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With regard to the future Archbishop, there has been already

much hasty speculation, to which we do not desire to add more than the general considerations laid down elsewhere. But we may say that we believe the Church would be injured by the translation of either the present Archbishop of York or the present Bishop of Oxford to the vacant see. The former is an able man and a shrewd ecclesiastical lawyer ; but he would make a Primate of the type that statesmen too much love,—the type which more than dilutes the Church with the World. The latter would do even worse, make it an ecclesiastical intriguer's weapon. The translation of the Archbishop of Dublin would be, we fear, too much of a mere continuation of both, the errors and graces of the late Primate's reign.

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