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principles, because it was foil

igion, and

religion

He would say also that it was calculated to produce most
beneficial results in such a town as this, because, both by
the moral training, by the course of study pursued, and

by the different departments into which the system was
divided, it was admirably adapted to prepare the young,
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pool a great advantage belonging to the institution, as it
connected and combined for their advantage so excellent
a school of education for their children, with the benefit
of home superintendence. During the hours of school,
their sons were under the care and tuition of able and ex-
cellent masters, and on returning home they were under
what—he was sure the principal and masters of the insti-
tution would agree with him was no less valuable—they
were under the eye of their parents. (Hear, hear.) lie

had been requested to present the prizes on that occasion,
and he could only say, that if it was any gratification to
the successful candidates to receive them from his hands,
he begged to assure them it was a great gratification to
him to be allowed to present them with their will-merited
rewards. (Cheers.)

The Rev. J. S. howsoN, the principal, amidst loud
applause, expressed the gratification which he fat must
be shared in by all, at the kind words of sympathy and

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repeated presence was a sufficient assurance of his appro-
val of their efforts. He (Mr. Howson) hoped, after what
his lordship stated last December, that he would find that
visit to Liverpool more calculated to refresh than to fa-
tigue, though he might have attended, at what might have

been .thought great sacrifice of his own convenience

iemieu to make toe meeting more than usually Satisfac-
tory, and that was, the presence of their late principal-
- - )rincipal of the Collegiate Institution. who had

the first

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revisited the scenes of his former labours. He had come
to witness a continuance of that order he had established,
and to be glad that they still enjoyed some measure of
that prosperity which must ever be connected with his

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to hig exertions, lie would not, in his presence, attempt to
describe. The speaker took occasion to call the attention

the upper school the middle and Ile lower, with our ail-
dent famous universities. Like four anchors, they served

to moor them fast to the old institutions of the country,
and he hoped they would help to keep them where they

for they need not be ambitions to drift with the
currents of restless change, or be tossed by the fluctuating
motion of popular applause. Of those four exhibitions,
some were connected with eminent names. The first was
connected with a name well known and justly respected in
this town,—the Rev. Dr. M'lsTeile ; and was announced in
that place, in the year 1845. (Cheers.) Four years had
elapsed, and the 111.`Neile exhibition was vacant again.
And that was not the only benefit traceable to the same

source, for in the middle and lower schools there were
certain M`Neile scholarships, the advantages of which
were acknowledged and warmly contested. That was not
all, for, as if to show that such endowments had been
wisely bestowed. Dr. M'Neile sent his own sons to be
educated there—(cheers)—and one of them was then wait-
ing before them to receive a prize. (Cheers.) He
thought they ought to wish prosperity to one who looked
on them with so much regard. He did not doubt that all
present would join with him in the cordial hope, that he
might see the day, when one or both of his sons, after
some years of steady industry, would receive from their
father's hands that honourable distinction which, with
their lordship's sanction, were to be awarded on that oc-
casion. He might state, in allusion to the recent exami-

nation, that the first on the list for the exhibition was a
pupil named Webster, but he declined it, as it was his in-
tention to study for some time longer in the schools.
(Applause.) The bishop then distributed the prizes to
the pupils, a list of whose names are appended :

UPPER SCHOOL.—The M`Neile University Exhibition, ob-
tained by Webster. hut, on being declined by him, awarded to
Hart. Special Prizes—Junior Divinity Medal, Hosking; His-
torical Do., Josiah Jones ; Mathematical Do., Whitby : Certifi-
cates, Glazebrook, A. M. Jones, Prowse, and J., C. Jones.
Class Prizes - -Ist class: (Egerton scholprship,) Webster; 2nd

class, W. Jones and W.lf:Jones equal; 3rd class, E. Jones;
4th class, J. Hamer Rawdon; sth class, Gardner; 6th class,
Whitby ; preparatory 7th and Bth classes, Rawdon and E. H.
M`Neile : Certificates, T. Jones, C. Mott, Tattershall, C. Wil-
son, Vaughan Jones, T. Bouch, Fairclough, and L. Jones.
Extra Prizes—Greek and Latin Grammar, (given by Mr.
Dixon,) J. Hamer Rawdon and E. H. Hodgson ; Mathematics,
(given by Sir. Dixon,) Wilson ; Greek and General Industry,
(given by Mr. Underwood,) V. Jones; French, (given by Mr.
Sears,) E. Wilson and Killick ; Hebrew, (given by Mr. Dixon,)
Kershaw.

MIDDLE SCHOOLS.—Special Prizes—Divinity Medal, Pryce ;
Nomination to Upper School, Pearce; Mathematical Medal,.
Bowman; Mathematical and Arithmetical Certificates, Livesey
and Rogerson; French Medal, Johnston; French Certificate,
Crane; Drawing Medal, Holmes; Drawing Certificates, Roth-
well and S. Kershaw ; Penmanship Medal, Mosford ; Penman-
ship Certificates, Brock and T Smith. Class Prizes-Ist class,
Potter Scholarship, Bowman ; 2nd class, prize of books, Strong ;
3rd class, prize of books, H. Wilson ; 4th class, prize of books,
Hootott ; 7th class, prize of books, Boyd ; Bth class, prize of
books, Swift. First M`Neile Scholarship, Pearce ; Second Do.,
Johnston; Singing Certificate, Bowman. Certificates—Wren,
Pilling, Darlington, M'Connan, A. Jones, and Cooper.
LOWER SCHOOL.—Special Prizes.—lst Divinity, Thos. Over-
end ; 2nd Divinity, Alfred P. Kirby ; nomination to the Middle
School, Alfred P. Kirby; History, Matthew Smith; Mathe-
matics, Frederick Wainwright; Arithmetic, John Davies; Ist
M'Neile Scholarship, John Halden ; 2nd ditto,John Itamsden ;
Writing, Herbert Leab ; Certificates, W. B. Jones, Thos. Over-
end, J. Johnson. Class Prizes.—lst Molyneux Scholarship,
John Sutton; 2nd ditto, Fred. Wainwright, Thomas Hughes,
S. F. Cross, E. H. Woodward, Wm. Woods, Thomas W. Bates,
Henry Parslow, and Jas. Nicholson ; Certificates.—George
Clapham, E. B. Christian Thomas Edwards, J. E. Briant, H.
C. Hodgkin, Charles Hall, Edward Groom, Chas. H. Alsop,
John W. Davies, George Cranage, and John Webster. Dis-
tinguished themselves.—C. Chamberlin, R. Wright, J. Hornhy,
H. Leah, Johnson, S. Lazarus, Barclay, Lowe, Burch, Gree-
tham, Goulbourn, Arrowsmith P. W. Martin, E. Lodge, R.
Gordon, Wm. Baker, Chesworth, Sinker, Rogerson, W. Stride,
John Jones, Jas. Oddie, Walker, Fuller, Woodward, Stride,
Asbridge, Barker, Turner, Alderson, S. J. Evans, T. Wil-
liams, Alex. F. Thomson, E. Potbury, T. Altree, and Davies.
Extra Class Prizes.—A. P. Kirby, E. B. Christian, J. E. Briant,
H. C. Hodgkin, Hall, W. Alderston' J. W. Davies, and George
Cranage. - Singing Certificates.—S. Lazarus and G. Roberts.
EVENING SCHOOL.—Mathematical Prize, John Dunning ;
Certificate, John Shaw; Arithmetical Prize, Joseph Jackson;
Writing Prize, James Templeton.
On delivering the principal prize, namely, the exhibi-

tion to the university, his LORDSHIP said that he
should be wanting in respect to the assembly, and he
would do a great injustice to his own feelings, if he did
not congratulate the young gentleman then before him
upon the high distinction and honour which he had
attained

Dr. M`Neile was present—(applause)—and
his presence would prevent him saying so_ much as he

would otherwise have done in connexion with the endow-
ment which bore his name. He was, however, well
known to all by his devoted labours and services, and as
a faithful minister of Christ. _ They bad all, no doubt, in

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his church and in that room felt the electric forco of 'hi;
eloquence—(cheers)—and he believed he was right in,
saying that some Christian friends in Liverpool, apprecia-
ting his character, anxious to testify their respect for him,
by some mark of regard, founded the exhibition which
bore his name. (Cheers.) He would venture to say that
the expression of their gratitude and respect could not
have assumed any form more gratifying to Dr. M'isleile

Mr. BENNETT said that after what had been stated by himself,or raoretappropriate in connexion with his posi-
Mr. Tinne, relating to the future operations of the tion and the objects of that great institution. With re-
Health Committee as connected with the Water Cora- Bard' to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, let
mittee, and from other circumstances to which it was not people speak of them as they liked, but he maintained
desirable to allude, he wished to withdraw the motion to that they were noble institutions, fitted to educate any
a future meeting of the Council. man for the highest duties of life ; and for his own part
The Council then, broke up. he could refer with pleasure to that part of his life which