Professor Henry Smith, the Savilian Professor of Geometry at 'Oxford,
sent to the Times of Tuesday an account of the very .curious tactics of the Hebdomadal Board in respect to the attempt .ofBalliol College to get power to admit certain out-students, who -should lodge in the town, to all other College privileges. The Hebdomadal Council, as we understand, first compelled the College to engraft on their scheme the provision that all these out-residing students (who were to be gratuitously instructed) should furnish official proof of poverty ; and next, that there should be a delegacy appointed to superintend the poor and gratuitously instructed students so admitted. In this shape the measure came before Congregation, when it was moved and carried that these delegates to superintend the Balliol out-students should be paid, and that the supervision so established should extend to all lodging-house students, i.e., to the fourth-year students already allowed to reside there. Thus, by a five minutes' discussion they changed a special measure providing for an extension of Balliol College under peculiar circumstances, to a general measure affecting the dis- oipline of all University men of a special class. And the Heb- domadal Council insists on promulgating this hybrid measure in this new shape,—so either compelling men who wish to extend Balliol College to vote for a particular modification of the whole University discipline, or compelling those who dislike the latter to sacrifice also the former. The Hebdomadal Council is evidently 'copying the beautiful example of the Victoria Assembly which tried the other._ day to force a protective tariff down the throats of the Legislative Council, by tacking it on to a Bill of supply with which it had no connectiOn,—so that if it wanted either, it should be compelled to take both.
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