The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

MISS WILSON,of N 0.3, SANnoN-STREET, Falkner-
square, begs to inform the Families in the Neighbourhood
that she can receive, after Christmas„adestyOUNG LADIES,
in addition to her present n beref Pupils:
Cards of Term. and repces may be had on application
to Miss WILSON.
3, Sandon-street, December 20th, 1847.

SERIOUS INCREASE IN THE RATE OF MOR-
TALITY, AND EXTRAORDINARY STATE QF
THE ATMOSPHERE.

The Registrar-General for the Metropolitan Districts
has given, in his last return, the following as the morta-
ity for the last three weeks, viz., for the week ended
Nov. 27th, 1,677 ; for the week ended Dec. 4th, 2,454 ;
and for the week ended Dec. 11th, 2,416. The usual
weekly average for this period is only 1,046. The in-
crease of last week above the average of the season is,
therefore, 1,370 weekly, or 130 per cent., whilst there is a
decrease of only 38 as compared with the greater number
of deaths in the preceding week.
The principal diseases to which death is attributed have
seen, in the three several weeks, zymotic, 415, 638, and
783; diseases of the respiratory organs, 634, 994, 913;
typhus, Scc., 91, 136, and 140 ; influenza, 36, 136, and
374 ; pneumonia and bronchitis, 366, 649, and 593.
The return gives, along with the above factS, a state-
ment of the very low range of the barometer during a
portion of the period embraced, and the unseasonably
high range of the thermometer. On the Ist December
the reading of the former was high, being at midnight
30,237 inches. It descended, with only one slight rally,
until on the morning of the 7th it was 28,381 inches,
which is lower than any reading since the memorable
itorm of January 13th, 1843. After the 7th it gradually
ascended. The total decrease in the five days and one
hour to the 7th, when it was at the lowest point, was
1,855 inches. This change of reading is the greatest
since January, 1843, after the storm, when, from the
13th to the 19th, the reading increased 2,341 inches in
live days and twenty-one hours.

Variations of temperature equally extraordinary ow-
:lured within the corresponding period. On the Ist of
December, at nearly noon, the thermometer, which
'luring the preceding night had been as high as 50 deg.,
:unk to 40 deg. At lit had risen again to 50 deg., where
it continued until 4 p.m., when it began to decline, until
,it midnight it had reachd 38 deg. On the 2d—a cloudy
lay—the temperature increased until at midnight it stood
at 56 deg., without any further decline than one degree
luring the night. On the 3d—also cloudy—the tempe-
,ature was high until 8 p.m., after which it sank to 41deg.
On the 4th it increased until I p.m., when it was 50 deg.,
at which it continued until after midnight, when it de-
clined to 24 deg. 5 min. On the sth the highest tempe-
rature was 47 deg., and the lowest 37 deg. at 11 p.m. It
•ose from this time until 7 a.m. on the 6th, when it was
it 53 deg. At midnight it had sunk to 41 deg. The 7th
vas cold, and little change all day. On the Bth it rose
from 32 deg. in the morning to 41 deg. 5 min. at 1 p.m.,
,nd decreased to 31 deg. 3 min. It •then rose gradually
through the rest of the day and night, until, at 1 p.m. on
on the 9th, it was at 56 deg. 5 min., having risen 25 deg.
2 min. in eighteen hours. From 2 p.m. on the 9th until
! p.m. on the Ilth, the temperature kept nearly uniformly
high, the difference being only between 50 and 54 deg.
After 1 p.m. on the 11th it declined, until, at midnight,
't was 38 deg. It will be seen that, during this period,
the temperature has frequently been higher in the night
than during the day, contrary to the usual rule. The
meteorology of the period, as compared with that of the
corresponding period of the five years since 1841, gives
similar singular results.

How far the above atmospherical phenomena are con-
nected with the increased amount of disease prevailing,
we leave it to medical men to determine. Should they
be the inducing cause of such disease, a similar increase
in the rate of mortality to that above noticed will proba-
bly be found to have prevailed in this district, as similar
phenomena have been noticed at Preston by Mr. Holden,
and in this town by Mr. Chadburn, optician.

EXAMINATION OF THE CHILDREN AT THE
NORTH CORPORATION SCHOOLS, YESTERDAY.

A very interesting examination of the North Corpora-
tion Schools, previously to their breaking up for the Christ-
mas holidays, took place yesterday, in the presence of the
Chairman of the Education Committee, Edmund Moly-
neux, Esq., and several members of the committee, with
a number of the local clergy. His worship the Mayor
was also present shortly after the commencement of the

proceedings.
The first part of the establishment visited was the in-
fants' school. in which we found 150 children of both
sexes assembled, some of them very young, and all very
clean and neatly dressed. On the entrance of the visiting
gentlemen they were saluted by the young scholars, and
the business of the day commenced by Miss Pemberton, the
mistress, asking a few questions, as to the purpose for
which they were met together, which were replied to with
wonderful tact and accuracy. A prayer was then recited
by them, and a hymn sung by the little creatures in excel-
lent tune and time,—their youth considered. They were
then examined in Scripture history, in which they acquit-
ted themselves very satisfactorily ; and after another
hymn, and an examination in the outlines of geography,
a portion of the History of England and the pence table
were sung, after the system adopted in infant schools,
with very pleasing effect. This part of the proceedings
terminated by the children singing "God save the Queen."
After a few words of eulogy to the children and teachers
trom the chairman of the education committee, and the

tering compliment to Miss Pemberton, the mistress, who,
although she had only had the entire management for the
past half-year, had succeeded in bringing the school to
3 of efficiency.

We way remark that the parents and relatives of the
children, a number of whom were present, seemed to take
great delight in the progress of their little ones.
The boys and girls' school was next visited ; and after
pLayers had been said, the 15th chapter of the Ist Corin-
thians was read by the head boys, who were sasequently
examined by the Rev. G. Dover ai to the chief doctrines
and truths enforced in it, in which they acquitted them-
selves very satisfactorily. _ _ _ _

Mr. Alderman MOLYNEUX here announced that both
the Mayor and limself were compelled to leave, and con-
gratulated the boys upon their excellent reading, hoping
that the examination which they had gone through would
show readinv +n understand. He

...nem the advantage a ,u
expressed himself glad to see so many present.
His Worship the MAYOR also expressed his pleasure
not only to see so many of the children present, but their
parents as well, and was glad to see them taking so evident
an interest in the proceedings. After a few remarks as to
the advantage of education beginning at the proper point,
he stated a very interesting fact bearing upon the subject.
He had recently, he said, had to visit the Borough Prison,
in which he found a great number of prisoners composed
of young persons of tender age, like those he saw before
him. He had to question them all, as to the education
which they had received ; and the reply of the majority
was that they had received none. It gratified him to find
only one amongst the number who had been brought up
at a school where Scriptural teaching was made the basis
of education.

The Girls' school was next examined, and the scholars
passed through the ordeal with equal credit to themselves.
We were pleased to notice the neatness of the whole, and
especially to see amongst the most proficient a few who
might almost be called adults, as such a fact tends to spew,

on the part of themselves and their parents, a growing
sense of the value of education. Mr. Dover, having to
leave at this stage of the proceedings, addressed to the
children a few valuable remarks, impressing upon them
the importance of their making the most of the opportu-
nities of education then within their reach, to enable them
to pass with credit awl advantage to themselves the active
life they would soon have to enter. Above all they should
strive to acquire that knowledge which would tend to
make them wise unto salvation.

The whole proceedings in this school, which were pro-
longed further, reflectea great credit upon both the male
and female teachers, We observed particularly the copy-
books and specimens of the sewing of the girls handed
round to the parents—of whom there were a great num-
ber present—which appeared to give unequivocal satis-
faction.
During the course of the examination the following
song was very pleasingly sung by the girls and boys :

THE STORMY WINDS.
Hark I how the rain is falling,

Shut to the (lodic
And close the shutters fast.
On such a rough and bitter night,
How pleasant 'tis to know
We have here,
Nought to fear,
When the stormy winds do blow.

Oh pity the poor sailor,
And all who cross the seas;
Whatfears are theirs,
What toils and cares,
While here we sit at ease.
May they in safety reach their port,
Nor wreck nor danger know;
And on shore,
Fear no more,
When the stormy winds do blow.

COLLISION ON THE RIVER : STEAMER SUNK..---OR
Sunday morning, about eight o'clock, the Flambeau,
steamer, left her moorings at the Albert Pier, for the pur-
pose of proceeding to sea : the Wirral, Woodside Ferry
boat, was at the same time coming from Woodside, and,
when little more than half-way across the river, the two
vessels unfortunately came into collision. The Flambeau
was struck, or struck herself, on her larboard bow, and
was so much injured that she rapidly filled, and shortly
afterwards sank. The Thomas Stanley, steamer, which
was lying near, drew her moorings to avoid being drifted
against, and, before the vessel went down, took the crew
on board. The Wirral, which, strange to say, had not
sustained the slightest injury, attached a rope and towed
the disabled vessel, in hopes to reach the pier, but did
not succeed in conveying her far before she sunk, and
totally disappeared. The event of course caused consider-
able consternation amongst the passengers on board the
Wirral, but it is consolatory to think that from the un-
toward event not the slightest personal injury ensued.
The Flambeau belongs to a company of small capitalists
and had latterly been extensively employed as a steam-
tug, We have heard the most conflicting statements as
to the cause of the collision. The crew of the Wirral
affirm that at the time, their engine was stopped and the
helm put liaid a port. The crew of the Flambeau of
course maintain that the other party were entirely to
blame. —Yesterday afternoon active preparations were
made to raise the Flambeau from her watery bed, where
if she remained she would form a dangerous obstruction
to the navigation of the river. Flats had been employed
in the morning to weigh her up ; but when the tide rose
the chains passed under her gave way, and a tide
was consequently lost. At four o'clock yesterday even-
ing four flats (two on each side) were alongside of her
awaiting the flood tide for the same purpose ; and two
steamers were at hand to tow her if she were got off into
shallow water, or a place of safety. No portion even of
the rigging of the vessel was visible. She had sunk oppo-
site to the north end of the Albert Dock Warehouses,
about three hundred yards from the outer quay, and on
the outside of the N.W. part of Pluekington Bank, where
the water is deep even at the lowest Oh of the tide,

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION-ANNUAL DIS-

TRIBUTION OF PRIZES

Yesterday the annual Christmas distribution of prizes
to the pupils at the Collegiate Institution took place in
the lecture theatre of that establishment. The interest-
ing proceedings of the day were fixed to commence at
twelve o'clock, but long before that hour the spacious
building was crowded with ladies and gentlemen, the
friends and relatives of the pupils. Additional interest
was given to the meeting by the announcement that our
esteemed diocesan, the Bishop of Chester, would preside
on the occasion. The body of the hall was reserved for
the pupils and the galleries for the spectators.
During the interval between the opening. of the doors
and the commencement of the proceedings, the organist
to the institution executed with great effect several well-
known compositions upon the organ, including the halle-
lujah chorus, &c. &c.
A little after twelve o'clock the Rev. Mr. Conybeare,
the principal, followed by the Lord Bishop of the diocese,
came upon the platform. The right rev. prelate, on taking
the chair, was received with loud and long continued
marks of applause. He was supported on his right by his
Worship the Mayor, and the Rev. Rector Campbell; and
on his left by the Rev. the Principal of the Institution,
and the Masters of the Middle and Lower Schools. On
the platform their were also several of the clergy and
gentry of the town.

- The " Venite'i;aving been chaunted by the pupils,
The CHAIRMAN rose, and said that after a long inter-
val, as it seemed to him, he was happy once more to meet
them again. The assembly which he then saw before
him reminded him of former similar occasions when he
had been amongst them, and when he had taken great
interest in their proceedings ; and from what he then saw
around him he did not feel less interest on the present
occasion. It showed to him that that great institution
stood as high as ever in public estimation, and excited the
same interest in Liverpool as it had always done since
its foundation. He was, indeed, glad to find it so, but
the satisfaction which he felt did not cause surprise, be-
cause he knew the institution to have been founded upon
a principle which would insure stability. it was erected
upon no sandy foundation, but upon those principles
which both history and experience now told them were
the only principles upon which all educational establish-
ments should be founded—on the principles that. religion
should form the staple of all education. (Loud cheers.)
He did not mean to say that religion should be the ex-
clusive education to be given, but it should form the pnn-

cipal part_of educatior

the basis upon wh.

I educa-

tin should be formed. (Loud cheers.) It should not
be like the languages, or geography, or something added
to the rest of various branches of instruction, which
might be omitted if desired, but it should be the tissue
running through the web, which could not be dispensed
with. It was the principal part of education, and if it

was not included as a leailir
of education could not be se

prepare him for that state of exis

great purpose
What. was ti

ace which he was to

there could not, he thought

of that being its great purpose ; they should take care,
therefore, not to educate them for the present world, but
for immortality. (Cheers.) He was not there, nor would
that be the place, to undervalue education which applied
to the intellect. It would not be proper to deprecate all
the various branches of education, but unless religion was
made the basis, and ran through the whole, the most im-
portant part of man, which was his spiritual condition,
would certainly be neglected. Teaching the business of

this world was like the vernacular and the acquired in
education. The vernacular might be said to be en-
tirely of this world, but the acquired, if properly
directed, would look to higher ends. They would
therefore •see the difference between the vernacular
and the acquired. He regretted that a system of
education was in some degree pursued in the country
where the principles of religion were excluded, and it was
therefore a subject of much congratulation to his young
friends before hint that they were not under the influence
of such a system. If you, my young friends, ( said the

right rev
lite, as c

are imr.
I with ete]

y the consequences of cultivating the in-
d neglecting that which refers to the spi-

ritual part of m

regret to fi

serious indeed, for you are

you are educa t

wal, and neglecting that which
for time, and not for eter-
lections are, I think, obvious enough. I

of your late vice-principal.
I did not knoiv him except by reputation. By reputation,
however, I knew him well, and I can tell you that at that
place in which the intellect and religion is most cultivated
he stood very high in the esteem of all, and in the
university in which he received his instruction he received
some of the highest rewards which that university
could give. ( Great applause.) In the full enjoyment
of such a reputation, and in the full enjoyment of his

le observations I have made r

an illustration
tained in the p

talents, he was appointed to a situation in this place,
the friends of the institution naturally looked forwar
the benefits to be derived from his appointment
denly, it pleased God to se]
few weeks after teaching he

I illness upon him, and it
e, he was borr

then- :you see

n illustration of the principle of spiritual
education: He had had a good education, but now what
does it avail him—what is it that he at his university

Of great learning and talent
But one thing is not forgotten
his having deeply cultivated a naturall

This is now all forgotten
In the forgetfulness o'

as ever

disciple of God and his Saviour, and ever wished to teach
others to do what he himself did. (Cheers.) In this
example, though dead, he speaks to you. Already has he
done so by the advice which, as I understand, he dictated
to you upon his death bed, and you may, I hope, be
impressed by it with the feeling that that which is
said in the hour of death enables us to judge of it
seriously, and conveys to us lasting impressions. (Cheers.)
Whilst in the midst of life eternity seems to us like a
distant range of hills. We look at them through a num-
ber of intervening objects, and are surprised to see how
high they are when near them. .But take away the inter-
vening objects, and you see the mountain as it is, yet you
see nothing but what was there before. So with regard
to this life. Its business and duties ara but the interven-
ing objects between us and eternity—a sort of mist which
prevents us from seeing it. But when death comes, the
mists are dispelled, and we see eternity as it is—we all
then see its importance, and yet it is really nothing but
what it was before the mists were removed. Like the
mountain which was no higher when it was seen more
clearly, so eternity is no more than what it was before
seen by death. Keep it then constantly in view in all
your transactions, and you may rely upon it that it will
prove t? you the only thing precious in this
-life and in

Inman
in life as

that which is to come. Let the vanity of al
intellect and acquirements persuade you to beg'
you would wish to end it—as I fervently wish all may end
it—with eternity in view. I have been led to make these

remarks from the melancholy circumstance to which I
have alluded, and I trust the lesson it teaches will long
remain upon your memories. We must now proceed to
the more immediate business of the meeting. (The right
rev. prelate resumed his seat amidst loud and long con-
tinued applause.)
The Rev. PRINCIPAL commenced to read the prizes.
The first was the senior divinity medal and prizes in the
upper. ' and middy r --,Ps of f-1-

sower, schol/4 L 1 h
successful competitors will be seen in the full list of prizt.
subjoined.] The Principal called the several competitors
upon the platform.
The CHAIRMAN, in presenting the prizes, observed
that he could not lose the opportunity of observing that
the first prize was an illustration of the truth of that to
which he had alluded—the importance of religious educa-
tion. It was for the study of divinity. The subject
chosen was a most important one, being Paley's Evid-

ences of Christianity. No book had made a greater im-
pression on the public mind than that had done. It had
silenced infidelity, and though they might sometimes hear
of unbelievers, he thought there were no argumentative
Ind if there were any who unhappily were

believe

would find that he wrote without knowing his subject,
and was intirely ignorant of the principles of Christianity.
A great difference had taken place in men's minds since
the publication of that book, within the last 50 years, and
he congratulated the pupils on the study of such a work.
(Cheers.) - _ . _

The PRINCIPAL then called upon the platform the suc-
cessful candidates for the senior historical medal and
prizes, in the three schools.

THE CHAIRMAN, in addressing them, said he must
take care not to contradict himself in the advice which be
had just given them to guard against undue ambition..
He did not wish to discourage them, but still he must
warn them not to be too ambitious by reason of thole
present success. Those who most possessed talents na.•
turally rose above their fellows. They must pursue tha
improvement of those talents only for their own anA
others' benefit, and must bear in mind that advantages
overstrained might reduce them lower than they weitg
before.

Several other prizes having been awarded,—
The PRINCIPAL again rose, and said he had now fie.
'call up those who had had prizes awarded them under
circumstances different to those who had preceded there..
They were prizes for those pupils who, not having the
opportunity of attending the day schools, belonged to the
evening classes. He considered them entitled to a double
mark of merit. (Cheers.)

The CHAIRMAN observed that—it gave him peculiar
gratification to present those prizes. They were, doubt—
less, very deserving of them. Their time during the dal.
being employed in business pursuits, it was gratifying to
find that they were disposed to improve their minds when,
the toils of the day were passed. The laudable feeling
shown by them in this would, he hoped, be a blessing
and satisfaction to them in future. (Applause.)
The " Jubilate " was here sung by the whole pupils,.
accompanied on the organ, and several of the comps],
joining.
_ _

_
The extra prizes in the different schools were then read
over by the Principal, and the masters of the middle and
lower schools respectively.
His Worship the MAvon then came forward, and said
since he came to the meeting he had been requested
to discharge what he could not but regard as a most agree..
able duty. He had to move a vote of thanks to their

worthy diocesan for taking the chair on the present occa—
sion, and for the uniform kindness he .had shown to, an()
the interest he had always taken in, he welfare of the
Liverpool Collegiate Institution. (Loud cheers.) Ha
should be doing an injustice to his own feelings did he not
take that opportunity of expressing the gratification ha
felt at the remarks which had fallen from the Lord Bishop'
on the subject of education. That gratification was
equalled only by the delight he felt that day week at tkpa
observations on the same subject which had come froim
the judicial bench—from Mr. Baron Alderson. Wheat`
they knew that Baron Alderson had been the first max
both at classics and mathematics at the university, it must

be to them a source (

ing tor

and saying that edu,

navailing

ht when

in the

ion without religion wag

It was a pleasing corrobo..

ration of what they had that day heard from his lordship..
(Hear, hear.) He would conclude by requesting that the.
best thanks of the meeting be given to his lordship the
Bishop of the Diocese. (Loud and long continued,
cheers.)
The Rev. the PRINCIPAL said that it was quits

the present year it had
nection with them was ii
and that he would co to a

of the alteration taus
Now that the subject vi

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NOTICES

NOW AND THEN,

lir Samuel Warren, E,,q.

London and Edinburgh

lessrs: Blackwood and Sons

We have not had for some time any real pictures of
modern English life, and we should be sorry to continue
without a renewal of such genuine portraits as some of
clur living authors have depicted. Were we asked to se-
lect a gentleman qualified in every way to paint such
iicenes in all their truthful reality, we know of no one to
*born our mind would be' sooner directed than to the au-
thor of the work now before us, who is the writer of the
*Divers:illy-read " Passages from the Diary of a late Physi-

*lan." In his new production he exhibits unabated powers;
*ay, in some things, he exceeds his former self. It is de-
Ightful to walk abroad with such a writer: every land-
scape is full of freshness and life : his birds sing, and his
streams flow, and his forests murmur, and his flowers
breathe perfume. So is it with his personages—they are
teal flesh and blood, men and women—people that we see
*very day, and hear every day ; who are chained to earth
by weakness, and prejudice and error; and held above it
Tay virtue and principle, by morality and religion. As a
story, " Now and Then " possesses high merit ; and from
its first page to its last the interest progresses. The prin-
sipal characters are old Ayliffe and his son, admirable
specimens of the English yeoman—Lord Alkmond, on the
mysteries of whose fate the narrative hinges—the Earl of
Milverstoke his father, a proud-tempered, but withal a
rous-hearted nobleman-1

ent,._ ..iniable daughter, Lady
.Emily—Captain Lutteridge, a fine voting officer—and Mr.
Oxley, an agent of the Earl, who is the dark agent of the
tragedy. The favourite with us, however, is the vicar, the
Rev. Mr. Haylton, a Christian minister, a scholar, and a
gentleman. The gifted author never drew a more perfect
character.

The volume, in externals
book, is everything that cot

and internal

's, as a Christmas

be desired, and the follow-

give our readers but a very meagre ideaof

th-o various excellencies of thi,

teresting publication

A BEAUTIFUL PIC

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ef our good king's reign, or in which of our sea-coast
counties is needless to be known) there stood, quite by it-
self, a cottage of the better sort, which no one could have
seen some few years before that in which it is presented to
our notice, without its suegesting to him that he was look-

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