Lord Shaftesbury brought forward his Bill for prohibiting sacrificial vestments"
on Monday, in a very short speech. The Bill makes the 58th Canon a law, thus limiting English clergy- men to their surplices or University hoods and gowns, and finally suppressing green waistcoats or other man-millinery. The Archbishop of Canterbury thought the Bishops might make up their minds on the proposal in about ten days, but he evidently means to oppose it, and, we suspect, he is in the right. Suppose a parish likes millinery, and filids in it a means of grace, why should Lord Shaftesbury object ? The true course is to invest. the Bishop with power to hearken to a complaint from any parish, and then decide without expense or appeal what that particular incumbent is to year. If the incumbent does not obey, suspend him till he does, but in no case ought he to be interfered with without the consent of his parish.
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