their estimate of the real importance and urgency of this healing measure; and though I do not much dwell or insist on this ground, I cannot, before closing these remarks, refrain from asking why, in the face of those evils which we have experienced, and in the face of those advantages which we may hope to realize-I cannot refrain from asking why may not human legislators sometimes endeavour to act in the spirit of that blessing which the National Church repeats on every Christmas morning, "I will bless her fruits with increase, and will satisfy her poor with bread?" And as I may be asked whether the chosen people of old in reference to whom these words are used were confined to the limits of their own rocky and barren Judea, I would quote again, in reference to the foreign modes of supply which might be pursued by them, "The kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring presents; the kings of Arabia and Sheba shall bring gifts: there shall be a handful of corn on the earth, on the tops of the mountains." I will not venture to recommend the great cause we have in hand to any meaner consideration; I will not let my argument stoop from the height to which it may truly be raised, but I commend the whole question of Free Trade, Free Corn, and Free Food to the reason, the feelings, and the consciences of mankind.

The UNDER-SHERIFF having formally declared LORD VISCOUNT MORPETH duly elected, he came forward, and said :—

GENTLEMEN, AND I MAY NOW AGAIN ADD, CONSTITUENTS,

This is indeed like old times, and recalls many stirring memories. We have, Gentlemen, as I remember Sir Robert Peel to have said—and Liberals are now able to quote Sir Robert Peel-in talking of our last victories in India, coming after the preceding reverses, 66 we have effaced the memory of our shame upon the field of our previous disasters." The West Riding, I am told, has its own again. There is no title in the gift of the monarch, the minister, or the people, which I should be so proud of as the "West Riding's Own." And, Gentlemen, it is no selfish or personal victory that we have won to-day. Broad as is this Riding, multiplied as its interests are, the effects of our struggle and our triumph cannot be confined to any local bounds; I hope it cannot be confined to any single constituency in its ultimate effects-cannot be confined to any nation or any quarter of the world—even of the round globe we live on; but I hope the shout of our triumph will go over the

broad fields of England, and find an echo within the walls of the Imperial Legislature; and that it will be stamped, and ratified, and blessed to all future times in the confirmed intercourse and increased plenty of nations. You see, Gentlemen, I do not lightly estimate the efforts you have made, the front you have shown, the good-will with which you have silenced at once the hiss of monopoly, the firm tread with which you have planted the glorious banner of Free Trade; and I hope, whenever we may meet again, it will be to congratulate each other on our consummate triumph. After the singular patience and indulgence with which you have already heard me, I will no longer trespass on your kind attention that attention to which I never yet appealed in vain— that consideration which did not fail me in the moment of defeat-and which I am glad to see to-day renewed in the glorious shout of our finished victory.

THE EARL OF CARLISLE IN ABERDEEN.

INSTALLATION OF THE EARL OF CARLISLE AS LORD RECTOR OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY.

THE

[MARCH 31ST, 1853.]

HE inauguration took place within the Hall of the College, which, together with all the passages leading thereto, was crowded by the students, and a most respectable assemblage both of ladies and gentlemen. The Magistrates and Council, with the Dean of Faculty of the University, the Lord Rector's Assessors, and the Professors and Lecturers, accompanied His Lordship, who, on entering the Hall, and taking his place on the platform, attired in the robes of office, was most enthusiastically cheered. Lady Elizabeth Grey (His Lordship's sister); Lady Bruce, of Scotstown; Mrs. Thomson, of Banchory; Mrs. Captain Leith; and Mrs. Principal Dewar, with a number of other ladies, occupied seats near the platform.

The VERY REV. PRINCIPAL DEWAR opened the proceedings with an appropriate prayer; after which DR. CRUICKSHANK ad

ministered the usual oath to His Lordship, who, being then duly installed, took his place at the head of the University, and delivered the following Address :

GENTLEMEN,

The first accents which you must hear from my lips are those of gratitude-simple and deep. I presume, indeed, that they must form the accustomed prelude to every Address from a new Lord Rector, and they must be familiar to the echoes of these honoured walls, within which it is now my privilege to meet you. They must have in turn proceeded from a long series of distinguished predecessors; for I know that, in the ancestral pedigree of my office, I should find very many names connected with the learning, the genius, the chivalry of Scotland, besides some which have shed lustre on the Empire at large. With the nobleman whom I immediately succeed-the Earl of Eglinton and Winton-I have not the advantage of more than a slight personal acquaintance; but I believe there are few who have found a more direct access to the hearts of men; and, in laying down his Viceregal, as well as his Rectorial sceptre, he will be able to retain in his pleased remembrance how the applauses of Ireland have ratified the affections of his native Scotland. It must consequently result that I should appreciate in no common degree the distinction that you have been pleased to confer upon me, and feel the whole weight of obligation that it imposes. You are far indeed from having exhausted the many high claims, in respect both of lineage and of merit, which your own division of our island might have enabled you to supply; as, however, the County of Aberdeen has given its present Prime Minister to the Empire, it is surely allowable that an Englishman should be taken as the Rector of an University of Aberdeen-an office that, notwithstanding its honourable character and illustrious precedents, I flatter myself it is not quite so difficult to fill. It can hardly, then, be made a matter of reproach, that you should have thought fit to cast your eyes even as far as that "debateable land" which lines your ancient realm, and to summon thence an unworthy Borderer to commit a raid upon the high places and choice honours of your northern domain; and certainly, far beyond the limits within which the spear of my ancestor-Belted Will-ever carried apprehension or sustained discomfiture, you have, in a spirit of generous reaction, thrown open your lettered retreats and bowers of

learning to his peaceful and, I trust, more docile descendant. As a stranger within your walls up to the present moment, I should feel it to be almost officious, and it would, at all events, be only to retrace ground which has been on previous occasions sufficiently occupied, if I should attempt to recapitulate the justly-celebrated names which, in almost every department of science and literature, have, from time to time, adorned, as they continue to adorn, this distinguished University. Such an eminent succession in the past is in itself one of the surest guarantees against degeneracy in the future. Nor can I forget that, when the celebrated Scottish historian and philosopher of the last century-David Hume-the merits of whose diction ought never to make us forget that, while there is not a great deal of honesty in his History, there is still less of truth in his philosophy-when, in the zenith of his reputation and popularity, he employed his winning pen to sap the foundations of immortal hope, perhaps the first of the faithful voices that were raised to rebuke and to disarm him proceeded, in accents it is true, of courtesy and gentleness, from Dr. Campbell, of this University. Perhaps, too, you will just allow me to add that my attention has happened to have been recently directed to the writings of our English poet, Gray, and I find that it was proposed to confer upon him an Honorary Degree of this University, at the suggestion of one of its most conspicuous ornaments, Dr. Beattie. It is pleasant to be thus able to associate the authors of "The Elegy" and "The Minstrel." It is pleasant, when coming from the cultivated lea, the fantastic beeches, the antique towers, of our level but not unpoetic England, to pass onwards to the more rugged haunts and sterner beauties which give a colour to the noble lines written under the immediate inspiration of the scenes around us

"Oh! how can'st thou renounce the boundless store
Of charms which Nature to her votary yields,

The warbling woodlands, the resounding shore,
The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields;

All that the genial ray of morning gilds,

And all that echoes to the song of even,

All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields,

And all the dread magnificence of Heaven

Oh! how can'st thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ?"

Had it been for nothing else, it would be in my mind to have offered my thanks to you for having brought me within the pale and influence

of Academic life once more. I cannot pretend to having led a very eventful or stormy life, but I have mingled to a sufficient degree at least in the stir and strife of parties, politics, crowds, and cities; and most refreshing it is, after all their hardening and roughening gusts have passed over the mature brow, to be brought again even into momentary association with the serene quiet of College existence-the studies which engross without ruffling the mind, the day-dreams which stimulate without perverting the fancy, the friendships as yet without the taint of worldliness, the revered brow of learning, the sacred presence of ingenuous youth. To wish perpetuity and progress to the pursuits and studies which have long distinguished this seat of liberal education and sound learning, would be not natural merely, but unavoidable indeed, even for a person in no way connected with this Institution. I trust that I should not have been wanting in any such aspiration, even before I had the honour of becoming your Lord Rector. With respect to proficiency in science generally, I feel absolved from obtruding any remark-first, because, unhappily for myself, I am not in any way qualified to enter upon such high matters

"Has Naturæ accedere partes ;"

and next, because I am of opinion that, in an eminently practical, and as it may be termed utilitarian age, there is comparatively little risk that those branches of instruction which have for their main purpose to wield the powers of Nature, or discipline the processes of thought for the service of life-to ascertain and apply truth-will not be both ardently explored and steadily mastered. Unknown planets are tracked in the firmament, and unsuspected metals leap from the earth; but although such facts embody the essence of the sublimest poetry, it is to geologists and astronomers, and not to Homers or Shakspeares, that we look for their discovery. If I linger for a moment longer on the claims of classical learning and polite literature to your tenacious regard, it is not merely because I might apprehend that the material spirit of the times would be disposed to cast a cold glance at them, but we also have perceived of late that, in some of the most civilized portions of the globe, religion herself has been stimulated to throw her awful frown upon them. I am much gratified to see that an accomplished Professor of this University-Dr. Maclure-has very recently addressed you in a most generous and enlightened strain, upon this very subject. I think, indeed, that a radical mistake, and indeed a grievous error, would be