It has come out that the Bishop of Lichfield, at
the late gather- ing in the Potteries to hear Mr. Gladstone's address at the Wedg- wood Institution, responded with cordial expressions of pleasure to a toast in which his name was coupled with the ministers of other denominations. He had " felt proud," he said, to be joined with them, and was glad to acknowledge the good which these ministers were doing in places where not even the Church of England clergy could reach the people. But not so the Rector of Buralem. He felt compelled to lodge a protest against the noble charity of his Bishop. Redid not think, we suppose, that Dissenters could properly be spoken of as doing good at all, or their health be drunk in the same wine with the health of a Churchman. The Rector of Burslem is the sort of Churchman who perpetuates and aggravates the expiring rancour of Dissent.
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