5 JUNE 1858, Page 8

SCOTLAND.

The Lord Advocate's Bill dealing with the Universities of Scotland has excited great attention, and a good deal of opposition. In Aberdeen there is a strong feeling against the proposal which aims at the suppres- sion of one of the two Colleges of Arts comprised in Marischal College and King's College, the one, it is understood in those parts, being Marischal College. Two Royal Commissions have deprecated this mea- sure. The citizens of Aberdeen have petitioned against it. The graduates of both Colleges oppose it. And other bodies, lay and ecclesiastical, not only in Aberdeen, but in other places, have given it a persevering oppo- sition. The measure, it is alleged, would be " a direct subversion of the Foundations of Marischal College and of about fifty separate and inde- pendent Endowments for the promotion of Education in Arts within its walls—many of these of considerable amount, and together affording a revenue that, with comparatively trifling assistance from Parliament, has maintained the College in full efficiency for nearly three centuries."