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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vn. JUNE 22, 1901.

had not been a Christian already, I should probably have been now in consequence. I thought ther was something of wild talent in him, mixed with a due leaven of absurdity as there must be in all talent, let loose upon the world, without a martingale."

In the same edition of Byron's works is given (vol. v. appendix iv. p. 593) a letter written by Mr. Mulock to the editor of the Moi^ning Post, enclosing " Lines to Lord Byron on noticing numerous passages of Scripture wrought into his unrivalled poetry," from

which, he says, "it will be gathered that

I, who hold up Christianity somewhat higher than most of my co-temporaries, do not join in the clamour now raging against Lord Byron, and the alleged impiety of his acknoiu- ledged works."

Shortly after this Mr. Mulock must have entered the Baptist ministry, for in 1822 he had founded a small Baptist chapel at Stoke- on-Trent (which I believe still exists), and was minister there until 1831. When he settled at Stoke he became intimate with my grand- father William James Reade, who had also become converted to similar Evangelical views, and was himself thinking of entering the Baptist ministry. A long theological corre- spondence between them at this time was carefully preserved by Mr. Reade, and throws a vivid light on the narrow intensity of their religious beliefs. Though most of it was only " concerning the period, scope, and end of Job's sufferings," it completely shattered their friendship for many years, although they married sisters shortly after the quarrel. ALEYN LYELL READE.

Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool. (To be continued.)

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. Although the daily papers in England, and especially in Scot- land, have given full accounts of the ninth jubilee of Glasgow University, it would seem fitting that ' N. & Q.' should have a record of the event. The celebration commenced on Wednesday, the 12th inst., by a service in the Cathedral. This was appropriate, as pointed out by Dr. M'Adam Muir, because it was by one identified with that edifice that the University was founded, for it was owing to the exertions of Bishop Turnbull that Pope Nicholas the Fifth, "the greatest of the restorers of learning," "constituted a University to continue in all time to come in the city of Glasgow, 'it being ane notable place, with gude air and plenty of provisions for human life'"; and to ensure "that the classes might begin with some degree of celebrity," he further granted a universal indulgence to all faithful Chris-

tians who should visit the Cathedral of Glas- gow in the year 1451. In the course of his address, as reported by the Glasgow Herald on the following day, Dr. Muir made the following historical references :

" When the first jubilee was reached, James the Fourth, who fell at Flodden, was sitting on the throne of Scotland ; and a new world had a few years before been opened up by the discovery of America. At the second jubilee the tremendous conflict of the Reformation was raging, and the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots, was still a child in France. When the third jubilee came round, the long feud between England and Scotland was about to cease through the accession of the Scottish king to the English throne. The fourth jubilee found the Commonwealth established ; King Charles the First had perished on the scaffold ; Cromwell was overrunning Scotland ; and the quaint Zachary Boyd, to whom the University is indebted for liberal benefactions, denounced him to his face in the lower church of this Cathedral. The fifth jubilee fell at the end of the reign of William the Third and the beginning of the reign of Queen Anne. By the time of the sixth jubilee the pro- tracted struggle between the House of Stuart and the House of Hanover had come to an end ; the hopes of the Jacobites had been quenched at Culloden ; the Duke of Cumberland had received in recognition of his services the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Glasgow; and Clive was laying the foundation of the British Empire in India. The seventh jubilee occurred when the storm and agitation of the French Revo- lution had not sunk to rest, when the momentous career of Napoleon was becoming a menace to Europe, when Great Britain and Ireland were

united The eighth jubilee was contemporary with

the first great International Exhibition And

now the ninth jubilee finds us at the completion of the glorious Victorian era, mourning the departure of our beloved Queen, yet hailing with enthusiastic loyalty the accession of our new King."

In the afternoon there was a reception of delegates in the Bute Hall, and the Glasgow Herald does full justice to the splendour of the spectacle. In the absence on account of age of the venerable Chancellor (Lord Stair), the Vice- Chancellor (the Very Rev. Principal Story) delivered the address and received the delegates, among whom were two native professors from the University of Tokyo, in Japan, while the youngest British university, Birmingham, was represented by Prof. Oliver Lodge.

Dr. Muir in affectionate terms well described Glasgow University as fulfilling that ideal of a university sketched by Newman nearly half a century ago :

"a place which attracts the affections of the

light of the world, a minister of the faith, an alma mater of the rising generation."

N. S. S.