1822.] 
3rd_ class—Contributors of . thirty-five 
guineas in one payment, or of five guineas 
and an annual subscription of three 
guineas. 
4th class—Contributors of twelve gui- 
neas in one payment, or an annual sub- 
scription of three guineas, and not less than 
one euinea: 
‘The first payment of fifty, ten, and 
five, guineas, will include the subserip- 
tion for the current year. 
- 2nd. The ‘subseribers of the 1st 
élass are to be governors: they are to 
have the privilege of being present at, 
and of introducing two persons to, all 
the’ Goneerts, trials, or rehearsals, 
which shall take place in the institu- 
tion, and all the public examinations 
of the pupils; they will also, with the 
subseribers of the 2d and 3rd classes, 
have the recommendation and election 
of all the students to be admitted into 
the academy, and will have three 
votes for each student at each clec- 
tion. 
3rd. The subscribers of the 2nd 
class are to have the same privileges 
as those ef the ist class, except that 
they will have two votes only at the 
election of the students, and may in- 
troduce one person only instead of two, 
to the concerts, rehearsals, and exa- 
aminations. 
4th. ‘The subscribers of the 3rd class 
are to have the same privileges as the 
former classes, execpt that they will 
hhave only one vote at the election of 
the students, and a free admission for 
themselves only to the concerts, re- 
hearsals, and examinations. . 
5th. The subscribers of the 4th class 
will be entitled to a free admission to 
the public examinations of the pupils 
only. 
A convenient building is, as soon as 
possible, to be provided by the sub- 
committee, of which a separate part 
shall be appropriated for the male stu- 
dents, and another for the females; 
‘and, in addition to the above establish- 
ment, there will be received into the 
academy extra students, who, accord- 
ing to certain rules of admission, shall 
be entitled to all the advantages of the 
institution, except their maintenance 
and lodging. 
A person of character and repute, 
to be called the principal of the esta- 
blishment, or a board consisting of 
tiree professors, as the sub-committee 
may hereafter decide upon, shall be 
placed at the head of the academy, to 
whom shall be entrusted the general 
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direction of the musical éducation of 
the siudenis. 
. The first object in the education of 
the students will consist in a strict at- 
tention to their religious and moral. 
instruction; next, the study of their 
ewn and the Italian language, writing, 
and ‘arithmetic ; and their general in- 
struction in the various branches of 
music, particularly-in the art of sing- 
ing, and in the study of the piano-forte 
and organ, of harmony, and of com- 
position. 
No student will be admitted at an 
earlier age than ten years, nor later 
than fifteen years old; and they must 
have received such previous. instruc- 
lion, as to be able to read and. write 
with tolerable proficiency; and they 
must have shown some decided apti- 
tude or disposition for music, to be 
ascertained by the professors and mas- 
ters in council. 
There will be one or more public 
concerts in each year, at which such 
of the students as are sufliciently 
advaneed shall be produced; the profits 
of this concert shall go to the benefit of 
the establishment, except when any of 
the students are retiring in that year 
from the academy, when so much of 
the profits, as the sub-committee shall 
direct, shall be divided amongst them, 
as a portion which may assist their 
comfortable establishment in the world. 
There shall be public examinations 
of the students, to be held on such 
days as shall be fixed by the sub-com- 
mittee in each year, at which shall be 
distributed such medals or other re- 
wards as the sub-committee shall 
judge preper. 
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THE SURREY. INSTITUTION. 
We take pleasure in noticing a very 
interesting leeture by Mr. Jennings, 
delivered at the Surrey Institution. 
The immediate occasion of this lecture 
was the approaching dissolution of the 
establishment, and its intended renova- 
tion upon a broader and more liberal 
scale, for the more effectual encourage- 
ment of literature and the communica- 
tion of useful knowledge, under the 
title of the “‘ New Surrey Institution.” 
The Italians (says Mr. Jennings) first 
established academies. ‘The Medici, 
in the fifteenth century, contributed 
greatly to the diffusion of a taste for 
letters. Of the academy of the Lyncei, 
Galileo was amember. ‘The Academie 
Frangaise was established, in France, 
in 
