The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

LORD BROUGHAM. AT EDINBURGH
YESTBRDAY,

-Lord Brolighairi was installed as Chancellor of Edin-
burgh T_Tniversity yesterday. There was 6. crowded
attendance at the Music-hall, many hundreds being
unable to obtain admission.`
Lord Brougham having been formally introduced by
the Solicitor-General to the 'Principal, Sir David
Brewster, he took the chair amidst great cheering.
The hohorary degree of Doctor of Law was then con-
ferred on the following gentlemen:—The Lord-Justice-
General of Scotland; Professor J. Harney, London;
Reeve, Dublin ; Dr. W. Allan Miller, London
and Mr. Wm. Fairbairn, Manchester.
Lord Brougham then delivered his inaugural address.
After a brief and tthiching allusion to the teachers and
fellow students of his earlier days, his lordship referred
to the mutual advantages arising from the number Of

students attracted to this university from all pirts of the
world, and said,—While we.gather hints for our im-
provement freini others, we greatly benefit them, and the
blessed, interests of peace are promoted by the natural
tendency of men's feelings to look back with satisfaction
upon their residence here and to cherish the remembrance
of the lessons taught.: Thiis upon the memory of our
nearest neighbours in Europe there will remain im-
pressed . the great proofs that popular rights can exist
and be 'respected without the tyranny of the populace;
that liberty does not necessarily degenerate into licen-
tiousness, and that abject slavery is not the only
refuge from anarchy. Our kinsfolk of the new
world may in after life recollect having known a
• community in which a church is established without the
existence of a single disqualification attached to
religious belief. A community, in which the most
enlightened and respectable citizens do not abstain
from taking their share in public proceedings ; in
which • the interference of the multitude with the
administration. of justice is a thing u:sheard ot;
nay, regarded as incredible ; and in which the
irresponsible mob tyrant, the moment that one of
his many hands appears, is at once put down by the
ordinary action of the ' law: Above all, our American
friends may reflect with satisfntion upon .having
been educated in a City famous -for being the first to
declare, by its judges, the great law, that slave'sletters
fall from him the moment he touches- British ground.
The natives of Southern Europe, but none such will
be suffered by the despot to resort .hither ; and

they must learn, without our instruction, if expe-
rience has not already taught them, the nature of
a tyrant. - He then . urged the. nec'es'sity for select-
ing branches of study for especial criltivation, so
as to avoid the tendency to • produce mediocrity in
all. Lord Brougham then dwelt at considerable length
upon the claims of • Greek oratory and the ancient
system of analysis, to a fuller study then they obtained
at present. On the selnetivoness of eloquent writing,
.Lord Brougham said historians and political.reasoners
—the instructors of the people--have ill discharged their
duty, partaking largely in the allusions of* the vulgar,
which they were bound to dispel; dazzled by the spec-
tacle of great abilities; still more of their successful exer—
tions, they have hell up to admiration the wont pnenlieS of
mankind. The usurpers who destroyed their-liberties,
the coriperors who shed their blood—men who, in'
• their pursuit of power or lame, made no' account
of the greatest sufferings they • could inflict on
their fellow creatureethe worst cruelty, the vilest
falsehOod—bas not prevented the teachers of the
world from bestowing the Ua.me of Great upon these
scourges. ;Instead of holding up to our admiration the
pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious
,war,
it is. the the historian's chity .to make us ; regard
with uncewinedelight, the ease, worth, and happiness
of blessed. Peace. :He must remember, that Peace bath
her victories, no less renowned than wars, and to celebrate
these triumphs of scienca. and of . art, the extension •
and security of freedom,,the improvement of national
institutions, the diffusion of general prosperity, exhausting
on Such :Pure and wholesome themes all the resources;
of his philosophy, all the graces of his style, giving
honour to whom honour is due, withholding all
incentives to misplaced interest and vicious admi-
ration, and not merely • by -general remarks on
men and events, but by the Trimmer of describing
the one and recording the other,• causing us to entertain

the proper sentimentß whether or respect or interest or
of aversion, or indiffaenee, for the various subjects of
the narrative. • -

[The telegraphic report of the rest of the speech had
not readhed•us when'we Were'ebligei t., go to Ores; this
morning. The whole speech, however, will be found in
this day's Weekly -Times." ' , -