In attempting to make discoveries in a retrograde movement, from the time of the Reformation, we find the names of Bonner, Gardiner, &c.; those immaculate characters, who, of course, transmitted this divine authority, and afterwards committed those to whom they had given it to the flames. In this lack of information on so momentous a subject, L. S. E.--_alias_ the Rev. Augustus Gathercole--will confer an invaluable benefit on the church to which he belongs, if he can produce, from his hidden stores, in the musty parchments which have been concealed for ages, the direct and unbroken line of succession, and append it to the next edition of his popular production. Of course the dissenters can have no pretensions to be _authorized_ teachers on these grounds; and not more so, as having _a special inspiration from God_ to become teachers, which is represented by this writer as the only other ground of a call to this office. It is true that some enthusiasts, with whom, as a body, they have no connexion, have laid claim to this high prerogative; but the avowed sentiment of the nonconformist body is, that the supernatural powers connected with a _special inspiration_ from God ceased with the first ages of Christianity. The Holy Spirit, in his ordinary and gracious operations, is promised to all good men, and especially to the ministers of the gospel, who, whether professing to be authorized teachers in the way before described or not, are insufficient in themselves for any good work, their sufficiency being of God, who alone can make them able ministers of the New Testament. Destitute of this, the hands of the bishop cannot confer any of the necessary qualifications.