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Present Prospects of Re-union.
Greek Church, may be looked upon
yet rather
as a little cloud rising out of the sea no
Oo
however,
bio- o;er than a man s hand, which in time.
will cover the whole horizon. The
letter of Prince Orloff, lately published in the
Times, (though perhaps a garbled copy,)
is
important, for this reason, that it asserted the
willingness of the Archbishop of Canterbury to
send two of his suffragan Bishops of Russia,
as a kind of
"
legates a latere," to concert
measures with the authorities both in Church
and State. This move, though the is pear not
yet is
ripe,
full of promise.
Similar attempts have been made, few, how
ever, and far between, towards accommodation
with Rome on the basis of the Gallican
liberties, such as the celebrated one between
Du Pin and Archbishop Wake, a century or
so ago. Later still we have Bishop Barrington
s praiseworthy move towards a concordat
between England and Rome ; who, after classi
fying religionists under three heads Roman
Catholics, Protestants, and Socinians
ardently
desired that the two first should unite in oppo
sition to the last. This voice from the north
was re-echoed by one from the south bv Mr,
* /
Wix, who closed his address with these em
phatic words, that
Rome and England,
"
a conference between
now that the heat of the
Reformation was in a great degree subsided,