The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-31 00:00:00

LORD PALMERSTON'S VISIT TO

GLASGOW, MONDAY NIGHT.

The ceremony of installing Lord Pemerston as
Lord Rector of the Glasgow University took place this

afternoon. Owing to tie limited

afforded

by the common 1;11 of the college, the installation took
place in the church of St. John, which long before the oere-
moey was erowded with staideo;te, who exhibited uproarious
neereiniest. An attempt, just before the fairy of Lord
Palmerston, to sing " For Ws a jolly good fellow," was oh
solved with sores disapprobation, bet ultimately ocieeded-
Lord Pabhanton arrived at the college about belt-put
12 o'clock, mid was received by Priidphl Beesley, by whom
he was prompted to the various prefemere. The noble
lord was rolhisquastly secorted to AMP 11110e0•411111111•11 of St.
John's, whams We was waited ewe by a deputation from
the LiberaloComervative, and Independent 4/1011e4008 of
the animal', who presented two addresses, one Nankin
his lordship for accepting the oglee of Lord Rector, and the
other expressing sympathy with the Poles in their etroggl•
for freedom.

The noble lord Wey briefly sekeowledged the addimessi
and, aocomminied by the university authorities, preneeded
to the &web. He wee rewired with gnat eatieweimm.
Amami .h in *Mondani:* were i—tbe Duke of Argyll,
Loui BeDawes, tlep Dean of Penalty, Sir W. Gibson Craig,
tbi Bight HA W. Cowper, M.P., the Hoe. A. Kinoaird,
M.P., Lord Dunfermline, Mr. Dalglieh M.P., Mr. Buchanan,
M.P., Mr. Ewing, LP., Au. A prayer having been offered

Lord PaLUMPrOn, in rising to address the students, was
received with loud and repeated cheers. When silence had
been obtained, his lordship proceeded to address the stu-
dente on the subject of their studies ; and the advantages of
self-discipline and self-oontroL He urged them not to
neglect the arta of communicating their thoughts by speech
and writing. The foundation of ell education must be found
in the classical works of Greece and Rome. The necessity
of becoming familiar with the great masters of Eighth
literature; with mental philosophy, history, poetry, me-
chanica, the operations of nature, the various mei/moss, was
touched upon by the noble lord in connexion with the
studies of youth. Let it not be said (continued his lord.
ship) that those studies divert the mind from the practiced
precepts of religion ; on the contrary, I maintain they
tend to strengthen and confirm that faith which is incul-
cated by our revealed religion. (Cheera.) If when, on the
one hand, we contemplate those marvellous arrangements
extending over space indefinite, and comprising worlds in-
numerable with order and arrangement that nothing bet
the most supreme wisdom could have established—when
we contemplate, in the first place, the arrangement for oue
system—when we consider the multitudes of suns and
worlds even beyond the range of the telescopic power of
man, sod are made sensible of the comparative ineignifiesisoe
of everything that belongs to this earth—and if
there Is • man who, in the consciousness of genius.
Ila the enjoyment of wealth, in the pommel= of
station, is inspired by feelings of vanity and pride, when la
reflect. that the world which be treads upon in • 1111111,
spear in creation, and that he himself is an immeasurable
Morn in that spear, these thoughts must tend to lower
that pride, to divest him of that vanity, and to teach him
veneration and humility in his position. (Loud cheers.) But,
gentlemen, when be taros his thoughts to the other maim
when he thinks and considers the infinite variety, the in-
coeceivable ingenuity and wisdom with which everything in
this earth has been adapted to specific purpoee and to the
enjoyment of created beings, when he sees that even those
smallest and more minute animals of oration which are
hardly perceptible, and some not perceptible to the asked
eye—that there is • most admirable adaptation of every
detail for the purpose of the enjoyment of that creature,
so long as its to live—when he reflects on the constitution
of his own frame, sad mows than that, when he masa*
up= all the facilities with which his mind has bean en.
*mod, when be esesidesetla pees= wheels Umbers Pees-
to man to extend his ken for away from the globe which
he inhabits, and to acquire • certain amount of
knowledge of things so distant, that even it is said
millions of years are required to bring to us the light which
flows from their centre,—he must be persuaded that those
arrangements were not intended in vain. He must be
convinced that those powers which have been gives to his
mind, those moral and intellectual powers with which he has
been endowed, have not been given simply for the purpose
of • day, and that the day is the life of MAO. He must be
convinced that they are designed to fit him for some better
sod future state, and, therefore, I state that these great,
exalted and sublime contemplations are calculated to
strengthen and encourage that faith of which it is said
that " parting for a happier state, it deems death het
nature's signal for retreat." But lam treading on ground
which does not belong to me; there are others who are same
capable and more entitled to address you on a =Wealth*
this. I stand here to site you, humbly, such advice as I
may be able to offer you with regard to your career
in this life and this world. I shall only, in condo.
soon, add, that I fervently hops that your career may
be etiocessful, and that you may prove yourselves
to be an honour to yourselves and advantage to that country
in which it has pleased Providence you should be bora and
live. (Loud cheers.) I beg again, gentlemen, to rehire
you my most sincere thanks for the honour you have does
me and the kind reception I hart met with from you.
(Loud cheers.) After a moment'. consultation with heel-
deot Barclay his lordship cootinued—Gentlemen, I have
one word more. There is in Ids • fabulous deity called
Sri, who is the goddess, peculiarly the patroness, of learn.
leg, and on the day of her festival books and pens are laid
aside, and no study or learning whatever occupies the atten-
tion of the minds of students. (Cheery.) Well, I have
been endeavouring to incite you to laborious and persevering
study, and therefore, in imitation of these Indian votaries—
(laughter)—l have endeavoured, and I believe successfully,
to obtain for you • holiday. (Tremendous cheering, amidst
which the noble rector resumed his seat)