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now within a few years that is, I foretell a discussion whether 1851. 

 the mere circumstance of owning a foreign power in any sense 

 and manner whatever is or is not to be an absolute disqualifica- 

 tion from even voting for a member of Parliament. 



I have just heard from Arthur Neate, who with a wife and two 

 children is doing near Alvescot what you are doing at Leeds, 

 saving that his two parishes put together would not soul a tenth 

 part of the bodies in your one. His father and mother are still both 

 alive, though both very old and failing. Of other people I know 

 nothing, I mean of your and my contemporaries. It is long since 

 I have seen any one. I met Farish the other day, old and deaf. 

 I am not sure I do not remember his father looking younger. 

 I dare say you, like myself, look not very old of your age, for we 

 both looked older than we were at Cambridge, so that if you have 

 a provincial synod, you will hardly look ancient enough to be 

 one of the patres couscripti. But you have not a Bishop, I am 

 afraid, who will bring your part of the world abreast of H. Exon. 

 Peace be with him, I was going to say, but I know she won't. 



Resolve me this. If our old friend P were alive, would 



he be Puseyite or not ? The only one Cambridge man that I ever 

 annoyed by taking it for granted that he was not Puseyite when 

 he really was a strong one, was a man of whom I could tell the 

 following story, but I won't (that is to say, you are not to repeat 

 it, for it might get round) . 



I knew him at Cambridge when he was a great friend of 



B , whom you perhaps have met at Neate's. A few days after 



he was ordained he came to see me, and being fresh off the anvil 

 he could not but talk a little theology. So as he got over the 

 ground he came at last to the following sentence, which brought 

 him up all standing, as they say at sea you are to imagine a 

 sudden start of recollection at the *, I having stared at f : 

 ' But you see those Catholics made a sacrament of baptism 

 t *. Oh, by-the-bye, so do we.' Fact, upon my honour; no 

 exaggeration. But he is now with the Bishop of Exeter on the 

 point. 



I wish you would do this : run your eye over any part of those 

 of St. Paul's Epistles which begin with IlavAo? the Greek, I mean 

 and without paying any attention to the meaning. Then do 

 the same with the Epistle to the Hebrews, and try to balance in 

 your own mind the question whether the latter does not deal in 

 longer words than the former. It has always run in my head 



