Prof. Martin and his efficient corps of assistants are deserving of commendation for their hard and thorough work at this point during the school-year just closed. The number in attendance has been unusually large, (the whole enrolment being 644 against 484 last year); but in thoroughness of teaching and in all that constitutes good discipline there has been a decided advance all along the line. Recognizing the fact that the school building has a seating capacity for only about 350, while the average attendance for a part of the year has been 450, the necessity for enlarged accommodations, as well as some of the difficulties encountered by the teachers, will be apparent. On the principle that what is good for a part is good also for all, there was no favoritism shown in the assignment of parts in the closing exercises. All, “from the least to the greatest,” were given a _speech_. Although the average was somewhat reduced near the close of the term, yet, with the more than three hundred to take part, it will readily appear that the “Commencement Exercises” of Swayne College (as the patrons call it), could not all be crowded into a single day. Consequently, in order that a _good_ thing might last a good while, it was arranged to devote three evenings to the speaking. Friday evening, May 20th, was given to the exhibition of the Primary department; Friday evening, May 27th, to the Intermediate; and Tuesday evening, May 31st, to the Higher department. The Congregational church proving too small on the first night, the exhibition was held the second and third nights in the M. E. Zion church, with an audience on the last night, which, admitting all members of the school free, and charging an admittance fee of a nickel for adults, netted more than seventeen dollars. These exercises, consisting of declamations, dialogues, solos, choruses, &c., were creditable entertainments, and gave evident satisfaction to the members of the City Board of Education and other white visitors in attendance, as well as to the patrons of the school. Monday and Tuesday, May 30th and 31st, were occupied with the examinations of the several departments. These were entered into by the pupils with a good deal of genuine enthusiasm, and evidenced to the goodly number of visitors present that the efforts in “drill,” on the part of the teachers had not been in vain. The “Swayne” is doing good work. * * * * * BEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH.