One of Lord Grimthorpe's Protestant Bulls,—we mean " Bulls "
in the papal, not in the Irish sense,—is to appear shortly in the form of an address to the Protestant Church- men's Alliance on the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the Lincoln judgment,—a summary of which is given in Wednesday's Times. It might be called the " Bull Quos Ego," from the words with which Neptune breaks off his threat to the winds and waves in the first book of the " 2Eneid." It is a fulmination against the seven Judges who have been bold enough to take a line opposite to Lord Grimthorpe on the question of ceremonialism in the English Church. Lord Grimthorpe forgets that amongst these seven Judges are some considerably his superior in impartiality and breadth of intellect. He is very angry with the seven Judges for breaking down the impression that a judgment in the highest Court of Appeal is final, although he has to admit that the finality of such a judgment has more than once been set aside before, just as the seven Judges have set it aside now. It had only been done before, he says, "in very rare and special cases, with the clearest and strongest reasons." Well, this is just such a case, notwithstanding the unfor- tunate fact that Lord Grimthorpe himself would un- doubtedly have reversed peremptorily the Archbishop of Canterbury's judgment. He concludes with saying that nobody can read either the Archbishop's judgment, or that of the Judicial Committee, without seeing "that the conclu- sions are first, and the arguments for them afterwards." To our mind, no words could be imagined which would more completely misdescribe Dr. Benson's judgment, with its calm
and patient historical review of facts, against which Lord Grinithorpe's denunciation chafes With all the violence of breakers against a rock.
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