To know what kingcraft can do for us, we may consult the history of our own James’s and Charles’s; to know what priestcraft has done for the world, we have only to read William Hewitt’s Popular History of it; and to prove what the masonic craft has not attempted to do, we have only to take a walk into “Milton’s Golden Lane,” {153} or any other of the many wretched lanes and alleys of this or any other large city. There is, however, an Immaterial Essence in this world of ours which no craft or cunning _can_ “put down;” and, fortunately for the world, it is not _entirely_ in the keeping of any craft. The prelate who consecrated Trinity, is known to have been indulgent towards practices in the church, which had long since ceased to be observed. Reformation of some kind was found to be necessary, and practices distasteful to reformers, were introduced. None of those objectionable practices, however, were ever witnessed _within_ any of the churches in Paddington; and this I look upon as an additional reason for inducing the people to ask the bishop, their appointed governor, to condescend to give them some satisfactory reason for the erection of these “ornaments,” which he has consecrated, and for which they have to pay. There is another course open to the bishop, which scarcely any one, with the exception of the architect, would be grieved by his adopting. But to erect this structure, fitted, to all external appearance, only for the performance of the gorgeous histrionical ceremonies of the most depraved period of the Roman or Anglican churches, the people of Paddington have been, and still are, obliged to subscribe by “compulsory levy;” and having been thus made instrumental, willing or unwilling, in assisting to resuscitate the dry bones of a monster belonging to a former period, they were then asked, (like other people similarly situated) by their local governors, to assist them in laying the spectre that such follies as these had again presented to the mind of the English public. And how; and at what cost was Trinity built? In 1843, on the fourth of July, the Rev. Chairman of the vestry, informed that body, he had received a communication from the Rev. Mr. Miles, expressing his readiness to contribute £4000 towards the erection of an additional church in Paddington, upon a site already granted by the bishop and his lessees.