The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION,

FOR THE EDUEATIOW OF THE
COMMERCIAL, TRADING, Si WORKING CLASSES.

VISITOR.

The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP of CHESTER.

VICE-PRESTDENTS.
JOHN GLADSTONE, ES(l.—(For Life.)
The Right Hon. Lord FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P.
Lord Viscount SLNDONT, M.P.
CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Es q._, M.P.
W. E. GLADSTONE, Ee.q., M.P.
Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS, A.M. _ 2/ Rectors of
Rev. AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL, A.Mil Liverpool.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

James Aspinall, Esq.
Rev. Fred. Barker, A.M.
N. D; Bold, Esq,
Thomas Bold, Esq.
Josiah Booker, Esq.
Charles Boutflower, Esq.
John Briscoe, Esq.
Rev. It. P. Buddicom, A.M.
Christopher Bushell, Esq.
Joseph Cooper, Esq.
John Grantham, Esq.
Richard Griffith, Esq.
Charles Groves, Esq.
Adam Hodgson, Esq.
Samuel Holme, Esq.
George B. lrlam, Esq.
William Jones, Esq.

William Keats, Esq.
James Lawrence, Esq.
Rev. Hugh MlNeile, A.M.
Edmund Molyneux, Esq.
John Moss. Esq.
Thomas Moss, Esq.
Thomas Muncaster, Esq.
Charles S. Parker, Esq.
William Preston. Esq.
James Procter, Esq.
John Rigby, Esq.
W. J. Roberts, Esq.
Henry Steel, Esq.
Rev. Tbos. Tattershall, D.D.
James Tyrer, Esq.
Thos. Wilson, Esq., (Ship-
. builder.)
;URERS.
William Potter, Esq.

TREAS
Robertson Gladstone, Esq. j

PROSPECTUS.

TN order to provide for the Inhabitants of Liverpool an
Education suited to their wants, upon the vriost moderate
terms, and, at the same time, to maintain indissolubly the.
connexion between sound religion and useful learning, it is
proposed to found a New Establishment, to be called "Tint
LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION—FOR THE. EDUCA-
TION OF TUE COMMERCIAL, TRADING, AND WORKING
CLASSES." in which instruction in the doctrines and duties of
Christianity, as taught by the United Church of England and
Ireland, shall, for ever, be communicated in combination
with Literary, Scientific, and Commercial information. And,
with a view to the permanence of the Institution upon this
basis, it is intended that all its Officers, Professors, and
Masters, except the the Teachers of certain Foreign Lan-
guages, shall he members of the Established Church, but
that no distinction shall be made in the admission of Pupils,
and that only the Children of members of the Church of
England shall be required to learn the Church Catechism.
The more effectually to secure the assistance of all ranks
of society in accomplishing
.the objects 'of this Institution,
it is proposed that the instruction which it will afford
shall be given in three distinct departments, namely, two
Day Schools, and an Evening School. The system of
Education proposed for the first school will include the
Classics, English Literature and Composition. Geogra-
phy, Civil and Ecclesiastical History, Modern Languages,
Mathematics, Natural History and Philosophy, Chemistry,
Drawing, and every other branch of useful learning. The
various classes will be placed under the care of able Univer-
sity Graduates, whose constant duty it will be to provide in
the most effectual manner for the great objects of education
—moral and religious training, the communication of gene-
ral knowledge, and specific preparation for the after-pursuits
of life. The instruction to be given in the second school
will be on a more limited and less expensive scale ; but it
will embrace the various requisites of a sound general ethics-
tion, so as to enable the pupils to enter upon the business of
life with advantage to themselves and the community. The
masters engaged in this department will be likewise carefully
selected, with a view to their literary and scientific attain-
ments; and it is confidently anticipated that this division of
the Institution will become highly popular. The exercises
of each School will be commenced and terminated with prayer,
at which the attendance of every pupil will be required ; and
the reading and exposition of the Holy Scriptures will form
a portion of the daily business of the Schools. The Even-
ng School is principally designed for the instruction and int-
provemeut of those whose education has been comparatively
neglected in early life ; but provision will be made in it to
enable young men to pursue particular branches of Classical,
Mathematical. or Commercial knowledge. Classes will be
organised for the study of Navigation, Geography, Nautical
Astronomy, Naval Architecture, and Civil Engineering, which
branches will he taught on a scale commensurate with their
growing importance to the interests of this port --and, with
a view of stilt further adding to the usefulness of these classes,