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] and assistance from the mother country. Sir John Franklin, the late Lieutenant-Governor, has manifested his undiminished interest in the welfare of those over whom he for several years presided (and during whose period of government so much moral benefit was diffused through the society of the place as to secure for him the lasting gratitude and attachment of all right-minded people), by a donation of five hundred pounds; and his amiable lady, on leaving that country, made over four hundred acres of land which she had purchased in the neighbourhood of Hobart-town, with an elegant museum she had built upon it, to trustees for the benefit of any collegiate institution which might be founded with the approbation of the bishop of the diocese. These acts of munificence we may hope will be followed by the charitable and wealthy; and by thus furnishing an adequate means of religious instruction and general education, afford the most efficient means of counteracting the existing evil, which however can only be rendered effectual by the persevering efforts of good and pious men, and by the blessing of Almighty God on their labours.

The completion of Rossbank observatory proceeded satisfactorily, and long before the second term-day arrived the magnetometers were replaced, so that again on the 23d of September we had two complete sets of instruments observed at the same place, forming a most perfect comparison between them.