. Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, and sometime Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. t that I should be imprisoned—so Iam told. There must be a reaction from all this nonsense ; my onlyfear is that it will carry us too far. But I shall rejoice at emancipationfrom the diseased opinion of London Society. It is utterly artificial,and will astonish those who come after us. What an article that is inthe Quarterly ! Who, in his senses, that wished well to the Monarchy,would raise the questions which it inevitably raises ? Before leaving town
. Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, and sometime Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. t that I should be imprisoned—so Iam told. There must be a reaction from all this nonsense ; my onlyfear is that it will carry us too far. But I shall rejoice at emancipationfrom the diseased opinion of London Society. It is utterly artificial,and will astonish those who come after us. What an article that is inthe Quarterly ! Who, in his senses, that wished well to the Monarchy,would raise the questions which it inevitably raises ? Before leaving town I had a long talk with the Bishop of Salisburyabout Eastern matters : it was sad to see how the House of Lords hadtaken his old fire out of him. On the whole, he was for supportingthe Government. The only Bishops who are not are—Oxford, Ely,Exeter, and Manchester. The rest go in for patriotism, which hasbeen debauched of late more than any word that I know. In the autumn of 1878 he had great hopes of the con-sequences of the Berlin Treaty, because of the resultswhich it actually achieved, as well as the promises whichwere made in it. J/t^i^e lAic/^^^LU,^-^.^/.^^. -fl^ ^JJoXm/^ cTLe/rtyru The Berlin Treaty. 225 To C. T. Redington, Esq. Glamis Castle, Forfarshire, , July 25, 1878. ... Your kind note of the 21st reaches me here, in the castleof King Malcolm, where, in fact, he was murdered by Macbeth. Itis one of the oldest buildings in Scotland, and is full of the mostvaried interest. My host, Lord Strathmore, is a thorough Church-man, living in the midst of a Presbyterian tenantry, but keeping upin his private Chapel the old ways and faith of his ancestors. Twocannon before the front gate were out with Charles Edward atCuUoden ; and the Chapel in the castle was the last building con-secrated by a Scottish Bishop before the Church was suppressedby William III. in 1688. Yes, I did think of you at lona. It is an island of rare interest,in which Ireland has as large
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