Dr. Hayman received on Tuesday as much of the testimonial
fund, subscribed to show the sympathy of those who thought him unjustly treated in the matter of his dismissal from Rugby, as was available after his expenses in the action in the Court of Chancery had been paid. The Committee had intended, after paying the expenses, to buy up Dr. Hayman's insurance policies, and present them to him ; but this would have taken between 12,000 or 2.3,000 over and above the cost of the defence, whereas only £460 remained after paying those expenses,—the appoint- ment of Dr. Hayman to the living of Aldingham having dried up, according to the Committee, the fountain of the subscribers' munificence. We, on the contrary, suspect that what dried up that munificence was not Dr. Hayman's presentation to the living of Aldingham, so much as his attack on Dr. Arnold's memory at the Church Congress at Brighton,—an attack which con- vinced a great many who were firm sympathisers before, that they had been in error, and that the Governing Body of Rugby School had understood Dr. Hayman better than they. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol presented the testimonial vase, worth 1100, and the balance of £360, with a wise parsimony of reference to the source of all this now very dwindled stream of sympathy with Dr. Hayman ; and Dr. Hayman, with one more weak blast of his own trumpet, accepted the residue of the testi- monial, and the matter was over,—not, we should hope in Dr. Hayman's interest, to be revived. Strength of will, without
straightforwardness, intelligence, or insight, is not a blessing ; and this was the chief feature of Dr. Hayman's Rugby administration.
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