John’s Wood, for Congregationalists or Independents; the _Baptist College_, in the Regent’s Park; the _English Presbyterian Theological College_, Guildford Street, W.C.; the _Wesleyan College_, in the Horseferry Road; _Hackney College_; and a few others of less note—are establishments maintained by various bodies of dissenters; some for educating ministers for the pulpit; some for training schoolmasters and schoolmistresses. Of the buildings so occupied, the handsomest is New College. This was established, a few years ago, as a substitute for _Highbury_, _Homerton_, and _Coward_ Colleges, all belonging to the Congregationalists. _Gresham College_: this is not a college in the modern sense of the term; it is only a lecture-room. Sir Thomas Gresham left an endowment for an annual series of lectures, and residences and stipends for the lecturers. The charity was greatly misused during the 17th and 18th centuries. Public attention having been called to the subject, a new lecture hall was built, a few years ago, at the corner of Basinghall and Gresham Streets, out of the accumulated fund; and lectures are delivered here at certain periods of each year. The subjects are divinity, physic, astronomy, geometry, law, rhetoric, and music. The lectures take place in the middle of the day, some in Latin, some in English; they are freely open to the public; but the auditors, at such an hour and in such a place—surrounded by the busy hum of commerce—are very few in number. Among the training colleges for schoolmasters and mistresses may be named the _National Society’s_ at Battersea; _St. Mark’s Training College_, Fulham Road; the _Training Institution_ for schoolmistresses, King’s Road, Chelsea; the _British and Foreign_ in the Borough Road; and the _Home and Colonial_ in Gray’s Inn Road. At Islington is a Church of England Training College for missionaries. The _College of Preceptors_, in Queen Square, resembles the London University in this, that it confers a sort of degree, or academical rank, but does not teach. Many so-called colleges are either proprietary or private schools.