obtain it. We could tell our English school-boys, who are sent to their studies with every luxury that tender parents and ingenious friends can purchase, of the efforts made and the hardships endured to secure this highly-prized advantage. We know those who are ornaments to their pastoral and literary professions, whose studies have been carried on under such severe bodily privation and bodily exertion, as would crush the energies of a common mind, and damp the ardour of a less determined aspiration. We reckon amongst our own friends those who, in the midst of academic courses, have been obliged to bear on their shoulders, down the steep mountain side, a daily load of fagots for sale in the valley beneath, panting from pain and exhaustion as they bowed under the oppressive load. We have known those, too, who, despatched in the early morning from their Alpine cabin with one slice of bread, and that a liberal share of the family provision, have gained a portion of the richer students luxuries of saucissons or apples by assisting them in their exercises. Nor are the sacrifices of the parents less self-denying. To procure the advantages of education for their sons, they sometimes sell their little farms in the distant valleys—a patrimony as highly valued by them and as nobly ancestral, judged by the worth of the possessors, as the domain of a Howard—and remove into the vicinity of La Torre, for the advantage of the valuable educational institution for which their earnest thanks are due to Dr. Gilly, who, with General Beckwith, founded it in 1828. The theological department of this college was removed to Florence in 1860; but as a Grammar School the institution is doing an excellent work, preparing those who may be found suitable to carry on their studies with a view to pastoral or missionary labour.
