imental philosophy.

The Medical College is a large, brick building, containing an
anatomical museum, chemical laboratory, mineralogical cabinet,
museum of natural history, and a botanical garden, and nine medical
professors. Every student pays to each professor from 15 to 25
dollars per course.

There are also professors of mathematics, natural philosophy,
history, ancient and modern languages, logic, &c. The number of
students in 1818 was 233, but it has now greatly increased. As many
in each year as finish their course of study, walk in procession
with the other students and all the professors, preceded by a band
of music to St. Paul's church, where they deliver orations in
English and Latin before a crowded assembly. This is called "a
commencement."

The situation is about 150 yards from the Hudson, of which, and the
surrounding country it commands an extensive view. The whole is
enclosed by a stone wall, with an area of several acres,
interspersed with gravel walks, green plats, and full-grown trees.

BETA.

_Note_.--All our readers may not be aware that the remains
of Two Literary Colleges still exist in London: _Gresham
College_ and _Sion College_--or we should say of one of them.
The first was founded and endowed by that excellent citizen
Sir Thomas Gresham. He was much opposed by the university of
Cambridge, which endeavoured to prevent the establishment of
a rival institution. (This was two centuries and a half ago.)
He devised by will, his house in Bishopsgate street, to be
converted into habitations and lecture-rooms for seven
professors or lecturers on seven liberal sciences, who were
to receive a salary out of the revenues of the Royal
Exchange. Gresham College was subsequently converted into the
modern general excise-office; but _the places_ are still
continued, with a double salary for the loss of apartments,
and the lectures are delivered gratuitously twice a day in a
small room in the Royal Exchange, during term-time. The will
of the founder has not, however, been actually carried into
execution. As we hate "solemn farce" and "ignorance in
stilts," we hope "scrutiny will not be stone blind" in this
matter. A more useful man than Sir Thomas Gresham is not to
be found in British biography, and it is painful to see his
good intentions frustrated.

_Sion College_ is situated near London Wall, to the south