A meeting held at the house of Lord Egerton of
Tatton (7 St. James's Square), on Monday week, determined on raising a fluid of £10,000, to extend by fresh buildings the accom- modation of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, for the collegiate education of women. Dr. Talbot, vicar of Leeds, and formerly Warden of Keble, presided, and showed how limited had hitherto been the means placed at Miss Wordsworth's dis-
posal as the first head of the Hall, and how grievously the insti- tution stands in need of extension and enlarged resources. Lord Cranbrook, the Bishop of Ely, Mr. G. W. E. Hassell, M.P., Sir James Paget, and Canon Scott Holland, all spoke power- fully in support of the proposal ; and Dr. Ince (tbe Regina Professor of Divinity at Oxford) explained that what was desired was to build a new chapel, a new dining-hall and reception-room, and a new hall a residence, not to contain a greater number of students than thirty or thirty-five, 8o that the principal of the Hall may exert a real influence over all its students. The Lady Margaret Hall is of coarse to be in close connection with the Church of England, just as the Mrs. Somerville Hall is undenominational. But as Mr. George Russellremarked, the strong case for supporting gene- rously undenominational institutions should not be regarded as justifying the social persecution of denominational institu- tions, though there is a certain tendency in the present day so to regard it.
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