Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

MAPPING CERTIFICATES.

Clans L MeD R J ; Nicholson, W ; McDowell,
W ; Hind, J; Dinal4son, J; Shaw, J; Blevin, J; 11.
Rigby, P ; lll.Maric, A E ; Dunmford, W F; IV Piatt,
J E ; Heath, W ; V. Martin, S G ; VI. Faith, J F ;
Wright, J P ; Elliott, F ; VII. Faith, C ; Medcalf, T ;
Swan, J H; VIII. Bliedburg, A L ; Evans, W P;
Fletcher, N ; IX. Fowdon, C.

EVENING CLASSES.
T E G:bb, doable certificate him the Society of Arts, in
their examination at HividersficAd.

W Green. Architectural Drawing (prize last year to R
Owens) ; W. Johnson, cerificate.

J Woodhouse. J RinrnAr, Ornamental Thawing (prize
last yea, to Sydney Wood) ; J P Woodhouse and H G
Jones, certificates.

J Fletcher, Lan,isca2e Drawing; T V Occle3head, car-
tifi.cate

T E Gibb Arithmetic ; li. Unsworth, certificate.
J Tweatyman, Mathematics ; 8 Croft, certificate.
W Unsworth, English Grammar; W Cooper, certificate.
W Woods, Geography ; W Unsworth, certificate.
E J Green, Writing ; A Baker and W I Sutcliffe, cer-
tificates.
Tle Rev. Hugh 'AI Neile then cane forward to propose a
vote of thanks to the Archdeacon for his kindnc,s in
occupying the chair. In doing so he said : I can
supplement part of the Archdeacon's speech, of which,
from modesty, he said nothing himself. And now here is a
paper, which you, Mr. Principal, will excuse me fur tolling
in this blunt way before all the boys, is defective. Here is
a list of University honors obtained by former pupils in
these schools And these are all the honors marked as
having been obtained by former pupils of these schools !
Why should there not be a list of commercial honors;
and now pariicn'arly I ask why should there be no mention
of military honors? (Cheers ) This brings me to what I
want to spry, which the Archdeacon did not say
about a former pupil of these schools. He told you he
once had a son here, and with a full heart he restrained
himself from saying anything more about that son. Bat,
my young friends, although shore is great truth, as we all
know, in the saying, of our Lord, that " out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," it is also,
true, sornotirnop, that the heart is too full to allow a ready
trteranee. I have great pleasure in telling you something
about a former pupil of these schools, who is now a Lieu-
tenant in her Majesty's 9th Lancers. He wee attached to
Colo.nel Gzeathead'e flyiLg coluinn,, in pursuing the Indian

mutineers after the fall of Delhi. With his regiment he 'l.
reached Agra. There, after a long and arduous march, er
succession of marches, they had relaxed for a short sotto
and were in the act of chsnging their dress and -,,',,shinsthemselves, when they were taken by surprise. it is not
"ego is to be
for me to say to whom the blame of that
ascribed. No doubt our toilitaey authteri";res have a'readv
examined into that point, But, hs a matter of feet, there
was a surprise. The enemies were upon them senile they
were washring; or breakfastieig, Peed 3 our forrreer comrade
here, among others, was suddenly
called. to action, and ru-lied into action before he had time
your ieilow schoolboy,
t.'h dress himself, Yee got, en his horse in h:s short. Ho
received a mnsket bulls: through his bridle.arm, He re-
ceiv, d cuta from sabres—won :Ids, in all, from load and steel
twenScy-two in TAuraber. He was separated from his
squadron, a seaall one, consisting of about twenty
dragoons, and surrounded by the enemy, after ho had lost
the use cf his bridle arm, and, through little short of a
miracle, o'; providential protection and interposition, he
was restored to his comrades, and his life is still
mercifully spared. (Cheers.) I. hope it may please God
to restore hires to strength, and to give him a safe journey
an' voya;o home, that he may gladden his father's heart,
:had that he may, at mLisummer, come here into this
room, and show himself as a specimen of military
I honours obtained by a former pupil du ing the year.
(Thar, hear, and cheers.) You have been spoken to
about the necessity of taking exercise and attending
to your health. When you go to work at exercise, do not
spare yourselves. Go at it, and do not consider that you
are doing yourselves any injury, if you fatigue yourselves
at it. I scarcely think that our calisthenic exercises for
our young men are vigorous enough in these days. When
I was a schoolboy, I em afraid there was not the same
instruction given to us about keeping our tempers, and
about gentleman-like forbearance, when we were con-
teadietee. I remember very well, that when I was a
schoolboy, beating was in fashion, (Laughter.) That
was, I can assure you, a very vigorous exercise. (Laugh-
ter.) It tries the whole physical men. Ido not know
whether it was very goad for the moral man, but I am
quite sure it was good for the physical man. Now. Ido
not say this in order to recommend you to box, but if
some judicious practical man, some good fugleman, some
old serjeant, for instance, could supply you with some
mode not merely of exercising but of putting forth your
whole strength, your whole vigour in the exercise, it would
do you good. Having spoken of the advantage of schools
which afforded education without compelling boys to leave
home, but at the same time remarked that, as the same
system did not suit all boys, parents sometimes found it ju-
dicious to send some of their children to schools in other
places, and added, that this was not to be taken as implyir g
the slightest want of coeflience in that institution. Dr.
M'Neile proceeded to point out the great difference between
the Christian religion and the Pagan creeds of the world.
He said : You have the happiness to enjoy a revealed
religion, the tendencies of which are to attract to moral
purity. How beautiful, how touching, does the manifes-
tation of God, as we have it in Christ, attract to moral
purity ; and herein it is a great, and bright, and glorious
contrast, to that which I am sorry to say many among you
are obliged be too fhniliar with—l mean the system mis-
called religion, which prevailed among the ancient
classical Greeks. It is a contrast as well, to that which
prevails among the melaphysical Easterns. The ideal,
according to the Greeks, which approches nearest to the
Divine image, was sensuous beauty. The ideal among
the Easterns which approaches nearest to the Divine
image is immensity, approaching universality. God is
everything—Pantheism is short. Now, there is no moral
attraction in either of these. Nay, on the contrary, the
Geeek naphology is absolu'ely demoralizing. It
ascribes to their Goo's all the lowest and most detest-
able vices of corrupt men, so that the devout
imitator of Jupiter and Mercury, and Bacchus would be
an accomplished adultr,rer, liar, and drunkard. It is a
tainted atmosphere, and I am !tarry to say that it is at the
expense of breathing it, that you are obliged to seek a
proficiency in your elastics' studies. Well it is that you
have a remedy. Oh, how blessed is the remedy, how
pointed the contrast. Look at Christianity. Look at the
exhibition it makes of the Divine image. In Christ God
islife and God is love. The attraction of moral purity
is strong, so that the devout imitator of Christ will
ba found first pure, then peaceable. Whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are true, what-
seever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of
good report—if there be say virtue—if there be any
praise—these are the things in which the devout
student and imitator of Jesus Christ will be found perpe-
tually exercising himself. Remember, then, my dear
young friends, that all you read about the mythology of
the ancients is fabulous Read it as you would a romance.
It is not intended to touch your characters. When it has
influence, it is a miechievous influence. Shake it off
rncrether_ Tr is an elleptual arnriv a pultiva 'on
of taste. It is or advantage to attain the languegeAut
beware of is immorality, and for a protecting power, for
moral attraction, for victory over the world, for victory
over the wicked one, turn to your New Testament.
(Applause.) Here you have every advantage.
You have heard your Principal say, as I
have often hem r 1 him—and you know he not only says it
but does it—that in every wey he gives practical priority
to that great foundation of all sound instruction, teaching
and training in the religion of Jeans Christ. (A.pplause.)
Mr. Alderman Holme seconded the resolution ; and. in
doing so took occasion to state that Dr. M'Neile, although
his own modesty proven ed him from telling it, had two
sons in India ; and, although he had not read that they
had had as yet any special opportunity of distinguishing
themselves, as the Archdeacon's son had done, he had no
doubt, if they inherited one tithe of their father's
spirit and ceurage, that twenty or forty Sepoys
would go down before them. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Holme
also added to what Dr. M'Neile had stated of Lieutenant
Jones, that after that officer had been wounded, he showed
teat he remembered the teachings of his father, that he
had been trained up in Christian principles, and had
become not only a brava soldier of the Queen, but what
was much batter, a brave Christian warrior, and his
example, like that cf his father, had been blessed to those
around him in the evidences he gave, when lying on a bad
of sickness, of patience, resignation, and Christianity.
Having paid an eloquent tribute to the Archdeacon, his
faithful ministrations, his eminent example and advice, and
his private friendship ankkindness, Mr. Holme concluded
by sec ending the resolu ion.
The resolution was carried by enthusiastic acclama-
ton, and three vigorous cheers were given for the Arch-
deacon.

The Archdeacon having briefly acknowledged the com•
pliment, the proceeding terminated.

It may not he out of place to mention that the prizes
distributed, which were splendidly b3uud and gilt volumes,
were, as usurd, supplied by Messrs Webb and Hunt, of
Church• street.

HOLIDAY AT 'rue STOCK EXCITANG.I ON SATURDAY.—It is
expected that the Stock Exchange will be clo3ed on Satur-
day next, and that the day will be kept as a holiday in
almost all departments of basiness.

THE EMPEROR OF RLTSEA AND THE POLISH PEASANT
WOMAN.—The Emperor Alexander 11., a letter from St
Petersburgh states, has just been the hero c f the following
interesting adventure :—At a short distance from Warsaw,
between that city and Lublin, the carriege in which his
Majesty was travelling broke down, and while waiting for
it to be repaired, the Czar asked for shelter from the owner
of a cottage near the road. The honours of the humble
dwelling were done with the most perfect ease by the
mistress, who although she con,,i lered that her visitors
were nobles, little imagined that she ha I under roof the
Emperor and his aide-de-crap. She offered iu the most
gracious manner all that her house afforded. A conver-
sation arose, end naturally turned on the visit of the
Emperor to Poland. The Polish woman spoke of the Cz sr
with such praise that she was asked what she would do if
the prince, whom she appeared to like so well, was ever to
visit her cottage ? The woman replied that such a thing
was utterly impoesib'e. This answer was not deemed
satiefacto:y, and her questioner ins'sted upon a more
explicit oue " Well, then," said the woman, "I would
take my little boy by the hand and show him to the Em-
peror, saying : —Lord, King of Poland, look at this child ;
he is my only blessing, and I would give my life for him;
but some night strangers will come, and, seizing on the
poor child, carry him off to the chief town of the arrondise-
ment where thoy will crop off i,is hair like that of a dog,
put a long coat on his back, and tell him he is enrolled in
a regiment ! Oh, my God ! preserve me from such a
misfortune ! Ish uld die of despair !" Tne poor woman,
at the bare idea of such an event, hid her face in her hands
and burst into tears. "Nevertheless," said the Czar,
" the country can lot be without an army ! ' " That is
true," replied the young mother, "but if the soldiers
remained in their own part of the country one might go
and see them from time to time. Bat in the Russian
army a soldier is sent no one knows where, and there is no
chance of seeing ono's child, or even of knowing whether
he be alive We poor people have our feeliogs, and the
proof is that with us the conscription is watered with floo 's
of tsars by wives and mothers." At this moment the sui e
of the Czar arrived, and the po-r woman soon found that
she had been talking to the Emperor himself. His Majes-
ty, on leaving, told her he should not forget the welcome
which she had given him ; and some dads aftc r she received
his portrait ornamented with brilliants, and suspended to
a geld chain, with permission to wear it round her neck.
The bearer of the present was charged at the same time
to assure the poor woman of the kindness felt towards her
by the Emperor, which doubtless means that she will not
.hays her child taken from her.