On Tuesday, University College, London, celebrated its first jubilee, the
fiftieth anniversary of its birth, in a public festival, at which Lord Granville, as Chancellor of the whole University, laid the first stone of a new extension of the buildings,—for which, and the uses to be made of them, a sum of £100,000 is to be raised. After this a banquet was held and speeches made by Lord Granville, Lord Belper, Dean Stanley, Professor Huxley, and others, of a nature honorific to the work done by University College, and the work planned by it for the futures Professor Morley pleaded vigorously for the College, and main- tained that of its fifty years of life the whole had been vigorously lived, and none of it dozed away,—a great claim, and one, per- haps, that no living institution could make with absolute truth, though University College could make it with as much truth as any other. Certainly it is one of those which have fairly earned the right to the ten talents more, by the use it has made of the ten talents it had ; and that is, we suppose, as much as could be said for any other College, either in Europe or the United States.
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