On Tuesday next we trust the Liberal party will muster
strong at Oxford. Dr. Pusey, and, we believe, Mr. Keble, have declared their concurrence in the compromise, or irenicon, as Dr. Pusey calls it, which, after reciting that the endowment of the Greek Chair is not to imply any kind of University decision on the character of Professor Jowett's writings quoad fidem Catholicam tractaverint, is to endow the chair. On the other hand, there is a rally of the Evangelical party in resistance to this step, and the Award, which at first countenanced the compromise, now prints without comment " reasons for voting against the endowment of the Regius Professor of Greek." The reasons say that the recital reserving the judg- ment of the University on the Professor's writings "makes bad worse," because it makes a precedent for neutrality as regards religious belief towards the professors of other studies. We strongly advise these opponents of such neutrality to consider the " dangerous " effect which such petty persecution as starving Greek or Science in order to please Theology has on increasing the popularity of the martyr. We trust that, were it for no juster reason than this, the dogmatists will follow their wiser leaders in voting for the compromise, and that every true Liberal will remem- ber that the question will be mooted on Tuesday, probably for the last time for many years, and that if the compromise fails a gross injustice will be long perpetuated.
