Show BY PRIVATE subscription ONLY abe withdrawal of tle petition to the city council asking body to contribute from lie ry a baim in aid of the proposed methodist university WAS under lie circumstances cum stances the most graceful step which could have been taken however tanch alie alamay hae desired to promote the institution as no alternative before them in their capacity but to decline alie prater of the petition aliey are doubtless unanimous in their wish to secure tor thia city a prie would bo of lucli value but their un favorable tAvo rable upon alie request mould have convened a contrary fid preshion pres aion to those who judged only tho desott without looking into the causes clr cli led to it As it is they are spared the before seemed inevitable and private subscriptions have very likely been all the more lib ral of it the inducements may not be altogether as favorable as alie most supporters of the scheme es peeled but there is the satisfaction that in no particular baa any act been done the 1 guilty of which could in ony way be questioned |