4 JULY 1874, Page 1

The Bishop of London's Bill for recognising Convocation as holding

the initiative in ecclesiastical legislation, is not to be pro- ceeded with this Session, and is hardly likely, we should think, to be reproduced in any future Session. When Parliament begins to forget that Parliament made the Reformed Church we now have, and accordingly gives up its initiative in reforming that Church to a comparatively fortuitous concourse of clergymen, Parliament itself will be approaching, we suspect, its seokaulchiIlTldI;.and some one will soon be found again to " takd aw`a,y` its battik."