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stitutiOnS tn New-England which have tho power of conferring medical degrees, and perhaps from the institutions in New-York and other States. The plan was proposed by the Medical Society of Vermont in 1925, and the object is to adopt meas ures for the improvement of Medical edu- cation.

 RcUOlMtiOm in Peru-A bloodleSS revo- lution has taken place in Peru, in which the Bolivian Constitution has been over thrown, the officers left in command dis placed, and the chief of them arrested to be sent home. Gen. Santa Cruz has pub lished proclamation convoking consti- tutional Congress for the first of May, to form Constitution adapted to the wants of the country, and to elect President and Vice President. The revolution was eff tected by the Colombian Officers, who e. lected Gen. Bustamento their commander in-chief

 The TOken.-Mr. S. c. Goodrich, of Boston, offers a premium of one hundred dollars for the best tale, and the same a. mount for the best poem, to be published in a Christmas and New Years Offer ing, for 1928, to be called The Token"

 Relief for he Grccks.-Portland and many other towns are walking up to the aid of the Greeks. The collections re- ceived by the committee in Boston, from the town and country, now exceed S11,- 900. A second vessel is expected to sail from New-York about the first of May, la den with supplies.

 Capt. Fr0nklin.-The last London pa- pers contradict a statement made few days previous, that Capt. Franklin had suc- ceeded in the object of his overland OK petition, and going on board tine Blossom sloop of war. No such intelligence, it ap- pears, had been received from the North West Company, or through auy other channel.

 Progress of steam.-A few year since the Paragon, then the swiftest steamboat on the Hudson, made her passage from Albany to New-York in twenty-seven hours, which was pronounced a "remark- ably short'' que now there are two boats on the river, which perform the distance in twelve hours. The New Y ork En- quirer says-' perhaps nothing can place in stronger point of view the velocity of these boats than the fact, that when they are at the top of their speed, and are go- ing in opposite directions, they will pass each other at the rate of a mile in two min utes, being a degree rarely witnessed even on race course !''

 The steamboat Tecumseh, arrived at Louisville from New Orleans in nine days and four hours, having lost one whole | night and part of another, by fog-dis- tance 1900 miles.

 1He Royal Family of Britam.-Mr. Hume calculated, lately, in the British house of commons, that the amount of the sums on the British pension list, to the different junior Branches of the roy- al family, was 934,OOO pounds sterling, in addition to the 100000 for the king.

 Journal of Paul Jones.-A copy of this | valuable. and interesting manuscript, in the best of binding and handsome writing, is now in Portsmouth, N. II. 1t was cop jed from the original by Paul Jones him. self, and presented to Louis XVI. on the 1st day of Jan. 17S6, as will be seen by re- fering to Jones' life, page 353; it is short- ly to be published, together with most cor respondence relating to our revolutiona- ry war.

 There is village in Essex co. NY. sit- uated on the river Au Sable, which emp ties into Lake Champlain, called Kees- vile, regularly laid out, with large cotton factories, iron works and other mills, and a population exceeding 1,5OO souls /! Five years ago there was no settlement at this then wild spot. The iron mines are pecu- liarly valuable. The country adjacent is covered with immense forests of pine. Russio.-An official account states, that in the four years from 1923 to 1926, 5O,- 9SO persons were carried of by extremely sudden death, in the Russian Empire :- 4,591 were murdered; 4,687 committed suicide. There were 664 robbers; and ,s4S criminals and vagabonds were ar- rested; 11,663 fires, by which 176 church. es and convents, 4,5O1 dwellings houses ill the towns, and 76,O29 houses in the country were reduced to ashes.

 An unkaown individual has presented the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of St. Jame's church, in New-York, with the church and three lots Of ground recent ly owned by the Irish presbyterian con-