The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

day after that on which the Duke died; a meeting
had been called, a candidate fixed on, a messenger
dispatched ! And yet these very men tallk of un-
due precipitancy and want of delicacy. We trust
we have proved the charge of breathless haste not
to belong to Lord Derby's friends. Let us next
do away with the impression that Lord Derby
owes his nomination to the party that met at Oriel.
They were not his friends, whatever they would
feign themselves, nor did they bring him forward.
Who did? The meetings at Oriel were no secret.
The decision that those who assembled there had se-
lected the Duke of Newcastle was whispered about;
and next, the mission, voluntary or deputed, to the
Duke, was hinted first, and afterwards affirmed to be
a fact. Late in the afternoon seven or eight members
of Convocation who happened to meet on business,
hearing what was going forward i❑ the University,
resolved to give the Convocation generally an oppor-
tunity of expressing its opinion. They were, too,
unwilling that a small party arrogating to themselves
the power to elect a Chancellor should be allowed to
dictate to the whole body, and they accordingly re-
solved to address the Earl of Derby and ask his
Lordship's permission to propose him. There was
no time to be lost. One of the gentlemen went to
the venerable President of Magdalen, and found him
not only ready to lend his name, but decided in his
opinion that Lord Derby was the nobleman most
eligible for the Chancellorship ; so on that evening
they issued the following notice, with 21 names,—all
they could muster on so short a canvass :
OXFORD, SEPT. 16, 1852.—The undersigned
members of Convocation, believing the Earl of Derby
to be eminently qualified for tho Chancellorship of the
University, invite all those who are of the same opinion
to unite with them in a request to his Lordship that
he will allow himself to be put in nomination for
that office :

Martin Joseph Routh, D.D., President of Magdalen.
Henry Foulkes, D.D., Principal of Jesus.
B. Jenkyns, D.D., Master of Balliol, Dean of Wells.
Philip Wynter, D.D., President of St. John's.
Benj. Parsons Symons, D.D., Warden of Wadham.
John Wilson, D.D., President of Trinity.
James Thompson, D.D., Rector of Lincoln.
Philip Bliss, D.C.L., Principal of St. Mary Hall.
B. Buntline', D.D., New College, Bodleian Librarian.
Thomas Henry Whorwood, D.D., Magdalen.
Richard Higgs, D.C.L., Fellow of St. John's.
Richard Michell, 8.D., Lincoln, Public Orator.
S. Reay, 8.D., Alban Hall, Laudian Prof. of Arabic.
Thomas Short, 8.D., Fellow of Trinity.
Philip Duncan, M.A., New College.
Edward Wetherell Rowden, M.A., New College.
Washbourne West, 8.D., Fellow of Lincoln.
George Augustus Browne, M.A., Magdalen.
Henry Mander Roberts, M.A., Magdalen.
John Elhll Robinson, M.A., Wadham."
This was followed by a request that all who as-
sented to the proposal would send their names to the
Public Orator.

On the following day six names were added :
Charles Atmore Ogilvie, D.D , Canon of Chr
Church, Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology.

Thomas Wintie, 8.D., St. John's.
William Dyke, B D., Fellow of Jesus.
D. V. Durell, M.A, Christ Church.
Harris Smith, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen.
Edward John Chaplin, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen.
By this time the first circular became known, and
on the 20th, 48 additional appeared, among whom
were—

Thomas Guisford, D.D., Dean of Christ Church.
Richard Lynch Cotton, D.D., Provost of Worcester.
John D. Macbride, D.C.L., Principal of Magdalen
Hall.

Rob. Bullock Marham, D.C.L., Warden of Merton.

On the 21st about 60 gave in their adhesion, and
the movement being generally understood, names
were added day by day, till the number exceeded
1,200, and was increasing rapidly up to the day of
election. After this statement, does the Earl of
Derby owe his proud position to the Oriel meeting ?
Nothing can be more true than at the third meeting
at Oriel College, holden after the circular dated the
16th had appeared and was doing its work, We Bishop
of Oxford, well knowing that all opposition would be
hopeless, contrived to obtain a reluctant vote from
those assembled in favour of Lord Derby; but this
was a measure of sheer expediency. We have no de-
sire to promote ill-feeling, but there are not wanting
some who speak in no measured terms of complaint as
to what took place on that third meeting, and the
means that were employed to stifle opposition. With
this we have nothing to do. The Bishop of Oxford's
name was appended to the invitation to Lord Derby
on the 24th, so that allowing it to have been two days
in coming from Cuddesden to Oxford, it was sent at
least a week after the first movement was made. So
much, then, for the breathless haste of Lord Derby's
friends ! So much for the early support given his
Lordship by the Oriel meeting!—Herald.