YOU ask me my opinion of Dr. Adam Clarke’s Commentary. I think that upon the whole it is a great work: and few persons could have produced such a one. But after all, the Dr. is not to be depended on, he is far too venturesome and far too positive—he drives through thick and thin—certain opinions must be maintained, certain characters must be vindicated, and this is done in a manner and spirit which is not quite suited to my taste. I continue, however, to take in the work for the present: but have told one of the Methodist preachers stationed here, that, if he can part with it for me on reasonable terms, I will take from him Benson’s Commentary in its stead. CLASSES. As to classes, I still think that something like church fellowship is the grand desideratum of our Church. The Communion, which was originally intended for this, now completely fails. It is almost anything but the _communion of saints_. Private meetings, too, of a familiar, conversational, or expository kind, do not quite come up to the supposed point. There must be some enclosure—some hedge of separation, something which shall admit the apparently sincere inquirer and exclude the worldly—something, in fact, which shall “gather believers together out of the mass of the ungodly world.” DISSENT. IN reference to Dissent, I am, I believe, what Dissenters consider a high, bigoted, stiff Churchman, but the simple true Churchman is all I wish to be known by. I love my Church right thoroughly, and I love Church unity in the same degree, and have never, for many years past, done anything by countenancing, encouraging, aiding, or abetting Dissent, and I hope I never shall; but I cannot, dare not, unchurch Dissenters, and deny that they are sections of Christ’s outward and visible Church, and, of course, I cannot but respect the private characters and conduct of many individuals among them. EPISCOPACY.