29 APRIL 1876, Page 3

Keble College Chapel,—one of the most beautiful structures of modem

England, and even of the city of Oxford itself,—was opened for divine service with much ceremony on Tuesday last,— a certain amount of gloom being, however, thrown over the occa- sion by the melancholy death of Lord Lyttelton, the father- in-law of the able and popular Warden of the College, the Rev. E. S. Talbot. Dr. Posey preached the sermon in the morning, the Secretary at War reading the second lesson, and Dr. Liddon preaching in the evening. Earl Beauchamp took the chair at the public luncheon, when the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the Visitor of the College, made a speech, in which the nature of the Presbyterian struggled somewhat amusingly against the feelings of the Primate of All England. He confessed his early misgivings about Keble College. He had feared it might turn out a monkish institution, and was relieved when Dr. Pusey exhorted the founders to appointa married warden. He liked theological colleges better when they were in- connection with a great University and with the State, than when they were mere seminaries. He strove hard to find good things to say of Keble himself. Keble had won Iris fellowship at Oriel by open competition,—to our mind, one of the least characteristic things Keble ever did,—and he had not gone over to Rome when everybody expected that he would,— which tenacity in his position was, on the contrary, very charac- teristic of him. On the whole, the Archbishop approved of Keble College,—especially of the frugality of its habits,—but somehow was not quite at home in the atmosphere of "The Christian Year."