The same address was taken up in the Lower House
on Thurs- day, when the Dean of Westminster, with his usual courage, moved a rider to it, expressing the opinion (1) that the ano- malies of the existing Irish Church should be redressed,—which was, oddly enough, as it seems to us, negatived (for we did not think that even Convocation was in favour of these anomalies) ; and (2) that the Catholic Church should be endowed,—a pro- posal on which the discussion was adjourned. Canon Heavyside seconded the Dean of Westminster's rider, and advocated the en- dowment of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Archdeacon Sand- ford, while speaking against the Irish Church, protested very warmly against endowing the Roman Catholics ; and no doubt the House will endorse his view on this point, as it has rejected his view on the other. But for the Bishop of London, and the Dean of Westminster, and one or two others, Convocation would be little more than a society for defining, from time to time, the exact shade of bigotry most conformable to the feelings of the average English clergyman.
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