Lord Granville, while presiding at the session of the Landon
University for admitting successful candidates to degrees, made a pleasant speech on the proposal to grant diplomas to female students—which he approved, and alluded in guarded but kindly terms to the different candidates for the representation of the University. He had, he said, been suspected of desiring the elec- tion of one particular candidate, but " he would leave it to them to say whether their representative should be an eminent and brilliant leader in the present House of Commons (Mr. Lowe) ; or whether he should be a gentleman who had graduated at their University, and who for many years by his writings had influenced and guided public opinion upon some of the most important questions with which this nation could be concerned (Mr. Bagehot); or whether, on the other hand, he should be a gentleman of high character and of great commercial and scientific attainments (Sir J. Lub- bock); or, lastly, whether he should be a scientific and profes- sional man whom the University was proud to acknowledge (Mr. Quain), whom Lord Granville will confound with the doctor of the same name.
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