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, together with the east or choir front. The pipes are of tin, alloyed with about eight pounds of lead to the hundred-weight.

"One of the relics of our Church," says the Rev. Mr. Havergal, "before its grand disruption, in the days of fanaticism, rebellion and usurpation, was spared from destruction by the last man in the world who could be thought to have music in his soul—was curiously conveyed to an outraged palace for his stealthy gratification—was upon his death restored to its original home in Oxford, and is now standing, renovated and enlarged, in one of the most beautiful bulwarks of our land. Surely that organ speaks with a speechless voice to the heart of every English churchman more stirringly than the most consummate skill could make it speak to the ear! If more be wanting, then let poetry come to the aid of history, and tell you, that her Bard of Bards, the