The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

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ler Town-eerk

As far as the Paid Officers' Com-
mittee are concerned, they have, in submitting the
resolution, only performed a duty incumbent upon
:hem by the terms of their appointment
planations place these parts of the case of our contem-
poraries, as the lawyers would say, " out of court."
With respect to the alterations in the departments of
the Town-clerk and Deputy Town-clerk, they have
been made with two views---.-economy and efficiency.
It would fatigue our readers to describe the confusion
in which the two offices frequently were, owing to an
inadequate establishment. They will now be efficient :
no man's business with the corporation will be ne-
glected : and a check will be maintained against pro-
crastination of all sorts. The business, thus conducted,
must be a great public convenience : it will, doubtless,

These ex-

be productive of benefit to the borough fund, by in-
creasing the fees. It is evident, therefore, that the
scheme adopted will prove, as stated in the committee's
report, econorncal.
.Further, in future there will not be
any person paid both by a fixed salary and the convenient
weekly addition of extra bills. Human nature is very
weak ; and such things may have happened as a frit-
tering away of the time for which the fixed salary was
paid, to provide occupation for the extra hours.
Our contemporaries sneer heartily at the duration of

the labours of the committee. They are both, no
doubt, skilful workmen, and would have managed
matter's much better—to their own satisfaction. Our
amiable friends, however, will please to be informed,
that, although the committee have reported only on the
Town-clerk and Treasurer's departments, their labours
have not been confined thereto. No time has been
lost : no time will be lost : and we are convinced, that
the labours of the committee, whether considered as a
whole or in departments, will terminate advantageously
to the interests of the corporation. The Council of
last year deserve credit for having appointed the com-
mittee, and the committee deserve honour for the per-
sonal sacrifices they have made in embarking upon so

extensive an investigation—an investigation, by the
way, from which the soi disant reformers would either
have shrunk in dismay, or avoided from incapacity.

The-most prominent feature in our present number
is the account we have given of the proceedings at the
opening of the Collegiate Institution.
Those proceedings will be read with no common in-
terest ; and in calling attention to them, we congratu-

late our townsmen upon the happy circumstance of
Liverpool possessing such a noble Institution, for the
education of all classes, wherein the purest religious
instruction will be intimately and continually associated
with the largest communication cf secular knowledge.
Of the inaugural address of Mr. W. E. Gladstone
there has been but one opinion expressed. All parties
are unanimous in ascribing to it merits of the highest
order. It commanded immediate admiration, not so
much, perhaps, from the elegance of its composition or
the propriety of its delivery as from the power of the
argument. We have not space to point out its excel-
lencies, in detail; and at present all we can say is, that
it was a proud thing to hear one of the most pro-
mising statesmen of the day skew an assembly
of more than two thousand people the necessity
for the definite revelation of God being made a
part of the education of all ranks, and empha-
tically to declare, that in that, there was the only
sure guarantee for the permanance of our institutions.
It was, indeed, " appropriate, eloquent, and thought-
ful," in the language of the Morning Herald ; and on
perusal, it will he found to justify the character given
to it.

Now that the Collegiate Institution is before the
world, we strongly recommend the public to eKatnine
its claims. The more they are investigated, the more
worthy will they he found of support. It is founded
upon the rock of Christianity, and all its fruits must

be good