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of such questior

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university are

to ask, that some person, besides the printer and
Ler of the tract, should acknowledge himself responsible

are, sir, your obe
C. T. CHURTON

ent, humble servants,
M.A., Vice-Principal and Tutor

of Brasenose College,
. B. WILSON, B.D

and Senior Tutor of

St. John's College

JOHN GRIFFITIIS, M.A., Sub-Warden and Tutor
of Wadham College. _

C. TAIT

M.A., Fellov

and Senior T

3alliol College

March 8

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_..wn into a state of con- not on account of such anti-social, disloyal, or immoral
—.Jo alarm, by a report that a woman named Frances
tloStock had had her throat cut. A great crowd collected in tenets ascertained to he maintained therein, being con-
front of the house in which she lodged—a beer house, kept trary to the religion of Romanism, but because they are
by a person named Redford, in Liverpool Road.
Mr. Alcock, superintendent of police, who happened to be quite congenial with it ;. We'seek to withdraw the grant,
passing at the time, went into the house, and found the poor simply because we repent of the original act, because
woman weltering in her blood, with her throat cut in a fright-
ful manner, nearly from ear to ear, by a man named William the college is Popish, and because we committed a
Hampson, who hod made his escape. Alcock sought for z ievous error in. ever having instituted or endowed a
Hampson ; and, about an hour and a half after the deed was —r
committed, found him concealed in an old saw-pit. in Quay- Popish institution?' • -
street. He was crouched down in one corner of the pit, with
a pocket handkerchief tied with a noose round his neck. and By taking this plain and broad ground, Lord Mor-
the handkerchief tied to a pair of braces, which appeared peth is answered—and we stand on good Protestant
to have . been suspended to something ; and it was evident terra firma—avowing, indeed, a great mistake commit-.
that he had been endeavouring to hang himself, but the
had broken. When taken, be did not say anything, ted, but deriving from that • avowal the immense ad-
did not ask him any questions. vantage of carrying on the contest afterwards in the
cold he would not have done it but for
best possible position.
But the noble secretary proceeded to illustrate his
meaning, and did so in the following terms, according
to the reporter of the Times :
" He (Lord Morpeth) would state a case by way of illus-
tration. Suppose the College of Maynooth was not a Catho-
lic, but avowedly a Protestant establishment, for the purpose
of educating persons for the ministry, not of the Roman Ca-
tholic Church, but of the Established Church ; and suppose
it were alleged, and could be proved by clear evidence, that
some of the preceptors in that establishment, so far from
pursuing the propor objects and avowed ends of the establish-
ment, were constantly employed in disclaiming the doctrines
of the Protestant Church, to which they belonged—(cheer-
ing),—and denouncing what they called the crimes of the
reformation—(hear, hear) ;—that with these notions some of
their pupils (as there was no wonder) had become imbued,
detaching themselves in fact from the pale of the Established
Church, and embracing the doctrines of the Roman Catholic
Church—then he (Lord Morpeth) thought it might be suc-
cessfully contended that such an establishment did not an-
swer the purposes for which it was instituted, and that there
was much in its management and system of tuition which

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(Hear, hear.)
Then his lordship takes a case exactly the opposite
of what he supposes to exist at Maynooth, and says,
here are Protestant professors teaching Popish doc-
trines—here is a Protestant university inculcating the
youth of England with Papistical heterodoxy; the col-
lege has therefore violated its charter, arid forfeited all
right to further grants. In this instance I agree that
a good case of _forfeiture has been established, and I
shall vote for the abolition.
His lordship was at once understood to allude to
Oxford and the Puseyite school of teachers in that uni-
veniity ; but he overlooked the trifling fact that the
" Oxford Tracts" are not Oxford class books, and that
of the gentlemen whose names have come before the
public as leading men in the school, two only, (as we
learn from a London contemporary,) Mr. Sewell and
Dr. Pusey, are in any way connected with the instruc-
tion of youth, Dr. Pusey having only a very limited
class of students in Hebrew.

l'he case supposed does not exist in fact. The press,
as Sir Robert Inglis observed, is free at Oxford as it is
at London or Liverpool, and gentlemen at Oxford may
certainly publish whatever commentaries their fancy
dictates on the Church of England, (provided they be
not seditious or blasphemous,) without fear of punish-
ment, or making either the Church or the University
responsible for their opinions. But, of course, we
may suppose the case described by the noble lord for
the sake of illustration, without reference to realities;
and then the question is, what does it illustrate ?
" 7:here, then," he would argue, "is a clear case of
The college is Protestant—the teaching is
j—the discrepancy between what it was intended
should be taught therein, and that which actually is
taught, is so glaring, that we are bound to extinguish
the institution itself." But, in the case of Maynooth,
can you, do you show anything of this kind ? "
have heard," said his lordship, [we quote his exact
words,] "no such allegation brought against the Col-
lege of Maynooth ; whatever faults might be imputed
to it, laxity of discipline, and opposition to the doctrines
of the church which it professed to uphold, were not
amongst the charges alleged against it.—(Hear, hear,")
Thus, for all the exposures made of Maynooth in-
struction—however shocking, demoralising, and de-
testable such instruction may have been shewn to be—
his lordship has one short, cut-and-dry answer : " Oh I
it's ONLY POPERY !" The name of popery is his salve
for every iniquity—his universal remedy. Its very
sanctum of unsocial and demoralising principles is his
tower of defence ; and by skewing that it approves of
all that is abominable in the Maynooth class-books,
you only furnish him with the better excuse for con-
tinuing the grant. He would have all institutions pur-
sue the design of their founders, and punish only the
one which departed from it. If a Protestant univer-
sity taught popery, he would come down upon it with
a recal of its charter and muniments, and so far he
would be right ; but—even-handed and impartial gen-
tleman—he would act precisely in the same way by a

forfeiture

Popish