The University of Edinburgh has also shown its Liberalism by
electing the Marquis of Hartington its next Lord Rector, by a majority over Mr. Cross of 248 (932 against 684), We imagine it will be the most difficult and unwelcome task which political eminence has as yet imposed on Lord Hartington, to find an hour's academic talk for the sharp-witted Scotch graduates and amdergraduates he will have to address, However, the noble Marquis is not one to fret too much, even under the painful necessity of boring both himself and his auditors, and while out of office he can hardly escape the duty of acknowledging the 'compliment in the usual form. Suppose he addresses them on the best way in which earnest, conscientious, and humble-minded students can best find an equivalent for the coolness, self-con- fidence, and imperious self-possession which rank, wealth, and -station alone bestow. Everybody would read such an address with interest, and Lord Hartington could really say something worth hearing about it.
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