Dr. Hayman has been solaced for his tribulations at Rugby
by the Rectory of Aldingham, in Lancashire, put down as yielding £1,000 a year, independently of the house. Mr. Disraeli, in offering it to him, wisely guarded himself from expressing any opinion on the distressing controversy which resulted in Dr. Hay- man's dismissal from Rugby. But the Prime Minister wished, according to the Times, "to express his sympathy with a distin- guished scholar who has had to contend with circumstances of try- ing difficulty, which have exhausted his worldly means ; and who, now, with the anxious responsibility of a large family, has been de- prived of a high office and an honoured home." That is very much as it should be. No doubt Dr. Hayman, though incompetent for the position he held, and especially wronged therefore by the old Governing Body which appointed him, was hardly dealt with by some of his colleagues, and exposed to a needlessly severe trial through the imprudence of his predecessor, working in conjunction with his own. It was well that he should be solaced, though any- thing like compensation for trials of his own causing would have been inappropriate. Nobody understands the kind of poetical justice which is most suitable to " such creatures as we are, in such a world as the present," better than Mr. Disraeli.
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