The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-16 00:00:00

MILL-HILL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

The anniversary of this excellent and now prosperous in-
stitution was celebrated yesterday morning, when, after a
lengthened examination of the pupils, and the adjudication
of the usual prizes, the students sertrated for that joyous
and oft-looked-forward-to interval—the Midsummer holi-
days. Although the nature and object of this establish-
ment is pretty generally known, it may not be out of place
to state that it was founded some thirty years ago, with the
view of affording to the children of the Protestant Dissen-
ters of Great Britain all the advantages arising from a pub-
fie school education, without imposing upon them the ne-
cessity of observing religious forms, in accordance neither .4.
with the tenets of their pairents, nor the doctrines in which,
under their sanction, they had been previously brought
up. With this laudable intention several individuals
combined together to errct the noble building at Mill-
hill ; and although for some subsequent years the pro-
ject would appear not to have met with that support it
so eminently deserved, they have now the proud satis-
faction of witnessing their school asserting its claim
to be ranked as the equal of any, and the superior of
many, of the rival establishments throughout the kingdom.
The building is capable of containing about one hundred
and twenty students, with all the requisite accommodation
for masters and servants. The number during the past
year has been nearly completed, and it would appear that
there is every likelihood of its becoming, during the year
now commencing, inadequate in regard of room to the ap-
plication for admission. It is nominally under the control
of the head-master, Mr. Priestley, but virtually the Chap-
lain of the Establishment, the Rev. William Clayton, holds
in his hands the reins of control. In each department the
best Professors are engaged ; and combining, as it does,
a strict and undeviating attention to the religion and morals
of the pupils, with instruction in all branches of literature
comprised in the best school course of the present day, the
system adopted gives every promise for the realization of
those objects it most behoves parents to have in view when
settling their children during, without doubt, the eventful
and important epoch of their lives.
The most attractive portion of the anniversary proceed-
ings of yesterday, took place in the chapel of the establish-
ment, situated in the western wing of the building. Accord-
ing to custom, the Managing Committee issued invitations
to a numerous body of the parents and friends of the pupils,
and of individuals whose known zeal in the cause of educa-
tion was likely to give them an interest in the exhibition. At
the early hour of 11, the chapel was completely filled with
visitors, among whom were distinguishable the members of
some of the most respectable families of the metropolis.
Owing to the great importance of particular business at the
present moment, the attendance of Members of Parliament
was not so great as on former occasions ; but notwithstand-
ing this circumstance, the meeting passed over with as much
eclat as its best wishers could desire.

At eleven o'clock the Chaplain and Head Master en-
tered the chapel, accompanied by several members of the
Committee, the Rev. J. Hoppus, Professor of Logic at the
London University, and Messrs. Bishop and Tomkins, of
Homerton and Stepney Colleges, the Rev. W. Clayton,
the Rev. J. Phillips, a Caffre chief (whose name we are
unable either to pronounce or commit to paper), J. Piper,
Esq., and several other individuals interested in the school,
each of whom was accommodated with seats on the plat-
form. The business of the meeting was opened by the de-
livery of a prologue (written expressly for the occasion) by
Master S. Hope, after which a succession of recitations, ex-
tracted from the works of the best ancient and modern
authors, in Greek, Latin, English, and French, took place.
A scene from Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's lon was followed by a
Parliamentary debate (the subject—one by the way not over-
judiciously selected—being the motion to exempt the Lords
Spiritual from attending the Upper House as Peers of Parlia-
meW, in which Mr Gillon, Sir R. Inglis, Sir J. Campbell,
Mr. Rippon, Lord Stanley, Sir R. Vyvyan, Mr. O'Connor,
Mr. Baines, Mr. Roebuck, Lord Morpeth, Sir R. Peel, Sir
A. Agnew, and Mr. P. Thomson, faund by no means ineffi-
cient representatives. It was got up with great attention
to minutia, and went off uncommonly well. The best re-
citation of the day was, however, the judgment scene of
Shylock, in which Masters Scott, Philip Field, Taylor, H.
Jackson, Simpson, H. Waugh, and R. Cunliffe sustained
the principal parts. H. Waugh, as Gratiano, was ex-
tremely good in his tauntings of the .Tew towards the con-
clusion of the scene. It is, however, invidious to particu-
larize where all deserve nearly equal praise. Before con-
cluding the notice of this part of the exhibition, it is but
justice to observe that we have never heard French better
pronounced in any English school than we heard it
yesterday. The teacher of this branch evidently spared
no labour, nor have his pupils proved inattentive. In a
supposed dialogue between an old soldier of the Grande
Arnzee, and the editor of a modern newspaper, the patois
of the provinces was brought into good contrast with the
improvements of the modern style.
The programme of the recitations having been gone
through—the most generally interesting portion of the ex-
hibition—that of delivering the prizes awarded by the Exa-
miners in classics, mathematics, geography, &c. &c., was
proceeded in. This task was entrusted to the Rev. George
Clayton (the brother of the chaplain), who certainly dis-
charged it in a most: dignified and impressive manner. Af-
ter a few preliminary observations, in the course of which
he read a letter from the examiners (the Rev. John Hop-
pus, and Messrs. Bishop, Tomkins, and Wright), expres-
sive of their entire satisfaction at the progress made by the
pupils, and their gentaral approval of the system ador.t, d
by the school, he proceeded to proclaim, Ist, the names of
pupils to whom prizes were awarded at the last Christmas
examination, when there is no public exhibition ; 'and 2dl y,
those whom the examiners had recommended for distinction
on Monday last. In the first list were the following :
Classics : Harris, Taylor, Morris, Josh. Dixon, Martin,
Cooke, and Coote. In mathematics, Harris, Davies, Josh.
Dixon, and Cooke. In geography, Philip and Morris. In
writing, Carey Hope. In French, Creeke and Freeman.
In drawing, Philip and Edward Hunter; and in good con-
duct Frederick Scott. The following is a copy of the se-
cond list, with the several prizes annexed to the names :
CLASSICS. —First class, Griffith, Milton's Poetical Works,
6 vols. ; 2d ditto, Henry Waugh, Trollope's Homer ; 3d
ditto, Goodridge, Sophocles; 4th ditto, Thomas Waugh,
Buttman) Greek Grammar; sth ditto, Cartwright, Zumpt's
Latin Grammar; 6th ditto, Banbury, Hill's Essays on Ancient
Greece; 7th ditto, William Holmes, Life of Mason Good;
Bth ditto, Sykes, ./Eschines (small copy.)
MATHEMATICS --First class, George Jackson, Lyell's Geo-
logy, 4 vols. ; 2d ditto, Sewell, Arnott's Elements of Physics;
3d ditto, Stephen Lewis, Boook of Science, 2 vols. (arithme-
tic) • 4th ditto, Medhurst, Somerville on Physical Sciences
(ariihmetic.)
GEOGRAPHY. —First class, Cunliffe, Life of Sir William
Jones, 2 vols. ; 2d ditto, Henry Waugh, Conversations on
Botany.
WRlTlNG.—Cartwright, Lardner on the Steam Engine (for
having exhibited most improvement in the art).
ATTENTION TO IRVING'S ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH' COMPOSI-
TION AND PALEY'S EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.—Henry
Creak, Good's Book of Nature, 3 vols.
ENGLISH GRAMMATICAL EXERCISES AND ELEMENTS OF HIS -
TORY. —Davies, Tower Menagerie ; Marling, Herschel's
Astronomy.
FRENCH.—Williams, Grammaire des Grammaries ; Perry,
Histoire de France, par des Carriere.
DRAWING.—New, Mudie's British Birds, 2 vols. (for supe-
riority in the careful and accurate outlines with which his
drawings have been executed).
Goon CONDUCT.—Henry Smart, Memoir of Dr. Carey;
Penny, Evidences of Christianity.
According as each pupil named in this list mounted the
platform, the Rev. Mr. Clayton, in addressing him in terms
of commendation and advice, presented to him his allotted
prize, upon which he retired amid the cheers of his fellow-
students. The scene, as all similar are, was most animating
and impressive, and reminding almost all present of the feel-
ings of by-gone days at once came home to the heart

of each.
The meeting having terminated with the delivery of the
prizes, the visitors were invited to promenade in the grounds,
until the ringing of a bell should announce that a eltjeuner
ala fourchetle was ready for demolition. The signal hav-
ing been after a brief interval given, about 300 gentlemen,
sat down to table in the hall of the school. The collation
was an excellent one, and, it is needless to say, was done
ample justice to. On the work of demolition ceasing,
several toasts were proposed, and some excellent speeches
made by Mr. Piper, the Chairman, the Rev. G. Clayton,
and Messrs. Davenport and Priestly. The latter, in some
passages, was particularly eloquent, and elicited loud cheers
froni his friends.
At six o'clock the numerous visitors separated, evidently
much gratified with the scene they had witnessed through-
out the day.

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Au inquest was on Tuesday held at the George Inn,
Aldermanbery, on Miss Elizabeih:Burgess. She had paid a
Miss Tilrle a sovereign to be taught fringe work, in expecta-
tion of having employment at the hoirse where Miss Tune was
eny
• loyed. The foreman hearing of tare transaction, confronted
be parties, and told Miss Turle she had acted very impro-
perly,
and that the firm would not sanction her taking money
by holding out such a promise pf employment. Miss Turle
consented to refund the money, but denied the promise. All
she said she promised was, that she would teach the work, and
endeavour to get Miss Burgess employed. Miss Tote ap-
pealed to her landlady and to Miss Burgess for the truth of
IN hat she said. The landlady confirmed her, and Miss Bur-
gess at this instant dropped senseless from her chair to the
ground. She was raised, but ag tin fell, and after that, falling
a third time, her friends and medical attendance were sent for.
She died the next afternoon, and from a post mortem examina-
tion it appeared she had been seized with paralysis of the left
side, followed by a rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain and
apoplexy. The vessels of the brain had been long unhealthy,
Verdict, Natural death.