The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-29 00:00:00

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1111 E. SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1853.

health of Lord and Lady Palmerston." [The toast was
drunk with enthusiastic applause.]
Lord PALMERSTON then rose and said : Ladies and
gentlemen, on behalf of Lady Palmerston, and in my
own name, I beg to return you our most cordial and
sincere thanks for the most kind and flattering manner
in which, in the first place, our worthy chairman has
been pleased to propose the last toast, and in the
next place, for the manner in which you have been
Pleased to receive it ; and I can assure you, on the
part of both of us, that the circumstances of this day
will leave a most grateful impression upon our hearts
to the longest day of our existence. (Cheers.) For
Lady Palmerston I may say that she, lam certain, in
her relations to this place will ever bear in mind the
maxim that property has its duties as well as its rights
—(choere)—and nothing will give her more pleasure than
doing anything which may lie in her power to contribute
to the welfare, the happiness, and prosperity of this town
and of its inhabitants. For myself, with respect to the
kind manner in which our excellent president has been
pleased to notice the pseilic duties which have devolved
upon me, I can only say that it has been my endeavour,
in whatever public situation I may have been placed, to
perform the duties of that office ; and in regard to those
duties as connected, with our foreign relations, any humble
endeavours on my part properly to maintain the dignity
of the country, and duly to afford in every part of the
world protection and support to my fellow-countrymen,
have been so ably, so amply, and so honourably sup-
ported by the unanimous feeling of the country—(cheers)
—that very little merit—no merit, I may say—is due to
the man who was the organ of England in these matters.
The merit is due to the English people, and I am per-
suaded that whoever may be the person charged with the
conduct of the department of foreign affairs, he will
always find in the manly determination and the generous
spirit of the country all the support which he may re-
quire in the most difficult circumstances. (Cheers.) It
has afforded me, ladies and gentlemen, the most peculiar
pleasure to be enabled to assist at the interesting cere-
mony which we have had to perform to-day. There can-
not, to any person who has been conversant with public
affairs, be anything more interesting, and nothing, I am
sure, can be more important—than to assist in the de-
velopment of the intellectual progress of the inhabi-
tants of this country. It is a subject of pride
to every Englishman to feel how awakened is the
spirit of the people to objects and matters of this
kind ; and when we see everywhere endeavours spon-
taneously made by the population of every district
to cultivate their own minds, and to lay the foun-
t dation for the cultivation of the intellect of the rising
generation, it is a contemplation which is not only grate-
ful to every lover of his fellow-men, but which is pecu-
liarly gratifying to an Englishman, because he feels that
thereby we are laying the surest foundation for the great-
ness, the prosperity, and the happiness of our country.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I see before me a motto which is
peculiarly appropriate to the occasion for which we have
met, and a motto which, I trust, will lead naturally to
the toast with which I shall beg to conclude, viz.,
" Prosperity to the Institution of which we have to-
day laid the foundation." The motto I see is " Know-
ledge is power." Now, if there is any axiom which is
more true than another, that axiom is the one which I
see before me ; for it is by knowledge man is enabled to

,
coerce to his service the element; of nature—it is by
knowledge that he is able to make the wild winds of
heaven conducive to the purposes of commerce—it is by

_ .
knowledge that he is enabled to reduce the almost in-
describable power of steam to obey him like a slave—it
is by knowledge that we have lately been enabled to

brink the destructive element of lightning to our service

andd-to make it subserve the most ordinary and daily
purposes of human existence. (Cheers.) But there is
one power which knowledge gives us, which, perhaps,
for each individual is still more valuable than what I

have alluded to, for knowledge gives to man power over
himself—(cheers)—it is by knowledge that men are en-
abled to control their passions, to regulate their conduct,
to devote their energies and exertions to the welfare of
themselves, of their families, of their neighbourhood,
and their country—(hear)—and therefore of all the
powers which knowledge cianfers upon man, there is
none which, perhaps, is more valuable—none which
comes more home to men's business and bosoms—than