THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE FELLOWSHIP.
University College, Oxford, 9th August 1852.
Sin—Mr. Freeman, in his letter of June 26, censured the Oxford Com- missioners for referring to a case in which, as he asserted by implication, "personal favour and the purposes of party" had been made the tests of fit- ness for a Fellowship. He now, it seems, discovers that no such personal or party purposes ex- isted, but that he has been deceived by certain prima facie appearances, which he misconstrued ; and therefore, of course, he withdraws the impu- tation.
Instead, however, of apologizing to the Commissioners for his mistake, he actually repeats his charge against them ; declaring that they are to blame for alluding to a transaction the faultiness of which, as defined by himself in his first letter, is now acknowledged to have existed only in his own imagination.
I will not embarrass the question by dwelling, as I should otherwise be glad to do, on the subsidiary points on which he touches,—such as the use made of the aforesaid transaction in different newspapers, or the indispen- sability of an examination-test. Mr. Freeman says, he meant his allusion " simply as a blow at the Commissioners " : your readers will now under- stand what sort of blows his are.
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