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LONDON, TUESDAY,

LORD PALMERSTON'S 'election of the ROT. ROBRIT
PICTIERSTETR for the See of Ripon, although of a
cognate character with his other solutions, is perhaps
the least felicitous of hie episcopal appointments.
Without any desire to disparage Mr. Monomers
personally, or to object seriously to the principle on
which Lord PaLsourrox makes Bishops, we fail to
recognise any especial fitness in the reverend gentle.
man either for the Bench or for a Northern
Bishopric. To say that he is " a devoted Christian,"
a hard-working clergyman, a ftl: 110
a zealous partisan of the Low Church party, is
to overt little more itt isiCeinteeersh favour
than may be jut as accurately said of a very large
proportion of the London clergy of his way of think-
isg, and will hardly account for his good
fortune. That he is all this may be freely
granted ; and for the very simple noon
that he hes had considerable opportunities of
usefulness opened to him. In truth, Mr. Moss-
triers appear' to us to be a man revened from
mediocrity, if not from obscurity, by his uncle's name
and celebrity, by the friendship of his uncle's friends,
and by the persevering patronage of the Earl of
Murronttiv, who, once content with 'applying the
Church with pastoral aid, seems now to all the aloe
of Keeper of the Premier's Conscience in the matter
of Bishops.

To Low Church Bishops there is no objeotion in
principle. There is, indeed, at present cm the bench
such an array of High Churchmen that an equilibrium
snob as Lord Pautaarrox thinks he is giving us is in
itself a very good policy; and the endeavour to re-
stem ia the English Episcopate that " balance of
pewee which be has been engaged in nerwaltating
in the Commenwealth of Europe must damn be a

SNOW of Jadeite satisfaction to a person so devotsd
to diplomacy so the Premier. Lord PALYZEMION

has ;et about his task in nook good earnest, and
pursues it with so much alacrity, that if his ministry
endure he will soon turn the tables on the High
Church party. Already he has given as BAILING,
ifn.unts, and EicKaarrwrit, as a set off against
PHILLPOTTS, WILBERFORCE, and HAMILTON ; and
on strongly does the current now ran in high place*
against Trutarianism in Bishoprics, that unless it
be turned by Toryism we may soon have the Epi-
scopate of England as Low Church as it was in the
days of Queen Cutout's, cf WALPOLE, and of the
BANOORIAN controversy. Already, indeed, Lord
Pautzarron's additions from the evangelical school
almost give it a numerical majority. Unfortunately,
however, strength and power do not always lie in
numbers ; and despite even a majority, the Low
Church party is still the weaker on the bench.

The reason is obvious. Good in many minds as
Lord PALMILSTON's appointments have been, the
men he has chosen are hardly equal in knowledge,
eloquence, leaning, sagacity, courage, moderation,
and influence to the emergencies of the times. They
afford a triumph to a party, rather than any smelly
to the Church. And though this may,be very plea-
sant to Lord Suarressvar and agreeable to Exeter
Hall, we an hardly congratulate the country on the
tree wisdom and statesmanship of such a policy. All
that we can fairly say is, that it is a better policy
than that of tilling the bench with their opponents.
Bat while we are thereby saved from a semi•Rom(ah
fanaticism, we run the risk of an ultra-Protestant
bigotry. And even if that be the lesser evil of the
two, still such appointments do not furnish the jam
and wise comprehension and the traditional tempe-
rance on which the Church of England wan handed
at the Reformation, and which the spirit and temper
of the English people still require.
It is the misfortune of one extreme to produce the
opposite. Lord PALMILUTOK ha. seen the existing
evil clearly enough; what he hen failed in seeing I.
the true remedy. Dependent very math on external
sources for aid sad counsel, it is not at all unnatural
that he should have turned to so near a connexion am
Lord SIIAPTIebVIIT for informatics and aseistamom.
All who know Lord SHAPTVIDWAT will feel that he
eouacientioualy rendered what Lord Pmunnurrox
sought. Bat, most obviously, Lord SHAFTUMIT
has been unable to rime out of the sect to which be
owes his personal Importance, and to take a *mead
comprehensive view of the ecclesiastical econdlthe of
England. The consequence is the elevation to the
bench of anti•Mynooth men, extreme liabbstarissik