13 JANUARY 1883, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, It is

to be hoped that Canon Bell and his friends will pause, before they rush to " support and rally round the Bishop of Manchester," in his present attitude. To all appearance, his Lordship is acting quite as illegally as any " Ritualist " was ever supposed to have done, and is alienating marry of those who have hitherto sympathised with him. And could a more unfortunate moment have been selected for such a high-handed proceeding, than the very time at which the late Archbishop's dying act seemed to promise a more hopeful state of things P-