TROY UNIVERSITY.

Located in the City of Troy.

This is a new institution, being liberally founded by the friends of a higher course of study, combining a Collegiate and University education. The University buildings are situated on Mount Ida, in the rear of the city overlooking Troy, the Hudson River, and adjacent country. It is surrounded by thirty-six acres of land, which is to be properly inclosed and improved. The view from this elevated site is one of rare beauty and extent. There will be two departments in the Troy University-the Collegiate Department and the University Department. These again will be subdivided into Literary and Scientific courses; embracing the Faculty of Philosophy (or Arts), as commonly taught in Europe in the Universities or higher schools of learning. The University course of instruction will be adapted to those who wish to obtain a more thorough and complete culture, either with a view to teaching, to the acquisition of general scholarship, or to professional life.

PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN.

The object of this flourishing institution is to furnish to females the same advantages of education enjoyed by the other sex in colleges. It is governed by a Board of Trustees, of which the Mayor of Brooklyn is ex-officio a member. There are three departments-Preparatory, Academic, and Collegiate. The last is divided into two classes, Junior and Senior, and diplomas are conferred on those who have completed the course of study in this department. The Commencements take place in July, after which there is a vacation until September, when the academic year begins. The institution is provided with chemical and philosophical apparatus, and a general library for the use of the students. The ancient and modern languages are not included in the regular course of study, but may be attended to, if desired, under teachers provided by the Institute.

A. Crittenden, A.M., Principal.

Faculty.

Darwin G. Eaton, A.M., Professor of Mathematics, etc.

F. T. Winkelman, Ph. D., A.M., Professor of Latin, German, and French.

Juan Barcello, Professor of Spanish Language.

Francisco Martinelli, Professor of Italian Language.

Miss Adeline L. Jones, Assistant Teacher of Mathematics.

Miss Harriet Backus, Teacher of History, Grammar, etc.

Together with other Teachers, male and female. Whole number of pupils BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE AND POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE. This institution was incorporated in April, 1854, and first opened for students in September, 1855. Its object is to afford to young men facilities for a thorough and finished education. A large and commodious edifice, erected for its use, has been elaborately fitted up, and furnished with all the necessary means and apparatus for the purpose in view, affording accommodation for about 450 pupils. The general management of the Institute rests with a Board of Trustees, elected by the stockholders. The plan of the Institute embraces two departments, Academic and Collegiate, each consisting of two classes, Senior and Junior, with further subdivisions. The course of study is to some extent optional, but is intended to include all the essentials of a classical, scientific, and commercial education.

The Faculty is composed of the President, John H. Raymond, LL.D., who is also Professor of History and Philosophy, and a corps of eighteen professors and instructors in the various branches of study pursued in the institution. The whole number of students in 1857 was 516.

FREE ACADEMY.

Lexington Avenue, corner Twenty-third Street.

Established in 1848, by pursuance of an act of the Legislature, passed May 7, 1847, for the purpose of providing higher education for such pupils of the Common Schools as may wish to avail themselves thereof. The Free Academy is under the general superintendence of the Board of Education. All its expenses for instruction, apparatus, library, cabinet collections, books, and stationery, are paid out of the public treasury. The students are admitted in annual classes, and the full course of study embraces five years.

The Board of Education is authorized by law to confer the usual collegiate degrees on the recommendation of the Faculty.

The Academical studies during Term time continue daily (except Saturday and Sunday) from a quarter before 9 o'clock A. M. to 3 o'clock P. M.

Terms of Admission.

No student can be admitted to the Academy unless he reside in the city, be thirteen years of age, shall have attended the common schools in the city twelve months, and shall pass a good examination in Spelling, Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Elementary Bookkeeping, History of the United States, and Algebra, as far as simple equations, inclusive.

Students who remove from the city lose the privileges of the Academy. The classes are annual, and the full course of study embraces five years.

Officers.

Horace Webster, LL.D., Principal.
John Graff Barton, A.M., Librarian.
John Jason Owen, D.D., Vice-Princip. Joseph O. Nodyne, Registrar.

Together with an Executive Committee of six members, and the Faculty of nine members.

ACADEMIES.

A CATALOGUE OF THE ACADEMIES REPORTING FOR THE YEAR ENDING BETWEEN THE 20TH OF JUNE AND THE 15TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1856,

WITH THE TOWN OR INCORPORATED VILLAGE IN WHICH THEY ARE SITUATED. COPIED FROM THE REPORT OF THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR 1857.

ACADEMIES, ETC.

Academy at Little Falls.
Albany Academy

Albany Female Academy.
Albany Female Seminary
Albion Academy

Alfred Academy
Amenia Seminary

Ames Academy

Amsterdam Female Seminary

Argyle Academy

Auburn Academy

Augusta Academy.
Aurora Academy
Ball Seminary
Bethany Academy.
Binghamton Academy.
Brockport Collegiate Institute.
Brookfield Academy..

Buffalo Female Academy
Cambridge Washington Academy
Canajoharie Academy.
Canandaigua Academy.
Canton Academy

Cary Collegiate Seminary
Cayuga Academy

Champlain Academy.

Cherry Valley Academy.

Chester Academy.

Chester

Orange.

Clarence Academy.

Clarence

Erie.

Clarkson Academy

Claverack Academy and Hudson River Inst. Claverack...

Clinton Academy.

Clinton Grammar School

Clinton Liberal Institute..

Clover Street Seminary

Cortland Academy..

Cortlandville Academy
Deaf and Dumb Institution

Delaware Academy
Delaware Literary Institute
De Ruyter Institute
Dundee Academy.
Duchess County Academy
East Bloomfield Academy
Ellington Academy

Erasmus Hall Academy.

....

Cortlandville

New York...

Delhi

Franklin

De Ruyter
Dundee

Poughkeepsie
East Bloomfield.

Ellington.

Flatbush

Cortland.

Cortland. New York Delaware.

Delaware.

Madison.

Yates.

Duchess.

Ontario.

Chautauque.

Kings.

Fort Covington Academy

Fort Covington.. Franklin.

Fort Plain Seminary and Female Coll. Inst. Fort Plain

Franklin (Malone) Academy.

Franklin (Prattsburgh) Academy

Fredonia Academy

Friendship Academy.

Galway Academy

Genesee Wesleyan Seminary

Genesee and Wyoming Seminary

Geneseo Academy

Geneva Union School..

Malone

Prattsburgh

Fredonia

Gilbertsville Academy and Coll. Institute. Butternuts

Glen's Falls Academy.

Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary

Grammar School Columbia College.

Grammar School Madison University

Granville Academy

Greenville Academy.

Groton Academy.

Half Moon Academy

Hamilton Academy

Hamilton Female Seminary.

Hartwick Seminary..

Hobart Hall Academy.

Holley Academy

Hudson Academy

Ingham Collegiate Institute.

Ithaca Academy

Steuben.

Chautauque.
Allegany.

Saratoga.

Livingston.
Genesee.

Livingston.
Ontario.

Otsego.

Greenville.... Greene.

Half Moon...... Saratoga.

Glen's Falls

Warren.

North Granville.

Washington.

Groton

Tompkins.

Hamilton

Madison.

Medina Academy.
Mexico Academy
Middlebury Academy.

Millville Academy.

Millville

Orleans.

Monroe Academy

Montgomery Academy.

Montgomery.... Orange.

Monticello Academy

Monticello..

Sullivan.

Jamestown Academy.
Jefferson County Institute
Johnstown Academy
Jonesville Academy....
Jordan Academy
Keeseville Academy
Kinderhook Academy
Kingsboro' Academy.
Kingston Academy
Liberty Normal School.
Lockport Union School.
Lowville Academy..
Lyons Union School
Macedon Academy
Manlius Academy
Mayville Academy