Item 173 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

RJ has applied for Buller's office but has not yet had a reply. RJ has had a letter from Walpole offering him 'the secretaryship to a new commission they are about to issue to advise about assigning duties to all cathedral dignitaries and apparently diverting some of the funds to other church purposes'. Edward Ryan thinks the Secretaryship would be good and 'sure to lead to something satisfactory but if my antecedents are not enough I cannot rely on this. In the mean time it would be income for a time'. RJ thinks 'Diocesan schools of divinity are clearly aimed at by this new commission. I have some doubts about the ultimate good to be effected by 20 or 30 different schools teaching each possibly variations of its own and have always thought it a marvelous waste of power not to make the University chairs efficient for the whole church - with some give and take among the Bishops themselves and a thorough understanding with the universities surely this might be done without much expense difficulty or change'.