PROMOTION OF LIBERAL CLERGY.
(To 'THE EDITOR or THII " Ersomoa.1 SIR,—IS it quite true that Mr. Gladstone has, " as a rule," passed over Liberal Clergy in his recent Church appointments ? Do not facts point to an exactly opposite conclusion P I may be mistaken in assigning Liberal opinions to all the Clergy in the following list, who have recently been promoted by Mr. Gladstone, but I think it will be found that they are, nearly every one of them, consistent members of the Liberal party. Here is the list :-
Bishop.—Newcastle (Canon Wilberforce).
Deane. — Westminster (Dr. Bradley); Carlisle (Rev. J. Oakley) ; Wells (Professor Plumptre).
Canons.—Dr. Barry (Westminster) ; Rev. D. Melville (Wor- cester); Hon. and Rev. W. H. Lyttelton (Gloucester) ; Rev. T. J. Rowsell (Westminster) ; Rev. W. J. Knox-Little (Worcester); Rev. G. Butler (Winchester); and I strongly suspect that to this list might be added the name of Canon Boyd Carpenter, of Windsor.
This is surely not small promotion for the Liberal party,— one Bishopric, three Deaneries, six or seven Canonries.—I am,
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