THE BISHOP-DESIGNATE OF ROCHESTER.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—Will you permit me, as a clergyman in the neighbour- hood where the Dean of Windsor must be best known, to observe, that the estimate of his mind and character which your expressions convey, is not in accord with what has generally impressed itself upon us here. It is true, as you say, that he is " Broad ;" but he is regarded as generous and kindly in his breadth. Nor has he shown himself, as you add, "willing to defend what goes beyond himself in the down- ward direction, but hardly what goes beyond himself in the upward." On the contrary, his utterances at the late Hull Congress on the subject of Ritualism were distinctly in favour of a large tolerance in the upward direction. Nor is what you add painfully at the close of your comment, such as seems, as far as we have grounds for judging, at all fair. What the Dean has done for the services in St. George's Chapel, the ready assistance given by him to churches and church work of the
neighbourhood, without distinction of High or Low, and his active brotherly fellowship with the neighbouring clergy, per- sonally and in their clerical meetings, have together given a very
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