Tettro to ter Calor.
Hitchen, 8th May 1850.
Sin—So the result of the anxious deliberations of the Right Reverend Bench of Bishops with regard to the questions which at present agitate the Church is, that they are to beg Parliament to make their Lordships the judges of doctrine instead of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council!
And do their Lordships expect that the Church will be more satisfied with a decision of lawn-clad nominees of a Ministry, than of those Clad in er- mine ? So long as the Bishops are the creatures of the State, the Church must repudiate them as ecclesiastical legislators, or even arbitrators, though it bear with them as administrators.
Let the Church be governed by the Queen through an Ecclesiastical Cabi- net possessing the confidence of the Lower House of Convocation, (which should fairly represent the laity as well as the clergy,) and let candidates for bishoprics and deaneries be selected by the same Church Council. And if the Prune Minister of the State demurs to the loss of influence over the Bishops' votes in the House of Lords, there is a very obvious way of get-
ting over that difficulty. Your obedient servant, C. W.
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