A similar meeting of still greater importance was held on
Tues- day night in the Mechanics' Hall, Nottingham, to push on the same Cambridge movement. It was presided over by the Marquis of Hartington, in the enforced absence of his father, the Duke of Devonshire, who is the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The Rev. Canon Morse, who read the report, mentioned that in Nottingham the lectures bad been attended by 854 students in the first half of the year, and by 662 in the second half, of whom 101 had passed the examination ; and he caused much cheering by the announcement that a sum of £10,000 had been offered by one gentleman for the purpose of permanent _buildings, on condition that certain forms should be complied
with by the Corporation. Lord Hartington, in a very useful speech, laid his finger on the only weak spot in the movement,— a weak spot which, we trust, will sloon disappear. He said he feared it would be too ,often found that in giving University teaching in provincial towns as yet unprovided with good secondary schools, Cambridge would_ be attempting " to crown an edifice which, in many of its proportions, hardly exists at alL" But the truth is that this subsidiary undertaking is the very work which the Endowed Schools Commission was created to do, and which it was one of the great aims of the party which turned out the late, and brought in the present, Government to prevent thern -from doing. ti
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