vice-chancellor, favourable to the House of Hanover, followed a Jacobite predecessor just in time to present a loyal address to George I. on his accession. This was rewarded by the splendid gift of Bishop Moore’s library; while at Oxford, where the Jacobites were more noisy and had just made the anniversary of the Pretender’s birthday the occasion for a disturbance, two Jacobite officers were placed under arrest, and a troop of horse was quartered in the city. These events gave rise to the following couplets: (Oxford) The King observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his Universities, To one he sends a regiment; for why? That _learned_ body wanted _loyalty_. To th’ other books he gave, as well discerning How much that _loyal_ body wanted _learning_. * * * * * (Sir Wm. Browne for Cambridge) The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse: For Tories own no _argument_ but _force_. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent: For Whigs allow no _force_ but _argument_. [Sidenote: Modern politics.] When we come to modern politics, the parts are played on the political stage at Westminster. In the radical matter of parliamentary reform, the first step was made by one of Cambridge’s great sons, the younger Pitt, fifty years before a Whig ministry led by Earl Grey, another Cantabrigian, laid the Reform Bill on the table of the House. The claims of America to self government and freedom from taxation were upheld by both the Pitts, by Fox and by Burke, and opposed by Samuel Johnson. The Whigs, as we know, were, as a whole, of Johnson’s mind in the matter. Cambridge opposed the Manchester school of Liberalism--and Catholic emancipation, Free-trade, Reform bills, and Home Rule for Ireland were all measures which received no support from the Whig-Conservative university. Philanthropy seems to be as far removed from the academic purview as art or practical politics: none of the great humanitarian movements which dignified the xix century took their rise in Cambridge; but Clarkson and Wilberforce were Cambridge men, and Grey [Sidenote: A.D. 1807-34.] abolished slavery itself in 1834. [Sidenote: Religious movements. The Lollards.] In the century succeeding that which saw the historical birth of our two national universities, the first breath of the early renascence was wafted to our shores: but that dual aspect of the later movement which haunted and shaped its whole course in England had been presaged in a remarkable way, and in Wyclif Oxford gave a forerunner of the religious renascence a hundred years before the advent of the humanistic. Even when Henry IV. ascended the throne, Ralph Spalding, a Carmelite friar, was the only person of note at Cambridge [Sidenote: A.D. 1401.]