19 JULY 1884, Page 3

It is rumoured in all the papers that the vacant

Canonry of Ripon has been offered to the Rev. Malcolm MacColl. We heartily hope that the rumour is true. Mr. MacColl is one of those High Churchmen who seem to us to have always adhered faithfully to the principle of comprehension in the ecclesiastical politics of our Church; and his masculine Liberalism has been most ardent in those causes in which the Christian religion was at issue. We believe that the part he took in the Eastern question during the great crisis between 1876 and 1880 was a far greater service to Christian faith than it was even to the Liberal cause.