The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-27 00:00:00

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Monmouth
Blanchester Autumn 2l
Newmarket Ist October 25
Walsall
Lanark 27

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Lincoln
Liverpool
IRISH RACING FIXTURES.

JULY.
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SEPTEMBER.

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St. Omer
Rouen
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Lo Pin 22
Chalon-snr-Saone 22, 23
Saintos 2B, 29
Caen 29, 30, 31
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Tarbes l9, 22
Blois 26, 28
Badon-Badon 3l

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Paris (Autumn) 23, 30

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Paris
Chantilly l4, 178 1

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Vincennes

DULWICH COLLEGE.

The pleasant little village of Dulwich wore quite
a holiday aspect yesterday. Flags waved from
Alleyn's College of God's Gift" and from the
neighbouring houses, and preparations on a scale
befitting the occasion were made for the ceremony
of laying the first stone of the new college buildings
on Dulwich-common. The new site, which is about
half a mile nearer the Crystal Palace than the pro-
sent college, is admirably adapted for carrying out
the intentions of the benevolent founder, and the
act of 1858, which reconstituted the charity. The !
space appropriated for the school buildings, official
residences, administrative office, play-grounds, and •
play-fields, for both schools comprehends an area of
30 acres. A further area of 15 acres is reserved to
be hereafter appropriated for boarding-houses and
such other college requirements as may be found
desirable. The school precincts of about 45 acres
are thus not exceeded by those of any public school
' in England.
The new buildings, of which the first stone was
laid yesterday, will provide education for 600 boys
on the class-room system, according to the curri-
culum provided by the act of Parliament. Founda-
tion scholars to the number of 24 in the Upper
School and 32 in the Lower School will be clothed,
fed, and educated free of cost to their parents and
guardians. Provision is also made for all the usual
appendages to great schools—libraries, reading-
room, day-room, bath-rooms, lavatories, &c. The
plans include complete official residences for the
master of the college, the master of the Lower
School, and the under-master of the Upper School.
The whole of the buildings are from the design of
Mr. Charles Barry, the architect and surveyor to
the Government, and will be carried out under
his superintendence. The style is Northern
Italian of the 13th century, of which beautiful
examples arc still seen at Milan, Verona, Parma,
Pavia, &c. The architect has made extensive and
tasteful use of terra-cotta of different colours in
giving variety and relief to the red brick to be em-
ployed. The whole building will be of fireproof
construction, substantial and solid. The governors
desired to have no superfluity of ornament, but to
erect a building appropriate to the position and ob-
jects of the new, institution, and worthy of the im-
portant place among our educational foundations
which Dulwich College will occupy at no distant
day. The plans will admit of enlargement when
, the. necessity arises. The governors have already
founded two scholarships of £6O a year each ; and