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Chambers-street, and here they have their school at present. Thirty-five students have entered, who, with the members of the Academy, are found filling the seats, three evenings in each week, occupied in drawing from the fine models belonging to the Academy, and the students profiting by the instructions and examples of the older artists. They have four professorships already filled; that of Painting by the President; that of Anatomy by Dr. King and Dr. Godman; of Perspective, by Dr. Neilson, and Charles Shaw, Esq. ; and of Mythology and Ancient History by W.C. Bryant, Esq.- Lectures for the coming season are in preparation, and their Library has the promise of valuable accessions, as soon as they shall have acquired convenient rooms for their purposes. 

Is not an institution like this, struggling with such difficulties, deserving of some notice and assistance from the public?  Is not the existence of a school like theirs, an object worthy of the first City in the United States? and can such a school be placed in better hands than those which have created it? 

My task is now ended; and if I have succeeded in directing the attention of the public to an inquiry into the real merits of an undertaking which has been so much misconceived: or in awakening a friendly disposition towards an institution which is deserving of favor and assistance, and which is even now struggling against difficulties which would have conquered ordinary minds, I have accomplished my object, and shall feel myself rewarded for my labor. 

BOYDELL.

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Half of the first word Chambers from previous page.