13 JANUARY 1883, Page 14

DR. BENSON'S LEVI:ER TO THE TRURO CLERGY. .

[To THE ICDrron OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think you misunderstand the drift of the remark of the Archbishop Designate in reference to. the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe to which you take exception. It was qua repre- sentative of the laity of Cornwall, not qui Cornish noble- man and Tory, that Dr. Benson consulted him ; and any one who knows the circumstances of the recently-formed diocese will consider truly that the laity had a• right to be consulted, on a change which will be a critical one in the history of the struggling Church in the county.—I am, Sir, &c.,

CORNITBIENSIS.