abundantly earned by his numerous disinterested and invaluable services, we cannot forbear to express our personal regret on being deprived of a head, whose loss it would be too presumptuous to hope to see adequately supplied.

(Signed)

Unwin Clarke, Vice-Dean.

Fr. Wrangham,

Wm. Ainger,

G. B. Blomfield.

Prebendaries.

Of the congratulatory letters which I find preserved, many are worthy of being transferred to type; but I insert two only. The first from Lord Grenville; the second from Sir Robert Peel.

My dear Sir,

London, November 29, 1827.

Lord Goderich had the great kindness to communicate to me yesterday evening the offer which he had made to you, well knowing, as he did, the great delight which I should receive from it. I trust I need hardly say to you, for I willingly hope that you already fully believe it, that there is not, and cannot be, any one of your friends who more warmly rejoices in the justice, tardy as it is, which is at length rendered to your merits, or who more laments it having been so long delayed--and that, in part, I fear, from the too partial opinion which you manifested towards myself on a former occasion. You will have so many letters of this sort to acknowledge, though written from less powerful motives than I have on this occasion, that I will not delay you longer with this; and I beg that you will not think of answering it otherwise than by giving me an opportunity, on your way to or from town, to take by the hand a new acquaintance and old friend in the Bishop of Llandaff.

My dear Lord,

Whitehall Gardens, February 1, 1828.

I must, in the first instance, assure you that no man more cordially rejoiced in your most justly deserved preferment to the bench than I did. Even amidst all my satisfaction at the promotion of my dearest friend * to the see of Oxford, I was pained by the reflection that it at least postponed your elevation to the place in which I wished to see you-wishing it on the highest public grounds, but, I may truly add, not on those exclusively. . . . . I believe I was paying a visit to Lord Wellesley when you called at my house. Had I been at home, nothing should have prevented me from seeing you.

I shall be at the office to-morrow at half-past twelve, and will see you with the greatest pleasure, if that appointment will suit you.

Believe me, my dear Lord,

With sincere feelings of esteem and respect,
Yours very faithfully,

ROBERT PEEL.

Affectionate and reverential attention towards his parents was a marked and most pleasing feature in the bishop's character. Whenever he had anything agreeable to communicate, it seems to have been his first thought to write to them. Nor is it by any means a trifling indication of this habit of mind, that in these letters he always subscribed himself 'Your dutiful and affectionate son'-no less when he signed E. Llandaff,' than when, a scholar of C.C.C., he wrote home to announce his Latin verse prize. The following letter is an instance:—

* Dr. Lloyd.

My dear Father,

Oriel College, November, 30, 1827.

My letter from Chester was written to announce an improvement in my health, which I was sure you and my dear mother would be glad to hear of. I am just arrived in Oxford, and find awaiting me a letter from Lord Goderich, offering the bishopric of Llandaff and the deanery of St. Paul's, an offer which, notwithstanding the mixed emotions it raises of awe and apprehension, yet cannot be declined. The letter has been lying here one day, and, besides answering it, I have to write a multitude of others this evening. This, however, is the first, which you will allow me now to finish.

Your dutiful and affectionate son,

E. C.

On the evening of his consecration he wrote again thus

Being just returned from my consecration at Lambeth, although there is no post to-night yet I think it best to employ an hour before I go to bed, and while the impres sion is yet fresh on my mind, in giving you some account of this day, certainly to me the most impressive and memorable of my whole life. We went from the archbishop's gallery in solemn procession-his own servants leading the way in court-dresses-to the chapel, where the service was performed with the greatest solemnity.. Tyler's sermon you will see in print. Some alteration, however, will be made, by omitting passages of personal application to myself, which his friendly and warm heart had led him to insert. .

After

evening service another interval of an hour took place, which I was very glad of, as it gave me an opportunity of having much private conversation with my predecessor, the Bishop of Winchester, a man whom everybody esteems

and loves that knows him.

It is the custom

of the day to give the new bishop precedence after his consecration. He walks first with the archbishop, and sits at the head of his table-formerly it was with his head covered, and even now the ceremony is kept up of putting on the cap after the company are seated, although it is immediately taken off again. The party being all pretty well acquainted, although a day of solemn ceremony it was, I believe, one of social enjoyment also. The archbishop, who has now filled the metropolitan chair longer than any primate since the Reformation, is apparently in much better health than he was three years ago, when I dined there at the anniversary of the Sons of the Clergy.

There is something which powerfully affects the feelings in a day of solemnity at Lambeth Palace. The historical recollections, which everything around you awakens, is deeply interesting. In the gallery, which is used as a state drawing-room, are portraits of every archbishop, from Cranmer downward, with that of Wareham, the last popish primate. The ground, consisting of about twenty acres, enclosed in the midst of what is now a populous town, is the same which for many centuries has -belonged to the primate of Canterbury, and is, therefore, associated with some events or characters of every reign. The formalities now practised on solemn occasions are such as bring the past before one's eyes, and are never to be witnessed elsewhere.. Let me now thank you for your kind letter of the 10th. I shall still live in hopes that a fine summer may tempt you and my mother to Bath, and thence, by an easy day's journey, to Llansanfraed. I have not time to write a long letter to my sisters on this occasion; and in the course of a few days you will, perhaps, be able to let them see this. I am, my dear father,

Your dutiful and affectionate son,
E. LLANDAFF.

The bishop's farewell letter to the dean and fellows of Oriel, which was accompanied by a formal resignation of the provostship, will be remembered by many, and admired by all as a noble specimen of fine feeling, expressed in choice and dignified language.

Mr. Dean,

January 30, 1828.

The stations to which I have been recently advanced in the church impose upon me duties which would materially interfere with those of a provost of this college; and having always regarded this office as a trust for which I am responsible, not only to God and my own conscience, but to the judgment also of that body who made choice of me, I should ill requite their kindness were I to retain it longer than is consistent with the just and reasonable expectations entertained by them when they placed it in my hands. It has been the pride and the honour of this college, especially in later times, to be guided by the spirit of their statutes in all things which concern the welfare and the utility of the institution—a principle which must lead every candid mind to conclude, that the head of such an institution ought to be continually present when the younger students are assembled; and to regard their superintendence, (however silent the statutes may be on the subject,) as one of his most important duties. As long as this principle is maintained in its full vigour, the usefulness of the Institution will be unquestioned, and its reputation firmly established. Upon this principle my revered predecessor acted, through the long period he presided over this college, and my earnest hope is, that none of the present day will ever witness a departure from it. While, however, I am thus impelled by a sense of duty to resign my office into your hands and those of the college, yet it is impossible to do so without strong emotions and feelings of regret, which your kindness