THE MARQUESS OF BUTEpresented a Petition from the School of Medicine, Edinburgh, praying Her Majesty to with hold Her consent to the Ordinance No. 45, Section 8; in so far as the same provided for the residence of candidates for a medical degrees in the University of St. Andrew's. He said, it was a Petition 's from the Committee of the Association of Lecturers of the Edinburgh School of Medicine, the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, Edinburgh, and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. The Commissioners appointed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889 (52 and 53 Vict., cap. 55) had issued an Ordinance dated the 3rd February, 1894, No. 45 (St. Andrew's No. 4) providing that two of the five g years of medical study must be spent in the University of St. Andrew's each g year; the remaining three in any other University of the United Kingdom or 8 Indian, Colonial, or Foreign University recognised by the University Court, or in such medicine schools or under such medical teachers as might be recognised for the purpose by the University Court. The Petitioners objected to the Ordinance because it excluded so many of the students attending the Edinburgh School of Medicine, who had attended classes equivalent to those qualifying for graduation in the University, from the possibility of obtaining a degree at St. Andrew's. The London University was open to all candidates for medical degrees who had studied in regular medical schools. Should the recent proposals of the Gresham University Commission be given effect to there would be established in London a University on a Federal basis in which the London College of Physicians and College of Surgeons were represented, and to whose degrees their licentiates would be admitted. The University of Durham was also open, under certain conditions, for medical 274 degrees to non-residents; while in Ireland the Royal University enabled non-resident students to avail themselves of its degrees. The Petitioners, under the circumstances, submitted that the continuation of the privilege hitherto exercised by the St. Andrew's University under proper safeguards, and limited in its scope to properly qualified licentiates, would be just. The importance of the matter was so great that, under ordinary circumstances, it would be made the subject of discussion: but their Lordships would probably agree that at the present moment that was inexpedient, because divers Petitions had been presented directly to Her Majesty in Council upon the subject of St. Andrew's Ordinances, including the particular point raised by these Petitions, and Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to refer them to the Scottish Universities Committee of the Privy Council, where, no doubt, the arguments would be fully heard. He therefore contented himself at present with simply presenting to their Lordships these Petitions and mentioning the nature of their contents.