Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-12

Installation of Lord Broushnm as
Chancellor of the Edinburgh Uni
verstty--His Address.
On Friday, May IS, the venerable Lord
Broughom was formally installed rs Chan
cellor of the Edinburgh University, in
presence of a vast assembIage, including
many of the principal scientific and lit
crary men of Great Britain. Lord
Brougham was introduced by the SOlici-
tor General, and conducted to the chair
by Sir David Brewster, e-Chancellor.
Afr some preliminary business the new
Chancellor delivered his inaugural ad-
dress.
He referred to the great names connected
with the University, the superiority OF
Greek over Roman orntory, and then
| urged the importance of an undivided at
| teution to the objects of study, in illustra-
ton of which he said, had Burrows pro-
fcssional studies and his attention to the
eloqucuce of the pulpit not intcrfercd
with his mathematical pursuits, he would
probably, Formal, but for his official
! duties, aud his general spccuations, would
certainly have made the great discovery
| of the calculus to which both had so near
| ly approached. What might not have been
| expected from the bold and happy conjec-
lures of Franklin under the guidance of
| the iaductivc method, so fnmliur TO him in
! all its rigor, had he not devoted his life to
| the more important cause of his country
and her libertics2 Priestley's discoveries,
all but accidental, however important
were confined in their extent and per-
versely misapprchended in their results by
the controversies, religious and political,
| L i,
life Discurlcs, instead of the one great
step which the mathematics owe him, was
destined to make vast progress in physical
science, and not TO leave his name known
by a mere bNscless hypothesis, had he not
been @ Ssdpgsiab pngesiabupEl ipEl d4fPtEG Same NsSdHde=
ton, Joined to his leg Il labors would as.
sur"dly have come near the Sewtonlan
system in dyanimics, as he preferred just
claim to share it's analytical rcno~n On
the other hand, mark the results Of concen-
! trAtcd power, in Bacon wisely nbstaining
from the application OF his own philoso-
ply when lie found that previous study
| had not fitted him for physical inquirieSi
! Newton avoided all distraction, save when
he deemed his highest duties required
some intermissiou of his habitnal lahorsi
nay, had Lenardo da Einci INDUCED in the
| Investigations of natural science, 1or when
| he entertained so remarkable talent ana
| has left eurh feicitous anticipations, his
namc as one of the first OF artists would
have been unknown; and had Voit"ire
prosecuted the study of chemistry. i'll
! which he was so near making two of the
greatest discoveries, we should never have
| had the tragedies, the ronanccs, aud the
general history, the foundations of his
| fame. The speaker then urged the suPc-
| riority of Greek over Roman oratory.
! He instituted a comparison between the
Emperor Napoleon J. and the Duke of
f! Wellington, in the course of which he said:
! 1t is said that the present ruler OF France
returned from his successful camPnlgn I'M
pressed with deep sense of its horrors,
! and that his wise devotion to the peaceful
| Improvement Of the country has been
! stimulated by tue recollection of the scenes
nc had witnessed. Let us hope and trust
lhHt no vile fiutterer will ever succeed in
| tempting him to abandon his course, and
that he will join all virtuous and rational
men in discountennncing the feelings
which, underhis predecessor, were produce
tive of such misery to France and to the
world-fcclings which imposed and still
impose upon all ncighhorug nations the
! heavy cost of uuceasing wutchtulness and
preparation.
Lord Brougham next cxpatiated Oh the
cruelty and injustice OF reilSlouS lhtolef-
nnce. in the course of which hc explained
and controverted the skeptical theories OF
Hume; but lie said, greatly as this cele-
brated writer is to be blamed for the rash
ness of his speculntions and his yielding to
the bins which appears to have influenced
him in these aud other inquiries, he Is
almost entirely free from the charge just
Ily made against Voltaire and his cen
Itemporares, some of whom, as Vol
taire himself, were Deists, of treating
these matters with ridiculG, or with ribald-
ry, or with levity wholly unsuitcd to the
sacrad subject, and fitted only to iniiict
pain upOn conscientious believers. In up
holding the great trTths OF rcTeAled reiig-
ion and of the Gospel dispensNtion, the
speaker said that that dispensation may be
safely rested upon its own proofs; but
should the weight of authority be required
lin its favor. we may assuredly ask if any
one cnn pretend to be better judge OF
physical and mathematical evidence t"an
Sir Isaac Newton, of moral evidence than
Mr.. Locke, of legal evidence than Lord
Hale. all of whom, and after full inquiry,
were frlu believers of the Gospel truths
Natural theology, he said, stands at the
head of all sciences, from the sublime and
eIeyatiuq nature of its objects. 1t tells OF
the creation of all things, of the mighty
Power that fashioned and sustains the uni
verse, of the exquisite skill that contrlved
the wings and beak and feet of insects,
invisible to the naked eye, and that
lighted the lamp of day, and launched
into space comets myriads OF times iHrg-
er than the earth, whirling ten thousand
times svifter than a cannon ball, and