New-York tribune., 1869-05-21
LECTURES. MEETINGS. ETC.

Miss Nina Foster will give Dramatic and
foete hecatlOns at Stenway's small hall this evening
public meeting will be held at the Madison
OF the City Mission. % -
The graduates of West Point Academy will
meet al Tue Fiee AGa!emy IN this city at noon on saur
day. President webster Ot the Free Academy gradu.
ate.
The first entertainment of the Charles Gates
Literary Union will be given at Grammar School No 49,
Thrtcentlst, near Sixth-aye, on Wednesday evening
next.
AT the social, in the parlors of the Broadway
Tabernacle, this evening Prof Dimon WIN read Miss c.
V. Hutchings and others VIII sing ana number OF new
paintings will be exhibited
Mr.. II. NJ. Hurett will lecture before the
Pioneer Division Sons Of Temperance IN Boseo6el ",
ON Friday evening on the Curse and Care" The Divi
sion was organized last FALL and now numbers upward
Of 10 members.
A mass meeting of the friends of Lay Rep
resentation in the Methodist Episcopal Chuch VIII Dc
held in Fleetst NJ f. Church. Brooklyn TINS eyehihg at
O'Clock. The Rev. DIR. McClntock, T. u Nol'n' esq'
and others will address the meeting.
An exhibition Of the children of the CO0red
Orphan Asylum will be held at their building corner OF
edandfOrty.thirds and lTenthaye., to-day
and On Saturday The exercises will commence at IL
and conclude at p with recess OF an hour between
aid O'clock Refgeahmo4ts win be served through the
day. A stage viii meet at the station, 0ne-hundredand
afysqcpndst the 1880 m train Of the Hudson River
Railroad aisQ be Eghthhaye; cars at ter ierl'hR' Re
g5n, sa15
and GIL p. m. tH--. 49, , -
The anniversary exercises of the School Of the
Collegiate Dutch Church took place last evening at the
Collegiate Church. cOrnerOf FIfthaYe and rwentynnth
st. The Church filed with the pupils Of the school.
their relatives and friends The exercises comprised
compositions, declamatlons and singing by the pupils
and addresses by OF the pastors aud trustees A
number Of premiums conferred upon some Of the
most deserving pupils In the different departments, nd
diplomas granted to tito graduating class. The exercises
were quite long, but sufficiently interesting to hold the
entire audience to the end and the pupils evinced an
amount OF proficiency and a degree Of thorOughness
which reflects great credit upon both teachers and
scholars
The Polytechnic branch of the American Insti-
tute held meeting ut Cooper Institute last evening. Dr.
s. DTman in the chair model of selfclOslng safety
hatch exhibited and commented upOn also "a model
from liquid, and can be used without wood coal, chnl-
ney, stovepe. DR. Edwin Leigh then introduced
and delivered very interesting and instructive lecture
on the representation Of sounds by letters illustrating his
method by examples on the blackboard He said that no
language could be compared to the English IN the
extreme inequality OF ITS spelling. To confirm his asscr-
tOn he compared the construction of several words with
identical sounds In each, but which differently
spelled "Ea" Is pronounced In twelve different ways
eight have the sound Of e several of "Oug and also
Of "a" This j. one OF tho many similar examples that
be found In our language. The speaker quoted the
Of several Of well known streets showing that
many Of them were pronounced with but little regard 10
the spelling.
In closing his remarks the speaker exhibited thereby
three different ways in which the name Shakespeare had
been spelled in public documents which had under
his observation At the close OF the lecture number OF
gentlemen their ideas OF the English language, and
claimed that is the grandest and nObest language
spoken.