8 JANUARY 1876, Page 3

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have appointed the

20th inst. to hear the appeal " Keet v. Smith," in which the -question is raised whether a Dissenting minister is entitled to be described, on a tombstone in a churchyard by the title of " Reverend." We shall be greatly mistaken if the decision of the late Dean of Arches is sustained on appeal ; indeed, if it be so, -a great blow will have been struck at the Church of England. Bishops like the Bishop of Lincoln,—models of narrow piety and dogmatic rigidity,—are by far the most serious dangers to which the National Church is now exposed.