The Lord Mayoi gave a dinner to the • Chancellor
of the University of London and the President of University College, London,—Lord-Granville and Lord Kimberley,—on Wednesday, to which most of the members of the Senate of the University, and of the Council of the College, as well as a large number of eminent graduates, Professors, Examiners, and other members of the staff of both institutions were invited. The occasion was an interesting one, because it is the first time that a Lord Mayor of London has been a graduate of the London Uni- versity; and Mr. Fowler is a distinguished graduate, having attained, as Sir James Paget said, the position of a double-first. Lord Granville, of course, in returning thanks for the toast of the University, enlarged upon the Lord Mayor's distinction,—and indeed was disposed to treat the good-fortune of the Lord Mayor as so signal, that his hearers half expected to hear him recommend to the Lord Mayor some voluntary sacrifice to fortune, in order to avert the dangers of unrelieved prosperity. Even in relation to that mysterious attack on the ancient Corporation of London with which London is threatened, the present Lord Mayor, said Lord Granville, could hardly come out of the conflict with- out fresh laurels. If he defeated it, he would be for ever im- mortalised as having stood manfully in the breach. If the attack succeeded, it would not only lengthen his term of office, but make him the link between two great dynasties, the last of the pre-Harcourt dynasty and the first of the post-Harcourt,- banter which was received by the Lord Mayor with a cote* stoical though benignant aplomb. Lord Granville is right.
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