The proprietor of our contemporary The Tablet is to be
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, so that we are to have a "Mitred contemporary," as we prematurely imagined a year or two ago, after all. Dr. Vaughan, like all men, Roman Catholics -or not, who have been subjected to the discipline of newspaper -controversy and criticism, has gained a good deal by the schooling, and though there is no more thorough-going Ultramontane amongst English Roman Catholics,—indeed, during the period of the Vati- can Council his paper was often very harsh and unjust to the mi- nority,—the Protestants of Salford will not find him wanting in philanthropy and fairness, and in liberality to them ; nor again, in that manliness and cordial readiness to co-operate in good prac- tical causes, which are the most needful of all qualities for public men working in the great cities of Lancashire. If the Pope had ever edited a journal himself, the Syllabus would have been a very different and much less startling document.
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