10 JUNE 1865, Page 2

In answer to Mr. Grant Doff yesterday week, the First

Com- missioner of Public Works, Mr. Cowper, expressly admitted the claim of the London University, which now examines above a thousand students every year, to a fitting local habitation of its own, which it has never yet had. It borrowed rooms for a long time from the Inland Revenue Office in Somerset House, and has since been permitted to lodge—with the Geographical and a num- ber of other societies—at Burlington House. A learned body, growing in importance and public influence every year, with a convocation that must have electoral functions as soon as the next change is made in our constitutional machinery, is clearly entitled to a separate and somewhat stately abode of its own.