Lord Kimberley replied to Lord Derby, efficiently as regards logic
and repartee, but with scarcely sufficient weight of thought, or of that style which marks a man saturated with conviction. He exposed ably the perfect hollowness of the proprietary view, replied to the party attack with sufficient success, reminded Lord Redesdale that the " sacred " theory of Church property would make the property of the Protestant Church inalienable from the previously existing Roman Church ; but yet, on the whole, made a speech without force, much less passion,—scarcely such a speech as we should have expected from an ex-Lord-Lieutenant. The Bishop of London closed the debate with a speech adapted for. Committee, but which, as the Bill will never reach Committee, was necessarily made on the second reading. He vouched on be- half of his brother prelates for much more practical anxiety to see the question fairly settled, whenever any complete scheme should be produced, than his own speech seems to augur.
