The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-31 00:00:00

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ta this city, fever, in add* Setwithiessileg adicel skill,
thethethe were be exact, or mealy is we% properties, or I
entheithea,to the Nth, meteheitams, dearthdes, and
asts..- Yews seem woes admitted isle themisms, der
yeas we AO; sad Mme the lands* et seisms
the essitikaa 'LW& te be esdomml. ma es
Idosethate• sbeethlet dist: set idelgesse lease; am
doom% disesieg *lke Milks ad imigemaing to the
Wait and iret eke eds. Fever pages* is west
ed eseementhiles is the lespillia were admitted We Os
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the Then is a duty imposed epos mem—
dety ed
Meibift_ewerip dm Creator, es tat flallUlag
Umi permef = hr dill* he teal
bestowed lido Ind percep-
tion' wpm es. This budisties is silks* eagted fi.r
them objects . emsemt the Mug gumrstioe of
St( Its light and isemeeke ifteresite de
eNd'sl: the
ad-
dreamt I;l7odthergr""shigbest thsint4=balsit vitt he food that
the moo whe ben been mod teed la their spheres en ant
of inhumed. 14assewhismi elowarring 'ardent's. Stored
wl Imewkdge ad leWa stereilly, ambled with religious
=melt moo en the pintaest 'lnputs of the na-
de town er allWitry Is widish they- baking. Science
I ken sheet, mid is the knowledge of nature correctly °b-
eetled mil ernmethelly wronged. In the teaching of
sehmer, Meth* h whit sulk is to the babe, what the whole-
somitmedeste et the meth are to the *meth ; it giros an
the d what we are is the wfordl, and
.bil
seumg7t. 841.1 et ether pessess". who Illustrea ted she world
AIM Al* Smith this inculcated the doe-
Wrdrilis world is so arrayed by due bountiful
Crater, that the Interne of all ado= are itompatible
with wok ether. That it is not should
seek le sewer Me_ of Irelessmu,:a.,= child
eseseivelmsely to emit is nimbi the measkir
ems ed Bolded ; He had glum to Prime am climate
said eme set d itheistememoes, sad* mother ; and
that Mud puommil It, advents's', aid them.
both weed* dam, sad both happier. This me amount. d
qis the dem er Adam Smith. Our legidators and
arm Walt to be downright dreaming, end Utopian
. Pe sus wesisredia the seas belief, and we went
to the toil nen might mom* ite
l own glory. If e
jemmies ed Adam had bees introduced betwixt
sad esas. we aired arm ken fallen into this
penthisse wieldsen guar the mime of which we areat Ms thy. It *sit 70 yews, mosey, and the
Cream et me did mos. Wore we wen marines ,
id the Tessa mos set elinvineei to this day. (Laughter. )
Hew; we ken mina are propels, madly, economically,
sad istelketsdig is ten man, them wet forstathers in
a efiersey. It Us km my knew Ness I tint
posed is Mawr. to have visored many entices of the earth,
gad Wen n istimately acquainted with some of their best
spiels mad hedbg men ; and I am happy to my that the
cemktiss that this world is founded, on the whole, on morel
piselpiet, dOM man has a moral destiny before him, is
wherever I have been ; and thin the desire of
rattger:tie Madan the beet spirits of all the countries
of Europa, id shed the United States of America. I saw
in Pans, fesetilied es one of the triumphal arches, a lone list
of vineries prod by the French arms under. I think, Louis
X.V.. isideikeg the swore and raining of Worm., IL idel-
berg, /pine, ad mimes ether cities. I visited Spires and
Weems this sammert. Wants, with 80,000 inhabitant, be-
PM* the them et Lens XV., had been left with 8,000, and
has set sew 111,000, and the ruins of churches, relif&us
bosiss, threllhge, ha, were seen everywhere around. This
is widths Persian inscription calls " glory." The railway
sow nosed Paris with the Rhine. On the Rhine there
are memilloset stembasts. This year the French are rid
to have berm to travel tor the fiat time in the memory of
man. Tbezeriew mem eat to look at the neighbourhood,
and there have sees what the glory waa they are so
proud of at oar, the ravages of which a century end a
half has not been esdillsient to repair. They are become
ellirmed of "gireyr tad it is to be hoped that the trumpet
Ord will be Med se more in such a lovely land, torn to
pima by earahrollag armies. But these themes are bound-
less end 'mass; red time wares me to conclude by second.
leg the menthe, which I have great gratification in doing
Sir J. Maxwell" Bart., moved the following resolution,
and eat down amidst mush approbation : " That this mint-
age while rejoicing in the brilliant success of the Atheneum
as • new in ..sson, is desirous of recording the seams it
mot always entertain of the benefits conferred upon this
evestry by its older, educational institutions, and in par-
*dr the respect with which it regards one of the meet
wisest mats of learning—the University of Glasgow."
Preheser 01110011 T, of Edinburgh, seconded the men.
bakes.
Oelenel Moan, 11. P., rector of the lJnivenity, mid, it is •
mid now gessrally admitted by intelligent men, that
do isetrine whisk formerly prevailed, as to ant rem-
dilemma we eseteet of interests between the different
them of one Allow-oitizens between, for example,
the Wadies than and the agricultural claws be-
tura the **ping interests and the manufacturing in-
tansecals es sereaeous doetriae, and it is now believed
that the only *es mad sound doctrine is, that what-
ever Is beasilledel es Weide= to any oqe class, whatever may
be:the Whither gorse dpreserit appearances, is ultimately
and sabstantraliy bossidel or injurious to all. (Applause.)
Thi. is • declaim, dish holds at least as good of the
Muth& sad *mom es tithe Utile:id commercial branches
if.. assimaa illiaamy; hem the deeply lamed professor,
sameinied by the Imre of es European mitheity, to the
isithsetse d a meth sobesi—a village sobeekeester—tbere
domed* as sire • edit ef esesestim by sistual interest,
se between the mmulbeisesss dekko pest umpire sad the
industrious artiness.
Sir James Caurema, la Ming to propose • resolution,
said that be had be remested by the committee who had
the damp of the pesseedhigs of the e, to record a
vote et drab in harm if time dietingoisled individuals
whe bed Nulty itestmed them with their presence that
weenie&
J. Letessor, le&, _somsded the resolution. He said,
smart the mew Mond individuals who have taken their
passe es the }harm tedglit, and addressed you, there are
dm numb= et mettlemen high in literary anehigh in ei-
ther kris, V* an present, though their names have not
myeeed laths peememeto. I have only to allude to the
mmestitelson Clamathsme-n name which. I am sure will be
lurid Sawa to fatally es see of the moat philanthropic
individual that ever aims forward on behalf of education,
and to give insinialition to the poorer classes of his country-
men. (Mesa)
R. Csmismee,
_Est, in rids, to return thanks, said I
for my are pert imi • are aped' bastes in this meeting
Wm may ether isotherm cm do, in cessequence of my
sympathies bard ordlanally called forth respecting the in-
*trued= of the **Wir clams. That is a cause which has
bees the whole eldest deny life, and if the future career of
this iseitslies obeli only retire half the good which has
bola oadelpatal by the band of earnest spirits who have
sildromed I am sure it will give me the greatest eatis-
halm d all who take an interest, not merely in
the mike, if Glasgow, but of their common country.
Dr. Nom said • I am afraid I can do no more than return
yes ray shirr thanks for the honour which you have done
me. Ima seem yes it bee gine see much pleasure in
Mirth bin lueight, ad to me oil es emoshime gathered
In die emus a( litoraten rut Mem Ide Wien that
there is se miss is the world that has gnats: ease to re-
join lise ate presperity than this. With a Imam mil be-
meth our het, with skies that do nothing but poor over our
beds, end with stormy seas around us, we have contrived
to fury all the WWl= of the sunny south. To our mess-
shoat sad mason we owe that all the products of most
dieted dims ems be impend to ours, and when manage.-
turd into the limn that, omds exported, and made to un-
dersell the AMU= to lisle elm market. During the last
thirty years, when eineseniesse here enabled men to cul-
tivate the arts of pesos, hew mesa millions have been added
to the population of One • and how many thou
sands of oar Mee ' fres; the waste, and the
plough made to pm ever the bill side and the peat moss of
the valley, until it mishit be sod that the " solitary place
was made to rejoin, ad the desert to blossom like the
roes." But mighty ad empithost is have been these our
triumphs over physical dithothiss and disadvantages, still
more mighty, lad still men *aperient hare been our morel
amiditsemil tsieeephe. It lie to the parochial economy
of Ikatimeii. es bed been shady observed, that she had been
gar segues isithed kr the universality of the elements
el ethostlim to • them sever witnessed in the world. It is
se Mot to tie mend =shank in our workshops, and to
the peasant in en Golds UM they can read, and write, and
=, but a dieresis ad disparagement if they cannot.
it is that nadir dreemstances apparently most hope
5:11 heartened from time to time, and attained a
place in the arts, literature, and science. Poetry
Burns from the plough, Allan Cunningham
from the quarry, and James Hogg from the hill I
.Me, with Its shepherd plaid around his shoulders.
It is unnecessary for me to multiply illustrations.
Lord Campbell waa born in a parish manse i ao was Sir
David Wilkie • sad in every town and village in Scotland
you will find that Mee men have arisen from the humbler
ranks of life. Abed ISO years ago there could have been
pointed out it dearer' of Edinburgh three boys, of whom
one of the these woe the future Lord Jeffrey, the prince of
critics—another, Led Brougham, the mat extraordinary
man who MT filled the seat be sat for—and the third, a
rester than either, the author of " Ithimion" and
. Warerley," • ems who, to um the words of Thomas
Campbell, had mew esspletedy emmeersi Europe by his
pen than over Napalms did by hie sword. I would make
cm go& desendoe ea* the Pali purpose of institutions
Illse Mi. • • Ma limewiediges, KW lied add, was a dan-
gers. tithe; bet it is tidy a Ude Untie me, kr truth will
nee Abe IN* eissely, WO dimly, the more profoundly
sus ials ilesoulgemel ;id the ponies triumph that man
ea whine is ids *dot tithe triumph seer hi. ~,,,,, 4,,,..
reass.--The somiethe was then put drew the chair, and
egged Ist.
Azeurearu AUK*, tio.,Z. the Intl resolution,
whisk was, " the' tlie en** * medal and
most Mon *asks to Cherie" the., lice the honour
he Ms am the Glasgow Atheememe, by meddles at this its
first sound miebration.', The eindlasse isram en Milt.,
ad gen Ogee loud and hearty than, Oar
Ni. DICE said: Ladies ad gestimistin am no
semesse—ned Ise it with the despot itatitulle—to the
month el Ikeda keens, bat the mesa ef mar present
weleme simnel thigh= meet mks,* se emwledging
it.• I wiled &nth yes my Iciegn et Ms ben ; let it
miss * "men yes time kr biking the part with which I
Yam hila humoured is this ihstini I have be.. repaid a
themuddlidi your theidest Witham sod by the en-
Z=;patitreYma Ms silluded me. I hem, that be.
men on pith we mat have mother mesas( in
*kik, when we sholi was at the *moms
your
doseitathe will line meth* the -slime.-slime.slidli= L
ups the sight with Mowers sad smliddlem. I shell, in
essetesieu, repent most he mid knosilip the metiatipn