The Press.
London, England, 1858-06-05 00:00:00

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Nor did Miss Gushing altogether fail in her object.
When a clergyman's daily audience consists of but one
person, and that person is a young lady, it is hardly pos-
sible that he should not become personally intimate with
her; hardly possible that he should not be in some
measure grateful. Miss Gushing's responses came fr.im
her with such fervour, and she begged for ghostly advice
with such eager longing to have her scruples satisfied, that
Mr. Oriel had nothing for it but to give way to a certain
mount of civilization.

Ily degrees it came to pass that Miss Gushing could
never get her final prayer said, her shawl and boa adjusted,
and stow away her nice new prayer-hook with the red
letters inside, and the cross on the back, till Mr. Oriel had
been into his vestry and got rid of his surplice. And
then they met at the church-porch, and naturally walked
together till Mr. Oriel's cruel gateway separated them.
The young thing did sometimes think that, as the parson's
civilization progressed, he might have taken the trouble to
walk with her as far as Mr. Yates Umbleby's hall-door;
but she had hope to sustain her, and a firm resolve to
merit success, even though she might not attain it.

" Is it not ten thousand pities," she once said to him,
" that none here should avail themselves of the inestimable
privilege which your coming has conferred upon us ? Oh,
Mr. Oriel, I do so wonder at it ! To me it is so de-
lightful ! The morning service in the dark church is so
beautiful, so touching!"
" I suppose they think it is a bore getting up so early,"
said Mr. Oriel.

" Ah, a bore !" said Miss Gushing, in an enthusiastic
tone of depreciation. " How insensate they must be!
To me it gives a new charm to life. It quiets one for the
day ; makes one so much fitter for one's daily trials and
daily troubles. Does it not,Mr. Oriel:"

"+I look upon morning-prayer as an imperative duty,
certainly."
- . . . . . .

" Oh, certainly,a most imperative duty; but so delicious
at the same time. I spoke to Mrs. Umbleby about it., but
she said she could not leave the children."
' No ; I dare say not," said Mr. Oriel.
" And Mr. Umbleby said his business kept him up so
late at night."
" Very probably. I hardly expect the attendance of men
of business."

" But the servants might come, mightn't they, Mr.
Oriel?"

" I fear that servants seldom can have time for daily
prayers in church."
" Oh, ah, uo ; pe-haps not." And then Miss Gashing
began to bethink herself of whom should be composed
the congregation which it must be presumed Mr. Oriel
wished to see around him. But ou this matter he did
not enlighten her.
Then Miss Gushing took to fasting on Fridays, and
made some futile attempts to induce her priest to give her
the comfort of confessional absolution. But, unfortunately,
the zeal of the master waxed cool as that of the pupil
waxed hot ; and, at last, when the young thing returned to
Greshamsbury from an autumn excursion which she had
made with Mrs. Cuibleby to Weston-super-Mare, she found
that the delicious morning•services had died a natural
death. Miss Gushing did not on that account give up the
fie, but she was found to tight with no particu!ar ad-
vantage in her favour.

of demarcation drawn between things sacred and thing% profane ; but we doubt whether the miscellaneoui appli-
cation of our Maker's name be the right way to cure this,
or tc induce a simpler, or more constant and reverent re-'
cognition of that Divine life in which we live, and move,
and have our being.
But is not this " criticism "? The political article is,
on the whole, less inuatured than might have been
expected in Fraser; the milder tone is no itsignifi-
cant symptom of the improved position which Go-
vernment now occupies in public estimation. The
" Mutiny of Provincial Troops ; from Tacitus," is
singularly opportune and interesting. In the minds
of the Roman conquerors, " 1 icit ratio parcendi ne
sublata spe venire pertinacia accendereutur. Alli-
ciendos potius in societatem."

The three most noticeable articles in the Dublin Uni-
versity Magazine are " Richard Savage," " The State of
Donegal," and "Trinity College, Dublin." Although
the first. has nothing very original, it is a readable
paper on a very interesting subject; and when these
two great qualities are united, the reader has all that
he had any right to demand from the regular maga.
zine-writer. The second is a paper containing some
apparently important facts. And the third is a bold
reiteration of all those charges which created such a
sensation in the May number, and which cost the
Magazine its publisher, coupled with some useful
suggestions for the improvement of the University,
of which some principal ones are the following :-
1. We would restore to the " common chest " the per.
tion of the degree fees now paid to the provost and senior
fellows, including among these the fees of the senior
proctor.
2. We would reduce the provostahip, vice-provostship,
senior lectureship, registrarship, and bnrsarship, by 40W.,
1501., 3001, 1001., and 1,2001., respectively.
These sums, together with 1,8501., the estimated value
of the degree fees, would place 3,8001. in the common
chest, available for educational purposes.

. .
3. We would appropriate 1,0001. of this snm to raising
the incomes of the six non•tutor fellows to 2001. each, and
that of the tutors not in full classes to 3001.

4. The salaries of the aub•lecturers and honour lecturers
in classics, and the doubling of the fees for conducting
honour examinations, woula absorb about 5001. more.
This whole question, as our readers know, has
lately been undergoing an investigation, and it has
now been decided by the Visitors that the usage
of sixty years is sufficient to decide the legality of
the present distribution of fees by the Provost and
Senior Fellows.

One number of either Bentley or the New Monthly
is so like another that we find it difficult to say any
thing new about them each month.
tales by the clever writer who, during .
years, has added much to their attraction—t'..
three notices of foreign literature—and generall
(though not this month) a couple of political
Conservative in Bentley and Whig in Coil,
up the staple of their contents. Most
are well done, but may dispense with close
The Irish Metropolitan contains a good
matter, including a fair article on Sir Charles
dison, and the commencement of a tale
of " Whitefriars," which does not promise
called "The Irish Brigadeaman."
Tait and Titan are much as usual—the
containing, of course, a ridiculous article
English Universities. In a table professing,
the number of first-clessmen turned
college between the years 1831 and 1856,
the following gross blunder —he
Lincoln College, none, whereas, even
the latest calendar we have by us, Lincoln
no less than twelve; and yet this man
able to write on University subjects.

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