The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-13 00:00:00

INAtGURAL ADDRESS
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RIGHT HON. W

E. GLADS

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The following are a few, amongst the many, ex-
pressed opinions of the journals which we have seen
on the subject of this noble and _

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' Whatever Mas
r. Gladstone says is
deration. However one may differ from I
conclusions, one cannot help respecting
and sincerity which dictate his ge
admiring the talent with which h-
there is generally so much to admire in 33
that one willingly forgets or overloc!.._
be questionable or superfluous in the objects .for
his speeches are delivered.
Mr. Gladstone commenced his address b.
merited compliment to the sense and intelligence
middle classes, and their strenuous exertions in th
cause of education, which neither the uncertainty it
the political relations of the country, nor the embarrar
ments of commercial speculation, had been PI
;imit or impair. He then proceeded to sar
time had arrived when we " ought to give
to public institutions, and to chall-
support of the • mass of the intel,
He next reminded his audience, in earnest
terms, that "the existence of
that instituti,
permanent testimony to a great indestructible
ple—namely, to the principle that education.
to be effectual, must be a religious educatio-
a religious education must be founded upor

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(From the London Standard.)
The education of man is the formation of
being, and miserably defective and narrow
education which contents itself with fits;
immortality to play his part for a brief
stage of earth. The only education r
is that WHICH FASHIONS AND DUI,'
SELF, and this is an education not inr'
with literary and scientific -
it, but independent of them.
much knowledge as possible; the mu.
without this, knowledge will he a curse to the individal
and to society. It is a glorious thing, and full of hope,
to see a minister of state, and one of the most pro-
mising young men of a g eration the most promising
that England could ever boast, the champion of such
principles. The other parts of Mr. Gladstone's spee
are equally gratifying. There is a spirit of •boldness d.
and of approbation of enquiry, pervading the who/
illustrative of the truth that the most thor
winced and most sincere Protestant Christian is of
men the best entitled to the name of " free-thinker.
In the spirit of Locke and Butler, Mr. Gladstone:advises strict obedience to the apostle's corriman&—
" prove all things," confident with these great and
good men that the result of careful and candid investi-
gation must be to lead men to the knowledge of that
which is right. We could willingly dwell at length
upon an address, every line of which is valuable; but
we need not recommend it :—all but the advocates of
religious indifference on one side, and thepro- Romanist
dissenters, who would limit education to implicit sub-
mission, on the other, will.estimate its importance, and
extend its circulation.

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(From the Liverpool Courier.)
No one who listened to the beautiful and impressive
address of Mr. W. E. Gladstone—an address so full
of fine feeling, of sound thought, of Christian zeal,
and, at the same time, of Christian charity—could
conscientiously say that it left anything unsaid that
ought to have been said, or that anything that was said
could have been said better. Had there been, indp
any real cause, on this account, to regret the 1,
Lord Stanley's presence and eloquence, there was mucL
to compensate for it, in the fact of Mr. Gladstone heir)l
a native of Liverpool, and therefore most appropriate►
associated with an event which marks one of the me
important epochs in her history. As it was Liverr
has a double reason to be proud, first of the magnifi
edifice, reared by public spirit and public benefi
for an object of such vast public utility, the s
dedication of which was that day witnessed; se(
that she has a son whose splendid talents and
position in this life were capable of investing t
mony with so much of interest and dignity.
The temper of Mr. Gladstone's speech, ,dikt.
moved from the haughtiness of bigotry and the laxn,
of indifferentism, was exactly in accordance with ti
design of the Institution, which aims at extending it
benefits to all, so far as it can be done without a sa,
crifice of principle. There was the utmost possible
liberality, without the least tincture of latitudinarian-
ism: The view which he took of the connexion of
education with religion is one that must commend itself
to the undesstandings of all c-
the prejudices of churchmen

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(Front the Liverpool Times, radi

We have given in another page a rer
ceedings at the opening of the new Collegiate Insiitt
tion in this town, formed chiefly by the voluntai
contributions of the members of the Established
Church„ and intended to communicate a religious
education according to the principles of that church to
the children of those who belong to its communion,
with some relaxation as far as relates to the formularies
of the church, to those of dissenters. It will be seen that
the inaugural address was delivered by the Right Hon.
W. E. Gladstone, in the unavoidable absence of Lord
Stanley; and although the opening of the Institution
may have lost somewhat in brilliancy by the change of
orators, it lost none of its interest, for the Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, besides being a man of
superior general talents, is sincerely and zealously
anxious for the moral and religious instruction of all
classes of the community, and he spoke on the occa-
sion with an earnestness and force of conviction which
would have rendered the remarks of a much less ac-
complished speaker thin himself interesting. The
chief fault of the speech as a composition, namely, the
sermonizing tone of certain parts of it, arose from the
anxiety of the speaker to discuss the main question on
religious grounds ; and though there will be differ-
ences of opinion as to the correctness of some of his
conclusions, there can be none either as to thredosincerity
of his convictions or as to his disposition to state fairly,
to discuss with temper and to treat with respect the
which
I
opinions of others who differ from him. In. point
of
the effect
temper theof
speech
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aand been improved,
which the question of religious educatiohtn,
andwa s
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by the right hon. gentleman was greatly increased discussed
by
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declamationsthe
on ofth thee samcoarse,
subject in stool eurn
late so often been condemned to listen to in this town