ALPHA OF CONNECTICUT.-Yale.-Rev. CARLOS WILCOX, Poet.-Orator for the next Anniversary, Hon. James Gould-James A. Hillhouse, Esq. second; Poet, Rev. Professor Fitch-William C. Bryant, Esq., second.

ALPHA OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.-Dartmouth.-SAMUEL L. KNAPP, Esq. Orator; NATHANIEL H. CARTER, Esq. Poet.-Orators for the next Anniversary, Hon. Samuel Bell and Prof. Haddock; Poets, Rev. Joseph Torrey, and Rev. Thomas C. Upham. ALPHA OF NEW-YORK.-Union.-Rev. President NOTT, Orator.-Orators for the next Anniversary, Hon. John. W. Taylor, and Hon. Samuel Young.

APPOINTMENTS.

The Rev. Dr. Neill, of Philadelphia, has been elected President of Dickinson College. The Rev. John Wheeler, of Windsor, has been elected President of the University of Vermont; and the Rev J. T. Robinson, Professor of Languages.

The President and Fellows of Middlebury College, have elected the Rev. Absalom Peters, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in that Institution.

The Rev. Thomas C. Upham, has been appointed Professor of Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy at Bowdoin College; Professor Newman is elected Professor of Rhet oric and Oratory; and Mr. Alpheus S. Packard, to succeed him as Professor of Languages and Classical Literature.

The Rev. Alva Woods, Professor at Columbia College, Washington, has been appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Brown University. Horatio Gates Bowen, of Providence, Professor of Natural History, Librarian, and Keeper of the Cabinet.

The Rev. Nathan W. Fiske has been chosen Professor of Languages and Belles Lettres in the Collegiate Institution at Amherst.

William Tully, M. D. of East-Hartford Conn. is elected Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, Medical Jurisprudence, and Clinical Practice, in the Vermont Academy of Medicine.

Mr. Josiah W. Gibbs is appointed by the Corporation of Yale College, Librarian and Lecturer on Classical Literature and Biblical Criticism.

The following gentlemen compose the Faculty of Washington College, recently founded at Hartford, Conn.

The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Brownell, D. D. LL. D. President.

The Rev. George W. Doane, A. M. Professor of Belles Lettres and Oratory.

Frederic Hall, A. M. Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy.

Horatio Hickok, A. M. Professor of Agriculture and Political Economy.

George Sumner, M. D. Professor of Botany.

The Rev. Hector Humphrey, A. M. Tutor.

The Anniversary of the Theological Seminary at Andover, was celebrated on Wednesday, September 22. The following is the Order of Exercises.

DEPARTMENT OF

SACRED LITERATURE. 1. Nature of the argument in Heb. 1. and state of knowledge implied among those who were addressed.

F. E. CANNON, Amherst, Union Coll. 2. Nature of the argument in the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. J. NOYES, Wallingford Con. Union Coll. 3. Exegesis of Heb. VII. 1-3 *S.H. COWLES, Farmington, Ct. Yale Coll. 4. Exegesis of Heh. IX. 23, 24, with reference to the question whether the comparison made in this passage implies a material, local tabernacle in the heavens.

L. HALL, Sutton, Brown Univ. 5. Does our English version exhibit a correct view of Tx and ayi∞, in the Epistle to the Hebrews!

O. PEARSON, Rutland, Vt. Mid. Coll.

6. What kind of faith is described in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews? R. LANDFEAR, Manchester Con. Yale Coll. 7. Characteristics of Hebrew poetry. S. FOSTER, Andover, Dart. Coll. 8. On what are the principles of interpretation founded?

O. P. HOYT, New-Haven, Vt. Mid. Coll. 9. Do the Scriptures contain a revelation on subjects of science?

S. RUSSELL, Bow, N. H. Dart. Coll. 10. Examination of objections against the critical study of the Scriptures. J. I. Foor, Hartland, Conn. Union Coll. CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY.

11. The perfection of the Scriptures.

F. GRISWOLD, Greenfield, Yale Coll. 12. Principal errors of Pelagianism. I. ESTY, Westmoreland, N. H. Yale Coll. 13. Holy affections necessary to the right understanding of divine truth.

S. MARSH, Danville, Vt. Dart. Coll. 14. Is not the Unitarian doctrine of human depravity liable to the same difficulty

rind that envelopes the seed, and more especially of the cotton that obstinately adheres to it, after it has passed through the process for cleaning, has proved a great obstacle to the success of this operation. A small quantity is given to cattle, and a great quantity is applied to land as a maThough it is very fertilizing at first, yet on account of its rapid decomposition, its powers are speedily lost.

nure.

Nearly three fourths of the entire cotton crop consist of seed. The quantity of cotton exported from the United States in the year 1817, according to Morse's Tables, was more than 85,000,000 pounds, and was rapidly increasing. It is now probably at least 100,000,000, for which we may estimate 300,000,000 of seed, leaving that part of the crop, which affords our domestic supply to furnish seed for the ensuing year. Of this immense quantity of cotton seed, only a trifling proportion is applied to any use whatever."

Professor O. finds as the result of his experiments," that one pound of cotton seed is capable of affording 16288 cubic inches, equal te 9.425 cubic feet of illuminating gas. Indeed it is probable that a more perfect apparatus, which should decompose all the oily vapour, would afford a larger and better product. This amount multiplied by 300,000,000 pounds, which are estimated to result annually from our cotton crop, above what is necessary for planting the ensuing year, gives 2,827,500,000 cubic feet-indicating an abundant resource for gas illumination, in the United States, from this article alone.

According to Sir William Congreve, (Annals of Philosophy for June, 1823,) the whole quantity of gas manufactured annually to supply the city of London, is upwards of 397,000,000 cubic feet, and requires more than 33,000 chaldrons of coal. Peculiar circumstances have prevented my taking the specific gravity of the cotton seed gas; but judging from the high proportion of olefiant gas which it contains, as well as from its splendid appearance, I should estimate its illuminating power at nearly double the average power of coal gas. Its flame, like that of oil gas, is distinguished for purity and softness, and like that, this gas also admits of the greatest simplicity in its apparatus. In the earlier stages of the process for obtaining it, a portion of carbonic acid comes over, which amounted in one instance to ten per cent. This materially impairs the illuminating power, but it is readily washed out. Near the close of the operation carbonic oxide is produced; but the gas continues, almost to the end, sufficiently luminous to be worth saving.

In deciding upon the eligibility of employing cotton seed for the manufacture

of gas lights, it should be recollected that this article is at present scarcely rated at any price, while coal is still in this country a scarce and expensive article. On account of the cheapness of the seed, therefore, the quality of the gas, and the simplicity of the apparatus required for its manufacture, it appears not improbable that it may be found the most eligible substance for gas illumination especially in the United States.

Lord Byron's private correspondence with his mother an friends, against the publication of which in Great Britain, the Lord Chancellor granted an injunction, was in the press at Paris, in July, in English and in French, and will be speedily issued in this country.

Some French literati, says the U. S. Literary Gazette, whether in jest or earnest, we know not, have planned a most grand and romantic enterprize; an association has been formed for the establishment of a splendid work, to be called "La France Romantique." The said company has published a prospectus, from which the following is an extract:-"The important work that we announce has no need of those pompous preambles with which prospectuses are usually commenced. The celebrated Sir Walter Scott has set the fashion of historical romances; and our France is as fertile as Scotland in curious traditions and singular customs. This work will consist of as many volumes as there have been kings in France. We have chosen this arrangement, in order to enter the more easily on the developement of the idea of a modern writer, that every sovereign gives the impression and features of his own character and manners to the epoch in which he goverus.' But that which will especially excite the interest of the public, and insure the success of this enterprise is, that the work will be a monument of the many customs and usages, and glory of France, on which will be inscribed the origin of various illustrious families, and on which their history may be traced from reign to reign down to the present time."

A subscription has been set on foot in Paris for two young Greeks, who when returning to their country were made prisoners by an independent Pacha on the coast of Barbary, who left them no alternative between apostacy, death, or a ransom of 20,000 piastres. Too poor to furnish the ransom, and too conscientious to abandon their religion, they decided on death; and neither promises nor threats could shake their resolution. The delay granted by the Pacha had nearly expired when the report of the devotedness of

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