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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1858.

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EAST INDIA-HOUSE, 'ST MARCH, 1858.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That
the SPECIAL GENERAL COUR r of the said Company appointed
to be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY,
the 7th April, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, is further made
Special, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors two Bills
now Wore Parliament, the one entitled "A Bill for the better Go-
vernau nt of India,' and the other entitled " A Bill to transfer the
Government of India from the East India Company, to her Majesty
the Queen." J. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

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LECTURES AT THE INNS OF COURT.

-.0.-

The following is a prospectus of the lectures to
be delivered during the ensuing educational term
by the several Readers appointed by the Inns of
Court
" CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY.

"The public lectures on Constitutional Law and
Legal flist>ry will comprise the following subjects :
"The Reader will trace the origin and progress of
ur constitution and jurisprudence through the reigns
of the Plantagenets, Tudors, and Stuarts.
"In his private classes the Reader will follow the
same course :

"Books : —Blackstone's Comm entaries, by Kerr; Par-
liamentary History ; Hallam's Constitutional History ;
appendices inserted throughout Hume's History ; Sta-
tute Bonk (of the period) ; Hayes's History of Convey-
ancing (small Bvo ) ; Lord St. Leonard's Preface to Gil-
bert on Uses; Fortescus de Laudibus Legium Angliae
(Amos) ; Millar's History of the Constitution ; Sulli-
van's Lectues ; Matthew Paris ; Rapin ; State Trials
(during the period).

rAIIITy.
" The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver during
,he Ensuing educational term ten lectures on the follow-

ing subjects :
"1. Charitable and Superstitions Trusts.
"2. The Jumdiction of Equity to enforce the Specific
Performance of Agreements.

" 3. The Jurisdiction of Equity over Principal and
Surety.
" 4. The Equitable Conversion of Real and Personal
Estate.

"5. Suits by Creditors and Legatees; and the Ad.
ministration of Assets.

"The Reader will continue with hie senior and junior
clas,ies the general CourAes of Equity already com-

ine❑ced. He will alio continue in Until classes to es•

lain the leading rules of Pleading in Equity from the

. ..
work of Lord Moedale.
" THE LAW OF REAL PROPERTY.
The Reader on the Law of Leal Property pro-

poses to deliver in the ensuing educational term
a course of ten public lectures on the following

subjects :

Fines and Recoveries, arid the Act for their
Abolition, 3d and 4th William IV., oap. 74.
" 2. A few Points on the Law of Copyholde.

" 3 Life As,ulance.
"4. The Ownership of Land by Unincorporated
Joint-Stock Companies.

" 5. Title by Prescription.
" In his private classes the Reader on the Law of
Real property will refer more particularly to the cases
cited in the public lectures. He will also continue his
c,,uree of Real Property Law, using the work of Mr.

Joshua Williams as a text book.
" JIIRISPRUDENCII AND THE CIVIL LAW.

" The Reader ou Jurisprudence and the Civil Law
proposes in the ensuing educ+►tional term to deliver a
course of ten public lectures on the following subjects :
" 1. Ancient Codes and the Characteristics of Pri-
mitive Law.

"2. The Conception of Equity ; its Ancient and
Modern History.
3. The Early History of the Law of Persons.
" 4. The Principles of Legal Classification.
" 5. The Analy,is of Law, and of the Conceptions de-
pendent on it, as affected by Bentham and Austin. ,
" ith the seni ,r private class the reader will con-
tinue to read Mackeldey's Systema June Romani hodie
Usitati, beginning with the section on obligation. On
one day of the week he will take a selected title of the
Digest. Ho will also endeavour to form a junior class
for the study of the elements of Roman law. This class,
if it be formed, will read one of the institutional treatises
from the commencement. Gentlemen desirous of joining
it aro requested to attend at Garden court on the first
private class day at a quarter to 5 p.m.
CONDION LAW.
" The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver
during the ensuing educational term, ton public lectures,
of which the first three (prior to the recess) will be de-
signed as introductory to the Law of Torts, and the seven
remaining lectures will be devoted to an examination of
the Principles of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure,
and an inquiry respecting the writ of habeas corpus.
These lectures will be as under :
" TIM LAW OF TORTS.
Lecture 1.---Nature of a Tort considered. Meaning
of the words `duty,' `injury,' and `damage' stated and
illustrated. Rights of action ex delicto, how they may
be classified and analysed.
"Lecture 2.—Classification of Rights of Act ion ex
delicto further specified.
" Lecture 3. Certain elementary principles connected
with the Law of Torts, especially the maxim, Sic uters
fuo ut alienton non ladas,' will, in concluding this part
of the course, be stated and exemplified.

TOTALS •••..•. * ".....• ...... ..

EARL ST.ANHOPE AT ABERDEEN.

£2,508,830
Net Decrease.

The installation of the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, as
Lord Rector of Marischal College and University, took

place within the College Hall, on Thursday, in presence
of a very large assemblage, including a considerable

number of ladies.

The Lord Provost and magistrates preceded the Lord
Rector and senatus into -the hall. His lordship was

received with loud cheers.

The Very Rev. Principal Dewar engaged in prayer,
after which Dr. Cruickshank, secretary of the univer-
sity, administered the oath of office.
The noble LORD RECTOR then spoke as follows, his
address . being extemporaneous throughout :—Gentle-
men, in appearing before you this day, and in offering

you my cordial thanks for the high honour you have con•
ferred upon me, I cannot but feel how much that

honour is enhanced by the entire absence, on my part,
of any local cennection with the county or city of Aber-
deen. (Applause.) I have, indeed, some Scottish ties

—I may boast of some Scottish blood in my veins but
as all my Sottish ties are south of Forth, and as an
ancient proverb declares that " Forth bridles the High-
lander," so it must also litait the local connections of the
men of Aberdeen. (Cheers.) Since, therefore, the
honour I have received is enhanced by the want of local
connection, it should also receive from me, a more
earnest expression of thanks. (Applause.) But, having
said this much, I feel that I shall best show my sense of
the favour you have bestowed upon me by passing at once
from all topics personal to myself, and addressing my-
self rather to those questions upon which my age and

experience of life, as well as the dignity amongst you to
which you have raised me, entitle me to address you in
words of counsel and guidance. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,

£4,452,550
Net Decrease.

I say, then, that it behoves all those whose education
is in progress to consider with themselves carefully what
is really the aim and object of that education. Do not
suppose that it is merely the acquisitiog of knowledge.
Knowledge is, indeed, important--nay, indispensable

I think it may be said, with regard to mathematic*,
and the progress thus made in teaching the sequence
of ideas, that Locke has scarcely exaggerated, when he
says that he should deem the studying of mathematics
an advantage on the hard, or, if you will, impossiLla
condition, that at the close of his studies, the student
should forget all the facts he had learnt, because the
habits of patient thought and investigation acquired
would be worth all the labour they had cost him.
(Cheers.) You may also observe how clearly the want
of order and combination is shown in tlie history of a
nation with which we have been lately engaged in some
not vd, friendly transactions—l mean the Chinese.
Some of the rudiments of knowledge were known to the
Chinese at a period when our ancestors were mere un-
taught and wandering savages. At a very early period
printing and type-founding and the rudiments of several
other important arts and branches of knowledge were
known to the Chinese, but, as they never applied them-
selves to connect one fact to anothr, and try to see
where they would lead, they remained mere barren
branches of speculation—they were not in fact reduced
to practice ; and thus you see the Chinese have continued,
notwithstanding these early rndimente of knowledge,
liable to be bearded by any handful of Europeans that
may land upon their shores. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, there
is one other consideration which I feel very anxious to
impress upon you. It is usual sometimes, especially
among the young, to conceive that success in life—that
eminence, either in literature or some profession, may
be gained by a sudden bound—that genius in foot may
supply the place of study. Now, gentlemen, so far as
my experience of life has gone, I should say, on the con-
trary, that study is the condition of success. (Cheers.)
Depend upon it there is the greatest truth in these words
of the Latin poet—

—but we must remember that, in many cases,
the acquisition of knowledge ie to be regarded as the
means rather than as a final end. The object should be
to make the mind strong rather than full—to make the
mind an icstrumet.t of power to work with in after
years—not a mere receptacle for facts, like some vessel
into which water may be poured. It is important that
yon should not merely master the acquisition of facts,
but learn how to apply them. I would invite you to con-

eider how strong onth is point are the expressions of no
lees an authority than Milton. Milton says—" Language
is but the instrument convoying to us things useful to
be known. And though a linguist should pride himself
to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,
yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them, as
well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much
to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or trades-
man competently wise in his mother dialect only:,
(Applause.) Now, observe from whom these words pro-
ceed—not from any man imperfectly acquainted with
ancient and modern languages, and who might therefore
have an interest in undervaluing these studies ; but
from one whose accomplishments in Italian, for instance,
are well known ; who knew Latin as well as he did
English, and who acted as Latin Secretary to the Lord
Protector, Cromwell. Any advice from such a quarter as
to the true end of the acquisition of facts must be held
to come with peculiar weight and force. If, then, lam
asked in what way, after acquiring words and the study
of languages—after acquiring facts for the study of his-
tory and science—how these aro to be turned to the best
account, I should say it is by order and combination.
Two facts taken separately may be of little value—com-
bine them, and some discovery of importance may be
the result. So long as facts remain unapplied ;so long
as you make no observation of the connection between
them, or the progress from one to another, you cannot
expect the benefit to which I have adverted. I should

Nil nisi caagno
Vita labors dedit mortalibus."

(Applause.) The more closely you look at this ques-
tion, the more you find that the exceptions to this
rule are very few, and the closer they are examined the
fewer they become. I think you will End that in
almost all pursuits it is study—it is patient labour—
which alone enables the man who will take these
pains to achieve that brilliant success which some
of you may look upon as the mere proof of unpreme-
ditated genius. (Cheers.) Wnat is ceded the inspira-
tion of poets is very often, I believe, nothing more than
an assidious practice of the rules of poetry. Now I
should like to point this out in a little more detail. None
of you would deny that study is essential in the case of
great philosophers—of men of science—that study was
all in all to Sir Isaac Newton when he discovered those
laws by which the universe is moved ; none of you will
deny that study was all in all to your own Adam Smith
when he not only founded but brought to perfection a
new science—that of political economy. (Cheers.) But
even in the case of poets, and of writers of works of fiction
you would find on inquiry that their genius is by no means
of that unpremeditated kind which is independent of
study. You might at first sight suppose that Rousseau
was indebted to genius for those bursts of eloquence that
characterised his writings, and that these were not the
result of study and of care, but in the account which he
has given us of his own mental condition he disclaims
this. On the contrary, he states his composition cost him
the greatest care and labour—that his manuscripts were
written over and over again, and that some sentences he
turned over in his mind night after night before he
brought them to the perfection he desired. I can give
you another instance of a man whom many supposed to
have been a careless man of genius, but who, in reality,
was by no means independent of careful study—l allude
to one who was in his early years connected with this
town, and whose early dwelling was pointed out to me as
I walked just now to this college—l mean Lord Byron.
(Cheers.) Now it so happens that within the last foi tnight,
I think, there has been published a book by an associate
and friend of Lord Byron—Mr. Trelawney, who glees,
among other things, an account of his mode of composi-
tion, showing with how much care and labour it was at•
tended. The work, which has come out within the period
I have mentioned relates that, on one occasion, as Lord
Byron, accompanied by Mr. Trelawney, was sailing past
the shores of Italy, on his way to Greece, he expressed
some sentiments regarding the conduct of affairs in Italy,
and the state of parties at Rome, which Mr. Trelawney
was eager to see transfeired to the glowing lines Byron
knew so well how to produce. He entreated him to
turn them into poetry. Byron sat down, and Mr. Tre
lawney left him for one or two hours busily employed on
the deck, but the verse did not come at the bidding of
the bard. He (Byron) did not, however, give up the
task, and sat pondering over the paper for nearly an
hour ; then, gnashing his teeth, he tore up what he had
wiitten, and threw the fragments overboard ; and he
said —" To extemporise verses is nonsense. Poetry is a
distinct faculty ; it will not come when called—you
might as well whistle for a wind. I must chew the cud
before I can write." And he added that he had revolved
some of his compositions for whole years in his heart
before he had attempted to write them down. Perhaps
there may be some exaggeration in this last statement,
but there can be no doubt that Lord Byron did devote
most serious study to his powers of composition. Why
do I give you instances ! Because as to men of science,
statesmen, and philosophers, you would not doubt that
study—patient study—was essential ; but you might be
disposed to dispute what I have said with regard to men
who, in their lifetime, passed as mere sons of extempo-
raneous genius. The instances I have given you from
the lives of Rousseau and Byron prove the assertion
even in this limited sense untrue. The mastery of style
is only to be acquired by patient study, which once
again I venture to recommend to you as the right and
sole condition of success. (Applause.) I know not,
however, gentlemen, why I should have enlarge speci-
ally on this theme, for I believe that in no country is
perseverance in study less wanting or less necessary to
be enforced than in Scotland. Of this I can assure you
we are well aware in England ; and I may as proof
read to you a few words from a publication, which has
appeared within the last few days, containing a report
of the annual meeting of the Institute of Liverpool. I
was reading the report of this institute for another
object, and I find that one of the speeches bears a
feeling tribute to the industry of this part of the
island. Mr. Richard Johnson, one of the principal men
in the place, says he had given some facts which be
hoped would stimulate the youth around them to pre6o;
onward, and strive for academical honours. A frill'
,---

wish to give you an instance to make my meaning
clearer, and I find this in a popular work of only the
last age. 'Miss Edgeworth, in one of those admirable
tales which have made, in oar youthful days especially,
her name as a houo3hold word to us, hay portrayed a
young lady—Miss Isabella Harcourt—whose main em-
ployment under an ill-regulated education was to learn
dates by heart, whose great pride was to Bee from time to
time some visitor bow t, her and declare he would give

the world for such a memory ! ThuP, on one occasion
she was parrot-like reciting that the first printing-press
was established in Westminster Abbey in 1494, and the
first white paper made in Eugland in 1587. "It is will
worth remarking," said a truly accomplished lady who

was present, " that literature in England must have at
that time made but a very slow progress, one hundred
years had elapsed between the establishment of your
printing press and the making of your white paper."
" That never struck me before," the younger lady re-
then, is a familiar instance, yet I
plied ; "I only learnt these things by heart to repeat in
work of more elaborate preten-
hfraTovmehedraenerYived a clearer and more striking
ciscionononvws e rlns
oacttoi re-
conversation." nlod.w"
one to show the difference between mere facts and the
use that may be made of them, or, in other words, be-
tween the faculties of memory and reason. The know-
is indispensable as a
allow them to remain
dfuledgeoornmd
foundation,
not of
ti
inwiybr
your
uts r
you
udu
daffsraeit
not
minds—they
3t
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teon ,
must be applied and com-
bined ; and thus the intelligent mind is able, as it were,
to draw them into life. (applause.) Aln this way only
you will make your first study of words and of facts con-
ducive to the improvement and maturity of your minds.
(Applause.) I cannot but think, gentlemen, that one
branch of study illustrates that progress in a remarkable
manner. Look to mathematics--(cheers)—look to that
branch especially comprised under the term geometry.
See from bow few points it proceeds—a few definitions
—a few axioms are all it has to build upon, yet by
applying one fact to another, while constantly building
find at length all the
not merely as they are
pornoptitehreefsoromf efirguforuensdaantdiobno,dyioesu,
in fact, but as reason is able to discover and evolve them.
And thus it is that from these few simple points—these
few definitions and axioms—that you arrive at length at
such admirable samples of mental argument as you find
in the 47th proposition in the first book of Euclid, or the
eighth proposition in the third book. (Applause.) You can
need no stronger proof, I think, of the advantages of not
merely acquiring words and facts, but of applying them
g what consequence follows.
to each other, and seeio

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1858.

No. I,—An Abstract of the Gross Produce of the Revenue of the 'United Kingdom, in the undermentioned periods, ended March 31, 1858, compared with
the corresponding periods of the preceding year. •

QUARTERS ENDED 1i
YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR '
. t A ------, ! ended ,---------, ,I ended
June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31,, March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, March 31,
1857 1857 1857 1858 1 1857 1856 ! 1856 1856 1857 1857
£££X.! £ £ £ £ X £
CIFSTOMS
EXCISE
STAMPS
TAXES..
PROPERTY. TAX •
POST-OFFICE
CROWN LANDS
64,000 60,654 85,000 1 70,0001 276,654 64,000 67,857 86,000 67,000 . 284,857 CROWN LANDS.
MISCELLANEOUS • . 256,382 269,434 725,707 ! 345,360 ! 1,596,887 325,419 156,343 195,842 425,5E9 1,093,173 I MISCELLANEOUS.
- --!
TOTALS
,
•
IL-INCREASE
enadnedd I
• Year ended March 31, 1858. 11.-INCREASE and DECREASE in the Quarter
Quarter ended March 31, 1858
I•DtEarCcRhE3AIS, DECREASE
and Year ended March 31, 1858, as compared
with the corresponding periods of the preceding with the corresponding periods of the preceding
year. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. year.
•
. - theas e
omp Quarterarec
.---- - -
£ £ X 4 £ £
CUSTOMS
EXCISE 353,000 •••• . • • .. 340,000 EXCISE.
STAMPS
.. ••••
....
TAXES 48,013 .... 35,987 .... TAXES.
-
PROPERTY TAX • • . • 3,551,982 • • . • 4,503,819 PROPERTY TAX.
POST-OFFICE
CROWN LANDS 3,000 .... 8,203 CROWN LANDS.
MISCELLANEOUS
.- ---
TOTALS ....... .
~...• ...... •• 1.195,261 3,704,091 612,2,1 5,061,761 TOTALS.
• . 1 i I

lII.—Au 'Account shoving the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended March 31, 1853; the Application of the Same, and the Charge of the
Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Deficiency upon such Charge.
•
. .4
Surplus Balance 'beyond the charge Of the Consolidated Fund, fbr the Quarter ended £ Net Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter ended March 3i; 158, to redemp.
Dec. 31, 1857, viz.: tion of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) for the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1857, vz. :
Total Deficien y ••• £1,211,623
. , .
Great Britain " A Abate—Redeemed by Sinking Fund •• ....... •.- • • ........ 121,0J0
'
Ireland_ 782,168 1,090,623
L. '....-5„. - ). - - .....r,.—.. 7119,164. Amount applied Og ape Income to Suppirßerikes, in the Quarter ended. March 31. _
_ .
.... 9,196,919'
Income received in the Quarter ended March 31;1858, as shown in Account 1..... 16,010,319 Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended March 31, 1858, viz. :
Interest of the Permanent Debt £5,577,130
Money received by sale of Exchequer Bills (Supply) issued to replace (In part) the Terminable Debt 1,399,985
Amount of Bills paid off in money out of the Ways and Means of the year 1857-8.. 283,600 Interest of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency)
The Civil List
Amount received in tke Quarter ended March 31, 1858, in repayment of Advances for Other Charges on Consolidated Fund .... ...........
Public Works, &c. .... ...... ............ ••.• .. • •
Sinking Fund •....• . . . . ...... ...... ••.••••• • • • • • • • .... 250,024
Saving on the charge for the Diplomatie Salaries for the year 1857 -- 7,940,' 5G
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended
Balance, being the deficiency on the 31st March, 1858, upon the charge of the Consolidated March 31, 185•., viz. :
Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends and other Charges payable in the Great Britain .... • • ............. .
Quarter to June 30, 1853, and for which Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) will be Issued Ireland .... —.. ..
in that Quarter
.... _
19,714,371 18,714,371

his when a student in a Scotch college was much pleased
to meet two shepherd lads, who had saved as much in
the summer, by tending their flocks, as enabled them to
attend the college lectures in the winter. (Applause.)
Now, gentlemen, how highly are these shepherd lads t•
be admired I (Cheers.) And how does it bring shame
to many in England, and to some, I have, no doubt, in
Scotland, who with every facility brought home to
them, neglect or undervalue thee opportunities, which
others having to toil with their hands are so nobly
striving after. (Cheers.) I think, gentlemen, you will
be convinced, from these few words I have ventured to
quote, that these efforts, so much to be admired, are not
forgotten or undervalued in the southern portion of this
island. Gentlemen, I have not yet done with this point,
('f the importance of study in all the walks of life, for
that, in reality, is the keystone of success. Now there
is one scene of success to which you may think my re-
marks will not apply. I mean speeches, such as you
hear in public assemblies—in the Houses of Lords and
Commons, for example, where you find an exterapora-
' neons and immediate reply, delivered with great force
and effect, to some speech which has only just been
ut,ered. You will find, it you consider this more closely
that the power of making such quick replies is only to
be gained by great study and by slow degrees. (Ap-
, plan,e.) And I will give you on this :object the opinion
of one of the most judicious, perhaps the most judicious
writer who ever wrote upon the subject, I will give
you a sentence from the great work of Quintilian. Does
Quiuttlian think that the mere extemporaneous faculty,
or power of sp-aking, is derived from genius alone ?
He says, "Sine hac quidem conscientia (multum inre-
scribendo laborem insumpsisse) ilia ipsa ex tempore
dicendi facultus inanem modo loquacitatem dabit et
verba in labris nascentia." Observe that happy expres-
sion—" verba in labris nascentia." Now I ask you, may
not these words remind you of that sort of rant which
we sometimes hear on some hustings; are they not
wholly distinct from that measured, well-considered wis-
dom which we find to proceed from the leaders of oppo-
site parties in the house? Does it not show in the clearest
manner, in the language of Quintiliaa, that study makes
the difference between the mere flow of words and the
real power of addressing argument, and wit, and elo-
quence, in immediate reply ! (Applause.) To make this
still clearer to you, I would venture to illustrate this by
a story derived from a different career of success. It is
related in Italy of a great painter, that, having produced
a most powerful, though perhaps, unfinished, picture, iu
three days, he asked as its price a hundred sequins. It
is said that the churlish patron demurred at the price,
saying that the sum seemed to him excessive for the
work of three days. " But waatl" cried the artist, " Do
you forget that I have been 30 years in learning how to
make this picture in three days." (Cheers.) When,
therefore, you see an immediate reply proceed from some
of the great leaders of public opinion do not deceive
yourselves by the idea that this was a mere burst of ex-
temporaneous genius, bat be assured that there has been
study, persevering study, to give the power and felicity
of this outburst, which seemed to spring up at the mo-
ment. (Cheers.) I feel tempted at this place to state to
you, from the highest authority, some of the means by
Which that important gift of readiness of speech can be
most easily and completely acquired, And you will ob-
serve that the power of extemporaneous speaking is not
confined merely, so far as utility goes, to men engaged
i❑ public life, but may in many circumstances in private
life be found of great service. Perhaps you may like to
hear some practical advice which came from a man of

the highest reputation in this respect. No man bad that
gift of using in publio speaking the right word in the
right place—no man carried that gift to a higher dogree
of perfection, as all parties have owned, than Mr. Pitt.
Now, my father had the honour to be connected in re•
lationship with that great man—(applause)---and, as
such, he had the privilege of being in the house with
him sometimes for many weeks together. Presuming
that familiar intercourse, he told me he ventured on one
occasion to ask Mr. Pitt by what means—by what
course of study—he had acquired that admirable
readiness of speech —that aptness of finding the right
word. Mr. Pitt replied that whatever readiness
he might be thought to possess in that respect he be-
lieved he derived much from a practice his father, the
great Lord Chatham, had enjoined on him. Lord Cha-
tham had bid him take up any book in some foreign lan-
guage with which he was well acquainted—in Latin,
Greek, or French, for example. Lord Chatham then
enjoined him to read out of this work a passage in Eng-
lish, stopping where he was not sure of the word until
the riot one came, and then proceed. Mr. Pitt states
that he had assiduously followed this practice. At first
he had often to stop f..r a while before he could find
the proper word, but he found the difficulties gradually
disappear, until what was a toil to him at first became
an easy and familiar task. (Cheers.) Of course, Ido
not mean to say, that with men in general the same sue-
ce-s as in the case of Mr. Pitt, or anything like it. would
be found to follow this same course of practice ; although
I am able to assure you, from other cases I have known,
that a course of study of this kind is of great use in re-
moving the difficulties of extemporaneous speaking ; and
it not only gives its aid in public speaking, but also in
written composition. Moreover, you will find this
course has the advantage of confirming and extending
your knowledge of some valuable author, who had al-
ready been made the subject of study ; and on these
grounds it is by no means unworthy of your thoughtful
attention. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have hitherto spoken
of study as the condition of success in active life, but I
should do great injustice to study and to those lldterriao7
attainments which are the result of study,
if rsiddie con-
point out other objects to which they maY
ducive. And first, I would point outtute.y.Fi''s in a
period
°passage where
a resource and refuge literature ant
the words of Quin
of sorrow. I ventured to qaotedtaorlY:
ay
many
of you are
tillian on another point, but
vld
uhabi se:bluVeteli °flat:Tall CiraStoino.qHureergenodesa
familiar with the touchinieogtsa:liolf
he laments the untimely:,
uvei v criso eputai sal
vmeirsu
nv
ti
er)i,s
yquoui
eognt,t
co unicum adver-
soruna solatinee literati t
observe that he
sop, tywoure a versorum solatium." We know from
Sr: qd
speav •
of the writings of that time, as from severLi
Pa"age •
Juvenal, the contemporary of Quintilian— as
passages
zn
for exaruPle his " Stygio ranas in gurgite nigras," to
what contempt the old heathen superstitions had already
fallen, while the rays of a clearer faith had not yet begun
to shine, At the period when Quintilian lived thel world