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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL L

LORD PALMERSTON'S speeches at Glasgow may be
very fairly described as intensely commonplace
and intensely respectable. His address to the stu-
dents of the University was an easy-going compen-
dium of the ordinary and almost outworn common-
places on the subject of education ; while his after-
dinner address at the City-hall was an equally loose
stringing together of the most ordinary after-dinner
common-places on the subject of politics. In dis-
cussing the method and objects of study the noble
lord showed himself as great a master and as
skilful en expounder of the maxims of proverbial
philosophy as Mr. Meanie TUPPER. Amongst
other important slips of copybook wisdom, he
solemnly impressed on the minds of the Glasgow
students the momentous truths that observation in-
creases information, that procrastination is the thief
of time, and that practice in any department of art
or science makes perfect. Kindling with the
subject as he advanced in his tritical essay, the
noble lord caught sight of the maxim " All work
" and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and pro-
ceeded to enlarge on the necessity and advantages
of relaxation and pleasure, as helps rather than
hindrances to the pursuit of knowledge. Leaving
the method, the noble lord went on to discuss
the objects of study, and here his exposition was
equally luminous, original, and profound. With
the true instinct of a respectable, a respected,
and truly conservative statesman, the noble lord
praised the branches of knowledge sanctioned by
tradition and authority, and in general eulogised the
scholastic powers that be. He recommended the
students to study the classics of Greece and
Rome, and to pay proper attention to mathema-
tics pure and applied. But with the modest
assurance of one who felt himself to be an
institution of the country, if not a law
of nature, while thus according his meed of
praise to the works of man, he reserved his choicest
eulogy for the ordinances of Heaven. Unlike
Airttowso X., the wise King of Castile, who is
reported to have said that, "had be been pre-
" sent at the creation, he could have given the
" Cas•roa some useful hints as to the better
" ordering of the universe," Lord Psuiettsrox
evidently holds the solar system to be a veryrespect-
able institution. Excepting the occasional rush
of a revolutionary comet it has worked in a re-
gular and orderly manner for many ages, and is,
therefore, eminently deserving the support of
every sound conservative. He accordingly recom-
mends it to the serious attention of the Glasgow
students, but in doing so he cannot resist the
temptation of enforcing the poetical apothegm
that "an undevout astronomer is mad." The
" crust of the earth," again, as consisting largely
of the precious metals, well deserves every gen•
tleman's attention, and will amply repay a careful
study. It may perhaps be objected by the captions
that there is no great novelty in these statements.
The noble lord's flatterers, however, destroy the
force of this objection at the outset by insisting
on this obvious feature as a special merit. They
eagerly assert the Pametaa's oracular declarations
to be not only absolutely true, but absolute
truisms, and eulogise his wisdom and courage in
venturing to utter them. After all, however, the
substance of the noble lord's addresses is not the
main ground of their admiration and delight. What
fills them with a rapture amounting almost to ex-
tasy is the fad, that at his advanced age, and after
the fatigues of an arduous Parliamentarycampaign,
Lord PALMERSTON should have gone four hundred
miles to utter these common-places. This, of
course, is intelligible enough. The journey to
Glasgow is long and tedious, and after the excit-
ing and prolonged Parliamentary contests of the
last few weeks it is no doubt surprising that the
Head of the Government should be in a condition
to undertake such an amount of distant duty.
We cheerfully accord to the Patty= all the prase
that may be due to the performance of such a
feat.

After all, in talking to students, safe common-
places from the lips of • public man not distin-
guished for scholarship or science are no doubt
far better than questionable novelties or any
attempt at pretentious originality. But in ad-

dressing the merchants of Glasgow at the City-
hall, Lord PALMERSTON spoke not as Rector of the
University but as PRIME Miner= of England,
and it was natural to suppose that he would
abandon for a time the poco cerante tone, and say
something in harmony with the serious responsibi-
lity of his position, as weU as with the deeper
sympathies, anxieties, and hopes of the country.
The two great subjects in which the national
mind is specially interested at the present moment
are Poland and America. But the noble lord said
not one word, good, bad, or indifferent, about
either. Instead of stating in a few quiet, dignified
sentences the sympathies and policy of the Govern-
ment on the questions in which the heart and in-
tellect of the country are really interested, Lord,
Peutrasroir indulged in the usual bunkum about
the British nation and the British Lion, assuring
the world once more that the noble animal will
" brook no insult', and ia ever ready to repel