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continues to receive frequent assurances from parents of their satisfaction with the course of instruction pursued in the School, and its results, as exhibited in the well-doing of their sons in the various callings of life. It is also a most encouraging fact, that, in many instances, Pupils from the same families have, in continual succession, been confided to Dr. Major's guidance, from the first opening of the Institution.

The Rev. R. Hodgson, after seventeen years' faithful service, having resigned his office of Master in the School, the vacancy thus occasioned has been filled up by the appointment of the Rev. George Rust, M.A.

Since the last Annual Meeting, the Council have been called to deplore the decease of two of the earliest members of their own body-viz. the Dean of St. Paul's, the Lord Bishop of Llandaff; and the Rev. George Shepherd, D.D,-as well as to accept the resignation of Newell Connop, Esq. The Council take this opportunity of recording the high sense which they entertain of the kindness which the late Bishop of Llandaff uniformly manifested in the discharge of his duties as a Member of the Council, and of the great benefits which the College derived from his constant attention to its concerns, especially in all matters relating to education, in which his sound scholarship and long academical experience gave so much weight to his judgment. The same words apply, also, with equal force to the loss sustained by the College in the death of Dr. Shepherd; he was one of the most regular attendants at all meetings of the Council and of Committees, and he ever evinced a deep, lively, and enlightened interest in the welfare of the Institution. The state of Mr. Newell Connop's health, ever since his election upon the Council in 1847, has altogether deprived the College of the benefit of his valuable services.

The number of Honorary Fellows of the College has been increased by the election, in the early part of the year, of James E. T. Rogers, Esq. who was formerly a distinguished Student of this College, and who subsequently obtained high

honours in the University of Oxford; and more recently by the election of Major Edwardes, C.B. The Council have had great pleasure in thus marking their sense of this officer's distinguished career; and it is with great satisfaction that they have lately received from himself the following testimony to the value of the instruction which he received in the College :Throughout my career in India," he says, "I have in my own heart fully acknowledged the advantages I had derived from the peculiar and practical course of studies pursued at King's College."

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The Council are sorry they are unable to report as favourably as they would wish of the Finances of the College. During the past year it became necessary to fit up two new rooms for the accommodation of the classes in the Military Department, as well as to lay down enlarged pipes throughout the College for the supply of water and gas; and while the cost of these improvements added to the expenses of the College, the ordinary income was not a little affected by the prevalence of Cholera in London, which diminished the numbers in attendance, and prevented the full occupation of the College rooms. However, the ordinary income of the College more than covered the ordinary expenditure, and the Council believe that the system of economy which they are studiously pursuing will enable them gradually to reduce the outstanding liabilities, and to complete the original designs of the Founders of the College.

The list of Donations made to the Museums and to the Libraries during the past year will be found added to this Report, together with the names of those who, during the same period, have kindly consented to convert their Shares into Donations.

Thus far, then, during an eventful period, the Divine Blessing, it may be said without presumption, appears to have rested on King's College, protecting its infancy, and furthering its development, until it has reached a degree of

maturity which its most sanguine friends could hardly have anticipated. The Council humbly trust that the same Almighty aid may be extended to the College in all future times; that here, as in all other places more immediately dedicated to the honour and service of God, true religion and sound learning may for ever flourish and abound.

NAMES of those, formerly HOLDERS OF SHARES in this College, who, with the view of advancing the interests of the Institution, have, during the last year, resigned the pecuniary rights of Shareholders, retaining the privileges of Donors of the First Class.

Shares.

GARRATT, John, Esq., Cheltenham.

Todd, R.B. Esq., M.D., New-street, Spring-Gardens.
Twining, Richard, Esq., Bedford-place.

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Twining, George, Esq., Strand.

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Forms of Transfer may be obtained from J. W. CUNNINGHAM, ESQ. Secretary, King's College, London.

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His Grace the Duke of Northumberland.

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Astronomical Observations at the Cape of Good)
Hope, by Sir J. F. Herschel, Bart................. $
Report on the Climate and Diseases of the The Author.
African Station, by Sir W. Burnett, M.D.......)
The Gospel of St. Matthew, Chap. 3d. in the
Ghadamsi Dialect, by Professor Newman .......
Généalogie des Maisons Souveraines de l'Europe
Greenwich Astronomical Observations, 1845.....
Greenwich Magnetical Observations, 1845.........
Bowman's Chemistry........

Lebendig Bilder aller Kaisem von J. Cæsar.......
Orlich's Reise in Ost Indien.........................
Greenwich Astronomical Observations, 1846......
Greenwich Magnetical Observations, 1846...
Reductions ditto, Lunar, 1750, 1830.

Madvig's Latin Grammar.............................

Ditto, in 1849.....

Annotations on the Four Gospels, by the Right)
Rev. John Lonsdale, D.D. Bishop of Lichfield,
and the Venerable Archdeacon Hale............
Horæ Hebraicæ, Observations on the Ninth
Chapter of Isaiah, &c. by W. Selwyn, M.A.
Canon of Ely, &c. &c........
The Phenomena and Diosemeia of Aratus, by)
J. Lamb, D.D. Master of Corpus Christi Coll.

The Christian Commonwealth, by John Minter
Morgan.......

The Author.

The Royal Society.

The Author.

J. Stutzer, Esq.

Royal Society.

J. H. Parker, Oxon.

The Lord Bishop of Lichfield.

The Author.

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A Guide to the proper regulation of building in
Towns, by William Hosking, C.E.......
Notices of China, by Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart... The Author.

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DONORS,

Thirty Sermons, by Living Divines, Edited by The Editor.
Rev. R. Johnson, M.A..

New Method of teaching the Greek Language,
by Etienne Marcella, 7 parts, 8vo........

Life Contingency Tables, Part I. by E. J. Farren,

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