Star.
London, England, 1831-06-17 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY SCHOOL

Yesterday the adjourned meeting of the Naval Officers,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means
of carrying into execution the plan for establishing a Royal
Navy School, for the education of the sons of naval and ma.
rine officers, was held at the Thatched House Tavern, S..
James's; Sir H. BLACKWOOD, Vice-Admiral, in the chair.
The meeting was most respectably attended, there being
several of the most distinguished officers in the navy present,
and there is no doubt that the attendance would have been
still more numerous had there not been a mistake in the ad.
vertisement appointing the day of meeting.
The CHAIIIMAN said that the first duty which he had to
perform was, to inform the meeting that he had transmitted
to Sir James Graham the resolution passed at the last meet-
iug, expressive of their most grateful thanks to his Majesty
for having graciouly condescended to become the patron of
the intended institution, and he should now read the follow.
ing reply, which he had received from the First Lord of the
Admiralty, acknowledging that communication.

" Admiralty, June 15.

"St a—l shall have the greatest pleasure in conveying to
his Majesty the vote of thanks adopted at a meeting of naval
officers, noblemen, and gentlemen suembled yesterday at the
Thatched House, for his Majesty's gracious condescension
in consenting to become the patron of the Royal Navy
School. I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect,
your obedient servant, " J. R. GRA HA

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir H. Blackwood."
He should now read the resolutions which would be pro.
posed for the adoption of the meeting on this occasion. They
were to the following effect :—" That this meeting was highly
gratified by the report which had been read by Commander
Dickson at the former meeting, on the 14th instant, and at
the amount of subscriptions (nearly 1,0001.) which had been
collected there on that occasion ; that what had taken place
at that meeting offered a happy amen of the future exc..
tions which would be node in furtherance of this project, and
constituted an earnest of the seal and liberality with which the
proposed school would be supported by the service of the
country; that a committee for ascertaining the propriety of
establishing a naval school, for boarding and educating 200
pupils, the sons of naval and marine officers, be appointed,
and that the following noblemen and gentlemen (e list
comprised a great number of naval officers from admirals
downwards) be requested to act upon that committee, seven
to be a quorum ; that the said committee meet for the above.
named purpose every Monday and Friday for the next four
weeks, and that a general meeting be ailed for Thursday,
the 4th of July, to receive the report of the committee, or,
if it should not then be ready, at the earliest possible day
after the committee should have terminated their labours.
Having read the resolutions, the gallant Chairman pro-
ceeded to state that the subscriptions received at the last
meeting were—
Donations - 4340 0 0
Amount of Shares - GOO 0 0
Annual subscription same day . M 10 0

Total - - 991 10 0
Amount of ►hares previously taken . 1,304 0 0
Previous donations - - . 430 0 0

Brand total subscribed - f 2,925 10 0
This, he observed, was the amount already received, and
there could be no doubt that when the projict became more
generally known, the sum required for its complete success
would be very soon obtained. He begged to sta:e that there
was another resolution to this diet—that all expenses aisles
out of the attendance of the Committee should be defrayed
out of the general fund subscribed. At the former meeting
he had stated to them that Captain Dickson would riot take
anything for the expenses which he had already incorred,and
, which must have been considerable (applause) but all fu use
I expenditure should be defrayed out of the general fund. The
gallant chairman pledged himself to watch narrowly over that
expenditure.
Captain Diexsox then read the list of donations and sub-
scriptions, and announced that the number of members for
the establishmen of the Royal Navy School already amount.
ed to 334. He was quite confident, he said, that all the officers
in the service would exert themselves for the promotion
of such an ohjec. The object of the proposed institution
was the education of the sons of poor, not of rich men, '
and the more it became known, the more he was cer.
tain it would receive the countenance and support of the
service. He was glad to be able to state, that yesterday,
after the publication of the proceedings of the former meet.
ing in the papers, one general and unanimous feeling was
evinced among the very highest members of the profession
to second the objects of that meeting. (Loud cheers.)—
He had no doubt that that feeding would soon ensure
them success. He was furthermore certain, that when
their proceedings should be published in the naval papers,
contributions would pour in from all portions of the service.
The seamen in Deal had already met to cotribute, and a
meeting for the purpose had been called at Plymouth, at
which that distinguished officer, itesr.Admiral Sir Jahletl
Brenton, whose devotion to the cause of education of seamen
was well known, had consented to preside. The object of
the proposed institution was the education of the sons of the
poor man, who at present was obliged to go about in obscu-
rity in his own country, or to become an exile in foreign
lands. The object of the institution was to provide educa-
tion for the sons of such a man in their own country, where
they might be brought up in reverence of those institutions
which had made England the greatest nation on the face of
the earth.

The resolutions were then put serialist, and carritli.
Captain SZIP4IY, re erring to the scale of annual sub-
scriptions, and the minimums qualifying subscribers to be-
come members, thought that it was nut fairly or equitably
distributed : be therefore proposed, that after the present
year the minimums of annual subscriptions fmm the different
portions of the service should be one day's half-pay from each
officer of the various respective ranks in the service.
After a few words from Captain Dicssox the proposition
was adopted.
Captain SoUNAKEZ proposed, that in future no officer
below the rank of Admiral or Vice-Admiral should be ap-
pointed on the committee rot managing the affairs of the in-
stitution, who was not married, or who was not a parent;
but as the suggestion did not meet with the approbation of
the meeting, it *ea dropped.
It was then determined that the framing of the laws and
regulations for the government of the institution should be
left to the committee, which bad been already appointed,
and after thanks bed been voted to the Chairman, the meet-
ing adjourned.