At all events, Dr. Pusey and Archdeacon Allen hold out
no hope that 'Convocation will stir a step in the matter of Rubrical Reform. In the Times Thursday, there is a short correspond- ence between these gentlemen, in Which Arehdeacon Allen ex- horts Dr. Pusey to use his influence against any change in the Rr'tcs, and Dr. Pusey replies in somewhat ambiguous terms, an414% very low spirits, but appears to think, with the Arch- deacon, that lf " God preserves us this [the Prayer -book] unchanged,"--and hy the context the Prayer-book is expressly meant to include its Rubrics,—"we may, by His mercy, yet
weather the storm,"---and -Dr. Fumy evidently means to add, but if not, not. There is something a little unintelligible to us in the passionate attachment manifested by high Anglicans for a number of directions, drawn up or settled after they were drawn up, by men for whom they express exceedingly little respect; directions, moreover, which, as Dr. Pusey implies, frequently relate to forms that are doctrinally "indifferent." The experience of ecclesiastical history certainly goes to prove that there is nothing on earth Bo easy to make in all ages as an idol ; but assuredly some of the oddest idols ever yet devoutly worshipped are the dry and diplomatic Rubrics of the Church of England.
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