A public meeting was held at the Mansion House on
Wed- nesday, for the purpose of establishing a Society, to be registered under the Companies Act of 1867, called " The London Society for the Extension of University Teaching." The proposal had been referred by a London meeting, held some little time ago, to an Executive Committee, whose report of a scheme for carrying out the object in view was received and adopted on Wednesday,— Mr. Goschen, M.P., having been the chairman of the Executive Committee, while the Lord Mayor took the chair at Wednesday's meeting. The proposal adopted is to form a society consisting of donors of fifty guineas each, and of subscribers of two guineas
each or moreannually, inwhich certain named corporations, societies, and bodies of trustees and firms would have the power to nominate a single member each for every subscription of 100 guineas. The Society so constituted would elect 22 members to a directing Council by popular vote, while ten named London Colleges would nominate ten more members of the Council, making up 32 members of Council in all. This Council would form rules and regulations for the extension of_University lectures and training in London, while it would invite the co-operation of a joint Board of the Universities of. Oxford, Cambridge, and London to nominate teachers and examiners, and to advise the Council on all scholastic matters on which advice is needed. This scheme was carried with enthusiasm on Mr. Goschen's recommendation, and no doubt it will succeed in supplying London with a very much better kind of teaching for advanced students than the metropolis has hitherto had. Will London show itself as desirous of University teaching as the Universities have certainly at last shown themselves desirous to impart it ? We hope so, though with some doubt. The in- tellectual and moral inertia of the metropolis is something vast, and almost infinite.
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