THE CHAMPIONS OF THE CHURCH.
THE approaching installation of the gallant and learned Duke of WELLINGTON as Chancellor of Oxford University, must strike terror into the breasts of the schismatics, and reassure the trem- bling nerves of' the orthodox children of the Church. For it is not to his Grace's proficiency in literis humanioribus, though that is unquestionable, so much as to his distinguished character for piety and religious zeal, that his elevation to the Chancellorship is owing. The Duke is par excellence the champion of the Church. Like George of Cappadocia, the patron of our own England, he combines the characters of warrior and saint; while in purity of morals he affords a fine contrast to that somewhat dissolute hero. There is only one other individual in the country whose claims can for a moment be placed in competition with his. It will at once be guessed that we allude to the illustrious ERNEST Duke of CUMBERLAND; who in zeal for the Established faith does not yield even to the godly WELLESLEY. In token of their high esti- mation of his principles, the heads of Oxford University have offered to create His Royal Highness a Doctor of Laws. But a punctilious feeling of respect to the members of Trinity College, Dublin, who must be desirous of keeping their Chan- /seller as much as possible to themselves, aud are naturally jealous of his bestowing even the least of his favours upon others, has induced him to decline the tempting honour.* Ox- ford however, will be gratified by the presence of both their favourites. The two Chancellors, par nobile fratrum, will meet on the sacred and classic ground, attired in the robes befitting their saintly character; their countenances beaming with holy joy, like Moses and Aaron of old ; dealing out wise apoph- thegms to the youth of Britain, and holding solemn conferences with the learned Dignitaries of our Church. On that day the orthodox will indeed triumph, and stand erect in the streets, an- scared by the spectres of False Doctrine, Heresy, and Schism.
• The Times, indeed. gives an ill-naturell version of the story. According to that journal, A number of the resident graduates bad determined to resist the eenferring at a degree 9)011 the Royal cantlitlat.:, and the Vice.Chancellor was compelled to apply to the Duke of WELLINGTON to erase his name from the list of Dodoes! But tie affair was to be smoothed over: and hence a letter from the Duke of Cumartat,anr declining an hunout which would never have been ooniterred.
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