There was a "No-Popery" tumult at Pembroke College about a
fortnight ago, the cause being the presence of a Papal Chamberlain, an M.A. of Brasenose College, of the name of Grissell, who was supposed to be using persuasive influences to induce Protestants to go over to Rome. Mr. Grissell and the party which entertained him were first screwed up in one of the sets of rooms at Pembroke ; and then, when the authorities of the College had released him, he was hustled out of College with a storm of missiles after him. We supposed that demonstrations of this kind were more or less thiogs of the past. It is quite clear that if a man is inelined to join the Roman Church, he will find ample excuses for doing so without the blandishments of a Papal Chamberlain ; while if he is not so inclined, the blandishments of a Papal Chamberlain, even though also an M.A. of Oxford, will not go for much. We suspect, however, that Oxford Undergraduates need very little prompting to revive an almost obsolete form of amuse- ment, when they see a good opportunity. Hustling a Jesuit is ignoble perhaps, but so is wrestling with a bargee. Compara- tive novelty is the recommendation in matters of this kiwi,. which is most certain to fascinate Undergraduates.
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