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Show ELECTORAL COLLEGES. There have been (and ono still exists) but twogovernmentol electoral colleges before our own. ltome had her political colleges, but they were appointed by a supreme hctl whom they could not antagoniftically touch.. He, whether king or emperor, Organized them, in his own interest,' i for ostensibly social, or gymnQBticj purposes. They grew, at length, lo' I he too intriguing and violent ia the demonstration of treasonable pur- ; poies to Buit senates and Cioiars, and were finally disposed oi by Augustus. Tho oldest purely governmental electoral college is that of the Roman ' Catholic cardinals, who elect, when' occasion requires, a. pope. It was' etaUlished in A. D. 1030, under! Nicholas II., prior to which time the pope had peen elected by the clergy, 1 and a large proportion of tho people. 1 The vote determined upon to elect a pope was, as it to-day remains, two-1 thirds of the cardinals present. The Electoral College of tho firat German empire, which expired in 180G, was founded in 1G68. It was but a part, but a very important third part, of the system by which an emperor was elected. There were also two other colleges cooperative that of princes and that of imperial cities. The electors wore chosen by eitizeus of cities and districts, and held the first rauk of the three divisions of the diet. The elector of Men'z, who was made arch chancellor ot the empire, became ex-qfico president of the electoral college. Tho electoral college Wag tke real power in the country that could make emperors and, if it s.iw fit, Onmake one or more. uui own f it'ciunu cuni'jju ia uneiu upon the ideas suggested in the two mentioned. It represents titles t through the representatives of Hie , people, however, as adiatinclion in at1 lenst one of the cases. Hullotin. ! The main portion of the Babylonia antiquities jufat received at the British museum nn the result of tne : Usl expedition of Mr. Cieorge Smith I was found near Hiiliah, a town about three miies north from the Bite of. Babylon. They are chiefly tablets, mortgage loans, promissory cotes, ' records of the sale of lands, shares, J and other commodities, representing, in fact, all the various commercial transactions of a Babylonian firm, j who may be approximately described ai Messrs, Gabi fc Sons, bankers and; 1 financial agents. Many of lbs tab-' Itts represent the renewal of loans and mortgages, so that the documents , referring to the first and (he last of continuing transactions bear the dates ol several diil-rcnt reigns. Tne ' dates thus extend from ihe fll of Ihe A-wynan empire to the roign of Darius Hvatupes, including Uatea iu lite mns of N .ihipoUwir, father o: X tft'iieninJor u. if. Evil-Merixiarlj, (J m i.y st s, and he c 1 1 e r and (he yoti ngr Cy ru. Tho dates ol I tie Uhl.-ta, lliL-reloro, furnish very iin-, portant chroii.ljgLcai land luarkj, , and they are in many riTpecls subver'-sive subver'-sive of the rcc-ni chronolcj;y. The! rate uf inter'ft cinn-nl in Babylon on loans wae g'-ut.rahy ten percent., and much light is thrown on the social life of tne HabyloniAus from the circumstances cir-cumstances that wilmaet's of deeds ru a, ways dtf ribed by their trade or ' pro.'- w.on. One of tiie tablets is tUf-d id 11. reign of Ik-lihattar as ; king, U:iiig Ihe first lime his name hu t"--cn I Kind ia munectiwa with ( tle royal dignity, prtviout iiacrip-' tiuiia having had retereuce lu the tune when ue woa JtsoribfJ as son of Nnbomdiii. , |