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BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR . The Ecclesiastical Reform Commission continues to make reports . A third has recently been published in the newspapers . Each of the last two is occupied , to a considerable extent , with alterations of the recommendations contained in that which preceded . Now , a parish is to be affixed to one diocese , and now to another . In one report , Bristol and Bath are to be amalgamated under the same mitre ; and in the next
report it is between Gloucester and Bristol that the hypostatical union is to be formed . It is vexatious to see such names as those of Lord Melbourne , the Lord Chancellor , Sir John Hobhouse , and some of their colleagues gibbetted at the bottom of these documents in company with Cant ; and Ebor , which are only in their proper places . The two principal points in which the reports agree are , first , the marvellous selfdenying ordinance by which the three highest prelates of the
reformed church will in future be put in a condition of voluntary poverty which will only leave each of them considerably richer than His Holiness , the Pope ; and secondly , the erection of two new bishoprics ( to replace the consolidated mitres ) which are to be located at Manchester and Ripon . Here , then , will be an actual and very considerable extension of the Church Establishment ; not in its utility , but in its temporal position and political influence ; that is to say , an aggravation of the
existing mischief . For let the reader observe that the suppressed bishopric ( that of Bristol at least ) is merely the erection of Episcopal duplicity . There will be two Chapters , just as if the two sees remained separate ; and a new palace is to be built at Bristol for the occasional residence and solace of the Bishop of Gloucester . Verily the commissioners are rare reformers . And do they expect thus to throw dust in the eyes of the people ? We cannot afford them that comfortable
smile in their sleeves of lawn . They are far beyond the limits to which cnjolery can go in these times . The people will look toother quarters for reports on Ecclesiastical Reform . Wade , the editor of the Black Book , is himself ' a commission' on these matters . His reports have something in them . The y are well worth a reference by those who desire to get at facts and calculations . His statements on all subjects were carefull y made ; and many of them have been remarkably verified b y official documents since their publication . The Dissenters too , occasionally report on the state of the Church . They go con *
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S 80 Letters of a Contervative .
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LETTERS OF A CONSERVATIVE ON THE ENGLISH CHURCH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/52/
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