The Municipal Council of the City of Oxford have unani-
mously accepted the proposal made by the Duke of Norfolk, in the name of the sub-committee appointed to determine on the best site for the proposed statue to Cardinal Newman, that it should be erected in the centre of Broad Street, opposite the gate of Trinity College,—the first and last College to which Newman belonged. Amongst the subscribers to the statue are to be found Englishmen of every shade of theological and political creed, including Lord Coleridge, Lord Halifax, Lord Lingen, the Dean of Durham, Lord Rosebery, the Marquis of Bute, the heads of many of the Oxford Col- leges, Mr. Justin McCarthy, M.P., the late Sir William White, the late Dean of St. Paul's, Professor Bryce, the Principal of Manchester New College (Unitarian), Rev. R. W. Dale (of Birmingham) and the Rev. Dr. Allan (of -Canonbury), who are probably the most eminent of the Con- gregationalists. It is evident, therefore, that the statue is -erected to the late Cardinal only as a tribute to one of the most eminent Englishmen of his generation, and not in any sense as a testimony of theological sympathy.
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