A movement has been commenced to establish a College for
the City of London, and it is well supported. About six thousand men released from shops and offices by the early closing movement now attend evening classes for the purpose of study. It is proposed, by the aid of public subscriptions, to give these classes a permanent form, by erecting buildings and systematizing the efforts of the lecturers employed. The proposal seems an excellent one, the more so as the class it is intended to reach is singularly deficient in the higher kinds of education. Its members are taken from school too early, and subsequently work too hard for instruction to reach them in any form other than that proposed. About 4001. was subscribed at the meeting, and a very small contribution from every employer in London would at once ensure the necessary means.
