21 SEPTEMBER 1867, Page 2

The Bishop of Louisiana, in his sermon at St. Lawrence's

Church, explained oneof the chief reasons of the loss of our American colonies to the British Crown,—the omission to send out a single Anglican bishop before the great revolution. It is .a remarkable theory. In the second American secession, at all events, this great healing influence was not absent, but it was not healing. The late Bishop Polk—was he not the eloquent preacher's own predecessor in the See of Louisiana?—was a warrior and a general,—one of the great props of " sedition, privy conspiracy, •and rebellion," and lost his fife in actual fight on that behalf.