The University of St. Andrews prefers the Marquis of Bate
to the Speaker who so recently resigned the Chair of the House of Commons—Viscount Peel,—for their new Rector. Lord Bute obtained 120 votes to 80 given to Lord Peel. We sup- pose that Lord Bute's unquestionable Caledonianism had a good deal to do with the matter. Or was it that the students of St. Andrews wished to know what a great Catholic would say of the ideal aims of a modern University ? We should hardly have expected that from a Scotch constituency. For our own part, we should have been very glad to have heard Lord Peel—who, except as a very great and dignified political Judge, is hardly known to the English public,—speaking with perfect freedom to any great section of the rising generation, just as Carlyle spoke to the students of.Edinburgh. We hear what all sorts of Progressives with formulated doctrines of their own say to the rising generation. We should like to have heard what a great Moderate who has watched the war- fare of parties in the House of Commons thinks of the hopes of the present generation, and the best way of securing their fulfilment.
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