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For Pupils between 7 and 10 Years of Age, £1 0 0 per Quarter.

Ditto 10 and 13 1 10 0

Ditto 13 and 18 2 0 0

Ditto above 18 2 10 0

Boarders are received by the Principal, and by the Vice-Principal, into the College, at 25 Guineas per annum for Boys who are natives of the Island, and 30 Guineas for Boys who are not; also by the English Master at similar rates, and by the Third Master; and a few Boarding-houses, kept by highly respectable persons, are sanctioned by the Principal. These Terms are exclusive in every case of the College Fees. The Board to be paid half-yearly. Each Pupil has a single Bed.

The College, which comprehends a Chapel, Library, Class Rooms, Dining Hall, and the Residences of the Principal and Vice-Principal, is in a very salubrious situation, at Castletown, near the sea.

—The Months of June and July; a Week at Christmas; and a Week at Easter.

—French, 15s. per Quarter; German, ditto; Drawing, ditto; Washing, Books, and Stationery, on moderate terms.

The takes this opportunity of placing before the Public the present state of King William's College, with reference to its Finances.

The College was built upon the basis of an old Foundation of, who collected and gave certain sums which were afterwards laid out in lands, with the view of providing for the Education of the Manx Clergy.

The present Building cost about £6000; of which about £2000 consisted of money accumulated from the Charity with the view of being so employed; £2000 or more, of money subscribed, chiefly by the inhabitants of the Island; and the other £2000 was raised by mortgaging the Funds.

Now, as it is necessary that the present Masters of the School should be paid, or proper Teachers could not be provided, and as they are certainly not too highly paid, the interest of this debt, as well as an annual sum employed in gradually liquidating it, are unavoidably taken out of that portion of the Funds which otherwise could be employed for the education of youths, out of whom proper persons would be selected to supply the wants of the Manx Church, leaving the Bishop, for some years to come, with inadequate means for providing for the due education of a future Clergy.

If, therefore, any Charitable Individuals should feel disposed to assist in liquidating this debt, or in furnishing the Bishop with funds which might be applied by him to educate the sons of Clergymen, or others, with the prospect of their entering into the Church, he will gladly accept of any sums so offered, and try to apply them, according to the intention of the Donors, and the best of his judgment, to the glory of God, and the benefit of that portion of the Church of Christ which has been committed to his care.

, May 4, 1842.