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admonition you addressed to me on receiving the 

 Order of Knighthood this day." The Bishop 

 replied that most of the service of our Church 

 was remarkable for its meaning and impressive- 

 ness. "Yes," said Louis Philippe, " but I was 

 struck by your charge against entering into war." 

 " Into unjust war," replied the Bishop, repeating 

 the words of the admonition. " True," rejoined 

 Louis Philippe, " but I hold all war to be unjust." 

 . . . We met this morning for breakfast in Sir 

 Robert [Peel's] private breakfast-room. ... I 

 sat next the Bishop [of Oxford], and asked him 

 whether he would choose King's College or 

 Westminster for a boy. He said, " I advise you 

 to inquire well before you take Westminster," 

 and recommended Harrow or Charterhouse, but 

 Harrow best, as having a very good master and 

 good air. The Sunday papers came in, and the 

 Bishop drew my attention to Sir R.'s earnest 

 perusal of the " Examiner." " You see," he says, 

 "he reads all sides !" . . . This morning (Tuesday) 

 Buckland and I got in a good word for C. W. 

 Peach, who will no doubt get promotion in con- 

 sequence. . . . It came on to rain, and as I had 

 luckily packed up my microscope I brought it 

 down, and, a propos to the question from Lord 

 Villars why cold boiled beef sometimes shines 

 like mother-of-pearl when cut, I promised to 

 show him the fine transverse lines on each com- 

 ponent fibre of the flesh, which produce that 



