Dr. Trench has been raised from the Deanery of Westminster
to the Archbishopric of Dublin, and Dr. Stanley is to succeed him in the Deanery. Both appointments are as good as the case admitted, and, with regard to the latter, the case did admit the best that could have been made. Dr. Trench is a thoughtful, -scholarly, Liberal High Churchman, who, of course, believes the Protestant Establishment of Ireland a good to the nation, or he would not take the reins into his own hands. In that opinion we do not concur, but we are very glad that some one holds it who is not likely to stimulate the bigotry of Orangemen, and is likely to urge on the work of general education. Dr. Stanley will be -exactly in his right place at Westminster, without heavy duties, without any immediate ecclesiastical superior, as there is no Bishop of Westminster, and at the very focus of the ecclesiastical intel- lect of the Church. He will now not be wasted either as a theologian or as a politician in the best and largest sense, and we trust the Church may become more national, without becoming lea devout, under the impulse of his wise and catholic mind.
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