New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-20

four lower mining schools in different parts
of the Empire to which it furnishes lnstruc'
tor. from its graduates aud from which, m
,uru it derives well-ftted pupils. The course OF
instruction in The school at ST. Petersburg oceu-
pies eight years, and is rendered exceedingly yau
able BY the attainments OF its officers, tho extent
ard completeness OF its geological and mneraiogi-
cal museums. il collection Of mining apparatus
and ia large models Of coal copper AID gold
mites.
Russia il not les renowned as an Agricultural
than a. mining country, and the wisdom Of the
Government is seen IA providing as well for tue
improvement Of It's forests aud fields as Tor the
.killful working of It's beds OF orc. lew miles
from ST. Petersburg, on fine farm, provided with
oil the suitable buildings, well stocked with cattle
and rich in museums. is the chief agricultural
school. Two hundred and eighty students, chosen
from all parts of the Empire, here receive at the
expense of the Crown, such instruction as will
make them most useful in the neighborhood OF
their own homes, to which they are finally sent
back Their studies continue for Ave years, al
though strictly confined to agriculture. For tho
training of foresters there is totally different
school, where the culture Of trees their preserTa-
tion and Use, is taught as practical science By
nearly forty teachers to two hundred and hfly
scholars. Near Moscow is another large agricul-
tural acsdemy, and in not less than eight other
places Of the Empire are model farms, almost
every ono of which is attended by more than
one hundred pupils. Horticulture and the vet
Urinary art are taught in entirely distinct estab-
lsbments, their general principles only being IN
culcated in the in. titutiOns just referred TO.
But this is not all that Russia is dOingtO develop
by educational appliances its various resources 1t
is still bebindhand in its manufacturing industry
Its high tariff and its splendid establishments sup
ported by the crown for making porcelain, glass,
tapestry ard other articles of luxury, have not
done all that is needed. chronological education
has, therefore been added to its system of special
training, and in the Polytechnic Institute OF ST. Pc
tersburg, under the care oftwentyive instructors,
more than two hundred and sixty pupils are fitting
themselves by the study of chemistry, mathe-
MATES. and the laws of design as applied to the
arts. for various elevated industrial pursuits.
Special schools of design in both the old and new
capitals Of the Empire are attended By nearly Que
thousand scholars
The construction of roads and bridges is taught
in two schools TO nearly five hundred pupils.
Every form and dialect Of the Oriental languages
are taught in the Pathological Institute by thirty
six teachers, TO over two hundred pupils who ere
training themselves to be interpreters among the
various nations which bound the eastern and south.
ern portions of the Empire. Even the POst-Office
service has three schools located at St. Petersburg,
Moscow and Tobolsk, and specially devoted 30 can
ddates for its employment
II is thus that Russia, new power among the
nations of the earth, q nation not composed, like
our own, of emigrant. from civilized lands and
their direct descendants but Of men who are
not vet freed from the title Of barbarians, is
seeking to improve its internal affairs and to
develop wisely its wonderful capacities. The vari-
ETY. of these special schools, manned by such large
numbers of instructors, attended By so many thou
sands pupils, endowed with rich museums, well
filled libraries and admirable apparatus, giving In
structon in the latest discoveries of science and in
the principles of industrial art most approved IN
tie establishments of every other nation, is fast
tending TO place Russia in the forward ranks OF
civilization Were the Press free and a system OF
popular instruction established what would not
that great power become