The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

RAIL/17A Y INTELLIGENCE.

It is intended to form a line of railway from the Fleet-
wood line to the fashionable watering-place of Blackpool.
The distance is about three miles.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RA ILWAY.—The directors
made a trip on this line from Bristol as far as Stonehouse,
on Thursday last.
RAILWAY FROM LONDONDERRY TO ENNISKILLEN.—
On Wednesday last, a meeting was held at Londonderry,
when it was determined to carry out this undertaking, for
which a company was formed in the year 1836, and the
progress of which was arrested at the time by the com-
mercial embarrassments of the country.

BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CHANNELS JUNCTION•
RAILWAY,—The proposed line is now being surveyed ;
the course is that pointed out by Mr. Percey, of Sherebone,
in 1825, as the most eligible for the then projected Grand
Ship Canal, viz., from Bridgewater to Ikhester, near
Yeovil, Sturminster, Newton, Bradford, to the Port of
Poole.

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY EXTENSION TO
OXFORD.—The directors, accompanied by a large party
of their friends, came down to Oxford on Monday by a
special train, to inspect the works, which they found in a
very satisfactory state. After inspecting the station at
Oxford, and the bridges at Nuneham and Appleford, they
returned to Paddington by a special train. On Wednesday
morning the line was opened for traffic, and was found in
very good order.
DOVER AND GREENWICH RAILWAYS.-011 Tuesday,
the directors of the Greenwich Railway submitted a pro-
position to the Dover company to lease their line on the
followin; terms : namely, that the Dover should give
them a rent of £30,000 for the first year, and afterward/
increase it by £lOOO yearly, until it reached £50,000 per
annum, which is about 5 per cent. on the expenditure--
Then, that they should receive a penny per head for
every passenger abovtaeo6d,ltOan,ocfieOopfersixatnynummil 0151
their line.
On Tuesday, day )
GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—
(this The rail-
way communication between London and Edinburgh is
pesa,ssing
rapidly approaching completion.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The entire Darlington to
dis-
tance between London and Newcastle,
upwards of 30G
the line of railway already formed will be extended from
miles, will be accomplished, it is calculated, in twelve
hours, including all stoppages. From Newcastle to Ber-
railway has been projected, and surveys made by the east
Pann; T
thencewee elt
Edinburgh, little more than fifty
miles, a line is already in course of formation. On
leaving the station in Euston.square, the traveller passes
83 miles along the London and Birmingham Railway. to
Rugby, thence 491 miles along the Midland Counties
Railway to Derby, thence 631 miles along the North Mid-
land Railway to Normanton, thence 231 miles along the
York and North Midland Railway to the Cathedral City
of York, thence 45 miles along the Great North of Eng-
land Railway to Darlington, thence 27i miles along the
w coast,i ck - u
Newcastle, Darlington, and Durham Junction Railway te-
Worbington, thence 54- miles along the Pontop and South
a line of
Shields Railway (formerly the St3nhope and Tyne) to.
Brockley Whins, where the line diverges to Sunderland-
and Shields, and thence 61 miles along the Brandling
Junction Railway to Newcastle, or rather to Gateshead+
on the south bank of the River Tyne, where a magnifi-
cent station is being erected. A more direct line from
York to London has been projected through the Eastern-
Counties by way of Bedford, Huntingdon, and Lincoln!
which will shorten the distance by about thirty miles,
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pass over the most extensive planes in England, uniting
the vallies of the Trent and Ouse by direct railway OW
munication with the metropolis.

FRATRICIDE.—A man of the name of John Child' of;
Leeds, has been committed to York Castle on a charge °`
manslaughter. The prisoner was quarrelling with his bro-
tber on Tuesday last, and at length they commenced fight-
ing, when the prisoner stabbed his brother in five placee
with a clasp knife, inflicting such serious wounds as t°
penetrate the heart, and of course cause the death of tbf
unfortunate man almost immediately.

June 18, Igi4

THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

iiiir-YEARLY DISTRIBUTION Ole lIRIZES.
1‘ if
•
e_or„ alfeyeerly distribution of prizes, in this Mast ad-
mabie institution, took place on Friday, in the Lectteree
rsath of the building. The middle and upper gallerits
Were craiid€d to excess with parents and friends at the
Mils. and iitnimget whom were many of the leading
families of the town; The body of the room was devoted
to the scholars, and the platform was also filled. Amongst
those present we noticed the Rev. J. Conybeare, the
tri.rteipal ; the Revs. Dr. Booth and J. H. Brown, Vice-
LimciPals ; the Rev. J. J. Higgins, the Rev. Hugh
E. Molyneux, J. Booker, R. Harbord,
suuncaster, Shaw, S. L. Trotman, Booker, Esqs.,
fee., &c.
At seven o'clock the Rev. J. Brooks, Senior Rector,
and Chait man of the Board of Directors, took the chair.
~The Proceedings of the day commenced by the pupils
"4,tirtting the Venice exultemus Domino.
'he Rev. CHAIRMAN then proceeded to address them
t 4.) the following effect :—Boys of the Collegiate Institu-
;ton Schools, I have great pleasure in again meeting you
or the distribution of prizes to those amongst you who
save distinguished themselves by their industry and ex-
ertions during the past half-year; and I can assure you
only regret I feel is the absence of our respected
Diocesan, who, upon the last occasion of a similar nature,
was kind enough to preside, who has been prevented by
. 3 other important avocations from doing the same now,
nut who, I hope, will present himself again to you on
some future opportunity. Since I last had the pleasure
of meeting you, several exhibitions have been established
14 the schools, which will, I trust, prove a strong in-
ttle to your future exertions. I shall now stale to you
those Which will have to be contended for in future years,
and I shall commence with the upper school. In this
school there are no less than four university exhibitions ;
Lilli first to take place at this season in the next year.
These are, connected with the upper school, and they are,
therefore for the universities; and as the usual time for a
four years, the manner in which they are to be pre-
sented has been so arranged, that one shall be vacant to
be contended for every ear. The first is established by
in) rev. friend near me,ythe Rev. Mr. M'Neile. (Cheers.)
It was determined by a number of his friends that a tes-
timonial should be presented to him, and he thought he
*mild not make use of it more gratifying to himself and
more generally useful to the town at large, than by con-
necting it with the Collegiate Institution. (Applause.)
He has, therefore, divided it amongst the three schools—
establishing in the Upper School an exhibition amounting
in value to the annual interest of £1,000; in the Middle
School two exhibitions, amounting to ten guineas each ;
and two in the Lower School, which amount to the sum
necessary for keeping the boys in the school. (Loud
eheerinst.) The first time this exhibition to the Uni.
versities will be brought before you for compe-
tition, will be next year, and for those boys who have
entered before August in the present year. It will beopen
to any of the three universities, either Oxford, Cambridge,
or Dublin. The annual value will be whet the inter-
est of £l,OOO will make, and we may calculate on its
being about £4O. (Applause.) The next is one esta-
blished by a gentleman, who, from the very commence-
ment of the institution, has shown himself to be one of its
kindest friends. I mean the elder Mr. Gladstone. (Loud
cheers.) He has already presented the institution with,
I believe, £l,OOO, for its various purposes, and he now
establishes an exhibition of the same amount. That will
be contended for in the year 1846, this time two years ;
and it will be open to all boys who have been in the school
previous to February, 1845. The next is an exhibition,
not of positive amount in money, but of the annual value
of £5O a-year, which will come into play in the year 1847,
for those who have been in the school before August, 1845,
established by the masters of the institution. (Tremen-
dous cheering.) It shows the lively interest that they
take in your advancement. The fourth exhibition is one
rising in part from a sum which was the surplus of a
fund raised for the erection of a statue to the memory of
an illustrious man, who was formerly one of the represen-
tatives of this town in the House of Commons—the late
sight Hon. George Canning. (Loud applause.) There
was a sum which afforded a surplus after all expenses of
erecting the statue had been defrayed, which, I think,
amounted to £350, and this the committee handed to the
Collegiate Institution to found an exhibition, to be called
the Canning exhibition. The present Lord Canning,
anxious to bear his testimony to the merits of so near a
re`s"on, has himself made up the sum to £5OO. Other
Persons have also added to that sum, so that it is now
raised to £l,OOO, the same as the M'Neile and the other
exhlbitions. And here again I feel it my duty to bear
testimony
to the liberality and disinterestedness of your
Fasters, for although their exhibitions would not come
Into play before 1847, yet they have determined to com-
mence their subscriptions immediately, and to devote the
produce of them to the increase of the Canning exhibition.
isoud
cheers.) We shall, therefore, have the town of
Liverpool connected, by this institution, with the names
I have mentioned to you. It will reflect no little credit
on its inhabitants, and I hope those young men who may
attain those exhibitions will do nothing to tarnish them
when they present themselves to the University. (Loud
applause.) There is another resolution of the Board of
Directors which has taken place since we last met, and
which has the same object in view as the establishment of
;the exhibitions, that is to encourage merit, so far as lies
`n their power, in all the schools. (Cheers.) The reso-
lution is this It will be open to any boy in the lower
school who chooses to work his way up to the upper
school, and through that, if his parents should think
to the universities. One boy in each half year,
'tom the lower or middle school, if a boy is found de-
serving,above will be moved up to the school immediately above
nun—that is. from tae lower to the middle school, or
from the middle to the high school, and the charge made
to his parents, for his education, will only be the price of
the school which he leaves;—(loud applause)—so that if
there he a particularly talented boy, who may in future
times d'stinguish himself among the worthies of his coun-
try, an opportunity will thus be afforded him of future
success. (Continued cheers.) There cannot be more
than six at one time who will be allowed this privilege. I
sincerely hope we shall find that number. (Cheers.) I
think 1 have now stated to you all the information we have
-to give you. 1 trust it will prove a stimulant to your fu-
tore exertions; and now, with the assistance of the Prin-
cipal, I shall proceed to distribute to you the prizes which
have been awarded.
A lone and interesting ceremony then commenced, of
distributing to the boys those prizes which their merits
had won for them. The Chairman, in handing the vari-
ous books and medals to the successful boys, made apt
and appropriate addres-es tm them, giving to each the r
proper meed of praise. Our space, however, will not allow
us e to indulge in the topic, merely remarking that it re-
Lets no small credit on the boys and their instructors.
Ifte "Nu first pupils of last year, by their application and
talent, occupy the same honourable station this year.
Their names, as well as those of the other boys who gained
honours in their various classes, will be found at the close
of this report.
The CHAIRMAN in his concluding address to the boys,
said, thq in his preceding observations he might have ap-
peared to dwell mote particniaily on the upper school, and
lo,deed,rrom the splendour f those endowments with which
it
Lohad hero fa, out ed during the past year, might seem al-
eoSt t° eclipse the other schools, but those in the middle
and
lower schools were equal, nay, of still greater value
than in the twer. (Applause.) After mentioning the
Lumber of scholarshios, and endowments to the schools,
me Proceeded to observe that elthough a few out of the
;chools had been presented by the Board of Directors
State, of them a 1, the satisfaction the Principal had felt
With the general conduct of the boys during the last half
Year- (Loud Cheers.) He had informed him (the Chair-
man) that the advancement of the schools generally had
far exceeded that of any previous half year. (Continued
Cheers.)
Tnat was a very gratifying thing to tho=e who
eit an interest in the establishment of that great institu-
tion that such should hive been its results ; and he be-
lieved he might say, without fear of contradiction, that it
had_ surpassed all other in-titutions of a similar kind in
the kingdom wi•h regard to the rapidity of its success.
(Tremendous cheers.) They were then only in the
commencement of the first part of the second 'year, and
yet there were 713 in the day schools under education.'
(Continued cheers.) 11e must not, however, allow his
congratulat'ons to be confined to the boys present. He
would extend them to their parents and to the vast masses
of the population of this great town at large. (Cheers.)
To the boys it was a fortunate circumstance that there was
Such a place as that in which they were taught their duty,
and to their parents it was of the greatest importance
that there was an institution like that established to
which they could send their children to be educated.
(Applause.) He had no doubt they had seen during that
Morning amongst the boys several who would branch off
in all the different situations and stations of life—some
into the higher, some in the lower grades of society ; but,
whatever might be their position—whether their future des-
tination rni:rht be the senate—whether they should become
Members of the learned professions, or afford by their
exertions as merchants strength and stability to the com-
merce of the country, or whether they engaged in trade
;eat were taught that one thing, without which, whatever
their future destiny in life, every other kind of know-
ledgee__ was of no importance at all—a knowledge which
;:is the very principle upon which that institution was
srus!4---pure and undefiled religion. (Loud cheers.) He
eoe:ld all were taught there that it was not sufficient
the:,sY),_o learn their duty—that they must not only make
pereainejes acquainted with the Bible and everything ap-
were t ng to it, but they must also
.be taught that they
Of life°, Carry its sacred iufluences into whttever station
mightitself be their future lot to fall. Knowledge, of
kind Unless it be founded on such a basis, was of that
oul Which they were told in the book of Christianity
eed served to " puff up." It was the " knowledge which
institution eth' that they must carry away with them from that
the „ .; and he was satisfied from what he knew of
t*:rinciples upon which the institution was conducted
Itwould be offered to them. That was what they
It ee carry away with them when they left the institution.
tilt-sill(' be their best guide through life, and would teach
an4ll to 0
I ok beyond the present world to the only safe
(Lo sure comfort whenever they were removed from it.
phe thin Applause.) The change which had taken place
g. respect during the last few years was most gratify-
' Education semed to have forced itself upon the
rest
sore mass of these
eople more than ever it tad done be-
has' ssd he was happy to find the great increase which
ta
yeti ken place in the number of schools based upon
(tatito, and connected with the established Church.
hast`Zr`s_ •) This showed that a great portion of mankind
aued Xcome impressed with the importance of religion,
sate at agreed in one point—that it was of no use
.o ed
4t all unless they educated upon the prmciples of
glen
to Exi. • (Cheers.) The boys present were then going
)100e40y the relaxation of the holidays, and he sincerely
it roe ,they would enjoy themselves, that they would do
hinovelerately, temperately, and as became boys who had
Itts acquainted with a certain portion of religious