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INSTALLATION OF THE EARL OF
ELGIN AS LORD RECTOR 0! GLASGOW
UNIVERSITY.

On Thursday afternoon, in the City Hall, Glas-
gow, the Right Hon. Lord Elgin was formally in-
stalled as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
The hall was densely crowded, the area being oc-
cupied by students, and the galleries by ladies and
members of the general council. The Lord Rector
was accompanied to the platform by Mr. Stirling of
Kcir, M.P.' Dean of Faculty, the principal and pro-
fessors, and several distinguished persons, includ-
ing Lord and Lady Belhaven, Sir Archibald Alison,
Sir Jolla Maxwelluf Pollock, Mr. Andrew Banna-
tyne, and the members of the University Court, Sze.
Principal *BAuciint, having delivered a Latin
prayer, briefly introduced the Lord Rector to the
students.

The Earl of ELGIN was received with cheers.
After the applause had subsided, he said—Mr.
Principal, Professors, and Students, if I owed tti6
position which I occupy here to-day to anything
but to the unsolicited, and. I must add, the most

unmerited and unexpected ftvour and kindness of
the students of the University, I might well shrink
frcm the execution of the task which long-esta-
blished usage prescribes to me on this occasion. I
know full well that the office which I now so un-

worthily fill has been held by a succession of
eminent men, whose high reputation and great
literary attainments have lent weight and autho-
rity to the counsels which they have proffered from
this place. (Cheers.) Three years ago, when your
late rector delivered his inaugural address, I had
the good fortune to be present and to hear the
charms of literature pourtrayed, and the cause of
learning pleaded before sympathising listeners by
one of the greatest—perhaps I might without ex-
aggeration say by the greatest—living master of
our language. (Great applause.) And even now,
gentlemen—need I confess it—what chiefly over-
whelms me on the present occasion is the reflection
that, during the late contest, your suffrages were
claimed on behalf of a candidkto whose great

natural gifts, improved by cultivation and study,
and acquirements, have placed him on the highest
eminence both in literature and statesman-

ship. (Cheers.) And yet, gentlemen, conscious
as I am of my inferiority to these illustrious men,
and of my unworthiness either to succeed or to re-
place them, I cannot but feel that the opportunity
of addressing such an audience as this, at such a
time as the present, which the partiality—the un-
deserved partiality—of the students of the Uni-
versity, has afforded me, is a privilege—to be
exercised, indeed, under a deep sense of responsi-
bility; but, notwithstanding, a privilege which, as
it has como, to me unsought, it would be an act of
pusillanimity on my part to forego. For what,
gentlemen, let me ask. is the character and position
of this audience ? It hAs been affirmed, on high

, .
authority; that a knowledge of •the sentiments and
opinions and convictions of the -educated youth of a
community is the surest and most infallible source

of politictil foresight. But if this be indeed so,
does it not follow, and is it not a solemn thought,
well calculated at once to encourage and dismay,
that every word of truth dropped from earnest lips
upon this pregnant soil may, with God's blessing,
in due season bring its tribute to the harvest of the
future. And what, let me ask again—what are the

signs of the times at which I am invited to exer-
cise this privilege? Are they not full of instruction
and earning ? Do they not contrast strangely,
even ominously, with those of a period not long
preceding ? Can we close our ears to the lessons
which they inculcate respecting the quality and
temper of the moral and intellectual armour with
which the educated classes iu this country must he

Provided, if, along the lino of our national progress,
they are henceforward to hold that place in the
van which of right belongs to them ? (Applause.)
What is it that strikes the imagination of even the

most thoughtless and unreflecting, when they com-
pare—to go no farther back—the phenomena
which characterised the commencement ot. this de-

cade with those which distinguished its close ? At.
the former period hymns of universal peace and
brotherhood, a palace of unprecedented dimensions,
of a novel and exquisite structure, raised as
if by enchantment to be the receptacle of the
products of the industry of the earth—such
proofs accumulated there of man's control over
the powers of nature, of the subserviency of
modern science to purposes of human utility,
of the wide-spread benefits of commercial in-
terchange, that 'it seemed hardly extravagant or
unreasonable to anticipate that, before the light of
this resistless demonstration, the vile passions that
begat discord, and the selfishness that checks inter-
course, would, self-abashed at their own deformity,
vanish like night spectres before the dawn. (Cheers.)
As a result, in toe many quarters, it is to be feared,
faith in a civilisation materialistic rather than
moral, in the substitution of a cunningly-devised
social mechanism for the energy, and self-reliance,
and spiritual elevation of the individual man, in a
haven to be reached through self-indulgence rather
than self-sacrifice. (Applause.) And what, let me
ask again—what are the phenomena which distin-
guish the close of the decade ? Dark clouds over-
head, furrowed by the lightning track—below the
nations gathered together in perplexity, and
anxiously inquiring on what spot the thunderbolt
will fall—the hard-worn economies of human in-
dustry, the knowledge of nature's secrets, so dearly
bought, all recklessly expended in the invention,
and fabrication, and accumulation of the instru-
ments of human destruction ; and, as a consequence
—a not unnatural consequence—a growing distrust
in many of the specious promises of the 19th cen-
tury, and an anxious groping in the dark after some
ground of confidence more stable, more sufficient,
and more secure. Gentlemen, I hope that I shall
be pardoned, and • not be accused of overstepping
the line which upon such occasions as this it would
be unbecoming to pass, if I confess that I am reluc-
tant to quit this topic, which is so suggestive of
painful and anxious thoughts, without saying one
word in reference to the spirit exhibited, and the
attitude maintained, by the people of this country
at the present juncture. (Applause.) We have
been in the habit of referring to the records of a
remote and comparatively barbarous age for proofs
and evidences of the patriotism of our countrymen.
The noble protest in favour of nation al independence
uttered by our forefathers at Bannockburn preceded
by upwards of a century the date of the Pupal Bull I
which constituted the University of Glasgow. Since
that time Scotland has passed through many changes
and viseissitudes. She has advanced in wealth and
prosperity with a rapidity almost unexampled.
Glasgow has grown up from a petty village into a
mighty city,and,under thecombined influence ofcapi-
tal and science, the Clyde at her feet kas grown per-
haps not quite in the same proportion. The happy
union with England has allayed ancient animosities,
and concentrated upon objects of common advantage
the energies that were formerly wasted in fratricidal
conflict. The inhabitants of this island are now,
thank God, a people united in heart as in name,
attached to their institutions, jealous of their rights,.
respectors I trust of the rights of others, lovers of
peace, averse to all. notions of territorial self-aggran-
disement. lint if there be any persons who appre-
hend that luxury has corrupted, or the pursuits of
peace enervated, the national character, the events
of the last few months may serve to disabuse than.
(Applause.) Do we find taxation complaiii,edofo
or
personal service grudged when the aft
tic
country seems to call for .
either of thesesscrifices2.
Depend upon it, the.nation been las it
sneer-
ingly designated a nation of shopkeepers is one in
spirit with the nation of warriors that preceded it
—(applause)—equally ready to spend the last
ling and to shed the last drop of blood for the pre-
servation of blessings which each succeeding age
has only taught us the more highly to appreciate
the value of. Your minds are being early brought
into contact—and allow me to say this is no mean
advantage—practically and experimentally brought
into contact with some of the deepest problems of
life and humanity. Under the influence of this in-
vigorating discipline, some of you, at least, are
acquiring those habits of serious thought, of earnest
inquiry, and of devout reverence for truth, which
*ill fit you to be, in the time that is coming. the
guides and the light of the generation to which you
belong. Let, me warn,you, then—for thi§_i§ a dan-
ger to which youth is especially exposed—let me