The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

June 18, 1844

THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

HALF-YEARLY DISTRIBUTION O' Pattts,
The half-yearly distribution of prizes, in this most ad-
teirable institution, took place on Friday, in the Lecture-
room of the building. The middle and upper galleries
were crowded to excess with parents and friends of the
and amongst whom were many of the leading
inliira of the town, The body of the room was devoted
to the scholars, and the platform was also filled. Amongst
pose present we noticed the Rev. J. Cnnybeare, the
ri;n6Pal ; the Revs. Dr. Booth and J. H. Brown, Vice-
:'newals ; the Rev. J. J. Higgins, the Rev. Hugh
Neile, 11. Molyneux, J. Booker, R. Harbord,
littneaOteri Shaw, S. L. Trotman, Booker, Esqs.,
Vic.' &c.
At seven o'cia.' k the Rev.J. Brooks, Senior Rector,
~d chairman of th,:• Board of Directors, took the chair.
The Proceedings of t,;:e day commenced by the pupils
'",...'uoting the Venite exulte.:nus Domino.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN then pipceeded to address them
to the following effect :—Boyd of the collegiate I nstitu-
°n 4ch°ols, I have great pleased in again meeting you
for the distribution of prizes to those amongst you who
have distinguished themselves by their industry and ex-
Vous during the past half-year ; and I call assure you
Eroonly regret I feel is theabsence of our respected
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son, who, upon the last occasion of a similar natotee
08kind enough to preside, who has been prevented by
0 ther itnportant avocations from doing the same now,
who, I hope, will present himself again to you on
otatefuture opportunity. Since I last had the pleasure
• Eneetiott you several exhibitions have been established
tn the schools, which will, I trust, prove a strong
~inc-
entive to your future exertions. I shall now state to you
tnole which will have to be contended fot in future years,
halltocommence with the upper school. In this
the° e are no less than four university exhibitions ;
Thestake place at this season in the next year.
etherefilraa ree I:Connected with the upper school, and they are,
nun ore for the universities; and as the usual time for a
four g Man
remaining at college is between three and
Years, the mann:tr in which they are to be pre-
!tented has been so arranged, that one shall be vacant to
be contended for every year. The first is established by
tlt o) rev. Mend near me, the Rev. Mr. M'Neile. (Cheers.)
was determined by a number of his friends that a tes-
timonial should be presented to him, and he thought he
could not makeuse of it more gratifying to himself and
neerifletrrallv useful to the town at large, than by con-
', 1111,g it with the Collegiate Institution. (Applause.)
He as, therefore, divided it amongst the three schools—.
!stablishing in the Upper School an exhibition amounting
in value to the annual interest of £1,000; in the Middle
school two exhibitions, amounting to ten guineas each ;
and two in the Lower School, which amount to the sum
leeessary for keeping the boys in the school. (Loud
'Peril:tit.) The first time this exhibition to the Uni-
versities will be brought before you fur compe-
tition., will be next year, and for those boys who have
entered before August in the present year. It will beopen
to any of the three universities, either Oxford, Cambridge,
or Dublin. The annual value will be wh,.t the inter-
est of £l,OOO will make, and we may calculate on its
being about £4O. (Applause.) The next is one esta-
blished by a gentleman, who, from the very commence-
Mani of the institution, has shown himself to be one of its
kindest friends. I mean the elder Mr. Gladstone. (Loud
cheers.) He has already presented the institution with,
believe, £l,OOO, for its various purposes, and he now
‘eatablishes an exhibition of the same amount. That will
be contended for in the year 1846, this time two years;
and it will be open to all boys who have been in the school
Previous to February, 1845. The next is an exhibition,
not of positive amount in money, but of the annual value
of 450 a-year, which will come into play in the year 1847,
for thosebled b
whoyhave been in the school before August, 1845,
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the masters of the institution. (Tremen-
dous cheering.) It shows the lively interest that they
taiie in Your advancement. The fourth exhibition is one
arising in part from a sum which was the surplus of a
fund raised for the erecuion of a statue to the memory of
to illustrious man, who was formerly one of the represen-
Ritiea of this town in the House of Commons—the late
...gYion. George Canning. (Loud applause.) There
er"
. 4. 811 M which afforded a surplus after all expenses of
the statue had been defrayed, which, I think,
:saniNtrited to £350, and this the committee handed to tile
bn-lel'elgiligate Institution to found an exhibition, to be called
roateleatC:nnoing exhibition. The present Lord Canning,
Its to bear his testimony to the merits of so near a
tnelexabtrdo.tno'yxhals,ohoiom,self made up the sum to £5OO. Other
snrE itn have also added to that sum, so that it is now
the same as the M'Neile and the other
itzters, fotor
exhibitions. And here again I feel it my duty to bear
the liberality and disinterestedness of your
although their exhibitions would not come
Play before 1847, yet they have determined to corn-
pr r their subscriions immediately, and to devote the
(Loo nCe of them to he increase of the Canning exhibition.
Liverpool
cheers.) We shall, therefore, have the town of
rthaerpool
connected, by this institution, with the names
on its mentioned to you. It will reflect no little credit
S inhabitants, and 1 hope those young men who may
_attain those exhibitions will do nothing to tarnish them
when they
applause,)
There
present themselves to the University. (Loud
is another resolution of the Board of
Directors
Which has
which has taken. place. since. we last met, and
the . the same object in view as the
.establishment of
in lies
that is to encourage merit, so far as
their; Power, in all the schools. (Cheers.) The reso-
lution is this : It will be open to any boy in the lower
(RA who chooses to work his way up to the upper
school, and through that, if his parents should think
rti3) pe r
serTint:he
to the universities. One boy in each half year,
lower ormiddleschool, if a boy is found de-
w._ will be moved up to the school immediately above
fromtm—that is, from the lower to the middle school, or
the middle to the high school, and the charge made
to his parents, for his education, will only be the price of
the school which he leaves;—(loud applause)---so that if
there be a particularly talented boy, who may in future
limes distinguish himself among the worthies of his coun-
qi an opportunity will thus be afforded him of future
success. (Continued cheers.) There cannot be more
than six at one time who will be allowed this privilege.
sincerely hope we shall find that number. (Cheers.) I
think I have now stated to you all the information we have
to give you. 1 trust it will prove a stimulant to your fu-
ture exertions; and now, with the assistance of the Prin-
cipal. I shall proceed to distribute to you the prizes which
have been awarded.

A low, and interesting ceremony then commenced, of
distributing to the boys those prizes which their merits
had won for them. The Chairman, in handing the vari-
ous books and medals to the successfui boys, made apt
and appropriate addresses to them, giving to each their
Proper meed of praise. Our space, however, will not allow
1" to indulge in the topic, merely remarking that it re-
flects
occupy
yll credit on the boys and their instructors.
The two first pupils of last year, by their application and
the same honourable station this year.
Their names, as well as those of the other boys who gained
honours in their' various classes, will be found at the close
of this report.
Thethe,,t in
iISIRMAN in his concluding address to the boys,
his preceding observations he might have ap-
peared to dwell more particularly on the upper school, and
it leed 'from the splendour, f those endowments with which
had been favoured during the past year, might seem al-
(ist to eclipse the other schools, but those in the middle
than
lower schools were equal, nay, of still greater value
amnbin the upper. (Applause.) After mentioning the
hu p --Lr,,",,sebolarships, and endowments to the schools,
swt!ne, of them al'
flo:rhpororil2;:seh:ed to observe that although a few out of the
had been presented by the Board of Directors
Yet he was extremely happy in being able to
Witte,
the the satisfaction the Principal had felt
, general conduct of the boys during the last half
ea'' (Loud Cheers.) He had informed him (the Chair-
ran) that the advancement of the schools generally had
cheers eXeeeded that of any previous half year. (Continued
I 1 hat was a very gratifying thing to thee7e who
fFit an interest in the establishment of that great institu-
;'!on that such should ive been its results ; and he be-
-11..",ed he might say, withoutfear of contradiction, that it
`'.ct surpassed all other intitutions of a similar kind in
t,he kingdom with regard to the rapidity of its success.
arereendous cheers.) They were then only in the
e4irnmencement of the first part of the second year, and
Yet there were 713 in the day schools under education.
(Continued cheers.) He must not, however, allow his
congratulations to be confined to the boys present. He
Would extend them to their parents and to the vast masses
of the population of this great town at large. (Cheers.)
To the boys it was a fortunate circumstance that there was
such a place as that in which they were taught their duty,
and to their parents it was of the greatest importance
that there was an institution like that established to
which they could send their children to be educated.
(Applause.) He had no doubt they had seen during that
morning amongst the boys several who would branch off
in all the different situations and stations of life—some
in to the higher, some in the lower grades of society ; but,
whatever might be their position—whether their future des-
tination might be the senate—whether they should become
Members of the learned professions, or afford by their
exertions as merchants strength and stability to the corn-
Merce of the country, or whether they engaged in trade
---all were taught that one thing, without which, whatever
13e their future destiny in life, every other kind of know-
ledge was of no importance at all—a knowledge which
kwaa the very principle upon which that institution was
"ased—pure and undefiled religion. (Loud cheers.) He
trusted all were taught there that it was not sufficient
merely to learn their duty—that they must not only make
okfieen;dflolvule;aseLsaBcquainted with the Bible and everything ap-
Pew rtstining to it, but they must also be taught that they
carry its sacred influences into whatever station
Lt
it 'night be their future lot to fall. Knowledge, of
it be founded on such a basis, was of that
Which they were told in the book of Christianity
e -.Y served to " puff up." It was the " knowledge which
dlbeth" that they must carry away with them from that
tretitution
. and he was satisfied from what he knew of
thatnelPies upon which the institution was conducted
" would be offered to them. That was what they
It4st'earry away with them when they left the institution.
tikewm°llld be their best guide through life, and would teach
and—kto look beyond the present world to the only safe
(Lou-aill'l Comfort whenever they were removed from it.
in this zlPPlause ) The change which had taken place
s,respect during the last few years was most gratify-
gr"e'ai zducation seemed to have forced itslfjupon the
fore amaasn of the people more than ever done he-
hatl,Crt" he was happy to find the great iti,reasewhich
seligb,aniten Place in the number of schools based upon
(Cheers' and connected with the established Church.
had a.) *This showed that a great portion of mankind
and become impressed with the importance of religion,
eatea all in one point—that it was of no to edu-
rehoiat all unless they educated upon the principles. of
to End (Cheers.) The boys present were thep going
totedh oY the relaxation of the holidays, and lie .sincerely
they would enjoy themselves, that thay would do
bee "eratelY, temperately, and as becae boys who had
°llle acquainted with a certain portion of religious