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the nations of the east, or sail forth with Columbus to
discover new worlds in the west. They may pee
into all the unlocked treasures of universal anti
quity, or they may. with all the zeal and enthusiasm
of patriots, trace the history of their own country,
from the time when the Roman Caesar landed upon
her shores, until, passed through the fiery trials
which she had to endure from Pict and Scot, Saxon,
Dane, and Norman, the conquerors and the con-
quered, all became fused into one mighty mass, and
the fierce struggle began which has gradually changed
and developed the constitution from the aspect which
it wore in feudal times, into that form of rational
liberty which it now bears—(Hear, hear, and
applause)—and which, much as we may cavil at and
criticise it in the excitement of political warfare,
makes our country the dear, delightful Old England,
which we still rejoice to call her in our lighter moods
and hours of relaxation—(Cheers)—or Young Eng-
land, if you would better like to have it so, aye, as
young in energy, as young in strength, as young in
capability, vitality, and prowess, as when her Ed-
wards and her Henrys led forth her chivalry to con-
quest, or when Elizabeth grasped her sceptre in her
hand, the type of our own Victoria, as well in the
truly English complexion of her character as in the
hold which she possessed over the hearts and affec-
tions of her people.—(Loud cheers.) And it is ac-
cording to the fitness of things, according to the
precedent of times gone by, that literature and the
arts and the sciences, and institutes fur their protec-
tion and encouragement, should flourish in this great
seat of commerce. There has ever been a close al-
liance between the fine arts and the merchant princes
of the world.—(Cheers.) We read in that book
which is the highest of all authorities, that Solomon,
when building his splendid and glorious temple, sent
for the most skilful and cunning of his workmen from
Tyre, the queen of waters.—(Cheers.) At a
later period, it is to the commercial cities of
Greece that we turn to witness the arts in
their glory, and to behold the most refined and po-
lished people of their day. As we come down the
stream of time, and reach the middle ages, we find
the great protectors of literature, and the most de-
voted champions of intellectual improvement among
the leading men of the flourishing mercantile com-
munities of Italy. And as it was then, so it is now
in our own country, and from what I have seen of
the inhabitants of Hull, their literary tastes, their
colleges, their institutions for encouraging the arts
and developing the mind, quite certain am I that
commerce still preserves its charter, and is as much
the guardian of science, the patron of mental cultiva-
tion, and the advocate of refinement and education in
the nineteenth century, as at any former period in the
history of the world.—(Loud cheers.) And now,
before I sit down, I must say a word or two to those
who are enjoying the intellectual advantages which
this Institution, so happily for them, places within
their reach. Next to religion, and subject to religion,
mental cultivation is the best gift which man can
possess. But to make it so, we must appreciate all
its value. You come here to be educated and to edu-
cate yourselves. But what is education? It is not
merely to hear so many lectures and to read so many
books, and then to go away and forget all that you
have been listening to and reading. This is tempo-
rary excitement, and not education.—(Hear, hear.)
Education is to be judged of as it makes you wiser or
better and more useful men in your age and gene-
ration—(Hear, hear)—and to produce this end, lec-
tures and books are means, but, remember, only
means. There is a wide difference between means and
ends. The guide-post by the wayside is a means.
It points to the road you are to take, but you are
to perform the journey. A ship is a means of trans-
port; the end to be accomplished, a successful
voyage to whatever region of the earth your business
may call you. But if, when you are embarked,
you never weigh the anchor, never set sail, but still
abide at your original moorings, what signifies it that
the breeze is fair and the weather favourable ; you are
on ship-board to be sure, but still, although you should
remain there to all eternity, you be no nearer
your destination than you were at first—an anchored
vessel makes no way.—(Cheers.) Recollect, also, in the
pursuit and acquisition of knowledge, to classify and
arratig e the various branches of information which you
accumulate, so as, if I may borrow a somewhat trite
and worn-out phrase, to have each and every
one th.tketed and ready for use at a moment's notice,
whenever you may want it. A chaos of learning is
much more wonderful than it is :advantageous to its
possesnor. The man with every sense, but common
sense, is as helpless as a child when exposed to the rub
and bustle of the world. It is the philosopher over again,
who, when the vessel in which he was embarked was
about to founder, having read much in books
of anchors of hope and anchors of safety, but knowing
nothing practically of their use, lashed himself to the
best bower, and then smiled in lofty pity at the igno-
rance of the poor creatures who were going to trust
themselves to rafts and planks..—(Laughter and
cheers.) Bear in mind, too, that the human
intellect, like the whole body, is all the better
for healthy exercise. It is not like the miser's
treasure which perishes in the using. It is not oven
like the fabled tree of heathen mythology, from
which, when its once golden bough was plucked,
another ever shot forth to supply its place. It
is a treasure which increases„ and only can
be increased, by constant use.—(Applause.) In this
point of view the intellect of man is a complete para-
dox. It is disuse which wastes, consumes, and im-
pairs it, while use adds to it, enlarges, and to all its
original capital brings interest and p compound interest,
at a rate of per tentage which no usury ever dreamed
of in the world.—(Cheers.) One other hint, and I
have done. " Drink deep or t aste not" at the
intellectual fountain. You can never be too
wise or too good. It was,. as you have
beers told once before this eveninq, a saying of the
great Sir Isaac Newton, " that he appeared to him-
self only as a child picking up pebl33es from the shore,
while the great ocean of truth lay unexplored before
him." The most aspiring genius can hardly hope to
be a Newton in the lofty flight of his exalted mind
and surpassing talents, but his humility is within the
reach of all, and a more becoming inantle cannot rest
upon the shoulders of the most gifted scholar.—
(Cheers.) And you, the friends and patrons, and advo-
cates of this Institution, cease not from the-support
whip h you have hitherto given to it, but rather
increase your fostering care in its behalf. It is a fit-
ting ordinance of Providence that the interests of all
classes of the community are clost!ly bound up to-
getl ier.—(Hear.) No one member of the body po-
litic can suffer long without all the other members
suffering with it.—(Hear.) No I pestilence, whether
plague or ignorance, no disease, moral or physical, can
for any length of time afflict those wl io dwell around the
base of the social pillar without el rentually infecting
the atmosphere breathed by those who occupy its
pinnacle. But this is only appealing to your
selfishness, while it is rather the spirit of philanthropy
which we wish to see invoked and stirred within you.
Calculate, then, the immensity of good which this
institution may be the means of working for mankind.
—(Applause.) But you cannot calculate it. We
live in an age when the circulati on of the human
species, if I may so phrase it, thr lough annihilated
time and space, is almost miraculeausly accelerated,
so that it is impossible even to guess how far and
fast mind may act upon mind, or how soon
the intellectual leaven which you c ast into the great
human mass at this point of the en spire to-day, may
bas working and fermenting at its very opposite ex-
tremity. May the march of improNtetnent go on and
prosper under your auspices ! llt ant to see Eng-
land as celebrated for the intellect and civilisation of
her people, as she is famous for the 3oom, the shuttle,
the plough, and the ship.—(Cheers.), I want to see
her as mentally refined as she is mechanically
strong.—(Loud cheers.) I want, in. short, to see her
made more and more a country, at the very thought
and recollect ion of which the Esto incrpetua, the " Be
thou eternal of the Italian, may spring to the lips of
all her sons—a country to which, in whatever region
of the world their lot may place them, their pride arid
affections may still cling with izadying tenacity,
while their feelings find themselves a voice in the lan-
guaAe of the
,poet—
" Where er I roam, whatever clines I see,
My heart, untravelled, fondly Curns to thee."
—(Loud and long continued cheering, amid which
the reverend and eloquent gentleman resumed his
seat.)
Th
Sir W. Lowthrop ; Mr. Alderman Thtonmtpnseohaairo.i.
Esq.,ethmeee:fianygnwe r
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flhn addressed
ieiull; James ea Jno,is,nepodh,JEsncine.s;,
other gentlemen. Thanks were vote
manadn'otthheergice
who severally returned thanks.
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abtotreonudgehd, attrlided the Record

HEROIC CONDUCT OF A SAlLOR.—Thursday morn-
ing, as Mr. Braddy, of St. Margaret's Bank, Roches-
ter, was being rowed up the Medwaiy, he saw a boy
fall overboard from a steam-gig:, and t Laving given the
alarm, tiro sailors from her Majesty's sl iip Comus put off
in a boat and rowed to the spot. Wh( ,n they got to the
place he had sunk, but one of them plunged into the
water, dived, and brought up the mail in a state of in-
sensibility ; but he was speedily resto;:ed.