Tor-Mohun.
_The Privileges of the See of Canterbury_ (Vol. viii., p. 56.).--As no one
has yet volunteered to solve MR. FRASER'S question, How the letter of Pope
Boniface ordaining that, _however human circumstances might be changed_,
the city of Canterbury should ever thereafter be esteemed the metropolitan
see, can be reconciled with the creation of the archiepiscopal see of
Westminster,--I may suggest as a solution this maxim:
"Nihil tam conveniens est naturali æquitati, unumquodque dissolvi eo
ligamine quo ligatum est."
It is possible, too, that Pope Pius IX. may have considered that a case had
arisen for applying this principle,--
"Necessitas publica major est quam privata."
But be this as it may (and you will excuse me in observing, by the way,
that I do not concur in the correctness of this hypothetical view if taken
by his holiness), I hope we shall hear from MR. FRASER whether the former
of the above maxims has been effectual to remove his difficulties, which,
as I presume from their insertion in "N. & Q.," are not of a purely
theological nature.