The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-16 00:00:00

MEETING OF MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS,

A meeting of the associated bodies of this town was held
on Monday afternoon, in the office of the East India and
China Association, for the purpose of taking measures for
the future protection of property from fire. There was a
large attendance of gentlemen. William Brown, Esq. was
called to the chair.

The CHAIRMAN having briefly explained the object of the
meeting,

Mr. TODD said that they had met to take a retrospect of
the past, nor to indulge in regrets as to the immense loss
which had been recently sustained in this town by fire, for
that would be an useless expenditure of time ; but they had
met to provide for the future, by the adoption of remedies
which were now indispensably called for. One remedy
which, at the outset, suggested itself, was the support of the
bill which the Council were applying for in Parliament. The
Fire Bill was introduced into the House of Commons; but,
notwithstanding that, the warehouse-owners were deter-
mined that it should not pass until they had tried an experi-
ment. " Let another tire take• place," say they, " and we
will try if we cannot extinguish it." Well, another fire did
take place, before any experiment could be tried under the
Water Bill, and then the warehouse-owners, in their mag-
nanimity, said, " Oh, let us go on with the Fire Bill again."
The advice was complied with, thus showing that the ware-
house•owners were the masters of the council, and that they
(the merchants) were completely at their disposal. It was
time for them to free themselves from this servitude. The
warehouse property of this town was no doubt large; but the
property that was stored in those warehouses was much more
valuable. He should estimate it at £20,000,000, and if any
given period could be fixed upon when the warehouses were
emptied and refilled, he should say that property of the value
of £60,000,000 passed through them ; and yet a mere sec-
tion were to dictate what regulations were to be in force, and,
in fact, to have the whole of the owners of that property at
their mercy. It was time that they should free themselves
from this dictation ; and the first step towards it should be
the sending up of a petition from that meeting which repre-
sented the commercial bodies of Liverpool, begging of the
legislature to pass without delay, not the bill of the council,
but a bill emanating from that body. He therefore said,
that in any bill which the council went for, and which re-
ceived the support of the associated bodies, the classification
of goods, and the removal of the buildings in which hazar-
dous trades were carried on, should be provided for. They
asked for power to remove from the neighbourhood of a
warehouse, containing, perhaps, £lOO,OOO worth of property,
a small building not worth more, probably, than £lOO, and
the returns of the occupier of which %ere not more than £2OO
a year, giving him compensation for the loss sustained by re-
moval, and that only. As to the necessity for classification,
he thought it was needless to enlarge upon that, after the ex-
perience they had had. (Hear, hear.) The speaker then
'pointed out the present position of the Fire Bill, and pro-
posed, that the meeting should agree to petition the House
of Commons, seconding and enforcing the prayer of the pe-
tition from the Council, sent on Saturday.
Mr. JAMES RILEY seconded the motion, which was
agreed to.
Mr. TODD said, that he had had a conference with the
Town-Clerk and Deputy Town-Clerk, and it was proposed
that several new clauses should be introduced into the bill.
One of these suggested clauses was to the effect, that every
porter should, as the condition on which he was employed,
submit to be searched before entering a warehouse, it• that
should be thought necessary. It might be said that this was
an infringement on the liberty of the subject; but it was not,
if it was done with the porter's consent.
The CHAIRMAN.-1 have it done now.

Mr. W. RATHBONE thought it would be better to avoid
going into details then, and to appoint a committee of that
body to see what the new provisions were, and what the bill
would be in its complete form.
The CHAIRMAN said that he had that day seen the Mayor,
toll him of the meeting he was about to attend, and asked
him for a copy of the bill. The Mayor's reply was, that it
had been so altered and mutilated that it would perhaps mis-
lead them, and suggested the propriety of their appointing a
committee to co-operate with the Council Fire Committee,
by which means they could suggest anything which, in their
oponion, was requisite or desirable. If such a committee
was appointed. they might probably get some useful clauses
introduced, and some obnoxious ones removed. _ _

Mr. RATRBONE seconded the motion for the adoption of
the petition, which was agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. JAMES FOWLER, seconded by Mr.
J. B. BRANCKER, a committee, consisting of the following
gentlemen, was appointed :—Messrs. Brown, Todd, Pitcher,
Wrigley, Gladstone, C. S. Parker, Tobin, Healing, and
Naylor, jun.
Mr. TODD then said, that at the suggestion of a gentleman
well known to them all, he should propose, as the delay in
parliamentary proceedings was very great, and as immediate
remedies were requisite for thii alarming conjuncture, that
they should, either by memorial or deputation, call upon the
Lords of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Customs to
adopt immediate measures for rendering warehouses, both in
their construction and management, more secure. He should
therefore move the following resolution :—" That in the opi-
nion of this meeting a deputation of merchants should he
sent to London, in order to suggest to the Lords of her Ma-
jesty's Treasury, and the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Customs, the absolute necessity of enforcing, in all ware-
houses, sheds, &c. used for the depositing of bonded goods
within the port of Liverpool, such provisions as shall secure
the proper classification of merchandise, and such rules and
regulations for its receipt, delivery, and custody, in bond, as
shall, as far as possible, tend immediately to remove many of
the well-founded objections which are entertained by the di-
rectors of fire insurance companies to the present system of
warehousing in this port, and to provide as well for the effec-
tual security of the merchant as of the revenue."

After a long conversation Mr. Todd agreed to withdraw his
motion.

Several other propositions were brought forward ; but,
after a long discussion, the Chairman suggested an adjourn-
ment, to allow time for the East India Association to consi-
der the subject ; this was agreed to without opposition, and
thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting ad-
journed.

Greenwich is described by the old Elizabethian chroniclers
as a " peerless place." The revolution of time has brought
it to its former state again ; for. since the late accident, it
has been as pierkss as before. Greenwich may now be enu-
merated as one of the Sink-ports.—Punch.

LaEctcas.—The following has been handed to us for
insertion :—" Well, my good woman, how is your hus-
band?" asked a chymist in a sea-port town in a remote
part of England of an ancient dame. " Oh, sir, we've had a
weary night with him, poor man !" Why, did you apply
the leeches, as I ordered ?" " Yes, sir, but oh ! my poor
husband, I thought he would have died a -taking of 'em. You
see, sir, we couldn't get 'em down. He did try, and try, and
try, but they did stick all across his throat, and I made sure
he would be strangled. At last, he did manage to swallow
one; but will you believe me, sir, we couldn't get down
another. "Iwere all of no use to go on in that way; but I
knew he must take 'em, as you ordered, sir, and so I chop-
ped up t'other five into nice small pieces—and then 'twere
terrible job again—l were up with him nearly all the night,
and at last he got 'em all down but one, and so I fried that
there last 'un, and he took that 'uu too. Ah, but sir, he bad
a terrible night of it, poor man."—Bath Paper.

EXAMINATION AND DELIVERY OP PRIZES
TO THE PUPILS IN THE LIVERPOOL COL.
LEGIATE INSTITUTION.

The first half-yearly examination of the pupils in the several
schools in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, took place
on Tuesday last, with the most satisfactory results ; and on
Wednesday the scholars who had most distinguished them-
selves were presented with prizes in the presence of the Rev.
the Principal, the Mayor of Liverpool. Mr. Rector Brooks,
Mr. Rector Campbell, the Rev. Dr. Tattersall, the Rev. F.
Barker, and a brilliant assembly of the principal inhabitants
of the town and neighbourhood. The capacious lecture-
room of the Institution was, indeed, quite filled. The front
of the raised dais was appropriated to the boys who were to
be the recipients of prizes ; and. to the right the remaining
pupils were placed. Their appearance was deeply interest-
ing.

A few minutes past eleven o'clock the chair was taken by
the Rev. Rector Brooks, and all the pupils sang the chant
Venite, exulternus Domino, in which they were joined by the
auditory. After this,
The Rev. CHAIRMAN delivered the following address :
Boys : Before I proceed to the business of the day, I must be
allowed to express my regret at the absence of our respected
Diocesan, the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, to whom it would
have fallen, in his office of visitor to these schools, to pre-
sent the prizes which are this day to be given to those pupils
who have distinguished themselves by their proficiency in
their studies during the last half-year. In his absence it has
fallen to my duty to supply his place. Ido so with great
regret, because, I cannot but feel that had he been here him-
self; not only from the situation which he holds in the diocese,
but also from the general respect and esteem in which he is
held, he would have performed it much more efficiently than
lam able. It is a source of great satisfaction to the 'Com-
mittee to be informed by the Principal and the other masters
who superintend your education, that they are satisfied with
your general conduct during the last half-year—that you
have conducted yourselves, generally speaking, with great
propriety, and that you have paid attention to those studies
which are so essential to your future progress in life. You
are now upon the point of leaving the school for a short time,
to take your first vacation, and the ceremony of this day
naturally takes place at this period. With regard to the
prizes themselves, I find that we are indebted to several gen-
tlemen, who have been great contributors to this Institution,
for having supplied us with the means of presenting to those
who are most worthy, a handsome testimony of theirs and
the masters' approbation. The first I see upon the list, is
the name of Lord Francis Egerton, (hear, hear,) who has
contributed a prize of ten guineasrto be given in books to
the boy who has most distinguished himself by his proficiency
in the Upper School. (Hear, hear, hear.) In the second
school—or Middle School—l find thatl Mr. Potter, a mer-
chant of this town, who is entitled by his subscription to a
scholarship, instead of presenting it to one of his own con-
nections, or friends, has, very kindly, thought proper to pre-
sent it to the master, to be given to the boy most deserving
of it in the Middle School. (Hear, hear, hear.) That is an
annual scholarship, which entitles him to a free admission
into the Middle School ; that will become vacant each year,
and is to be held for one year, so that the boy who has been
the successful candidate upon this occasion does not neces-
sarily retain it unless he skews equal zeal and industry in his
pursuit of knowledge. (Hear, hear.) In the Lower School
we have two scholarships given by Mr. Edmund Molyneux,
another merchant in the town of Liverpool, who by his
subscription is entitled to four scholarships in the Lower
School, and he has given the whole, the whole four,—two
only coming into play at this time, but it will be so arranged
that one of his scholarships shall fall vacant every year. In
addition to these there have been some prizes given in
divinity by the Principal, and one in mathematics by the '
Rev. Dr. Booth ; there are some others also given by some
of the other masters, and the remainder by the Institution.
(Hear, hear.) I shall now proceed to the delivery of these
prizes; and I shall request the Principal to present to me
the first boy be has to put forward.
The Rev. W. J. CONYBEARE, Principal of the Institution,
then introduced Master Adam S. Ferrer, (son of the Rev.
Mr. Ferrer, Wesleyan Minister, and Superintendent of the
Liverpool North Circuit,) mentioning to the Chairman that
this youth had eminently distinguished himself.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed Mr. Farrer thus :—Farrer,
I have the pleasure of presenting to you the prize of ten guineas
which Lord Francis Egerton has given to the best boy in the
Upper School,—to be presented in books. I have also the
gratification to present to you another set of books, as the
prize in Divinity ; and I find by the record which the Prin-
cipal has put into my hands you are also entitled to a prize in
History. When I say entitled, I mean so far as your merits
go; but in consequence of the rule of the Institution which
will not allow any one boy taking more than two prizes, that
one will go to the boy who has been second. This, however,
does not detract from your merit. I have great pleasure and
satisfaction in holding you up as an example to the rest of the
school for their imitation. It is a matter which must be very
satisfactory to your friends, and to yourself also, that upon
the first occasion you have been contesting you should have
carried away no less than three prizes. (Hear, hear.) I un-
derstand it is your intention to pursue your studies, after you
leave school, in the University of Oxford. YOu will there
enter upon a wider field of competition ; there it will require
all the energies of which you are master to keep up the cha-
racter which you have obtained here ; and I would dismiss
you with this single observation, that you must recollect that
you have not only your own character to maintain in the
University, but as one of the most likely, and as one of the
first boys that leaves this Institution and goes there, you)will
have the character of the Institution itself in your hands.
(Great applause.)
bl r. Farrer then retired amidst loud cheers, in which all
his fellow-scholars heartily joined.
The PRINCIPAL then introduced Andrew Wilson to the
Chairman.

The CHAIRMAN, addressing this young gentleman, said :
Wilson, you, too, I find, have by your diligence obtained
two prizes in your class. You have obtained the first prize
in the second class,—the first of the school prizes, and you
have also obtained the mathematical prize. It must be very
gratifying to you, and to those connected with you, to find
that your course has begun so favourably. I have great plea-
sure in presenting these prizes to you, and I hope they will
be a stimulus to your future exertions. (Loud cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL next introduced three boys, named
Gouthwaite, Smith, and Tatham, of the third, fourth, and
fifth classes.

The CHAIRMAN addressing the youths said, Gouthwaite,
of the third, Smith, of the fourth, and Tatham, of the fifth
class—l have to congratulate you also upon your having
obtained in your respective classes the first prize in history.
You are among the junior part of the school, and you cannot
be expected to have done as much as those who have larger
experience and more mature age. It must, however, be
very gratifying to you to have succeeded in the competition
in each of your own classes; but you must remember that to
keep your place will require the exertion of all your industry
and.of all your energy. You will have others to contend with
who will tread upon your heels ; and it is for you to keep
that place in the race which you have established for your-
selves at the commencement. I have great pleasure in pre-
senting to each of you the books which are the prize for your
industry, and for the distinction you have secured to your-
selves. (Cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL then said the next pupils who had dis-
tinguished themselves were in the Middle School; and the
first prize had been awarded to James Seddon, who was
twelve and a half years of age. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN, in addressing the young gentleman,
said—James Seddon, to you also I am not to present a book,
but a certificate granted to you by the Institution upon your
obtaining the scholarship which has been founded by Mr.
Potter. This is a distinction which does you very great
credit. I understand that half the school are older than your-
self; it must be, therefore, by superior diligence and atten-
tion to your studies that you have obtained this distinction.
I hope you will value it as you ought ; and I hope also you
will take care it is not wrested out of your hands so long as
you have the power of presenting yourself for it. I hope you
will not slacken in your exertions, but that, having obtained
it upon the first occasion, will be such a stimulus as shall in-
duce' you to take care you will keep it now you have got it.
(Loud cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL then introduced Webster, of the third
class. _ _

The CHAIRMAN said, Webster, you present your-
self to claim the need of your exertions in receiving two
prizes, which I have great pleasure in presenting to you—
the one for your examination in the divinity department of
the schools, and the other for your general proficiency in, the
3d class. Both these prizes have fallen to your share on the
present occasion. I hardly know in what way I can address
you differently to the way in which I have addressed those
before you. You stand here, having gained a character which
I hope you will maintain so long as you remain in the school.
It is very gratifying. to those who are connected with all the
boys who have received prizes to find they have commenced
their career well; and I hope and trust, though they cannot
'perhaps always be expected to maintain the exact position
they have now gained, they will not, any of them, slacken
in those exertions which have placed them in the situation
which they now fill.. (Cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL then called Hornby, of the fourth
class, whom he described as a very promising youth.
The CHAIRMAN said—You, liornby, I understand,
have come up before your turn, in consequence of your hav-
ing succeeded not only in obtaining the prize for general pro-
ficiency in the 4th class, to which you belong, but you have
also obtained the first mathematical prize in the school,
which bas been presented by Mr. Brown, the head master
of the mathematical school, for general competition. Tnis
is very creditable to you—that you should have obtained
it ; it is creditable to you that several of you should have ob-
tained two prizes, because it really does show your general
attention to your studies—that they are not confined to one
particular branch, but that your general attention to study
is such that you will find in future life most necessary if you
wish to maintain the position you have arrived at here. It
is, I say, very creditable to you that, being a boy in the 4th
class, you should succeed in the general competition for the
first mathematical prize. Ido not know whether you are
intended for the University or not; but having gained now,
and obtained, the first mathematical prize, I would observe
that should it be your lot to go to the University of Cambridge,
you will find there a wide field for carrying on those studies
which you have commenced with so much credit here—that
you may look forward, should it be the case that your pro-
gress at the University be the same, to be ranked among those
distinguished characters who have earned to themselves so
much honour in the country. (Loud cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL next introduced Wilkes, of the second
class, the successful competitor for the historical prize.
The CHAIRMAN addressing Wilkes, said to him, I have'
the pleasure to present to you two sets of books, the one for
the first prize in your class, and the other for the general
historical prize. Now, 1 would 'observe, that history is a
study which is very important for those boys whose desti-
nation in life may be generally supposed, from the station
they hold here—that is from the station in which they have
been placed here by their parents. I find you are from the
Middle School. In these times of general knowledge there
is hardly any branch of it which is more desirable for per-
sons in your class of life, than to obtain a thorough know-
ledge of history. It will give you a knowledge of men as
well as of facts; it will enable you to form accurate judg-
ments of passing events, to compare them with former times,
which is always a pleasing study, and may be made exceed-
ingly useful. I would advise you, therefore, to continue the
pursuit of it, for it will be a source of great gratification to
yourself—not only as a means of obtaining knowledge but
also as an amusement. (Loud cheers.)

..,
The PRINCIPAL then' put forward five boys, named
Pearce, Overend, Haram, Thomas Gibson, Benson, and
Leather, whose progress he briefly described.
The CIIAIRMAN.—To you, boys, I am also to present the
books—the volumes—that are allotted to you for your pro-
gress in your different classes, and for having placed your-
selves at the head of them in the examination. You, Pearce,
have not only done that, but I see you have also obtained
the first French prize. Now I understand that in the study
of French there is as much competition as in the other
branches, because all the boys learn it; it is a branch that is
generally taught, therefore it is not like German or Italian
which very few learn ; and as the whole learn it, your com-
petitionawlaicdeedr fiyeoludr,seciofnasteqtuhe eifitiley You have more
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you will remember that this is only the beginning of
g your career—that as you place yourselves now, so more will be
expected from you ; you will be looked up to as an example
to the rest, and if you wish to continue in that honourable
distinction you have already acquired for honourable
Yourselves, you
must use your utmost exertions to retain it. (Loud cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL next put forward— Roberts, the success-
ful competitor in the Lower School for the first m 01,.,
neux

cholas*, and for the Divinity prize, given by the Rev.
the Principal of the Institution.
The CHAIRMAN.---We have now gone through the two
unper schools, and got to the lower one, and I would make
this observation in starting, that though there are three
different schools, and the lower school comes up the last, yet
there is the same distinction and the same merit due to those
boys who have distinguished themselves in the lower school
as to those who have distinguished themselves in the upper;
because you will remember, boys, all of you, that in the exami-
nation which you have now gone through, and the places )ou
have gained for yourselves in the examination, the merits
are all comparative. You have contended with those who
ought to have the same degree of knoWledge with yourselves ;
the competition is the same relatively in the different schools,
though the subjects which are embraced in the examination,
of course, are higher the higher you go in the schools. Still,
however, it requires the same exertion upon the part of you
boys in the lower school, to place yourselves in a command-
ing position, that it does in any of the boys in the upper schools
to take the lead in their schools. I have to present you first
of all, therefore, with this certificate, which is a proof that
you have gained the first scholarship established by Mr.
Edmund Molyneux, and also with a book for having obtained
the first prize in your school in divinity. The scholarship is
a substantial reward ; the book is more of an honorary one—
both are equally creditable to your exertion. I will not say
to your talents and abilities, because those are things which
are not dependent upon yourself; but I say to your exertion.
It is not always the boy who has the best talents that con-
trives to place himself in the highest place : it requires a
proper exertion of those talents to do what you have done,
and I hope you will continue in the same path. (Cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL then called up Atkinson and Yates.
The CHAIRMAN.—I have the pleasure of giving to you
this certificate. You, Atkinson, it seems, have obtained the
second scholarship established by Mr. Molyneux in this
school; and to you. Yates. I have to' give a book for having
obtained the first historical prize. It is creditable to you to
have placed yourselves in these distinguished situations. I
hope you will not forget you have been there, but that you
will use your utmost exertions to keep the place, and not
to allow others to pass you in the race. There are many
who will contend with you. I hope you will secure what
you have already obtained. (Great Applause.)
The PRINCIPAL then called up Johnston, Goulboon,
Butler, and Itimmer, and introduced them to the
Chairman with a few observations.

The CHAIRMAN said—You four boys, I have to present a
book to each of you, for having placed yourselves in the first
examination at the head of your respective classes. You are
all very young. You are beginning well, and it is always a
happy thing when the first step is right. The prize is an en-
couragement to yourselves to proceed in this way, to inspire you
to exertion. You find what attention to your studies has
enabled you to do now, and with that knowledge you surely
will not allow yourselves to go back. Your motto always
should be " forward l" (Cheers.) These are the lait prizes
which I have to present; but I understand that there are
other boys whose names will be read over, who, though they
have not succeeded in obtaining the first prize in their classes,
have yet had a large proportion of relative merit, and have
been placed in the second degree in their respective classes.
To them, therefore, I would observe, and indeed I would
make the observation to the whole of those who have suc-
ceeded in obtaining prizes upon the present occasion—l would
observe to them, that they must not expect to hold the place
they now occupy, unless they can keep up the same attention,
the same industry, and pursue their studies with the same
zeal, which they have hitherto done. (Cheers.) The com-
petition is now a large one, for I find from the return made
to me that there are in the schools now before us 445 boys, in
addition to which there are 200 in the evening school, with
which we have nothing to do now, making altogether 645 boys
receiving education within these walls. And in that number
of 445, you must all of you remember that there are many
boys who, if they do not go forward, will be treading upon
your heels—there are many boys, if they have that whole-
some ambition which is most desirable in all whoare commen-
cing to gain knowledge, what they have seen this day, the dis-
tinctions they have seen given to several of their school-
fellows, will urge them to additional exertion to pass you in
the race, and to take your places from you. Now this is a
competition you must expect will be always going on; and you,
therefore, who have obtained prizes must remember that you
may have greater difficulty in holding your situation during
the next half year than you have had now. The system of the
school is getting more and more matured; the numbers, we
trust, and have reason to believe, will be continually in-
creasing. The field of competition, therefore, will be wide,
and unless you exert yourselves, you must not expect to
remain where you are. I would, therefore, urge upon
you the greatest diligence in your future studies. You
are now going to retire for that relaxation which it is
necessary that all minds should have at certain times,
to enable them to do justice to those pursuits in which
they are engaged ; and you will, I trust, return to
your studies again, with the determination to exert every
nerve to hold the situations you now fill. (Cheers.) To
you boys who have not been successful in the present con-
test, I hope you will not allow that to act as any disappoint-
ment, but that it will rather operate as a stimulus to your
future exertions. It is within the reach of any of you to
distinguish yourselves,' if you earnestly apply to your stu-
dies. You must remember that talent alone will not do it.
No doubt, among so many, there are varieties and degrees
of ability and of talent • but, like everything else in this
world, distinctions of different sorts, and powers of different
sorts, arc spread abroad in different degrees; and it very
often happens, it very commonly takes place, that a real
exertion of industry and of attention will do more than talent
itself, for talent, like every other gift of God, may be thrown
away. (Hear, hear.) I would here make one observation,
which I neglected to make in opening the business of distri-
buting the prizes, and which is particularly gratifying to the
directors of the Institution to be informed of—and that is.
that I cannot speak too highly of the-state of discipline—a
state of discipline that will lead on to better things. There
must be a well-regulated mind to ensure a boy success in
life ; and there must be a well-regulated system to ensure
success in schools like these. lam very happy, therefore.
in having to report from the masters, that they are thoroughly
satisfied with the state of discipline—that it is quite equal to
what they could possibly expect. (Hear, hear.) There has
not been a great time for progress; and the first quarter was
one in which necessarily a good deal of confusion took place
in arranging the new schools ; but I understand they have
been most satisfactory, and that the examination which took
place at the end of the quarter has fully answered the expec-
tations the masters had formed. Upon this I think I may
safely congratulate you and the public at large on the esta-
blishment of this Institution, as a great experiment, if I may
use the term : it is provided to, meetsa great desideratum ; it
has been the means of providing education for all the differ-
ent classes of society in this great and populous town. Not
one of them is shut out; and therefore it only remains for
those who are wise, (I am speaking of parents,) and who
have the interests, the real interests, of their children at
heart, to take advantage of it. It is not in many of the
towns in the kingdom where they have the same opportu-
nity; and I hope that, whilst you boys will not slacken in
your exertions here, they will not be slack in securing their
children the advantages which an Institution like this has
the means of commanding. (Loud cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL then read over the names of those boys who
had distinguished themselves in the examination, although they
had not gained the first prizes. Each pupil stood up and made
an obeisance as his name was mentioned by the rev. gentleman.
In the Upper 'School, the Rev. Gentleman said, there were
several who had not obtained prizes there in consequence of
the small size of the classes, but who had yet done extremely
well, and to whom therefore the Institution would, in some
cases, present certificates that they had acquitted themselves
well, and that they had honourably distinguished shemselves.
Among these were Hodgson sen., Hodgson jun., and Booker.
There were also the following additional prizes in the Upper
School,—namely, the Second Divinity prize to Wm. Jones,
and the Second Historical prize to Samuel Smith ; also the
French prize to Duncan, and the Writing prize to Edward
Cumming. He now came to the Middle School. In the
Middle School the first prize had been awarded in the first
class to W. Davidson ; in the second class to Wilks, but
which could not be given to him, in consequence of the rule
of the Institution preventing any one scholar having more than
two prizes. The second prize in the third class to Skerrett ; in
the fourth to Smith ; in the fifth to Hebson ; in the sixth to
Baylis ; in the seventh to Hall ; and the eighth to M'Connan.
The following boys would also receive certificates of having
acquitted themselves creditably,—Conway, Leake, R. J.
Taylor, M'Quie, Widdowson, and Orme. He now came to
the extra prizes in the, Middle School, which he had not men-
tioned before. For the Mathematical and Arithmetical prizes
there were four names,—Leather, sen., J. Roberts, Hitch-
man, and Brownbill. In the French prizes, besides the first
already mentioned, there were C. Baldwin, Rogers, and
Abbott; in the Drawing prizes,• Harbord, Bell, Grindrod,
and Bailey; and in the Writing prizes. Harem Wilson,
Pearson, and Inman. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Fiume had
kindly granted prizes for superior proficiency in English and
the Classics, which had been adjudged—the Classcal prize to
C. Seddon, and the English prize to Harbord. Now he
came to the Lower School, and be read the names of the
boys who had gained the second prizes in the first class, the
second Historical prize, the Arithmetical prize, and the
Writing prize.—The Rev. Principal then retired amidst much
cheering.
The CHAIRMAN then said—Now, boys, before we con-
clude the business of the day, I should wish to say a few
words. I have principally confined my observations to you.
They have principally related to you, and to your conduct;
but we must not allow the day to pass, and I should not be per-
forming the duty which the Committee have delegated to me,
if
.I did allow it to pass, without calling to your recollection,
and bringing to your attention, the great advantages which
you enjoy in these schools, in the talent which has been se-
cured to you by the Committee from the masters who have
been placed over you. Their time has been devoted in your
improvement ; their talents have been exercised for your
good ; and they have shewn an earnest zeal in the discharge
of their onerous duties by the regular attention which they
have paid to you, and even by the institution of prizes them-
selves, in order to promote among you that wholesome
competition which ought to exist in all schools. The com-
mittee, therefore, would not think that the duties, of the day
were well performed, unless they offered their grateful ac-
knowledgements to the Principal and to the masters generally
—(loud cheers)—for their attention to the schools and to
you. (Renewed applause.) And I would observe, as to
yourselves, that the greatest proof that you can give of the
obligations which you are under to them for instructing you,'
and teaching you, and, bringing you up in a way which will
make you creditable members of that large society in the
world into which you are passing from school,—the best re-
turn you can make to them is by an attentive observation
of all they require, and an earnest and due diligence in re-
ceiving
thevthe instructionspiarici
pwAhii,C ht
then
said, it had been suggestedey give to you. (Cheers.)
The
to him, by the worthy chief magistrate of this great town,
whose presence there represented the feeling entertained by
the public of the usefulness of the Institution—(cheers)—that
he (the Principal) should express, in the name of the other
masters in the first place, and likewise in the name of the
It the
would not be for place of the
whole institution, the gratification which they felt towards
the reverend the senior Rector of this town, for having so
Bishkindlyop
operformedthe ddiocese
e sthe
onthis
duty
of supplying
foccasion.
him (the Principal) to speak his sense of the manner in which
the Rector had performed that duty. (Cheers.) There could
but be one feeling upon that subject—(hear, hear)—and he
would, therefore, simply offer him their warmest thanks,
and, perhaps lie should add, the thanks of every person
present—(hear, hear)—for the manner in which he had dis-
charged the duties of the office. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. BROWN, the Head Master of the Middle School,
begged to second the proposal of the worthy Prinoipal, and
in so doing, added his testimony as to the ex d' cee me good
conduct which had prevailed in the schools during the past
half
pa t
half year. The conduct of the boys had given great satisfac-
tion to all the masters.
The motion was carried by acclamation.

occupied so much of your
pll}:alsveed to bear to any little
attMenrtioßneacltroeradßyß.°l°wKosuTd siiitayvbiru'gt a very few words more,
to thank you for the
exertion of mine upon the present occasion, and to assure
tpeastitiimcuolnayrl ywhaiscrhegyoa rut]
you that from the first institution of these schools I have
taken a lively end earnest. interest in their success ; and every-
thing
which I have witnessed since their commencement
leads me to hope and expect that the great object with which
!slang sbelefen
they were originally founded will be ultimately carried out.
(Cheers.)
The Rev. the PRINCIPAL then said the proceedings would
conclude according to the manner in which they were com-
menced, by the pupils chaunt_ing " Te Deum /audamus."
This venerable hymn was the=, chaunted in a
u impressive
style, after which Mr. Rector Brooks dissolved the meeting,
and the vast assembly dispersed, highly gratified with the
proceedings.

The prize books presented to the Successful competitors
consisted of standard English works; they were all superbly

hodnd, richly gilt, and on the back of each, was an elegant
design, beneath Which was inscribed the appropriate motto
of the Institution—" Non solum ingenii verum, etiam vir-
tutis." Inside an impression from an engraved plate was
placed, on which were the 'words, " This prize is presented
by the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, to , June,
1813."

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REPORT OF THE EXAMINERS

The following is a copy of the official report of the Exa-
mii.ers

UPPER SCHOOL.
GENERAL PRIZES.
THE REV. THE PRINCIPAL'S 11st to Farrar, Adam S.
DIVINITY PRIZES 1 2d to Jones, William.
LORD FRANCIS EGERTON'S
to Farrar, Adam S.
PRIZE OF TEN GUINEAS.
THEPROFESSOR OF MATHE-
MATICS' TERM PRIZE IN jto Wilson, Andrew.
MATHEMATICS
THE ISt HISTORICAL PRIZE
to Farrar, A.S. •
(given by the Rev. the _
Principal).
THE 2d HISTORICAL PRIZEI
(given by the Rev. Dr. to Smith, Samuel
(Booth
THE PRIZE FOR PROFICIEN-
CY IN FRENCH LITERA- tO Duncan
TURE (given by M. Bellon.)
.CLASS PRIZES
FIRST CLASS

Farrar, A. S.
j Wilson, A.
(transferred to Burdo
THIRD CLASS ....... .
FOURTH CLASS Smith, Samuel.
FIFTH CLASS
Certificates of Proficiency and Diligence during tl
half year were awarded to Hodgson, sen., lmus ; Ho
jun., 2dns; and Booker, 3tius.
The Prize in Writing to Cumming, jun.

SECOND CLASS.

he past
Agson,

MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The successful candidate for the vacant POTTER SCI
SHIP was declared to be James Seddon. •
THE REV. TIIE PRINCIPAL'S
to Webster.
DIVINITY PRIZE
THE HEAD MASTER'S MA-
IO Hornby.
THEMATICAL PRIZE
THE HISTORICAL PRIZE.... to Wilks.
MR. WILSON'S CLASSICAL
to Seddon, C.
PRIZE .
MR. HUME'S ENGLISH PRIZE to Harboard.

FIRST CLASS

SECOND CLASS

CLASS PRIZES.
f Ist. Seddon, James
• •' • 12nd. Davidson, W.
- 51st. Pearce, E. A.
2nd. Wilks ; Campbel

FOURTH. 'CLASS

j Ist. Hornby.
1 2nd. Smith, T. J

FIFTEI CLASS

SIXTH CLASS

SEVENTH CLASS

S Ist. Fannin.
2nd. Hebson.
f Ist. Overend.
1. 2nd. Baylis.
f Ist. Benson, T. G
t 2d. Hall,
f Ist. Leather, A.

E IGIITH

2d. M'Connan
Ist. Leather, sen
MATHEMATICAL A TUTU- 2d. Roberts, J.
METICAL PRIZES
4th. Browuhill.
{lst. Harboard.
2d, Bell.
3d. Grindrod, J.
4th. Bailey.
{lst. Pearce.
2d. Baldwin, C.
3d. Rogers, J.
4th. Abbott.
{lst. Harem, Alfred
2d. Wilson, W. J.
3d. Pearson, J.
4th. Inman.
Certificates of Proficiency and Good Conduct were a
to Conway, Leake, R. J. Taylor, M`Quie, Widowson, Orms

DRAWING PRIZES

FRENCH PRIZES

WRITING PRIZES

LOWER SCIIOOL
FIRST MOLYNEUX SCHOLAR. Roberts.
SECOND Do. Do. Atkinson.
THE REV. THE PRINCIPAL'S ?
5 Roberts.
DIVINITY PRIZE
FIRST HISTORICAL PRIZE .. Yates.

CLASS PRIZES.
FIRST CLASS
SECOND CLASS Johnston.
THIRD CLASS Goulboon
FOURTH CLASS Butler.
FIFTH CLASS

Boz's NIGHT THOUGHTS.—A. dark and dreary night ;
people nestling in their beds or circling late about the fire.
Want, colder than charity, shivering at the street corners;
church towers humming with the faint vibration of their ton-
gues, but newly resting from the ghostly parchment " One;
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yes-
terday ; .the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral
feathers, waving to and fro; all hushed, all noiseless, and in
deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon.
and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the
ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops
again, and follows like a savage on the trail. Whither go
the clouds and wind so eagerly? If, like guilty spirits, they
repair to some dread conference with powers like themselves
in what wild region do the elements hold council, or where
unbend in terrible disport?—Martin Chuzzlmvit.
THE BUM AND THE LAWYER.—The following 'curious
anecdote is related in the Cheltenham ...Examiner, of a gen-
tleman of the legal profession practising within the circuit,of
that town, who was more conversant with the theory of
fluents than with Archbold's Reports or Blackstone's
Commentaries. Being sorely pressed by the relentless duns,
who wished to present certain loving epistles from Queen
Victoria. he was regularly run to earth in his two-pair-back,
which he denominated Pantile lodge. There he rested,
setting the fates and John Doe at defiance for a considerable
time, though they knew very well where the game lay, yet
failed in every attempt upon him. To all kind messages
the reply of the scout was " Gone into the country." Presents
from the country sent as a Htsewere returned, indited "Gone"
" Run away," " Not found," and other equally agreeable and
satisfactory solutions of the problem. The tender of a couple
of six and eightpepces, so dear to lawyers' eyes, was virtuously
resisted ; our hero bore this state of siege with a constancy
which had done honour to General Chasse himself, and the
bailiffs were regularly at fault. Matters continued in this state
for sonic time, when one day, shortly after noon, a gentle-
man—a wealthy grazier in appearance—country-built tops,
broad brim, and abundance of broad cloth—was seen walk-
ing leisurely up street; he stopped short a door with
the word " Office" thereon, knocked, and his inquiry of the
scout, " Mr. within ?" was responded to by the usual
answer, " Gone into the country." " Dear me, that's un-
fortunate; I wanted particularly to consult him (and pulling
out a neat bundle, bound with red tape) ; but perhaps you
could write to him, if we could get an answer to-morrow ; if
not, I must go over to Mr. —." " Stop a minute," says
the scout ; " I'll just take the brief to the upper office, and
our manager shall look it over." " Oh, oh (thought the
grazier) ; here we are, are we ?" The parcel was put into
the hands of the scout, who immediately posted up to the
office. In the twinkling of a bedpost, the grazier had eased
himself of his ponderous boots, and was creeping tiptoe up-
stairs; and, in a moment more, a gentle tap on the shoulder
convinced Mr. that he was unearthed at last, and the
brief required very brief examination. That very night Mr.
removed from Pantile lodge to very fashionable and
commodious apartments in the county town. So, it seem s
sometimes the oldest birds may be caught with chaff.

IRELAND IN 1689.—500 n after his arrival from France,
King James met his parliament in Dublin, on 7th May,
which was composed of Papists, who were slaves to his will,
many of them descendants of the forfeiting persons of 1641,
who had no freehold estates in the kingdom, and made many
fine promises to them. The parliament recognised the title
of King James, and declared King William an usurper.
They repealed the settlement of 1662, under which many
thousands of Protestants had purchased possessions, and
were now suddenly deprived of them : this was violently pul-
ling down the pale of the law, in a manner never before heard
of among the professors of Christianity. It wounded na-
tional faith, and stabbed public credit—broke the merchant
at home, and defrauded him abroad—ruined the farmer, and
impoverished the manufacturer. The rapparees, or armed
mob, deprived the Protestants of all their moveable estates;
and the parliament deprived them of all their lands and tene-
ments, which they had wonderfully improved. By this act
King James seemed to justify the grand Irish rebellion in.
1641 • and this was followed by an act of attainder, which ex-
ceeded the proscriptions of Sylla! They attainted of rebel-
lion no less than 2 archbishops, 1 duke, 16 earls, 20 viscounts,
1 viscountess, 7 bishops, 26 barons, 33 baronets, 51 knights.
83 clergymen, and 2,233 gentlemen, who were all declared
traitors, and their estates confiscated or plundered. Tyr-
connel had £20,000 a year granted him out of the confiscated
estates, and the King the same per month. Many hundreds
of poor persons were murdered in cold blood by the popish
soldiers, while the rich were robbed of their estates, and the
popish priests enabled to collect the tithes, which were pay-
able by papists. The Irish parliament sat only from 7th
May to 20th July, and vet, in that short time, they entirely
destroyed the settlement of Ireland, by expelling the Pro-
testant clergy from their livings and the laity from their in-
heritances—they would have Ireland independent of Eng-
• land, and wanted to repeal Poyning's act of 1494. Public
robberies were committed under the name of free guar-
terings, and, though protections were sold to the Protestants,
they were disregarded by the Papists. The University of
Dublin was turned into a garrison, and all the public schools
in the kingdom given to Papists, who likewise seized upon
all the Protestant churches. The Protestants were at length
forbid to assemble together on pain of death, so that it seemed
determined to hang one-halt of them and to starve the other.
But while they suffered so much from the parliament of
Ireland. their protection was not neglected by the parlia-
ment of England, who made Irish affairs a considerable
article of their proceedings.—Old History.
The Auckland Times is described as being " printed in a
mangle," and a strange piece of typography it is accordingly.
The " sole editor and proprietor, Henry Falwasser," while,
in the meantime, taking to himself the humble cognomen of
the " Old Lady of the Mangle," expects daily his own press
and materials; when, doubtless, the old lady will dispose of
her mangle, and purchase something more useful for a print-
ing office. The style of the Mangle is quite sui generis. It
may be observed, that the occasion of ifs being printed by
such a machine is stated by the editor to have been the at-
tempt of the local government to stifle public opinion, by re-
fusing the proprietor the use of the only printing materials in
the settlement, those of the government, as soon as it was
perceived that the Times was determined to be very inde-
pendent in its strictures on public doings and misdoings.
The phrases suggested by the peculiar circumstance are very
amusing—" We stop the Mangle to announce the arrival of
the .St. George."—" The Governor will repent having driven
us to the Mangle," &c. We have only room for one charac-
teristic description :—" Full many a time and oft have we
laughed over the distresses of Mantalini and his mangle, as

depictured by the inimitable Boz—we did not think this pro-
cess would so soon fall to our turn—nevertheless any one of
our subscribers, who is desirous of satisfying his curiosity,
may call in at High-street and see the Times MANGLED. To
here and there one, such as are steady and careful, we might
entrust the task of mangling their own copy, but the process
is a nice one, and must be as warily performed as if the es-
sential juice of the pine-apple' herself were standing over the
performer. Poor Mantalini used to grumble very distaste-
fully over his mangle, and nothing but the threatened alter-
native of enlisting, and all the horrors of pipe-clay and paste-
blacking,'as could keep him steadily to his duty ; but we have
no such fastidious distinctions : we consider our mangle an
ingenious and an honourable triumph over as contemptible
and sneaking attempt to stifle the press as ever was perpe-
trated; and when we are enabled, by the arrival of the Sham -
rock from Sydney, to return in triumph to the full-blown
honours of a Columbian or an Albion patent, we shall part,
almost with a tear of regret, from the ponderous revolver
which has so efficiently mangled our sheets, and other people's
would-be despotism, at one and the same time." The typo-
graphy embraces, sometimes within a single paragraph, almost
every specimen in the printer's book. Brevier, nonpareil,
large Roman, and italics, mingle together to give force and
variety, not only to successive syllables of the same word ;
and the want of the small k, in particular, obliging the printers
in every place, to make use of the larger Roman K, adds
strikingly to the appearance of the page, even although the
compositor may be said to be thus reduced to play for ever
upon the same KEY.

THE APPROACHINGPOLYTECHNIC EXHIBITION
AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

We have been favoured with a preliminary peep into se-
veral of the principal rooms in the Collegiate Institntion
appropriated for the approaching grand Polytechnic Exhi-
bition—to be opened on Monday next,—and from what
we have seen, we may safely state that it will be, as a whole,
the most extensive, varied, and interesting that has as yet been
tot up in any provincial town, and not perhaps excelled in

essential points by the most celebrated " galleries" of art and
science in the metropolis itself. As the whole of the exten-

sive arrangements—in upwards of forty rooms—are not yet
completed, and valuable specimens still continue to pour in,

it would, of course, be premature in us to attempt to present

more than a sl

etch of the coming treat

Beginning at the top of the noble building, we entered the
Picture Gallery, which is about 220 feet in length, and lighted
from the roof. Here the collection of pictures occupies ;the
entire walls, and amongst them are many of great value.
Those of the old masters are fixed on one side; those of the
modern school on the other. The variety of subjects is so
great, and the manner in which they are in many instances
delineated by mastersin the art, that a whole day might well
be spent in examining them, in order to appreciate their
beauties, and, if you will, their defects. Amongst the mo-
dern we noticed as excellent, though in various degrees, a
large picture of " The Bearing of Christ on the Cross," by
the late Hilton, R.A. : A Hunting Piece, by Ansdele ; Bo-
hemian Gipsies (large), illaclise, A.R.A.; A Flower or Fruit
Girl, sent bv J. C. Shaw, Esq., a sweet portrait; another
near it, A Girl, equally soft and beautiful ; Christ's Entry
into Jerusalem, a large and splendid picture, by Aglio ;
admirable shadowy Portrait of Hogarth in his Study, by
himself; scene from the Bride of Lammermuir ; sketch of a
Girl and boys at a well—T. S. Cooper; scene of Hamlet and
his Mother, with the ghost appearing, small, but a genuine
gem, said to be valued at nearly :.£lOO ; Lady at her toilet—
the very quality, texture of the satin dress, and covering of
the silk cushion on a chair, may be told • " John Gilpin"—

apparently by Wilkie,—full of life and character; entry of
the Sovereign into Edinburgh—Eubank, 1828; splendid por-
trait of a Clergyman—name not then marked &c. Amongst
the ancient or continental pieces we noticed a beautiful flow .
er and an equally excellent fruit piece by Rachel Ruysch,
1710 ; the Alagdalen, (copy) by Sementi, after Guido; a tine
small picture by Ochterreldt—a Lady playing the guitar, with
listeners &c.; a splendid landscape, by Gaspar Pousin; a
small Murillo; one or two fine pictures by Canaletti ; a very
large picture—a Lady and attendants with game. fish, fruit,
&c., all admirably portrayed. These are but a few and taken
almost at random. _ _

A room is appropriated for water-colour drawings, &c.,
amongst which there are tine specimens, historical and fanci-
,

fill, by Coply Fielding. Prout, Burnett, Harding, Clayton,
&c. Also the passing of the Simplon by Buonaparte's troops,
by Colonel Batty; sketch of a Brigand, by Cattermole ; splen-
did plate of the Examination of Shakespeare in his youth, for
deer-stealing, &e, &e.

In the Sculpture gallery are some excellent figures in plas-
ter, from ancient classical marbles, also a few in marble—

including a fir

head of Sappho, by Nolekhis

fine figures of Venus, Psyche, &c

The are. also

of public buildings which we have seen before-, nd many
new and fine specimens in wood, marble, and composition.
The Temple of Minerva at Athens; the Cathedral at Flo-
rence; the Hanging Tower at Pisa ; the Parthenon at Rome
and that of Athens; the Temple of Vista Tivoli, and others
are beautiful.

One room will be occupied by a rare collection of Chinese
curiosities and paintings. Another will contain Dr. Raffles
valuable collection of autographs ; another for philosophical
apparatus, including the electro-magnetic telegraph, and
here illustrations of electricity and galvanism will constantly
be given. Letter-press, copper-plate, and lithographic
printing will be practically exhibited, with the most improved
presses. Another apartment is filled with beautiful working
models of steam-engines, locomotives, and other machinery,
some set in motion by their own steam ; others by a shaft
communicating with a steam-engine four-horse power out-
side the building, kindly. lent by Mr. Tomkinsou.
In the board-room are all the fine pictures of royal and
distinguished personages from the Town-hall. The large pic-
ture of the Duke of Wellington, and his horse, by Haydon ;
a marble bust of John Foster, Esq. ; a bust of the Reverend
Rector Brooks; fine picture of George Canning; portraits
of Lord Stanley, Charles 11., &c., &c.

One of the n;ost interesting rooms is that appropriated to
the nautical department. It is fitted with models ofall sorts
of vessels, of all countries and all ages, with many beautiful
specimens of the most approved naval architecture of the
day, most of which have been contributed by our townsmen,
celebrated in the art. Here, too, is the splendid and unique
collection of models belonging to Thomas Wilson, Esq.,
shipbuilder,—about forty in number, in an immense glass
case, and considered the finest in the kingdom. In a room
below, devoted to real navigation and hydraulics, there is a
canal and circular basin, the latter eighteen feet in diameter.
Here a regular ship launch will be shewn four times a day,
by Mr. Melling, professor of naval architecture to the Insti-
tution' and who has contributed many beautiful models built
as real ships. In the basin, steam ships, boats with paddle
wheels, or screws, will be constantly in rapid motion on
the water. Here, too, will be shewn numerous fine water-
wheels, pumps, and other hydraulic apparatus, including
many new inventions.

. room will be fitted up as a baronial ball, with ancient
In another there is a large circular mil-
li run rapidly by its

way, upon which

ine locomotive v

own steam

Here too, there are some curious railway

In the operative illustration of trades and manufactures,
the exhibitio❑ will be peculiarly attractive. Weaving will
be shown by the Jacquard loom—also Paisley shawl weaving,

The looms
, and ate most complex and

e rnakitk

shown the grand panorama of the

. -
by Danson (and, in a large room
model of Hobart Town, with every

.house, and with the shipping in the harbour, floating in real
water; also a panoramic view of Sydney. On the first land-
ing of the great staircase, there is a large fountain, rising
from a stone pillar and basin, with a circular sheet of water
below 13 feet in circumference, in which are figures of Nep-
tune's.sea-horse, &c. The space An each sidels filled with
exotics, and haWa delightful effect:.
The museums of natural history, antiquities, and curiosi-
.

. _
ties, is most extensive, and includes many rare specimens.
But we have not space to particularize, and must for the pre-
sent conclude, by recommending an early visit, confident •as
we are, that the exhibition will at once astonish and gratify.
The largest picture in the exhibition is the gallery painting
of " The Battle of Agincourt," which was exhibited in Lon-
don last year, where it was highly commended by connois-
seurs, aed by the public press. It is the production of our
clever townsman, Mr. Henry Melling, and exhibits great
still in the highest or historical branch of the art ; great fi-
delity and comprehension as to facts, and indomitable per-
severence in execution. It covers no less a space than 30
feet of canvas! We shall have occasion to recur to this pic-
ture, and to furnish some brief notice of the circumstance
that roused the laudable ambition of the artist to conceive
and accomplish so gigantic an undertaking.

In January. 1840, there were in the army—of Englishmen,
51,559 ; of Scotsmen, 15,232 ; of Irishmen, 41,218.

The landlords in the north of ,England are very generally
making a reduction of 10 percent, upon the rental of ordi-

nary farms.

DEATH OF THE REV. DR. FLETCHEIL.—We have this
momeut received the melancholy intelligence of the death of
the Rev. Dr. Flete'ner, after a long, and painful illness.—
London Patriot.

A person of the name of Tozer, at Teiging race, in Devon-
shire, has caught a cuckoo, and placed it in a cage. The
bird is hung outside his house during the day, and early in
the morning repeats its characteristic note. It is a curious
fact that part of the bird's food is regularly brought to it by
a linnet.
On Wed

..esday evening Drury-lane Theatre was closed for
the season, and according to the Morning Herald, it may
turn out for many seasons. It has been under the manage-
ment of Mr. Macready, and though that gentleman is such
a favorite with the public, the season has been most unfortu-
nate for him.

DRUILY-LANE THEATRE.—The very rare occurrence of a
royal command on Monday night produced what isillmost as
rare—a house overflowingly full in every part. The royal
party, occupying eight carriages, came in state, her Majesty
being escorted by a troop of horse guards. The cortege ar-
shortly before seven o'clock, so as to enable the curtain, on
her Majesty and suite entering the box, to rise punctually at
the accustomed hour. The performances commanded con-
sisted of Shakspere's delightful comedy of As You Like It,
which the lessee has gotten up during the season with so
much good taste ; and young Morton's very laughable farce
of A Thumping Legacy. The Queen, and her royal consort
both of whom we are happy to say are looking ha the best
health, seemed much pleased with the performances, to which
throughout they paid the greatest attention, but more parti-
cularly with the farce, and the acting of liitle Keeley, at
which they both laughed most heartily. Before the com-
mencement of the play, and at the conclusion of the enter-
tainment, the national anthem was sung by Misses Rainforth.
M. C. Hawes, P. Horton, Messrs. Allen and Stretton, and
other vocalists of the establishment, which was loudly re-
iterated by the audience, who also heartily cheered the royal
party on its arrival and departure. Her Majesty, who was
attired in black velvet, with the riband of the garter, wore
a splendid tiara, necklace, and armlet of most costly dia-
monds, with clusters of the same down the front. His royal
highness Prince Albert wore a field marshal's uniform, with
the riband badge, and star of the garter.

THE LANCASHIRE DISSENTERS AND THE FACTORY
BILL.—On Monday last a meeting of dissenters, consisting
of what are termed " delegates" from the principal towns of
Lancashire, was held in an independent chapel at Newton-in-
the-Willows, for the purpose of giving their opposition to the
educational clauses of the factory bill a new form, although
these same persons have met, scolded;: petitioned, and me-
morialized in some dozen other places on the same subject.
Dr. Halley, an independent preacher, was called to the chair,
and the number of persons present was about 200, embracing,
however, no individual of note, and not one Wesleyan Me-
thodist. It is not at all necessary to trouble our readers with
the oratory or the resolutions. It is enough to say that a
memorial to the members of :the Commons connected with
Lancashire was agreed to, calling on them to oppose Sir Jas.
Graham on the lath instant ; and should the bill get over the
next stage, then her majesty is to be memorialized to dissolve
parliament, and take the opinion of the people at large,
rather than permit the bill to become the law of the land.
A third resolution was adopted, to the effect that those pre-
sent pledged themselves not to vote for any parliamentary
candidate who would not unequivocally declare his hostility
to Sir James Graham's bill. Although this affair was got
up with a flourish of trumpets, it was only a poor " demon-
stration," 'and we apprehend that the county and borough
members connected with Lancashire, and her Majesty the
Queen, should she be memorialised as threatened, will avail
themselves of their civil and religious liberty to think for
themselves on the subject.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday evening
Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Joiners' Arms, Westmin-
ster-road, London, on view of the body of Thomas Morris,
aged 48. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased
was an upholsterer residing at No. 1, Hatfield-place, West-
minster-road, and that about eleven o'clock on Monday
night last deceased was found by his son suspended by a rope
from a hook in the kitchen ceiling. He was quite cold, and
had evidently been dead several hours. Two papers were
found pinned on his back. On one of them was written in
his own handwriting, " The victim of neglect and base
cruelty. Wretches! Let your mercenary hearts look at your
own doings." The writing on the second paper purported
to be a letter to the coroner, and ran thus :—" Shameful
ill-
treatment is the cause of this. Let them glut their eyes with
the sitglit of .my carcase. Let the wretches have it to make
soup of, or roast, or broil, after it has been used for scientific
purposes. They have brought me to an untimely end, a man
who, with proper treatment, would have been a respectable
member of society." The coroner, after reading the fore-
going, observed that there could be no doubt as to the dis-
ordeiTd state of deceased's mind.- Several witnesses were
examined for the purpose of discovering who the persons
were to whom deceased might have alluded in the above
scroll, but without success. No further cause of grievance
could be ascertained, except that of abuse from some neigh-
bours in consequence of deceased's drunken habits, be being
hardly ever sober. The Jury, after a few moments delibera-
tion, returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."

4'' r -.:',•ieiy: I
P seis n°t°A ICn leot ir
Comes-street, :'‘isl8"111 911.5 c tkr ,e
es ts,l;oitolti c i .o- f
he perceived
4
which he at
Cooban,
sideltthwe of the
soon
brewery
Yt
the west
officer Y DESTRUCTIVE
s te2rsdyw s morning,g
eg abort
hislil Eh
roundsallfl-
aSse e ° n
second-
floor Richmond-row, in the north part of the town,-
smoke issuing from the west side of the street
whieltreet,
ptphoese,d,
arsolhrotmTtal:ieeribi,r,e,
fisnaermsxttetsoustreet, and corner of Richmond-row.
afterwards found that it issued chiefly from one of
floor windows of the extensive and well-built premises
Messrs. Thomas & Henry Croft, soap manufacturers,coreus next to
the brewery, and which, with a fine frontage to
are bounded on the north end by Bent-street,
down nearly parallel with Richmond-row into Scotland-
place. place. Ile inuxiediately passed word to the fire-polices
.
sta-
tion, and in a very short time two fire-engines and four water-
carts were brought to the spot, and these were shortly after-
wards followed by six other engines and a strong body of
firemen. Meantime police-officer Holding, (307,) who live
in the neighbourhood, and had been called up about a quar-
ters
before two o'clock, got to the ground, and then found
the place almost in a general blaze, the flames bursting from
the windows of the three lower stories—such was the com-
bustible nature of the mateiials within. He got the plugs
all in readiness for the engines, and as there was a good sup-
ply of water from the mains in that quarter, but for the
great rapidity of the fire its progress might have been
arrested. When, however, Mr. Hewitt reached the ground,
such was its intensity within the building, that it was deemed
practicable only to confine it to the works in which it origi-
nated, and to save the adjacent buildings, in Comus-street
and Bent-street. The interior of the soap works was com-
pletely burnt down, with nearly all its valuable contents.
The roof of Mr. Cooban's brewery, which is separated film
the soap-works by a narrow cart passage, had caught file
from the (south) gable end windows of the latter, and this
was by great exertions kept down, otherwise the whole of
the upper story of two being the cooling-room, with blind
windows of wood—would have been consumed, and in all
probability the public-house also. The wind was from about
the E.N.E., and threw the flames in the direction of those
buildings, but it varied considerable, or rather drafted in
different directions during the heat of the conflagra-
tion, which was very soon so great that the flames
burst from back, front, and ends of the soapery ; even-
tually ignited two of the opposite houses, (east side of
Comus-street,) blistered the woodwork of two others adjoin-
ing; and, about the same time, set tire to several of the
houses opposite the end, and on the north side of, Bent-
street. The inhabitants had timely notice of their danger,
and removed precipitately what furniture and other articles
they could carry off, at the necessary expense of much break-
age, destruction, and pilferage. The main portion of the
soap-works consisted of an oblong square building of four
lofty stories in height, with a handsome facade to Comus-
street, built of patent bricks with a massive stone cornicing
and blocking, and ornamented with a surmounting centre-
piece of the same material. The premises were, we learn, of
the most approved construction in every point, forming, in-
tldosewtede, i
completeit
,no v
np eawiniesd immense
additioneicmph placed
architecturalatmrococnvdeeyidns
ttofartksianonfo efaar dotahio:
eircdnop al
kinda
r weste nfot ic
corners
1 en,teh ofe
kingdom.the moat
anrsd tapering
to
the walls. These each of about, we should think, 160 to 180
feet in height withstood the effects of the raging element, and
are yet upright and apparently uninjured. Behind this part
of the premises and adjoining them on the west, were other
extensive bnildings of lower elevation. From these last, on the
south, rose three small square chimneys, and the north part
was occupied as a yard, with cart sheds &O. opening to Bent-
street. The fire soon found its way in this direction also,
and the whole was burned down, the chimneys alone remain-
ing. Bounding the whole area, thus occupied, on the west
there is a small street or passage called Albion Mill place,
on the west side of which there are two cottages, next Bent-
street ; further on another brewery and yard attached, and
further still (towards Richmond-row), a cotton warehouse,
forinely known as " the old Porter brewery," and containing
6,000 to 7,000 bales. This last was iu great danger during the
height of the fire, the windows, the shutters of which are of
wood, being left open and the flames passing in that direction
Shortly before the engines got up, Mr. Allen, of the Gas-
light Tavern, was roused from his bed, and on looking out of
the window was nearly suffocrted by smoke. He half
dressed himself, and hastened with his family out of the
house, from which some beds, bedding, &c., were thrown
into the street, across which the flames by that time passed.
Mr. Whitty was amongst the first on the spot, and used
his accustomed discretion. Our worthy mayor, hearing of
the fire, came up about half-past three o'clock, and exerted
himself with a coolness and intrepidity in giving directions
which we have heard highly commended by all parties, and
especially by men of experience in the fire-police.
The flames from the burning building, fronting Comes.
intense for a considerable time. The articles
street, were, from its great extent, and the nature of its
contents, most
and of the articles used in soap-making. The alkalis were,
consisted of large quantities of tailow, oils, including palm
oil,of course, not combustible, but the oily substances, raw or
manufactured, produced a blaze that was altogether uncoil_
trollable.
About half-past four o clock, the roof and floors having all
fallen, and the bornd timber in the walls having been burnt
out, the centre part of the wall of the façade fell from top to
'
Cornus-street, filling it across with immense
Some of these blocks of stone would weigh upwards
stonesfrom the cornicing and blocking, comingled with
of a ton each, and
bottom
bricks. into
such was the blow on the ground from the
materials, that a shock was felt inall
the
teetsoNfv
was
apsrteoe: p. : t, a t 0
get' away.
roll
in
asfar as Rose-hill. i . Several of
R h'll S
19scape,'' havingscarcely-
muroiemdeni
lit
9 had a
aggregate weight
who
with their lives—officers Dixon, Hodg
close under or near the wall,
and Bell, in particular. Dixon was ie.
son, Nelson,Little,
was engaged with one of the engine
thetv he the
r yfi narrowr
fire-police,
neighbouringpelie
escapee g,h t ohfo the
uws ee sr,
imminent danger. II?,
of harm's waymass fell upon
time to get out
occupied. Mr. \Vhitty, too, had also
the spot he had
before left Hodgson.. .
nearly got his
pipes, and bad a truly hair-breadth
betbret
the
whole
• ted against the cellar window and
quijcults tts at
Ftloliusrfilreen—gtteslolarvihnogsejuwstertelieb
h d th - •
cottage-house ,_. smas e em in, with
The premises were vaulted beneath. One of the
thedoor
ruins.o
and rolling into the cell •
between them, . • . ai
the strong post
bburogkeesato
lo which the inhabitants, who had pre-
warehouse, or rather soap-
A. hay-loft and sta-
ble fled,
had not
timeo tire, but it was soon extinguished.
ble contiguous also to
After the fall—showing
~utted—the gable ends, a portion of
f opposite c
at each end, stallof shis,front part of the works,
cry, to be corriple,oe,elie‘ll:ioelde to them at the angles, the
greater part remained
~lone standing. por_
h" ' from time to •
and the two tall c .
nce fallen time, and the
Lions of these have s; leaving portions of it at the
h cracked,
the front,
fine brick work is muemaining
stone cornieing and blocking
top, and also of the Fe
position. The flames that clipped
of the back wll
hanging in threateninZe
nf ti, building have left the bricks and
round the angles - lour, probably the effect of the com -
stones
tio f the oil and a ai.
lice Air. Ileeitt of the fire
had a narr- police,
lin' - n °ef ~tvell of the fire-otfice, ow escape '
in
and Mr- ,--a- • the falling of some large slates.
behind, from .
the lane
.i. yet been enabled to obtain any authentic
We bare n-- - . Me building was costly, as were also
estimate of the lossats,
boilers, &c., and the stock was large.
the implements—
whole stated at from X 24,000 to £27,000,
We have the
of a bluish lead co
but hope lfthe value stated was insured; and
is above the mark. We have also heard
that little above oh
d underwritten for £7OOO ; and the Sun
Phan
gam
that the
the same amount; and the West of England—no
liabilities. ,_,,,,,s titv of tallow, &c., in the cellars, which
'dermal"- n '
the ' d ft of the flames, was saved
A cons' .ted by mra
had become igni
0_
f the lire-police in throwing water upon
by the exertions
he valuable pans, vats, &c., were destroyed
for about
it; but many
of t
rearshisaae.ha
or injured. „.„ learn, the fire was first seen in the story
ear the
ground, II
From what we ''''''centre of the main front. The
next above •
fires were at a —ll5l d in the yard behind, there being, we
,0 derable distance from this spot, uuder a
A fires or furnaces under or in the main
are informee,
took fire. This has given rise to a painful,
premises that
ded suspicion that the destruction
Premi well-founded
and, PerhaP ''cliarism.
arose fro incen
n this, as on former occasions, did their
The police force
0 yed present superintendents Leverett,
We observed
inspectors Burton, Smith, and
utmost. and
shed, and under grotto ,
most anxious and active.
others—a ' ll of whom were
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Brown, and Jones,

a tea last
rather
es tr
p2o.—rtiTobne
foduenlidvebruieyserosf
...--_
week were 488,6001 b. The trade has been dull, and at the
juneprol
THE TEA TEAVEr
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, June 9.—The raw sugar mar-
ketlpouwbel irer:tael essgeonnel
rya ail
ys.m all
is steady ; the sales since our last report amount
not too about
400 hogsheads West India, at prices which were btain-
able last week. In Mauritius and Bengal
s the sales are limi-
ted.—ln rums there is no doing for want of a supply
—Average price of sugar, June 6th, is 355. 5.1 d. per cwt. .
A person named Duff. residing in Pulteneytown, described.
as a renovator of old clothes, appealed against a charge made
by the assessor, of a dog, alleged to be kept by him. He
'' Keep a
exclaimed Mr. Duff: " No, d'ye think
dwoagsla,s,k
jeodditgvoatohetlyboard if he did not keep a dog ?
I'd keep a dog to support the present ministry ? I should ra-
ther think not!"—(Roars of laughter.) The assessor not
being able to rebut Mr. Duff's statement, the appeal was
sustained on reference to his oath'—John o'Groat,s Jour-

Wednesday along inquiry
laamm epd-
M.P., and a respect-
tookmost,otlcikE'aa.kl iArms,ie°nY infant an t aged six
Exmouth-street
a n residing
T nhieg ui
itl in
athte Fl
nal.
by him on deceaasmecr's-
lleged to have been killed by weeks,
to bail by
totheawait the
various
sa tbeSl
aeud
placeo.
urcolxyaGot
beforen Oti 1
itceh,c,eE,;:ihatotom;sTEoy
a:.
Harriet Harper,r. C.
steathroad, in an assault committed
father on the night of Sunday last.
considerable interest, Mr. Evans having been held
excited
Evans, an extensive potato salesman
the magistrates of the Marylebone police-courotf
result of this inquiry. From the evidence
witnesses it appeared that on Saturday 1,
after ten o'clock, the mother of the deceased, acco, shortlY. anied
by her husbaud, went into Mr. Evan's shop to purchasmeli
potatoes, at which time the deceased was at its mother'soe
breast. The potatoes having been purchased, Harper found
his wife's basket would not contain the whole of them found
his wile's basltt gould riot contain the whole of them, and
commenced taking those over the numbre it would contain
out of the scale. and placing them in his pocket. Whilst
doing this, Dl r. Evans, who had been serving in another part
of the shop, observed Harper, and at once challen ed
with stealing the potatoes. Harper denied it g inm
some words
ensued between them, and Mr. Evans struck' Harper so
violent a blow that he staggered against his*
to-
gether with her child, fell into a basket wife, who,
standing near, and
the father on the top of her and her deceased child. A:wit-
ness named Jacobs swore positively
that Mr. Evans used the
greatest violence, and that after Harper had fallen over his
wife and child, he dragged by the collar out of the shop, and
again struck him so violent a blow as to knock him down on
the pasrement. Extraordinarytof relate, the mother did not
think of looking to the safety
arr o
ival
a theat home
deceased
it .a ta tliesetime oti
the occurrence, but on her
by a lodger to be dead. The coroner said, with such a soevr7oreu s
charge as the present against Mr. Evans, it was impossible
that they could come to a conclusion without a post mortens
examination of the deceased's body, and he should have
as
to
adjourn the inquiry for that purpose; as
Mr. Evans w,
however, present, be (the coroner) would hear
any state-
ment he might have to make. Mr. Evans is did stated that he ob-
not
served the deceased's father putting potatoes
wh
belong to him into his pocket. Harper and his wife were
both intoxicated, and when be challenged the former with the
theft, he used abusive language, and sparred up to him. He
insisted on seeing how many more potatoes Harper had in
his possession than he had
the
• and, notwithstanding
lie kept throwing them on the floor, when weighed there were
still found four potatoes more in his possession than had
been weighed to him. When Harper sparred up to him, he
certainly struck him. The inquiry was then adjourned.

The Courrier Francais states, " that in consequence of
the graniteimmens mptio in the fortifications of Paris, the
quarries of g in the neighbourhood of the capital have
become completely exhausted• That article is not to be pro-
cured now except at an enormous price."

A letter from Rome states that swarms of locusts have
made their appearance in many parts of the Papal. territory
and caused enormous devastation ; and according to a letter,
from Alexandria, of the 24t
of locustsh large portion of Egypt
has been ravaged by swarms ..

The Conservators Royal Library at Munich—a vast
collection. hi
c
oonsists of upwards of 500,000 printed
volumes (pamphlets, it is said, notincluded) and 10,000
man usripts—bave been, since the first of May, engaged in
its removal to the palace, lately built for its reception. This
consists
operation is now nearly completed: and the public, it is
expeep
ted will be admitted to the
wnew building early in
August.

partner:

(tad ea.

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WATZILLOO, Jung 17, 1815.

was the scene to view

riling blue,

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Be mine