3 FEBRUARY 1883, Page 3

We greatly fear that the Tait Memorial Fund is to

be frittered away in driblets, for this purpose and that. There is to be a monument at Canterbury, a monument at St. Paul's, a monument at Westminster, a restoration of the Archiepiscopal Chapel at Lambeth, a scholarship at Rugby, and a Missionary fund as well. This seems to us a great mis- take. One, or possibly, two, adequate memorials might have been raised ; but these snippety memorials will result in nothing great or dignified. It is, however, understood to be the desire of the Royal Family that the Tait memorials should be thus numerous; and in social matters, the desire of the Court seems always to have something like unlimited influence.