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This day week Mr. Gladstone delivered the prizes to the

students of the Liverpool College, and after doing so made a speech on Education, of which we have noticed the most remarkable part,— that on the religious scepticism of the day,--sufficiently elsewhere. But the speech was interesting in other parts as well. Mr. Glad- stone asserted that the ' useful' branches of education,—those which furnish the mind with the instruments of future acquire- ment,—are by no means for the most part those which supply the most of new life and power to the substance of the mind itself. It is not the acquirements which are kept in the mind as wares are kept in a shop which supply this strength, but those which pass into its very substance, and become identified with the very form of its own energies.

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