THE " LIBERAL ASSOCIATION " OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is high time that it should be publicly made known— though I believe the statement has frequently been made
before—that the body which interviewed Sir John Lubbock last week, calling itself the "University of London Liberal Association," has no legitimate claim to that title. It is not in any sense the successor of the old Liberal Association of which many of us were members in the young days of the representation of the University in Parliament, but was formed on a distinctly narrower basis. I have before me a circular inviting me to join the Association, dated March 8th, 1887, in which one of the conditions of membership is stated to be " hearty sympathy with Mr. Gladstone in his efforts to secure a wise and just settlement of the Irish Question." The terms of membership, therefore, specifically exclude those who consider that Mr. Gladstone's proposed terms of settle- ment (the measure of 1886) were neither wise nor just,—that is, the majority of the Liberal graduates of the University. Is it yet not too late to induce the leaders of this Association to alter its title, in accordance with the facts, to " The Home- rule Association of the University of London "P—I am, Sir, &c.,
ALFRED W. BENNETT (M.A. Lond.)
6 Park Village East, London, N.W., April 20th.
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