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

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LOST, Yesterday, between St. Peter's Church and the
Site of the Collegiate Institution, a Gold Short-sighted
GLASS.—Any Person who has found it, and will bring it to
Mr. PERRIS, Church-street, will receive a suitable Reward.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE CONSERVATIVE
ASSOCIATION DINNER AT NEWTON.
FRIDAY, the 23rd OCTOBER, 1840.
LORD SANDON, Member for Liverpool, Chairman.
A LL CONSERVATIVES who have not yet secured
Tickets for the dinner are respectfully informed that
arrangements have been made to continue the issuing of
Tickets till Twelve o'clock Tnis MORNING (Friday), at my
office, No. 10, Exchange-alley.
RICHARD DAWSON.
N.B.—A SPECIAL TRAIN will start from the Railway
Station, Lime-street, at Three o'clock precisely.

A correspondent of the Morning Herald suggests that
Campbell's tine stirring song " Ye Mariners of England,"
which has lately been set to music, should be sung at our
theatres and convivial meetings in the metropolis, as a set-off
against the Parisians in the Marseillaise Hymn. The senti-
ments in that truly national composition are peculiarly adapt-
ed to the present times, particularly in the event of war.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODLCE OF POTATOES.--Mr. Phipps,
of Tower, near Mold, planted this year, two ordinary sized
potatoes, weighing about three-quarters of a pound, cut into
nine pieces or sets, which small number of plants produced
the enormous weight of 36 pounds. The name of this species
of prolific vegetable Mr. Phipps does not at present know,
but will endeavour to find out and propagate the same, for
the benefit of his brother farmers.—Chester Courant.
SUMMARY VENGEANCE.—At the late fair held at Win-
canton, a wax-work figure of Courvoisier, the murderer of the
late lamented Lord William Russell, was exhibited for the
gratification of the curious in such matters; among the visi-
tors to the show was a person named T. of North
Cadbury, who, on observing the figure of Courvoisier, asked
who it was, and on being told that it was the, murderer of Lord
,
William Russell, he solemnly declared that he would
knock his head off, for that such a person should not be kept
at Wincanton." The man made no more ado, but absolutely
inflicted the threatened thump, and, sure enough; off tumbled
the head of the Swiss murderer. This zealous guardian of
the good name of Wincanton, however, had to pay the sum
of 10s. 6d. for the assault committed on the unconscious
body of Courvoisier.—Bristol Mirror.
THE NASSAU BALLOON.—Mr. Charles Green intends•
next summer, ascending from Dublin in the great Nassau
balloon, if the current of air be favourable, passing over
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The magistrates of the Dunmnw sessions have decided that
persons coming from a distance for the purpose of attending
divine service at a place of worship, of which they are regu-
lar members, are " travellers" within the meaning of the act,
and may be accommodated with refreshment at a beer-shop
or public-house during the hours of divine service in the
parish church.
A NEW FEATURE.—At the Hereford Musical Festival, a
new feature was introduced by the conductor in Handel's
celebrated chorus, " All we like sheep." At the conclusion
of this chorus the time was gradually relaxed, and the voices
and instruments were all subdued to " pianissimo." The
critics were in raptures at the beautiful effect it produced,
and the splendid idea it gave of the subject.

GRAltn
KOI:CATI.Q.NAL 110V1NIENT,

LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION-STONE

OF THE
LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE JVSTITCHON.

Yesterday was a proud day for Liverpool, and, in
reference to the paramount cause of sound Scriptural
education, Ni'e may add a proud day for England; for
on it was laid, under the auspices of a vast congrega-
tion of the nobility, clergy, gentry, and innumerable
friends of good government, order, and religion, the
foundation-:stone of a noble edifice, to be called THE
LIVERPOOL. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION, " for the
education of the commercial, trading, and working
classes" of this great emporium of commerce and the
surrounding country ; in which, as stated in the pro-
spectus of the establishment, " instruction in the doc-
trines and duties of Christianity, as taught by the
United Church of England and Ireland, shall for ever
be communicated, in combination with literary, scien-
tific, and commercial information."

We have supplied below the rules of the Institution,
which embody interesting details of its objects, the
mode of government, the privileges of members, and
the nature of tuition to be imparted to the respective
classes of students. We need therefore but briefly ad-
vert to the origin and prospects of an establishment
which has already, by virtue of its intrinsic merits,
taken inseparable hold of the public mind.
It had for many years been a subject of deep regret
to all classes attached to the venerable Protestant
Church of our fathers, in its constitutional connexion
with the State, that while educational schools were
rising amongst us on all sides, where dissent from the
doctrines of that church, or the more baleful errors of
Popery, were industriously disseminated,—or where
religion being systematically excluded, the pupils were
left on the wide and dangerous ocean of chance,—it
was lamented that while this was going on, there was
no seminary in which the sons of true churchmen could
receive an education basetl on the doctrines and prin-
ciples in which they had themselves been nurtured.
Impressed not less with this fact as regarded the tem-
poral and spiritual welfare of those nearest and dearest
to them, than virtuously alarmed at the spread of
error, and even of infidelity, as regarded a great mass
of their fellow countrymen, a number of highly respect-
able and influential individuals proposed the present
institution; and it was hailed by many of their fellow
townsmen with an enthusiasm which gave augury of
its indubitable success. The prospectus was issued in
October, 1839. It proposed that the instruction to he
given should be divided into three departments :—The
first school to include " the classics, English litera-
ture and composition, geography, civil and ecclesiasti-
cal history, modern language, mathematics, natural
history and philosophy, chemistry, drawing, and every
other branch of useful learning ;"—the second school
to be on a more limited and less expensive scale—em-
bracing, however, " the various requisites of a sound
general education," so as to enable the pupils to enter
upon the business of life with advantage to themselves
and the community ; and in addition to these an eve-
ning school " for the instruction of those whose edu-
cation had been comparatively neglected in early life,"
—" the exercises in each school to be commenced and
terminated with prayer, and the reading and exposition
of the Holy Scriptures to form a portion of the daily
business of the schools." The prospectus also set
forth the mode of management by a committee of the
subscribers, the appointment of masters who are uni-
versity graduates, &c.

On the Gth of January of the present year (little
more than two months after the issuing of this pros-
pectus) a general meeting of the subscribers took
place, when the gratifying announcement was made,
that notwithstanding the commercial pressure of the
times, the sum subscribed up to that time was upwards
of £lO,OOO ! That amount, as will be seen by the list
below) has since been greatly augmented. It was also
announced that the Lord Bishop of the diocese had
expressd his entire approbation of the plan on which
the committee had acted, and his willingness to under-

take the office of visitor to the institution.
From that period to the present the funds conti-
nued to increase, and the institution to become more
and more generally approved of. The committee ex-
erted themselves to procure a suitable site, and even-
tually purchased a plot of land in Soho-street. Plans
for the building were advertised for, calling forth the
first architectural talent of the country; and from the
designs sent in, one admirably adapted for such an
institution was selected. In order, however, that so
splendid an edifice might be seen to advantage, that
plot was abandoned in favour of a more eligible site
in Shaw-street, Everton, which has the advantage of
being more open and airy. The greater distance from
the town generally, as affecting the convenience of the
pupils in the more humble walks of life, will, it is
stated, be compensated for by the establishment of
branch schools at the Church of England free schools,
at the north and south ends of the town.
It should here be noticed that some details con-
nected with the establishment have not yet been en-
tered into ; amongst which is the terms of admission
of pupils to the several schools. It is, however, we
learn, in contemplation to make such an arrangement
as will render the institution accessible to the children
of the middle classes, as well as those of the highest
individuals in the community. A Principal is to be
appointed to superintend the whole, with the power to
appoint or dismiss the professors and masters. It is
also stated that all these will be remunerated by a
graduated scale of fees, regulated by their success in
their respective departments,—so that talent and assi-
duity will be the more effectually incited.
The reader will be the better enabled to appreciate
the objects and merits of the institution, by perusing
the following

RULES AND REGULATIONS.
NAME.

No. 1. That the name of the institution be " The Liver-
pool Collegiate Institution,—for the Education of the Com-
mercial, Trading, and Working Classes."

OBJECT OR DESIGN.

2. That the object or design of this institution be, to " pro-
vide for the inhabitants of Liverpool, an education suited to
their wants, upon the most moderate terms, and at the same
time to maintain indissolubly the connection between sound
religion and useful learning ;" and for this purpose, " Instruc-
tion in the doctrines and duties of Christianity, as taught by
the united church of England and Ireland, shall for ever be
communicated in combination with literary, scientific, and
commercial information ; and with a view to the permanence
of the institution on this basis, all the officers, professors,
and masters, (except the teachers of Oriental literature, and
the foreign modern languages,) shall be members of the es-
tablished church."