The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-14 00:00:00

INSTAUATION OF TIM MARQUIS OF

LANSDOWNE'.

(From the Ghlsgow Chronicle of Moniay,)
This afternoon at three o'clock, having been fixed for
the installation of the Noble Marquis as Levi Rector of the
University, a crowd of students anti others vise collected
as early as half past one o'clock. The Martinis sat at the
head of the Professor's scar, arrayed in the Rector's gown,
with Sir I,ln Connel on his left.

Tho Loan Rectors, when the applause with which he
was received had subsided, said he fet the honour which
hid been conferred on him the more deeply, that there
was one point of view in which the choice they had made
was no less honourable to them than to him It was one
of those remarkald! symptoms which murk the glory of
the present age, that the progress of know ledge, to which
no institution had more I tilde contrilinted than this
University, had the effect of bringing men and countries
'ouch nearer to each other. It enlarged the circle of the
,tffectione, and bringing them out of the narrow circle of
their daily neighbourhood, leads them to connect them-
selves more than ever with thins comp tratively remote,
awl between which there was no common tyc but that of
virtue and knowledge. Owing to these changes, of which
they were dady seeing the symptoms, those illustrious
names which were the ornament of the City and of the
University--such as Black, Smith, Hutchinson, Reid, and
Watt—end he could not omit noticing, coining al they
did within the sphere of his early recollections, the newels
of Millar and of Young—(Cheers)—these name, were no
longer the propel ty merely of the city or the country—
they were ronv the property of the world.--(Rapturous
spplau,c.)—They had greet re tson to pride themeelvert on
these recollections, and on the fame which belongs to those
illustrious men the University has produced; but be it
rememhered—for the consideration should never be dis-
missed front their recollectiou—thet these men were not
more eminent fur their ecieece or their efforts in the diffo-
Ilion of knowledge, than for their virtue and exemAiee-
tion of the effects of knowledge in cultivating the affec-
tions of the beart.—(Cheers.)—These principles he be-
lieved would euntinue to be impressed upon puth. Tile
present were tunes in which the connection between the
motel and the intellectual condition could not be doubted.
It wag but a few month* since they had seen its effects in
the glorious exhibition which was then made t* the
world...•(Lourl cheering. )_This was not the place to
speak the effects of political events; but it was im-
possible not to see in the event. of the summer what are
the effects of education and knowledge. Who emid
doubt that in these events, where there inieht have been
scenes of massacre, it was as nisch owing to the high ett.
tivation as to the bravely of the youth of the Ow where
they occurred, that war was atript of its horrors, and lot-
inanity atept in to pet an end to the strife.—(Enthusiatoie
)--The times certainly affaid most cogent argu-
ments in fivour of universal knuwledge, connected as it
ever should be, for then only knowledge is valuable, with
an improvement in the mural condition of men.—(Cheers. )
—He hoped they would permit him before leaving ht.
place, to announce with the concurrence of the Principel
and Professorsahis offer of two prizes fir the highest degrees
of acedemicil attainnwnt, the one in subjects strictly pcirn-
title, and the other strictly literary. Atter again thank-
ing the gentlemen of the University for the honour con-
ferral On him, the Nehle Marquis sat down amid the most
deifening chem. The delicate subject of the union of
hen ning with courageous devotion of liberty, was most
happily touched, and produced an electric explosion.