17 JUNE 1865, Page 2

The University of London is still a mystery to the

Tories. Lord Cranborne and Mr. Gathorne Hardy both spoke of it on Wednes- day as an academical failure. It is neither academical nor a failure. It teaches nothing, only tests the teaching of others, and that it does so well, and for so many, that it may fairly be compared as an PTamining body with Oxford or Cambridge. The number of students matriculated in the last year,—who have passed, that is, the first and easiest examination, —is no less than 600, and as yet it has only a lodging in Burlington House.