The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-27 00:00:00

SCHOOL FOR TRH' DEAF AND DUMB.

On Tuesday the -annual exhibition of-the. pupils connected
with the School fir the Deaf and Dumb lock place at the
school-room, in Wood-street. The Children .were examined in
the various exercises intended to enable them to hold inter-
course in flitilre life with those more favourably circumstanced.
Their aptitude and intelligence, and the readiness and eorrect-
ness of theiransivers to the questions proposed to them. in .the
principles of religion, in English grammar, history, geography,
and general knowledge, surprised And gratified tire- audience.
tipecitriens of their drawing, which they; are regularly, taught
under a master, as well as articles of needlework done by the
girls, were exhibited; and they were very neatly exectitia:.
After the examination the business of' the annual meeting of
the subscribers to the institution was commenced, the Reit.
Rector Iliooks in the chair. The chairman, having opened the
meeting, called on Mr. John Radcliffe to read the annual repeat,
and Mr. H. Sandhach, the treasurer, to read the accounts: The
former, which we doubt not will interest the public, we have
subjoined:—
" In leseutiug the annualreport,,the comroitee of the School
for the Deaf and Dumb are freed, by the favourable position of
the institution, from the necessity of aking any more urgent
appeal to the: public than to request that they will continue to
support its interests as they have hitherto done, and enlarge its
powers of usefulness by seeking out the objects of its charity
in to** and neighbourhood; .and . inducing the parents or
guardians of the deaf and dumb, wherever they may be found,
to avail themselves of the increased accoinmodation of, the
school. .There is now abundance of ronin: the liberality Of the
public has supplied, and, it is hoped, lilt, -continue :to awn:tent
the funds; and, as the committee are enabled to lower the terms
of adinission, they hope that the friends of the institution will
lock out for objects to whom the charity may be applied.
"The attendance of the pupils at school and at church; and
their general conduct daring the past year have been satisfac-
tory te the visitors. The girls,. under the superintendence of
the ladies' committee, have made considerable progress in their
needlework, and the specimens of their work have been much
approved. The number now in attendance is—boys, 22; girls,
14; total, 3d. Of these, 31, being in poor circumstances, are
educated gratuitously. Six have been admitted, and eight have
left during the year, and of the latter three have.gone to trade
or service.

"The older pupils are now taught drawing by a master who
attends twice a week for 'that purpose, and seem to take great
interest in the employment; and Dr. Philp, the late physician
to the institution, has kindly presented five pounds, to be laid
out in maps or otherwise, at the discretion of the committee.
"The treasurer is able to state that, in consequence, mainly,
of a liberal bequest of £lOO, by the late William Salthouse,
• Esq., a balance to the crediVof the school appears this year for
the first time. This fact; htetveyer, furnishes no ground for re-
laxing efforts. for the support of:the charity, which can only be
kept out of 'clebt.by :maintaining the present amount-of annual
subscriptions, and catronly' bo:lnade to extend its influence, as
it Ought to do, by increasing them.
"The committee have great pleasure in acknowledging the
continued benefits aritsifflordlhe kind services of the ladies'
committee§ and beg' tcr.iF achnowledge their debt of gratitude to
Mrs. Richard Rathbone for- het liberal dooation of the entire
'profits of her publication—' The Poetry of Birds.' rhey con-
clude their report by again committing the interests of the cha-
rity to the liberality of benevolent public, under the protect-
ing Providence of an all;merciful god."
The customary resolution having been put and unanimously
carried, the edropany.retired apparently much satisfied with the
evidences subinitted of.the utility of This interesting charity.
The children afterwards were treated to a plain, substantial
dinner of roctit beef and pluin pudding; of which some, for-
merly pupils in the school; now' at- trades and service, partook.
• We‘canncit, but 'congratulate our townsmen on the success
'which has attended .this Institution, and the degree of coun-
tenance and. sapportlibi-ch it has at length succeeded in ob-
taining. For some years after its _establishment it had to
struggle for existence against 'pectin_lary difficulties of no or-
dinary kind. The work .of its conductors was for a while all
up-bill. But, satisfied of the goodnessnf their .cause, and as-
sured that in time the publie Ofl.iverpoin would duly appreciate
its object, they persevered in their exertions to forward its in-
terests and bring its claims before the community.. These efforts
now begin to meet with the desired success. The School for the
Deaf and Dumb fairly ranks as one of the accredited charities
of our town; and we cannot doubt that it will continue to re-
ceive all that measure of patronage and support to which it is so
justly entitled.