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latter keeps stubbornly to its position, whether
OT not, whilst the former is an unarrestable moyemitat
wards the fountain of truth—caring little for cherishetk,
authorities or sentiments, but continually progressing—
fesling no false shame at her shortcomings, but, on the
contrary, the highest pleasure when freed from an error,
at having advanced another step towards the attainment
of Divine truth, a pleasure not even intelligible to the
pride of ignorance. We also hear, net unfrequently,
science and practice, scientific knowledge and common
sense, contrasted as antagonistic. A. strange error
For science is eminently practical, and must be so, as
she- sees and knows what she is doing ; whilst mere
common practica is condemned to work in the dark, ap-
plying natural ingenuity to unknown powers to obtaia
a known result. Far be it for me to undervalue the crew•
tive power of genius, or to 'treat shrewd common sense
as worthless without knowledge. But nobody will tell
me that the same genius would not take an incompara-
bly higher flight if supplied with all the means that
knowledge can impart, or that common sense does not
become, in fact, only truly powerful when in possession
of the materials upon which judgment is to be exercised.
The study of the laws by which the Almighty governs
the universe is therefore our bounden duty. Of these
laws our great academies and seats of education have,
rather arbitrarily, selected only two spheres or groups
(as I may call them) as essential parts of our national edu-
, cation—the laws which regulate quantities and propor-
tions, which form the subject of mathematics, und the
laws regulating the expression of our thought through the
medium of language, that is to say grammar, which
their
rse studylaws
trains
its purest expression in the classical languages.
are
not the only ones ; there are others which we cannot
disregard—which we cannot do without. There are, for
instance, the laws governing the human mind and its re-
lation so
as t n
d importantelevates
the branches
ied of
Bkanto
twhleeyd knowledge
e;
lation to the Divine Spirit—the subject of logic and
metaphysics. There are those which govern our bodily
nature and its connexion with the soul—the subject of
physiology and psychology. More which govern human
society and the relations between man and man, the
subjects of politics, jurisprudence, and political economy,
and many others. While of the laws just mentioned
some have been recognised as the essentials of education
in different institutions, and some will, by the course of
time, more fully assert their rights to recognition, the
laws regulating mat'er and form are those which will
constitute the chief object of your pursuits ; and as the
principle of sub-division of labour is the one most cons
genial to our age, I would advise you to keep to this
s esiality, and to follow with undivided attention chiefly
the soienceaof mechanics, physics, and chemistry, and the
fine arts, in painting, acuiptuie, and architecture. You
will thus have conferred an inestimable boon upon your
country, and in a short time have the satisfaction of
witnessingthe beneficial results upon our national power
of production. Other parts of the country will, I doubt
not, emulate your example, and I live in hopes that all
these institutions will someday fiad a central point of
union, and thus complete their national organisation.
Thanking you once more for having allowed me to assist
at the foundation of your institution, I wish it growth,
vigour, and prosperity with all my heart. (His Royal
Highness resumed his seat amidst enthusiastic cheering.)
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY proposed the next 'toast,
(` The Health of the Emperor of the French and our
brave Allies," which was received with loud and pro-
tracted cheering. His lordship eu:ogised the gallantry
with which the French had shared the perils of hardly.
contested battlefields with our own troops, and observed
that the Sardinians were a people on whose present con-
dition and prospects we must always look with the deep-
est interest, as they had shown that they knew how to
rally round the standard of freedom, which they know
how to enjoy rationally. As to the Turks, they bad
shown that they deserved to be fought for, and that they
possessed some of the greatest qualities of a great nation.
But it was the frank and loyal conduct of the Emperor
of the French which had especially gained the confidence
and admiration of the people of this country during the
present struggle. We all felt that the Emperor was a
firm friend and ally on whom we could rely in every
emergency. _ _ _

[PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5D-

tibus, quorum nonnulli in bac Scbola educati, vitas
suss saluti patriat poethabuerint, non inopportune datur
nohis occasio gratularidi tibi, Serenissime Priuceps, pros-
sertim qnum tute ipse iterum nostrum inborn aditnrus sic •
quare placeat tibi non modo vultu tuo nos lwtificare, seci
jubere Festos Dies et nos celebrari, et illud recordsri
nos jure oportere urbis lastities oommuniis participes ease
in nestra enim cede doctrinEe magna pars civium nostro-
rum rectos mores, literarum humaniorum scientism, om-
nesque eas qme virum liberalem deceant, quarum etiam to
maxima, Princeps, semper ornatissimus exstiteris patro-
nus, edidicere.

The signatures of the boys follow.
The ceremonial over, the procession proceeded on to
the site of the new building by the side of the Town Hall.
(Here a couple of immense platforms-had been' erected ;
these were occupied by the members of the Town Coun-
cil and many hundreds of ladies and gentlemen, who
gave the Prince a hearty welcome on his arrival at the
site. Here the arrangements made were very good, the
place was handsomely decorated, and his Royal High-
ness immediately proceeded_with, the especial business
of the day. Before proceeding to lay the stone, Lord
Calthorpe advanced and read- to the Prince an address
from the Council of the Institute.

His UOYAL HIGHNESS replied as follows :—My lords
and gentlemen,—l thank you very sincerely for your
address. It is with more than ordinary pleasure that I
have accepted your kind invitation to take part in the
ceremony which is this day to mark the first step to-
wards the establishment of an institution, from which I
join with its warmest supporters in looking for the most
advantageous results. I cannot, indeed, doubt fur a
moment that the expectations of those who believe.that
the "value and dignity of human labour will receive a
manifold increase, when guided by the light of scientific
knowledge," will be amply realised. And it is most grati-
fying to me to hear the expression of your opinion that
the desire for the "keener and more comprehensive
study of the principles by which the exercise
of man's productive powers is controlled," from which
you anticipate such advantage, has been stimulated by
the Great Exhibition of 1851, to toy connexion with
which you have been pleased to allude in such flattering
terms. I cannot forget that the example of such indus-
trial exhibitions had been already set by this town, and
with the best results ; or that, to the experience so ac-
quired the executive committee of the greater under-
taking of 1851 were much indebted in carrying that w. Tit
to a successful issue. As Birmingham was thus foremost
in giving a practical stimulus to the works of art and in-
dustry, so she is now one of the first to encourage a
scientific study of the principles on which those works
depend for success. I trust with you, and confidently
believe, that the "moral as well as the material welfare
of this great community" will be advanced by the union,
for t,cientific objects, of men of all classes, and of all
opinions, in such institutions as that of which I am to-
day to base the honour of laying the first store. And
most heartily do I join with you in congratulating
the country, that not even such a war as that in
which we are now engaged, calculated as it is to enlist
our warmest sympathies, and to engage our more imme-
diate interest, can divert Englishmen from the noble
work of fostering the arts of peace, and endeavouring to
give a wider scope to the blessings of freedom and civi-
lisation.
'The Hon. and Rev. GRANTHAJI Yon then offered
up a suitable prayer, and under the auspices of Messrs.
Branson and Gayther, the eminent builders and railway
contractors, the Prince proceeded to lay the stone in the
usual form.

Th-e Noble PRESIDENT said he found some difficulty in
doing justice to the next toast. Whether he. looked to
the patient endurance by our soldiers of privations and of
disease—whether he looked to their indomitable conrAge
in the face of the enemy—be confessed his admiration
was much excited. It might have been thought that,
after 40 years of peace, our soldiers had degenerated ;
but no such thing happened ; and the same zeal, and the
same daring, and the same devotedness to their country,
bad characterised both the army and navy in a degree
which must be gratifying to the penile of this country.
His lordship concluded by giving "The Army and
Navy." coupling with the former the name of General,
Sir Harry Smith, and with the latter the name of Sir
Robert Peel.
Sir H. SKIM was received with cordial cheering. He
sail that, after the manner in which the toast had been
received, nothing was left for a veteran like him to say
than that the juvenile soldiers of our army had covered
our army and themselves with laurels in the present war.
The British army had not degenerated, and so long as
the present alliance was preserved we should be victo•
rious under all circumstances.

Sir R. PEEL, as one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
returned thanks for the navy in the following terms :--
"In compliance with the request which has beg* made
to me, I rise to acknowledge the toast. I wish the duty
had been placed in worthier hands, but as it is my..prida
to fill any position, however subordinate, in any branch
of her Majesty's service, I feel it a privilege to acknow-
ledge the toast on behalf of the navy. The Royal navy
of this country needs no encomium from me. (Cheers.)
The reputation of England is our glory, and an holiest
rivalry of fame animates both our army and our navy ;
but, whatever may be the peculiar exoellensies or dis-
tinctions of the two services, it is upon the united dis-
cipline and character of both services that the reputation
and the strength of old England are based. (Cheers.)
The achievements of the 'navy are recorded in the annals
of our country, and whatever services it may have occa-
sion to perform, we may rest well satisfied that the same
loyalty, the same readiness, and the same courage which
have hitherto maintained unsullied the reputation of our
arms will still be conspicuous. We well know that from
the highest officer who holds command in the navy down
to the humblest sea-boy before the mast, all are ani-
mated by but one feeling, and that, as they walk the •
decks of their vessels—those decks which have been the
field of our national fame —they are not unmindful of
the reputation of the past, and they are prepared to up-
hold the power and the fame of our country. (Cheers.
I may be permitted b I
,before I sit down to say—and
think I am giving utterance to the sentiments of this
vast assemblage—thatldo not believe either those proud
leviathan vessels that sweep the seas, or the number of
those brave battalions for whom the gallant general near
me has tendered his acknowledgments, constitutes the
true and real security of this country ; but I think the
best guarantee for its power and security is to be found
in that unanimous feeling which animates every class of
her Majesty's subjects—(cheers)—a feeling which has
been so remarkably conspicuous on this most important
occasion. I must say it is a matter of pride to reflect
that, in spite of all the pre-occupations of the present
period—in spite of all those necessary privations and
self-denials which the circumstanoee of the moment en-
tail—we should, under the noble auspices of the Consort
of our Sovereign, inaugurate a work of peace and moral
advancement. I think it is a proud day for this, the pro•
vincial capital of one of the most busy districts of Eng-
land, when so many hundreds of persons assemble to in-
augurate and promote a work which will effect great social
improvement. It is with great pleasure that I see here
to-day the Consort of our beloved Sovereign, and I trust
the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood wi put
forth their energies in order that the future success Pt
the institute may be commensurate with the dignity of
this occasion, for by so doing I conceive they willl best
by the presence of his Royal Highnesiss.Boluy:rellighness
At this stage of the proceedings his of his suite.
evince their sense of the honour conferred.u..ron_t_.,e to
retired, followed by the principal,,11 emHealth of the Clergy
The CHAIRMAN then gave
theers Bishop of Manchester, the
ledged, the former by
f Alderley.
later by Lord Stanley o
gave the toast of the evening, " Sue-
Lord ASHBIIIMON
eimand Midland Institute," an-I in
cess to the Binning
and her Majesty's Minist
would have been easy to select one
doing so said—lt .
justice, but it could have
capable of doing it been
more
individual more anxious for the welfare
and toil to no
intrus
ant of those for whose immediate benefit
and improvem
institute wasdesigned. Re was deeply impressed
the
not only with the importance plat absolute necessity of
,_"which was briefiyacknow.
the movement which they had
assembled to inaugurate.
The principle of the institution was to give to all classes,
whether masters or workmen, the processes and power°
of nature, with which in the pursuit of their daily avo-
cations they had to deal. Its object was
to train the eye
to interpret nature's
aspect—to train the ear to under-
stand its voice. Such was the system and such the ad-
vantages of the institution. It was true that the hearts
and souls of England were absorbed in the Russian war.
They felt, and felt rightly, that the character and honour
of England were at stake, and no sacrifice could be spared.
But then there was another war which was being waged
—not in some confined spots of our enemy's territory,
3,000 miles away,
but a war at home, involving the
bread of their children and the destinies of their coun-
try. With free trade they bad cast down the gaunt-
let to all nations, and had to fight for superiority!:
their own markets and in those of their. a?i,
nies, They had slumbered too long, and the tortoise
to t overtakenwit with them i'llidleeimea ;
but were they, nobles, maufacturers, ferment,
e caps.
ignorance
in thet
their suffering
ffTdo
rhiilei
gy
aTwrthemreti;bpjamts i t
iwoo:koraf
workmen,
:
and others, a -whit less ignorant in t_Dew
cities. It was not to the Government
look for remedy, but to then3seltv.es
followed public opinion, not
led
at the time of Ezra, who
Ministers was that of the Jews
inone hand and the sword in
built walla with the trowel
eThe GothireeyrnMinetinstt
such matters. But most
their undivided attention
this momentthey
aoswaerv.
asllsinegheatidmwuolurke worked
had near the Throne,
wielding hrone
fortunately at .
the Crown, a prince who was
was
wielding the authority of
_.
sphere of party conflicts, and who had larger
above the
public men,
than their
the other.
squabblesMinistera
viewsabsorbed, as they Were, in
};,Bryeatth.taxtetrhtieonsatrne(n):t,hEonfictlhaencod
would
yd
the party . „ He had promoted
orferthtootoodanly.tich occupied tr, give
of 1851,ninsotp
industry, but to show how We stood in the great comps-
had been awakened, and they no longer remained with
folded arms looking on calmly at the great struggle. If
be a wilderness again,
relaxedtthiteiy°l2o of
the
wi
n° trhile.ir
peopled with worse than wolves
—peopled with starving outlaws. (Loud cheers.)
Lord LYTTELTONthe Pre'
proposed "The health of ,_,l
sident of the R,.) al Society," which was briefly reseoeuv—
to by Lord WRoTTESLItY.
f " Literature
Sir R. MURCHISON replied to the toast o
and Art."
out
tentchee by
Exhibition every
The proceedings, which had been througlicut of a most
gratifying nature, terminated soon after six.