20 MAY 1865, Page 2

Convocation has agreed to ask the Crown for a licence

enabling them to alter the 36th Canon, and thereby to simplify the sub- scriptions enacted for the clergy of our Church. There is, we believe, ne doubt that the Crown will grant the licence, and that Convocation will actually do something with legally binding force at last. Archdeacon Denison, in the Lower House, alone expressed any substantial objection to the proposed change, and he probably objects even to the changes of the moon. Convocation seems to be recovering a certain amount of influence in the coun- try, which we hope it may not abuse.