31 DECEMBER 1881, Page 17

[*** A correspondent having apparently understood our remark last week,"

Suppose we had written, `Dr. Magee, though a Bishop, is a human being,' would that have meant that the rest of the Episcopal Bench were not human beings ?" as suggesting that we were arguing with Dr. Magee himself, we may as well state that this, of course, was not the case, and that the correspondent on whose letter we were commenting was one of whom person. ally we have no knowledge.—En. Spectator.]