The Archbishop of Canterbury has promised that the primary Report
of the Commission upon Ritualism shall be published at once. It is understood that it condemns excess in ecclesiastical millinery very severely, and advises that it should he prohibited. That is, doubtless, proper, when the parish feels its conscience offended by the clergyman's dress, but how about the doctrines of which those dresses are only the intimation? Is belief in treat- substantiation to be allowed and the elevation of the bread for- bidden, sacerdotalism to be taught and the wearing of sacerdotal garments made penal ? It would be very like an English Arch- bishop to recommend that course, but it will scarcely, we suspect, satisfy a Householder Parliament. If that consents to act at all, it will pass something a little more to the purpose than a sumptuary law.
