Dr. Vaughan, Vicar of Doncaster, who was recently a Proctor
in the Convocation of the Province of York by the clergy of his neighbourhood, is not to be re-elected because he is favourable to Mr. Gladstone's policy on the Irish Church. We think it, however, only fair to the clergymen who were anxious to re-elect him to say that he scarcely considered what was due to them when he declined the contest if he was to be opposed. They were prepared with no other candidate, and could have obtained no other so eligible on every other ground. We think Dr. Vaughan ought to have given those of his brother clergymen who agreed with him the opportunity of testing their strength by accepting the contest. As it is, no one can tell whether he were beaten by the clerical passion for imposing our creed upon Ireland or by his own faintheartedness.
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