The Record rejoices that Sir Roundell Palmer has " disclaimed
the place which was assigned to him among Mr. Mill's supporters," -" although," it goes on to add, " it occasions a thrill of shame that he has found a substitute in a Bishop, who ranges himself" with several t distinguished persons who have done honour to Mr. Mill and to themselves by their political support,' "—the Bishop being of course the Bishop of St. David's, whose admirable letter in our columns last week gives occasion for these remarks. The Record is of course exceedingly wrath against Dr. Thirlwall, whose .sober and judicial condemnation of its own ignorance it has just enough knowledge of men to feel keenly. It says it has pur- posely " abstained" from entering into the philosophical question which the Bishop of St. David's and Mr. Maurice raise which—
• considering that it has not abstained from branding a particular view on that question as " Satanic"—shows the impartiality of its judgment. Unfortunately it abstains no longer ; "it is on no -doubtful authority that we are entitled to say that power belongeth -unto God, and that God alone is the fountain of power, as well as of goodness and truth. The gods of the heathen and the gods whom philosophers create out of their own perverted imagination are no gods, and to assume that any being but the true God may possess such power as to cast the soul into hell is to set up the Manichean heresy, and rob the Almighty of that absolute supremacy and sovereign dominion on which depend all His other -attributes of perfection." The words in italics constitute in them- selves a new heresy more shocking than any in Essays and Reviews. But the passage is so funny as a criticism on the doctrine at issue, that we almost fear the Record, in its intense admiration of the Morning Advertiser, has admitted an article from one of that journal's gifted theological contri- butors.
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