26 FEBRUARY 1870, Page 3

The new number of Macmillan contains an article of con-

siderable political importance. It is a paper read at Sion College by the Solicitor-General (Sir J. D. Coleridge) on the free- dom of opinion necessary for an Established Church in a free country like ours,—advocating a great simplification of our reli- gious tests, and the adoption in their place of certain broad com- mon principles of belief, neither refined nor technical. This step Sir John Coleridge regards as the condition sine qua non of the continuance of the Establishment as an Establishment, and there are few politicians of much sagacity who will not agree with him.