tion of the Church from the State, had the courage
to ief use Westminster Abbey for the concluding service of the Conference, but with his usual courtesy and profound desire to promote the best social understanding between men of the same Church, thongh different nations, he expressly offered the Abbey for the service, if it were held entirely without relation to the Conference, whether for a charitable purpose, or as a religious service simpliciter. The American and other prelates took this reluctant refusal of Dean Stanley's to lend the Abbey for a purpose he disapproved in great dudgeon, and they declined—rather brusquely, as we have heard it said—the offer with which the Dean qualified his refusal, declining nominally on the ground "that the Conference probably might be closed before the day named," and really, we suppose, in
a bit of a pet,—or whatever in Bishops corresponds to a pet. ,
