The Bishop of Lincoln, Dr. Wordsworth, who is in his
seventy- sixth year, has intimated that if the See of Southwell, which would take in the counties of Nottingham and Derby, as con- templated in the Act of 1878. cannot be speedily founded, owing to deficiency of funds, be shall think it necessary soon to resign his bishopric. £19,000 remains to be raised before the See of Southwell can be constituted, and Dr. Wordsworth hardly thinks the prospect near enough to warrant him, at his age, in continuing to govern so unwieldy a diocese, and one which needs so strenuous an administration. Unless, therefore, some great impulse is given to the foundation of the Southwell See, Dr. Wordsworth will resign. ian It is a great pity. We have often differed widely from Dr. Wordsworth, but it is hardly possible to exaggerate the value of his example,—his singular simplicity and piety,—as a ruler of the sober but somewhat worldly-minded Church of the nation.
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