The people of Liverpool are making a splendid effort to
endow their " University College," which will probably be, before long, one of the group included with Owens College in the new Victoria University. £80,000 has already been raised in all, either for the College, or some one or other of its Chairs. There is to be a Roscoe Chair of Fine Art, the endowment for which has already reached £5,600, and is intended to reach £10,000. Lord Derby has given £10,000 for a School of Natural Science. And Mr. Rathbone and his brothers have given £10,000 for a Chair of Modern History and the History of Literature. It was stated at the meeting held on Wednesday at the Liverpool Town Hall, that a handsome donation had been promised by Mrs. Grant if the sum raised reached £100,000, which doubtless it will soon pass. No less than five sums of £10,000, one of £2,000, ten of £1,000, and eleven of £500, have been received ; and latterly the tradesmen of Liverpool have begun to exert themselves, Mr. Litherland beginning, with a donation of £1,000. Liverpool .seems in grim earnest to overtake Manchester, if she can.
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