16 JANUARY 1875, Page 15

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you kindly allow

me to correct a rather grave mis- print in my short letter of last week ? I am made to say, " We do not advocate the admission of the laity to the Church's Councils, &c. What I wrote was, " We, who advocate the admis- sion of the laity," &c. I suppose the mistake arose from my stating that the Association for promoting the Reform of Con- vocation did not insist on clergy and laity sitting within the same four walls,—though personally, I must confess, that this, again, is the very thing that I desire. The measure of toleration to be arrived at can only be now settled, in my judgment, by a deliberative Church Council, in which all interests should be fairly repre-