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These may be arranged under three heads.—
First, those subjects which constitute the essen-
tial parts of a liberal education ; secondly, those
which may be considered more in the light of
ornamental accomplishment ; and thirdly, those
which belong to professional education.
Of the subjects which may he comprehended
under the first division, it is intended that there

shall be a Professor in each of the following

branches :

The Roman Language, Literature, and An-
tiquities; the Greek Language, Literature, and
Antiquities; the French Language and Litera••
ture ; the English Language and Literature ;
Elementary Mathematics ; Higher Mathematics ;
Natural Philosophy and Astronomy ; Logic and
the Philosophy of the Human Mind ; History,
Ancient and Modern ; Political Economy ; and

Chemistry.
In the second division of subjects there will
be Professor of Italian Literature ; Spanish Lite-
rature ; German and Northern Literature ; Ori-
ental Literature, more particularly Hindostauee,
Persian, and Hebrew ; Geology and Mineralogy ;
Botany ; Zoology.
In the third division of subjects there will be
Professors of Jurisprudence, including the Law
of Nations ; English Law ;. Roman Law.
And for the profession of Medicine, the follow-
ing subjects will be taught—Anatomy and Phy-
siology ; Morbid and Comparative Anatomy ;
Surgery ; Nature and treatment of diseases ;
Midwifery, and the DiSeases of Women and
Children ; Materia Medics and Pharmacy ;
Chemistry ; Botany and Vegetable Physiology
Medical Jurisprudence.

While in an Hospital connected with the Uni-
versity, opportunities will be given for Clinical
Lectures and Practice.
There are also to be Professors on

Engineering and the Application of Mechani-
cal Philosophy to the Arts ; and on the Applica-
tion of Chemistry to the Arts.
One great and important branch----Theology, '
yet remains ; and it is necessary to explain why
that is not provided for.
The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
supply ample opportunities for the education of
the Clergy of the Established Church. It is a
fundamental principle of the University of
London, that it shall be open to persons of all
religious denominations; and it was manifestly
impossible to provide a course of professional
education for the Ministers of Religion of those
congregations who do not belong to the Esta-
blished Church. It was equally impossible to
institute any theological lectures for the instruc-
tion of lay students of different religious persua-
sions, which would not have been liable to grave
objections ; still less was it practicable to intro-
dude any religious observances that could be
generally complied with. In the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge, the students, removed
from the superintendence of their parents and
guardians, are placed in colleges, or new do-
mestic establishments, where it is necessary that
religious instruction should be provided. In the
case of the University of London, none of the
students will reside within the walls ; they
will live in the houses of their parents or guar-
dians ; and those who come from a distance will
live in houses selected by their friends, with such
precautions for the safety of their morals and of
their religious opinions as will naturally be
adopted on the occasion. A plan is in contem-
plation (which will he more fully explained in a
subsequent part of this statement), by which
those students who come from a distance may be
boarded in houses where they will be under the
guidance of persons of their own religious opi-
nions, and where they will be subi to rules
of discipline for the protection, of their morals.
The religious education of the pupils, therefore,
will be left to domestic supenntendance, being
the same provision which at present exists for
that important obzet in all cases except those
of under-graduates at Oxford and Cambridge
during their residence in College. There are
many hundreds of young men constantly in Lon-
don, who come from the country for the sake of
professional education in Law and Medicine,
who have no guide for their religious education,
unless they find it in relatives or friends inte-
rested in their welfare. To all such persons the dis-
cipline intended to be enforced in the University
of London, within its walls, will constitute an ad-
ditional check upon their conduct.
The Council had many long and anxious
deliberations upon this subject, which they felt
to be of paramount importance ; but they found
it impossible to unite the principle of free ad-
mission to persons of all religious denominations
with any plan of theological instruction, or any
form of religious discipline ; and they were thus
compelled by necessity to leave this great and
primary object of education, which they deem
far too important for compromise, to the direction
and supenntendance of the natural guardians of
the pupils.
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The first class will consist of those who shall
enter as Members of the University, intending to
follow the regular course of academical instruc-
tion, whether for general or professional education..
The second class will consist of Occasional Stu-
dents ; of those persons who, being already en-
gaged in a profession, may still have leisure to
improve their education, by allotting a portion
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