Mr. Gladstone delivered a very interesting speech yesterday week, on
occasion of the Jubilee of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, which was started in 1841 in his presence, and dwelt with great force on the wonderful resources which the Anglican Church had developed in her effort to extend the Colonial Church. We have given the substance of his speech elsewhere, with some remarks on its general drift, and need only add here that he referred to the very remarkable oratorical effort made at the meeting in 1841 by Archdeacon (now Cardinal) Manning, in which he contrasted the meagreness and feebleness of the spiritual work of the Anglican Church with the wonderful, untiring, undying energy of the com- mercial genius of England. England, he said, had to make her choice between a spiritual and a temporal career, to choose whether she would be a powerful beast of burden, or the evangelist of the world. That challenge, Mr. Gladstone thought, had been taken up and answered by Anglicans in the right spirit.
