h had been
provided for by parliament in 1836, with a view to form a new see at
Manchester. The measure was passed with the general assent of the
episcopal bench and the church at large. But sentiment soon changed, and
a hostile cry was raised before the death of the Bishop of St. Asaph,
when its provisions would come into force. On his death in 1846 the whig
ministry gave way and the sees remained separate.

[159] Mr. Gladstone to Lord Lyttelton, Dec. 30, 1845.

[160] See above, p. 253.

[161] _Hansard_, May 10, 1842.

[162] _Hansard_, February 14, 1842.

[163] The average price of wheat per quarter in 1841 was 64 shillings,
in 1842, 57 shillings, and in 1843, 50 shillings, a lower average than
for any year until 1849.

[164] See Appendix.

[165] See Speech, Aug. 10, 1843.

[166] Wordsworth wrote (Oct. 15,1844) to implore him to direct special
attention to the desecrating project of a railway from Kendal to the
head of Windermere, and enclosed a sonnet. The sixth line, by the way,
is a variant from the version in the books: 'And must he too his old
delights disown.'--Knight's _Wordsworth_ (1896 edition), viii. 166.

CHAPTER IX

MAYNOOTH

(_1844-1845_)

When I consider how munificently the colleges of Cambridge and
Oxford are endowed, and with what pomp religion and learning are
there surrounded; ... when I remember what was the faith of Edward
III. and of Henry VI., of Margaret of Anjou and Margaret of
Richmond, of William of Wykeham and William of Waynefleet, of
Archbishop Chichele and Cardinal Wolsey; when I remember what we
have taken from the Roman catholics, King's College, New College,
Christ Church, my own Trinity; and when I look at the miserable
Dotheboys' Hall which we have given them in exchange, I feel, I
must own, less proud than I could wish of being a protestant and a
Cambridge man.--MACAULAY.

IRISH POLICY OF CONCILIATION

In pursuit of the policy of conciliation with which he was now
endeavouring to counter O'Connell, Peel opened to his colleagues in 1844
a plan for dealing with the sum annually voted by parliament to the
seminary for the training of catholic clergy at Maynooth. The original
grant was made by the Irish parliament, protestant as it was; and was
accepted even by anti-catholic leaders after 1800 as virtuall