Archdeacon Denison must be in a terrible way. If there
is a human being he despises and loves to bully it is an Archbishop, and to be thrashed by an Archbishop in a literary encounter on an ecclesiastical question must be a bitter pain. He had written a letter scolding the Primate and the Archbishop of York for agreeing to Lord Shaftesbury's proposal without waiting for the opinion of a Committee appointed by "Convocation," which, like all his school, he assumed to represent the Church. Dr. Thomson detected his error, and meekly smiling, laid the Archdeacon low with the quiet remark that he "had not the advantage of being a member of that Con- vocation," which does not represent the English Church at all, but only that section of it which dwells in the South. The Arch- bishop thinks the memorialists would have every right to complain "if he had refused his advice on such a ground," though of course he "has every respect for the Convocation of Canterbury." So his Grace has, no doubt, for any Diocesan Synod, but he does not mistake it for the Church.
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