The rumour to which we referred last week, that the
vacant Canonry of Ripon had been offered to and accepted by the Rev. Malcolm MacColl, was true. And we are glad to observe that papers of very different shades of opinion all concur in thinking that never was an ecclesiastical promotion better deserved. Mr. MacColl is rightly termed by the Times a rather High Church- man, with a strong dash of the Broad Churchman in him ; and, indeed, the late Canon Kingsley has expressed in his published letters warm sympathy with the general cast of Mr. MacColl's theology. However, what gratifies us in his promotion is that he is one of those clergymen who have never thought it necessary to disguise either their warm interest in politics or their Liberalism, and yet have never expressed that warm interest with any violence or acrimony. With all Mr. MacColl's loyalty to the Liberal cause, some of his sincerest friends are reckoned among the ardent Tories.
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