Mr. Roger' plan for establishing a City Lyceum by aid
of the surplus funds of the City Charities has met with warm support. A meeting was held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, at which a committee, including Mr. Goschen, Mr. Crawford, Sir John Lubbock, and Mr. Freshfield, was appointed to watch over the subject, and it was stated that the great companies were most willing to assist. It was understood at the meeting that the subject had attracted the attention of Government, and the City rather wishes to anticipate the official plan, while the Charity Trustees are not opposed to Mr. Rogers' scheme. It seems there are trusts in the City which are not applied at all, one in par- ticular, of 1,200/. a year, which was left to assist in the burning of heretics, and which, strange to say, has not been handed over to the modern successor of Torquemada, the conductors of the Record.
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