18 DECEMBER 1869, Page 3

There is nothing so malignant as the hostility of priests.

No man prosecuting Dr. Temple for fraud would have dreamed of asking for proof that he was born in wedlock, but Dr. Trower did this when opposing the Bishop's confirmation, under cover of some obsolete clerical statute. Dr. Temple's advisers had to telegraph for his sister, many years older than himself, to bring up the formal evidence. This is of a piece with the statement that Dr. Temple edited the "Essays and Reviews," which he never even read, and is as responsible for as any writer in the Edin- burgh is for all that appears in that publication. For thorough contempt of honour, truth, and gentlemanly feeling, Dr. Temple's adversaries bear away the palm.