6 JANUARY 1883, Page 20

r TO TECO EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Not wishing

other than the right shoulders to bear the responsibility Of holding an opinion with which Mr. Thomas Hughes disagrees, I write to say that the view that a Bishop "goes beyond the law in refusing to institute a man who will not undertake to keep within it," has been expressed by this journal, and by no other legal newspaper. Mr. Hughes• may possibly think the difference between this journal and that to which you, Sir, erroneously attributed the opinion on December 23rd last, a difference between Tweedledum and Tweedledee ; but even the humblest individual is entitled to his own identity.