19 JANUARY 1867, Page 3

The Law officers of the Crown have, we believe, replied,

as we -expected, to the case submitted to them by the .Council of Uni- versity College, London, that the Council were legally obliged to summon a special Court of Proprietors, in conformity- with the -requisition, and that any resolution passed at such meeting would be legally binding. What, therefore, the Council really did, was to steal a march on the governing body by declining to hear what advice they had to offer till the Council had taken it out of their -own power to follow that advice, and this though the advice, onee heard, would have constituted a legal obligation. At the approach- ing meeting of proprietors, the Council will find it hard indeed to give any intelligible defence of sharp practice such as this.