There appears to be now no doubt that the Archbishop
of Canterbury will really have to decide whether the Bishop of Lincoln has or has not contravened the law of the Church in regard to the various ritual matters charged against him by the Church Association, and that the Court will have power to depose the Bishop if the Church Association should win the day. We can only hope that the Archbishop's Court will duly weigh the enormous danger of deciding against comprehension as the principle of our Anglican Church ; and that if the Archbishop's Court finds itself unable to dismiss the charges, or unable to take policy into account in deciding upon them, the Court to which the appeal will go may show itself as politic in favouring comprehension as it has sometimes been in deferring to a prejudice which was supposed to be popular on the other side.
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