The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-21 00:00:00

W. J. ROlierts, Esq.

Richard Sanders, Esq.
Henry Steel, Esq.
William Tapley, Esq.
Rev. Thos. Tattershall, D.D.
Thos. Wilson, Esq., Low-hill.

AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS
to this INSTITUTION, held at the Saving's Bank,
Bold-street, on MONDAY, 6th January, 1840.

The Rev. THOS. TATTkRSHALL, 'D.D., in the Chair.

The following Report was read by the 'Provisional Se-
cretary :
The Provisional Committee of the Liverpool Collegiate
Institution, for the Education of the Commercial, Trading,
and Working Classes, which was appointed at a meeting held
at the Savings' Bank, on the 15th of October, 1839, hay-
now the satisfaction of laying before the subscribers a state-
ment of their proceedings since that period.
The resolution of the clergy with respect to the principles
upon which they could consistently join the proposed Insti-
tution having been unanimously adopted at a meeting already
mentioned, your committee issued a prospectus in strict con-
formity with the tenor of it. That prospectus has been widely
circulated through the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool,
for the purpose, of obtaining subscriptions, and the list of do-
nations testifies how well the proposed design has been appre-
ciated, the sum subscribed up to this period being upwards
of £lO,OOO. So large an amount having been obtained under
existing circumstances of commercial pressure, affords the
strongest grounds of hope that the funds yet necessary for the
success of the undertaking will be provided, as the importance
of the Institution, and the urgency of its wants, become more
extensively known.

Your Committee recommend that the privilege ofnominating
Students to the two contemplated Day Schools, shall be con-
ferred upon Donors in the manner following :—A.Donor of
£250 to be entitledto one nomination in the First School du-
ring life; a Donor of .f.;500 to two nominations in the First,
and one in the Second School during life ; a Donor of £750
to three nominations in the First School, two of which shall
be for life, and one in perpetuity; and a Donor of £l,OOO to
four nominations, of which two shall be for life, and two in
perpetuity. Should the Donor prefer nominating to the
Second rather than to the First School, two nominations in
the Second shall be deemed equivalent to one in the First.
A Student so nominated to enjoy the wane privilege of at-
tending Lectures, Evening Classes, &c., as may be assigned
to Life Members. The Scholarships in perpetuity to be
called by the names of the founders.
Your Committee have entered into preliminary negotia-
tions for a plot of land, as one of the sites which may be
deemed eligible for the intended buildings, itna
u fcCOMUlend
that their successors be empowered to snake all 4iee4ful
rangements for the purchase of land, and to the completion
of the Institution.
Your Committee are deeply impressed with the supreme
importance of basing all intellectual education upon religious
principle, and of hallowing every procedure of the school by
associating it with the Word of God and Prayer. They are
also fully persuaded that such sacred influences will, under
the Divine blessing, be secured by a course of religious edu-
cation in strict accordance with the Articles, Homilies and
Liturgy, of the united Church of England and Ireland. On
this great principle they have proceeded, and every step of
their progress bas increased the persuasion in which their