MEMORIAL TO CARDINAL NEWMAN AT OXFORD. [To THE EDITOR OP
THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—The sentimental objection to the site proposed for this statue is, not that it is within eye-reach of the Martyrs' Memorial, but that it is in close contiguity to the iron cross upon the pavement of the Broad Street, which may be the exact spot where the martyrs were burned. In fact, there is much the same incongruity in placing a Prince of the Roman Church in triumph there, as there was in erecting the statue to Bruno upon the Piazza where he was burned in Rome three hundred years ago.
Liberals erected the statue to Bruno, and were loudly con- demned for wishing to insult the Pope thereby. Though I do not, being an intellectual Liberal of an advanced descrip- tion, sympathise with Protestantism, I appreciate the feelings which make English Church patriots resent the exaltation of a priest and a Cardinal close to the humble cross which marks the stake of their revered confessors.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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