The Senate of the University of London, which had the
right by the provisions of the Public Schools' Act to nominate a governor to Charterhouse and Rugby, has exercised its right by nominating Mr. Busk, F.R.S., to a governorship of Charterhouse, and the Bishop of Exeter (Dr. Temple) to a governorship of Rugby. Both nominations are doubtless good, and the last excellent. A governing body-of Rugby without the one man who has shown that he possesses the secret of making Rugby a splendid success, and whose temper and judgment raise him far above the danger of interfering In any partizan spirit in current disputes, would be unmeaning; and if Dr. Temple were to be appointed, it was well he should be ap- pointed by an impartial University, which selects him solely for his achievements and his character, and from no disputatious motive. The Pall Mall, which certainly aims at anything rather than at think- ing no evil, in writing of this appointment by the University of Loudon, says, "Something of the old pugnacious spirit seems to have survived the migration from Gower Street to Piccadilly. Coelum non animurn mutant." Of course our contemporary is ignorant that the present University of London never was in Gower Street at all, and that no University of London has been there for thirty- five years, but only one of the affiliated colleges of the London Uni- versity which is there still. The recent migration of the University of London was from Piccadilly, not to it,—frora Burlington House to Burlington Gardens. Nor did we ever hear of its showing signs of a "pugnacious spirit," either in Piccadilly or elsewhere, unless it were by electing a brilliant political pugilist, Mr. Lowe,— who has been, by the way, a man of peace ever since,—to repre- sent it in Parliament.
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