The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

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read the inscription on the plate
the stone. which was as follows :
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the sth of October, 1852, by the Worshipful the Mayor
of Liverpool, Thomas Littledale, Esq. Patrons: The
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester. the Right Hon
the Earl of Derby. the Right H

the Right Hon. the Earl of S,fion, the Right Hon. Lord
Skelmersdale, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley. Vice-
patrons : The Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool, the
Ven. Archdeacon Brooks and the Rev. Augustus Camp-
bell, rectors of Liverpool. President : Harwood Banner,
Esq. Vice-presidents : R. W. Preston, EQq., W. Bates,
Esq. Treasurer : John Bibby, E,q. Auditors : Henry
T. Browne, Esq., Arthur Thompson, Esq. Secretary :
Edward Banner, Esq. Committee : John M. Banner,
Esq., George W. Ewing, Esq., J. H. Garston, Esq.,
Adam S. Gladstone, Esq., H. Grezebrook, jun., Esq..
Henry A. Grey, Esq., Robert Hutchinson, E,q., Edward
Lawrence, Esq., Edmund Molyneux, Esq., David R,te,
Esq., James Robertson, Esq , J. A. Tobin, Esq., Henry
Winch, Esq. Architect : John Cunningham, Esq.,
F.G.S., M.R.C.G.S. Builder : Mr. Alexander Miller."
Mr. BANNER (addressing the Mayor) said it was well
known to the public of Liverpool how successful they had
been, with God's blessing, with regard to the sister asylum
on a part of the land they then occupied. The land, as
they knew, had been most liberally granted by the Corpo-
ration of Liverpool. The success of the first institution
had induced the promoters of it to think whether they
could not also here one which they considered equally re-
quisite—an asylum for orphan boys as well as girls ; and
they therefore solicited his Worship to lay the foundation-
stone of that undertaking. They proposed the same neat
and unpretending elevation for that institution that they
had observed in the other—not only externally, but they
proposed to follow the same example in its internal con-
duct, the asylums being based on the same principles.
Their object was to shelter, to clothe, to feed, and to in-
struct the poor orphan boy. They proposed to shelter
him, as they had sheltered their dear girls, in a plain but
comfortable home. They proposed to clothe him decently,
feed him plentifully, hut in a manner suited to his condi-
tion ; to give him useful and sufficient education for his
station in life, and, above all, to instruct him religiously
upon the principles of the Church. This was the design
of the present institution, which had so well succeeded in
the other.

Mr. Banner then handed to the Mayor a silver t_ _
surmounted by his Worship's crest, and on the rel
side a neatly executed engraving of the building. It also
bore the following inscription : " Presented to Thomas
Littledale, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool, on the occasion of
his laying the first stone of the Asylum for Orphan Boys,
October 5, 1852." Upon receiving the trowel the Mayor
descended into the excavation, and, having spread the
mortar, applied the plummet, and performed the usual
ceremonies, declared the stone duly and truly laid.

The Rev. Archdeacon BROOKS then engaged in prayer
suitable to the occasion; and at the conclusion three cheers
were given for the building and the Mayor.

The procession was then re-formed, and proceeded to
the place appointed for laying the foundation stone of the
church, upon arriving at which the Archdeacon read the
plate to be laid under the stone. We should also observe
that vases containing the coins, newspapers, &c., were
deposited under each stone. Toe plate laid under the
church foundation was inscribed as follows :—" Church of
the Holy Innocents, Myrtle-street, Liverpool. The foun-
dation stone of this church, to be erected at the sole cost
of Harmood Banner, Esq., was laid by the Right Rev.
the Lord Bishop of Chester, on Tuesday, the sth day of
October, A.D., 1852. Architect, John Cunningham,
Esq., M.R.C.G.S. Builder, Mr. Alexander
Miller."

When the plate had been deposited, Mr. BANNER a
dressed the Lord Bishop, and said that it was a fund
mental rule in both the Orphan Asylums of Liverpoo
that the children should be educated in the principles

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