Reçevez l'assurance de mes sentiments les plus distingués. GUIZOT. Mr. E.B. Ramsay, Dean, etc., 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, North Britain. Some of Mr. Gladstone's letters, already printed, show that they were not the beginning of the correspondence between him and the Dean. The accident which made them acquainted will be mentioned afterwards (p. lxxxi.) Right Hon. W.E. GLADSTONE to DEAN RAMSAY. Hawarden Castle, Chester, Jan. 3, 1870. My dear Dean Ramsay--I send you my rather shabby contribution of £10 to the Chalmers' Memorial. I wish it were more, but I am rather specially pressed at this time; and I think I refused Robert Bruce altogether not long ago. I quite understand the feeling of the Scotch aristocracy, but I should have thought Lothian would be apart from, as well as above it. But the number of subscriptions is the main thing, and very many they ought to be if Scotland is Scotland still. He was one of Nature's nobles. It is impossible even to dream that a base or unworthy thought ever found harbour for a moment in his mind. Is it not extraordinary to see this rain of Bishoprics upon _my_ head? Nor (I think) is it over; the next twelvemonth (wherever I may be at the end of it) will, I think, probably produce three more. Bishop Temple is a fine fellow, and I hope all will now go well. For Manchester (this is secret) I hope to have Mr. Fraser of Clifton--a very notable man, in the first rank of knowledge and experience on the question of education. Many pressed him for Salisbury. I can truly say that every Bishop who has been appointed has been chosen simply as the best man to be had. Ah! when will you spend that month here, which I shall never cease to long for?--Ever affectionately yours, W.E. GLADSTONE. Rev. Dr. CANDLISH to DEAN RAMSAY. 52 Melville Street, 7th Dec. 1870.