upon the excellence and value of the English National Church Establishment, together with the circumstances which impede its efficiency, and the best remedies for such defects." But it is matter of deep regret to the Committee, that the Master of the Temple, from whom this important service was expected, has been prevented, by severe indisposition, from executing it during the present year. Upon this being announced to the Committee, in the end of the month of February, it became matter of much deliberation whether all idea of a course of Lectures, in the present season, should be abandoned; or whether some other individual, qualified for the work, should be sought out. Upon the whole, it was deemed advisable to delay the matter entirely until another year; the more especially, as it seemed probable that a course of Lectures, of a more popular character, and which would not supersede those originally contemplated by Mr. Benson, might possibly be brought forward in the present season, and become productive, under the Divine Blessing, of highly beneficial results. Under these impressions, the eyes of the Committee were directed to the Rev. Hugh M'Neile."
Were I at liberty to publish the correspondence which took place upon the occasion here referred to, it would exculpate me, in some degree at least, from the charge of rashness and presumption in