The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1868.

D iitA F. 1.1, it is said, is not likely to bo in
very great ba.te to put an end to the expectant
state of Cbureh parties on the eve of a general
el Lion. Ne‘ ertholeas, men will speculate and
dhesiss the vacancy in the Bee of Canterbury.
The prelate whose elevation to the higitest *Soo
in the Church of England would give per-
haps the most satisfaction to moderate ecclesi-
astics and laymen, is the Bishop of LONDON.
The Pommies's wishes in an appointment to the
Primacy of all England can hardly be a dead letter,
and these would probably be favourable to Dr.
Teri. The translation of Dr. TsOll9ON from York
to Canterbury is expected by some, and the name
of the Bishop of LINCOLN is also mentioned in con-
nection with the archiepisoopal aloe in either the
northern or the southern province.

MR. OLADOTONee L•neashire speeches (seven
in number) are being printed in • form suitable
for wide circulation. They are expected to be in
the booksellers' hands on Monday or Tuesday
next.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

TIM rare sseirannor oe Cserrimatme.
Briefly reviewing the career of the late Areh-
bialiop of Canterbury, the Tames says there was scarcely
any form of church work in which he had not been en-
gaged, and he acquitted himself honourably in all. The
qualities which chiefly marked him contributed a grace
and dignity to his office, and his sympathy with every-
one insured him the regard of all. With respect to the
ritualists, he was a man of too simple • taste not to be
offended by the gaudy extravagances and of too natural a
mind to admit the sophistries by which its members de-
fend themselves. Between the two extremes of ration-
ality+ and ritualism be held • middle course. In his per-
son the church still maintained her identity with
the grave and moderate religion of his predeces-
sors, and he has left so entanglements for his successor.
Remarking upon the strange fate which has made Mr. Dis-
raeli the adviser of the crown with respect to the highest
aloe in the church, the Times says that the premier has
achieved many dignities to which he woe not born, and our
contemporary makes no doubt that he will acquit himself
creditably of the present respenshility ; but it also ex-
presses a hope that while the government will avoid select-
ing one who has displayed • decided sympathy with any
of the parties in the church, they will at the same time en-
demur in these critical times to obtain a primate of energy
and courage.
The Daily News says that of Dr. Longley, as of his re-
cent predecessors, history will have little to say. lie dis-
liked being forced to take • side ; but when forma he
took the side of his convictions, even at the risk, so formi-
dable to • man of his character and position, of disturbing
the news goo. The simple piety of his dying profession
of faith, and the unfeigned modesty which led him to clothe
it at Hooker's words rather than in his own, have marked
the whole of his later career. While at Ripon the natural
denire to stay the progress of Trectarianism led him to act
with unusual decision in matters of controversy ; but at
Durham, at York, and at Canterbury, he made no
attempt to favour one party in the church at the expense
of the other, or to hinder the natural development
of the views most congenial to each. Specu-
lating on the succession to the primacy, the Daily
New. remarks that the Bishop of Lincoln belongs to the
typo which long custom has almost consecrated to the
archiepiscopal office; but the fifteen years during which
be has governed hie present diocese have supplied no
gush/ladies& to the reputation which Dr. Jackson had
previously earned, and it seems sate to predict that
if promoted to the vacant primacy his careen' at
Canterbury will be the counterpart of hie career
at Lincoln. If, however, the exercise of his patron-
age should immediately precede Mr. Disraeli's de-
Tartars from offioe, he may pownlily prefer the credit of
making a good appointment to the couvenience of making
a merely safe ens, in which case he might gain credit for
advancing to the primacy suck • man se Dr. Selwyn, the
Bishop of Lichfield and New Zealand, an appointment
which would be most popular throughout the country.
The -7Warreph says that, in the pleat and prosperous.
current of Dr. Longley's career, there is not much with
which to furnish the elegiac muse; kis career was that of
an extremely fortunate, judicious, and pious churchman,
and his character was of that equable and uncoloured
kind which escapes censure by declining venality.

INKIDICANDID IN PA AND ITALY.
It is bef natural, says the Standard, that with a proba-
bility of a republic in Spain, and with the encouragement
that the restless and determined republicanism of Italy
would receive were such a thing to occur, the Emperor of
Wrench should be anxious to be on better terns with
veniment of the latter country than he has of late

Wed particularly anxious to be. But whilitthe Roman
question is unsettled, or settled by a fresh and stronger
guarantee on the part of Italy that the Pope shall be abso-
lutely protected In his dominions by herself, such an

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arrangement would strengthen republicanism in Italy
more than anything that can be conceived. If, to other
causes of his unpopularity, the Xing of Italy were to add
actual defence of the Papacy, probably nothing but
French bayonets would save him from sharing the fate,
es he would already have shared the two most glaring
faults, of Isabella U.