the crowds of the world, resorts to whatsoever haunts he chooses, and finally closes his day at ---- if, in any sense, at home--at a home which is not merely removed from the supervision and control, but altogether from the bare knowledge, of his academic superiors. How far this discipline is well administered in other points at Oxford, will appear from the rest of my account. But, thus far, at least, it must be conceded, that Oxford, by and through this one unexampled distinction--her vast disposable fund of accommodations for junior members within her own private cloisters--possesses an advantage which she could not forfeit, if she would, towards an effectual knowledge of each man's daily habits, and a control over him which is all but absolute. This knowledge and this control is much assisted and concentrated by the division of the University into separate colleges. Here comes another feature of the Oxford system. Elsewhere the University is a single college; and this college is the University. But in Oxford the University expresses, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resume, therefore, my own thread of personal narration. On the next morning after my arrival in Oxford, I assembled a small council of friends to assist me in determining at which of the various separate societies I should enter, and whether as a "commoner," or as a "gentleman commoner." Under the first question was couched the following latitude of choice: I give the names of the colleges, and the numerical account of their numbers, as it stood in January 1832; for this will express, as well as the list of that day (which I do not accurately know), the _proportions_ of importance amongst them. Mem. 1. University College 207 2. Balliol " 257 3. Merton " 124 4. Exeter " 299 5. Oriel " 293 6. Queen's " 351 7. New " 157 8. Lincoln " 141 9. All Souls' " 98 10. Magdalene " 165 11. Brasenose " 418 12. Corpus Christi " 127 13. Christ Church " 949 14. Trinity " 259 15. St. John's " 218 16. Jesus " 167 17. Wadham " 217 18. Pembroke " 189 19. Worcester " 231 Then, besides these colleges, five _Halls_, as they are technically called (the term _Hall_ implying chiefly that they are societies not endowed, or not endowed with fellowships as the colleges are), namely: Mem. 1. St. Mary Hall 83 2. Magdalen " 178 3. New Inn " 10 4. St. Alban " 41 5. St. Edmund " 96