For having in head (1) most truly said that Christ "instituted a society _and_ revealed a doctrine," he then proceeds as if he had quite forgotten the first half of the proposition, and conceived of the society only as (so to speak) embedded in the doctrine.
Also, I complain of his depriving you of the character of [Greek: iegeus], which indeed I am rather inclined to claim for myself, as "He hath made us kings and priests" ([Greek: hiegeis]).
I hope you are gradually maturing the idea of your promised summer expedition to the south, and that before long I shall hear from you on the subject of it.
Will you remember me kindly to Miss Cochrane, and believe me, ever affectionately yours, W.E.

GLADSTONE.
The Dean was greatly affected by a terrible calamity, which happened in his house in Ainslie Place, where, in June of 1866, his niece Lucy Cochrane, one of his family, was burnt to death; out of many letters of condolence which he received at the time, I have only space to insert three--one from the Rev.Dr.Hannah, then head of Glenalmond College, an accomplished scholar, to whom our Dean was much attached, and upon whom he drew very freely in any questions of more recondite scholarship, another from the Rev.D.T.K.

Drummond, and the third from the Premier:-- Rev.Dr.J.HANNAH to DEAN RAMSAY.
Trinity College, Glenalmond, N.B.
June 15, 1866.
Dear Mr.Dean--I _must_ write one line, though I know you will be overwhelmed with letters, to say how deeply distressed and shocked we are at the news in this morning's paper, and how profoundly we sympathize with you under this fearful affliction.

I thought instantly of Mr.Keble's lovely poem in the Lyra Innocentium:-- "Sweet maiden, for so calm a life, Too bitter seemed thine end." And it applies closely, I am sure, in the consolations it suggests; that "He who willed her tender frame Should rear the martyr's robe of flame," has prepared for her a garland in Heaven, "Tinged faintly with such golden light As crowns His martyr train." But if blessed for her, it will be a sore trial for the survivors.

We feel so keenly for her poor sisters, who seem to have to bear the brunt of so many sorrows.