The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

In order t 4 gratify the anxiety of our readers with respect
to the educational arrangements of this noble institution, we
reprint, from the Courier of Wednesday, the following im-
portant and interesting particulars. We have already noticed
at considerable length the architectural beauties of the build-
ing, and therefore only give the course of instruction which
will be adopted in the different schools.
The course of study for the upper school will comprise
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, English composition and his-
tory, geography, natural philosophy, chymistry, and writing.
The terms will be found in the advertisemeit. French,'
drawing, and vocal music, will be extras, at 10s. 6d. per
quarter each. German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and the
modern languages generally, will be taught on proportionate
low terms. There will be two distinct descriptions of educa-
tion given in this school; the one purely academical, prepa-
ratory to the university, and the other of a general character,
with a view to commercial, manufacturing, and engineering,
pursuits. A number of students intended for the universities
will join this school, and when Mr. Gladstone, with his
usual munificence, has carried out his intention of founding
a university scholarship is connection with it, the number
will be further increased.

The course of study for the middle school will comprise
Latin, English composition and history, geography, mathe-
matics, (including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the
principles of mensuration,) bookkeeping, French, writing,
drawing, singing, chymistry, and natural philosophy. We
again refer to the advertisement for the terms, merely ad-
ding, that there will be no extras for
,any of the above
branches. It is expected that this school will prove emi-
nently calculated for the middle classes of the community ;
a generous patron of the institution will give a free nomination
for two years to the boy who may make the greatest progress
in it during the past year. This will be a prize equal to £23,
and consequently worth struggling for.
The course of study for the lower school will comprise
Latin, English grammar, composition and history, geogra-
phy, arithmetic, writing, drawing, singing, and French, all
of which will be taught according to the terms stated in the
advertisement, without any extras.
The professors and masters will receive boarders into their
houses, and no pupil will be received who does not reside
with a near relation or a master.

Evening schools will also be provided, at which instruction
will be given in the following subjects :—Mathematics, (in-
cluding arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, espec ally their
practical application,) nautical astronomy and navigation,
(for the practical teaching of which an experienced master
from the Royal Nautical Schools at Greenwich has been en-
gaged,) naval architecture, mechanical drawing, chymistry,
natural philosophy, the modern languages, and vocal music.
These schools are considered one of the most interesting fea-
tures of the institution, and the directors are determined
to spare no expense or exertion in rendering them practically
useful ; and from the well known abilities of the masters
already engaged, we feel confident their intentions will be
crowned with success. The terms are not yet fixed, but the
mechanic will have no cause to complain respecting them.
There will be evening lectures in the lecture-hall, on the
Tuesday and Friday evenings in each week, and, from the
amount of talent which will be within the reach of the direc-
tors, we expect that this department will be exceedingly at-
tractive and useful. The musical performances of the pupils
alone, supported by the organ to be placed in the music gal-
lery, will, of themselves, furnish many an evening's rational
enjoyment.
For the accommodation of pupils residing at some distance
from the institution, dinners will daily be provided within
the institution at moderate fixed charges.
The systems of tuition have been cautiously arranged by
the Principal from the best models now existing in the
country, which he has recently inspected for this purpose,
and will, it is expected, he found well adapted for the differ-
ent objects which they have in view. Periodical reports will
be sent to the parents. Annual examinations of the schools
by university examiners from Oxford and Cambridge will be
given, the results of which will be published, and the prizes
will be distributed, in the lecture-hall, in the presence of the
pupils and their friends, by the Lord Bishop of Chester, who
has kindly consented to undertake this pleasing duty. Allu-
sion has been made to the nature of one class of prizes in a
previous paragraph, and, there is reason to hope that a num-
ber of valuable prizes will be offered for competition in all
the schools.
We now come to a very important branch of education,
namely, the course of religious training, with an especial
view to which, as in the case of King's College, London, this
institution was founded. All the day scholars will assemble
in their several places in the Lecture-hall, at the commence-
ment of the morning business, attired in the collegiate gowns
to be worn in the schools, and the form of prayer now em-
ployed at King's College, London, under the sanction of the
Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, will
be read by the Principal, all the other masters being present.
Besides the lectures to be given by the Principal upon the
doctrines and institutions of Christianity, religious instruction
will he daily given to the different classes by the masters in
the English department, and also by the head masters of the
different schools, to the classes more immediately under their
superintendence. In this manner, the religious training of
the student will, with the Almighty blessing, be rendered
fully equal to the high secular education which cannot fail to
be imparted under such judicious arrangements.
The institution will commence operations on the 23rd of
January, but a formal opening, to be attended by its dis-
tinguished friends, will probably take place previously.

THE LIVERPOOL ANTI-CORN-LAW GATHERING.

(From the Times.)
The confessions of those enlightened benefactors to their
own pockets, who subscribe £lOO now, that they may here-
after realize £l,OOO, at the expense, as it of course must in-
evitably be, of the rest of the community, and who coolly
denominate themselves the while an Anti-Monopolist
League, continue to increase in intensity and delicacy. A
gentleman who seconded a motion at the " Great League
Fund Meeting" at Liverpool, " mentioned, with all humility
and without any desire to be considered egotistical, that he
had gladly given his £lOO for the next year to accomplish
the objects of the League. He had hopes that he was pro-
moting his own individual good to no small extent by ex-
tending free trade principles. He was not ashamed to avow
his belief, that his £lOO subscription would bring him back
a hundred times £lOO if the objects of the League should
happen to be attended with success."
How beautiful is the modesty with which this humble se-
conder shrinks from the ostentatious mention of his own
charity He feels perfectly miserable at thus being obliged
to trumpet his own praises, and to proclaim to the world
that he has subscribed £lOO for so disinterested and magna-
nimous a purpose as that contemplated and avowed by the
League. But he shortly reflects that there is, after all, no
such great necessity for being ashamed of his subscription ;
his money is no gift, but only a speculation ; it will bring in
no small profit to himself; so he takes courage, and explains
how this is to be :
" Some persons might say that this was a particular
crotchet (!)of his own, and that his anticipations were of
too sanguine a nature ; but they should recollect that (ay,
here's the rob) he was a large railway proprietor, and that,
if the principles of free trade were extended, and the diffe-
rential duties taken off colonial produce, and corn admitted
freely into this country, a double quantity of sugar would be
imported, a double quantity of coffee. would be consumed
and a double quantity of corn would be sent from one ex-
tremity of the country to the other. The fact of this sugar,
coffee, and corn being transmitted by means of the several
railways of the country. could not fail to increase the gross
revenue and profit arising from those railways to an extent
which he could not attempt to predict ; but if it should raise
one-half per cent. net profit on the railways, that half per
cent. would give 10 per cent. additional value on the capital
embarked in them, and that 10 per cent. would give him 100
times £lOO. Upon this view of the subject, therefore, he
trusted the meeting would contribute largely, because the
SPECULATION was the most certain in which they could be
engaged."
Here, then, we have it,—there is no mincing matters here
—the thing is a " speculation," and " no mistake" about it.
All is clear and " level to the meanest capacity." The
" class" benefit which is proposed to be realised is calculated
with most mathematical exactness. No monopoly in corn!
no monopoly in sugar! no monopoly in coffee! and why ?
Is it because monopolies are absolutely unjust and impolitic?
By no means. It is because a different monopoly is wanted
for a different class of persons. It is to be done simply that
there may be a rise in railroad shares, and that the share-
holders may enjoy their monopoly accordingly, and realize
just 10 per cent. on their capital. Other property may be
depreciated—other classes may suffer—but they have no
right to enjoy a monopoly, so-let them bear the loss; yet, if
that exclusive advantage formerly enjoyed by these iniquitous
class-men is transferred to property invested in railroads—
and if the privileged class of railroad shareholders gain
thereby a means of turning their already existing monopoly
to the greatest possible advantage—this, so far from being
objectionable as class legislation, is the best of all reasons
why the proposed change should be made. Down, then,
with the £lOO for the Leagde, and rush straight thence to
the offices of the railway companies, and invest your capital
accordingly. This is no foolish romance; there is no hum-
bug here about the cause of humanity and injustice, and so
forth ; we bring you no Dissenting minister to tell of the
" anti-religious" influence of the corn laws and tariff among
the middle classes; no, we propose a tangible speculation, a
certain gain; we seek, by depreciating the present artificial
and unnatural value of certain descriptions of property, to
raise, by equally artificial means, the value of other descrip-
tions of property ; and we recommend all parties concerned
to invest in this last-mentioned privileged class of property
forthwith. " Favour the land," says the landlord. " How
unjust," says the public carrier, " to benefit one class at the
expense of another ; but doubtless railroads and house traffic
ought to he encouraged! This would be the best result, of
the abolition of all monopolies—excepting this only one."
" After all, gentlemen," said the leather seller to the com-
mittee who were deliberating how and with what to fortify
their town, after all, there is nothing like leather."

COR RESPONDENCI,S.

ACCOMMODATIVN IN CHURCHES.

TO THE: EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL S'EL):DARD.
SIR,—I observe that in your Tuesday's number you com-
mented upon my letter in the Mail.
As those remarks appear to have been penned under the
advice or instruction of the verger of Christ's Church, I am
willing to believe that he did not intend to act impertinently,
though, certainly, my ideas of civility differ, in some degree,
from those which he would seem to entertain.
I may intimate that my remonstrance was not designed to
apply to the minister, but to the system by which a person
devoted to the reformed religion is debarred from receiving
spiritual comfort in one of the churches of our land, without
being prepared to pay for it, and which assimilates so nearly
to the practice of the conventicle.
When I wrote I was not aware the Church was a proprie-
tary one, and that the seats in the upper gallery were free.
You will do me the justice, I am sure, to insert this expla-
nation. Yours, respectfully,
E. M.
[This explanation requires further elucidation. How the
treatment which " E. M." has met with can be said " to
debar her from receiving spiritual comfort in one of the
churches of our land," is beyond our comprehension.]

Loss OF THE HENRY DAVIDSON.—Extract of a letter
inserted in the Bombay Times from the captain, dated Singa-
pore, Sept. 6 :—" Sir,—l take the liberty of forwarding you
an account of the loss of the Henry Davidson, of London,
600 tons burden, with cotton, from Bombay to China. After
leaving Singapore-roads we proceeded, with light winds, to
the eastward. On the night of September 2, Battam Point
was made, the weather very hazy, Pedra Branca supposed
to be about 20 miles distant. At 2 a.m. a loud rippling noise
was heard at N.E. close to. The anchor was cleared, the
lead hove, and the ship's head turned S.W. It suddenly
became calm, and in an instant the ship drove on a shelf
of rocks under water. Ten minutes after there was thirteen
feet of water in the hold. In half an hour the water was
washing over the guns on the upper deck. Another anchor
was let go, in the hope of keeping her on the reef. At 4 a.m.,
the sea washing over the gangways, we took to the boats, and
made for the James, anchored near us, with another vessel,
hound through the Straits of Rhio, all of which had drifted
20 miles out of their supposed position, and thus proving our
misfortune to have been caused by an unusual current. At
daylight we returned to the wreek, and were saving some
sails and materials, when she swung off the reef, and, giving
a heavy plunge, went down head-foremost, and carried with
her a large cutter filled with sails, and two seamen belonging
to London."