Note and Comment.

A pamphlet entitled "A Sketch of the University of Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral does not need to be pointed out. This total of $719,000 is exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University, yielding a revenue which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Virginia has always been liberal to its University-"the glory of the Commonwealth" -allowing it at first $15,000 a year, and laterly $40,000. Probably nothing could better illustrate the reverence felt for it by the people of the State than the fact that when the Readjusters came into control and secured a majority on the Board of Visitors, not only was no change make by them, though political passion urged it in the Faculty corps, but they filled vacancies occurring therein entirely regardless of political bias. That the University deserves this consideration is made clear by the pamphlet before us. In Mr. Jefferson's day the schools of Virginia were, to use his own words, "paltry academies." He is said to have spoken mournfully on one occasion of the fact that of the students at Princeton, one half were Virginians, obliged to obtain outside of the State even a moderate education. Since the organization of the University, Virginia has become the dispenser of liberal education to the South and West. It has to-day more of its alumni in the Senate of the United States than any other College in the Union. About 200 of its alumni occupy professional chairs, while many others are conducting first-class academies.-[N. Y. Post.