The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1860.

IIV AUGUR A2ION OIL A SC.II6OL OF
'ART BY TILE PRINCE OF WALES.

Upon the site of the old Vauxhall Gardens there
will rise in the course of the present year a hand-
some building, in the style of the 13th century,
designed for the improvement in art of the work-
ing men with whom this district abounds. The
school is already i❑ existence, although the mate-
rial building has yet to be raised. In the autumn
of 1851 evening classes in drawing and modelling
were opened in the National School-rooms, in

Princes-road, Lambeth, the district of St. Mary-
the-Less, of which the Rev. Robert Gregory, M.A.,
of Christ Church, Oxford, is the incumbent, with

the assistance of the Science and Art Department
at Mirlborough House. These classes have been

attended by a yearly increasing number of pupils,
most of them being connected with the building,
engineering, and pottery trades, which arc exten-
sively carried on in that part of Lambeth. At
present there are upwards of 120 pupils connected
with the schools. The cost of the building will be
£4,200, of which more than £5OO remains to be
raised.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, having
been solicited to lay the first stone, at once
kindly consented. Due preparations were made
by the incumbent and his friends to give his royal
highness a worthy reception, and in this they were
eminently successful, having collected together• a
large assemblage.

Precisely at four o'clock the arrival of his royal
highness was announced, and the archbishop,
bishops, nobility, clergy, and others went immedi•
ately to thd outer gates, and having formed' into
procession, conducted the prince to the small raised
platform on which he was to perform the ceremony
of the day. The Rev. R. Gregory, approaching
the prince, who was accompanied by Major-General
Bruce, Sir C. Phipps, and Lieutenant-Colonel -Kep-
pel, delivered the following address :

" May it please your Royal Highness—The committee
for erecting a School of Art for the benefit
.of this neigh-
bourhood beg to tender to your royal highness their hearty
and sincere thanks for your great condescension and kind-
ness in this day coming among them to inaugurate the
work which they are anxious to promote. Their great ob-
ject in projecting a school of this clairacter, in the first
instance, and in now seeking to extend its useful-
ness, is the moral and intellectual elevation of the poorer
classes, mere especially of the gifted amongst them, by
enabling them to cultivate those special talents with which
Almighty God has endowed them. Experience has shown
that secondary education will be appreciated only so far as
it is adapted to the particular tastes, rather than wants, of
the persons for whom it is intended ; so that whilst other
provision is made for the altogether uneducated, the com-
mittee have been anxious to labour for the benefit of suchas
have been blessed with ability not universally imparted,
and the possession of which raises them in power of cul-
tivation above the usual level. They have been
further incited to this course by the conviction
that special talents are often accompanied by special temp-
tations. For providing, therefore, for the development of
the faculty of tracing out the beauties of form and blend-
ing the glories of colour, which is only less generally given
than that of appreciating musical harmony, the committee

Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
Amen."

The Bishop of WINCHESTER then said—" Here
let true faith, the fear of God, and brotherly love
ever remain. This place is set apart for learning and
instruction in art and science to the praise of the
most holy name of the same our Lord Jesus Christ,
who ever liveth, with the Father, and the Holy
Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen." His
lordship then pronounced the benediction, and the
National Anthem was sung by the choir of Mr.
Gregory's church and the visitors.
His royal highness left the ground amidst the
hearty cheers of all by whom he was surrounded.
The ground was well kept by the 19th Surrey
Volunteers, under the command of Mr. Roupell,
M.P., Captain Truman, Lieut. Smithers, and Ensign
Pruett.

Mr. Pearson is the architect, and Mr. Coils (of
Camberwell), the builder of the new schools:

The police arrangements, under the direction of
Mr. It. Beckerson, were all that could be desircd.

TUE KING OF NAPLES.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JUNE 27.

ACCIDENT TO THE CONNATJGHT STEAMER.

Accounts reached Dublin this morning, announc-
ing that, owing to an ,explosion on board the Con-
naught, one of the new steamers destined to ply be-
tween Galway and America, she was unable to
proceed on her first voyage yesterday. This has
been:a severe disappointment to all parties inte..
rested. The mails, however, will be despatched by
the Parana, which fortunately was in the harbour,.
coaled, and ready for sea. The injury sustained by
the Connaught is believed to be of a trifling charac-
ter. The Morning News gives the following ver-
sion of the disaster :

" On Board the Parana, Galway Bay,
Five o'clock.

An extraordinary change has taken place,
owing to an unfortunate though slight accident,
which occurred to the Connaught immediately
after getting under weigh. The circumstances of
the case are singular enough, as the accident took
place before the vessel had gone 100 yards from her
berth, and though of so slight a nature as not to
prevent her proceeding on her voyage, still, as it
would tend to lessen her speed, it seems most for-
tunate that another first-class ocean steamer was at
hand to take the place of the Connaught, so as to
carry out the postal contract. According to the
explanation I have •received of the nature of the
accident, it appears to me one whilh could readily
be repaired at any place where the means of repair-
ing machinery were at hand; but at this port even
a trivial derangement to machinery becomes seri-
ous, as there are no means of making any repairs.