11 JULY 1868, Page 3

The members of University College, London, this day week frankly

and justly elected Mr. Grote, the historian of Greece, their President, in the place of the late Lord Brougham. Learning and culture should always jealously protect their own aristocracy, and on that principle the historian of Greece will certainly give Univer- sity College more distinction than even the late President himself, though in him the light of learning was not perhaps quite eclipsed by his great political achievements and social distinction.