We regret to see two decidedly Ministerial journals (the Courier
and Morning Chronicle) recommending the appointment of Dr. Gil- lespie to the vacant office of Principal of the United College, St. Andrews. One Principal is enough for any University ; and in an establishment where the students never exceed two hundred, the re. tanning of two such officers is worse than mockery. Were the office of the slightest utility, we should hold Professor Gillespie's Liberal principles a crest recommendation; but as it is worse than a sinecure, we are of opinion that the appointment of the brother in-law of a Go- vernment official would look very like a job. For Professor Gillespie we have personally a high esteem ; but we are not aware that any literary reputation, however high, could avert the stigma of jobbing from such a step.—Glasgow Argus.
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