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London, England, 1853-06-08 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1853.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
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WESTMORELAND. —Tickets, available for ten days to these
Lakes, will be issued on and after the 10th instant at the following
fares by any through trains:—

First Class. Second Class.
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(By order) MARK 11UISH.
General Manager's Office, Easton Station, June 7, 1853.

LONDON (WATFORD) SPRING WATER
COMPANY.—A Meeting of the Shareholders will be held at
the London Tavern, Bishop.gate-street, on Fatnav next, the 10th
inst , at Twelve o'clock precisely, to receive the Report of the Direc-
tors, and transact the general business of the Company.
By order, B. RANKIN, Secretary.
Dated Gth June, 1853.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
(Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-
road.) Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during
the week, "The Rose," " Thistle," "Shamrock." "Amine." and
Rigoletto " Waltzes, by H. Laurent; she " Rosalinda " and
"Nymph," by D'Albert ; the " England," "New Topsy," and " Lego
Maggoire" Quadrilles ; the " Gold Hawk' and " Juno" Polkas.—
Admission, is. Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock; com-
mence at Nine, and terminate at Half-past Eleven.

TO GROCERS, TEA DEALERS, and
ITALIAN WAREHOUSEMEN.—To be DISPOSED OF,
an old-established Business, with a good family trade attached, in
the centre of a populous market town, within forty miles of London.
The shop and premises are very spacious and commanding. with
ample hoase accommodation for a large family, and the advantage of
a separate entrance; their is also a neat garden, good storehouse,
stabling, coach-house, &c. A lea.e will be granted (direct from the
freeholder) for twenty-one years aed upwards, if required, at a mo-
derate rent. For the address, apply to Messrs. Hickson and Son,
72, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square; of Messrs. Metcalfe and
Stevens, 74, Mark-lane, Fenchurch-street and of Mr, J. Banks,
Fish•street MD, near London-bridge.

MATANZAS and SABANILLA RAILROAD
7 PER CENT. BONDS.—CALL for REMAINING IN-
STALMENT of 75 PER CENT.—The holders of Receipts for the
First Instalment of 25 per Cent, on these Bonds are requested to
take notice that the Remaining Instalment of 75 per Cent. is re-
quired to be paid on or before Wednesday, the 15th June. at the oflies
of Messrs. J. ft. Schroder and Co., No. 6, Ltuse•street-square. be-
tween the hours of 11 and 3 o'clock. when the Receipts will be ex-
changed for Bonds with Coupons of Interest attached, payable on
15th December and 15th June in each year,
The Interest at the rate of T per cent. from the 13th January up to
the 15th June on the first instalment, amounting to 14$. 9d., will be
deducted from the 75 per cent.. so that the amount to be paid on
each 1001. b•nd will be 741. ss. 3d.
In case of failure of payment on the day specified, the receipt for
the first instalment will be liable to forfeiture.

J. 11. SCIIRODER and Co Agents.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in certain causes, entitled respectively
urner v. Theed and Carter v. Theed, any persons claiming to be
Nephews or Nieces of THOMAS WITHNALL, late of HILTON, in the
county of Huntingdon, Fanner, the testator in the pleadings of the
a',ove•mentiened causes named, living at the time of his decease,
which took place in or about the month of March, 1826, or to be the
issue living at the time of the death of the said Testator of any
Nephew or Niece of the said Testator, who died in his life time, or
to be the legal personal representative of any such Nephew or Niece,
or I,sue who may have since died, are by their Solicitors on or before
MONDAY the Eleventh day of JULY next, to come in and prove
their claims, at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Richard
Turin Kindersiey, No. 15, Olcbsquare, Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex, or
in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of
the said decree. _ _ _

Monday the 18th day of July, 1853, at 12 o'clock at Nocn, at the
said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the
claims.—Dated this 31st day of May, 1853.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
H. NETHERSOLE, Plaintiff's Agent.

THE INSTALLATION OF THE EARL OF
DERBY AT OXFORD.

OXFORD, MAY 7.—No celebration is looked for-
ward to by Oxonians under any circumstances with
more pleasurable feelings of anticipation than the
annual recurrence of the commemoration festival.
On such occasions the monastic solemnity of this
venerable city relaxes, and everything wears a
gayer and fresher aspect under the influence of the
smiling sky of June, and the yet more winsome
radiance of ladies' eyes. Interest and animation
are of course doubly enhanced, when with the com-
memoration is combined such a rare occurrence as
the inauguration of a new Chancellor. The Chan-
cellorship of Oxford, as most of our readers must
be aware, is a dignity that is laid down only with
the life of the holder. In illustration of this sub-
ject, the following passage from Mr. Ward's trans-
and authority of the Chancellor,
lation of the Laudian Statutes, on the office, power,
may be acceptable
to our readers :

" Although the University and city of Oxford are dis-
tinguished from each other by their rights and magistrates,
yet such is the prerogative of the Chancellor, that he not
only has the peculiar custody of the, whole University en-
trusted and committed to himself alone under our lady the
Queen, but he also has common guardianship with the
City Mayor of the whole borough or city of Oxford, and
its suburbs, and he can, with the consent of the Univer
sity, frame laws to have obligatory force on the burgesses
also, or townsmen and their commonalty in subordinance
to the University.
" But, in reference to the University and its governance
the province of the Chancellor is to look to the public go-
vernment of the entire University, to guard its franchises
and priVileges, and also, with the consent of the Univer-
sity, to enter into and establish all concord and compo-
sitions respecting them. -
"To convene the Congregations of fie regents, and also
those of the regents and non-regents, wherein nothing can
be "Reposed or put to the vote without the consent of him-
self or the Vice-Chancellor ; to advance to scholastic de-
grees worthy persons who have satisfied the requisitions of
the University statutes ; and to repel therefrom those who
are unworthy through want of character or knowledge.
" To hear, end, and determine all controversies regard-
ing causes, civil, spiritual, and criminal, which are deter-
minable within the University, and appertain to Scholars
or persons privileged, whether on both sides, or on one
side only ; and to apply to the use of the University the
forfeitures and amercements thence arising.
"To nominate his own Commissary-General, or Vice-
Chancellor, or Vice-Gerant every year.
" To choose the High Steward of the University, and the
Deputy High Steward, as often as their offices become va-
cant ; to celebrate and hold the courts and beets (which are
also called views of frank-pledge), and the pleading and
juridical days of the University, commonly called law-days.
"To nominate or choose every year one of the clerks of
the market; also to punish offenders against the statutes
of the University with corporal chastisement, money fine,
imprisonment, degradation' suspension from degrees, dis-
commoning, proscription, banishment, or expulsion from
the University, censures ecclesiastical, or in any other
reasonable manner (as the quality of the offence requires,
and so far as is allowable by the statutes and privileges of
the University) respectively ; to punish at discretion
(either in court or out of it) all offences against which no
provision has been made by any special statute, or for
which no punishment has been enacted by the statutes ;
also in respect to the interdict, whereby townsmen are
debarred from dealing with scholars and privileged per-
sons, or privileged persons are ousted of the privilege (if
the offence in his judgment appears to de3erve it), and at
once to wield this thunderbolt of discommoning, and not
to regard the first stages of preliminary fines which the
statutes require.
" Also, with th consent of the University, to sanction
ordinances and statutes (where the usage so requires), or
after sanction, to abrogate them.
" To take upon himself the government of the halls, and
the administration thereof, as a case peculiarly his own,
and to that end to visit them (so often as to him seems
meet), and to dispose of their headships.
" To settle the incorporations of artisans within the pre-
cinct of the University, with its consent. To grant by his
own single authority, or that of the Vice-Chancellor
licences to wine sellers to set up wine shops.
" He must take a yearly oath from the burgessses, and
the sheriff and under-sheriff of the county of Oxford; also,
if there are any other duties specially annexed to the
function of the Chancellorship, according to the statutes,
customs, and privileges of the University, he is to carry
them out, and exercise them all and each in behalf of his
office."

The reception of the Earl of Derby, in spite of
the too obvious prominence given to political aims
and designs in the copious list of partisan doctors
and graduates which heralded his advent, has been
everything that was to be expected from the ardent
championship of his friends and the generous chi-
valry of his opponents. On an occasion like the
present good tune dictates that rival interests and
feelings should ue smoothed down into unison with
the sentiments of welcome, that even opponents
may consistently entertain towards a guest on
whom the choice of the -University has fallen. The
general spirit seems to be Well expressed in the
tripping verse of a clever squib just published,
under the title of "A Song of the Enesenia :"
" Let the sparkling stream of pleasure leap undimmed
beneath the sun,
Stay the clouds, and lift the shadows, till its merry
course be run.
Leave the polling days to faction, at the peaceful feast
be rest!
Little favour finds the statesman, courtesy shall greet
the guest.
When the crowd with bounding pulses cries tumultu-
ously rejoice,
Hope shall lend her calmer music, hope shall raise her
fainter voice.
Rivals meeting in the revel cease in thought or word
to cope—
Derby, thousand voices pledge thee—fill the goblet—
drink to hope."

The first striking feature in the occurrences of
to-day was the formation of the grand procession
to accompany the Chancellor from Worcester Col-
lege to the Sheldonian Theatre. This was certainly
a very brilliant and stately show, and, from the
number of dignified ecclesiastics present, is thought
to have been the finest thing of the kind ever wit-
nessed at Oxford. It consisted of the Vice-Chan-
cellor and heads of houses ; the noblemen mem-
bers of the University in their dresses of state ; the
bishops, thirteen in number, including the Bishops
of Oxford, London, Exeter, Lincoln, Salisbury,
Chichester, St. Asaph, St. Andrew's, Quebec,
Montreal, Ohio, Nova Scotia, &c., the doctors of
divinity, law, and physic, the proctors, and the
masters of arts.

The interior of the Sheld.onian Theatre on a
commemoration day is certainly one of the most
imposing sights in England, and it probably never
presented a finer coup-d'oeil than it did to-day. By
ten o'clock every disposable inch of space, whether
in the area or galleries, was completely occupied, and
any unlucky Wight who had not obtained accommo-
dation at that hour was obliged to abandon all hope
of it for the day. The area crowded with the elite
of the clergy from far and near, the lower galleries
filled with elegantly dressed ladies in the most
charming variety of toilets, and the upper gal-
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is to give expression to the feelings with which they
regard the most eminent personages of the era,
present or absent, and even the chief topics of the
day, by ear-splitting acclamations or hootings, as
the case may be. There is as much of mere fun
and boisterous animal spirits in this as of any more
serious element, but some of these manifes-
tations of sentiment deserve specification. Thus
the names of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Cardwell,
I when mentioned, elicited a burst of cheering as
cordial as it was general ; those of Lord Aberdeen
and Lord Lyndhurst were greeted with similar,
though more partial expressions of applause. Lord
Derby's name was hailed with plaudits that showed
no lack of enthusiasm, which were renewed when
that of his countess was pronounced. Lord John
Russell and one or two other statesmen seemed by
no means so popular with the Oxonians, judging
from their equivocal reception ; while the names of
Messrs. Cobden and Bright, on being called out by
some of those who took on themselves to act the
part of prompters, roused a perfect storm of ob-
loquy. The mot of " Disraeli and Protection" was
received with faint cheering and laughter; but
some of the undergraduates would not be content
with testing the feelings of the auditory in a less
mixed form, and the name of Benjamin Disraeli,'
when shouted forth by a pair of stentorian lungs,
became the signal for manifestations of conflicting
emotions from the two
,parties into which it was
evidently divided. After a warm struggle be-
tween the applauders and the hooters, in which
it was difficult to say where the weight of
numbers lay, the energy of the latter ultimately
slackened, and the zeal of friendly partisanship in-
creased until it became decidedly predominant.
Amongst the oddities of these utterances of the vox
popit/i we may enumerate the following '
:—" Mrs.
Louis Napoleon," " Cardinal Wiseman, "Colonel
Sibtliorp, "'the Queen's last baby," "the Gentle-
men in the crush below," " the illustrious foreign-
ers," &c.
At half-past ten the Earl of Derby, in his full
official costume as Chancellor, entered the hail, and
took his place in the state seat reserved for the chief
academic dignitary. The noble earl was accompa-
' Died, besides the right rev. prelates above men-
tioned,
bridge,
' Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz (on whonidegrees of
D.C.L. had been conferred by diploma in a convo-
cation held on the preceding day) • Mr. Ingersoll,
Minister from the United States ; Mr. Van Buren,

formerly President of the United States ; the Earl
of Hardwicke, Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Redes-
dale, Lord Colchester, Mr. Disraeli, M.P., Mr.
Walpole, M.P., Lord Stanley, M.P., Sir John
Pakington, M.P., and a number of other persons
of distinction. Mr. Henley, M.P., was prevented
by illness from attending to receive the honours
destined for him.

The first business consisted in announcing the
degrees of D.C.L. conferred on the Duke of Cam-
bride and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meeklen-
burg-Strelitz, in a special convocation held on the
preceding day. The degree of Doctor of Civil Law
was then conferred, with the usual formalities, on
the following eminent personages :
The Most Noble the Marquis of Blandford, M.P.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Chandos, M.P.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Wintown.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Hardwicke.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Malmesbury.
The Right Hon. Lord Stanley.
The Right Hon. Lord Redesdale.
The Right Hon. Lord Colchester.
The Right Hon. Lord St. Leonard's.
The Right Hon. Thos. Babington Alacaulay, M.P.
The Right Hon. the Lord Justice Turner.
The Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington, Bart., M.P.
The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, M.P.
The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P.
The Right Hon. Joseph Napier, M.P.
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust,
The Rev. Joseph Pulling, 8.D., Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge.

The formula of proposition runs as follows :
" Placetne venerabili huic Convocationi, ut vir
pmnobilis (aut vir honoratissimus), &c., admitatur
ad. gradum Doctoris Juris Civilis, honoris causa
Placetne vobis, Domini Doctores ? Placetne vobis,
magistri ?" This is read by the Chancellor, and
met by the placets of the graduates assembled in
the area beneath. In spite of etiquette, an occa-
sional non-placet was heard, and sometimes, too,
an ultra-vigorous "maximenobis," which furnished
some matter of amusement to diversify the detail
of official routine. A Latin speech from Dr. Phil-
limore followed, quite inaudible in the confusion
on presenting the new-made graduates to the Chan-
cellor, to whom each paid the homage of an obei-
sance, before passing to his seat among the doctors.
Dr. Mitchell, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall,
afterwards delivered the Creweian Oration, spoken
at every commemmoration in praise of the founders
and benefactors of colleges.
The remaining business of the Convocation con-
sisted in the reading of the English prose essay for
the Chancellor's prize, " On Popular Poetry con-
sidered as a test of National Character," by Mr.
Day, of Wadham College, and of odes composed in
honour of the Installation, for which prizes have
been awarded, in Greek verse by Mr. Griffiths, of
Wadham College, and Mr. Falcon, of Queen's Col-
lege ; in Latin verse by Mr. Atkinson, of Exeter
College, and Mr. Dame; of Trinity College • in
English verse by Mr. Alexander, of New-Inn-hall,:
and Mr. Arnold, of University College. After the
conclusion of the ceremonial the noble Chancellor,
attended as before, returned to the Vice-Chancel-
lor's residence in Worcester College.
In the afternoon a grand horticultural show and
promenade took place in the beautiful gardens of
Worcester College, bordering the Isis. It was at-
tended by the Earl and Countess of Derby, and by
all the nobility and gentry at present in Oxford,
and went off, favoured by beautiful weather, as
brilliantly as could be desired. At four o'clock the
Chancellor held a public levee in the library of the
Taylor Institution, where many of the dignitaries
of the University and the resident Masters of Arts
had the honour of a personal introduction to their
Chancellor.

The annual procession of boats took place last
night on the Isis, and was attended by an unusually
large concourse of spectators, at least 10,000 in
number, attracted by the fineness of the evening.
The " eights" started from Utley at seven o'clock,
rowed up and saluted the head boat, which was
stationed at the University barge, by tossing their
oars, passed under the left hand arch of Folley-
bridge, out again by the centre arch, and then pro-
ceeded down the river, round a punt moored off
the Long-bridge, and returned up. The order of
boats was as follows :

1. Brasenose.
2. Baliol.
3. Worcester.
4, Christ Church.
5. Pembroke.
6. Queen's.
7. Exeter.
8. Lincoln.

9. St. John's.
10. Wadham.
11. New.
12. Trinity.
13. University.
14. Jesus.
15. Corpus.
16. Oriel.

CULHAM DIOCESAN TRAINING COLLEGE-
SPEECH OF THE EARL OF DERBY.

OXFORD, TUESDAY.
The opening of this college, which was to form part of
the proceedings connected with the installatiOn of the
Earl of Derby as Chancellor of this University, took
place yesterday afternoon. There was a very large at-
tendance of clergy and laity. On the platform, erected
at the western end of the College grounds, there were
the Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of
Chichester, Bishop of St. Asaph, Bishop of Montreal,
Bishop of Cape Town, and the Bishop of Nova Scotia,
Archdeacon of Oxford, Archdeacon Thorpe, of Bristol,
Archdeacon of Westminster, the Earl and Countess of
Derby, Earl Hardwicke, Lord Stanley, M.P., Lady
Emma Stanley, the High Sheriff of Oxford, and lady,
&c. &c.

The ceremony consisted in the Bishop of Oxford hand-
ing the keys of the College to the Rey. the Principal ;
and in reference to the object of the College, stated that
it was for the special benefit of those who formed the
staple and strength of this country. His lordship then
introduced the Earl of Derby to the meeting.

The Earl of DERBY then advanced to the front of the
platform, and was enthusiastically cheered. He said—
Ladies and gentlemen—Although I feel that I can add
little to, and may even diminish something from, the
effect of that which has been so clearly and solemnly
placed before you by the right reverend prelate who pre-
sides over this diocese, yet I cannot deprive myself of
the satisfaction of assuring him and you how highly I
feel myself honoured as being invited to take part, in
virtue of my recent connexion with this diocese, in the
important proceedings of this day—proceedings which
cannot but be matter of the deepest interest to all those,
who, like myself, and like those whom I have the ho-
nour of addressing, feel warmly on behalf of the moral
training and social advancement of the population of
this great country. (Applause.) And when I speak of
the population I mean emphatically to apply this obser-
vation to that portion of it winch has been correctly
stated by the right rev, prelate to be the strength and
staple of this country—those middle classes who are daily
rising in intelligence and importance, daily acquiring
more weight in the social scale, and becoming of more
and more importance to the general welfare ; but for
whose moral training till of late years provision has been
made by the country, as compared with the classes
above them or below them, very disproportionate to the
amount of influence which, for good or for evil, that
portion of the population must exercise on the country
at large. (Hear, hear.) We live in an age of progress.
It is is impossible to deny it. We live in an age of
rapid and unprecedented material progress. Science is
every day making new strides. Fresh discoveries and
fresh inventions are day by day exercising their influence
upon the whole social habits and constitutional elements
of the people of this country. Within the memory of
many of those whom I now address—within my own me-
mory, certainly—great discoveries have taken place, whose
operations are partly visible, but which are much more
indirect and not at once perceived, materially affecting
the whole social condition of this country. We do not
take notice, as they arise, of those great discoveries and
great inventions. We do not estimate beforehand their
results, and after they have been discovered, and those
results develope themselves, wefamiliarise ourselves with
the state of things that exist, but forget to look back at
the past, and we forget too much to compare the condi-
tions that have existed with that which now seems so
familiar to us. It is only within the course of the last
few years, that that mighty discovery has been added to
the realms of science, by which, to use the forcible ex-
pression I have somewhere heard, "We seize hold of
the lightning's spark, and we use it as our new pen,
annihilating time and distance, for the purpose of trans-
mitting, in an incredibly short space of time, our
thoughts, our feelings, and our intelligence to the most
distant corners of this, and even of other countries."
(Applause.) It was said by one of old, that there was,
in the figurative sense, an electrical chain by which we
were directly bound ; but that electrical chain has ceased
to be a figure of speech, and that mighty power is bring-
ing together, for good or for evil, the remotest corners
not only of these little islands, but of the whole habitable
world. Again, it is not many years since—l know not
whether I ought to confess it—that I was myself a
member of a committee of the House of Commons,
who rejected a bill, which, upon the showing of the
promoters, was introduced for the purpose of establish-
ing an iron railroad, and for applying to it, if found
practicable, the locomotive power of steam. I remember
yet further, when we boasted, and boasted with reason,
that we were in London, the best and most magnificently
lighted metropolis in the world, while our boasted illu-
mination consisted of some wretched oil lamps, which
would now be despised by the pettiest country town,
and when there was no end to torrents of ingenious ri-
dicule which were cast upon the Utopian idea of pro-
ducing light from gas. (Laughter.) 1 might go further ;
why, a whole generation has not passed and gone by
since the first introduction of the system which has
itself been superseded. There are living new those who

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postal communications of this country by means of daily
mails at the unheard of speed of seven miles an hour.
(Laughter and applause.) Well, now we find it difficult
to realise to ourselves what the country was before these
great inventions; we find it difficult to realise to our-
selves what the probable effect these and other great
changes which were constantly increasing, and which
add to the knowledge of the country, will hereafter pro-
duce ; but that which does concern us is to ascertain
whether in the country of this rapid material progress
which is taking place, affecting as it does all classes of the
country, ' stimulating communication, facilitating inter-
course, bringing morepersonally into communication with
each other those who could never meet together before,
producing concert and collision of mind, increasing and
stimulating commercial enterprise, adding to the wealth of
the country, and adding also indirectly to the population of
the country—it is well that we should consider whether
the moral and religious progress of the country has kept
pace with that vast material progress, and with those
immense elements of power, and also of danger, which
are the inseparable concomitants of those great inven-
tions. (Hear, hear.) No doubt that in the mysteries
.of nature—infinite as the mysteries of the Author of
nature—all that science has yet done, and all the suc-
cessful efforts of successive generations have attained to
the knowledge of but little, as compared to that
infinite unknown which lies beyond the reach of human
capacities and human intellects ; yet compared with that
which has been done in former times, trifling as they
are in comparison with those accomplished and unac-
complishable, the strides which these generations have
made in the prosecution and improvement of science,
and in extension of general knowledge among the people
of this country, may indeed be termed, by comparison,
gigantic. But again, that knowledge, that increase of
science, and that extension of knowledge is beyond—
nay, it is a very different thing from—the increase of
education. Nay more, I would say that the more that
knowledge is extended and diffused, the more it is
necessary to extend also and diffuse alike the blessings
of that education by which alone that knowledge can be
purified and sanctified, and led to a higher end than the
mere attainment of worldly advantages. According
as that knowledge is applied, it depends whether the great
society of whom we are members is composed of men
formed after the image of God, and in his likeness, and
purified by his Holy Spirit, or whether society imbued
with knowledge not so sanctified, and not rm purified, is
not like unto that monster Frankenstein—a monster of
'incredible beauty and power, but whose beauty and
power are only the more terrible because unguided and
unsanctified by a holier power and spirit. Its beauty,
its abilities,.its strength, and its power, lead, or make
itself only the more fitting instrument of bringing de-
struction on itself and those around. (Hear, hear, and
applause.) Again, in early times the wisdom of our
forefathers, according to the lights and acquirements of
their ages, made great and liberal provision for the dif-
fusion of such education as was then obtainable. I need
not point to the noble university with which I have now
.the honour of being connected—l need not point to the
sister University of Cambridge, to the various halls and
colleges, to the schools of royal and noble foundation at
Eton, Winchester, and Westminster—but throughout
the land, for the humbler as well as the higher classes of
the community, there were established, chiefly under the
control and direction of the national clergy, a vast amount
of educational establishments, partaking all of them of
the religious, and, in some degree, eleemosynary charac-
ter, =for the purpose of training up in the fear of God, and
in such literature as the times allowed, the children
alike of the higher, the middle, and the lower classes ;
and through the medium of these institutions—though
many of them have been perverted from their original
purpose—l say, yet through the medium of these insti-
tutions, in the universities there is many an instance of
persons in an humble position of life—persons in whom
but for them, to use the words of the poet—
" Chill penury repressed their noble rage
To thrill the genial current of their souls;"
but who, introduced by these institutions into places
where they had the best opportunities of acquiring the
best aids of science, and applying to them laborious and
self-denying diligence, have found their rich reward in
taking their place' amongst the master spirits of the age
—the places due more especially to those who combine
with genius, early self-exertion, and indefatigable self-
denial, and who knew that no great object can be at-
tained without study and persevering exertion ; and who
have sought, and nobly succeeded in availing themselves
to the utmost, of those advantages which the piety and
wisdom of our forefathers had placed at their disposal.
(Applause.) But these institutions, as I have stated,
were most suited for the advancement of the age in
which education, properly speaking, was confined to
those who were destined for the service of the Church,
or those few who intended to devote themselves exclu-
sively to literary studies. For a very considerable time
after the Reformation, and even to a comparatively recent
period, there were many who held that it was dangerous
to educate the bumbler classes of this country, and all that
they required was to be able to read so as to enable them,
without difficulty, to spell out a chapter in the Bible.
Gentlemen, I am afraid that we cannot conceal from
ourselves that during the last century, especially that
period, all classes of the community—and I am afraid I
cannot except from them the clergy of the Church of
England —had sunk into a state of considerable apathy
with regard to the discharge of those duties which ap-
pertained to the education of the people. In those days,
the population of the rural parishes confined by the ab-
sence of all facilities for locomotion within the narrow
spaces in which they were born, and in which they died,
successive generations were born and vegetated, and
died in contented ignorance, little cared for by the care-
less and apathetic discharge of a very small portion of
clerical duties ; but, unhappily, as was sure to be the
case, " while men slept the enemy sowed tares," and in
the country parishes infidelity and vice were the sure
and certain progeny of spiritual and of intellectual
ignorance. But besides them rose up a new element,
beyond, perhaps, the power even of a body more de-
voted to their duties than at that day. (Hear, hear.)
God be praised, the case is very different now of pa-
rochial clergymen of the Established Church. (Ap-
plause.) Great towns begin to rise into importance,
and populations brought together have more opportu-
nities of comparing mind with mind, and of discussion,
and of reason, and shrewd, hard-headed, hard-working,
intelligent, ambitious workmen, anxious to place them-
selves forward in life, have outgrown the parochial sys-
tem, and, consequently, in their ignorance of higher and
spiritual things, but have little desire except that of ob-
taining for themselves and for their children, that amount
of knowledge which they say would be powerful to tli eirad-
vancement in the material concerns of every-day life,
but their knowledge does not extend beyond that. (Hear
and applause.) There arose also in the towns another
and an inferior class—a class labouring for their daily
bread, or perhaps earning it by less creditable means,
having little care beyond the mere satisfaction of gratify-
ing their animal passions where they had the means of
gratifying the sottish intemperate habits of their nature
wherever an opportunity presents. God forbid, gentle-
men, that this is a general picture—an universal picture
of the great towns and of the great manufacturing dis-
tricts of this country. God forbid that what I say shall
still further make this a corect description of the moral
population of this great empire • but I fear that, in the
great towns, and the rural villages also, there are too
many of our population who answer to the melancholy
description which I have given, and who are creating a
plague and canker in the whole of our social system.
(Hear, hear.) Again, the feelings of the country are
aroused, and extensively excited; but I doubt whether
the country is equally aroused, and equally sensible of
the danger—which I hold to be not less than the danger
of brutal ignorance—I mean the danger of instructed
and enlightened infidelity. (Hear.) And it is against
both these that, if we would save our common country
from the inevitable consequences of two such concurrent
plagues, it is against these that our efforts are to be di-
rected. We all know that the virtues, the morals, as well as
the knowledge of a people, are the surest safeguards for the
welfare of a country, and that without it no country can
prosper, and no country in the face and in the absence
of God, can hope to prosper. Gentlemen, by whom
then is it that the efforts are to be made to encounter
these gigantic evils ? How are we to apply ourselves to
deal with that which, if not checked, not controlled, not
remedied, must lead to consequences day by day more
pernicious, more destructive. On whom then does the
duty devolve ? It devolves on you—it devolves on me
—it devolves upon all those who have a human heart in
their bosom—it devolves upon all those who can feel for
the sufferings of their neighbours and of their country-
men, and can feel for their distresses and calamities, and
that feel also that there can be no distress and no cala-
mity which should demand so much of pity, which should
look so much for aid, as the combined evils of infidelity
and ignorance. (Applause.) Gentlemen, another duty,
the universal demand for knowledge, the universal desire
for instruction, has led to the formation of many estab-
lishments, and many means of promoting the instruction
of the middle classes ; popular lectures, mechanics' in-
stitutions, and various appliances of science, in order to
give an easy high road to science. These are popular
among the middle classes—these are what many of them
most desire, and the demand has regulated and procured
the supply. But that for which there is not the same
amount of demand, because unhappily it is a portion of
our nature, that there where we least feel our wants
there will not be the same demand—is the provision of
a well-ordered, religious, moral education. (Ap-
plause.) I believe that there is a great portion of this
country, I am happy to believe that the vast majority
of this country in opposition to a small section of it, are
of opinion that no education is in itself desirable or
valuable which does not combine religious with secular
instruction. (Applause.) I am certain upon that prin-
ciple the great majority in Parliament is disposed to
proceed, and I believe that Parliament represents the
sense of the great majority of the country. Parliament
has become sensible of the evils and the dangers which
we have incurred from the laxity and errors of our fore-
fathers ; and within recent years, constantly increasing
grants have been offered by the Legislature, not for the
purpose of superseding--God forbid !—but for the pur-
pose of aiding, stimulating, and excitingllocal exertions,
by labour, by aid, by money amongsti classes of the
community in support of a strictlyreligious education.
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to say, that they were the first to point out the apathy
of former times, and to stimulate public attention
to the necessity of religious instruction ; but I am
proud to say, on behalf of that Church of which
I am an humble but an attached member, that
with regard to the efforts in matters of the united secular
and religious education, they stand proudly prominent,
far above the proportion of their numbers, or even of
their means, far above the proportionate efforts of any
other denomination of Christians 'in this country. I
have no figures to show this just now, but what I want
to point out to you is, that if it be every man's interest
•to promote religious education, it is peculiarly the
object, the interest, the bounden duty of those men who
are attached members of the Church of England to do
their utmost towards the promotion of education in con-
nexion with the Church, and seek to make the school-
master what he ought to be, the right hand and instru-

ment of the clergyman in instructing and educating the
children. (Applause.) But how is this to be done ?
We are awaking to a sense of our mutual responaility,
we are awaking to a sense of our difficulties. In former
times—l trust, however, that feeling is passing away,
though the class is not wholly extinct—a man who was
unfitted for everything else, was deemed by himself and
others fitted for the office of a schoolmaster. The
broken-down tradesman, the man who by intemperance
had ruined himself and family—the man of feeble health
—the man who would turn his hand to nothing else,
and who might become a burden to the parish, was
sure to be voted by the ratepayers as fit for schoolmas-
ter, if nothing else. Happily, a better state of things
is rising, and we apprehend more highly the duties, the
responsibility, the awful charge devolving on the school-
master, for if in the absence of parents, and in the un-
avoidable occupation of the time elsewhere of the clergy - man, who, attending to the spiritual wants of his flock,
was rendered incapable of giving his perpetual attention
to the school—if it devolves on the schoolmaster to do
that which is the object we have agreed, which is the
sole and principal object of education, to train up the
youthful mind with a tendency to right and an abhor-
rence of evil, with a, knowledge, not theoretical, but a
practical knowledge of the revealed Word of God, and
of the duties and responsibilities which it devolVes on
each child in after life, in their separate stages, how can
it be that those who are parents, and those who reflect
for a single moment on the facts, can do other than feel
that it is a matter of the deepest interest into whose
hands they entrust such a task as to training the youth-
ful mind, to bring up the child to execute his duties here
as a man, and after this life to enter on the awful stage
of eternity. (Hear, hear.) But such are the duties. If
such ought to be done, if such ought to be tile qualifica-
tions of the schoolmaster, where shall we find men so
qualified and endowed ? We must, before we can hope
to do our work effectively, take care to provide the ne-
cessary instruments for the efficiency of that work. The
power of teaching is itself a thing which has to be
learnt. Many men possessed of the highest amount of
sense and greatest extent of knowledge, have riot the
means or habit, have not the facilities of communicating
to others the knowledge which they possess and would
seek to impart. The business of teaching is a business, like
all others, to be learnt, to be studied, and taught ; and it is
for thit purpose, primarily and principally, that this and
various institutions of the same kind have been established
in the country through the last few years—not so much
for supplying the direct machinery of education, as to
train up those who:are to furnish that education, and to
place in.the hands of the country 'a large and fitting in-
strument for the performance of that which is an impor-
tant national object. You require of the schoolmaster
far More than the mere facilities of conveying the know-
ledge which he possesses. You require that he also be a
man—(if he is to be the right hand of the clergyman)—
instant in diffusing religions instruction among the peo-
ple, and require that he be a man who sets about his
work with a full knowledge of the responsibility, and
enters into it heart and soul—who puts his hand to the
plough with a full determination not to turn back— who
will work not only for the emoluments of his profession,
but also for that higher and nobler object of doing by his
fellow-creature his duty, paramount important duty, as
1 in the sight and before the face of that God' to wham we
are responsible for the exercise of our several talents.
(Applause.) It is for the purpose of producing a class
of men, so qualified and so prepared, to go forth in that
important work, that in the various dioceses, of this
country, aided by the liberality of Parliament,—still
more aided by the exertions and local contributions of
those who are impressed with the importance of the ob- '
ject, that these institutions have been founded, sending
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far inferior to the demand. (Hear, hear.) In the
diocese of Chester I had the pleasure many years ago
of attending one of the first institutions of this kind.
It was adopted and largely supported by the clergy and
laity, and I say with satisfaction, that from that period
to this, we have never had occasion to repent of a step
which was then taken. (Applause.) On the contrary,
we have had to congratulate ourselves that in a part of
the country in which, more than all others, a religious
and moral education was required, there have been pro-
duced benefits and advantages exceeding the most san-
guine anticipations of its promoters. (Loud applause.)
After apologising for detaining the crowd, the noble
earl said, " I regretted to hear from the right rev, pre-
' late who preceded me, and who so kindly and flatter-
' ingly introduced me to your notice, that this institution,
although advanced to a state of comparative efficiency,
has been checked in its progress by the absence of requi-
site moans. I should feel ashamed of myself, knowing
how much more valuable practice is than precept, if I
did not testify substantially the interest I feel in this
work ; therefore, I trust, the right reverend prelate will
permit me to make an offering this day of the sum of
1001. in aid of this institution—(loud applause)—au in-
stitution in which I feel the deepest interest—interest, too,
increased by the honour I have attained of being elected
Chancellor of the adjoining University. And I ear-
nestly trust and pray, that that God in whose service
your aid and co-operation will be applied, will bless the
undertaking of your hands, and that you may live to see
the result of this great institution pour down in tenfold
blessings on the heads of your children, and your chil-
dren's children.—(Loud cheers.)
Three cheers were given for Lord Stanley, M.P., and
"The Ladies," alter which the National Anthem was
sung, and the company dispersed.