Of the 100,0001. left by the late Michael Angelo Taylor
to endow a college of languages at Oxford, it is said that 30,000t. has already passed into the hands of the lawyers, and that " the crows have not yet done with the carcase."
Mr. James Simpson, the distinguished advocate of' popular education, has commenced, in the Courier, a series of letters to the Martinis of Lansdowne, on " Popular Education as it ought to he—its social effects." When the series is complete, we shall not omit to notice these valuable communications. Friends of' the cause have expressed a wish that we sshould transfer them to our columns ; which we would willingly do, but that their length, and the weekly demands on our space; render it im- vossible.
A plan is said to be in agitation to establish tramroads by the side of turnpike-roads, capable of competing, for all ordinary purposes, with railroads, and at an Infinitely smaller expense as well as risk. The plan is said at-this time to be in operation at Llanelly, in Wales. The cost, it is said, would be 1,3501. per mile. Thus, tramroads might have been matte to Birmingham for 146,0001., while the railroad has cost 6.000,000/.
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