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formed in the best way, and of course I should not care for 

 any one except Mozart. You know I had never been to a 

 theatre before, and never heard first-rate singing, so you may 

 imagine how much I was delighted. . . . There was some 

 dancing afterwards, which showed me the reason why people 

 object to the stage." 



Dr. Jerrard, who was one of the examiners, told him that 

 he stood first in all the papers except one, and was generally 

 considered to have done the best. Soon after his return to 

 Manchester, there was the college examination, which was 

 immediately followed by the university voluntary theological 

 examination in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. 



"I am happy to tell you/' he wrote, July 2, "that Smith 

 [Dr. G. Vance Smith] and I have passed in the first class. It 

 was curious, we three Units being examined in theology by two 

 clergymen ! I certainly deserved to pass in the first class, for 

 I have been working very hard." He was awarded a ^5 prize 

 for books. 



Though this chapter of his life now closes, he did not sever 

 his connexion with the college ; since, for two years after his 

 settlement at Stand, he attended Mr. Tayler's lectures on 

 ecclesiastical history. 



