BISHOPS LONGLEY AND JACKSON.
Sin—Allow me to set you right on two matters of fact. In the second page of your last week's number, (December 6,) you erroneously attribute to the Bishop-designate of Ripon (Dr. Bickersteth) the answer to an address from the " Short-time Committee." The answer is from a very differ- ent person, the late Bishop, (as might be seen from the signature, C. T. Ripon.) This address was sent long before any nomination to Ripon had been thought of, and it was sent to Dr. Longley in gratitude for his services. You speak in a leading article of Dr. Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln, as acting creditably in not delivering "Evangelical" charges. It would have been a wonder if he had delivered any. Dr. Jackson is and always has been a High Churchman, not of an extreme school to be sure, but still a High Churchman. As the (so-called) Evangelicals are in full feather just now, pray let us have all the credit fairly due to us.
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