Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-22

have report of Senator Hamlln's remarks
Analysing the Senate Committees. The first
part explains the injustice of their consrue-
ton in the numerical preponderance of
Southern and Democratic members. We
have already made the same comments; but
we find, in addition to what we have said,
that while the Senate consists of thirty two
members from the free and thirty from the
slaveholding States, yet the free States have
forty nine places on the committees, aud the
slave States SIXTY Seuen. Besides. also, CIV
living sixteen chaamanships to the latter and
only six to the former, the trainers have
lected the second members Of the committees
in the same way, so that any changes Of
chairmen, by declinaton, resignation, or ex-
piration of term, would keep the same Sec
tlonal preponderaRce. Mr.. Hamlin then ex
amines the most important committees, such
as those on Foreign Affairs, Military and Ma
val Affairs, and the Judiciary, and shows that
each of them has majority of Southern
members. On the Committee of Commerce
there is not single representative of the vast
internal commerce of the lakes. The Com
mittee on Patents, too, has the same sectional
construction, when it is well known fact
four -tfths, if not nine-tenths, of the valuable
inventions, come from the free States.
Senator Hamlin says he has no personal or
partisan objection to this arrangement. but
the sectional injustice of it demands and will
receive the attentioH of the whole country
Boston Journal.
HARVARD COLLEGE. = From the annual
statement of the late Treasurer of Harvard
College, VIM. L. Andrews, Esq, for the year
ending Aug. 81, 1867, we learn that the re-
ceipts of the College during that year exceed
nd fba orJir, Iort
surplus. The very valuable Theological Lii
brary, principally the donation of Col. Ben
jamin Loring, has been received from Ger
many and placed in Divinity Hall. 1t is to
be kept by itself, and to be called the Loring
Library. The magnificent library, also, which
was bequeathed by the late Henry b. Wales,
has been received and deposited in appropriate
cases, which were furnished by the bounty of
Geo. W. Wales, Esq, brother of the tesla
tor; who has further shown his disposition to
carry out the intentions of his brother, by
binding, at his own expense, many volumes,
forming portions of sets. in corresponding
style of beauty to the others. The late Mr..
Wales also provided in his will that, on the
occurrence of future event, $4,000 shall
be paid 10 the College for the foundation Of a
protessorship of the Sancrit language and lit
erature.
Alienation of property to the amount of
$4,000 has been made by Thomas Lee, Esq
the income of which is to be added to the
stipend of DR.. Jeffres Wyman, Hersey Pro-
lessor Of Anatomy. Another friend of sci
ence has provided additional resources to re-
pay the services Of the same eminent pro-
lessor. subscription of $1,000 has been
raised, through the agency of DIR. Gray,
for the renewal of the fence around the
botanic garden. The Hbn. Francis c.
Gray, by his last will, bestowed upon the
College his collection of engravings, en-
bracing some of the rarest and finest speci-
mems OF the art, many of which could hardly
be duplicated at any expense. The late ven
cradle Samuel Hoar bequeathed one thousand
dollars to the Divinity School. Mrs. Eliza
w. Haven, the widow of the late Nathaniel
Appleton Haven, Jr., gave to the University
Library his valuable collection of books in
the ancient classical languages and literature.
To supply want of funds in the theologi-
cal department, the Society for the Promotion
of Theological Education, has agreed to fur
nish for the period of six years, the sum of
twelve hundred dollars year, to be paid one
half to each of two Professors in addition to
those now employed, who are to furnish for
this stipend instruction in ecclesiastical histo-
ry and systematic theology. The late VIM.
Pickman, Esq, of Salem, has beqeethed to
the college, in aid Of its general funds, the
sum of three thousand dollars.
The fund left many years since by Ward
Nicholas Boylston tor the erection of stone
building for museum of anatomy and
chemical laboratory, has, by accumulation,
reached the sum of twenty thousand
dollars, and as a pressing want is now felt for
such a structure, subscription has been
raised of seventeen thousand dollars, which
will, added to that tand, nearly pay for the
erection of the building, which will be COM
pleted at an early day.-BoSton Journal.