The Commission on the proposed "Teaching University" for London have
presented their Report, which is unanimous against the wish of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons to have a Medical University of their own, with the power of conferring medical degrees; but is equally divided on the demand of University College and King's College, London, to be granted a charter with the power of conferring sea-
demical degrees on such of their own students as pass the standards which the Colleges so constituted into a University shall appoint. The Commissioners ask to have the issue referred back to them again, with the view of seeing whether they cannot propose some compromise by which the Teaching Colleges may be so represented in the existing University of London as to prevent that divorce between the teaching and examining authorities of which they complain. This proposal is, we fear, not very promising, as it is exactly what the University of London has proposed and even sketched out a plan for effecting in detail, and what University and King's Colleges, London, have somewhat peremptorily rejected.
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