The Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen have returned a Tory,—Mr.
Gordon, —in the place of the late Lord. Advocate, Mr. Moncreiff. At Aberdeen the Conservative majority was very large ; at Glasgow very trifling. The truth was that Mr. Archi- bald Smith was too liberal in theology, and too Conservative in politics,—both faults on the wrong side for the Scotch Liberals. Then, again, it is said that Mr. Gordon got a great deal of special medical support by giving the medical students specific pledges. It is, however, a real misfortune for University con- stituencies that so many of them yearn towards the past. In the Scotch Universities and London, we had had a sort of exception to the rule; but here is one Scotch University gone over to the politics of Oxford and Cambridge, and now London and Edin- burgh stand out alone against Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, and Glasgow. The Universities, in bestowing culture, seem to freeze sympathy with the popular wants of the present.
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