Lord Cairns has been chosen to the Chancellorship of the
University of Dublin, an office vacant by the death of the astronomer Lord Rosse, with only one dissentient vote. It is a good enough choice. No Oxford or Cambridge Conservative in either House of Parliament,—and of course Dublin would choose only a Conservative,—has stamped upon his mind and style of speech the air of so thorough and refined a culture as this graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. The only regrettable point in the selection is that it will absolutely retain Lord Cairns for the defence of the existing interests of Trinity College, whenever a reform there is seriously pressed, as we hope it soon may be. And Lord Cairns is a formidable advocate,—though fortunately, per-
Laps, so far as this matter is concerned, without access any longer to the ear of the House of Commons.
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