A recent writer in the _Times_ professes great concern at the possible danger that even the proposed Hebdomadal Council may not extinguish the power of the Heads sufficiently. Suppose, says this far-sighted gentleman, in addition to the eight Heads of Houses who _must_ have seats, Convocation should choose to elect some Heads who are also Professors, to represent that body, and some also to represent the members of Convocation. We can only say that we should be very glad to see our old rulers elected by the popular voice into the seats from which they are proposed to be so summarily ejected. Footnote 14: See Lord Palmerston’s Letter to the Chancellor—Parl. Corresp., p. 95. Footnote 15: Hebdomadal Report—Evidence, p. 196. Footnote 16: _Edinburgh Review_, Jan. 1854, p. 189. Footnote 17: _Letter to Warden of Wadham_, p. 8. Footnote 18: Hebdomadal Report—Evidence, p. 81. Footnote 19: _Tour in Wales_, ii. 306. Footnote 20: ROY’S _Military Antiquities_, p. 206. Footnote 21: BRUCE _on the Roman Wall_, p. 53. Footnote 22: History of the English Army ii. 308. Footnote 23: _Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz: a Tragedy._ By T. PERCY JONES. _Printed for private circulation._ Footnote 24: Pentelicus overhangs the south side of the plain of Marathon, separating it from the great Attic plain. Those who have seen the beautiful Bay of Brodick, in the Island of Arran, have seen Marathon on a small scale, except that Goat Fell, which represents Pentelicus, is on the north. On the south, or Athenian side, this famous mountain is sufficiently bare, but towards Marathon it is richly wooded; and the direct road from the village of Vrana to the valley of the Cephissus, over the northwest shoulder of the mountain, is one of the wildest and most picturesque passes in Greece. Footnote 25: PAN played a somewhat prominent part in the great Persian war.—(HERODOTUS, I. 105.) He had a famous cave near Marathon (PAUSAN., I. 32), which archæologists have idly endeavoured to identify. Footnote 26: Darius was led by Hippias, who was familiar with this approach, to Attica, having come this way with his father, Pisistratus, when that tyrant established himself in the sovereignty of Attica for the last time. Footnote 27: Hercules was the patron-saint, to use modern language, of Marathon; and, where the Athenians conquered, Theseus could not be absent. These two heroes, therefore, were represented in the picture of the battle of Marathon in the painted Stoa, (PAUSAN., I. 15). The fountain of Macaria, the daughter of Hercules and Deianeira, is mentioned by Pausanias, (I. c. 32), as being on the field of Marathon; and sure enough there is a well on the road from Marathon to Rhamnus, near the north end of the plain, which Mr Finlay is willing to baptise with the name of the old classical nymph. Footnote 28: