-Some gentlemen asked, what have you done? Our reply is, we have framed a Society-we have met with support we have collected moneyand we expect a great deal more. But again they ask, have you purchased any patronages? No: there have been none in the market; let them appear there, and we will be at them. The Reverend Gentleman concluded an address of considerable length, by expressing a hope that they would always

be in an attitude to purchase, and that, to enable them to do this, the country would co-operate with the parent society. The Reverend Doctor having proposed a motion to that effect, sat down amidst great applause.

Mr Northhouse of Glasgow spoke at some length, and urged the propriety of extending the Society in that quarter.

Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated.

FEBRUARY.

The only leaf wanting to complete that most ancient of records, Doomsday Book, was lately accidentally discovered in the archives of the family of Trevelyan, at Nettlecombe. It has been compared with the original copy at Exeter, and found not only to correspond, in ink, in character, in size of vellum, and indenture, but was further identified by supplying the sole deficiency of matter.

The celebrated Joseph Lancaster is at Caraccas, engaged in teaching his system of education; but from one of his publications, it would appear that he meets with poor success. He complains of want of room, want of friends, and want of scholars, having only 50 instead of 500, which he expected.-American Paper.

APRIL.

ELECTION OF MR BROUGHAM AS LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.

4.-At half past two o'clock, the College doors were opened to the im

patient students, who had previously assembled in great numbers. In a few minutes the body of the hall and the galleries were nearly filled. A little after three o'clock, Sir James Mackintosh entered, and was received by immense and long continued cheering. He was attended by Mr Mackintosh, Lord Viscount Glenorchy, Dr Richard Millar, and the whole of the professors of the University, and other gentlemen. Prayers were said in Latin by Principal Macfarlan, and the proceedings of the former meeting read. After which,

Principal Macfarlan rose and said, Gentlemen, you are aware from what you have just heard, that in the choice of a succeeding Lord Rector, the nations were equally divided; two being for Sir Walter Scott, and the other two for Mr Brougham. (Loud cheers.) This division and equality of votes are provided for in the following words. (Here the very reverend and learned gentleman read the College laws, which decreed, that when the division was equal, the casting vote devolved on the preceding Lord Rector.)-The casting vote, you will therefore perceive, gentlemen, has devolved on Sir James Mackintosh, who has come here to give it. (Loud cheers.)

Sir James Mackintosh rose amid immense cheering.-Gentlemen, you have heard from the last speaker the object of my visit to you at this peThe privilege of addressing you, I again repeat, I owe entirely to the indulgence of your professors. In the first place, I take this opportunity of returning my thanks to you for the honour you have conferred upon me, and the manner in which I have been received. (Cheers.) And I feel the more happy in doing so by being made the channel of presenting you with a valuable and splendid ornament to your University. (Cheers.) A son of James Watt, whose memory has been so frequently, and so nobly recorded in the proceedings of many recent public meetings, has offered, by me, a statue of his immortal father, executed by the talented Chantrey. Mr Watt presents this statue, with proud feelings, to that University in which his illustrious parent first imbibed the principles of that scientific knowledge, and laid the foundation of those important and splendid discoveries which will form an era in the history of science. I feel proud in belonging to a University which has produced so great a man, and, especially, proud that I am now the instrument of offering to that University his statue. (Cheers.) This statue is not of one who enslaved nations, or destroyed his fellow-creatures-it is not of one whose fame was steeped in blood, or whose pedestal was reared in desolation,--but of one who gloried in contributing to the useful knowledge of his fellow-creatures-in building a temple to science, in which all mankind might worship. (Cheers.) I cannot, gentlemen, forget another mark of fame which distinguished this University. It is now nearly 70 years since a Professor of Moral Philosophy, in this University, delivered those lec

tures which have covered his name with glory, and his country with greatness. It is now 50 years since he made those principles known, which have forced their way through the civilized globe, and which are day by day adopted by the govern ment of this country-principles that will raise the nation to the highest pitch of commercial and political glory. (Cheers.) Are there two names in the annals of science brighter than these? Can any two individuals, belonging to the seminaries of learning in Europe, bear competition with a Watt and a Smith? No!-Loud cheering.)-Gentlemen, you will call to mind those names, and, in pur suing your several paths of learning, you will not forget the fame that encircles and irradiates those illus 'trious characters. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I am not now called, nor can I enter upon the invidious and most unpleasant task of choosing be tween two such distinguished cha racters as have been brought before me. I cannot do it-two such eminent persons, so different in every thing, and yet so great in their respective walks, I cannot and I will not pretend to characterise. Literature, public life-the charms of poetry, and the powers of philosophy-imagination in its varied creations, and political science in its varied uses, are mixed up in the decision. There is no comparison, or ground of comparison between them-nor could any comparison that might be drawn be either beautiful in theory or beneficial in practice. I, however, feel no difficulty in making the decision, save that difficulty which a French proverb denominates "the embarrassment of riches." (Loud cheering.) Yet I shall take the liberty, gentlemen, with your permission, of stating some of the grounds on which I shall give the casting vote-some of those

distinguishing excellences of the gentleman to whom it will be given. In the first place, his studies have not had a vicious or a vitiated tendency; they have not been founded upon the false hypothesis, that talent is independent of industry and cultivation; yet if any man might be an exception to this rule, none could be a greater or more splendid one than Mr Brougham. (Excessive cheering.) He despises not labour; no man can do more with less labour than he can; yet he is unremittingly and indefatigably laborious. (Loud cheers.) No maxim, gentlemen, can be more fallacious than that genius is independent of cultivation. Coxcombs and pigmies in intellectual life may pretend to support such a doctrine, and may believe, or profess to believe, natural talent to be sufficient; but the gentleman for whom I shall vote will tell you no such thing. Mr Brougham's talent for business and usefulness in public life arose from industrious and constant application; his vivid eloquence and his varied powers were founded on no superficial or showy attainments. Great study, leading to a sound knowledge of the exact sciences, laid the basis of his splendid and triumphant career through life. He indulged in that hard and vigorous study which may be denominated a species of mental gymnastics, nor did he ever shrink under them. (Loud cheering.) Those who have encountered the hostility of this great statesman are compelled to acknowledge the skill and strength of science in his blows, and confess the master spirit that has been proved by intense study and unwearied application. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, another prejudice of a most baneful nature, and than which there is not a greater mistake, is, that those minds that aim at general principles and great conceptions, are entitled to neglect ac

curacy. There cannot be a greater absurdity than this, for those who af fect to despise accuracy and minuteness of detail, generally sacrifice those great principles which they pretend to support, and exhibit alone the great folly of their conduct. With Mr Brougham it is eminently otherwise

he is most particular in his details, and shows by his minute acquaintance with every subject under his view, that his accuracy cannot be disputed. (Cheers.) Another great and astonishing excellence of Mr Brougham is the concentration of his powers in the grasping of a great question at once, and in all its parts, before others could scarcely commence it, and yet, in that surprising grasp and concentration of intellect, you will find that Mr Brougham is still more surprising in his minute knowledge of every particular connected with his subject. I have been astonished, upon various occasions, to find, in illustration of great, abstruse, and most important questions, facts and details, minute and accurate, given by Mr Brougham, which would have been darkness to others, but were light and beauty from him-and yet fatiguing and particular as they were, they did not damp his vivacity, or deaden those powers of wit and eloquence which he so eminently possesses. (Loud cheers.) Another feature which I may add to the character of my distinguished friend, is his fondness for classical learning: the various pursuits and the varied powers which he so greatly possesses, have not at all diminished the pleasure he has felt in drinking from the fountain of ancient lore. Other universities have affected to despise the science and the philosophy of ours; but Mr Brougham looks upon learning, and science, and phi losophy as mutually necessary to each other. (Cheers.) He studied classical antiquity, and especially the

learning of the ancients, who wielded at will an eloquence which shook the arsenals of the world, raised Greece to the pinnacle of glory, and enabled her to battle with the great Macedonian. (Cheers.) Milton, the immortal Milton, has eulogised that eloquence in words which can never be forgotten. I call your attention to his beautiful lines-not because he characterises eloquence as beautiful, not because he considers it as amusing, not because he speaks of its elegance, not because he eulogises its magnificence, not because he is charmed with its delightfulness, but because it is triumphant in battle, in victory, in greatness, in glory; because by it the ancients wielded at will the destinies of nations, shook the globe, and carried terror and dismay to those tyrants who were the enemies of Athens and of liberty. (Extreme cheering.) Mr Brougham has studied in this school. Eloquence to him was not a matter of parade, it was not a holiday suit, it was not a merely elegant accomplishment, it was not a pleasant and delightful exercise. No, it was a mighty instrument to expose and extirpate corruption and arbitrary power, to uphold the glorious principles of truth and justice, to overawe successful oppression, and wither the tyrant in his tyranny. (Long and rapturous applause.) Gentlemen, I shall not now say anything of the other distinguished character who has been brought before you. Nothing I could say would add to his justly acquired reputation; my humble approbation he has already received; but while I vote for Mr Brougham, I call upon you to remember and to imitate the traits of his character; and if the recollection of the illustrious statesman, and the distinguished philosopher, of Brougham and Watt, can warm you to exertion, that you may not forget their several excellencies, and espe

cially that you may, like your f Lord Rector, have the noble wish serving your country and of ennah I yourselves, by study and persever like his. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, is now my duty to say, that I my casting vote to Henry Brough P Esq., M.P. (Loud cheering.)

A student (Mr Berry, we belie then declared, that the vote had fil on Mr Brougham.

After which, the very Revers the Principal pronounced a bened tion, and the students broke up.

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6. This day the inauguration t Henry Brougham, Esq., M.P, Lord Rector of the University Glasgow, took place; on which casion he delivered the followi speech.

Gentlemen, It now becomes me return my very sincere and respecti thanks for the kindness which has ced me in a chair, filled in formertine by so many great men, whose nam might well make any comparisonf midable to a far more worthy success

While I desire you to accept t unexaggerated expression of g tude, I am anxious to address rather in the form which I t adopt, than in the more usual oned an unpremeditated discourse. I shal thus at least prove that the remarką, which I deem it my duty to make are the fruit of mature reflection, a that I am unwilling to dischargeanin portant office in a perfunctory mana

I feel very sensibly, that if I shall now urge you by general exhortations, to be instant in the pursuit of learning which, in all its branches, flourishe under the kindly shelter of the roofs, I may weary you with the us profitable repetition of a thrice-tall tale; and if I presume to offer my advice touching the conduct of your studies, I may seem to trespass uper the province of those venerable pe

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