The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-05 00:00:00

who had intended to be present was the late Vice-chancellor
of Oxford, Mr. Cotton. (Cheers) He could only, in
returning thanks, echo the sentiment which had bhen se
well expressed by his esteemed friend, the principal of St,
Aidau's•—namely, that on the present occassion, no feeling of
self-gratification could be allowed to present itself. The objects
of the institution had been well handled. The principal
object was to supply one of the great wants of the Church
of England. Every portion of the Church of England
should increase proportionately one with the other. The
church wanted an increased number of parishes, an increased
number of churches, an increased number of bishops, and
an increased number of clergymen. They wanted to repeat
a saying of the Archbishop of Canterbury, that every flock

should have its pastor, and every pastor his flock. This,
then, was an institution in which men wereprepared for that
purpose. When Dr. Baylee came to Liverpool, trained as
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he had been to missionary enrts and to a missionary life,
his mind fully realised all the great work which he had to
perform. He came there, as he had himself most eloquently
and ably described, with his mind deeply impressed with the
awful responsibility of so many thousand souls to be cared
for. It was upon that very day six years ago, that a
meeting was held in Liverpool, at which Rector Campbell
presided, for the purpose of raising £lO,OOO for the erection
of that college. This was just after the London committee
had been formed. He well remembered the effect which
was then produced by Dr. Baylee's statement, and the deep
interest which it excited. The result which had been attained
was the best evidence of the success which followed that
meeting. Six intervening years had passed—they had,
indeed, been years of uphill work, and of continuous effort.
They nad, indeed, been years marked by many difficulties,
but also marked by as many eneouragements. (Hear, hear.)
For the result he need only say eireumspice. (Hear, hear.)
In the first instance, a site was obtained for the college, of
which they were not able to make use ; and, through the
liberality of a man well known and respected in that neigh-
bourhood, Mr. Brassey, they were enabled to sell that site,
and obtain a very large profit upon the sale. Then they
purchased the present site upon which the building stood.
The land was purchased from the Birkenhead commissioners,
whose bonds were at a discount at the time, and conse-
quently the committee were enabled, by a fortuitous circum-
stance in money affairs, to become possessed of an estate far
more valuable than the sum given for it. On the security
of that estate money had been raised, and, with that money,
the present building was erected. They had then to the
value of £22,000 in the building, and in land, which
had grown out of a subscription, he might say,
to the amount of £5.000. Not more than £5,000
had been raised by subscription. The college had,
however, met with much generous and liberal assistance.
The council must feel a deep debt of gratitude to their
commercial friend, Mr. Torr, and others, who had given
their time and attention, and whose commercial experience
was found most valuable. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) No
doubt, in addition to the aid of these gentlemen in the
arrangement necessary for the institution the sanction of
their names had been of great weight in Liverpool, and had
obtained what probably otherwise the council might not
have been successful in obtaining. Nothing, he felt, could
be of greater importance than that an institution like that,
which appealed to the public for support, should be placed
upon a footing as regarded its accounts, to which the public
might look with extreme confidence ; and in a great com-
mercial community like this, he felt that the council were
especially called upon to have all the monetary affairs of
the institution placed in the most satisfactory and un-
assailable position. (Hear, hear.) His Lordship then
dwelt upon the vast importance of that college to
the Church of England. It was not an institution
antagonistic to the Universities. (Hear.) It was not
sufficient for those who were about to take on
them the duties of clergymen to be well read. It was not
sufficient:to be a patristic and theological scholar. Thepeculiar
feature of this institution was in the training which the
students obtained by the pastoral visitation in Liverpool,
which formed a part of the course. It was amid scenes of
suffering—in the houses of sickness, and of want—amid the
practical realities of life—that the truth which the students
had learned, came into actual force. This institution was,
therefore, of especial use to the Church of England, in
forming a band of trained and disciplined ministers. It
did not prevent them from obtaining theological erudition.
It did not prevent them from going through an university,
but it placed before them an opportunity of obtaining a
practical training, such as no university could afford them.
(Cheers.) The Church of England must be adapted to
the wants of the people. It could, no longer, live on
prestege. (Hear. hear.) They lived at a time which was
marked by a scrutinising and a crucial enquiry into every-
thing. They had arrived at a period when the basis upon
which everything rested, was being tried and questioned.
The utility of every institution, must be the stamp of its
merit. (Hear, hear.) The Church of England would not be
free from that scrutiny to which every other of their insti-
tutions had been or' would be subjected. The Church of
England, in order to be a permanent institution, humanly
speaking, must be a institution which was suited to and
capable of supplying the wants of the people of the country.
(Ilear.)!lt wasanlexpression of the late Sir Robert Peel that
it was useless to polish the gilded cornices of the temple
unless they widened the basis on which it rested. No in-
stitution of the kind was eminently suited to supply the
wants of the church. It would send forth ministers capable
of addresing the poor, and the masses of the country ; of
appealing to their sympathies, of meeting their wants, of
gaining an influence over them, and, by means of such
minister, the Church of England would be laying the
groundwork of future usefulness, the foundation of future
security, and by making herself permanent in that country,
providing for her extension and permanence throughout the
world. (Hear, heir, and cheers.) His Lordship, after some
further observation., resumed his seat amid enthusiastic
applause.
The Chairman then gave " The Liverpool Committee ;"
and called upon Mr. John Torr to respond.
Mr. Torr, on risince, was loudly cheered. In replying,
he said that he believed that to the committee, with which he
had been associated, the institution owed much. lie felt
especial gratification in responding to the toast, because it
gave him an opportunity of thanking, which he did most
sincerely, the gentlemen who so readily came forward at
his appeal, and gave their subscriptions towards the founda•
tion of the institution, then completely in embryo, and
established in a place rather antagonistic, as it was then
falsely supposed, to the interests of Liverpool. The twelve
gentlemen whom he first solicited for subscriptions gave him
£l,2oo—(cheers)—an instance of liberality which, he ven-
tured to say, was seldom equalled, and still more
rarely exceeded. He would appeal to those of
the subscribers who had looked upon that noble pile,
and ask them whether he could not demand at
their hands a receipt in full for value received for the
money they had spent ? (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
There were still many outworks required to complete
their fortification. It was a noble pile, but it was
in the midst of desolation. Considerable additions
were required to their funds, and he hoped that what had
been already done would be an encouragement to further
contributions. Mr. Torr then eloquently urged upon those
present the necessity of enabling the work which had been
so nobly commenced to be finished on a commensurate scale,
and concluded amid loud applause.

The Chairman proposed " The Liverpool Collegiate In-
stitution." (Cheers).
The Rev. Mr. Hewson, who was loudly applauded, ac-
knowledged the toast in a short but effective address.
Mr. Greene, M.P., proposed the health of the noble
chairman, which was drunk with an the honours.
The Chairman replied.
Mr. Torr, amid loud cheers, proposed " The Ladies, and
Lady Rayleigh."

Lord Rayleigh acknowledged the toast, and announced,
on behalf of Lady Rayleigh, a donation of £lOO towards
the funds of the institution. The announcement was
warmly applauded.
The assembly shortly after broke up.

TYE UNPOPULARITY OF THE DOCTRINES OF TUE LATTER-
DAY SAINTS AT WAKEFIELD.-It is a. general practice for
this body to assemble at the top of Westgate, Wakefield, on
Sunday evenings, and there exert their declamatory powers
in behalf of their religion. On Sunday evening the mem-
bers assembled as usual, and were addressed by one of the
elders, who was heard with patience until he had nearly
finished his discourse ; when one of his hearers, not agree •
ing with him on one or two points, contradicted him, and
invited him to a discussion. The elder, however, not being
inclined to discuss such " solemn truths" with an " unor-
dained," descended from his rostrum and made off for the
meeting house, pursued by hundreds of persons, who, on
the route, mobbed the elder and others in connection with
the church of Latter-day Saints. With some difficulty they
got within the precincts of their meeting-house, when they
locked the door in the faces of the excited and yelling multi-
tude, who commenced throwing stones, &c., against the
door, with the intention of breaking it open; and had it not
been for the prompt assistance rendered by the police, they
would no doubt have succeeded.

These narrow minded Clamourers—Professors who repro-
bate improvement and discovery as innovations—are silenoed
by the most respectable part of the Faculty, who do not
scruple to recommend such articles as have acquired celebrity
by their intrinsic merit. But it is a subject of regret, with
all classes of the community, that the most valuable Patent
and Public Medicines are often counterfeited. JONES'S
EDICINE WAREHOUSE is established on the principle
of selling Genuine Patent Aledicines and Drugs only
Captains of ships, officers in the army or navy
partladiesof the
empire,
an and gentlemen,
and a others, going
country, going to a distant
y, may at all
times have a large or small assortment of these Approved
Medicines, safely packed, with ample directions for use, so
as to go without risk to any distance, furnishing an admix.
ab'e resource of superior and well-tried remedies alway
at hand. Perfumers, chemists, &c., will, on application
receive a wholesale price list, affording, them an opportunity
of purchasing on the very lowest terms. English and
Foreign agency carefully conducted. F. G. J. receives
almost daily, parcels from London, whence all articles of a
new kind may be procured free of carriage. Jones's, 5,
Paradise-street, third door from Claurch-street, and nearly
facing Lord-street.—Adz,