The University of London must certainly be given credit for
complete impartiality. In its new matriculation list, contain- ing 554 names—the number of candidates was no less than 932 —two girls come second and third upon the list, and were only prevented from beating all the boys by a Roman Catholic lad, between sixteen and seventeen years of age, educated in the _excellent school at Beaumont College, Old Windsor. This boy 'received the first exhibition, and a pull of the same school took the fourth place, with a prize of £10; while three more among -the first eight are Catholic students also. No one can say -that the University of London shows partiality either of sex or 'religion, and as regards religion, it has succeeded marvellously, as the Roman Catholics themselves admit, in stimulating the education of a class of schools which entertained at one time a strong prejudice against its system. Indeed, neither the sex aior the religion of the candidates is known to the Examiners when they examine the papers, so that it would be hard for them to show partiality.
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