Archdeacon Denison has presented a memorial to the Arch- bishop
of Canterbury, pointing out the great " unreality" that will attach to the Conference of Bishops, if it does not discuss the one thing all the Bishops, and almost all the Church, are thinking about,—the excommunication of Bishop Colenso. But it is pre- cisely on this account that we fully expect that this subject will not be discussed. Nothing could be more characteristic of Englishmen generally,—and still more of English Bishops, who are even more timid and cautious than ordinary opulent English- men,—than to summon a great meeting because there is a great agitation on a particular point, and then require the meeting to talk about other points on which there is no agitation. It is the sort of compromise Englishmen'like,—before they get thoroughly warmed with a subject—to have a meeting because they are fidgetty, and not discuss it.
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