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that Lent has begun, I suppose there will be more parties, as 

 many of our people seem, for opposition sake, to give loose reins 

 to their hospitality when they ought to be fasting. As for me, I 

 reconcile it to myself thus. It is always a penance to me to 

 have to go to a party, so if I am obliged to go out at all, better 

 in Lent than at another time. Would your new bishop approve 

 of this casuistry ? 



I think the fashion of Romanising (or Eomancing) is less 

 among us now than it was some time ago, which may be attri- 

 buted to the folly and violence of the Roman Catholic party. 

 The case of the Madiai has also had its effect. 



The strongest allies the Romanists have with us appear to 

 me to be the Low Church party, who cry down every adherence 

 to the old practice of our church in her best time as popish, and 

 who are trying to get our only safeguard — the Prayer Book — 

 mutilated. This party within our own city are really playing 

 into the Pope's hands, under the pretence of greater spirituality. 

 I hope they are losing ground with the young generation. In 

 England they certainly are. In Ireland not so clearly. It is 

 strange that laxity in practice should come to be interpreted as 

 spirituality of mind. But so it is. Any one who endeavours 

 to walk as the church of which he is a member directs him to 

 do, is called a Puseyite or a Jesuit, while the dissenting church- 

 man, who holds half the church's doctrines in an unnatural 

 sense, and neglects her forms as worthless, is " Evangelical," 

 the only true interpreter of the Gospel. " Antinomian " is a 

 truer name, but it would not sound so well. 



We have dreadful floods all over the country. To-day I 

 plucked the first open leaves of the scarlet currant (Ribes san~ 

 guineum). All the buds burst, but no flowers as yet on this tree. 

 The snowdrops and crocuses in plenty. 



I talk of going to India, Australia, and home via Panama and 

 New York. 



To Mrs. Gray. 



Trinity College, June 30, 1853. 

 You truly say my time for sailing is near at hand. I ex- 

 pect to leave this in less than a week for London, where I may 

 have a month of delay before starting. I hope to let you hear 

 now and then of my proceedings by a direct letter, and at other 



