contribution, or ordered him to dress in a yellow gabardine, and locked
him in a particular quarter.

Now a merchant may wear what boots he pleases, and has pretty nearly
acquired the privilege of buying and selling without the Government
laying its paws upon the bargain. The stake for heretics is gone; the
pillory is taken down; Bishops are even found lifting up their voices
against the remains of persecution, and ready to do away with the last
Catholic Disabilities. Sir Robert Peel, though he wished it ever so
much, has no power over Mr. Benjamin Disraeli's grinders, or any means
of violently handling that gentleman's jaw. Jews are not called upon
to wear badges: on the contrary, they may live in Piccadilly, or the
Minories, according to fancy; they may dress like Christians, and do
sometimes in a most elegant and fashionable manner.

Why is the poor College servitor to wear that name and that badge still?
Because Universities are the last places into which Reform penetrates.
But now that she can go to College and back for five shillings, let her
travel down thither.



CHAPTER XIV--ON UNIVERSITY SNOBS

All the men of Saint Boniface will recognize Hugby and Crump in these
two pictures. They were tutors in our time, and Crump is since advanced
to be President of the College. He was formerly, and is now, a rich
specimen of a University Snob.

At five-and-twenty, Crump invented three new metres, and published