The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-22 00:00:00

SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

The report of the state of this establishment, at the close of
the last year, 1834, has just been published. 'At the annual
meeting of the subscribers, held on the .113th January last, votes
of thanks were passed to the Earl of Burlington, the late pre-
sident;. to Messrs. A. Woodward, T._.4.41‘11, William Brown,
and J. 11. Turner. the late viceTresidenti; and to the Bev:
Edward Hull, the chaplain, fur their attention to the interests
of the institution; a like vote was also passed to the physiCian,
burgeon, visiters, auditors, and the committee of the last year,
and to the ladies and gentlemen who had presented donations
in aid of the fUnds of the charity. The report states, with re-:
spect to the admission of visiters, that "owing to the interrup-
tion which the pupils experience-from the indiscriminate ad-
mission of visiters, it has been deemed necessary to come to a
resolution that non-subscribers cannot be admitted beyond the
shop without an iutroduetion, either personally or by note, by
a donor or subscriber; and the subscribes arc respectfully
requested to assist the committee in carrying this resolution
into effect, by giving to such of their friends as May wish to go
through the school an order of adtnittanee addressed to Mr.
Lucy."
The Earl of Derby was appointed president; Major Brooks,
Mr. William Lawson, Mr.. E. G. Deane, and Mr. F. Hay-
wood, vice-presidents; and Mr. It. W. Houghton, treasurer
for the year 1833.
The number of pupils admitted in the year 1834 was 'l3;
during the saute period 28 quitted the institution, to nearly all
Of whom gratuities were given fur their proficiency in the
several trades which they bad been taught. On the 31st Dec.,
1834, there were 103 pupils in the school. Since its foundation
in 1791, the total number of admissions anioutit to 929, of
whom 162 belong to the parish of Liverpool, 218 to other
parishes in the county of Lancaster, and SO to other parts of
the united kingdom.

The following is an account of !'.le receipt and expenditure of
the funds derived from the chapel connected with this charity

_
Dr. CHAPEL WARDENS.
.
To Amount in the hands of Chapel Wardens,
£219 11 10
Ist January, 1834 "
Ditto received from Collections at the, 678 15 0
Chapel Door . 5
Ditto received from Rents of Pews . 691 10 11-
Ditto of Stuck Sold, £357 Is. 10d..,.3 pert 3.0 is ,
Cent. . )
Ditto of Dividend on Stock l4 1 4
' Ditto of Interest allowed by Messres. Moss
7 2 11
and Co .

1&22 0 9

To Balance in the hands of the Chapel Warden's 264 11U
Cr.
By Cash paid sundry Tradesmen's Accounts £738 7 7
Ditto Salaries to Singers. Organist; Cierk, 303 510
Sextons, and incidental Expenses ...„... .5
Ditto Rev. Edward Hull

'Ditto for Colieeion of Pew Rents • • 16 5 6
Ditto the Treasurer of the School for the)
'Blind lOO 0 0
By Balance in the hands of the Chapel Wardens 2&1 110
1922 0 9

PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LWERPOOL MERCURY.

In reply to the "Anti-jobber," who, in the Mercury of last
week, made, so eloquent a display of his igaerance and, malice,
we retort that his head t surely be what he so aptly termed
the brick he haS made a lump of half-baked clay. The brick.
the unfortunate object of his attack, Laving left its honoured
station in the window of the Mercury-office, has been exhibited
at the and has been declared by the under-men-
tioned highly respectable individuals, and qualified judges, not
half baked, but over baked. The opin►on of these gentlemen
far outweighs the very deep penetration and quicksightedness
of a busy meddler, who not daring, as-it would seem, to avow
his nitrite screens•himself under the malicious title of " Anti-
jobber." If the gentleman has been a disappointed candidate
for Mr. Foster's, or any public office, after this exhibition of his
judgment we Mil but pity him and congratulate the public. 11
lie intends to offer himself after that he has displaced some one
of the unfortunate gentlemen he so loudly condemns, or so
kindly instructs, we hint to him that the. brick will be a suffi-
cient evidence of his incapacity; we ourselves will warmly sup-
port him,. for we suppose, since the roughness of the brick dis-
pleases him, he would have the severs highly faced, or perhaps
c:.mented. But as this is nut the first attack that has been
made upon us we will use our exertions to discover and expose
the man who has thus sought to injure the overseers and us in
the eves of the public, that if any man in future have any fault
to find or apy complaint to make he may do it in a manly open
way. and not, coward and traitor like, seek to poison•the mind
of the public under the seeming zeal, but real malice, of anti-
anything. We thank your friend, Mr. Editor, fur his so wittily
remarking that the luaus naturce must have been intended fur
builoing mond a eorner, as in forming a circular. tunnel we are
never far from sa doing, whatever be the shape of the bricks.—
We are &c.,
WILLIAM EVANS.
Messrs. S. and J. HOLMES.
Messrs. LUNT and HUSON.
• Mr. RYAN.
Mr. J. LYON.
Mr. JOSEPH JONES.
Mr. LEATHER, Architect.
Mr. JOHN BLAKELEY.
Mr. THOMAS DARSEY.
Vauxhall-road, :Way 21st, 1835.

Next week will be distinguished by a succession of grand en-
tertainment:, The birth day of the Princess Victoria, who will
have attained her 16th 'year, will be eelebiated. on Monday at
Kensington Palace; Prince George of Cumberland's natal day
will be celebrated on "V,ieduesdav at Kew; his majesty's birth-
day will be kept on I horsdry, and celebrated by entertainments
given by his ministers to the foreign an,bussadors old other
persons of distinction.