3. A Committee has just been established, destined to exercise an active and continual inspection over the public schools, and to suppress those which are defective; it is only in urgent cases that new ones can be established.

4. To be a tutor, you must previously obtain an authorization from a University, and also a certificate of moral and scientific capacity.

Several military schools have been established for the education of the sons of noblemen, civil and military officers, who have rendered services to the state in different parts of the empire.

At present there exist :

At St. Petersburgh, one school of cadets, one of engineers, one of pages, one of nobles, and the corps Paulowski, (this last institution was founded by the Emperor Paul.)

At Czarskoy-Selo, a school for pupils, in compensation for the Lyceum suppressed in 1829.

At Moscow, the military schools are named the Corps of Novogorod, and the Corps of Nobility.

The towns of Tula, Tombar, and Orenbourg, have each a military school.

All the military schools are under the direction of the Grand Duke Michael.

By an ordinance recently published, military schools are going to be established

1. At Polock for young nobles residing in the governments of Witepsk, Mohilow, Smolensk, and Minsk.

2. At Tula ditto, for the governments of Tula, Wazar, Faro, Tau, and Orel.

3. At Tambau ditto, for the governments of Tambau, Persa, Simbirsk, Woronesk, and Saratow.

4. At Pultawa ditto, for the governments of Pultawa, Czernegow, Katerinoslaw, Karkow, and Kursk.

5. At Kijew ditto, for the governments of Kijew, Kamieniec, Podolski, Cherson, and Tauride.

The military schools already existing at Tula and Tambau are exclusively reserved for sons of noblemen.

The "Journal of St. Petersburgh," of a very recent date, published a synoptical table of the actual state of public instruction, presenting results little different from those published in the "Berlin Gazette;" the difference is not serious, only the last publication is more complete than the preceding, where neither the schools nor scholars are mentioned in the government of Moscow.

To be able to make the comparison, we have united in the same table the results of the two successive communications.

A periodical paper of St. Petersburgh ("Abeille du Nord,") gives a comparative table of the establishments for public instruction for the years 1830 and 1831, which proves a sensible decline in education. The following extract relates to the Polish provinces of Wilna, Grodno, Minsk, and Bialystok.

In comparing the number of students in the four Polish provinces, containing at most 3,000,000 inhabitants, with those of the students in the Russian empire, we obtain the following result:

1. That if public instruction has not prospered in the Russian empire, it has been totally suppressed in Poland.

2. That in 1830, before the revolution, instruction was proportionably more spread amongst the Poles than the Russians. The Russian government has since employed every means in her power to place instruction in Poland beneath its natural proportion. (See the " Abeille du Nord" of the 6th and 7th October, 1833, Nos. 226 and 227.)

I. Synoptical Table of the state of public instruction in Russia, published by Mr. Uwarow, Minister of public instruction, extracted from the "Journal of St. Petersburgh" and the "Gazette of Berlin :"

III. Libraries belonging to the Minister of Public In

Three Polish libraries were carried off in the reign of Catherine; three also since the last Revolution, that is to say, of the University of Warsaw, of the Society of Friends of the Arts and Sciences, and the greatest part of the Library of the Prince Czatoryski; all have been transported to St. Petersburgh by the Cossacks, who neglected every precaution necessary for the conservation of this inestimable treasure.

PROGRESS AND PRESENT POSITION OF RUS

SIA IN THE EAST.*

Scarcely more than a year has elapsed since the remarkable pamphlet, "England, France, Russia, and Turkey," came at an opportune moment to awaken the Statesmen of this country, from a torpor of twenty years, to a sense of the danger with which all the interests of civilization were threatened by the progress of Russian aggression in the East. The interest which that extraordinary publication excited, not only in England, but in every portion of Europe, could hardly fail to exercise a powerful influence on the policy of this country.

To this cause may be attributed the increase in our naval establishment, and the adoption of a line of foreign policy more consonant with our national character, and the station we are called upon to maintain, by our position in the world.

The beneficial results of this change in our system have been apparent in the ascendency acquired by our Ambassador at Constantinople, and the moral support which the Sultan has thereby derived for the prosecution of his reforms in the internal administration of his empire.

• London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1836.