We have a preparatory course, that we may secure better material for the higher courses. In the Normal course, special attention is given to those studies which will furnish young men and women with the education needed in the various branches of business life open to them, and which especially will qualify them as teachers, for which there is, and must continue to be, a great demand. In the Collegiate Department—which includes, among other studies, the higher Mathematics, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Latin—a higher grade and wider scope of studies will be added so soon as there is a demand for them. The school is yet in its infancy, and the number of those who are fitted to pursue to advantage the highest grade of studies is, of course, very limited. LAW DEPARTMENT. An able corps of Professors has been secured. Jurists of reputation and successful practice at the bar of Louisiana have kindly offered their services, with little hope of adequate compensation, and every facility is provided for young men of talent, who are attracted by the profession of the law, to fit themselves for honorable and successful practice. Regular graduates from this department, at the conclusion of a two years’ course of study, and a well sustained examination, are admitted to the bar of New Orleans, with authority to practice in all the courts of the Commonwealth. THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. College graduates, who can be instructed in the original languages in which the Scriptures were written, are greatly desired, and until they can be secured, this department will but partially accomplish the object for which it was organized. The churches need thoroughly educated ministers, with carefully cultivated minds, who can intelligently preach the word. The degree of suffering for the lack of such ministers cannot be told. In the meantime, it is our aim to make the best use of the material we have, and transform it from a state of utter crudeness to one of partial fitness for the present demands of the churches. Men of piety and ability to speak and to teach are received, and advanced as far and as rapidly as their imperfect preparatory education will admit. Louisiana, with a colored population of 370,000, is ripe for a glorious spiritual harvest. The churches are calling in vain for intelligent laborers to go forth into the harvest. I wish the prospect was brighter for a large class of intelligent, spiritual, and enthusiastic students to enter this department, and to lift it to a high grade of usefulness. THE NEW UNIVERSITY.