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��in the United Kingdom 1,464 distributing societies, having a mem- bership of 1,709,371, with share capital of 20,586,231?., doing a trade of over fifty millions and handing back to the members 7,747, 338J., showing a net saving on the spending power of the consumer of 15 per cent.

��SYDENHAM WELLS PARK.

The dedication of this park to public use for ever is of interest to the antiquary. The name, as readers of ' N. & Q.' will remember, commemorates some mineral springs discovered in 1640, and referred to by Evelyn in his ' Diary.' Sydenham is also associated with the poet Campbell ; there he passed the happiest years of his life, and remained until he became editor of The New Monthly.

��1901, June 8.

Sydenham Wells Park.

��GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

' N. & Q.' should have a record of the ninth Jubilee of Glasgow University. The celebration commenced on Wednesday, the 12th of June, by a service in the Cathedral. This was appropriate, as pointed out by Dr. M'Adam Muir, because it was by one identified with that edifice that the University was founded, for it was owing to the exertions of Bishop Turnbull that Pope Nicholas V., " the greatest of the restorers of learning," " constituted a University to continue in all time to come in the city of Glasgow, ' it being ane notable place, with gude air and plenty of provisions for human life ' " ; and to ensure " that the classes might begin with some degree of celebrity," he further granted a universal indulgence to all faithful Christians who should visit the Cathedral of Glasgow in the year 1451. In the course of his address, as reported by The Glasgow Herald on the following day, Dr. Muir made the following historical references :

"When the first Jubilee was reached, James IV., who fell at Flodden, was sitting on the throne of Scotland ; and a new world had a few years before been opened up by the discovery of America. At the second Jubilee the tremendous conflict of the Reformation was raging, and the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots, was still a child in France. When the third Jubilee came round, the long feud between England and Scotland was about to cease through the accession of the Scottish king to the English throne. The fourth Jubilee found the Common- wealth established ; King Charles I. had perished on the scaffold ; Cromwell was overrunning Scotland ; and the quaint Zachary Boyd, to whom the University is indebted for liberal benefactions, denounced him to his face in the lower church of this Cathedral. The fifth Jubilee fell at the end of the reign of William III. and the beginning of the reign of Queen Anne. By the time of the sixth Jubilee the protracted struggle between the House of Stuart and the House of Hanover had come to an end ; the hopes of the Jacobites had been quenched at

��1901, Juno 22.

Glasgow Uni- versity: Ninth Jubilee.

��Dr. Muir's historical references.

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