3 APRIL 1852, Page 20

DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL ART.

A circular has been issued frein this department—the reorganized centre of the-Schools of Design—calling upon the several schools through.- out the country for a specified number of works in twenty-four classes, geometrical, perspective, ornamental, floral, human figures, &e. &c., and finally "executed designs in fabrics." The examples are required as tests of the progress of the students during the past year, and are to be "submitted to public inspection."