The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

L 4DIES' COLLEGE

"This college was openPd in April, and, so far, its
aggregate success has exceeded the expectations of your
directors. The numerous attendance at the girls' school,
and the favourat'!e condition of the college, have induced
your directors to take into consideration the expediency
of providing additional accommodation. They are enabled
to state, that if their successors should deem it advisable
to provide further the accommodation, the necessary
means will be at their disposal.

"LIBRARY.
"The considerable additions lately made to the library
have led to so large an accession."
The Chairman said : Gentlemen, I hope it will be your
pleasure to support the motion I beg to move, that the
report now read he received and adopted. When we entered
the lecture room just now, it might have appeared to a
spectator that there was not the interest felt in the institu-
tion which he should have desired. But I put a very
diff'rent construction upon that fact. (Hear, hear.) I
consider that this institution is now so firmly established in
public opinion, that it is necessary only to keep it in
working order to continue to do the great good which
has been its result from the beginning up to the present
time. (Flear, hear.) It is impossible to over-estimate,
I think, the great good which this institution has
done ; and I wish it had been the pleasure of the directors,
or that it had occurred to them to have made, if they could,
any statement of the thousands of boys who have been
educated in this institution. I know many in this town
myself who owe everything, all their establilament in life,
to the circumstance of their receiving en good an education
under this roof. (Elear, hear.) With respoet to the
girls' schools, I think that was a most happy institution.
Living On the spot I may sa3 between the boys' institution
and that of the girls, 1 see the girls coming and going
every day, and I am certain their characters through-
out life will be improved, and that they will be
made more useful members of srwiety from the
education they are now receiving. (Hear, hrar.) I
shall not take up your time any longer, but shall call upon
I my friend Mr. Holt to second the motion, that this report
be received and adopted.

Mr. George Holt seconded the resolution. In opening
his remarks he sail it was very ummon to commence such
an address by speaking of the great pleasure one felt in
coming forward for such a purpose ; but if he took a review
of their solid foundation, and the position in which they
were placed that day as compared with any period since
their establishment in 1829, he could show that there
never was a period when the supporters of the
institution had more reason to he quite satisfied, and to feel
pleasure. (Hear, hear.) He then glanced at the difficul-
ties which affec'ed the institution at its outset, chiefly
arising from the opposition which existed to any scheme
of popular education, and showed how triumphantly those
d'fficultfes had been overcome, and how the institution had
proved that education could be given upon the wide basis
on which it was established—a system unsectarian and free
to all. (Hear, hear.) Mr Holt dwelt strongly upon
the fact that the institution was not a patronised
institution, its dependence upon such contributions
and aid having wholly ceased, and the insti-
tute now occu tying the proud position of being
wholly self-supporting. He referred to the different
classes of the schools, pointing especially to the benefis
arising from the evening schools. He also spoke of the
hope which the directors entertained of affiliating the
Institution on the London University. In the course
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of his remarks, Mr. II It passingly alluded to the change
of the Institute's name, and reminded the meeting that
the title it now bore, was but very little altered from that
which it originally bore when it started in Sir Thomas's
Buildings. After an eloquent speech of considerable length,
Mr. Holt concluded by seconding the resolution.
The resolution was carried unanithously.
Mr. Samuel moved a vote of thanks to the donors of
money and books mentioned in the report.
Mr. Murphy seconded the motion, which was also carried.
Mr. Haylock moved that the thanks of the meeting be
given to the teachers and officers of the institution, for their
services during the past year ; and remarked that, he hoped
it would not be deemed invidious, if he named one gentle-
man whose assiduity and zeal, on behalf of the institution, had
been most praiseworthy—be alluded to Mr. Cariss, the secre-
tary. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
Mr. Williams seconded the motion in an able speech,
in which he dwelt chiefly upon the benefits which

mechanics derived from the evening classes, and gave, in
addition, some of his experiences as a juror as to the
immense preponderance among criminals, at the sessions,
of those who were unable to read or write.
The motion was carried by acclamation.
The Rev. Professor Griffiths moved an expression of

thanks to the retiring directors. He stated that he had
never heard a more cheering report, and that a tone of vig-
rous health pervaded the institution from beginning to end.
He expressed ahope that it would still progress, and urged
that as the Working Men's College in London had developed
virtually into an University—there was no reason why that
institution should not strive for a similar result. (Hear.
hoar.) Having warmly eulogised the directors for their
zeal, energy, and judgment, he concluded by proposing
the resolution.

Mr. Pllveen seconded the resolution, which was carried
by acclamation.
Mr. Dickson moved the election of the directors for the
coming year, which was also carried. _ _ _

Mr.-S'himinin moved a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which, having been carried by acclamation, the meeting
separated.

A NOVEL ENCAMPMENT,—In ancient and modern war-
fare camps have been proverbial—from the days of Julius
Caesar until Sebastopol crumbled into dust, and our gallant
i,,ldiers and allies proved that canvass walls contained
heroes both free, able, and willing to fight, and to conquer
again and again ; but it remained until the present year of
our Lord, 1857, for us to have an opportunity of witnessing
the eocampment of the Lion Slayer in Shaw's Brow, em-
blematic as it is of the seat of war with the wild ones. The
hero is from Bonny Scotia's Land, and the hardy Scot is
well depictured in his weather beaten phiz. He bears the
mark of years passed in the difficulties and the dangers he
encountered beneath the burning sun of an African clime
in his pursuit of lion hunting. The tawny twins whom he
Las captured, trained, and tamed to illustrate the hunt,
fight, attack, and defeat, certainly proves the astounding
effects produced by courage and enthusiasm, which fact
causes all observers to admit that perseverance always corn-
' wands success.