_Remains of A. H. H._ Yesterday a bridal at a friend's, to-day
a sad memorial of death. 'Tis a sad subject, a very sad one to me.
I have not seen his like. The memory of him reposes gently in my
inmost heart, a fountain of tears which soften and fertilise it in
the midst of pursuits whose tendency is to dry up the sources of
emotion by the fever of excitement. I read his memoir. His father
had done me much and undeserved kindness there. _20th._--Most of my
time went in thinking confusedly over the university question. Very
anxious to speak, tortured with nervous anticipations; could not
get an opportunity. Certainly my inward experience on these
occasions ought to make me humble. Herbert's maiden speech very
successful. I ought to be thankful for my _miss_; perhaps also
because my mind was so much oppressed that I could not, I fear,
have unfolded my inward convictions. What a world it is, and how
does it require the Divine power and aid to clothe in words the
profound and mysterious thoughts on those subjects most connected
with the human soul--thoughts which the mind does not command as a
mistress, but entertains reverentially as honoured guests ...
content with only a partial comprehension, hoping to render it a
progressive one, but how difficult to define in words a conception,
many of whose parts are still in a nascent state with no fixed
outline or palpable substance. _July 2._-- ... Guizot. Cousin.
Bossuet (_Hist. Univ._). Rode. Committee and House. Curious detail
from O'Connell of his interview with Littleton. _10th._--71/4 A.M.-71/2
in an open chaise to Coggeshall and back with O'Connell and Sir G.
Sinclair, to examine Skingley [a proceeding arising from the Harvey
committee], which was done with little success.

THE UNIVERSITY QUESTION

The conversation of the great Liberator was never wholly forgotten, and
it was probably his earliest chance of a glimpse of the Irish point of
view at first hand.

_July 11._--No news till the afternoon and then heard on very good
authority that the Grey government is definitely broken up, and
that attempts at reconstruction have failed. Cousin, Sismondi,
Education evidence. Letters. House. _21st._--To-day not for the
first time felt a great want of courage to express feelings
strongly awakened