The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

Tall MODNAIr T. PAM

The Times ootumenta upon the sooonnt of the
" Farewell services of the metropolitan of South Africa."
It appears, sap our contemporary, that an event of stu-
pendous importance is to happen this week. A new
apostle is about to start on a career of evangelisation, and
we must go back to the Acts of the Apostles to find a pre-
cedent for the °erasion. The Timm does not like to men-
tion names, lest they should lower the reader's imagine-
iron, but must just say that Dr. Gray is sailing for South
Africa with a clergyman who is to become a bishop in
Natal. The latter gentleman—Mr. Macrorie—preached a
sermon which w as designed to explain the nature of the event.
Mr. Macrorie says that the cause in which the Bishop of
Capetow n and he himself are engaged Is " not less im-
portant than was that in which Paul wont forth." The
parallel is complete, for the Pan-Anglian bishops held a
council at Lambeth last year, and this synod " was not
leas important than the first council held by the Apostles."
Nay. according to Mr. Macrorie, it was, if possible, even
more important. if the course which Dr. Dray has pur-
sued durii.g his sojourn in England be that of a St. Paul, the
day for such apostolic characters is past, and the more
they are confined to South Africa the better. If, how-
ever, Dr. Gray and Mr. Macrorie want to play the
Apostles, the Times recommends them, until they are more
perfect in their parts, to confine their exertions to South
Africa; and when the bishop has established apostolic
unity in his owu diocese, we may aucept his nostrums for
producing similar results in this country.

SRI NEW

Mr. Disraeli's latest ecclesiastical appointments are not.
rays the Daily .NeteA, open to reasonable objection. Wu
may reasonably expect the appointment of Dean Magee to
be popular, not only in the diocese of Peterborough, but
with the English clergy generally, both on account of the
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personal merits of the Bishop-designate, which are consi-
derable, and from the fact that he is an Irishman by birth,
by °duration, and by ecclesiastical connexion. With
respect to the deanery of Bt. Paul's, the Daily Nines
cannot congratulate Mr. Disraeli upon so discreet a
choice. It is not as the Hampton lecturer of 1858, as the
editor of Sir William Hamilton and his champion against
Mr. Mill, as the commentator on Dean Aldrich, or, in a
word, as metaphysician and logician, that Dr. Maned is
named to the Deanery of Bt. Pour.. It is as the centre
of the tory propaganda at Oxford and as en active mem-
ber of Mr. Gathorne Hardy's committee thathe has earned
his elevation.

The Herold believes that the nominations to the
bishopric and the deanery will achieve the rare distinction
of satisfying both high and low churchmen. Indeed,
there is not a flaw to be found in either of these appoint-
ments ; and churchmen of all shades of opinion will en-
dorse the premier's choice with admiration and thank-
fulness.

A.DVICII ?O

The Te:seraph concurs in the suggestion that, to prevent
conservative succor and liberal disunion, candidates
should consent to be bound bye preliminary vote, whether
it be cast by a committee or the general body of liberal
elector& We are in the preynoe of a disciplined, deter-
mined foe, who knows every inch of the ground ; yet those
who ought to lead the people to victory are engrossed in
selfish quarrels among tie:l:Reaves.