The old bat tle of the Professorships and Tntorships was fought
over again tin Thursday night, on occasion of the motion for going into C, 'ilea tee on the Oxford and Cambridge Universities' withou, t, result, though-the discussion showed a certain growth-in ,o,,nty of each party to see the other side ;—after which the 11 ii into Committee, and an attempt was made
to obtain a better representation of the natural sciences on both Commissions. Mr. Goschen nearly carried the addition of the Rev. Bartholomew Price, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philo- sophy, to the Oxford Commission, being beaten by only 11 votes (152 against 141) ; while Mr. Grant Duff failed in getting Pro- fessor Huxley's name added to the Commission by 26 votes (191 to 165), and Professor Max Mtiller's by 24 votes (197 to 173), The addition of the Master of St. John's (Dr. Bateson's) name to the Cambridge Commission, proposed by Lord Hartington, was negatived by 26 votes (208 against 182) ; while Dr. Hooker's, pro- -posed by Lord E. Fitzmaurice, was rejected by 32 votes (190 to 158). So the Commissions remain as they were.
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