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Episcopal part of Scotland by reason of the memory of the 

 dragoons. One old family of the Stewartry is of that 

 persuasion, and most of the persecutors' families are now 

 Presbyterian and Whig, so that the congregation is but 

 feeble. 



It is very different at Aberdeen, where the Presbyterians 

 persecuted far more than the Prelatists, so there I actually 

 found a true Jacobite (female, I could not undertake to pro- 

 duce a male specimen), and there are three distinct Episcopal 

 religions in Aberdeen, all pretty lively. 



Can you tell me what the illustrated Tennyson is like ? 

 I shan't see it till I go to Edinbro'. I don't mean are the 

 prints the best possible, or impervious to green spectacles ; 

 but are they nice diagrams as such things go ? I should like 

 to know before long about it, and whether the characters 

 are of the Adamic type, and in reasonable condition, or pre- 

 Eafaelitic in all but colour, and symbolising everything 

 except the " Archetypal Skeleton " and the " Nature of 

 Limbs." 



To C. J. MONRO, Esq. 



Glenlair, 5th Jund 1857. 



I have not seen article seven, but I agree with your 

 dissent from it entirely. On the vested interest principle, 

 I think the men who intended to keep their fellowships by 

 celibacy and ordination, and got them on that footing, should 

 not be allowed to desert the virgin choir or neglect the 

 priestly office, but on those principles should be allowed to 

 live out their days, provided the whole amount of souls 

 cured annually does not amount to 20 in the King's Book. 

 But my doctrine is that the various grades of College 

 officers should be set on such a basis that, although chance 

 lecturers might be sometimes chosen from among fresh 

 fellows who are going away soon, the reliable assistant 

 tutors, and those that have a plain calling that way, should 

 after a few years be elected permanent officers of the College, 

 and be tutors and deans in their time, and seniors also, 

 with leave to marry, or rather, never prohibited or asked 

 any questions on that head, and with leave to retire after 



