A somewhat funny little contest took place in the Northern
Convocation on the subject of the succession to the Prolocutor- ship, caused by the removal of Dean Cowie to the Southern Province. The Archbishop of York, it is said, declared that if the Dean of York, for whom the Northern Clergy wished as Prolocutor, were chosen, the Bishops would no longer sit in the -same House with the lower Clergy, but would shake the dust from their feet, and sit apart. On this threat, Archdeacon Hamilton—himself a supporter of the Dean of York as Pro- locutor—was proposed in competition with the Dean of York for Prolocutor ; but the Dean of York (Dean Cast) was elected by the majority of 8 ; 33 voting for Dean Cast, against 25 for Archdeacon Hamilton. Whether the Archbishop will now cast off the Lower House into the outer darkness, we do not know, but to the Clergy of the Northern Province apparently the outer -darkness is very tolerable, and perhaps even very pleasing solitude. 'The companionship of Bishops is not always stimulating.
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