The Archbishop of Canterbury has been lying in imminent danger
at his house, near Broadstairs, all the week, though we are happy to observe a slight amendment in the latest reports. He was seized on Thursday week with a convulsive attack which ended in a slight paralysis of one side, but his mind anti brain have remained quite unaffected. The Archbishop has been Primate for hardly a year, but he seems, if we may judge by the universal expression of keen regret, to have completely won the reverence and confidence of the English people. Two somewhat remarkable documents have issued from his sick-room,--one, a letter written before his illness to the Rural Dean of South Mailing, in which Dr. Tait acknowledges the receipt of a memorial from the clergy of South Melling, on the subject of Dr. Temple's nomina- tion to the Bishopric of Exeter, and expresses his own approval of the choice. He declares Dr. Temple's own essay in Essays and' Reviews free from all heresy ; he exonerates him from all respon- sibility for the other essays ; he speaks with great warmth of the Christian spirit of D. Temple's published sermons ; he recalls Dr. Temple's "earnest, self-denying, energetic, Christian life," and he intimates that his success at Rugby, his moral and religious as- well as intellectual success there, quite warranted the Prime Minister in making the appointment. But he declares his con- viction that Dr. Temple, as soon as he formally enters on his bishopric, should take means to convince his diocese that "the book called Essays and Reviews is far indeed from being an exponent of his sentiment or of his religious teaching." The letter has not been without effect, but Archdeacon Denison has, of course, declared roundly that it does not change his view,—except, perhaps, as to Dr. Tait,—which it has certainly not changed for the better, if it has changed at all.
