30 APRIL 1864, Page 3

Archdeacon Denison has explained to the Bishop of London that

he was not " solely " responsible for the report of the Committee of the Lower House of Convocation on "Essays and Reviews" which his Lordship criticized so severely in the Upper House last week. The Committee, he says, did not adopt his draft, but prepared one "different both in arrangement and statement." The Committee brooded over their report during twelve days for no less than sixty-six hours before they hatched it, and "at least as many more days were employed upon different parts of the report by sub committees and by individual members, as well as by the chairman." The Archdeacon has amply vindicated himself from the charge of being more foolish than his brother clergymen who co-operated with him.