The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-16 00:00:00

DEPARTMENT

Continues under the superintendence of Mr. Seddon, and
consists of 26 pupils. The average attendance is 14. A decrease
has taken place in this class also, and the remarks made of the
architectural class apply with equal prop iety to this department.
The teacher ascribes the falling off in the number, and atten-
tion of his pupils to the deficiency in the supply of casts, models,
&c. to draw from, which has discouraged the pupils. The direc-
tors have taken some steps to remove this well-founded com-
plaint. At the same time they recommend to their successors
to make further inquiries into the present state of this class, and
to devise some means that will place it on a footing, with the
other classes in the institution.
In the ornamental department some specimens are placed be-
fore you, creditable to both the master and the pupils. The
directors, however, lament that there are so few who have been
deemed worthy of competing for the prizes offered. 1 hey hope
their successors will be enabled to give to the next annual
meeting a very different report of this class than that which
they feel compelled to lay before Non.

THE ORNAMENTAL. PAINTING DEPARTMENT
Continues under the superintendence of Mr. William Bishop,
Member of the Liverpool Academy. At the opening of the new
institution, ibis class consisted but of eight pupils. It has
since increased to twenty-live—the average attendance about
Ilwenty. Although the scarcity of casts and 'node's has operated
against this class also, it continues to increase in number.
The pupils are principally painters, young men from 1G to IS
years of age, who ardently desires to obtain knowledge; there-
fore their conduct is excellent, and their progress—in spite of

'all obstacles—has been great, as the specimens submitted to
Ink meetin;{ fully testify.

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It is with great pleasure the directors ale enabled to commu-
nicate that they• have secured the services of Mr. Bishop, as
drawing, master• in the high school. After the Ist of April the
whole time of this excellent a rtist will be devoted to this institu-
tion, and they feel satisfied that the progress of the pupils in the
the several departments under Mr. Bishop's care will be such as
to justify their choice and the opinion they entertain of his
talents as a teacher and an artist.
THF. ENGLISH AND WRITING DEPARTMENT,
Under the Rev. Mr. Rutherford and Mr Emerson, was establish-
ed i❑ January last, and has already shown symptoms of becom-
ing one of the most important classes in the institution.
Seventy-eight pupils are enrolled on the school list; the average
attendance is about forty. The pupils are taught reading,
spelling, grammar, derivations, geography, and writing. '['hey
take great interest in their studies, and are quiet, orderly, and
attentive.

THE CHEMICAL CLASS,
Under the superintendence of Mr. John Wilson, consists of
thirty-six pupils, who are most exemplary in their conduct and
display more than an ordinary desire to obtain a knowledge of
the delightful science of chemistry, which has become of such
vast importance to this town, in a commercial point of view,
and which Mr. Wilson is so capable of conveying to his pupils.
This interesting class meets every Thursday evening, and the
lectures and instructions delivered on these accasions are
amongst the greatest of the attractions which bind the pupils to
the evening department of the institution.
Mr. Wilson's talents as a teacher have been so highly appre-
ciated by the directors that they feel most happy in having been
able to obtain his services as principal master of the chemical
department in the high school, and they trust his exertions will
spread still wider a taste for this valuable science.
THE PHILOSOPHICAL CLA3,
Under the superintendence of Mr. Phillips, has been established
too recently and has been subject to so many interruptions
in consequence of the ill health of the master that the directors
are obliged to confine themselves to the expression of a hope
that this class will ere long prove useful and efficient. At
present it is not numerous, but the few who do attend have ex-
pressed the pleasure they have derived from the lectures of Mr.
Phillips.