TO MISS CAY.

                                                                Trin. Coll., 12th November 1853.

 I am in a regular state of health though not a very regular state of reading, for I hold that it is a pernicious practice   to read when one is not inclined for it. So I read occasionally for a week and then miss a few days, always   remembering to do whatsoever College and Hopkins prescribe to be done, and avoiding anything more. Allan   Stewart was up a week ago to be made a bye Fellow of Peterhouse, so you may congratulate him when you see   him. He is to be in Edinburgh this winter. Frank Mackenzie is up, and seems pretty well. He tells me that he does  not sit up late; but as I have not the management of his candles I do not know what that means with him. I have    not been up after twelve for a long time except on Saturdays when I am not reading. . . . You will have   heard how the Council of King's College have sat upon Professor Maurice and intend to turn him out of the    college. So there are pamphlets and replies on the meaning of the word "Eternal," and broadsides of the Record   on the SIDE of the attack. I see that the Rev. Berkeley Addison is in trouble about the Scottish Reformation    Society, for associating with non-episcopal clergymen.