pitiless storm, but under my son's umbrella I got well through it.' August 20. The members of Queen's College (Masters of Arts and upwards) assembled in Oxford to celebrate the fifth centenary of their foundation. Some fine specimens of hardy, rosy, old Cumberland clerks once more bestrode the High Street;-venerunt, oraverunt, ederunt, biberunt, dormiverunt, discesserunt. Mr. Barry, a former Michel Fellow (and who, as a Bible Clerk of All Souls, had taken the Honours' in 1803), delivered an eloquent oration on the occasion. In this August died Dr.Woodcock, Canon of Christ Church, a large-hearted, excellent man. Having had the good fortune to be a cotemporary at School and College with influential persons, he had (though rather late in life) the option of several pieces of preferment. He coquetted for some time with the Deanery of Norwich, but at length decided for the less responsible Canonry at Christ Church. He was thought, however, to have made a wrong choice; for he returned, after a long absence, to find Oxford in a state of excitement, of revived theological study, and powerful sermons. His discourses, as Canon, at Christ Church were quite old-fashioned, with no pretensions to scholarship or originality, but with a frequent reference to our excellent Constitution in Church and State.' Some advantages, however, he had over some other Doctors; he was a fine, tall man, with a noble countenance and a voice like the lower notes of the organ tuba mirabilis. He and his family also contributed much to the spread of a more friendly and less starched intercourse in Oxford society. Sept. 8. Dr. Shuttleworth, with the general approval of all Oxford men, was gazetted as Bishop of Chichester. Always a Whig (and not always a moderate one), he had been 1840 DR. SHUTTLEWORTH MADE BISHOP. 299 neglected by his party; luckily, perhaps, for his episcopal qualifications,—since, in the protracted interval of a 'longa expectatio,' he had sobered down in his political views and established his reputation as a theologian, as well as a wit and an elegant scholar. As Warden (though elected all but unanimously) he was not successful in his management of young men. Succeeding as he did to what had been a state of laxity, he was impatient of a state of transition and gradual improvement; his sharp manner was not conciliatory; occasionally, when roused up from his studies by a call for enquiry or discipline, he was thought to treat this necessity for exertion as an interruption. Time, however, sobered him much in this respect, though being himself rapid in his conclusions, he did not easily make allowance for the slower conceptions of others. Nov. 4. At the end of a very long sermon at Christ Church, a red-breast (probably the only untired creature in the Cathedral) began singing. The incident was thought worthy of poetical notices at the time; e. g. And well you might have deem'd some angel there To hover in the sacred house of pray'r); But if an angel this, the guise he wore Dated Univ. Coll. (Query-F. W. Faber.) This effusion reminded 'a learned friend' of a Latin poem addressed, Rubellioni ad Canonicas preces assiduo,' by Petrus Molinæus (A.D. 1626), beginning, 'Sacris amice cantibus, rubellio.' [N. B. 'cantibus,' not concionibus !] CHAPTER XVII. 'Sirs, ye are brethren.'-Acts vii. 26. Recollections from A.D. 1841 to A.D. 1843. A.D. 1841. [B.A. 279. M.A. 184. Honorary D.C.L. at Commemoration, 9.] JAN. 1. Died Mr. Collingwood, the Superintendent of the University Press. It was a proof of the liberality of the University, that its chief printer was known to be a zealous Dissenter. He was an accomplished, amiable, and good man, as well as an excellent printer, in which character, from the liberal share of the profits granted to him by the University, he accumulated a considerable fortune. His widow was his fourth wife; or, as he used to say, his 'fourth edition.' In January of this year was formed 'A plan for a Benevolent Society1, for encouraging a prudent forethought 1 This Association is still kept up (in 1861), and, being carefully superintended by some of the higher College servants, has been found to work very satisfactorily. 1841 NO. 90 OF THE TRACTS. 301 among an important part of our College Establishments, i. e. College Servants,'-generally most improvident for themselves and families. By a small quarterly payment (with a little help from others) it was proposed to secure to them some slight provision when age or infirmity should disqualify them for their work. The early part of 1841 produced a series of long and earnest letters 'On the New Opinions on Religious Matters' in Oxford, by Mr. W. Sewell, Mr. Perceval, Dr. Miller of Armagh, &c. And in March attention was drawn to No. 90 of 'The Tracts for the Times' by a strong 'Remonstrance' addressed to the Hebdomadal Board, and signed by four Tutors, viz. Mr. Churton of Brasenose, Mr. Wilson1 of St. John's, Mr. Griffiths of Wadham College, and Mr. Tait of Balliol. This was but 'the beginning of the end;' for it was soon followed by a 'Resolution' of the Hebdomadal Board in reference to No. 90 of the Tracts; 'That such modes of interpretation (evading rather than explaining the sense of the Thirty-nine Articles, and reconciling subscription to them with the adoption of errors they were designed to counteract) are inconsistent with the Statutes of the University, which require subscription to the Articles and the instruction of Students in them.' Mr. Newman at once avowed himself the writer of No. 90. Mr. Sewell lost no time in declaring the pain which No. 90 had given him, though he rather mystified his notions in the lengthy letters which he published; at all events, he did well in advising the discontinuance of the 'Tracts,'-too late indeed to stop the mischief done by them or check the ensuing controversy. It was something like the tardy wisdom of the boy Bill, who 1 Mr. Wilson little thought that his own writings would (in 1862) become objects of enquiry and condemnation. said to Tom (who had stuck several lighted matches into a rick), ' That 'll do, Tom; don't let us waste our matches.' Many good and amiable men (true sons of the Church of England, who had found much in the Tracts that was excellent) would fain have stopped further proceedings against the writers of them. Certainly those writers (and Mr. Newman especially) had again and again pretty strongly declared their aversion to the tenets of Rome;-but what did the event prove? Having been disappointed in their hope (or rather their dream) of assimilating our Church to that of Rome, did not many of them go over to Rome? Great as was the respect entertained for their undoubted piety and learning, many good and pious Churchmen thought that they had neglected the blessed opportunity tantas componere lites,' by simply unfurling a banner inscribed with The Apostolic, Catholic, Reformed Church of England.' Mr. Newman's 'Letter to the Bishop of Oxford' at this time was most touching in its submission; but, alas! how soon did he forget his own words :-' Our business,' he said, 'is with ourselves;-let the Church of Rome make itself (as we should try to make ourselves) more holy, more self-denying, more primitive,—it will come nearer to us, and will cease to be, what we one and all mean when we speak of Rome. To be anxious for a composition of differences is beginning at the wrong end.' And again: 'I think I can bear, or at least will try to bear, any personal humiliation, so that I am preserved from betraying sacred interests, which the Lord has given into my charge.' Without being a 'Tractarian' I always thought we were under an obligation to the writers of the Tracts, for having maintained (and indeed effected) a greater reverence for our Liturgy, our Creeds, our Sacraments, and our Bishops; and that they wasted the great opportunity, brought about by |