Dr. Jackson, an aged and most influential 'Wesleyan minister, has
addressed a letter to Conference declaring that the reunion of the Connexion with the Established Church, which forty years ago was considered probable and expedient, has now become "legally, morally, and religiously impossible." The Church of England has changed too much, makes too slight a defence against Romanistn and scepticism, more especially the former,—has, in fact, ceased to be a Protestant Church. This letter appears to have been warmly received by Conference, and is a curious evidence of the dislike with which many Dissenters regard the width of the English Church. They can bear any- thing better than that one party within the Church should not have power to push another out. Is it quite so certairt that all the religious tendencies of ta-day are towards tolerance F
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