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

THE SITN, LONDON, TUE:.,DAY EVENING. MARCH 31, 1803

THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

INSTALLATION OF LORD PALMERSTON
AS LORD RECTOR
GLASGOW, Mondrty Evening.

This afternoon the Right Hon. Viscount Palmer-
ston, who on the 15th of Nov. last was chosen by a majo-
rity of the students of our ancient University to the office
of Lord Rector in succession to the Earl of Elgin, and in
opposition to the Lord Justice Clerk—the candidate fa-
voured by the Conservative students—was for mally installed
in office. An extraordinary degree of popular interest was
manifested in connection with the event. So strong and
wide .spread was the wish to hear the noble lord's inaugural
address that it was deemed wise, in consideration of the
limited accommodation in the Common Hall of the College,
to transfer the scene of its delivery to the large Church of
St. John's, in the immediate vicinage—access to the church
being obtained through the College grounds. One o'cicck
was the time appointed for the installation ceremony, but
for a full hour previously the body of the church was
crammed with students, who indulged themselves to the
top of their bent—all regard to the sacred character of the
edifice being put aside—in the uproarious merriment cus-
tomary in the gatherings of juvenile academics. Amid a
fierce wrangling and contention for places all manner of
nnis!....m wan, rais,.:ll. Popular names, when shouted out, were
greeted with thundering cheers—unpopular names met
with a vehement hissing ; and latterly a stiff contest was
maintained between one party who wished to sing the Na-
tional Anthem and another who wished to hiss down any
such performance. By dint of repeated and energetic trials
the former managed to get through the words-a perform-
ance which elicited loud and resounding cheers. "Scots
wha hae," " Auld Lang Syne," and " For he's a jolly good
fellow," were subsequently given in the same fashion, and
with scarcely any interruption from the vestry.
His lot dship arrived about half-past 12 o'clock at the Col-
lege, where he was received by the Very Rev. Principal
Barclay, who presented to him the various Professors, and
thereafter Dr. J. B. Russell, president, and Mr. Geo. Pa•.
terson, vice-president of the Liberal Association of the
University. The noble lord, then, accompanied by the Prin-
cipal, proceeded in a carriage to St. John's Church, while
the Senatus Academicus and visitors walked through the
College grounds to a private entrance which had been made
in the wall dividing the Church from the College gardens.
The procession having arrived in the Session House of r,t.
Johu's, and about the same time as his lordship and the
Principal, Lord Palmerston was waited upon by a deputa-
tion Qf the Liberal, Conservative, and Independent Asso-
ciations of the University, for the purpose of presenting
him-with an address in name of the matriculated students
of the University. The deputation consisted of Dr. J. B.
Russell, president; Mr. George Paterson, vice-president;
Mr. P. MO/ Bell, and Mr. George Faulds, secretaries of
the Liberal Association; Mr. Gavin Lang, president; Mr.
Alex. Cameron, vice-president; Mr. George Ferguson,
secretary; Mr. Chas. M. Grant, treasurer of the Conser-
vative Club; and Dr. George Mather, president of the In-
dependent Union.

Dr. RUSSELL then said—My Lord,—ln the present de-
putation there are representatives of the three political
societies into which the students attending this University
are divided. I have the honour of leading it, as the student
of oldest standing amongst them. I may inform your bold •
ship that the greatest cordiality and unanimity prevailed in
the proceedings preliminary to preparing the address,
which, by your permission, I shall now read :
We, matriculated students of the University of Glasgow,
of all shades of political opinion, beg most respectfully and
cordially to thank your lordship for your great kindness in
allowing your name to be added to the list of illustrious
occupants of the chair of Lord Rector of this ancient
University.
We thank you for the honour 3 ou do us in coming so far
amid the press of more important affairs to address us, our
only regret being that the want of adequate accommodation
should compel us to meet our Lord Rector elsewhere than
within the walls of our University.

We beg to assure your lordship that we shall always
look back with pride and emotion upon the day that brought
us into personal contact with a First Minister of the Crown,
whose name is inseparably connected with so many events
that have become historical.
Lord PALMERSTON said—l feel deeply the honour you
have conferred on me, and this feeling I shall more fully
express presently.
The deputation then withdrew.
A second deputation was introduced to present the fol-
lowing address in relation to Poland.
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The Rev. ANDREW LoCRHEAD then read the address as
follows :

To the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, K.G.
The petition of the undersigned students of the Glasgow
University humbly showeth that their sympathies are deeply
wounded and their tenderest susceptibilities touched, by the
accounts received through the press of the cruelties and
butcheries perpetrated in the name of law by the Russian
authorities on unhappy Poland. May it therefore please
your lordship to raise your voice, as First Minister of State
in this land (the cradle of freedom), and demand the pro-
tection of existing treaties for Poland.
And your petitioners will every pray.

His LORDSHIP very briefly acknowledged the address;
and immediately afterwards, preceded by the officer carrying
the mace, and accompanied by the university authorities,
proceeded to the church. His appearance was the signal
for a loud and protracted outburst of applause. He was ac-
companied to the platform, which was erected in front of
the pulpit, by the Right Hon. the Lord Advocate, Dean of
the Faculty, the Lord Provost, the Duke of Argyle, Lord
Belhaven, Sir W. Gibson. Craig, Hon. Mr. Cowper, Sir E.
Colebrooke, Mr. Stirling of Keir, A. Hastie, Esq., Hon. A.
Kinnaird, Lord Dunfermline, Hon. E. Ashley, Mr. Ban-
natyne, Mr. T. Buchanan, R. Dalglish, Esq., M.P., H. C.
Ewing, Esq., M.P., Wm. Erung, Esq., Walter Buchanan,
Esq., M.P., Mr. Higgins, Dr. Blackre, as also by the Prin-
cipal, Dr. Caird, Dr. Hill (late Professor of Divinity), Dr.
Fleming, Prof. Buchanan, Dr. Buchanan, Dr. Rainy, Dr.
Pagan, Dr Walker Arnott, Professor W. Thomson, Dr.
Allen Thomson, Professor Blackburn, Professor Weir, Pro-
fessor Anderson, Professor Jackson, Professor Easton,
Professor Lister, Professor Rankine, Professor Rogers,
Professor Nichol, Professor Grant, Professor Kirkwood,
Dr. Gairdner, and the committee of students who were
delegated to present the addresses.
When silence had been restored, Principal Barclay stood
forward and commenced the proceedings by offering up the
subjoined Latin prayer : _ _

Deus Omnipotent; I terra) coelique supreme Dominator!
ad solium tuum, summo lumina circunkfusurp, venerabundi
appropinquare volumus. Gratias tibi persolvimus pro mira
tua erga nos benignitate. Pralcipue autem anima) nostrce
ad tuas laudes concelebrandas stimulantur quod Jesum
Christum filium tuum miseris, qui mundum tenebris obru-
turn illustraret, nosque a morte redimeret. Sit, precamur
ut luce haud indigni vivamus. Tu, Pater in coelis 1 Aca-
demia) nostrao insigniter faveas. Oramus ut hisce comitiis
beaignus adsis, et ut amnia nostra facta ad tuam gloriam
spectent per Jesum Christum. Amen.
Immediately after the Prayer, the Principal thus an-
nounced to the students that the Lord Rector was about to
address them :

Studiosi I Dominus Rector orationem habiturus est. De et
vos summa observantia auscultare.
Lord PALIIERSTON, on rising to address the students,
was received with loud and repeated cheers. When silence
had been obtained, his lordship said—Gentlemen, I beg, in
the first iastauce to return you my most sincere and heartfelt
thanks for the great honour you have done me by placing me
in the position in which I now stand before you to-day.
It must be a matter of pride to any man to have his name
associated with those of the great and distinguished men,
eminent in all the departments of intellect, who have in for-
mer times held the office in which by your favour I have
now been placed. I had no right to expect that honour at
your hands. It came upon me unsolicited, and therefore I
was the more gratified at receiving it. I have no academi-
cal connection with you. That portion of my instruction
which was imbibed in your land of Scotland was given to
me in your Sister University of Edinburgh, and I must al-
ways feel grateful for that which I there acquired. The only
motive which you could have for electing me to the high
office to which you have raised me must have been your be-
lief that in my public conduct I have endeavoured faithfully
to perform my duty, and that belief on my part must afford
me the highest gratification personally, while, on the other
hand, it is satisfactory to think that the example which you
have set of thus rewarding those whom you believe to have
so acted, must be an encouragement to all others who are
engaged in public life, and what is perhaps still more im-
portant, it is an earnest that you—all of you who are des-
tined to fill different offices and different functions in this
country, will he actuated in your own conduct by that prin-
ciple which you believe to have influenced me, and that you

will, all of you in whatever positions you may be called
upon to be, to the best of your endeavours, faithfully per-
form your duty. (Loud cheers.) Well, gentlemen, I stand
here before you to perform a duty which you have imposed
upon me, and which custom imposes on those who fill this
office, namely, that of addressing to you some few remarks
upon the subject of ycur education. You are now all of yon
in that period of life which, by common parlance, is devoted
to what is usually and in a limited seine called education.
You aro now at that time when the mind is meet open to
instruction—when the precepts which are afforded to you
sink deepest into your plastic intelligence, and when the
impressions which are made are not only made more
easily, but impress the mind most deeply and produce the
most lasting convictions. I say that that period of instruc-
tion which is afforded to young men between the time when
their minds are most open to kn. wiedge, and when they are
called upon to enter into the busy scenes of active life, is
technically and in a limited sense called education. But the
real truth is that the education of a sensible and intelligent
man continues to the latest day of his existence—(cheers)
—for there is no day in a man's life—there is no time of his
existence in which, if his mind is alive—if be keeps his ears
and his eyes open to impressions and observations, that he
will not be cont'nual,y adding to the stock of his ideas and
thoughts, and in which he will not add to the store of his
knowledge, and increase that information which is useful
to him both here and hereafter. (Cheers.) But we are talk-
ing now about that education which is given to young men
when they have more leisure to attend to it than they can
have when they engage in the pursuits of life; and let me
not lead you astray by the obeervations which I have made
to induce you to think that the omissions of to-day—the
omissions of your youth, can be made up for by exertions of
a later period of life, because, depend upon it that if you ne-
glect those ample opportunities which your present 'course
of studies afford, you will bitterly, but too late, repent. You
will be like the crew of a ship enteript upon a long voyage,
which has neglected to provide sAireient means of subsis-
tence, and while in the middle of tlie storms and tempests
which they may encounter in their passage will find their
strength failing them and their means inadequate in conse-
quence of their want of foresight before they quitted the
port. (Cheers) Well, gentlemen, it has been said that the
proper definition of education is, that it is an art which
teaches man to live ; and if that be a true definition3 it con-
firms what I have just stated, that man learns better
and better how to live by the experience cf every
day which passes over his head. But beginning with
that which ought to be taught to youth, the first learn-
ing which you ought to acquire is self-discipline and
self-control. That is essential in every period of your life ;
it will be an assistance to you in whatever pursuit you may
be engaged. But it is a knowledge and an art which must
be acquired early, for It is difficult to obtain it afterwards,
and when the years of youth have passed away—Provi-
dence has given to man lively passions and a strong will,
which, when properly used, are of the utmost advantage to
him, but which, If al/awed to run riot, may lead him into
really difficulties and dangers. They may be compared to
a high-epirited courser, which, if he is made obedient to the
will of his master, will carry him safely through the longest
journey, ever the greatest difficulties and obstaeles, and
carry him to whatever height it may be the aim and object
of his journey. But if that high-spirited courser is allowed
to take the mastery over his rider, he will carry him into
brakes and brambles, into bogs and morasses, and ten to one
but at the end of the journey he will hurl him down some
frightful precipice. Therefore I say, gentlemen, bear in
mind the well-known precept :
" Animum rego; hie nisi pant imperat
Rune frenis; huae tee compesse catenis."
Well, gentlemen, there are two gifts which we enjoy—two
instruments which we use which are of daily and most
important application, but which it is too much the prac-
tice of mankind, turning their attention to higher objects,
to neglect and treat with indifference—l mean speech and
writing. They are the means by which wo communicate with
each other upon everything that relates to the transacticns
and the business of life. It is by them that we deprecate
anger; that we endeavour to conciliate love and friendship;
—it is by them that we promote our interests—that we
endeavour to propagate our opinions. In short, there is
no hour of any day of our lives in which one or other of
those instruments—thought tad intelligence—are not called
upon.to do us service. Noiv;,:with respect to speech, lam
not going to give you any pre4epts so far as delivery goes,
So far as adapting the \Tice and manner of speaking, so as
to render them most agrecalete and persueaive, youlneve_
within your city models most worthy of imitation to which
if you attend, and try to follow by your practice, you will
require no other precept or admonition. With respect to the
substance of speak;ng—the arrangement of ideas, and the
selection of words, I refer you to that most admirable ora-
tion which was delivered to you some years ago by that
great and eminent, and I will say wonderful man, Lord
Brougham—(cheers;—a man of whom it may be said that
although engaged during the whole period of his life actively
either in professional or political occupations, he contrived
by the variety and great comprehensiveness of his mind to
store that mind with a greater extent of various knowledge
and information than perhaps ever fell to the lot—and which
certainly never more fell to the lot—of any distinguished
man. (Cheers.) Well, then, I exhort you to read again that
oration, to impress on your minds every avoid it contains;
for depend on it in every word there is wisdom. (Cheers,)
Well, gentlemen, the foundation, I may say, of all orna-
mental education—of all education—must be found in the
classical works of Greece and Rome. (Cheers.) Theycontain
more precept of sentiment, more elegance of style, more con-
densation and thought than perhaps the writings of almost
any other age, and they have this remarkable in their nature
that they were the productions of a period when men of
literature and science had not many of the means which we
possess for the diffusion of knowledge and for the acquire-
ment of knowledge. They had not the art of printing ;
they had not many of those modes of communication which
now enable men to acquire, with comparatively small
labour, the results of the labours of others, and to refine
their taste by easy access to the works of those who have
written with most taste and judgment themselves. (Hear,
hear.) The study of the classics may no doubt to some be
painful and irksome at the beginning, but it will be a source
of perpetual enjoyment to you in every period of your life,
and that which in the teginning was a matter of labour
will in its result be a source of relaxation and a pleasure.
(Loud cheers.) Relaxation and pleasure remind me that
he little would be able to guide the actions of youth who
were to tell them never to enjoy relaxation and pleasure.
(Hear, hear.) The man who is perpetually on the stretch
sinks under its own weight—(a laugh)—and, therefore, well
regulated relaxation and pleasure of a proper kind, mixed
with knowledge, with labour, tends only to refresh the
faculties, and to make that labour more easy and effectual.
(Cheers.) But these relaxations must be rational, they
must not corrupt the mind, they must not undermine those
faculties which ought to be applied to nobler and more use-
ful purposes. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, the study of the
works of antiquity ought not to divert you from giving due
attention, and from bestowing well-merited admiration on
the classical works of your own language and your own land.
(Great cheering.) In recommending you to make yourselves
acquainted with the poets and the historians of ancient times,
I would be wanting towards you if I did not urge you to be-
come familiar with the great masters of English literature
—with Milton, with Shakspeare, with Pope, and with other
distinguished writers whose works form the standard of
our language, and whose works also teach you how to con-
dense your thoughts, and how to express them in appro-
priate and adequate language. (Loud cheers.) Well,
gentlemen, don't think I am pointing out to you exertions
beyond the strength of any individual, and advising you
to studies for which the brief period devoted to your edu-
cation would be insufficient. You are all of you probably
destined to some one particular profession. Make every-
thing that belongs to that profession the object of your
intense and preferent study, but do not, on that account,
omit acquiring general information upon other mat-
ters whenever opportunities may present themselves
to you for doing so. (Applause.) Whatever may be the
profession which a man enters into, he will prefer the duties
of that profession better by having general knowledge, and
that generality of knowledge will not interfere with the
successful study of what is necessary for the particular line
which he determines to enter. Don't be discouraged by
people who say it is absurd to have a smattering of different
things—
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is better than no knowledge at all.
(Cheers and laughter.) Learn a little of everything of which
you can learn anything. (Renewed laughter.) It will be
useful hereafter; in your own line it may be the foundation
upon which you will build up as you go along through life.
But tear one thing in mind. Be content, in reference to
many things, with mere rudimentary information, but what
little you know know it well. (Applause) Don't accept the
jingle of words for reality of things. (Applause.) Go to
fundamental principles ; know accurately that which you
are desirous of knowing, and however little that may be,
depend upon it that upon that bisis you will more easily be
able to build up a future superstructure. (Applause.)
Many people are contented with words, and don't give
themselves the trouble of inquiring into the principles and
the reality of things. Don't fall into that mistake. Well,
gentlemen, after the classics of ancient times, and after
the most approved literature of your own country and in
your own language, there are other departments of intellect
to which naturally you will direct your attention. It cannot
be supposed that in the country of Reid and Stewart—(loud
cheers)—the philosophy of mind should not form an object
of attractive study—investigations which will tend to
open the mind, to enlarge the faculties, and to improve
that understanding of which you are studying the theory
and the philosophy. (Applause.) Well, gentlemen, I speak
not now to those to whom any exhortation would be required,

w hen I urge you to take advantage of your period of study
—indeed you will be compelled, no doubt, by College ex-
amination to do so—(laughter and cheers)—by directing
your attention to the study of mathematics. (Cheers.) The
Scotch mind, which is a very reasoning mind—(cheers and
laughter)—which is a mind that loves investigation and the
pursuit of truth—(renewed applause)—is well known to be
peculiarly adapted to mathematical science. (Loud cheers.)
In a country that gave birth to the man who invented lo-
garithms, it is useless to inculcate anything upon that sub-
ject. (Laughter and cheers) But depend upon it that
there is nothing which gives greater accuracy to the opera-
tions of the human mind than the study of mathematics.
It is, I will say, almost the only study which brings to the
mind the satisfactory demonstration of indisputable truth
—truth, I mean with reference to those matters to which it
extends. But it is, perhaps, the best system of logic. A
man who accustoms his mind to mathematical demonstra-
tions will not wander into irreverent disputations, but will
know how to shape his ideas so as to present a conclusive
demonstration of the arguments which he wishes to bring
to bear upon any subject. Well, gentlemen, we should
have lived in vain, or at least the purposes of existence
would only be partialiy accomplished, if we were to shut
our minds to all that has passed before our time; and the
study of history is a most useful and necessary part of the
accomplishments which youths ought to acquire. History
will not indeed give you materials which by a geometrical
proposition you can apply with accuracy; for as we find
among the millions of the human race that no two men
have features in all respects identical, so in regard to human
events, we cannot find in all historical record two events
which in all their concomitant circumstances are so alike,

that the ex •mple of one van form a rule of caeduct for the
others. (Loud cheers.) But it is of great service for those
who have to act, to know what have been failures and suc-
-ceases, what have been the errors and achievements either
of mesa or nations in time past ; and these examples
may serve so far as to exemplify principles of action,
may serve as guides to every man either in pri-
vate or in public opinion. An acquaintance with his-
tory, therefore, is-essential, so far as there are opportunities
for acquirement, with into }se application to the particular
line of study. Historyetherefore, ought to be: studied and
engrafted on the minds ofethe youth. (Cheers.) Well, gen-
tlemen, so far we have gone: You will see Lhave started
with amusements and recreations, and these-if resorted to
occasionally refresh the hu.nan judgment—give a pleasure
while enjoying them, and a fresh tone to the intellect when
a pc son again applies himself to more serious occupations.
(Cheers.) ' You have no want of natioeal poets. (Cheers.)
The land of Burns—(loud. cheers)—and the land of Sir
"Walter Scott--(renewed cheers)—cannot fail to be full of
young men who, in their leisure hours, find, pleasure in
reading the admirable works of these great and illustrious
men. (Loud cheers.) We have gone through some of the
prominent works of man, but I should also • mention and
point out to your attention that range of study which re-
lates to what are more particularly called mechanics—the
laws of motion—the fundamental principles Of which are
useful to every man whatever may be the line of life he is
going to enter ; and you have ample opportunities here for
making yourselves masters of the elementary principles at
least of that branch of human science. (Cheers.) Gentle •
men, we have talked here of the works of man, and they
are well deserving the care of investigation, they are well
deserving the care that you must use to acquire from them
those ideas and that knowledge they are so well qualified to
teach you, which will be not only of much service to you in
your after career, but a solace and a pleasure in those lei-
sure hours which you may have leave to take from the more
active pursuits of life, and to devote to them, (Cheers.)
But you should fall short of that which I recommend to
you if you did not devote a portion of that period of study,
if you did not devote a portion of that period of leisure, to
the contemplation of the works of God. (Cheers.) That
branch of knowledge has in many respects made wonderful
progress in late years, and by the labours of others it is
easier for you to acquire knowledge, There is this remark-
able difference between the present and former ages. In
former times there were men of great genius and of great
research who made great progress in the study of the laws
and phenomena of nature, but the mass of 'mankind have
little means by their 'labours. In those days teen of science
• Contrived to give the results of laborious years in so short,
compendious and intelligent a manner, so that you are able
to profit by the labours of others, and profit by those results
which other men have worked out by long laborious etude,.
(Cheers.) The first object of study ought to be, comprised
in chemistry, the opciation of nature iu all those elements
,en which we live end (teal, a knowledge of which. isenerfuh
-1 0-e Very in his individual condition, and on th-e aro y-4
of which eepend the industry, wealth, and prosperity of
nations. There is almost no science that has made more
wonderful progress of late years than chemistty, and
it is well deserving whatever may be your future career that
you should make yourselves acquainted with the leading
principles of that science. It isnot expected that those who
are destined for the church or the bar, or other such profes-
sions, that they should become skilful chemists, but they
should be acquainted with the general principles by which
substances act on each other, and this knowledge will be
found useful in every position in life. (Cheers.) Now,
they concern the peasant in his cottage, the workman in his
convenient dwelling, as much as they concern the great
manufacturer in the arrangements of his business, because
health and life are essentially connected with the practice
and the experience'and the counsel of the chemist. (Cheers.)
Now, then, gentlemen, it is only comparatively of late
years that men have turned the it attention to acquiring scien-
tific knowledge with regard to the crust of the globe on
which we live, and certainly Scotland has contributed its
full share towards the knowledge and information gained.
What canbe more useful than any general information with
respect to the manner in which layer upon layer and rock
upon rock have been placed upon each other. It tells upon
the business of every day. It is only after that great know-
ledge which we have obtained that all your mineral experi-
ments have been conducted with the success which bas
attended them. A general knowledge of the arrangement
of the crust of the earth is an essential accomplishment for
every gentleman, and is useful in whatever pursuit a man
is about to engage. (Cheers.) Well, then, rising from the
crust of the earth and all these numerous phenomena and
arrangements connected with the atmosphere of our ocean ;
and the various circumstances belonging to the surface of
our globe, we naturally turn our thoughts to the position
and action of our globe, and that system of which our sun
is the centre, and that knowledge of astronomy, connected
at all events with the other system is so easily acquired and
so interesting when known, that no man who has an oppor-
tunity of investigating could for a moment neglect those
opportunities ani remain in ignorance. It is admirable to
think that all the varied arrangements upon which day
and night and the succession of the seasons depend have
been so beantifully adapted to the purpose of those who
inhabit this globe, and a knowledge of these things I trust
no man who hears me will fail to acquire, so far as oppor-
tunity offers. But there is a wider range with regard to
that great and extensive study. Our solar system, as is
well known, forms but an insignificant, a comparatively in-
significant, part in that great universe of which, on a star-
light night, we see some portion exposed to our view, and
the study of the mechanism of the universe is a study
which leads the mind to the most exalted thoughts—which
expands our considerations more than any other, and
which, although it is not decided by certain results
which have been maintained in the study of our
own solar system, yet I believe enough is known
to excite the wonder and the admiration of those who are
acquainted with it. (Applause.) Let it not be said that
these studies direct the mind from the practical precepts of
religion. On the contrary, I maintain that they tend to
strengthen and confirm that faith which is inculcated by
our revealed religion. (Cheers.) If, when, on the one hand,
we contemplate those marvellous arrangements extending
over space indefinite, and comprising worlds innumerable,
with order and arrangement that nothing but the most
supreme wisdom could have established—when we contem-
plate, in the first place, the arrangements for our systems,
when we consider the multitude of suns and worlds even
beyond the range of the telescopic power of man, and are
made sensible of the comparative insignificance of everything
that belongs to this earth, this speck of creation ; and if
there is any man who, in the consciousness of genius, in the
enjoyment of wealth, in the possession of sta' ion, is inspired
by feelings of vanity and pride when he reflects that the
world which he treads upon is a mere speck in creation,and
that ho himself is an immeasurable atom in that speck—
these thoughts must ter. d 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 he
turns his thoughts to the other scale, when he thinks and
considers the infinite variety, inconceivable ingenuity and
wisdom with which everything in this earth has 1:), en adapted
to specific purposes, and to the enjoyment of created beings.
When he sees that even those smallest and most minute
animals of creation which are hardly perceptible, and some
not perceptible to the naked eye. There there is most ad-
mirable adaptation of every details for the purpose of the
enjoyment of that creature so long as it is to live—when he
reflects on the constitution of his own frame, and, more
than that, when ho refects upon all the facilities with which
, his mind has been endowed—when he considers the powers
which have been given to man to extend his ken far away
from the globe which he inhabits, aid to acquire a certain
amount of knowledge of things so distant that even, as it
is said, millions of years re 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
bo convinced that those powers which have been given to
his mind—those moral and intellectual powers with which
he has been endowed, have not been given simply for the
purpose of a day, and that the day is the life of man—he
must be convinced that they are designed to fit him for some
better and future state, and therefore I say that these great,
exalted, and sublime contemplations are calculated to

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strengthen and encourage that faith of which it is said that:
panting for a happier state, it deems death but nature's
signal for retreat. But I am treading on ground which does
not belong to me. There are others who are more competent
—more capable and more entitled to address yon on a sub-
ject like this. I stand here to give you humbly such advice
as I may be able to offer you with regard to your career in
this life and in this world. I shall only, in conclusion, add,
that I fervently hope that your career may be successful,
and that you may prove yourselves to be an honour to your-
selves and an advantage to that country which has pleased
Providence you should be born and live in. (Loud cheers.)
I beg, again,.gcntlernen, to return you my most sincere
thanks for the honour you have done me and the kind recep-
tion I have met with from you. (L--nd cheers) After a mo-
ment's consultation with President Barclay, his lordship
continued : Gentlemen, I have one word more. There is
in India a fabulous deity called Sri, who is the goddess
peculiarly the patroness of learning, and on the day of her
festival, books and pens are laid aside, and no study or
learning whatever ocupies the attention of the minds of
students. (Cheers.) Well, I have been endeavouring to in-
cite you to laborious and persevering study, and therefore
in imitation of these Indian votaries—(laughter)—l have
endeavoured, and I believe successfully, obtained for yeu a
holiday. (Tremendous cheering, amidst which the noble
Rector resumed his seat.)

In answer to repeated questions from the body of the
church,
Principal BARCLAY intimated that Tuesday (to.morrow)
would be given as a holiday, in compliance with Lord Pal-
merston's request.
The benediction was then pronounced, and the large
assemblage dispersed.