New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-01

lev. Mirs NJ. T. H4wley Me- Annie Kemp nj IS
Hattie ARDEN, Mrs. J NJ Wrrner. and Mis- Msria
Leach. The "WspuIgi' nisht," by Goethe, mu'ic BY
M, ndelssohr. Sslos by Mrs Annie Kemp, Mr. Fra
ger, and Mr. Stephen W. Leach, and A Voice from
the l.. kc, by Theodore Es'eld
FIrrwoRKs The FQptth ofJuy Fireworks are
apprcprisi.d IA ~ low: jackson square, $780, Ham
ilton 5000; L.amsrtine, $500; ToapkIs, $50; M I'd
isos, $500; Eat Broadway and G1ard street, $500;
Five Points Nilsson, $3.50; High Bridge $50; CAL
MAJ svile, $50, Mount Morris sqaar-, saiO; York
vile, SEQ; and City Hall Park, 5000 Nothing will
be provided in the way Of Refreshments.
FryrrrsrH WARD FRKMosT AND DArros CLUE
A meeting will be he'd At Academy Hall, No. go
Broadway, on Wednesday, July 90. at eight o'clock,
Messrs Charles A Dana T. Delafed Smith, Nc.
Lowry Secretary Of Gov. Reeder, and J. Wilson
Green will speak There will be good singing also.
The Fifteenth, the present residence Of John c.
Fremont should and must be the Banner Ward.
FREE ACCIDENT EXAMINATION The regular Sum
mer Examination Of the Free Academy commenced
yesterday very quietly Not member Of the Board Of
Education was present, and th, re was net half dozen
yi.itors while an examination Of either Of the Gram
mar School, in the same Ward would have assembled
a thousand spectators could they have been ACCOM-
unoda,ed The examinations were partially oral, but
principally written. The three highest classes were
examined ard their performances We're generally very
creditable The Sophomore Glass spent the whole
DAY in writing answers to such questions Explain
the principles of identity and contradiction, ard Of
,zciuded middle, aud ~h.n the major aud minor pre-
mise arc independent probabilities how do we ascer-
tain the probability OF conclusion An oral exam
nation of two or thr hsurs length occupied but two
three at time. The clasI gave evidence OF good
dc al Of CAREFUL .tudv and minfested fair knowledge
of the sbatomy and pathology OF reasoning. Tho
Ju ior Glass wss ex.un, in English Language and
Literature, in which they rave had recitatioos twice
week during the term past 10 answer to questions,
some vey aestcitici,us written Pope, Young,
Swift, sno the Essayis's Similarity of vosbiage,
however, suggested that perhaps tho Ian
gusge of the textbook was a little too closely
followed. -Four oily Of the members of the
Junior Class were cxami, cd in German. These
with ODE senior and four resident graduates, are tae
only students under the care of the German Profess
sorship The Flee Academy ia very chary Of its Ger
man. Students are lot allowed to commerce tbs
study until the second term of the junior year. aud not
then unlets they have passed through the in
French ard Spanish These restrictions very nearly
amount nracteal exclusion Of the mother tongue Of
largo portion Of cit zens aud literature Of far
MOI iml lance than either the French Spanish The
four Junior Students however who have attained the
privilege of receiving less than forty hours instruction
in Gtrmao, have made the most Of their time, aud
translated two three p,g.s of Schers tscher
very will.
The S. Nor Glass was examined in Greek and Civil
,( IL.
ted few pages from Raumer with the resid-n Mt gradu'
ates large portion of the class were examined in
the Gdipus Tyrsnnes, and all in Civil Engineering
The tsns ations from the Gdpus were generally very
well executed questions were not answered
quite 70 well The oral examination, too, showed thai
the class generally had good knowledge of rome Eve
or ,x hundred lines of the tragedy In Civll f Ig.
neerDg, the class displayed rather pracic u know'
edge of the subject. Once week through the year
they have had field exercise, and an opportunity to
make themselves familiar with the of Instruments,
ard with calculate ms aid mapp ny frou their own
notes. Some very finely executed maps Of Madison
square were Inhibited, sho wing the stu alton Of every
tree. railroad across the center Of the lsaud pro-
ected by the class, looked magn'6cently on paper.
To day the Senior Class will be examined 10 French,
the Junior in Modern Languages, the Sophomore In
History.
The Mount Washington Collegiate Institute held is
Anniversary Exercises before crowded audience al
Hope Chapel Thursday evening last at the close of
wi ich the following young gentlemen received from
the Principal diplomas representing the GO npleton Of
their scadt mic course of study Tee graduates were
addressed briefly by Rev. Joel Parker, do o: this
city:
Tho. J. Baker Geo Lynde C.tlin, VIM; hoGOrmict Cum:
Maurice Levy, Lous Mar h. jobs MUrey, Jas Ship
dsToo Henry NJ Valentine, John 5. Wstsbnry Joseph wig
en- ., Aretss h. Wint0n.
The. Semi annual Exhibition Of the pupils of the In
.ttution for the Blind was held yesterday afternoon
in the Chapel of the Iostuaon. 1t was entirely mu-
seal, and gave the heartlest satisfaction to large
audience.
CITY MoErALITY.-Foi the half year Just ended,
the number Of deaths in this City ID put down at
49, which is over 200 less than for the correspond
ing period last year. This is equal tO reduction OF
20 per cent per annum. 1t partisy accounted for
in the absence of conag ship fever aud small pox,
and large decrease in foreign e.ngration; and partly
in consequence Of the efforts Of the City Inspector to
rem owe nuissnces OF course, the present and next
following month will show a great increase in the
number OF deaths especially among childoen
ArrRAY AT Fort WAsHIsGTOS-A CoAcHMAS
KILLED-Coroner Hills was called yesterday to hold
an inquest Fort Washington upon the BODY of Geo.
Bolster, a coachman in the employ Of Mr. Hopkins OF
that place, whose death was caused by violence. II
appeared in evidence that on Sund,y evening Bolster
came home drunk and lay down to sleep in the car
risge.house. Mr.. Hop ins wanted the key Of gate