Some of the young Tories at Cambridge have formed a
club, called the " University Piet Club," the p.incipal object of which seems to be the establishment of a system of exclusive dealing. One of the rules is-
" That every member of this club be compelled to give his support and patronage to those tradesmen alone whose political opinions are in accordance with ti se in support of which this club was formed ; and that aay member. who is fined not s.ricity adhering to this rele be forthwith expelled." iteally,Cambridge University is in a fine way for a national seminary of learning. Last week we had to mention that Dr. Lamb, whose turn it was to be Vice- Chancellor, had been set aside solely on account of his Liberal opinions ; and "a Member of the Senate" states, in a letter to the Morning Chronicle, "that two gentlemen, whose moral and intellectual qualifications could not for a moment be disputed, have leen successfully objected to as Public Examiners, solely on account of their political creed being Whiggish." The result of this system will be University Reform ; the importance of which has not yet been duly appreciated. The bigoted Toryism of the chiefs of our colleges will not by any means tend to awaken the sympathy of the Liberals for the possessors of University sinecures.
At the sale of a clergyman's affects in the neighbourhood of Here- ford, his library was sold for three pounds, and the liquors in his cellar for three hundred and eighty-four pounds fifteen shillings.
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