Daily National Intelligencer

EDUCATION.

A scientific establishment has been formed at Vienna, called the "Polytechnic Institution," upon an extensive plan, and calculated to produce very important effects, particularly upon the manufacturing & commercial interests of the Empire. The object of the Institution is, "to diffuse among the people an acquaintance with those scientific principles which are applicable as the bases of the different arts and trades; and, at the same time, to form masters, which, in conformity to scientific principles, may be able to introduce into their different branches of business, those ameliorations and the means of acquiring perfection, which are adapted to promote rational industry, and to spread the taste for useful knowledge of various kinds."

Already the 'Normal School,' and 'the Cabinet of the Specimens of Manufactures produced at Vienna,' have been united with the institution, and the Emperor had added a considerable portion of his collection of Natural History. The hotel of the Count de Los, on the Weider, has been purchased and enlarged, for the accommodation of the establishment.

The objects of instruction will be—
1. General Chemistry.
2. Different branches of experimental Chemistry—such as the theory of fermentation, with its application to distillation, brewing, making vinegar, &c. to dying, forming patterns on stuffs, washing, &c.
3. Experimental Philosophy, in its whole extent.
4. The Mathematics.
5. Practical Geometry.
6. The science of Machinery in general.
7. Architecture, civil and hydraulic.
8. Practical Technology.

The first division of the Normal school instructs in religion, style of writing, arithmetic, drawing, geography, history &c.; the second, commercial knowledge, such as epistolary style of trade, mercantile arithmetic and geography, or the knowledge of merchandizes, &c.

It is supposed that this institution is intended by the government to conduce much to the perfection of the manufactures and the enlargement of the commerce of Austria; and that the late connection formed between a prince of the Portuguese family at Brazil, and a female member of the Imperial house of Austria, will have a tendency to forward the views of the Austrian government above-mentioned.