One sees whence Brother Ignatius derived his remarkable defi- .eiencies
in that sort of wisdom which Lord Bacon calls "counsel." Brother Ignatius's father,—Mr. Francis Lyne,—published in the Daily Telegraph of Wednesday a long and very maundering -epistle to the Bishop of London, entirely full of lamentation over his son's misfortune in not having made acquaintance with any wise Protestant-minded clergy who might have kept him from his -strange paths. He particularly complains that the Bishop of Norwich "had no power to control the Rev. George Drury, of Claydon, and no power to say to my son, with effect, 'Go thou and tarry at Jerusalem till thy beard be grown." But the reverend gentleman's beard is apparently grown now, and yet he is still wanting in social tact and political wisdom ; —would a pro- tracted stay at Jerusalem have taught him more than social life in England? Mr. Lyne, senior, goes on to say that Pro- testantism alone is the source of England's strength, which he expresses in these remarkable words :—" My Lord, with the map of the world before us, and the life of the Duke of Wellington shining on the past, can we dare to say that England, per se, was mighty ! My Lord, the freedom with which man now begins to breathe throughout the whole world is -due to England's Protestantism ; and all coming as well as past his- -tory must support this fact." How an open map of the world, with the Duke of Wellington's special sunshine upon it, illustrates this remarkable truth, we fail to apprehend. But we think we do apprehend that Mr. Francis Lyne does not add very much more to the strength of the English Protestantism on which the Duke of Wellington has ceased to shine, than the Rev. Joseph Leycest,er .Lyne adds to the strength of the English Ritualism witch his father deplores.
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