"When I was seventeen," Porson once observed, "I thought I knew every thing; as soon as I was twenty-four, and had read Bentley, I found I knew nothing. Now I have challenged the great scholars of the age to find _five_ faults to their _one_, in any work, ancient or modern, they decline it." On another occasion, he described himself as A GENTLEMAN WITHOUT SIXPENCE IN HIS POCKET. Person declining to enter into holy orders, as the statute of his college required he should do, lost his fellowship at Trinity, after he had enjoyed it ten years; "on which heart-rending occasion," says his friend and admirer, Dr. Kidd, "he used to observe, with his usual good humour (for nothing could depress him,) that he was _a gentleman living in London without a sixpence in his pocket_." Two years afterwards his friends procured his election to the Regius Professorship of Greek, on the death of Professor Cooke, the sudden news of which event, he says, in a letter printed in Parriana, addressed to the then Master of Trinity, the learned Dr. Postlethwaite, all his ambition of that sort having been long ago laid asleep, "put me in mind of poor Jacob, who, having served seven years in hope of being rewarded with Rachel, awoke, and behold it was Leah." He had seven years previously projected a course of lectures in Greek, which most unaccountably were not patronised by the Senate. * * * * * GREEK PROTESTANTS AT OXFORD. Mr. Pointer says, in his _Oxoniensis Academia, &c._, speaking of the curiosities connected with Worcester College, there were "Ruins of a Royal Palace, built by King Henry the First, in Beaumont, near Gloucester-green, upon some parts of which ruins, the late Dr. Woodroff (when principal of Gloucester Hall, now Worcester College) built lodgings for the education of young scholars from Greece, who, after they had been here educated in the reformed religion, were to be sent back to their own country, in order to propagate the same there. And accordingly some young Grecians were brought hither, and wore their Grecian habits; but not finding suitable encouragement, this project came to nothing." * * * * * JUDGMENT OF ERASMUS ON THE CAMBRIDGE FOLK. Fuller says, that Erasmus thus wrote of the Cambridge folk, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. "Vulgus Cantabrigiense, inhospitales Britannos antecedit, qui cum summa rusticitate summum militiam conjunxere." This will by no means _now_ apply to the better class of tradespeople, and in no place that I know of is there more hospitality amongst the higher orders of society. Kirk White, in his Letters, is not very complimentary either to BEDMAKERS OR GYPS.