12 OCTOBER 1867, Page 1

There has been a deal more Church than State about

the last few weeks. The Bishops who did not join the Conference are making up for it by all charging at once ; the Church Conference has overflowed far into this week ; the Duke of Argyll has been lecturing on Church matters ; Bishop Gray has been refuting the Times on Church matters, and the Times has been refuting Bishop Gray ; Archbishop Manning has been improving the occasion to compare his Church's Councils with ours ; most important of all, the resolutions of the recent Synod, or whatever it be, have been published, and been endlessly discussed, with the sort of discus- sion which resolutions of that sort, half of them irresolutions, provoke.