“An abandonment of the objectionable test, or at least a clear and explicit understanding upon the character and designs of the Society.” And adding, “The Society owes to itself as well as to the Church, an official vindication from the questionable (to say the least) _appearances_ against it.” Such likewise was the tenor of his original Letter to the Manchester Courier (p. 4). But, as he warms upon his theme, he forgets this prudent part of his plan. Page 15, we find the _veto_ thus described:— “It is an _insidious_ plan;—it is a plan _fit for a society_ with _shabby_, _party_, _and sectarian_ designs, but not for a society _with simply and singly Church views_. It places the Society above the Bishops and Archbishops,” &c. Page 14, he had remarked— “I will not affirm that the rule was designed to be the instrument of a _shabby and crooked_ policy; but I will affirm, that if it _had_ been so designed, it could not have been better _contrived_.” The insinuation here conveyed is that amplified, as we have seen, in the very next page, by which we may judge at what rate Dr. Molesworth travels.—Page 20, he feels shy of saying that this rule _is_ the instrument of “a _dangerous_ and _double-faced_ policy;” whilst he does not hesitate to style (p. 23) those who have the working of the rule, “_despotic_, and _irresponsible_” (!) managers.—The Secretary of our Society (the Rev. E. B. Were) had wound up an unpleasant correspondence (for it is always unpleasant to tell a man he will not do) with a layman (Mr. Briarly Browne), whose friend, the Rev. Mr. Clark, had sought for him a grant from the Society, upon which Mr. Briarly Browne was to be ordained; brooding all the while, and hardly suppressing, considerable ill-will to the Society in their hearts. The endeavour on the part of our Secretary to expose this unhandsome proceeding is stigmatized as “a poor shuffling attempt” (p. 24). _Previously_, Dr. Molesworth had _admitted_ (p. 18) that this was done “_with some_, _but rather severe_, _justice_.” I pass by another charge, in the same page, of more serious and offensive character, which Dr. Molesworth greedily catches up from a Letter of Mr. Clark; intending to return to it by and by. But after all, nothing of this kind comes up to the appendix:—he has bade adieu to the Bishop, and has got a little out of sight;—and now hear him:—what was but _the lion passant guardant_ before, is become truly the lion _rampant_ now. “The Society” (he says, p. 36), “_in the plenitude of their super-papal authority_, _have __thought fit to declare_!!!”—and at the end of the next extract—“Is not this _monstrous_?” “Are these Church principles?” “Is such a tribunal of _intolerance_ and _sectarianism_!! to stand forth and collect money, and to be advocated in our pulpits as a Church Society?”