The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-19 00:00:00

WARRINGTON BLUE COAT SCHOOL

PRESENTED TO JAMES GREAVES, ESQUIRE,
OF MILL-BANK, CHESHIRE,
BY THE CHILDREN OF
THE WARRINGTON BLUE COAT SCHOOL,
AS A MARK OF THEIR AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE
FOR HIS LONG-CONTINUED
ATTENTION AND KINDNESS TO THEM.
May health and peace attend you here,
And ev'ry joy above,
While we improve with grateful hearts,
The labour of your love.
Warrington, 12th May, 1843.
After a plentiful dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding, in
the true old English style, served to the happy group under
the umbrageous shade of the overhanging trees, and when the
friends whom Mr. Greaves had invited to be present on the
occasion had also partaken of his hospitality, the children,
conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Forester, and attended by Wil-
liam Stretch Esq., their excellent Treasurer, who is always
at his post when the interest of the Institution is to be served,
the Rev. P. S. Dale, incumbent of Hollinfare, and his lady,
(this gentleman is always amongst the foremost to contribute
to the innocent enjoyment of those poor children,) Mr. and
Mrs. Wolfe, of Rixton-hall, were also present, and a nume-
rous company formed a circle in the grounds adjoining the
house, when one of the boys addressed their worthy host in
these terms :

" HONOURED SlR,—Permit me most respectfully to state,
that my schoolfellows have selected me to perform the pleas-
ing duty of presenting to you these two ottomans, as the tri-
bute of grateful hearts, and a small acknowledgement of that
paternal kindness which the children of the 'Warrington Blue
Coat School have so long experienced at your hands. We
are indeed highly gratified, that our conduct should have se-
cured your approbation, and we earnestly hope, through the
care of Almighty God, that our future conduct in this world
will be such as to deserve your approval. Kind Sir, that
you may long live to witness our future attemps to do our
duty to God and our fellow-creatures, is the ardent wish and
prayer of the orphan and fatherless of our school. In con-
clusion allow me most heartily to thank you for your kind-
ness on this—to us—memorable day."
To this address, which was delivered by the youthful
speaker with great propriety, Mr. Greaves responded in a
most feeling and affectionate manner.

The philanthrophic sentiments he expressed were listened
to by his young guests with marked attention, upon whose
young hearts they were calculated to make a beneficial
and lasting impression. Mr. G. spoke i❑ high terms of the
peculiar fitness of Mr. and Mrs. Foster for their situation,
and of the effective services which they had rendered to the
institution.

Mr. Forster, in an animated speech, eulogised the unpre-
cedented kindness and attention which Mr. Greaves had so
repeatedly bestowed upon the children. He also acknow-
ledged the very hospitable manner in which the whole com-
pany had been treated.

The day, with the exception of some passing showers, was
fine, while the beauty of the season, and the hilarity of the
children, who, at intervals, gave fresh animation to the scene
with their excellent band, made it a delightful treat to all.
Joy at beholding the happiness of others seemed universal.
This Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company afforded, on
this occasion, as they have kindly done on their former ex-
cursions, a free passage to the children in their steam-
packet.

Sir R. Peel was born in 1788, Lord John Russell 1792,
Lord Stanley 1800, the Duke of Wellington, 1769, and Lord
Brougham 1779.

The important office of President of the Board of Control,
vacant by the lamented death of Lord Fitzgerald, has not
been filled up; there is no doubt but that the Earl of Ripon
will have the appointment, and that Mr. Gladstone will suc-
ceed the noble earl as President of the Board of Trade, with
a seat in the Cabinet. No one is at present mentioned as
the probable successor of Mr. Gladstone, as Vice-President
of the Board of Trade.—Standard.
KIRKBY LoNSDALE.—On Monday last, the farmers and
others who supply the inhabitants of this town with milk,
consented to a reduction of a halfpenny per quart in the
price of th• new milk, it being now sold at threehalfpence,
instead of twopence as heretofore ; and on Thursday reduced
the blue or skim-milk to two quarts for thrsehalfpence, in-
stead of a penny per quart, the price at which it was before
sold.

The library of the late Duke of Sussex is likely to be
forthwith distributed, except it be purchased by the British
Museum, to which body the executors have injunctions in
the first instance to offer it. For that purpose Messrs.
Evans are valuing it. Should that he declined, it is ex-
pected that it will then be offered to the public. There are
upwards of 45,000 volumes, said to be in excellent bindings
and condition, independently of an immense number of
valuable MSS. of the Holy Scriptures, consisting of early
copies, &c.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.—lmportant alterations are to
be made in some of the colleges in this university. Baliol
is to undergo thorough repair, the direction of which was
entrusted to Mr. Pugin, the celebrated catholic architect.
The master of the college objected to the employment of
' this gentleman, and Mr. Pugin's engagement is, conse-
quently, broken off. St. John's and All Souls' Colleges will
also receive decorations during the course of the summer ;
and some new buildings are to be added to University Col-
lege. The dirt, which has been accumulating for many
years, covers many beautiful specimens of art in the respec-
tive colleges, the existence of which is scarcely known.
ROBBERY AT LORD FITZGERALD'S MANSION.—On SOW-
day a daring robbery was committed at the residence of Lord
Fitzgerald. Belgrave-square, London, at midday. The rob-
bery was especially odious from the fact of the body of the
deceased earl being then upon the premises, and that awful
circumstance being to its fullest extent taken advantage of.
At 12 o'clock that day the tailor and milliner to the establish-
ment attended at the house to measure the servants for
mourning. They were all ordered up into the drawing-room,
and immediately afterwards a chaise-cart drove up to the
door, two men descended from it into the area, proceeded to
the butler's pantry, took up the plate-chest, carried it up the
area steps, put it into the cart, and drove off. So Coolly was
the robbery committed that two female servants who met the
men carrying the chest away never imagined but that it was
by order, and let them pass. The error was, however, soon
discovered, and a pursuit, fruitless in its result, was made
after the men. The value of the plate stolen was upwards of
£3OO. Two persons, one a carman, and the other a steward
of his lordship, have been examined before the magistrates,
and both have been remanded.

FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.—The twenty-third annual mee-
ting of the above society, in connection with the Societ6s
Evang •lique of France and Geneva, and the SocietC Christi-
anisme Protestante at Bordeaux, was held on \Vednesday,
in the lower room, Exeter Hall, the Marquis of Cholmonde-
' ley in the chair. His lordship opened the business of the day
by a few preliminary remarks, and called upon the secretary
to read the report. The growing interest and importance of
the society had occasioned much additional responsibility on
the part of the committee. Its operations bad extended over
the whole of Europe, and it was the only Society occupied in
missionary labour on the Continent. It aimed at the revival
amongst the Protestant Churches of France, Italy, and the
Peninsular, of the genuine doctrines of the glorious Reforma-
tion. The number of persons in France professing the reform-
ed faith was 1,500,000; in Italy, 2,000,000; in Germany, in-
cluding Austria and Prussia, 20.000,000 ; in Prussia,
1,200,000; in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, 1,500,000; in
Russia, 1,000,000 making a total of 38,000.000. All these
were within the scope of the society's aid. In Denmark one
agent was employed ; in Belgium one ; and at Lisbon, until
recently, the mission was conducted by the Rev. Vincent
Gornez. It was no part of the society's design to interfere
with the discipline of the reformed churches of France, or to
favour the interests of dissent from those churches. The
number of colporteurs engaged at Geneva was seldom less

than 50, each of whom received 20 francs. The sum expen-
ded this department amounted to £1,500 annually. The
" evangelisation " department continued to be prosperous.
The whole expenditure of the Genevan Society had fallen
short of £3,000, towards which the Foreign Aid Society had
given £385. The society in France had employed during the
ear 69 agents and had educated 25 young persons. The
began the year with a debt of 27,0001; the expendi-
d been 119,000 f. The Socit;t6 Christianisme had ex-
£6oo, of which they bed received the sum of „C 24
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The lively interest which James Greaves, Esq., Mill-bank,
Cheshire, has long taken in the welfare of that institution,
has been well appreciated by the trustees and friends of the
school ; and the paternal kindness which he has unceasingly
evinced towards the children gave rise to sentiments of grati-
tude within their bosoms, creditable to themselves, as well as
justly due to their benefactor. To give expression to these
feelings, the female pupils of the school spontaneously under-
took to execute two pieces of needlework, an appropriate and
permanent token of their gratitude. These beautiful and
Well-wrought specimens of skill and industry, neatly made up
into two ottomans, were presented to Mr. Greaves at his
residence, on Friday last. The following inscription, tastefully
formed in needlwork, appears on the loose cover of each :