The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

CLASS PRIZES,

Ist Class.—(l) MOLYNEUX SCHOLARSEIIP.— Thomas Atkinson,
in work of the half year—Obtained certificat?, Chas. Cranage.
(2) 2d MOLYNEUX Scuowsittr.—J, R. Adams, in work of
the half yea.
2d Class.—(l, Ist Prize.—John Halden, in work of the half year
—Obtained certificate, Joseph Adamson. (2) 2d Prize.—John
Davies, in work of the half year.
3d Class.—(l) ;st Prize.—Jos. Beonsirc, in work of the half year
—Obtained certificate, Wm. Lriffiths (2) 2d Prize.—Richard
Brittain, in work of the half year.
4th Class.—(l) Ist Prize.—Geldai t Dohson. in work of the half
year—Obtained certificate, Joseph Leicester. (2) 2d Prize.—
E. R. Griffiths, in work of the half year.
sth Cluss.—(l) Ist Prize.—George Holmes, in work of the half
year—Obtained certificate, Wm. Lancaster. (2) 2d Prize.—
Arthur Stother, in work of the half year.
Gth Class.—(l) Ist Prize —Richard Wright, in work of the half
year—Obtained certificate, Thos. Jackson. (s) 2d Prize.—
Robert Williams, in work of the half year.

The Right Rev. PRELATE then addressed the scholars
as follows :—I cannot conclude without expressing the
pleasure I feel to see here before me so many who are in-
structed in that which will be for their benefit, both in
time and eternity ; and when I reflect that many here
will some day have an influence over others, every one
must perceive the importance and the advantage of being
brought up in principles which will teach them to act
towards others in accordance with the Christian rule. I
beg to tender my warmest thanks to the Principal and
Master of the Institution, who have carried out the prin-
ciples and intentions of the founders with a zeal and de-
votedness, which can only be equalled by the Christian
liberality which eso-ablished the Institution. They, how-
ever, do not look alone to the kind feelings and warm ap-
proval of the public for their recompense, but to the ap-
proval of their own hearts and the satisfaction of having
performed their duty. It has been well said that the only
applause that governors and rulers ought to hope or care
for, is the welfare of those over whom they rule ; and I
am sure, my young friends, that your masters wi.h for no
other compliment or reward than your onward progress,
strict attention, and cheerful obedience. (Cheers.)
The 11,v. PRINCIPAL said that before the close of the
proce dins he wished to remark that the certificate
gained by T. Hodgson, of the upper school was no com-
mon certificate ; he had been exceedingly pleased with his
industry a'sd attention, and it was alone owing to his po-
sition in the class that he did not obtain a prize. He
might say the same of Jcsias Booker, who stood in a like
position in the second class.
The scholars than sang, in beantiful style, the national
anthem.

The Rev. Rector BROOKS, Chairman of the Board of
Directors, said that, before the company separated, there
was one duty yet remaining, and that would be felt by all
present to be more a pleasure than a duty, and that was
to return thanks to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
the Diocese for favouring them with his presence on this
occasion, (Applause.) When they considered the mani-
fold labours and extensive duties which the management
and care of so extensive a diocese imposed upon his lord-
ship, they would consider themselves peculiarly fortunate
in obtaining a portion of his valuable time. His lordship's
presence was a guarantee to the public that they were
going on in those principles in which they had com-
menced ; and it was an encouragement to the directors
and mastors to receive his approbation. He therefore
felt certain all would heartily concur in the vote of thanks
which he proposed.

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The Rev. PRINCIPAL feelingly expressed his personal
gratitude to the Lord Bishop, and also that of the other
masters, and of the institution at large.
His Worship the MAYOR also expressed his entire con-
currence in all that bad fallen from the two last speakers,
and seconded the motion.

The Right Rev. PRELATE said be felt greatly obliged
for their kind expressions towards him, but he felt that he
did not deserve any thanks. He was somewhat like ona
who came in after the battle was won, and who was then
requested to take his full share of the glory of the triumph.
The Right Rev. Prelate then left the chair amidst a round
of the most hearty applause, and the meeting separated.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-As I reserve the expression of some opinions, in
a second letter to Lord Sandon, for a period nearer ap-
proaching to the opening of the session, I address this to
you in order expressly to state that nothing was further
from my intention, in the preceding letter, than to throw
any doubt on his lordship's Conservatism ; and I believe
that nothing is expressed to that effect, my introductory
observations being merely incidental and general. His
lordship was no party whatever to the interior or exterior
decorations of the church in question, and concerned only
in the distribution of the pews.* I was desirous that his
lordship should be aware that the opinions expressed in
your journal, on the policy of the present premier, whe-
ther relating to the Church or State, pervaded
the county
in which he resides, where the press is essentially in the
hands of dissenters, and therefore available only for a
mawkish and soi-disant neutrality.
You must be aware, sir, that, admitting Lord Sandon
to be the Bavard of his political order, he will be placed
in a very difficult position in the ensuing session. Consi-
dering, as I do, that there is a path of distinction marked
out for him in the future, he cannot be too distinctly ap-
prised of what the nation expects from him, as regards
the integrity of the Constitution in Church and State.
The time is not yet arrived for a change in the ministry ;
and a division of the house that left the premier in a mi-
nority, or even in a very small majority, might place us
at present in a worse dilemma than being dragged for a
time in his train.

It cannot be denied that Sir R. Peel, i❑ succeeding to
office after so many years of Whig trickery and delusion,
had a very difficult part to perform; but of his honesty of
purpose I never doubted. His predecessors had let loose
and tallyho'd as many mongrel reformers of the age and
the empire against the Constitution as Canning threatened
to let slip from the democracy of Europe, against the
Holy Alliance; and the Whig aristocracy suffered more
in their prestige of rank and character from the grossness
of such support than they will recover im another century.
But still there was " ample room and verge enough" for a
firm Conservative leader to do more for the people than
Sir R. Peel has done; and at the same time have spared
him the apparent necessity, in his nervous apprehensions,
seeking to minister to the insolent tyranny and conciliate
the rampant ambition of trading agitators. Sir R. Peel
was warned early in 1842, of " breakers a-head !" but with
the cold self-complacency of his nature, he continued his
steerage on the rocks and shallows with as much confi-
dence as though he were navigating the depths of the Pa-
cific. If he had cast an eye on that shrewd pilot of the
Times, who for a period carried a adding colour of Pu-
seyism, and is hourly on the look-out for the currents of
public opinion, as different events transpire, he must have
been aware that he was out of his reckoning. That jour-
nal has ❑ow lightened itself of the midway or purgatorial
Protestantism, whether in the abstract or concrete, and
let all its Tractarianism go by the board. The late course
taken by some of our most distinguished bishops has
added greatly to the delicacy and difficulty of a Conserva-
tive statesman in Lord Sandon's position. He can neither
support them, nor. with safety, take up any intermediate
position for them to fall back upon, in order to break
their fall ; and yet Conservatism will, in one form or ano-
ther, be expected to come to the rescue. With dense fogs
investing the shore, and storms brewing around them, all
that the noble lord and his faithful colleagues can do, will
be to maintain a good qtfing.
Our statesmen must consider that with the public mind
there is no recess. That which is going forward daily and
hourly among the people constitutes the raw material (if I
may so apply the term) of subjects discussed at Privy
Councils, and for future parliamentary debates. At the
moment I am writing, the conflict of churchwardens, the
rural and other clergy, and their diocesans, is being car-
ried into the highest ecclesiastical authorities. Thz laity