done, the islands are noticed in a review of this work in the that may exist to the north of the Jana, the Eclectic Review, we recognise several which Kolyma, and the country of the Tschukutsare in common use in America. Such as koi. The return of the party was expectJingo, used as a familiar oath-Gumshun, ed in the month of April, 1824, after havor Gumption, signifying cleverness or tal- ing passed four years in the most desolate and ent-Gumshus, or Rumgumshus (rather, inhospitable tracts of North-eastern Sibeperhaps, Gumptious), quarrelsome, offen- ria, and on the ice of the Polar Ocean, and together, had, during the whole time, no shelter whatever, and were able to take with them, for their sustenance, only so much dried fish as could be stowed away in narrow sledges, drawn by dogs, the chief part of which was occupied by food for these dogs; and they were in the same or a worse situation with regard to fuel, of which they had none but what could be transported on these sledges. In one of his excursions the Baron went two hundred and thirty-five miles from the coast upon the ice of the Polar Sea, to the latitude of 720 3', where he arrived at the open sea, and afterwards travelled many days to the westward, along the ice. All his provisions being exhausted, he returned, after spending forty-six days upon the surface of this ocean, without any shelter, the thermometer never arising above - 15°, and frequently sinking to - 24° R. (-5) and - 28° F.) In another excursion the Baron attempted to examine the sea to the east of Cape Schalagskoi. He was informed by the natives that they could see land, in clear weather, to the N. E. and estimated its distance at eighty versts (fifty-four miles.) The Baron immediately set out himself, and sent one of the officers of his expedition in another direction with the same view. But he had hardly got thirty-three miles from the coast, when a violent storm, which continued several days, broke up the ice, and not only rendered it impossible for him to proceed further towards the north, but even made his return to land very problematical. It was with great difficulty and after passing several days on a piece of floating ice, among the masses piled up around him, in the utmost danger, and exposed to total want of provisions, that he at length succeeded in reaching the land, where the other party had also arrived after incurring a similar risk. By the breaking up of the ice the possibility of reaching the land pointed out by the Tschukutskoi was desfor several years to come. troyed, not only for that year, but probably PNEUMATIC LAMP. Among the ingenious novelties of the present day, is a machine invented by Mr Garden, a chemist in London, for the purpose of producing instantaneous light. 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