The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-25 00:00:00

TARVIN HALL SCHOOL.

The public examination of the pupils educated at Tar-
vin Hall Schools, under the superintendence of Mr. John
Brindley, took place on Thursday week, in the presence
of a most. respectable company of ladies and gentlemen ;
amongst whom we observed the Rev. T. S. Bowstead,
Vicar of Tarvin, and Prebendary of Lichfield ; the Rev.
S. Cragg, M.A. of Oxford, now resident in Liverpool,
and formerly clergyman of the parish in which Mr.
Brindley bell the appointment of Head Master of the
Oldswinford Hospital Endowed School ; and many of the
parents and relatives of the scholars.
The examination papers both in classics and mathema-
tics, were of a very high order—resembling rather those of
a College in the Universities, than such as are in general
use at less pretending educational institutions—and had
been worked up by the pupils in a manner which did great
credit to their own abilities and industry, as well as to the
attainments and capabilities of their masters. On this
occasion the proficiency of the young gentlemen was
tested by questions proposed by their tutors—each master
conducting his own department—and by some of the
visitors present; when the facility and accuracy with which
passages from the Greek of Homer, Thucydides, and Eu-
ripides, and from the Latin of Horace, Virgil, Cicero,
Livy, and Caesar's Commentaries, were read and trans-
lated, excited general admiration. An examination in
the Greek Testament, St. Mathew xxvt. was after-
wards conducted by the Rev. S. Cragg, M.A. and the
result was highly gratifying. An English examination, to
illustrate the degree of attention which is given to Scrip-
tural instruction, was conducted by Mr. Brindley, the
subjects being the parables of our Saviour, as narrated in
the Gospels of St. Mathew and St. Luke.
The pupils then adjourned to the spacious play-ground,
where they went through their drill exercises ; after
which both visitors and scholars sat down to a cool col-
lation, which was served up in the Lecture Hall, with the
most hospitable liberality. "The health of Mr. and Mrs.
Brindley, and prosperity to the Tarvin Hall School, "
having been proposed as a toast, was duly honoured; the
enthusiastic cheers of the boys giving a pleasing assurance
of the cordiality of their attachment to the Principal and
his amiable wife.

The dormitories and all the school premises were then
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inspected by the visitors, who were unanimous in their ex-
pressions of approval to the regard of health, cleanliness,
and comfort, with the whole of the arrangements exhibited.
The examinations were again resumed, when recitations
in Greek, Latin, French, and German, were respectively
spoken by the pupils, with marked "emphasis and discre-
tion, " evincing an evident appreciation of the beauties of
the several compositions, from the Medea of Euripides, the
./Eneid of Virgil, La Fontaine's "Le paysan du Danube,"
the poems of Schiller, and other German autboi s. Ex-
aminations in Geography and English History followed ;
Arithmetical and Mathematical problems, worked by the
scholars, were submitted to the notice of the company,
with every facility for testing the acquirements of the
pupils : the mode of Book-keeping taught in the establish-
ment was explained and illustrated by sets of mercantile
books and correspondence, which the boys are instructed
to manage; and the specimens of which, as well as those
of Writing and Drawing, were highly creditable; some of
them. indeed, were admirably executed.
Medd, of Stockport, was again at the head of the Clas-
sical and French departments; Sprague, of London, was
first in Mathematics; Silvester, of West Bromwich, and
Gaussen, of Magherafelt, Ireland, in German; P. Moine.
Birmingham, in drawing ; and Vernon, Willington, in
book-keeping and surveying. It was stated that 500
marks had been fixed upon as the greatest number that
could be obtained for the principal mathematical paper.
Sprague obtained the full marks, having worked out
every proposition without an error. Vernon's set of books,
by double entry, and the ground plan of Tarvin Hall,
with the outbuildings, gardens, &c., surveyed and drawn
on a scale of the twentieth of an inch to a foot, were most
creditable performances.
The examination bring ended, Mr. Brindley delivered
an address with much eloquence and feeling, during
which he described the progress of his establishment, his
method of management, the qualifications of the different
masters engaged, the nature of the studies pursued, and
the domestic economy by which the institution was regu-
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the sanatory condition of the Institution, which he
described as having been remarkably free from disease;
a circumstance which he attributed to the domestic trea -
ment of the boys, and the salubrious locality of the school.
The company and pupils, at the close of the examina-
tions, re-assembled at the tea-tables, and having partaken
of the social repast, the nat'onal anthem was sung; after
which the party separated, expressing their warmest ap-
probation of the proceedings in which they had been en-
gage I, and their decided satisfaction at the manner in
which the educational and domestic arrangements at Tar-
yin Hall are carried into effect. Tarvin, our more dis-

taut readers may not he aware, is a pleasant village, about
five miles from Chester. The Hall has a front elevation
113 feet in length. The School buildings, which are de-
tached, are 130 feet in length, and consist of a Lecture
Hall and Refectory, 40 feet by thirty, and 30 feet high ;
four class rooms, each 20 feet square, communicating with
each other ; and a Gymnasium about 40 feet by 30.
These apartments open into a spacious play-ground
which bas a southern aspect, commanding an uninterupted
view of Beeston Castle and the picturesque scenery of the
Cheshire and the Welsh hills. There are also fields and
gardens attached, to which the pupils have free access,
a swimming bath, and every other convenience suited to a
large educational establishment.—Chester Courant.

EXHIBITION AT THE MECHANICS'

INSTITUTION.

The third polytechnic exhibition that has been got up
by the active managers of the Mechanics' Institution in
this town is already on view, although little more than a
week has elapsed since the examination of the pupils of
the schools took place in the rooms, prior to their being
" let loose" for the summer holidays. When the great
accumulation of works of art and science, curiosities,
mechanical and other models, and wonders of various
kinds, arranged within the walls within so brief a period,
is taken into account, the meed of extreme industry and
celerity of movement is due to the directors and to the
men under them, who must have toiled night and day to
accomplish what is done. Additional contributions of
value are still daily pour,ng in, and probably will continue
for a fortnight to come : much has yet to be done in the 1
mechanical department to bring the whole work to com-
pletion ; the catalogues, too, (which could not well be
prepared sooner) have yet to be printed, so that to at-
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of the multitudinous works, artistic and mechanical, is
worth far more than the money, and we
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many even of those who do not avail themselves of sea-
son tickets, will soon, through themselves and friends,
make up the difference to the treasury by repeated visits.
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specimens of tea. trays. We thpee found our way into
the Egyptian and Eastern curiosity room, in the centre
of which stands a splendid Burmese carriage, or coach of
state, captured, we believe, from a prince, and which in
gorgeous and quaint decorations leaves far behind the
state carriage of our metropolitan Lord Mayor. It is
surmounted by a gilded erection resembling the top of a
Chinese temple ; is panelled and glazed all round •
studded with knobs of bright metal; has very light well:
made wheels, and is extremely curious in all its details.
The walls of the same.room are co!ered with the veritable
casts in plaster of Paris o.f Egyptian . pictures and por-
traits, the figures raised in basso. relievo, and coloured,
taken by the celebrated Belzoni himself from the originals.
These we understand were recently redeemed from ob-