ms rather to be a name of the past, though there are still
Puseyites of importance. Marriott, Mozley, and Church appear to be
regarded as leaders; but Church who is now abroad, is looked upon
as something more, and I am told may be considered on the whole
the fairest exponent of the feelings of the place. Stanley, Jowett,
Temple, and others are great names in what is nicknamed the
Germanising party. Lake, and perhaps I should say Temple, hold an
intermediate position between the two parties.... Whatever may have
been the evils attendant on the Puseyite movement, and I believe
they were neither few nor small, it has been productive of great
results; and it is not a little satisfactory to see how its
distinctive features are dying away and the spirit surviving,
instead of the spirit departing and leaving a great sham behind it.

PECULIARITY OF ELECTION

Of the many strange positions to which in his long and ardent life Mr.
Gladstone was brought, none is more startling than to find him, as in
this curious moment at Oxford, the common rallying-point of two
violently antagonistic sections of opinion. Dr. Pusey supported him;
Stanley and Jowett supported him. The old school who looked on Oxford as
the ancient and peculiar inheritance of the church were zealous for him;
the new school who deemed the university an organ not of the church but
of the nation, eagerly took him for their champion. A great
ecclesiastical movement, reviving authority and tradition, had ended in
complete academic repulse in 1845. It was now to be followed by an
anti-ecclesiastical movement, critical, sceptical, liberal, scornful of
authority, doubtful of tradition. Yet both the receding force and the
rising force united to swell the stream that bore Mr. Gladstone to
triumph at the poll. The fusion did not last. The two bands speedily
drew off into their rival camps, to arm themselves in the new conflict
for mastery between obscurantism and illumination. The victor was left
with his laurels in what too soon proved to be, after all, a vexed and
precarious situation, that he could neither hold with freedom nor quit
with honour.

Meanwhile he thoroughly enjoyed his much coveted distinction:--

_To Mrs. Gladstone._

_Exeter Coll., Nov. 2, 1847._--This morning in company with Sir R.
Inglis, and under the protection or chaperonage of the de