The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

i COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION-DELIVERY OP

PRIZES.

The annual distribution of prizes took place on Thurs-
day. The spacious lecture ball was crowded with the
fashion of the town. The rev. Principal was present, and
on the platform were the two rectors and several of the
local clergy, and a great number of our leading merchants.
The Principal, in opening the proceedings, alluded to
the loss which the Institution had sustained in the re-
moval of the Bishop of Chester. He referred to the Can-
ning Exhibition, the certificate for which had been gained
by Alfred Hunt, who was congratulated on his success by
his master, and who, he (the master), was sure, would
represent the school with credit at Oxford, whither he was
going. The following is a list of the prizes :
UPPER SCHOOL—Junior Divinity Medal, James Raw-
don ; Historical Medal, L. Much ; Mathematical Medal,
J. Woodhouse.—Class Prizes : J. Rogers, T. Bowman,
Edward Jones, E. H. Hodgson, J. Booker, R. P. Stain-
ton.—Certificates : Payne Park, W. B. Jones, Killick,
C. Killick, and G. Rawdon. Payne, E. Jones, and Raw-
don, mentioned as second best in their departments.
MIDDLE SCHOOL.—Divinity Medal, Rigby, but he hav-
ing got it before, transferred to Bowman ; nomination to
Upper School, Thomas Atkinson ; Historical Geographical
Medal, transferred from Atkinson to Bowman ; Mathe-
matics, Thomas Atkinson ; French, Swift ; Drawing J.
Lindsay; Penmanship, Nott.—Class Prizes: Potter,
scholarship, transferred from T. Atkinson to Bowman ;
Metcalfe, Prudhomme, jun., M. D. Lewis, Fauset, E. P.
Arthur.—Certificates: A. Metcalfe, S. Metcalfe, C. B.
Hobson, Belk Agett, Rigby, Ireland, C. Walker. Brock,
Orme, and Wilson. First M`Neile Scholarship, T. Atkin-
son ; second ditto, Metcalfe; Head Master's Divinity
Prize, Pearce ; Singing Certificate, Osborne ; Mr. Wilson's
Classical Prize, Seddon.
LOWER SCHOOL. --Divinity, C. P. Maddock ; nomina-
tion to Middle School, T. Lowe ; History, A. P. Kirby ;
Arithmetic, G. Downward ; Penmanship, W. Eastwood.—
Class Prizes: First Molyneux Scholarship, Thomas
Whitty ; second ditto, John Ramsden, J. W. Sutton, J.
T. Moss, J. Cheswortb, E. B. Christian, J. J. Clark, and
W. Wood.—Certificates: J. Hornby, W. G. Jones,
White, W, Lowe, J. Morgan, E. Johnson, H. Leigh, H.
E. Talbot, T. T. Edwards, J. E. Briant, S. H. Talbot, J.
Oddie, J. Jones, W. Wharton, E. Crellin, J. Holden.—
Extra Prizes : George Wm. Henry Evans, E. H. Wood-
ward, W. 11. Boyle, A. Blanc. Head Master's Divinity
Prize, T. Lowe. Distinguished themselves, T. Beckett,
J. Hornby, M. Tyson, W. Bettely, G. Downward, F.
Wainwright, T. Beckett, W. Eastwood, J. Chalmers, H.
H. Hodgson, S. Lazarus, G. Lingham, G. Clapham, J.
Mortimore, T. Cannel, H. N. Williams, W. Robinson, J.
J. Sowerby, S. Wright, C. Newton, W. W. Guiball, W.
Leatherharrow, G. Robinson, W. Hardman, J. Sterry, J.
Terris, T. Drinkwater, J. R. Sutton; M`Neile Scholar-
ship, A. P. Kirby.
EVENING SCHOOL—English, J. Allen ; Mathematics,
W. L. Candling ; Arithmetic, G. Williams and R. Young ;
equal Penmanship, J. D. Thomas.
After the prizes had been distributed, Rector Brooks
remarked that Atkinson had raised himself from the lower
to the middle school, and again to the upper school in a
very short space of time. This was highly commendable
in the youth himself and likely to encourage all those
by whom he was surrounded. He was sorry that their
proceedings should be mingled with any cause of regret,
especially such an one as the loss of their valued Principal.
After paying a deserved eulogium to that esteemed gen-
tleman, he went on to say that he had been commissioned
by the masters of the institution to present their Principal
with his portrait, which was to remain in the institution
during his life, and then to be at his own disposal. He
had also been desired by the pupils to present to the same
gentleman a silver salver, in testimony of the regard in
which they held his zeal and energy during the time he
had been connected with the institution.

The Principal, in a very feeling address, thanked the
donors for these pleasing presents, and concluded by an
affectionate and admonitory appeal to the youths of the
schools, exhorting them to use their education in after
life to the glory of God and the good of their fellow men.
The proceedings terminated with the boys singing the
national anthem.