New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-13

Annual Report of the New-Nork Institution
Ear lie Deaf and Dumb.


fer the Deaf and Dumb.
We have been favored with early copy Of
the Thirty. Second Annual Report Of the New
York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, as made
to the Legislature, for the year 1850. The Report
is handsomely printed volume Of nearly three
hundred pages, aud is an unusually Interesting
production; containing, beside the customary
statements of the results of the year, the complete
Proceedings Of the First Convention OF American
Instructors of the Deaf and Dumb, held in thls
City in August last.
The following facts are gathered from the Re.
port of the Board Of Directors. The number oil
pupils resident in the Institution on the 3lst De
cember. 1850 was 227. The number in ls49 was
222; Of whom 80 have left during the past year,
has been removed by death, Al have been admit
ted, and former pupils readmitted. Including
graduates of the Institution employed as teachers
or in the domestic and mechanical departments,
the whole number Of Deal Mntes resident Ia the
Institution is 242.
Ofthe pupils 100 are benehciaries OF the State
l6 of the CITY; 10 of the State OF New Jersey.
Their own friends deiray in whole or In part the
expenses OF "a; and the remainder, "A, are board
ed and instructed gratuitousy by the Institution.
These last, as in former year,, are mostly children
selected by the Superintendent OF Common
Schools in anticipation OF vacancies in the State
list a certain number of whom are received at the
beginning of every term. By this arrangement,
among other desirable results, the State list 10
kept iu without the necessity of receiving pupils
in the middle Of the term, when there are no
classes in which they can adyantsgeously be
placed
The health OF the Institution has seldom been
better than curing the past year There have
been no changes during the past two years In the
department OF instruction, and but few in the
NJ ntalaa uIaxgaa in
the domestic and mechanical departments. Tho
receipts Of the year have amounted to sJ9,2l6 %,
and the disbursements, including the balance OF
s2.l2s 81 at the close Of ls49, have been 1884,
80; leaving a bassce for 1850 OF S266 So
By n resolution of the Board OF Directors ega-
Giles and nations received into the treasury OF
Il Institution are set apart and applied to tho
education Of INDECENT and deserving deafmute
children not provided for by the present leglsla-
tive ensctments A debt OF s2s 900 has been In
cure IN the purchase Of the grounds occupied
for more than twenty years by the Institution
M asure which after mature elaboration was
deemed necessary and safe. Much anxiety has
been caused by the opening OF Forty ninth'st.
through the grounds-the Board demonstrating
against the measure without effect They con-
conceive that no impeachment exists to the open
inc Of Forty eighth ST. and strongly dePrecate the
restriction Of the available space Tor the purposes
ofthe Institution
The Convection Of American Instructors 81 tho
Deaf and Dumb which va, to have oeen held in
le49, but was postponed on account of the cpl
demic then prevailing. commenced its session on
the 2stb Of August last, and continued for three
days. Its results were valuable and interesting,
and are given at full length in the present Report.
The Report also contains an able statement Of
the Of instruction pursued ia the Institution,
from the pen Of Rev. Mr. Day; who, in the a.
sence Of the Secretary Of State, conducted the
Annual Examination on the part OF the State.
Other interesting statements, papers on the va
rious departments Of Instruction, and the vslu.
able historical Memoir Of DR.. Peet, President Of
the Institution on the Origin and Progress Of the
Art, recently read before the New York Historical
Society imPsrt an additional value to this excel
lent Report.