The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.
On Thursday, at noon, the customary distribution of
prizes to deserving pupils, prior to the breaking up for the
Christmrts

Collegiate institute. The Right Rev. Dr. Graham, the
lord bishop of the diocese, presided; and amongst., the
gentlemen on the platform we observed William Brown,
Esq., M.P. ; J. Bramley-Moore, Esq., the mayor; Adam
Hodgson. Esq. ; Josias Booker, Esq. ; E. Moly-Elena,
Esq.; Mr. Bennett, Mr. Walthew, the Rev. Rector
Campbell. and the Rev. Dr. M'Neile. The hall was
filled in every part by the pupils and their relative fliend

s; . .
and the animating cheerfulness which beamed from every
youthful countenance rendered the ceremony as pleasing

as it was interest

The proceedings-commenced by the
tiful anthem.

aging of a beau-

The Rev. Mr. HOWSON, the principal, then rose. After
adverting, in neat terms, to his connexion with the insti-
tute, he proceeded. —lt is now six years sinca these
schools, founded by generous contributions, and built up
amidst sanguine hopes. were finally complete and thrown
open to the public. The first principal was one of my
intimate friends during those six years, Nvl,'
tute of this kind, are like the .--
school—the ye:
manage, but the years on which the future
During those six years he laboured with admirable judg-
ment, perseverance, and courage. (Applause.) Hoer
sedulously and generously he has laboured for the best
interests of those who are educated here, no one knows
better than Ido ; I lieve no one knows so well. Wl.-

h, in an insti-
pent by a boy at
s the niost difficult to

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h oolboy

ever may be the maturity of this institutic
days have been under his training. What
ture may hereafterbe raised,—and I hope it will be a large
one,—he has laid the foundation, and he has laid it well.
Those general principles of education which he adopted
will continue to be the rules of our conduct ;
the same general course of instruction will be pursued,
and that discipline, to which I attach as much importance
as he did, will be carefully maintained. (Applause.) My
hope is to follow his example; and with the assistance of
those who assisted him, to continue to develop as well as
lam able what he has so successfully begun. (Applause.)
And now, my lord, I come to say that which, under ordi-
nary circumstances, ought to be said first. In the name
of all the masters, and all the boys, and of all who are
present, and I am sure of many who are absent, I thank
you for your kindness in appearing amongst us to day.
(Loud applause.) By presiding on this occasion, yon
strengthen our hands in a difficult and important work.
To your lordship's predecessor in office these schools are
under many obligations; and you, my lord, in your first
year of residence in our neighbourhood, have already con-
ferred upon us an obligation for which we are sincerely
grateful. (Applause.) In the midst of eJ many changes,
(and how that word change rings in our ears at the close
of this wonderful 1848)—in the midst of so many changes.
it is a comfortable reflection that in these three English
schools there is no change in one of the advantages which
we value most highly; but that in our efforts to train up
good men and good citizens for the service of England,
our ecclesiastical superior still comes to encourage us;
and that those words, of exhortation that used to be ad-
dressed to us in this place by Archbishop Sumner, will
now, my lord, be succeeded by your's. (Loud applause.)
The Right Rev. BISHOP said,- -Before I proceed to
discharge the very pleasing duty that brings me here—
that of distributing the prizes to the successful candi-
dates—l may be permitted, perhaps, to say a single word
in a prefaratory form. The future master and principal
of this collegiate establishment has already addressed
you, and spoken in justly-deserved terms of his prede-
cessor. There was one point on which he could not have
gracefully touched himself--I mean his own
During the time he was a student at Cambridge I tad
not the pleasure of any personal acquaintance with him ;
but I had many opportunities of knowing well his

course and career in that university. I know that by
his excellent conduct he gained the confidence and esteem
of all the authorities of the college—of all his fellow-
students; and I myself had the very pleasing office, in
conjunction with other persons of my own station in rho
university. to adjudge to him prizes open to the compe-
tition of the whole university, and bestowed as the re-
ward for eminence in classical learning. (Applause.) 1

am able to speak from that experience and that moot;
I am able to speak with confidence of him as a person
admirably and eminently qualified to fulfil the duties of
the very high, and important, and responsible office in
which he has now been placed ; and I beg to wish him
all success and prosperity in the discharge of those duties.
(Applause.) lam sure, from the manner in which you

have received him, he will meet with what he must rook
to for his support, the cordial friendship and good-will of

the inhabitants of this great town ; and especially the
parents of those children, the future hope and promise of
the country, who are now receiving their education in

this institution. (Applause.) The learned bishop then
acknowledged the compliment which the principal had
paid him. He had felt it it his duty, he said, to attend

to testily his appreciation of the motives on which the
Collegiate Institution had been founded, and to express
his ardent desire for its prosperity. He continued—l
wish it had been in my power to make myself more ac-
quainted with many details of the institution than I at all
know at present, before I presented myself before you;
but at all events, the duty which I have to perform
to-day, that of conferring the prizes upon the suc-
cessful candidates, requires nothing but the few words of
kind greeting which I shall be happy to address to all
who are called up to receive them ; and before another
twelve months is over, I hope to be well acquainted with
by my many inquiries, that .I
welfare. Liverpoc

ion, and s'

full of
instances of liberality in every way in which it can be
shown ; but I look upon this institution as one of the
most gratifying of them, and I hope, under the Divine
blessing, it will be productive of the most lasting benefit
to the town itself. It seems to me to have evidently one
advantage—it enables you to command for your children
all the benefits of education in a large public school,
while, at the same time, you can have them under your
own eye, and exert se what is as valuable as school disci-
pline, the kindness and affectionate attention of a parent*
love.

The PRINCIPAL next eulogistically referred to the
Evening School, and

The successful scholars were then called up on the plat-
form, two or three at a time, to receive their prizes from
the bishop's hands. His lordship addressed encouraging
words to each, and delivered, at intervals, neat discourses
to the meeting on the subjects in which the pupils before
him were stated to excel.