At a congregation held at Oxford on Wednesday last, the
statute for endowing the Regius Professorship of Greek which at present receives the magnificent emolument of 401. a year, was read and promulgated. A discussion ensued which hinged upon two points : the theological heresies of Mr. Jowett, the present Regius Professor, and the danger of endowing with University funds an appointment which be- longs exclusively to the Crown, and in which the University has no voice. It seems that it is legally impossible, without an Act of Parliament, to give the University any voice in the appointment, and it is probably very desirable that such an act should be passed. We regret, however, to note a change of tone for the worse in the discussion on the other point. Professor Pusey and the Provost of Oriel have both of them pronounced on the theological question, and both of them on the same side. They lend the influence of their learn- ing and position to the wise and generous principle that a man who is unsound in his theology ought to be ill paid for all his other duties. Though they probably acquiesce in the Divine law that the sun shall shine and Ili;rain fall alike on the evil and the good, they would have made a special exception for the particular evil of heresy. Wordsworth's picture of " Blind Authority beating with his staff The child that might have led him," alone describes these elders of congregation. We had looked for better things from Dr. Hawkins.
