The Ven. John Allen, Archdeacon of Salop, writes to the
Guardian to say, on the authority of " a Liverpool clergyman," -that " promissory notes have been taken from candidates at St. Aidan's, Birkenhead, to be repaid after ordination." The Arch- deacon adds:—" An Oxfordshire clergyman writes that Dr. Baylee -" at a meeting of cab-drivers, to the astonishment of all present, told the men and if any of them wished to leave their present a mode of life, nd would like to become clergymen, he would not -only receive them at St. Aidan's, but assist them with money." Can this disgraceful story be true? If so, one would suppose there must have been some discounting of promissory notes, not only as to the expenses of clerical education, but as to the charioteers' future creed. What would be the discount allowed on the cabmen's Athanasianism ? Would they be allowed by Dr. Baylee to com- pound for that amiable creed by damning the heretics at once, but receiving permission to renew the bill for all more positive elements of the Catholic formula up to the very eve of ordination? If so, we imagine there would be but little difficulty felt by the cabmen on that ground.
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