26 JULY 1884, Page 3

We greatly regret to record the death of Canon Lyttelton,-

uncle of the present Lord Lyttelton,—after a very long and painful illness. The Church of England has had few broader or more earnest theologians. More than once he has taken this journal to task for the tone of its theological remarks, but with so much simplicity and so much good feeling, that it was impossible not to be the better for his criticisms. The "precious balms" of the righteous are often very much harder to bear than the sneers of the world ;' but Canon Lyttelton was one of those who could express dissatisfaction and even dis- approval without exciting in any generous mind the smallest feeling of resentment. Very few better or wider-minded men than Canon Lyttelton have belonged to the Church in our day.