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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 492

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 [June 18, 1853.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 CHRIST’ HOSPITAL TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL IN THE HALL OF THE MERCHANT TAYLORS’ COMPANY.—(SEE PRECEDING PAGE.)

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 in the evening the civic palace was thrown open to an assemblage comprising nearly all the most distinguished names in connection with the question of education.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 The Conversazione in the evening was a very brilliant affair; and seldom indeed have the rooms of the Mansion-house been more appropriately and worthily filled. Besides his civic brethren from the country, the Lord Mayor had assembled around him a great number of the most eminent names in connexion with the subject of education, and with art and science generally. The representatives of 270 mechanics’ literary and scientific institutions in union with the Society of Arts were invited. 

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 The rooms of the Mansion-house were furnished, for the occasion of the Conversazione, with a large and highly-interesting collection of educational apparatus, brought together through the instrumentality of the Society of Arts. Among the more conspicuous contributors to that collection may be mentioned the Master-General of the Ordnance, who supplied illustrations of the instruction given at the Military Academy, Woolwich; the British and Foreign School Society, the Society for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge, the National Society, the Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, the Home and Colonial School Society, and the Working Men’s Educational Union, also ex- 

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 hibited their books and systems of instruction. The principal publishers of educational works sent in their publications, and some beautiful models, diagrams, and specimens of apparatus, remarkable fortheir cheapness as well as their excellency, were shown by the new Department of Science and Art. The paintings lent for the occasion were most effectively arranged upon screens in the centre of the hall. The crowds of visitors left little opportunity for the careful and leisurely examination of these objects, interesting at all times, but doubly so now, when the question of education is attracting so much attention. More than 1000 ladies and gentlemen attended the Conversazione.

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 CONVERSAZIONE, IN THE EGYPTIAN-HALL, MANSION-HOUSE.