The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-20 00:00:00

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7HE HON. JIL G. KEOYS LECTURE.

The Bermuda papers are again very enthusiastic
about a lecture (the third) delivered by the local
Colonial Secretary, the Hon. M. G. Keon. Refer-
ring to it, the Bermuda Chronicle of the 15th ult.
observes:—

We have just been listening to what may, with-
out the slightest approach to exaggeration, be cha-
racterised as the most magnificent lecture that was
ever delivered in St. George's—our ears are still
tingling with its thrilling eloquence, and from town's
end to town's end is but one long drawn note of
admiration. Aud it adds —on Monday evening the
Hon. Miles Gerald Keon, our colonial secretary, in
kind compliance with a pressing invitation from all
the principal inhabitants of our town delivered his
third lecture on Government in the Town-hall of
St. George's. The lecture had been for some time
announced ; the proceeds, it was explained, were to
be devoted towards an excellent and popular local
work—the formation of a Public Library; the fame
of the lecturer had already reached us in connection
with similar exhibitions in Hamilton, from which
every one who could appreciate profoundness of
thought, felicity of expreision, and genuine elo-
quence of delivery, had retired in admiration ; and
expectation was naturally wound up to a high
pitch ; for once in a way expectation was not only
not disappointed, but we speedily found that, as
the Queen of Sheba said to King Solomon, " the
half had not been told us."

The arrangements of the hall reflected the highest
credit on the thoughtful consideration of the gentle-
man under whose superintendence the whole affair
was got up—W. C. Hylind, Esq. Chairs were
provided for the audience and numbered, so that
every one was provided with:a comfortable seat to
himself, and ersily found—a great point in securing
an attentive and good-natured audience; a chande-
lier and other lights gave just sufficient light, and
not too much. The hall was quite full—and when
we say "everybody" was there, we mean every-
body of position or intellect in St. George's—the
inhabitants generally and a good sprinkling of visi-
tors from other parts of the islands.
We have also to notice an arrangement peculiarly
affecting our individual comfort—for the first time
we imagine in the history of Bermuda, the distinct
accommodation for the press, usual in every other
civilised country on the occasion of all meetings of
a public character, was provided—and our best
thanks are due to Mr. Hyland for this act of kind
thoughtfulness.

The doors were opened at six o'clock so as to
allow the audience time to find their way to their
seats without confusion, and shortly after seven the
lecture commenced.

Mr. Hyland introduced the lecturer, who was
welcomed with a burst of applause, iu a few appro-
priate sentences.

Mr. Keon opened with a well-turned compliment
to his audience, but complained in a playful manner
that they had rather "put him in a hole" by calling
on him to re-deliver a lecture which, he might say,
had been already twice laid before an audience. He
next dilated on the enormous practical range,' of
the principles of Government, which are as really
applicable to the management of school boys and
the taming of wild beasts as to the administration
of the affairs of a nation. The principle of Govern-
ment is to be found in the fact that man is not in-
tended to live alone, but in communities, in which
all must be more or less affected by one central
mind and all by each other. Briefly recapitulating
the substance of his former lectures, he laid it down
that all political power comes from God alone—that
there were several forms of Government in different
countries and ages, and different classes of machi-
nery by which these several forms were put in exe-
cution. Ile proceeded to deliver an elaborate and
magnificent definition of the "st tes m, " a cha-
racter which in all history it had been the noblest
ambition of the greatest and best of men to deserve.
What the mind is to the body natural the statesman
is to the body corporate—the one central vivifying
principle. He spoke of a Republic as the last and
—perhaps, alas! Utopian—form of Government,
but for which men must be prepared by education,
and by education alone; whenever sordid ends and
selfish interests begin to prevail, the glorious ends
of the founders begin to be frustrated. The lec-
turer next laid it down that all means of Govern-
ment resolve themselves under two heads—physical
force and moral force; but he impressively pointed
out that the moral must always initiate, and there-
fore precede the physical; and in noticing the in-
fluence of public opinion as one of the developments
of moral force, cited a list of names of those who
had most notably swayed public opinion, among
which those of Mahomet in one direction, and St.
Bernard in the opposite, were the most prominent.
The effect of the Crusades on the history of the
Western World of the era was handled in a mas-
terly manner. Again referring to his previous lec-
tures, he remarked that the moral powers that have
ruled the world may be enumerated as five, among
which one is more fortuitous, because more per-
sonal than the rest, add said there were three forms
in which men had become truly great—namely, civil
wisdom, military genius, and oratorical genius. But
he was not confined to five as the absolute number
of the moral powers ; they were merely the main-
springs. He mentioned the ballad literature of a
country and imagination as other instances, and
drew a magnificent picture of the ceremonial of the
Czars coronation at Moscow by way of illustration
of the influence of the latter. Eloquence also he
cited as another of the prominent moral powers,
and pointed out that so rare is this gift that in the
course of upwards of a century England and France
between them had only succeeded in producing four
genuinely (improvising) eloquent men, Dan. O'Con-
yell, the Earl of.'Derby, Abbe Lacordaire, and La-
martine, and with a glowing and life-like picture of
the last named orator's long day's successful struggle
with the wild passions of an armed mob in Paris,
the lecturer concluded—we need hardly say amid
along and hearty applause. The best comment we
can offer on this really wonderful lecture is, that
had not the native modesty of true genius forbidden
it, Mr. Keon might well have added his own name
to the list of those who have won a foremost place
among the ranks of genuine orators.
The proceedings concluded by a few brief and
very appropriate expressions of thanks by Mr.
Hyland, on behalf of the gentlemen of St. George's,
the young men of St. George's, and the ladies, whose
self-constituted champion for the occasion he de-
clared himself to be.
The above is a very meagre outline of this brilliant
and most interesting lecture. The preparation of
our notes in such a form as to do anything like
justice to it requires more time than we have it in
our power to bestow, in the limited interval
between
the conclusion of the lecture and our going to press.

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