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holarship, and for the Divinity prize, given by the Rev.
the Principal of the Institution.
The CHAIRMAN.—We have now gone through the two
upper schools, and got to the lower one, and I would make
this observation in starting, that though there are three
different schools, and the lower school comes up the last, yet
there is the same distinction and the same merit due to those
boys who have distinguished themselves in the lower school
as to those who have distinguished themselves in the upper;
because you will remember, boys, all of you, that in the exami-
nation which you have now gone through, and.the places sou
have gained for yourselves in the examination, the merits
are all comparatiye. You have contended with those who
ought to have the same degree of knowledge with yourselves ;
the competition is the same relatively in the different schools,
though the subjects which are embraced in the examination,
of course, are higher the higher you go in the schools. Still,
however, it requires the same exertion upon the part of you
boys in the lower school, to place yourselves in a command-
ing position, that it does in any of the boys in the upper schools
to take the lead in their schools. I have to present you first
of all, therefore, with this certificate, which is a proof that
von have gained the first scholarship established by Mr.
Edmund Molyneux, and also with a book for having obtained
the first prize in your school in divinity. The scholarship is
a substantial reward ; the book is more of an honorary one—
both are equally creditable to your exertion. I will not say
to your talents and abilities, because those are things which
are not dependent upon yourself; but I say to your exertion.
It is not always the boy who has the best talents that con-
trives to place himself in the highest place : it requires a
proper exertion of those talents to do what yoU have done,
and I hope you will continue in the same path. (Cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL then called up Atkinson and Yates.
The CHAIRMAN.—I have the pleasure of giving to you
this certificate. You, Atkinson, it seems, have obtained the
second scholarship established by Mr. Molyneux in this
school ; and to you, Yates, I have to give a book for having
obtained the first historical prize. It is creditable to you to
have placed yourselves in these distinguished situations. I
hope you will not forget you have been there, but that you
will use your utmost exertions to keep the place, and not
to allow others to pass you in the race. There are many
who will contend with you. I hope you will secure what
you have already obtained. (Great Applause.)
The PRINCIPAL then called up Johnston, Goulboon,
Butler, and Rimmer, and introduced them to the
Chairman with a few observations.
The CHAIRMAN said—You four boys, I have to present a
book to each of you, for having placed yourselves in the first
examination at the head of your respective classes. You are
all very young. You are beginning well, and it is always a
happy thing when the first step is right. The prize is an en-
couragement to yourselves to proceedin this way, to inspire you
to exertion. You find what attention to your studies has
enabled you to do now, and with that knowledge you surely
will not allow yourselves to go back. Your motto always
should be " forward ! " (Cheers.) These are the last prizes
which I have to present; but I understand that there are
other boys whose names will be read over, who, though they
have not succeeded in obtaining the first prize in their classes,
have yet had a large proportion of relative merit, and have
been placed in the second degree in their respective classes.
To them, therefore, I would observe. and indeed I would
make the observation to the whole of those who have suc-
ceeded in obtaining prizes upon the present occasion—l would
observe to them, that they must not expect to hold the place
they now occupy, unless they can keep up the same attention,
the same industry, and pursue their studies with the same
zeal, which they have hitherto done. (Cheers.) The com-
petition is now a large one, for I find from the return made
to me that there are in the schools now before us 445 boys; in
addition to which there are 200 in the evening school, With
ashich we have nothing to do now, making altogether 645 boys
receiving education within these walls. And in that number
of 445, you must all of you remember that there are many
boys who, if they do not go forward, will be treading upon
your heels—there are many boys, if they have that whole-
some ambitiort which is most desirable in all whoare commen-
cing to gain knowledge, what they haYe seen this day, the dis-
tinctions they have seen given to several of. their school-
fellows, will urge them to additional exertion to pass you in
the race, and to take your places from you. Now this is a
competition you must expect will be always going on ; and you,
therefore, who have obtained prizes must remember that you
may have greater difficulty in holding your situation during
the next half year than you have had now. The systeM of the
school is getting more and more matured ' • the numbers, we
trust, and have reason to believe, will be continually in-
creasing. The field of competition, therefore, will be wide,'
and unless you exert yourselves, you must not expect to
remain where you are. I would, therefore, urge upon
you the greatest diligence in your future studies. You
are now going to retire for that relaxation which it is
necessary that all minds, should have at certain times,
to enable them to do justice to those pursuits in which
they are engaged ; and you will, I trust, return to
your studies again, with the determination to exert every
nerve to hold the situations you now fill. (Cheers.) To
you boys who have not been successful in the present con-
test, I hope you will not allow that to act as any disappoint-
ment, but that it will rather operate as a stimulus to your
future 'exertions. It is within the reach of any of you to
distinguish yourselves, if you earnestly apply to your stu-
dies. You must remember that talent alone will not do it.
No doubt, among so many, there are varieties and degrees
of ability and of talent ; but, like everything else in this
world, distinctions of different sorts, and powers of different
sorts, are spread abroad in different degrees; and it very
often happens, it very commonly takes place, that a real
exertion of industry and of attention will do more than talent
itself, for talent, like every other gift of God, may be thrown
away. (Hear, hear.) I would here make one observation,
which I neglected to make in opening the business of distri-
buting the prizes, and which is particularly gratifying to the
directors of the Institution to be informed of—and that is,
that I cannot speak too highly of the state of discipline—a
State of discipline that will lead on to better things. There
must be a well-regulated mind to ensure a boy success in
life ; and there must be a well-regulated system to ensure
success in schools like these. lam very happy, therefore,
in having to report from the masters, that thee are thoroughly
satisfied with the state of discipline—that it is quite equal to
what they could possibly expect. (Hear, hear.) There has
not been a great time for progress; and the first quarter was
one in which necessarily a good deal of confusion took place
in arranging the new schools ; but I understand they have
been most satisfactory, and that the examination which took
place at the end of the quarter has fully answered the expec-
tations the masters had formed. Upon this I think I may
safely congratulate you and the public at large on the esta-
blishment of this Institution, as a great experiment, if I may
use the Ural : it is provided to meet a great desideratum ; it
has been the 'riming of providing education for all the differ-
ent classes of society in this great and populous town. Not
one of them is shut out;. and therefore it only remains for
those who are wise, (I inn speaking of parents,) and who
have the interests, the real interests, of their children at
heart, to take advantage of it. It is not in many of the
towns in the kingdom where they have the same opportu-
nity; and I hope that, whilst you boys will not slacken in
your exertions here, they will not be slack in securing their
children the advantages which an Institution like this has
the means of commanding. (Loud cheers.)
The PRINCIPAL then read over the names of those boys who
had distinguished themselves in theexamination, although they
bad not gained the first prizes. Each pupil stood up and made
an obeisance as his name was mentioned by the rev. gentleman.
In the Upper School, the Rev. Gentleman said, there were
several who had not obtained prizes there in consequence of
the small size of the classes, but who had yet done extremely
well, and to whom therefore the Institution would, in some
cases, present certificates that they had acquitted themselves
well, and that they had honourably distinguished shemselves.
Among these were Hodgson sen., Hodgson jun., and Booker.
There were also the following additional prizes in the Upper
School,—namely, the Second Divinity prize to Wm. Jones,
and the Second Historical prize to Samuel Smith; also the
French prize to Duncan, and the Writing prize to Edward
Cumming. He now came to the Middle School. In the
Middle School the.first prize had been awarded in the first
class to W. Davidson ; in the second
,class to Wilks, but
which could not be given to him, in consequence of the rule
of the Institution preventing any one scholar having more than
two prizes. The second prize in the third class to Skerrett ; in
the fourth to Smith ; in the fifth to Hebson •, in the sixth to
Baylis ; in the seventh to Hall ; and the eighth to M'Connan.
The following boys would also receive certificates of having
acquitted themselves creditably,—Conway, Leake, R. J.
Taylor, Widdowson, and Orme. He now came to
the extra prizes in the Middle School, which he had not men.
tioned before. For the Mathematical and Arithmetical prizes
there were four names.—Leather, sen., J. Roberts, Hitch-
man, and Brownbill. In the French prizes, besides the first
already mentioned, there were C. Baldwin, Rogers, and
Abbott; in the Drawing prizes, Harbord, Bell, Griudrod,
and Bailey ; and in the Writing prizes, 11 aram Wilson,
Pearson, and Inman. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hume had
kindly granted prizes for superior proficiency in English and
the Classics, which had been adjudged—the Classcal prize to
C. Seddon, arid the English prize to Harbord. Now he
came to the Lower School, and he read the names of the
boys who had gained the second prizes in the first class, the
second Historical prize, the Arithmetical prize, and the
Writing prize.—The Rev. Principal then retired amidst much
cheering.
The CHAIRMAN then said—Now, boys, before we con-
clude the business of the day, I should wish to say
words. I have principally confined my observations to you,
They have principally related to you, and to your conduct;
but we roust not allow the day to pass, and I should not be per-
forming the duty which the Committee have delegated to me,
if I did allow it to pass, without calling to your recollection,
and bringing to your attention, the great advantages which
you enjoy in these schools, in the talent which has been se-
cured to you by the Committee from the masters who have
been phaced over you. Their time has been devoted in your
improvement; their talents have been exercised for your
good; and they have sbewn an earnest zeal in the discharge
of their onerous duties by the regular attention which they
have paid to you, and even by the institution of prizes them-
selves, in order to promote among you that wholesome
competition which ought to exist in all schools. The com-
mittee, therefore, would not think that the duties of the day
were well performed, unless they offered their grateful ac-
knowledgetnents to the Principal and to. the masters generally
—(loud cheers)—for their attention to the schools and to
you. (Renewed applause.) And I would observe, as to
yourselves, that the greatest proof that you can give of the
obligations which you are under to them for instructing you,
aiirs nng from school,—the best re-
turnesyt and due diligence in an attentive observation
and teaching you, and bringing you up a way which will
make you creditable members of that large society in the
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the instructions which they give to you. (Cheers.)
The Rev. the PRINCIPAL then said, it had been suggested
to him, by the worthy chief magistrate of this great town,
whose presence there represented the feeling entertained by
the public of the usefulness of the Institution—(cheers)—that
he (the Principal) should express, in the name of the other
masters in the first place, and likewise in the name of the
whole institution, the gratification which they felt towards
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present—(hear, hear)—for the manner in which he had dis-
charged the duties of the office. (Loud cheers.)
Principal, and
Mr. BROWN, the Head Master of the Middle School,
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conduct which had prevailed in the schools during the past
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half year. The conduct of the boys had given great satisfac-
tion to all the masters.
The motion was carried by acclamation.
Mr. Rector Bitoorcs :—Having occupied so much of your
attention already. I would say but a very few words more,
particularly as regards myself. I have to thank you for the
testimony which you have been pleased to bear to any little
exertion of mine upon the present occasion, and to assure
you that from the first institution of these schools I have
taken a lively and earnest interest in their success ; and every-
thing which I have witnessed since their commencement
leads me to hope and expect that the great object with which
they were originally founded will be ultimately carried out.
(Cheers.)
The Rev. the PRINCIPAL then said the proceedings would
conclude according to the manner in which they were com-
menced, by the pupils chaunting " Te Deum laudamus."
This venerable hymn was then chaunted in an impressive
style, after which Mr. Rector Brooks dissolved the meeting,
and the vast assembly dispersed, highly
-- gratified with the
proceedings.

The prize books presented to the successful competitors
consisted of standard English works; they were all superbly