The Senate of the University of London came to the
resolution on Wednesday, on the motion of Sir William Gull, by a majority- of 14 against 4,—Lord Cardwell heading most ably the small. minority,—to memorialise the Government on the Bill now before Parliament, entitled " An Act to Prevent Cruel Experiments on Animals," and to pray " that the provisions of this Bill be so modified as to meet the objections stated in the memorial of the Medical Council adopted 1st June, 1876." The objections in the memorial of the Medical Council referred to, as we have before remarked, attack every substantial restric- tion in the Bill, except the licence and the obligation to use anesthetics, where anaesthetics are possible, and render it quite impossible to check the due discharge of even these obligations, by opposing the restriction as to place. And it was against this last most vital restriction that the tide of opposition ran highest in the Senate. It is curious to find the University of London, which is, we believe, anxiously and rigidly neutral on every doctrine under the sun,—religious, philosophical, political, and (in general) ethical, — developing an enthusiastic creed peculiar to itself on one of the most difficult and anxious questions of human morality. Till within a very few years, it had but one article in its creed,—" I believe in a free Examination-table." Now
