SCOTLAND.
The graduates of the Scottish Universities hold a meeting in Edin- burgh on Saturday. They are desirous of being represented in Parlia- ment, like the English Universities. Very few persons attended. Sir John M'Neill occupied the chair. The speakers were the chairman, Professor George Wilson, Dr. Cook of St. Andrews, Colonel Mure of Caldwell, Dr. Thom of Aberdeen, Mr. Buchanan M.P., Professor Swinton, Mr. Bryce, Dr. Smith of Cathcart, Dr. Woodford, and the Re- verend Mr. Blaokie. The meeting unanimously resolved that "the Uni- versities of Scotland labour under serious disadvantages from the want of Parliamentary representation, and that due representation ought to be secured to them in any future Reform Bill"; and that "the franchise should be conferred on graduates, they being presently so numerous as to form an ample constituency for the election of representatives."
On the preceding day a meeting was held at Jedburgh,—the Provost in the chair,—at which a resolution, movedby the Honourable W. F. Camp- bell, to confer the four vacant seats in England [for Sudbury and St. Al- bans] upon the Scottish Universities was negatived; and an amendment was adopted, declaring the representation of Universities to be wrong in principle and opposed to the general spirit of recent legislation.
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