could frame.  It was such writing and such preaching as had certainly never been seen on the Roman side before, at least in England.  Whether it was adapted to its professed purpose may perhaps be doubted; but the men who went certainly lost none of their vigour as controversialists or their culture as scholars.  Not to speak of Mr. Newman, such men as Mr. Oakeley, Mr. Ward, Mr. Faber, and Mr. Dalgairns more than fulfilled in the great world of London their reputation at Oxford.  This was all in prospect before the eyes of those who had elected to cast in their lot with the English Church.  It was not an encouraging position.  The old enthusiastic sanguineness had been effectually quenched.  Their Liberal critics and their Liberal friends have hardly yet ceased to remind them how sorry a figure they cut in the eyes of men of the world, and in the eyes of men of bold and effective thinking.[126] The “poor Puseyites” are spoken of in tones half of pity and half of sneer.  Their part seemed played out.  There seemed nothing more to make them of importance.  They had not succeeded in Catholicising the English Church, they had not even shaken it by a wide secession.  Henceforth they were only marked men.  All that could be said for them was, that at the worst, they did not lose heart.  They had not forgotten the lessons of their earlier time.

It is not my purpose to pursue farther the course of the movement.  All the world knows that it was not, in fact, killed or even much arrested by the shock of 1845.  But after 1845, its field was at least as much out of Oxford as in it.  As long as Mr. Newman remained, Oxford was necessarily its centre, necessarily, even after he had seemed to withdraw from it.  When he left his place vacant, the direction of it was not removed from Oxford, but it was largely shared by men in London and the country.  It ceased to be strongly and prominently Academical.  No one in deed held such a position as Dr. Pusey’s and Mr. Keble’s; but though Dr. Pusey continued to be a great power at Oxford, he now became every day a much greater power outside of it; while Mr. Keble was now less than ever an Academic, and became more and more closely connected with men out of Oxford, his friends in London and his neighbours at Hursley and Winchester.  The cause which Mr. Newman had given up in despair was found to be deeply interesting in ever new parts of the country:  and it passed gradually into the hands of new leaders more widely acquainted with English society.  It passed into the hands of the Wilberforces, and Archdeacon Manning; of Mr. Bennett, Mr. Dodsworth, Mr. W. Scott, Dr. Irons, Mr. E. Hawkins, and Mr. Upton Richards in London.  It had the sympathy and counsels of men of weight, or men who were rising into eminence and importance—­some of the Judges, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Mr. Frederic Rogers, Mr. Mountague Bernard, Mr. Hope Scott (as he afterwards was), Mr. Badeley, and a brilliant recruit from Cambridge, Mr. Beresford Hope.  It