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6 lamplighter; and of the bell-ringer, if they have one. Each University has four depart ments, Law, Thelogy, Medicine and Philosophy. The last includes ail knowledge not embraced in the first three departments. How few of our institutions, with their high sounding titles, deserve the name of Unioer sities. Modern History—England, It was said in 1810 that George 3rd the King, had lost his reason.— Most probably this was a fiction ; as he never appeared to have any to lose. But at any rate his son George 4th was made .Regent until the in sane Monarch gratified his subjects by dying. It is conceded that this was the best act of bis life. His reign was marked by the war with Napoleon which ended in 1815; and the war with the United Slates, (1812 to 1815) the cause of the latter being the claim on the side of the British that they had a right to search neutral vessels for the put pose of impressment. By the treaty of Ghent both nations admitted that they had been fighting about noth ing, for the right of search was waived. 1816. —Great dissatisfaction was rife among the masses. The wars had brought about about an unusual poverty; and the popular orators in flamed the poorer classes—who had to work against the higher classes who did nothing, yet noted in wealth. The common people also complained that certain towns which were allowed representation in the House of Commons, had, since the apportionment of representatives, lost almost all their inhabitants; while certain large towns (not inclu ded in the old apportionment) had no representation at all. In 1819, a mass meeting was held near Man-. Chester. The King’s cavalry charged upon the assembly and killed 400 persons. Laws were passed for pre serving the public peace, which .stifled, but did not extinguish the popular dissatisfaction.. 1820. —George IV was crowned.— He “ made a bad beginning ” by prose cuting fjis wife Caroline, for violation of the marriage vow. His harshness had driven her away from England, and when she returned expecting to share the cornation the peoples hearts were on her side. Lord Brougham was her counsel: his speech is regarded one of the greatest judicial efforts. She was acquitted, but not allowed to bo crowned. 1829. —O’Connell agitated thelrish people, by preaching to them their real and imaginary grievances.— . Wellington, then minister, made terms with the disaffected party ; and the Catholic emancipation Bill was jjassed, allowing catholics to hold any offices in the realm. THE GEORGIA COLLEGIAN. 1830. — William 4th, brother of George 4th, succeeded. During his reign political agitations disturbed the countries of Europe, and the con tagion extended to England. The people were seething with indigna tion at the disregard oftheir clamors- In 1832, the Reform Bill (of Broug ham) passed—which deprived the impopulous towns of their repre seritation and conferred it upon the manufacturing and populous towns. This made p'eace. For several years the Reform party ruled in the ParlL ament; until it was succeeded by the conservative Ministry of Sir Robert Peel. 1837 —Victoria, niece of William IV, ascended the throne. We shall speak next of her reign. Book Notices. The Luck of Roaring Camp and other Stories , by F. B. Harte, (Fields, Osgood & Cos., Boston) is one of the few books of which Americans may be proud. The New Electic has called the author “ the rising Dickens of America,” and t hese sketches vin dicate the title. Not that Harto is the equal of Dickens, or is similar in all respects to him. But he gives good promise of one day achieving something comparable with Pickwick The first sketch illustrates the idea that a single baby "regenerated a gathering of dissolute miners. When we see so strong an influence for good ascribed to an infant, wo can but wondor at Dean Swifts inhuman proposition to eat babies for food.— Harte, true to nature, does not paint his villians as irredeemably bad, but as capable of some noble actions.— There never was a rascal as totally vicious as those you find in novels.— The man who has educated as many orphans as any other man in this State is a gambler. Harte, then, is righi in cutting aloose from prece dent and painting men and women as mixturosof good and evil. Free Russia, by Wm. H. Dixon, (Harper Bros.) is one of those books which gratify our curiosity to know something, of tho people, the rulers, and the customs of foreign nations at the present time. We have barely glanced at tbe chapters that describe how the present Emperor has lifted the peasants from serfdom to citizen ship ; but that glance convinced us that they were entertaining and in structive. The Hammer and the Anvil, by Spielhagen (Segopoldl & Holt) is the master piece of this German master of fiction. The author has about the same merit compared with his rival Auerbach that Bulwer has to Trol lope or Collins. His plot is interest ing, and tho philosophy inculcated is grand and profound, “not Hammer or Anvil, but Hammer and Anvil is the true word, for every man is both, in every moment of his life. With the same force that the hammer strikes the anvil, tho anvil strikes the hammer; and if Nature obeys the great law of action and reaction, and is thereby cosmos and not chaos, then should man study to understand it, and shape bis life in conformity to it.” -jof fooigw. - LI ISTORY 7 FRANKLIN COLLEGE. CLASS OF 1822. The first three on the list of gras duat.es for this year, died before reaching the prime of life. These three were Paul Coalson, Wm. 11. Jack, who resided in Elbert county, and Robert A. Jones, who lived and died in Clarke county. The last two, while in College, were members of the Demosthenian Society. Paul Coal son, however, was a Phi Kappa. Heretofore, no notice has been ta ken of the organization of the Phi Kappa Society, which was done in 1820. Homer V. Howard, who had been in Athens but a short while from Princeton, was considered at that time by the students, as its real founder and leading spirit, backed by John D. Watkins—neither of whom, however, graduated here. Judge J. 11. Lumpkin, was ihougbt to have written their Constitution. (I am no Phi Kappa, hence can speak only what was thought.) Several members of tbe Demosthenian Society, believ ing that the object of College Lite rary Societies could be attained much better by two societies than one, withdrew from their own association and enlisted under the banner of Howard. At first, the Demosthe uians ridiculed the Phi Kappas, and everything connected with it. But soon, when such men as George Young, George Scott and J. P. Wad dell, connected themselves with it, this ridicule was changed into rival ry, and the most bitter enmity arose where formerly harmony had pre vailed. Up to this time, the Demosthenian, founded in 1801, was the only society here. The Phi Kappa was organized with closed doors, and have never do parted from this law. Heretofore the Demosthenian was open to all; bat finding, afier the appearance of her rival sister, that secrecy was pop ular, and that new students flocked to its banner, she underwent a tho rough change, an-d from thattime has always been a secret society. At first the Phi Kappa met in the upper story of the Philosophical La boratory, which was then called the New Chapel, divine service being held there. Not long did the Society meet there, but soon fitted up a hall in the attic of tho Old Chapel, which has long since passed away. The Demosthenian, wishing to ex cel in all things, her fast growing ri val, built a hall very near the Lnbo ratory. Soon there sprung up a Phi Kappa hall just in the rear of cur present Chapel. It was an unpre tending square wooden hall, yet much better than the one the Demos nian Society possessed. This all hap pened in two or three years. Nei ther society now occupies its old hall, but each has a large and commodious one, situated in the front Campus, and amply suitable for all purposes. But to return. Paul Coalson was born in Burke county, August I9th, 1799. After preparing for College under Dr. Church, at Eatonton, he enterod the University and graduat ed in 1822. During his Junior and Senior years, ho devoted his leisure moments to the study of law under Judge Clayton ; and shortly after his graduation he was admitted to the bar in Athens. In the ear!}* part of 1825, Mr. Coal son marriod Miss E. G. Blackshear, of Thomas county. Much later in the same year, he moved to Thomas county, and there continued to prac tice till his death, in May, 1830. He stood very high among his fellow- ’ lawyers, and was blessed by the pos session of the love of his friends and the respoct of hisfellow-citizens. An honest man, he was always a desira-* ble companion. Conscience was his guido, and ho would never take a ease that was wrong in principle, or that would in any way oppress those upon whom the hand of misfortune had been laid, or who needed protec tion against the avarice of man. Col. B. F. Haideman belonged to" this class, but did not graduate. lie was born in Oglethorpe county, in 1802 ; entered the half advanced So phomore class in 1820. Ho was a member of the Demosthenian Socie ty; and while still a Junior, was elec ted to tho position of Anniversarian. The Commencement that his class rose Senior, there were not enough mem bers of the preceding class to speak exhibition day, as there were only three; so the Faculty decided that each society should elect two Juniors to speak that day. Col. John Billups and Col. H. were those whom the Demosthenian Society elected. In March, 1822, only a few months before his class graduated, he was compelled to leave College on account of ill health. After leaving Athens, he was admitted to the bar in Lex ington. Twice was he Solicitor Ge neral of the Northern Circuit; once by Executive appointment, and once by election, and several times tbe Se cretary of the Georgia Senate, in 1842, he married Miss Arabella Har ris, daughter of Judge Harris. In three years, she died, and he has re mained single ever since. He is now living in Athens, much respected and