The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the London Sun, March 70.
Installation OF Mr.. MAcauIsy ms Rector OF the
University Of Glasgow.

now present our readers.with a detailed report
The ceremony excited much interest in Glasgow, and
the demand Tor tickets OF admission was If not absolute.
ly unprecedented, at least very brisk The proceedings
were fixed to commence at IL o'clock, but long before
that hour the venerable gates of the college were be-
Seged oy eager applicants Tor admission consisting prin
clpaliy OF the students and their friends The college
hail. IN which the installation took place. is in nowise
remarkable structure Is spacious and there its merit
begins and ends The room is long and narrow along
aporton OF one side runs long, elevated bench oppo
slte is small pulpit and desk and either extremity
TWO galleries cross the hall at light angles The floor is
taKen up win un6acked benches. inscribed with the
names OF the different classes in the University who have
Alright to occupy them
On the present occasion the studens-togaH and
togGtmached into the hall from their respective class
rooms and the space appropriated for them speedily
crammed by as noisy SET OF young gentlemen as can
well be conceived The galleries were SET apart exclu-
sively for ladies, and well filled
The students had been admitted after II O'Clock
and from that time until IL the uproar was neessant
Calls continually made for cheers for popular and
groans for unpopular, personages The of the pro-
lessons mostly received with acclaim alton Then the
ladies' in the gallery honored with three deafening
cheers and the of the Earl of Eslnoun obtained
similar tribute. Three distinct rounds of groans were
appropriated to the police, Qhere had believe, been
gates9 and three cheers, and ultimately counter cheers
were given for anybody or for nobody in particular
Few minutes before y o'clock the dgnaries of the
college made their appearance. Mr. Macaulay in his
robes as Lord Rector marched behind the mace bearer
alter him came the Reverend Principal the Professors
and some Of the municipal dignitares Mr. Macauay
soek tne cnit, supported on the hand by Principal
and the other hand by Professor Ramsey
ihe other professors ranged right and left; and
amongst them Lord Belhaven, the Lord Advocate and
Babies. Smith, Orr, and Stewart.
The party received with great cheering from the
students.
The Rev. Principal opened the proceedings by short
Latin prayer: After which
Professor Ramsey read the minute of eecon-also in
Latln-by which MIR. Macaulay was declared to have
been duly chosen Lord Rector The learned gentleman
then recited the formula of oath, which Mr.. Macau
lay repeated after him, and which he signed
principal addressed the assembire in the foow ine
words: My first duty, gentlemen, return you my
thanks for the high honor you have conferred upon me-
unsolicited, and can assure you it was wholly unex,
pected | may add. that if had been invited to become
candidate for your suirages, should have respectfully
happy as to be able to call my
from this place last year. in language which well became
n9 as Tod
equal truth declare that would have come forward
to dispace SO esmabe gentleman and 50 accomplished
was not for him. and feel this year that it is not
Tor me- to question the proprey OF your decision, in
point on which, by the constitution OF your body,
tulness the Office to which called. fully purposing
70 use whatever powers belong to il with the single view
University. Loud cheers.l Gentlemen am not using
mere phrase, OF course, when say that the feelings
with which bear part in this ceremony such as
find it difficult to clothe in words Hear hear1 am
not surprised that when that great of eoquence
Edmund Burke, stood where now stand he faItered and
remained mute. Doubtless the multitude of feeling and
thoughts which at that moment rushed on his mind
such he found it difficult to arrange and to ex
press. And it might well be so; for to the rejecting
mind doubt whether any spectacle could be more affect
place OF education presents the day of great public
sos7mnity (tiea5, hear There is something essen.
venerable antiquity of the body and the fresh and ardent
youth OF the great majority of those who compose it.
bCheers.] Recoections and hopes crowd on the mind
ton1t| fufro hrn,,.
manner in which other ceremony links them together
Our thoughts wander back the days when the founda
hons Of this ancient building were laid and forward to
the times when those whom office teach and
guide will be the teachers and the guides OF poster
y:. lCheersl And on the present occasion we may,
with peculiar poprety give such Thoughts free course
1or mas go CHANGED that my magisracy has fallen in
great secular epoch.
This is the four hundrelth year of the existence of
Jubilees OF which man than one-t is nat
uTa, it is good that body like this which outives all
the tansitory paris of which it is composeda body OF
corporate existence and perpetual successlonshould
view its annals should etrace It's progress from infancy
to maturity and try to derive from the experience gen
eratlons which have passed away some lessons which
And In this case, gentlemen, the retrospect full of in
terest and Importance doubt whether would be pos
remarkable and more important 10 the highest interests
OF mankind than that which this society began to ex
ist Hear hear] 1t was an era of great destruction,
put II was also An era OF great creation Your society
began to exist just at the when the Empire of the
East was fallng-that strange empire, which dragging
on lingering existence through the long aye of dark
ness, connected together two great ages of ght-that
empire which, adding itself nothing TO our stores of
knowledge-whch producing itself not man eminent
IN literature science. the arts-ye preserved in the
midst OF barbarism those monuments of Athenan genius
which the highest minds still contemplate, and long will
continue to contemplate with admirng despair Loud
cheersl
But at that very moment, when the fanatica Mcsem
was sacklng Consantnopegvingt to the flames piles of
Grecian eoquencebreakng fragments master pieces
OF Grecan sculpture-at that moment in a distant part
OF the world, few humble German artisans who little
knew they were creating power compared with which
that OF the victorious Sultan insignificant busted
IN cutting and setting the first printing types Loud cheer
ing Your society began TO exist just early enough to
the last vesge of the Roman empire disappear and
just late enough 10 the earliest printed book
lCheers AT that perod-a period of unrivaed interest
IN the history OF leters-a to be mentioned
without veneaton by any lover of letters held the first
place in Europe The attachment which we feel for our
Protestant faith must not prevent this place and
on this day from doing justice 10 the memory of the
founder of the University of Gasgowthe greatest of the
revivers of earning-Pope Nicholas the Fifth [IIear
Sprung from amongst the people, he yet at an
early age attracted the notice of the great He studied
much--he travelled far-he visited Britain which was
to his native Tuscany what the vast settlements OF
America are to Britain now. He the companion
anu tee friend OF those merchant princes OF Florence
VINO ns ennobed trade by making it the ally of letters
science ana taste 1t was he who, under the protection
OF the munlfcent and Discerning Cosmo collected and
arranged the first public library Of which modern Europe
could boast lCheers From obscurity and privacy
your founder rose TO throne. but on the throne he
never forgot the noble studies which had DELIGHTED him
IN uoscurty and privacy. He was the centre 6vure III An