The ceremony of the enthronisation of the new Archbishop of
Canterbury was performed on Thursday, in the Cathedral, the Archdeacon pronouncing the operative words, " Induco, install°, et inthronizo," which would, we suspect, have amazed Cicero, though not Gregory VII. Six Bishops of the Province appeared as officers of the See, and three other English Bishops, three Colonial Bishops with Sees, one American Bishop, and seven Colonial Bishops without Sees, assisted in the grand pro- cession,led by theArchbishop, wearing the long scarlet train which stands in place of the ancient pallium from Rome. The Duke of Edinburgh, and a host of dignitaries, officials, and visitors were present, much of ancient magnificence and form having been re- stored to the show. The Archbishop afterwards made a speech in the library, the most noteworthy sentences of which were that the Church ought to reject temporal dominion, that she should not fear intellect, which was of God—but is, we may remark, Me the rain, given to just and unjust alike—and that he personally admired the comprehensiveness of the English Church, shown in allowing the French Protestant Church to exist within the limits of the Cathedral. Dr. Benson is, there. lore, effectively Archbishop, after a delay, for one futile form
or another, which we agree with the Times is wholly unsuited to modern circumstances, and after an expenditure which ought. to be thoroughly revised. Between nomination and enthronisa- tion, an Archbishop Elect is plundered at every turn.
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