The  past  year  has  been  one  of  great  and  continued
prosperity.  There  has  been  a  large  increase  in  the  number
of  pupils ;  no  seasons  of  general  sickness  have  been  ex-
perienced ;  the  health  of  most  of  the  pupils  has  been  un-
interrupted ;  their  conduct  and  progress  in  learning  have
been  gratifying,  and,  as  the  great  event  of  the  year,  we
have  been  singularly  fortunate  in  the  sale  of  our  grounds,
and  in  the  selection  of  a  site  on  which  buildings,  beUeved
to  be  well  planned  for  all  the  purposes  of  such  an  estab-
lishment, are  now  going  up,  promising  to  the  institution  a
yet  higher  degree  of  usefulness,  and  a  more  assured  exis-
tence in  the  future.
The  number  of  pupils  in  the  institution  on  the  first  of
January,  1853,  was  two  hundred  and  sixty.  During  the
year  just  closed,  sixty-two  pupils  have  been  admitted,
( three  of  them,  however,  continuing  but  a  short  time, )
making  the  whole  number  in  school,  within  the  year,  322.
The  dismissions,  for  the  same  time,  have  been  forty-four,
leaving  in  the  institution,  on  the  first  of  January,  1854,  as


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will  appear  by  the  accompanying  catalogae,  two  hundred
and  seventy-eight  pupils ;  an  increase  of  eighteen  during
the  year,  of  t;hirty-five  within  two  years,  and  of  fifty-one
within  three  years.
Of  this  number,  one  hundred  and  ninety-two,  are  bene-
ficiaries of  the  State,  sixteen  of  the  city,  and  seventeen  of
the  State  of  New-Jersey.  Their  own  friends  defi^y,  in
whole  or  in  part,  the  expenses  of  thirty-three ;  one  is  sup-
ported by  the  Commissioners  of  Emigration,  and  the  re-
mainder, nineteen,  by  the  institution.
