The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

TEIE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

The MAYOR read a long memorial from Rectors Brooks
and Campbell, praying for a grant in aid of the Liverpool
Collegiate Iwditution. The memorial set forth that a
sound relig.ous education, in accordance with the doc-
trines of the established church, was imparted at the
Collegiate Institution; that the cost of the building, in-
cluding land, furni.ure, and fittings, amounted t0£36,600,
of which £24,905 had been voluntarily raised. and £7,360
advanced by trudees•i that there were in the Upper School
101 pupils, in the Middle 261, itt the Lower 377, and in
the Evening School 315, making a total of 1051; that the
evening school was open to the working classes ; that
there were 795 subscribers to the lectures; and the me-
morialists concluded by praying for a grant out of the
surplus income of the corporation, to support an institu-
tion which was open to all the inhabitants of the borough
without distinction.

Mr. SHEPPARD.—If you want to give anything, the
Royal Institution has a prior claim, for they have edu-
cated a great number of your fellow-townsmen, and my
son among the rest. (Loud laughter.) I don't know
how lam to take that cheer. lam the only Irish gen-
tleman in the council, and I hope the same courtesy will
be shown to me that Irish are inclined to show to English
gentlemen. My son was born in your town ;heis a
fellow-townsman, therefore, of a great many of you; and
he obtained high collegiate honours at Oxford. (Great
Alderman Swainson's son has also obtained
hid] honours. I think it my duty as a parent to speak
highly of Dr. Iliff.
Mr. PROCTER rose, but was almost immediately stopped
by Sir THOMAS BRA NCKER asking if he was not a donor
to the institution, and had not, therefore, a pecuniary in-
terest in the establishment?
Mr; PROCTER admitted that he was a donor, and so
were thirty-five others of the council, but denied that be
had any pecuniary interest.
EPPARD.—Have you any direct or indirect in.
terest ? (A laugh.)
Mr. PROCTER.—Not that I am aware of.
Mr. SHEFP ARD —Have you a son ?
Mr. PROCTER.—I have a son—an only son. What
does pecuniary interest mean?
Mr. SHEPPARD.—Why, pecuniary interest means—
(Loud laughter, during which the remainder of the sen-
tence was inauSible.)
The TOWN-CLERK decided. that donors were not enti-
tled to speak or Bowe on the question, as it appeared such
parties had a right to nominate pupils on lower terms,
and that they had, therefore, a pecuniary interest.
Mr. PARKER asked whether A 12,000 bad not been
granted for the election of the unsightly entrance to the
Railway Station in Lime-street?
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER.—Yes ; but that was in the
days of bribery and corruption, under the old council.
(Loud lauohter.) I voted against it.
After a lengthened corivirsation had taken place, and a
variety of motions had been submitted and withdrawn, it
was at length resolved, that the many difficulties which
surrounded the question should be laid before the memo-
rialists by the Mayor.
The council, having disposed of all the business on the
paper, adjourned at a quarter to three o'clock.

On Wednesda
£5O by Mr. Rushton, for having plaeed 100 tons of salt-
y, Messrs. Green and Taylor were fined
petre in a shed which was not fire-proof according to the
provisions of the dock act; but if the saltpetre was re-
moved in twenty days to a proper warehouse, the fine was
ordered not to be levied.