The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-23 00:00:00

THE DINNER.

At as early an hour as four o'clock the doors of the
Amphitheatre were surrounded by carriages, and shortly after
they were opened, at half-past four, the boxes and gallery
were filled with elegantly dressed ladies, whose presence shed
a oharm over the festive scene. The greater part of the ladies
wore red ribbons or scarfs. The appearance of the spacious
building at five o'clock, when brilliantly lighted up with gas,
was magnificent in the extreme. The excellent Royal Har-
monic Band of Mr. Stubbs, was engaged for the occasion,
and played several beaut;ful airs during the evening.
At five o'clock Lord Francis Egerton took the chair. His
entrance, as well as that of Lord Stanley, was the signal for
a burst of enthusiastic cheering.
As to the dinner it were almost superfluous to add a word
further than that Mr. Horne was the purveyor. The viands
were of the most choice description, including every delicacy
of the season. The wines were of a very superior quality, as
might be expected from the well known character and
judgment of Mr. Horne.
We believe that about 1000 gentlemen sat down to dinner,
and that the number of ladies accommodated in the boxes
and gallery amounted to about 1200.
On the right of the noble chairman we observed the Right
Hon. Lord Stanley, the Lord 3ishop of Chester, Lord San-
don, the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, tbe Hon. and Rev. Horace
Powys, J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., M.P., the Rev. Hugh
M`Neile, and Peter Ainsworth, Esq., M.P. ; and on his left
we noticed the Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton, the Hon. R.
B. Wilbraham, M.P.. the Rev. Rector Brooks, J. I. Black-
burne, Esq. M.P., the Rev. Thomas Blackburne, Prestwich.
Atnono.' the other distinguished guests were T. B. Crosse,
Esq., J. Hodson Kearsley, Esq., Thomas Greenall, Esq.,
Peter Greenall, Esq., Sir R. H. Cunliffe, Bart., the Rev.
Cornwall Leigh, W. Davenport, Esq., R. E. Warburton,
Esq., General Alexander, the Hon. Mr. Stanley, and a son
of Lord Francis Egerton, who sat next to Mr. Jas. Aspinall.
To attempt an enumeration of the local gentry and clergy
who were present would be to transcribe the names of almost
every individual of high standing and respectability in the
town of Liverpool. We may say, without any fear of being
accused of exaggeration, that there never was a public din-
ner held in this town, the attendants upon which comprised
such a number of the wealthy and influential merchants of
this great commercial community; and we may say, with
equal truth, that we never witnessed, on any occasion what-
ever, such complete harmony and unanimity as characterised
the whole of the proceedings of yesterday evening. One im-
pulse seemed to pervade the vast assembly. All shared in
the common enthusiasm by which the proceedings were
marked throughout. And here we may venture to remark
that the ladies fully participated in these feelings, and mani-
fested the warmest interest in the sentiments to which the
various speakers gave utterance.
The whole of the arrangements of the dinner reflected the
highest credit upon the stewards, who made every provision
for the comfort and accommodation of the great number who
were present on the occasion. The only cause of regret to
which any reference was made was, that the Amphitheatre
could not accommodate twice or thrice as many as were pre-
sent. The experience of yesterday convinces us more strongly
than ever of the necessity of having a much larger room for
such purposes than any which Liverpool at present possesses.
We want a room that would dine-at least 2,000 or 3,000 indi-
viduals, as occasions will frequently arise when such numbers
may be readily congregated together.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS said grace before the dinner.
After the dinner, Non Nobis Domine was sung in admira-
ble style by the following glee singers :—Mr. Thomas Holden,
Mr. Boothby, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Ball, Mr. Davies, Mr.
George, and Mr. Evans. Mr. George Holden (who has re-
cently published a choice selection of Church Music, dedica-
ted, by permission, to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
the Diocese,) presided at the piano forte.
The noble PRESIDENT, after the trumpet was sounded,
said,—Gentlemen, when that institution, of which we have
this day laid the foundation, shall be opened for its great
and important purposes, I am sure that the first secular
duty that will be taught within its precincts, will be that of
loyalty, respect, and attachment to the sovereign of these
realms. (Loud and enthusiastic cheers.) I need not tell you,
that that which I hope is, and ever will be, the first toast
drank at every assemblage of Englishmen is the first upon
our list. (Cheers.) And, I am sure, in no assembly this
country can produce, will that toast be received with warmer
feelings of loyalty, and attachment, and enthusiasm. (Cheers.)
I propose to you the health of her Majesty—The Queen.
(nine times nine.)
The National Anthem was then sung in beautiful style.
The words " Confound their politics, &c." were most en-
thusiastically cheered.
The PRESIDENT.—I have now to give you the health of
an illustrious person, who, in a short residence in this coun-
try, has yet found time to win favourable opinions from all
classes of its inhabitants, and who has only confirmed by his
conduct, the fair and honourable reputation with which he
first came among us, and who promises, by contributing to
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of the Royal Family. This toast was received with the most
rapturous and prolonged cheering, in which the ladies joined
most enthusiastically.
Glee, " Health to Queen Adelaide."
The PRESIDENT.—Among the most conspicuous features
of this day's proceedings, among those proceedings which,
I am sure have given to you as they have to me, the highest
gratification, has been the large attendance we have enjoyed
of the clergy of this diocese. (Cheers.) I am sure there
are none of us who have not estimated at its high and full
value, the sanction which they have given to its proceedings,
and there are none of you who will forget that that sanction
has derived additional efficacy and grace from the presence
of their spiritual leader, the lord bishop of the diocese.
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, it has been my lot, hahppilosey,
upon one or two occasions, to meet his lordship—upon t
occasions which frequently make him a wearied, but I am
sure a willing traveller to various parts of his extensive
diocese, I mean occasions which though not strictly the same
as those of this morning are nearest akin to it—the ceremony
of the consecration of some of those numerous churches
which, thank God, are rising daily, and hourly I may say, in
this county to remedy its spiritual destitution—(cheers)—to
fill up those vacancies which have occurred from the extent
of our population beyond the reach of Christian education.
It is not for me to tell you with what Christian zeal and
patienee his lordship has laboured in that vocation and in
every part of his spiritual office. His labours may, indeed,
be more estimated by those who follow him more imme-
diately as their guide and leader in that sacred office, but I
am sure they are not unvalued or misunderstood by any part
of the laity of this county. (Cheers.) I have to call upon
you without further comment, which would ill become me,
to wish him long years of health and happiness in the per-
formance of those labours, and to drink his good health.
(Immense cheering followed this sentence, after which the
noble lord continued)—Gentlemen, the clergy of the diocese,
present and absent, will do me the justice to say I did not
forget them in the beginning of my speech if I did forget to
announce them at the close. I beg to correct myself by
giving the health of the Lord Bishop and the Clergy of the
Diocese. (Cheers.)
Sacred Anthem—" Sound the Loud Timbrel."
The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, on rising
to reply to the toast, was received with the most enthusiastic
applause. His lordship said—ln my own name as well as in
that of the clergy with whom, if the term were a right term,
I should be inclined to say I am always proud to have my
name associated, I beg to thank you for the honour you have
done us in proposing our health upon this important occa-
sion. Allow me to say, my lord, in what you have been so
kind as to observe with regard to myself, if I could not re-
cognise a description of what I am, I will not be backward to
say that I did find a description of what I ought to be, and
what, by God's grace, I would desire and hope to be.—
(Hear.)
For the clergy of this diocese, my lord, you only i
do them justice when you speak of them as most anxious and
forward in the cause of promoting that great object which has
excited our interest to-day. (Cheers.) That they do take
that lead which behoves them for such a purpose, I might
call to witness the numerous, the almost innumerable schools
which during the last ten yerrs have been raised in every
part of the diocese. (Cheers.) But, indeed, I need not
speak of that, for it is known to most of those present, and it
is known especially I believe to you, my lord,—for from that
extensive influence which you posess and that no less exten-
sive benevolence which you are known to practise,—(cheers)
—you have found, I believe, the clergy not unfrequently
applicants for your benevolent assistance in that work which
they had at heart, and which they knew was equally dear to
your lordship. I am sure they have not applied to you in
vain. (Cheers.) Situated as I am as the guardian of such
vast spiritual interests, I cannot but feel that I ought not to
be insensible to those from whom we are accustomed to
receive assistance in a work which without that assistance
it would be impossible for us to perform at all; for
even with that assistance there is much that must remain
undone. And standing as I now do in the midst of the inha-
bitants of Liverpool I cannot but remember—l should be
ungrateful if I were to forget—that this undertaking, in which
we are interested to-day is no new no insulated undertaking,
but part of a system which has been long pursued in this
town, and by which Liverpool has set an example to all other
places of increasing population and prosperity. (Hear.) If,
I say it with truth, I need not be afraid of being accused of
flattery, that here there has been a consciousness that with
increased prosperity there comes also an increased responsi-
bility. (Hear.) I cannot forget that during that long dark
interval—the first twenty years of the present century—when
the population of the county of Lancashire increased 530,000,
and when during that interval only fifteen additional churches
were raised to accommodate that increased population—the
cause I believe of full one half of the dissent that prevails
amongst us, I cannot but remember that eight out of those
fifteen churches were erected in the town, or in the immediate
neighbourhood, of Liverpool. I cannot but regret, and I
should be ungrateful if I did not mention, that of the £23,000
you have been pleased to dispense through my hands, by
means of the diocesan secretary, one third has been subscribed
by the inhabitants of Liverpool. (Hear.) I cannot but value
the efforts that this town is now making, that whilst it assists
others to cultivate distant vineyards they have not neglected
their own vineyard—that churches have been raised to the
amount of more than £20,000 for the purpose of giving spiritual
instruction to its daily increasing poor. I cannot be forgetful

of the vast efforts made hare four or five years ago, when there
was reason to fear that the education of the rising generation
would not be founded upon those principles which our church
professes and can alone sanction. (Cheers.) I cannot forget
the efforts made to remove those dangers (continued cheers.)
And, to-day, we have been adding what I may call the top
stone—the crowning stone, to that which was then begun
for then we provided for the lowest population, and now we
are providing for those above them in rank, for those that
are to be engaged in employing labour rather than in being
employed. And, allow me to say, unless those who have la-
bourers and dependents under their charge, and who are re-
sponsible for what belongs to them, do exercise their influ-
ence in the way in which, if they consider themselves stew-
ards of the authority that is given them from above, they
ought, for the great purpose that they should exercise it—
unless they do that, they will have done little with regard to
the lower order of the population. (Cheers.) The early pe-
riod at which the youth of that part of the population is com-
pelled to begin labour must necessarily throw vast numbers
of them into the world when their education is hardly.corn-
menced, instead of being almost finished. (Cheers.) But
I rejoice, not only for the sake of those whose interests I am
bound to consider, and which I ought never for a Moment to
forget, that the town of Liverpool is raising for itself a se-
curity which it can obtain in no other way. We knovi upon
what authority it is said, " them that honour me, them will
I honour;" and in this acknowledgment of distinction which
prayer brings with it, Liverpool is gaining for itself a de-
fence that can not be overthrown, and placing itself upon a
foundation which never can be shaken: (Loud cheers.)
War, and rumours of war, the fluctuations of commercial
credit,—tjiey may indeed affect it, but they cannot shake or
de-troy i (Cheers.) With these, and thus actuated, it
will be as it was in the days of Hezekiah of old, which has
been recorded for our instruction and encouragement, since
the time when the people began to bring their offerings to the
house of the Lord, we have had enough, and we have left
plenty—that which remains is this great store ; the Lord has
blessed his people, and that which remains is the accumu-
lating wealth of Liverpool. (Cheers.) My lord, in my own
name, and in that of the clergy, I beg leave to thank you for
the honour you have done us. (The right rev. prelate then
sat down amidst loud cheers from all parts of the house.)
The PRESIDENT.--The course of our proceedings has
brought me to a toast, the most intimately connected with
the transactions of this morning and the present. I mean,
gentlemen, that it is now my duty to propose to you the
'health of my nol4 friend on my right. (Loud and protracted
cheers followed this announcement.) Gentlemen, your re-
ception of his name, when barely mentioned, is such as
perhaps might spare me some, perhaps might spare me all
labour on this occasion. And, gentlemen, Ido confess, if I
thought it a part of my duty in the chair to go as great a
length as I might with my noble friend into the reasons and
justification of that toast, and the manner in which it has
been already received, I own I could almost wish it had fallen

into the hands:of some one less intimately and long acquainted
with my noble friend. (Hear, hear.) I will presume to say
intimateiy acquainted, for if an Eton and a college acquaint-
ance be not an intimate acquaintance, I know not what is.
And upon that intimacy I will venture to say, if I were to
indulge in such proofs, my noble friend would rise in contu-
macious rebellion against the chair. (Laughter.) It is,
therefore, difficult for me fully to express all the reasons
which may have brought you here together to do him honour
upon this occasion. I can venture to tell him some of the
motives which have not actuated you and which he knows
how to value and appreciate—to value not as a mere compli-
ment paid to him by such an assembly as this. Born and
bred in the neighbourhood of this town, he knows the inde-
pendent position in life, the just pride of those whom I see
here collected ; he knows that from one end of this room to
the other there is not one man who would step an inch be-
yond the limits of national and constitutional respect to the
mere heir of an ancient house. He knows that not even
historical recollections and antiquarian lore can call forth
such an expression of opinion as is here manifested—that not
the recollections, brilliant though they be, of Bosworth, of
Flodden Field, of Leathom House, or of Bolton Moor,
could have called such an assembly as are here met together.
He knows also, as well as they, that from the character of
this assembly—from the number of clergy we have among
us—they would not bow at the shrine of mere intellectual
acuteness, unless they know and appreciate the direction
which that acuteness takes. (Cheers.) He may perhaps
conjecture—though in his presence I would not for the
world tell him (cheers and laughter)—that we value elo-
quence devoted to high purposes—that we venerate ambition
directed to high ends—that we value it when it can lead to
the sacrifice of domestic ease and leisure, and devote itself
to the service of the public—that we venerate it when it can
soar above the temporary temptations of office and power,
(immense cheering,) and make, if need be, the more painful
sacrifice of dear and valued and beloved connections. (Loud
cheers.) Subsidiary to these qualities, he may think we
value the courage which shrinks from no adversary (enthu-
siastic applause)—the perseverance which shrinks from no
difficulty and no labour—the skill of the gladiator when part
of the service of the soldier and the patriot—the courage
without subterfuge, and the logic without sophistry. (Great
cheering.) If his conjecture should lead him to suppose
that any such feelings as these are mixed up in any degree
in the proceedings of this evening, I leave it to you, by the
further reception of this toast, to corroborate me and en-
lighten my noble friend. (Tremendous applause.)
Glee—" When winds softly blow."

Lord STANLEY rose to return thanks, and was greeted
with renewed bursts of applause. When the enthusiasm had
subsided, he spoke as follows :—My lord and gentlemen, it
would be folly, it would be idle affectation, it would be worse
than either, it would be falsehood, were I not at once to de-
clare, that the proceedings of this day, that the manner in
which I have been received here, most of all, the kindness
with which I have been spoken of by one whom I have the
happiness to have known, as he has told you, long and inti.
mately, have conveyed to my mind feelings of gratification,
and emotions almost painful, but for which I am persuaded,
in the present company, I need not apologise. (Hear.) Gen-
tlemen, it was a proud gratification to me when I first learnt
that it was intended to do me the honour to connect my name
with the institution which you have this day met to celebrate,
an institution the results of which, upon generations yet un-
born, it is difficult for human foresight to calculate or pre-
judge. I felt a deep anxiety, as I feel now, lest I should
most inadequately discharge the duties you have been pleased
to devolve upon me. But most of all do I feel that anxiety
when I have to reply to observations made by my noble
friend who sits near me, responded to by an assembly such
as I see around me, in a manner which von will forgive me
for saying, in the first moment almost deprived me of the
power of utterance. (Long continued cheering.) Gentlemen,
my noble friend has told me, and it was needless for
him to do so, of what materials the assembly is composed
which I have now the honour of addressing, and from which
I have met with so flattering and gratifying a reception.
My noble friend has been pleased to panegyrise the efforts,
the unworthy efforts, I have been enabled to make, in the
course of my public life—he has given me credit for qualities
which Ido not possess. (No, no.) He has magnified my
exertions, but he has not exaggerated my inclination, my
ambition, my earnest desire to accomplish all that he has so
indulgently given me credit for. (Cheers.) I look around
me, and my mind is struck with a motto, which I hope will
never, antiquated as it may seem, be obliterated from the
minds of Englishmen—l trust that each, in his individual
station, according to those abilities which God has blessed
us with, which he has entrusted to us on our deep re Tonsi-
hility,—that we shall ever remember, that our country and
our God expect that " every man should do his duty." (Ve-
hement applause.) Gentlemen, I hope I may take the liberty
of saying that I have endeavoured to do mine, and I have
done no more. (Hear.) Circumstances may have placed
me in situations where I may have had more or less influ-
ence; but each of you, every one whom I here address, as
long as he has applied his best exertions, the powers with
which providence has entrusted him, in his respective sphere,
has done as much as the highest and most successful of the
intellectual and parliamentary gladiators, to whom my noble
friend has alluded. (Cheers.) 1 should content myself with
expressing, however inadequately, the deep gratification,
the heartfelt pleasure, I have derived from your kindness this
day, were it not that the duties so agreeably devolving
upon me have connected my name, I will not take
upon myself to say with this great assemblage, as my noble
friend would have me believe. but with the interests of the
institution which we are to-day met together to celebrate—
an institution which I could no more propose to you as a
toast in silence, than, I am convinced, any one of you would
receive with indifference. Therefore, if I continue to tres-
pass for a short time longer on your attention, believe me it
is not for the idle parade of speaking of myself : it is from
my anxious wish to testify my full, my cordial, my unhesi-
tating concurrence in the principles on which this great in-
stitution has this day been founded. (Hear and cheers.)
Gentlemen, the course of public duty, which every man is
bound to perform, he must be a fool who believes to be de-
void of difficulties, or not beset with thorns or vexations.
No man can say, " I will do my duty provided I meet with
no imoeliments in my way." (Hear.) The course of duty
never was, never has been, and, in the dispensation of God's
providence, it is ordained that it never should be any other
than a course of difficulty and embarrassment. (Hear.) My
noble friend knows to what difficulties, to what embarrass-
ments a public man is exposed in following this narrow path ;
but he would be undeserving of your confidence, nay, more,
he would not receive either your confidence or your respect,
who, however much he might value, as the proudest tribute
that can be paid to a public man, the approbation of his fel-
low-citizens, did not consider that even the approbation of
his fellow-citizens was inferior to the approbation of his own
conscience, and was on all occasions, and under all circum-
stances, to be sacrificed without reserve, if he felt that the
course to which that approbation would call him was con-
trary to his duty, as he understood it, to himself, his coun-
try, and his God. (Loud applause.) There is no subject,
perhaps, we may rejoice to say, which of late has commanded
a greater degree of public attention, but likewise there is no
subject which has produced a greater diversity of opinion,
than the duties of public men, and the duties of government.
with regard to the education of the people. (Hear, hear.)
The opinion has, I think, been hastily taken up, that it is the
duty of the government to provide for the education of all
the people. Ido not subscribe to this doctrine, because I
feel that a government provision for the education of the
people is at variance with the freedom of conscience, a
freedom which, as we claim it for ourselves, we freely give
and concede it to others. (Applause.) A government con-
ducting and superintending the education of the people must
csnduct the education of all classes, and this, in a count
where religious differences unhappily prevail, according to
one single pattern ; and so conducting the edu ion of a
whole country you deviate from the duty of a g It mnment
into a persecution which would be intolerable in a I e: coun-
try, (Cheers.) I contend it is the duty of a government to
promote the education of the people, and to aid individual
exertion. Various questions may arise, nice, and difficult,
and complicated questions, which are not to be hastily de-
cided upon, but on which much may be said on both sides,
as to the degree in which the state is bound to enforce on the
people its own views with regard to education. And when I
use the word education, gentlemen, I need not tell you that
in that word I include the diffusion of religious knowledge
and principle. (Cheers.) There may be circumstances, few
and doubtful circumstances, I do not say there are any, in
which it may be the duty of the state, as a state, to promote
by its assistance even the diffusion of religious error, shared
by a large portion of the community. There must be many
occasions—l hesitate not to state my own (minions frankly
and freely—you would not respect me did I not do so—l
hesitate not to say that there are many occasions in which it
must be the duty of the state to be satisfied with the promo-
tion of imperfect truth, not with the admixture of error, but
with the imperfection of truth. (Hear.) But whatever be
the duty of the state—l speak to you, gentlemen, to those
whom I see around me, to members of the church,—l speak
to the venerated bishop of our diocese—l speak to the assem-
bled
clergy—l speak to the laymen, attached members of the
Church of England—your course is plain, your duty is dis-
tinct ; with regard to you there is no doubt, no hesitation, no
difficulty : you duty is, each in your several stations, to pro-
mote the education of your fellow-citizens, according to the
doctrines, and in the principles of revealed religion, and of
the national establishment. (Loud cheers.) And, gentle-
men, those who know me will be aware, and those who
are not acquainted with me will do me the favour of
believing, that had not these been my opinions, uni-
formly, constantly, invariably maintained and acted upon,
no temptation of your applause, no desire even to acquire the
approbation of this vast assembly, no possible inducement
that could be offered to human vanity or ambition would have
led me to
give my name to the prospectus of this society,
unless I had been clearly and cordially convinced of the sound-
ness of its principles. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the subject of
national education is one which gives room for much of seri-
ous reflection and of grave consideration as to the duties
which devolve upon us. The times have been when this
great duty of the people, this great duty of the church—and
in naming the church I do not mean the clergy only, but the
laity also—there have been times when this great duty of
providing for and promoting the education of the humbler

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classes, has been shamefully, disgracefully neglected, (Hear.)
We have been guilty—there is no need to deny it, no use in
palliating or concealing it—we have been guilty of a national
sin, and drawn down upon us, in the ordinary course of
God's providence, the national judgment which follows on
national sin. (Hear.) And may God grant that the sense
of the national judgment and the national reproach may
produce that effect which they ought to produce—which,
speaking with reverence, it is the design of Providence they
should produce, amendment and correction of the sin. (Hear.)
The days have been when England, proud and prosperous,
advancing in commerce, unrivalled in arms, proud of her
flag, proud of her military trophies, proud of her increasing
revenues, proud of those ports from which, and especially
from the one in which I am now speaking, the flag of Great
Britain is found in every sea, and which receive within their
bosoms the flags of all other countries—the time has been,
I say. when England has forgotten the warning relating to the
promised land—" Beware lest when thou bast eaten and art
full, thou forget the Lord thy God, and say, Mine hand and
mine arm hath gotten me all this wealth." (Hear.) We
have been proud of our power, of our wealth, of our com-
merce, of our fancied superiority ; and the very causes of
our pride have been the sources of our chastisement and our
judgment. We have boasted of the advance of science, of
the strides making in philosophical attainment, of the genius,
the riches, the industry of our people, and we have forgotten
that that knowledge which is unsanctified by religion is a
two-edged sword, the blade of which is likely to cut the
wearer. (Hear.) We hare been proud of our population, as the
source of our wealth, and omitted to consider that that grow-
ing population, without the means of religious instruction, of
spiritual education, was no source of strength, but a source
of weakness, a reproach, a disgrace, and at length a serious
impediment to our national prosperity. (Loud applause.)
We have boasted of our national church, and in our assem-
blies toasted the church and state, and boasted of the con-
nexion of our loyalty to the crown with our attachment to the
church. Are there none among us who can say that we have
too often looked on the Established Church, not in the light
of a spiritual director of the whole people, not in the light of
an invaluable assistant to sound religion, but in the light, the
low and humble light—though God forbid that in that I should
undervalue its importance—in the light of a mere assistant to
civil government, and a useful machine of civil polity. (Cheers)
My lord and gentlemen, I believe these days are gone by.
I believe the spirit of education—l,believe the calumnies, for
such they have been—l believe the exaggerated accusations
thrown out against us even when we deserved reproach, I
believe the charges made against us, while we have partially
admitted their justice, have by God's grace kindled a better,
a purer, a holier spirit among us. (Hear and cheers.) We
are not so uncandid as to refuse to receive correction even
when administered by no friendly hand : and I trust there
are many among those whose attachment to the church has
been, not dead, but dormant and sleeping, who provoked by
godly jealousy, will rise in support of the church to which
they are attached, and magnify its cause, not by the violence
of language,but by the reformation of manners and discipline.
(Much applause.) The spirit of education has gone forth;
the spirit of inquiry is irresistible ; the thirst for knowledge
is not to be quenched. Let us not seek to quench it. Let
us not seek to diminish it. Let us,—and permit me, my
lord, to appeal to your lordship and say, let the members of
the church, and the clerical members of the church espe-
cially, set themselves at the head of this great movement of
inquiry and investigation. (Hear.) Let them not shrink
from imparting to the people increased knowledge ; but let it
be their duty to sanctify that knowledge by that which alone
can sanctify it, the imbuing of the people with the spirit of
religion, in conjunction with the spirit of science and
education. (Loud cheers.) Let the -church place itself at
the head of the march of instruction—and when we re-
member the vast multitudes congregated to-day in the
streets of Liverpool, when we behold this vast assembly,
when we consider the enthusiasm with which the call
of the church has been responded to in every part of the
country, who is there that does not feel, that if the church
will so take and so maintain that lead and guidance which of
right belong to her, the people of England will never desert,
they will be proud to follow, the national establishment ?
(Much applause.) Gentlemen, I really feel I ought to apo-
logize for having so long detained you, yet I cannot sit down
without saying a few words on the specific object of that in-
stitution of which we have this day laid the foundation. It is
not for the high and the wealthy, it is not for the poor and
the needy ; it is for that class more especially who, as was
noticed by my worthy and reverend friend, the rector, to-
day, appears to have been, in a most extraordinary manner
neglected on the part of the nation on the subject of educa-
tion. It is for the middle, for the commercial, for the mer-
cantile, for the industrious, for the trading classes ; in fact,
it is for those who, as the middle classes, constitute the
strength and vitals of the empire—(cheers)—who are the
very heart of our whole political system, which, if it be dis-
eased, the heart alone is not dise -sed, but the whole body
faints and is sick, and which, marvellous to say, there has
been little or no attempt to connect with the Established
Church. The justly-vaunted universities, the great
schools for the highest of all classes in the community,
the parochial schools, imperfect as the system may
be, for the lowest and humblest, are under the direc-
tion, subject to the influence, and the inmates nurtured
up in respect and reverence for the established church. But
the middle classes, those who are the most intelligent, the
most active, the most industrious, the most ingenious, the
most eager to raise themselves by the acquisition of know-
ledge, these are left to search for instruction where they may.
(Hear.) And what marvel if worldly parents and ignorant
youths prefer the instruction which gives them the worldly
science that may advance their personal interests, and forget
that that science can profit them but for a time, and that
without religious instruction it is hollow and little or nothing
worth. (Cheers.) But the tradesmen, the mechanics, the
artisans. the merchants of this great town, have nobly come
forward to vindicate their rights, and as a body they claim to
be connected with that church which they venerate. They
call upon you to include them in your system of education
connected with the clergy of the national establishment. I
ask of you, of those I see around me, shall that call be made
upon you in vain? (No, no.) I know it will not. You who
are sensible of the value of religious instruction, you who have
come so nobly forward to lay the foundation of this great insti-
tution, will not suffer it to be deserted, to languish or decay.
(Hear.) I know we may reckon on your continued exertions,
know that a moment's reflection will convince you far more
than any language I could use, of the value, the inestimable
value and importance of attaching to the nationalestablishment.
that great body which is, if sound, the health of the whole
body politic, but that body in which, forgive me for saying,
if you neglect it, there is the greatest danger of dissent from
the church establishment, or the greater danger still, of
science only leading into the devious paths of infidelity.
(Cheers.) And if I may so far presume, as to raise my eyes
above those whom I am immediately addressing— may I he
forgiven if I look and appeal to those whom we see around us,
as witnesses of these our proceedings, to those whose pre-
sence adorns our present festival, to those whose countenance
and encouragement stimulates, as it always should, to all
that is high, and all that is lovely, and all that is holy in so-
cial life—(loud cheers)—may I appeal to them whose proper
sphere is that of social and domestic intercourse—to those
who have lelt painfully or delightfully, as the case may be.
in the several relations of those nearest and dearest to them,
who are most entwined with their domestic affections and
their private life, their husbands, their fathers, their brothers,
their children—may I appeal to them who best know the
value of religious principle as acting upon domestic habits,
domestic intercourse, and social comfort—may I entreat
them to use that influence which they must and ought to
possess in aid of this our undertaking, to communicate to
those among whom they are living the blessings of a reli-
gious and -scriptural education? (Loud cheers.) Believe
me, this is a work from the duties of which no sex, no rank,
no station, no grade of life is exempt. Each has thrown
upon him, by a gracious Providence, the responsibility of
using, for the good of his fellow-creatures and for the glory
of his God, the powers, the talents, the influence which he
possesses ; and God grant that all those whom I am now
addressing may use those powers, those talents, and that
influence, in aid of that which is the first and primest of all
blessings, the promotion of religious truth, the advance-
ment ( f the moral well-being of the population, and the
increase of the glory of God In the spread of the knowledge
of his word. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, believing that these are
the objects which are proposed, and which, by the divine
blessing, we may attain, by the institution we have this day
founded, I call upon you to signify your acquiescence in the
sentiments I have expressed by drinking " Prosperity to the
Liverpool Collegiate Institution."

The noble lerd sat down amidst the most rapturous ap-
plause. At this moment Mr. Cresswell arrived, and his en-
trance was the signal for renewed and protracted cheering.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS rose to return thanks for the
toast. He said—My lord, as chairman of the committee of
the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, it becomes my pleasing
duty to tender to you the acknowledgments of the committee
for the honour that has been done us. My lord, after the
splendid and eloquent display of talent and wisdom which we
have just heard, it would ill become me to point out to this
assembly the substantial benefits of the institution which the
noble lord has so ably and so effectually advocated. I shall
therefore content myself with one or two observations
and suggestions on the noble lord's speech. He has told us,
and with great truth, that it is the common duty of every
man to use his best exertions in the promotion of the general
education of the country. (Hear, hear, hear.) He has told
us, and with great truth, that it is the position the church
ought to take to be foremost in encouraging that im-
provement ; and he has also told us that the clergy should
step forward, and take the lead in this holy and important
work. My lord, I am quite willing to confess that we have
hitherto been sadly deficient in doing as much as might rea-
sonably have been expected from us • but still I would hope
that we have not been entirely idle. (Hear.) The noble
lord has told us, that if we would so step forward and take
the lead, the people would follow us—that there is still e3ist-
ing that attachment and affection for the church of their
forefathers, which would lead the inhabitants of this coun-
try, and I am sure I may confidently say the inhabitants of
this great town—(hear and cheers)---to follow in the path
pointed out by those in whom they could place confidence.
My lord, I speak from experience when I say that we have
found the truth of these observations. I can never forget
that period to which our venerated diocesan has alluded,
when the clergy, considering, in the faithful discharge of
their duty, that they were called upon to abandon a system
of education which was taking a direction they could not ap-
prove of, made a call on the parishioners of this great town
to assist them in finding a substitute for what was taken from
them. (Loud cheers.) The manner in which that call was
responded to by the laity can never be erased from my heart,
nor, I believe, from the hearts of those who were working with
me. It is there indelibly impressed ; and it is the recollec-
tion of that which has led and engaged us to bring forward
the present institution, in the hope, that in encouraging the
further progress of education in this town, we shall receive
the same assistance, nay, that it will be further and more
generally
offered to us than it has hitherto been. (Hear.)
shall now, my lord, conclude what I have to say by pro-
posing, which I may venture to do in this assembly, a health
which I am sure will be received with as great delight as I
feel in proposing it. If, my lord, the motives which have
induced us to attempt the establishment of the institution of
which we have this day laid the foundation, were not suffi-
cient in themselves to stimulate us to exertion in bringing to
a happy conclusion, we have, I think, a guarantee for the
success of our endeavours in the persons we have been for-
tunate enough to associate with us in this important under-
taking. (Cheers.) When I see such men as the noble lord
who has already addressed you, consenting to become the
patron of our institution—when I see the respected bishop
of the diocese filling the office of its visitor—when I see the
noble lord in the chair taking its presidency, in the first year
of its establishment, I think there surely is a suffi-
cient guarantee that we shall accomplish it in a
manner that will do credit to the town. (Loud cheers.)
You will easily believe that the toast I am going to
propose is one of the noble personages I have just mentioned.
It was a saying of one of our monarchs, whose memory I can
never dwell upon without veneration, respect, affection, and
regard, that he could wish every individual in the kingdom
could read his Bible. I believe that the noble lord, whose
health I am now going to propose to you, has carried out
this wish to the greatest possible extent, and that it has been
his ambition, and his great desire, that every individual
within the reach of his influence should know his Bible.
(Loud cheers.) I believe that there is no man who has
directed that influence, and the means with which Provi-
dence has blessed him, more to the promotion of the great
cause of oducation than he has done. (Hear.) Therefore it
is that we might have gone through all the world, and not
have found one more proper to call upon to assist us in this
work, and to take the chair on the first year of its establish-
ment. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have heard how the
noble lord has introdaeed to you the different toasts of the
evening. You have therefore had proof, that while he has
been extending the influence of education to all around him,
he has not been inattentive to the cultivation of his own
mind. You have heard him throw around everything that
charm and grace which will justify mein saying, nihil letigit

quod non ornavit, (Cheers.) I beg reeve to propose " Our
noble chairman, the Right Hon. Lord Francis Egerton, the
President of the Collegiate Institution." (Loud and pro.
longed applause.)
Glee—" Breathe, my harp."
Lord FRANCIS EGERTON rose amidst very great cheering.
He said—Gentlemen, if I could presume that the too flatter-
' ing language which your respected rector has just applied to
me in proposing this toast, were more applicable to the sub-
ject than I can venture to presume it is, I should be at little
pains then, I assure you, to arrive at the conclusion, from
the situation which I now occupy, as chairman of this meet-
ing and as president for the year of the institution which you
have this day founded, that that position must be considered
by myself as one of the highest honours and the greatest
gratifications that I could enjoy. Gentlemen, in the corre-
spondence which I have had upon the subject when I was
invited to assist at this ceremony, I certainly expressed a
more than usual anxiety and eagerness for the promotion of
the scheme then on foot. (Hear, hear.) I did so not on
the impulse of the moment—l did so on mature considera-
tion of a twofold character : the one with respect to the
nature and peculiar objects and scope of the institution it-
self, and the other more particularly referring to the quarter
in which that scheme originated. Gentlemen, with regard
to the scope and objects of the institution. it would be a
trespass on your time, if, after what has fallen from others,
and more especially from my noble friend on my right, I
were to detain you any considerable time. But there is one
consideration which I must own has more particularly affect-
ed me on this subject, and it is this—that it is impossible to
open a volume containing observations (n the present state
of society and of the wOrld—to listen to any speech from any
acute and intelligent mind, which has turned attention to
this subject—without seeing that it is the general belief of
such persons that power and influence and authority are
more or less rapidly, but by a constant and continual though
variable motion, tending to that great body whose intereste
we are met here more especially to promote—that body that
lies between the most and the least efficient classes of soci-
ety, and which is commonly distinguished by the name
of the middle class. (Hear, hear.) It is the belief
of those who have studied such matters, that the power of
the despot, and the power of the legislative monarch, and the
essential power of government in all governments, are ra-
pidly tending to be absorbed in that mighty and important
class; and I must own that, though there are differences of
opinionas to the speed with which this process is pursuing
its course, that many facts in our own recollection, and in
the remembrance of man, tend to give a colour to that ar-
gument, which ought not to be overlooked by those who at-
tend to such subjects. If this he the case, what duty, what
obligation can be more sacred upon us, than to endeavour to
do that which we have this day endeavoured to do, which
shall afford to that body the conviction of a religious truth,
coupled with the advantages of secular knowledge and sci-
ence. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the quarter in which
that scheme originates, I own I think there is none which
can, with greater grace and propriety, set an example in such
matters, than the community which is represented here.
(Applause.) Gentlemen, you occupy a station in the world
which makes you play a vast part in the controul and ma-
nagement of its entire course; and if you suffer a mean and
narrow spirit of gain, unenlightened by education, and, above
all, uninfluenced by religion; to intrude itself into your
counting-houses, I know not precisely when the result may
occur, or in what shape it may happen ; but I tell you your
prosperity is on an insecure and shifting basis : I tell you,
that if the ways of Providence are now what they have been,
that you may one day share, and deservedly share, the fate
of those who are obliterated from the face of the earth, and
whose structures were as magnificent and splendid as your
own. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, it leis accidentally been
my lot lately to sail along the coast which formerly sent
forth, in the infancy of navigation, their miners to Corn-
wall, when this country was the abode of the naked and
painted savage; and I, along that coast, have found what
I fear the fleets of this country now find, along a coast
once filled with harbours and teeming with population, and
having on its coasts the palaces of those who conducted the
infant intercourse of the world; I myself have found no spot
on which an anchor can be cast in security. The study of
the history of Phoenicia leads to no ideal speculations. Turn
to that record which I trust is to be the text book of such
knowledge as you propose to give to your fellow citizens to
know it—turn to that record, and you will find that the ruin
and destruction were predicted by the ministers of Him
whose ministers accomplished it, and you will find that it
was owing to moral as well as physical causes. And gentle-
men, there is yet no sign here of decay. Your prosperity
advances with the increase of science, and every day presents
new sources for renewed enterprise. You were dependent
on the current and the atmosphere; you now not only don't
court their favour, but you defy and resist their influence.
(Applause.) While at the bidding of these incentives, half
your forests will rush into the floods, let us remember that
it is the office of these floating masses which you launch
into your slips and receive into your basins, not only to bear
British thunders, but her cross displayed to the bright regions
of the rising world, (much cheering), and show by the con-
duct of those who float in them, by their capacity, their in-
telligence, and the spirit of their dealings, a bright example
to all. But if instead of recommending your nation and
your faith, by the spectacle of your practice, you only con-
firm the heathen in his unhallowed rites, and make him cling
to his false gods in preference to those of the Christian, on
you rather than on him will be the guilt of that transgres-
sion ; on you and your establishments will at least right
justly fall the curse which has laid Tyre and Sidon in the
dust, and involved the emporiums of the older world in com-
mon and cureless ruin. (Hear, hear:) I say that these are
considerations which appear to me more properly applicable
to the audience which I now address; and it is on that ac-
count that I venture, after what I have heard, to trespass one
moment on your patience, as to the motives which have in-
duced me, in my humble capacity at least, to join most cor-
dially, and I will say most enthusiastically in this enterprise.
It only remains for me now to return you my best thanks
for the honour you have conferred upon me, and for the very
flattering manner in which it has been received. (Great
applause.
The noble CHAIRMAN again rose and said,—the toast
which I have now to propose to you is, the health of the
Lord Lieutenant of the County. In naming that toast, I
feel I name one who, from his near neighbourhood to the
place from which I am speaking, is known to most of you,
and esteemed by all who know him by reputation or name.
(Great cheering.)
• Lord STANLEY rose amidst much cheering. He said,
gentlemen, I am quite sure that, after the unwarrantable
length to which, on a former occasion, I trespassed on your
attention, I should best consult your convenience and the in-
terest of the meeting, if I return you thanks in as short and
Simple a form as I can, for the honour you have conferred on
my father; and I am sure you will think that if briefly given,
my thanks and his are not less cordially and less gratefully
given. Gentlemen, debarred, by physical incapacity, from
mixing much in the society, even of his nearest friends, there
is no roan whose heart is more sensible to gratitude—no man
whO is more grateful for kindness shown' and who entertains
a livelier sense of the kindness which he has at all times re-
ceived from the inhabitants of this county, and of which the
reception by you of his name to night will be most gratifying
intelligence. (Great cheering.)
The Rev. Chancellor RAIKES next rose, and was received
with loud applause. He said—l rise, gentlemen, to propose
tae health of the members for the county : and I take the
liberty of addressing that proposition to you, since, as our
noble chairman is to be considered in the light of one of the
representatives of the county, I cannot with so much pro-
pnety address to him the toast which I know will meet
with a most cordial response from you. (Applause.) And
here let me be permitted to say, in proposing this toast for
your acceptance, that I feel it is perfectly unnecessary, while
the words still rest in your ears, in the hearing of the distin-
guished individual who fills the chair, and of the distinguished
individual on his right,) for me to say anything in commen-
dation of the individuals whom it is the object of this toast to
propose to your acceptance. Permit me to pass from them,
(for to speak of them in suitable terms far exceeds the power
I possess,) and call your attention to the simple fact that it
is to the members of the county we are now proposing this
testimonial of our gratitude. (Hear, and applause.) The
work we were engaged this morning in commencing is in-
tended for the benefit of the town of Liverpool • and perhaps
it would be hardly possible to conceive a work of any kind
which will contribute more permanently and purely to the
prosperity of the town of Liverpool. Who, then, are the in-
dividuals whom it is the object of this toast to propose to
your acceptance, who have lent themselves to the advance.
ment of this work ? Why it is those individuals who are the
representatives of the county. (Hear, hear.) Have we not
here the agricultural interest blending itself with the com-
mercial interest of the county—losing sight of everything
personal, and of everything but what contributes to the wel-
fare of the country at large. This, gentlemen, is that happy
union which long has held this country together and made it
what it is, and which I trust will long continue to give pros-
perity to these institutions, and ensure that prosperity in
every part of the world. The toast which I have the honor
to propose and which I am convinced will meet with your
most cordial acceptance is—" The healths of the members
for the county." (Great cheering).
The Hon. RICHARD BOOTLE WiLaitAnAm, M.P., rose
to respond to the toast and was received with prolonged
cheering. He said—Gentlemen, it has often been my lot to
witness the brilliant assemblages which on various public
occasions have taken place in this town. 1 can with perfect
truth assure you that never in my life did I witness such au
assembly as this in this town, and with so great gratification.
Gentlemen, it has been my lot more frequently to appear
before you, simply in a political character; and I do beg to
congratulate you all, gentlemen, on the total absence of po-
litical feeling which has characterized the proceedings of this
day, and also to congratulate this great town upon the attain-
ment of the object which wealth and intelligence have been
so cordially uniting to promote. Gentlemen, I ought per-
haps to apologise for standing in this place and answering to
the toast which has been given. But, gentlemen, you are
fully aware that my two noble friends have already had an
arduous task iu the different duties they have had to perform
—(hear, hear)—l congratulate you and the county at large in
having my two friends as their representatives : and whether
. we look to them as men eminent for talent in public life, or
as men eminent for virtue in private life, I am sure that I as
a representative of this county with them, and you, as hav-
ing them as your representatives, highly feel the honour, as
well as that you have them patronizing this institution.
(Loud applause.) I shall add nothing more to what I have
said, but my best congratulations to you for having
obtained the object of this day, and cordially to express
a wish that that which has been so auspiciously begun
under the presidency of my noble friend, and under
the kind and fostering attention of the Lord Bishop of the
diocese, and I may add of the unremitting attention of his
clerical associates, may flourish from year to year, and be
the means of bringing forward many eminent men in every
station of life, to the honour and prosperity of this great
town. (Loud applause.) For myself and colleagues I re-
turn you our thanks for the honour you have conferred upon
us. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN.—I don't know whether all those assem-
bled here are as conscious as all those immediately about me
of a very agreeable addition to our party, by the arrival of
your respected members. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, that oc-
currence gave me the opportunity of ascertaining the nature
of the reception which Mr. Cresswell was likely to receive in
this assembly. (Applause.) Of that which awaits your
other member, my noble friend, I can form no conclusive
idea. But I believe that if he could possibly be received
otherwise than as I could hope and wish in the assembly
which occupies this floor, I really believe that that reception
would be prompted from an influence from behind and above
them. (Loud cheering and applause at this allusion to the
presence of the ladies.) It so happens that your respected
chief magistrate having done me the honour to admit me into
his carriage this morning, I had an opportunity of judging of
this ; for certainly there did appear a very strong curiosity on
the part of the female part of the congregation, (laughter and
cheers) which appeared to me to be connected with the phy-
siognomy of the noble lord (laughter and cheers)—so much
so, that I found it desirable to sit as far back as possible to
escape their scrutinising observation. I have no hesitation
in proposing to you the health of the two members for the
borough of Liverpool. (Immense applause, the ladies rising
and waving their handkerchiefs.)
LORD SANDON, M.P. rose amidst most enthusiastic cheer-
ing. He said—My lord, and ladies and gentlemen. (Great
cheering and laughter.) I hope I shall be excused for de-
parting from the usual course of this night's proceed.
ings ; for the ladies having so kindly taken a part in
the last toast, I should really be most ungrateful if I
lost one moment in acknowledging their share of the
compliment. (Great pplause.) It is not indeed a new
thing for me to receive, whether in these walls, or within
the walls of Liverpool, testimonies of kindness and cordiality,
which, I confess, I am unable to account for. I can only ac-
count for it by that insinuating sympathy which creates a re.
gard for that which it is associated with, and which induces
you to feel that regard and affection for me, and which ever
. since I have had the honour of a connection with the inhabi

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ants of Liverpool, I have felt so unfeignedly and deeply for
them. (Cheers.) But, ladies and gentlemen, if I have ever
felt pride and gratification within these walls, I do not know
that I have ever felt either so highly as on the present occa-
sion—so highly and so purely, because so free from every
sentiment of personal gratification, and so entirely devoted
to the triumph of that cause in which the dearest interests of
my heart are engaged. (Hear, hear.) I have now one of the
dearest feelings am), heart gratified. I have long wished to
see within this great and growing community an establish-
ment rising within your walls, such as this day has inaugu-
rated. I have long wished to see the great masses of this
community, rising as they are into the highestplaces of the
land, filling our senate, the bar, end he church, carrying
out samples, as it were, of the English n itioil to every corner
of the globe—(applause)—educated within the walls of an
establishment which should give them a solid, a manly, an
English, a Church of England education. (Great applause.)
When I say an English and a Church of England education,
I in fact say the same thing in other words, for I believe that
with the extinction of the spirit of the Church of England,
the English character would be deeply deteriorated. We
should no longer see that which so singularly and so solely
distinguishes the English character—that proud submission—
that dignified obedience to subordination—that spirit of
liberty, combined with the love of revelation, which so glo-
riously distinguishes, and long may it distinguish, the
English nation from every nation on the face of the earth.
Gentlemen, I do not mean to trespass long on your attention
this evening. The labours of the night that is passed, and
those of the day that is to come, perhaps may excuse me
where so many around me are not only calculated to engage
your attention, but who have done so in the highest degree ;
and I may perhaps therefore take this opportunity of indulg-
ing myself, and trespassing for a shorter time on your atten-
tion than under other circumstances I should do. It is, in-
deed, a great gratification to see the members for your county
such men—men high in rank and station, daring to pronounce
in the midst of an assembly like this those words of holy, of
solemn, and of serious import, which I believe in no other

country, and I may say in hardly any other age, could be
pronounced with that acceptance—(applause)—and that so-
lemn feeling with which those observations were received.
(Hear, hear.) This indeed is an auspicious character of the
age in which we live. If this spirit still continues—if this
spirit of our national church not only continues but extends,
in vain shall we be exposed to the storms of political conten-
tion—in vain may democracy try to infuse into the British
constitution a single unconstitutional doctrine. (Immense
applause.) Let them do so ; let them try it if they please ;
let them succeed ; but if they do succeed, they will not gain
their object; for with a wholesome, a wise and scriptural
education, founded on the principles of the national church,
I believe we may trust to ary part of the population of this
country. Gentlemen; with these feelings, humbly apologis-
ing for the scantiness of the observations which I have of-
fered, and for the imperfect manner in which I have offered
them, I only take the opportunity of expressing the gratifi-
cation with which I have witnessed the ceremonies of the day
crowned as they have been by such an assembly as we have
seen, where the Bishop and the clergy of the diocese inter-
mingled with their attached laity. I return you my most
hearty thanks for the kindness with which you have received
me, and I call on my brother member to take his share of
the responsibility. (Great cheering.)
MR. CRESSWELL, M.P. rose amidst enthusiastic and pro-
longed cheering. He said :—I never rose with more sincerity
to express feelings of gratification than at this moment. And
although I have lost (by the unfortunate position in which
I found myself, being unable to appear at an earlier hour)
the interesting proceedings of the morning which would have
greatly delighted me, still I have abundant cause to rejoice
at being present to witness the enthusiasm of all assembled
at this meeting, where the inhabitants of Liverpool are en-
gaged heart and purse—not hand in contributing to that great
undertaking which I trust is auspiciously commenced this
day. (Applause.) I feel that I was unfortunately late, not
merely in missing the ceremony this morning, but in missing
that which I have only heard spoken of in admiration of its
merits—the speech of the noble Lord who this day founded
the institution. (applause.) But gentlemen, having thought
on the subject—having considered the importance of it, hav-
ing considered how far it is calculated to affect the future
destines of the whole empire, I can fully participate in the joy
which animates you all on such an occasion. (Applause.)
I cannot express fully how much I feel the kindness with
which you have been pleased to greet the humble individual
before you—(Applause)—because I know full well, that your
kind reception of me is not on account of any public services
which I have rendered von, though free and uninfluenced on
account of any personal feeling; for in truth, it too often
comes a-cross me, that the course which members of my
profession are bound to pursue does anything but win per-
sonal favour. (Cheers, a cry of " right there ' and a laugh.)
But I profess, though you may not think me sincere, that I
could not for political objects state that which I do not
feel; and if you believe that which I have professed, that
I will stick to as long as you place me in the station
which I occupy. (Loud applause.) It is sincerely my
desire to promote not only secular but religious education.
Gentlemen, for your kind reception this day, I most
sincerely return you my thanks. And believe me, how-
ever inefficient I may be in expressing my feelings on this
occasion, no one can feel more deeply the importance of this
day's proceedings. And ungrateful should I be to the edu-
cation which I have received, did I not feel its importance.
My noble and excellent colleague has alluded to the effects
which may be produced by the education you are now hold-
ing out to the middle classes of this town, as an incentive to
high station in their several pursuits ; and I have a proud
feeling of what an education given to the middle classes may
enable them to fulfil ; for you see a specimen of it before you.
I have no more distinctions than those which belong to
any of the classes of this land, excepting those earned
by humble, persevering, and I hope honest industry,
and which have obtained me your favour. (Great and
enthusiastic applause.) It is no new thing to leave the
burden of the labour, which should be divided between us,
to my noble colleague. I am quite content that he should
take the greatest share of it, well knowing now that I should
but mar that which I touched which had been under his
hands. Therefore, gentlemen, I will say nothing of this in-
stitution. I allude only to the effects of edulation by telling
you that I am one of the middle classes who have profited
by it. (Applause.) But I hope and trust that this institu-
tion, prospering from day to day, may extend similar advant-
ages to many members of this town; and when my years of
labour are over that I may see those members of this town now
rising into the opening of life, filling higher and more honour-
able positions than that which I am now too proud to occupy.
I have had the privilege of receiving the exceeding great re-
ward of your approbation. I have now the privilege of pro-
posing a toast to your acceptance. Gentlemen, those among
you the inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, the members
for the county, the members for the town, and those who are
joined together in promoting this great undertaking, might
naturally be expected to meet together to celebrate this gra-
tifying event ; but it was extremely desirable also that others
should be present—that as many noble and distinguished gen-
tlemen as could consistently with their avocationsand duties,
should come and witness the proceedings—should see how
pure were the motives by which all were actuated ; to see
that there was nothing like abuse of a political adversary, to
see how harmoniously we joined together to promote that
which, unless all philosophers and good men have been de-
ceived from the beginning of the world, cannot be evil. We
thank them for their presence. We wish the principle on
which this institution is founded to be as widely dissemi-
nated as possible. We know they have come here influenc-
ed by the kindest spirit, and it becomes us to thank them
for their attendance. I beg to propose as a toast—The
health of the Earl of Wilton, and the other distinguished
guests who have honored us with their presence."
The Earl of WILTON rose to respond to the toast. He
said—Gentlemen, it is with feelings of uncommon interest
and pleasure that I have been a spectator of this day's pro-
ceedings—feelings which I am quite sure are shared in by
those gentlemen in whose behalf as well as on my own, I have
been requested to acknowledge the compliment which this
vast assembly has just paid us. It must have been, gentle-
men, to them, as it has been to myself, a source of the most
unmixed. the most unqualified pleasure and satisfaction, to
have been present at the commencement of this great—this
noble work, which we may humbly hope may be the means
among many others of diffusing the light of knowledge—
(hear, hear, and cheers)—of opening the paths of science
and of imparting the spirit of truth to this kingdom. It is
impossible, gentlemen, to imagine a subject more fitted to
elevate the mind or to call forth more exalted feelings of the
heart. It is impossible to contemplate a theme more cal-
culated to raise the sympathies of all than this. Gentle-
men this is a subject which has been already so amply, so
fully, so fOreibly, so eloquently, and so feelingly enlarged on
by my noble relative near me, by the noble lord the chair-
man, and by other noble lords and gentlemen who have ad-
dressed you, that I should only weaken the effect of the ad-
dresses they have given you, if I attempted to touch the sub-
ject further. In their hands lam content to leave it, But
just thus much I may be allowed to add for myself, that this
great and noble work has my most sanguine wishes for its
perfect and complete success—a work so worthy of this great
town in which it has been conceived, and in which it is
to been executed;—(heart hear)—a town than which no
ether has given to the world greater proofs of what
intelligence and industry and enterprise and the power of
man can achieve. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it remains for me
but to express to you on my own part, and on that of the
other guests, our grateful sense of the kindness of the com-
mittee in placing our names upon the list of the toasts ; but
in a more especial and peculiar nisnner to thank you for the
favour and consideration with which that toast has been re..
ceived by you. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN—It has been a satisfaction to us to have
our proceedings sanctioned by so many distinguished persons
in this country and town • and amongst others it has been a
satisfaction that we have the advantage of the presence of the
chief magistrate of this town. And I feel bound to say for
myself that it was impossible for a gentleman in his station
to give that attendance with greater kindness, promptitude
and urbanity, than he exhibited. With these words I trust
you will accept with the utmost readiness and satisfaction the
toast I have now the honour to propose to you, " The Mayor
of Liverpool." (Cheers.)
[These cheers were followed by loud and mingled cries of
" The Mayor" and " Mr. Crooke." It being understood
that the Mayor was not present, these cries at last merged
into one for " Mr. Crooke." Suddenly that gentleman was
seen to rise from his seat, and, with imploring gestures and
beseeching tones, address something to the chairman, whilst,
with impassioned vehemence, he clasped together and raised
hie lilac-gloved hands. There was something so piteous in
his aspect, that the meeting seemed to feel for him. The
chairman was moved, and his own immediate friends could
not forbear embracing him, and oppressing him therewith
again on to his seat. The sentences uttered by the learned
gentleman were unfortunately inaudible. We cannot, there-
fore, give their import.]
The CHAIRMAN.—It is impossible for me to steer by any
other chart than that which is placed in my hands, and I
find the toast I last gave in the list before me. It is now my
duty to call on Mr. M`Neile. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Iluan M•Nxits. on rising to propose the next toast of
" Success to the Diocesan Educational Society," was most enthu.
siastically cheered. He delivered a most admirable speech, for
which we regret our inability to find room till our next number.
The rev, gentleman, in allusion to the venerable diocesan's vigilance
against heresy in the church, and to Lord Stanley's recent parlia-
mentary labours, concluded by applying to them—and the applica-
tion was received with deafening applause. The lines—
" Charge. Chester, charge on, Stanley on !"
[Some short time after the reverend gentleman had commenced
responding to the call of the chair, the Mayor's deputy, Mr.
Crooke, who appeared to be labouring under an indistinct concep-
tion that it was he who ought to be speaking, also commenced ad-
dressing certain mysterious and piteous sounds to the Chairman.
which were suddenly cut short by a summary ejectment " vi et
annis,,, by his surrounding friends ; against whom he has a very-
maintainable action of assault and battery—their charitable inten-
tions being no answer in law.]
The Hon. and Rev. H. Powys replied to the toast of " Success to
Pgive the
eedl s"
t for
and me,
most agreeable
Scriptural Education through-
out Diocesanth eworldS.Ve ty ," and
They duty PnaEsSelhDaXiNr.T.a—n. to
onlyltgi remainsinthe
the evening. (Hear.) It is one which, after theo s em• performance
at i o n s toastt
ha ‘oo•eff
m
already made, must be
posed to surrender to aPnlyeaganng,*(Hmeaanry.), biuttewghtiochgilveanyoion.o,t,
,dirhse-
health of the Ladies," (Great cheering.)
The noble President, the Lord Bishop, Lord Stanley, Lord Sander), Lord Wilton, and the other principal p
guests, then retired, but several
speeches were afterwards delivered, and the meeting did not finally
separate till a late hour.

GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.—We under-
stand that some of the experirnentalizing directors of this
company, have resolved on adopting the Archimedean screw
for the great iron ship, and are now reconstructing her at an
enormous expense, for that purpose. We need hardly ob-
ssrve, that this course has been adopted without the sanction
of the proprietors.—Bristol Mirror.
When George IV. threw a glass of wine into tha face of a
gentleman who sat near him at table, the coutlier coolly
filled his own glass and flung it into the face of his neigh-
bour on the other side, saying, " I suppose it' is to go
round."

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THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL,

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. SLAITER,
On• which occasion Mr. HOSKINS will make his Second
Appearance this Season.
THIS present FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 1840, will be performed
O'Keefe's celebrated Comedy, called
WILD OATS.
Sir George Thunder. Mr. Vivash.
Harry Thunder.... Mr. W. H. Bland.
Rover.. Mr. W. Howard. Ephraim Smooth.. Mr. Baker.
Sim r . Mr. Slaiter.
Lady Amaranth.. Mrs. W. H Bland. I Jane. .. Mrs. Tellet.

After which, the Farce of
X. Y. Z.

-Noddy Bray Mr. Hoskins.
Captain Galliard Mr. W. H. Bland.
Ralph Hempseed Mr. Slaiter.
Mrs. Mouser.. Mrs. Baker. Dora Mumwell.. Mrs. Clarke.

To conclude with the Burletta, called
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ;
OR. DOINGS AT DO-THE-BOYS HALL.
Monsieur Mantilini Mr. Chaplin.
John Brodie . Mr. Slaiter.
Nicholas Nickleby Mr. W. H. Bland.
Newman Noggs.... Mr. Gray. Smike Mrs. Tellet.
Squeers....
Mad. Mantilini.. Miss Cleaver. Miss Price.. Mrs. Baker.
Mrs. Squeers Mrs. Clarke.

THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the
1 LIVERPOOL ACADEM Y of WORKS of MODERN
ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the Season, from Nine until
Dusk. And on MONDAY next and following Evenings,
BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven
o'clock until Ten.
Admission, ls. Catalogue, is. Season Ticket, ss.
SAMUEL EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Academy.
Exhibitioi Rooms, Postoffice-place.

EXHIBITION.
WILL POSITIVELY CLOSE IN A FEW DAYS.
CAPTAIN SIBORN'S MODEL of the BATTLE of
WATERLOO, now Exhibiting in the
GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS,
SLATER-STREET, BOLD-STREET.
Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night.
Admission, One Shilling.

PANORAMA OF NEW YORK, &c.
NEW BUILDING, NEWINGTON, NEAR BOLD-STREET, NEXT
TO THE CLARENDON HOTEL.
THE Public, who are desirous to see this Exhibition, so
universally admired, will please to give it their most early
attention.
Day Exhibition commences punctually at One; in the
Evening at Seven; and again at Half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission.—Boxes, Is. 6d., Children, Is.; Pit, ls., Chil-
dren, 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. for each person.
A Quadrille Band attends. The Building is neatly fitted
up, and rendered comfortably warm.
Ladies and Gentlemen and Public Schools by Contract.

WILL SHORTLY CLOSE.'
NOW EXHIBITING, at the LYCEUM. BOLD-STREET,
the magnificent PAINTING of ADAM and EVE, (by
GILLARD,) which has commanded the admiration of thou-
sands, amongst whom may be named the first Judges of
Pictures in England.
Doors open from Ten in the Morning till Nine at Night.
ADMISSION—SIXPENCE.
ON SALE.
Size of the Picture, 11 feet by 8.