Archdeacon Hale, so famous for the number of rich things
he has held and still holds, has resigned one—the fat benefice of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, worth 1800/. a year. He is still Archdeacon of London, Canon of St. Paul's, and Master of the Charterhouse. Should the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's adopt the usual course in appointing a successor to Archdeacon Hale, that successor will be either the Reverend W. W. Champneys, or the Reverend Henry Melvill, Principal of Haileybury.
The election of a President of the College of Physicians, necessarily ensuing on the death of the lamented Dr. Paris, took place on Monday. The choice fell on Dr. Mayo, who has filled the office of Censor and Consilarius several times. His election appeared to give general satisfaction to a very large assemblage of the faculty. Dr. Latham expressed his hearty concurrence in the choice of the electors, and spoke of the new President as having sustained throughout his whole career the high reputation which he acquired at Oriel, where he was the contemporary of Whately, Arnold, and Newman ; and particularly pointed out that no man had thrown a broader light on mental phenomena, both as they concern bodily and mental disease and in their judicial relations.
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