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any College or Institution on account of its religious 

 character." The Amendment thus proposed at the 

 last moment and after the Bill had passed through 

 Committee the Duke of Devonshire was unable to 

 accept, stating, among other reasons, that the motion 

 " was couched in terms which were in direct opposition 

 to the University Tests Act," but he offered, in lieu 

 of it, an Amendment following the language of the 

 protest appended to the Report of the Commission 

 signed by Bishop Barry, a former Principal of King's 

 College, in whose interest the Bishop of London had 

 moved his Amendment. The Duke's Amendment 

 was as follows : 



Provided that no Statute or Regulation shall preclude 

 the University from accepting, if it sees fit, the administration 

 of funds for every university purpose, whatever may be the 

 conditions attached to such administrators. 



The Bishop of London would not, however, enter- 

 tain the suggestion. The Bishop's own Amendment 

 was then negatived without a division, whereupon 

 he stated that he "must be content to endeavour to 

 secure justice in the Lower House." On August ist 

 the Duke's Amendment was moved and agreed to 

 without opposition, after which the Bill passed in the 

 House of Lords. The threat of the Bishop of London 

 was, however, for the time effectual, for in the House 

 of Commons, on August i2th, the Bill was withdrawn. 

 The effect of the two Amendments may be thus 

 shortly stated in reference to the appointment of 

 professors. That of the Bishop of London would 

 deprive the University of the right to refuse recog- 

 nition of a professor, who, without being the most 

 competent among the candidates for the vacant Chair, 

 had nevertheless been preferred by a constituent 

 college on an exclusively religious ground. That of 



