19 APRIL 1884, Page 1

The Edinburgh University celebrated, on Wednesday, the tercentenary anniversary of

its own birth. The celebration was attended by an almost unparalleled collection of distinguished men, and at the banquet in the evening eleven hundred guests sat down. The speeches were not remarkable, but the grants of honorary degrees were. The very tradition of religions dis- abilities has been laid aside by the University, and the degree of D.D. was presented to Dr. Wordsworth, a Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; to Philotheoe Bryennios, Metropolitan'of Nicomedia, (Greek Church) ; and to Dr. James Martineau, the great Unitarian divine,—the University thus

recognising services to religious thought, without consideration of their precise relation to dogma. That is true Broad Churchism.