A correspondent of the Pall Mall, criticises in a very
captious spirit Mr. Gladstone's ecclesiastical appointments, on the ground that he has not done justice to the Broad-Church Party. According to our view, Mr. Gladstone has made more High- Church Bishops than Broad Church ; but only seven High- Church Bishops against five Broad-Church Bishops (we count the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Manchester, the Bishop of Newcastle, the Bishop of South well as Broad Church). He has besides made two Evangelical Bishops. But he has made a great many more Broad-Church Deans than High Church, namely, ten against three, and in addition two Evangelical Deans. As to Canons, if Mr. Scott Holland and Mr. MacColl count as High Church, Mr. Gladstone has made nine High-Church Canons, eight Broad-Church Canons, and two whose type may be depicted as betwixt and between. He has besides made four Evangelical Canons. Now, in the whole of this estimate we have set down as High Church many who are at least as Broad as they are High, and we maintain that if Mr. Gladstone has favoured any party, it has been the Broad-Church Party. We should be very glad indeed to see promotion offered to Mr. Llewelyn Davies and Mr. Barnett, who have both done much to deserve it ; but it is contrary to facts to talk of Mr. Gladstone's eccle.. siastical patronage as leaving the Broad-Church Party in the lurch.
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