New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-08

sud law. II wasso full that no more could oe re-
eeiyed. This same college found empty ami de-
serted, presenting the aspect of a Saratoga no,ei
in November. incurred of one of the alumni the
cause Of its ruin. He informed me that IL was
owing 10 the expulsion Of the Jesuits against whom
Mr.. Lleras had been very bitter, as they were MS
competitors and the best teachers IN the country
To interpret this into English one needs TO KNOW
a few facts more. |. Mr.. Llerss is 4 prominent
liberal. He was offered seat in the cabinet OF
Gen. Lopez, which he refused because he could
not in conscience transfer his school 10 other
hands 2 He ia an enlightened man, and would
naturally have the same opinion Of the Jesuits as
you orI although he is a Catholic. 8. That the
tire of the expulsion of the Jesuts his school was
20 full that he could not absolutely make room fer
another one, as this same gentleman informed me.
4. Ny informant and about all the other pupils
were C0nsery adores ,. That at this time party
politics. iufamedby bigotry and fanaticism, were
AZ height unknown even in the United States. lt
was the time of the Societies of the BABY Jesus,
COMPOSED of women whose views may be judged
by the following extract from a letter of the pres
ent society to the branch at Santa Marta bearing
date Cd Of June, l-Jl, a month after the expulsion
of the Jesuits: 4" 1t is the duty Of Jesuit women:
"2. To prevent by all means in their reach any
division or difference in the ConservadOr party.
"3. To draw voters to that party. T. To compel
"wbom they have relations Of any sort. .. To
"give no employment TO any member of the Red
party 6. Manifest in every place their con-
tempt for men Of that party" copy these from
a scandalOus pamphlet written by priest-the
Archbishop before the patton, but believe can
trust il in this instance. With these aids under
stand nv Conservad0r friends TO say that bigotry
ard party spite destroyed the college Of Lleras-
the best school, perhaps that NewGranada has
ever had; rendering Improbable an investment of
an immense sum- aud destroying hopes founded on
his merit as a teacher when in fair way of being
realized by as complete as he could desire.
Senior Ll6rasis now Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs and better appointment could not have
been made.
OF the Library of BOgata can say nothing.
had hasty glimpse of il, but all my succeeding
Efforts 10 enter were frustrated by the sickness of
the librarian and the negligence of his substitute
and the ianitor. The museum in connection with
the library, is in ruins Here too, saw some por-
traits cut TO pieces through political spite. But
there is another library here that cannot pass in
silence. II is perhaps the best collection of PAM
phlets ever made in the New World. II is the
work Of Col. AnselmO Pineda who in 1851 Hobly
gave the whole to the nation. Congress allowed
10000 dimes for the expense Of binding and index
ing, and pension of $500 dimes. Col Pineda
still has the charge of the collection, to which he
adds every pamphlet, handful, carcature and por-
trait he can lay his hands on, aud which he opens
TO every one with unbounded poiiteRess.