The Company have declared ten dividends on the capital stock of the Company, viz: Average for five years 8 10-100 per cent. per annum. LIFE INSURANCE. Number of lives insured on the 1st of January, 1836, 577; and the amount for which the company is responsible in case of death, $1,930,488 00. The whole number of Insurances has been 1,007. LITERARY DEPARTMENT. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. The Regents are twenty-one in number, including the Governor and Lieutenant Governor for the time being. They are appointed, and may be removed by the Legislature. They meet annually (or if necessary oftener) on the evening of the second Thursday in January, in every year, at the Senatechamber in the capitol at Albany. They have the power of granting degrees in the arts and in medicine, and have the control of the whole income of the Literature Fund, and divide it yearly in equal proportions in the eight senate districts, amongst such of the incorporated seminaries of learning, exclusive of colleges, as are subject to their visitation. Such distribution is to be made in proportion to the number of students in each seminary, who for four months during the preceding year shall have pursued therein classical studies, or the higher branches of English education, or both. The Regents are authorized, personally or by committee, to visit and inspect all the colleges and academies in this state, and make an annual report to the legislature of the system of education and discipline therein.- Vide 1 N. Rev. L. p. 456, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, (ex officis.) Stephen Van Rensselaer, LL. D. (Chancellor of APPOINTED. March 16, 1819. Jan. 26, 1826. the Board,) Albany, Elisha Jenkins, Hudson, Feb. 11, 1807. James Thompson, Saratoga county, Feb. 7, 1822. James King, Albany, Feb. 14, 1823. Peter Wendell, M. D. Albany, Do. John Greig, Jesse Buel, Albany, Gulian C. Verplanck, New-York, Gerrit Y. Lansing, Albany, John Keyes Paige, John A. Dix, Albany, Erastus Corning, William Campbell, Prosper M. Wetmore, John L. Graham, James McKown, Albany, Cherry Valley, Albany, Do. Mar. 31, 1829. Do. New-York, New-York, Albany, Amasa J. Parker, John M'Lean, Salem, April 8, 1835. Washington Irving, New-York, May 9, 1835. Gideon Hawley, (Secretary,) Albany, Mar. 25, 1814. COLUMBIA COLLEGE, (Formerly King's College,) Is situated on a beautiful square, between Murray, Barclay, Church, and Chapel streets, in the city of New-York. It was established under a royal charter in the year 1754, which has been confirmed by various acts of the Legislature since the revolution, the principal of which is that of the 13th April, The Faculty of Arts consists of William A. Duer, LL. D., President. Rev. John M'Vickar, S. T. D., Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, Belles Lettres, and Political Economy. Charles Anthon, LL. D., Jay Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages, Literature and Rector of the Grammar School. James Renwick, LL. D., Professor of Natural and Experimental Philoso phy and Chemistry. Henry James Anderson, M. D., Professor of Mathematics, Analytical Mechanics, and Physical Astronomy. Robert G. Vermilye, A. B., Člassical Instructor to the Freshman Class and Librarian. James Kent, LL. D., Professor of Law. Lorenzo Da Ponte, Professor of the Italian Language and Literature. Rev. Antoine Verren, Professor of the French Language and Literature. Mariano Velasquez de la Cadena, Professor of the Spanish Language and Literature. . Rev. Samuel H. Turner, D. D., Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature. The number of graduates since the including the year 1835, is about 1,620. The trustees are twenty-four (when the present are Peter A. Jay, Ch'mn. of the Board. Rt. Rev. Benj. T. Onderdonk, D. D. Rev. Wm. Creighton, D. D. establishment of the College, to and There are now in College about 100. vacancies are filled.) The names of Edward R. Jones, Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D. Ogden Hoffman, James Campbell, Willliam A. Duer, LL. D. John L. Lawrence, Thomas W. Ludlow, Samuel Ward. Commencement, the day following the first Monday in October. Vacation, from August 1, to the first Monday of October. There are two literary societies connected with the colleges, composed of students and graduates, the Peithologian and the Philolexian Societies. There is also connected with the college a grammar school, subject to the control of the trustees, and under the direction of Professor Anthon, as Rector. The school is composed of nearly three hundred scholars, and instruction is given in all branches necessary for admission into any college, or for the counting-house. Eight instructors are constantly employed, besides one teacher in French, one in Spanish, aud one in German and Italian. There is also a primary school attached to this institution, in which boys from five to ten years of age are prepared for the more advanced classes. UNION COLLEGE-Schenectady. Founded in 1795. The Faculty of Arts consists of Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D., President. Rev. Robert Proudit, D. D., Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages. Alonzo Potter, DD., Professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric. |