The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-26 00:00:00

NATIONAL SCHOOLS, HP. OILS...MIN-THE-
FIELD&

The Builder of Saturday gives, with an engra-
ving, the following particulars of the new schools in St.
Bike's, the opening of which we recorded on Thursday •
.•
The building aod its appurtenances occupy • site 7b feet
long, with an average width of 60 feet i„ while • portion of
the laird, about 30 feet square, is set apart as • playground
and • means of obtaining light and air, at the back of the
Wilding. There are four floors, besides the merannnes
and attics over the staircases. The basement is proposed to
be used for • soup-kitchen. er for an industrial school.
It is abundantly lighted by means of windows in the plinth
of the elevations towards Broad-street and Eodell.street.
The ground floor is devoted to the infanta' school,
and contains a large schoolroom, 62 feet long
and 23 feet wide, as well as a large class-room,
and other conveniences. Immediately over the
ground steo7 is • mezzanine floor, 9 feet high in the
clear, and here are placed residences for the schoolmaster
and achoolmistress, and a committee-room, with store and
lumber rooms. The master's residence is entered from the
boys' staircase, and the mistress will have aeons to liar
house from the girls' department. The latter is in the prin-
cipal floor, which is 18 feet high.
The girls' schoolroom is 72 feet long by 28 feet wide, and
the clan-room in connexion with it is 30 feet long by 20 feet
wide. It is intended to use the largo room for lectures and
other parochial purposes, in the hours when it will not be
required for scholastio =OIL The boys' department is over
the girls' floor, and the arrangements are in all respects
similar. Access is given to the boys floor from a separate
staircase and entrance from Sharp's-alley. The girls and
Infants will eater by the principal door in Endell-street. A
lift is constructed in wane:ion with the boys stair-
case, giving the means of hoisting from the
basement to the highest part of the building. The lift
heights, externally, as • bell turret, and is • conspicuous
object from Eodellstreet. The materials used, externally,
are brick, tiler, and slate •, the last forming cilia, weather-
ises, and copings. The prevail* colours are • warm yellow
and red, but a few black bricks are also used. Black nod
red Minima's tiles form the string-course' between 'the
mezzanine and principal stories. All the strings, and moulded
work, of all kinds, are of red brick. The windows of the
principal floor towards Endell.street are grouped together,
and only divided from each other by eolumns of red polished
granite, with boldly carved capitals.
The gutters are of cast iron, and so arranged that lead
fleshings are dispensed with. There is a railing of orna-
mental character Used to the gutter to prevent wow, broken
elates, tic,,,
from slipping over into the streets, and to act
ass parapet in giving isotection to men who may be
required to clear the gutter, or to repair the roof. The
clorseen, bell-turret, and hip of the roof have ornamental
finials of wrought iron, and cast-iron crones are placed on
the three gablea The roof is covered with green and blue
states, arranged la bands ; and the ridge is formed of slate,
perforated with trefoil,.
The internal construction is very simple. The skim are
of Yorkshire stew, and the doors are supported by nestled
wrought-iron boar. All the floors am pegged, and a space
is kilt between the floor sad the ceiling pasta below them,
W preeeut the transiniteioe of sound. The roof, which
baa • space of 214 feet, is composed of principals feinted
by a semi-circular arch, and collar over the same. The
principals carry purline and rafters in the usual way. All
the internal woodwork is stained and varnished. The
window-fames are so designed as to constitute important
features in the elevations. Each arch-headed win-
dow has a transom across the springing of the arch,
and • mullion connecting the till with the transom.
The windows in the part below the transom open internally
as casements, and the part which fills the arch is hinged to
the transom, to open inwards at any angle desired for ven-
tilation. The rain-water pipes are of cast iron, and appear
externally At the corners of the building. They are placed
in the position so often occupied by a shaft in Venetian
buildings ; and their upper portions are ornamented by a
twisted band cast on to the pipe. Means are adopted for
admitting the external air to the school-rooms and chow
rooms through the dado, and vitiated air flues are built in
the wane, and carried up into the chimney shafts, which
are of great height, and are placed on the gable walls of the
building.
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The workmanship displayed about the whole of the
building is very good, and reflects credit upon Messrs.
Mansfield and Son, the contractors, and Mr. Dale, the clerk
of works, to whom we must give credit also for an ingenious
arrangement of the desks and forma.
We congratulate the rector, Mr. Thorold, on having set
up such a isowerful means for good in his neighbourhood as
these schools present ; and Mr. Edward Barry on having
produced one of the most successful brick buildings of
which our own time can boast.

THE LORD RECTORSHIP OP ABERDEEN UNIVER-
-81/r.—The election of Lord Rector took place on Friday
forenoon, at Muischal College, with the following result :
Angus
Sir A.
82
Mir
Buchan 6B
Moray
The majority of students in two out of the four nations
being thus in favour of the respective mediates, the vote
was equal ; but it will be seen that, numerically, Sir
Andrew was Lord Rector by a majority of 38. We are in-
formed, however, that at a meeting of the procuratore,
which took place immediately after the state of the poll
was declared, Principal Campbell intimated his intention of
exercising the privilege which he believe rested with him of
giving the casting vote in favour of Mr. Maitland. A meet-
ing of the gentlemen in the faculties of arts, divinity, law,
and medicine was heldin the anatomical class-mom, Blarischal
College, at night, when we learn that it was unanimously
resolved in resist, by every proper and lawful means, the
claim of Principal Campbell to the casting vote in the pre-
sent election of Lord Rector, which he had intimated would
be given, at the expiry of 21 days, in favour of Edward
Francis Maitland, Solicitor-General,—Abervlcen Herald.
THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER AHD HIS CLERoY.—
The Bishop of Rochester, in his charge delivered at hie
recent primary visitation, strongly remarked on the ten-
dency of the clergy to indulge in too great developments of
beard and whisks; and also censured their attendance at
cricket or archery matches. There has been some murmur-
ing at this, and the Rev. A. Watson, " temporary curate"
of Coggeshall, Essex, has spoken out against what be coa-
-1 eiders an attempt at episcopal tyranny. The reverend gen-
tleman in a recent speech expresses • hope that neither the
Bishop of Rochester nor any other bishop will again inter-
fere with any of the duties of the barber, and that the
clergy may never again be called upon to listen to a charge
making it a sin to pick up a cricket-ball sad throw it at the
wicket*, or to catch ups bow and arrow at an archery meet-
ing. The clergy and laity, he added, were not the slaves of
the bishops, and must not allow them to become barbers, or
interfere in what they had no concern.
TRAermunwn4n.—" A London priest," writing
to the Union, describes his ministration of private com-
minimh as follows :—" I have had an oak box made per-
fectly plain, thirteen inches long, eight and a-half broad,
and six deep, with • drawer at the bottom, secured by a
pin, and with a brass handle at the back, by which it can
be easily carried. In this boa are—l, the sacred vessels, of
silver, and moderate size ; 2, a silver pyx ; 3, an ebony
erase ; 4, two small braes candlesticks and wax tapers ; 5, •
damask napkin ; 6, • silk bursa, with silk veils of the
colour of the season ; 7, a stook of cambric veils and
corporal. When I em about to celebrate in a sick-room
take the articles required out of the box, close it, cover it
with the linen cloth, and proceed to arrange it as an altar."
CRYSTAL PALACH Own SHILLING DAY.
Cnanrrxes DAT, Dn. MS.—Admissions on payment, 1,990;
ditto b moos tickets, 818.—Total visitors, 2,806.
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